Vulgar words in The Cloister and the Hearth (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 5
bastard x 12
brain x 2
damn x 1
hussy x 7
            
jackass x 2
            

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Gerard's first impulse was to brain him with the iron bar and fly down the stairs; but the burgomaster seeing something wicked in his eye, gave a little cough, and three stout fellows, armed, showed themselves directly at the door.

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Nay, more, he winked and thrust his hand into the heap of leaves he sat on (Gerard grasped his axe ready to brain him) and produced a leathern bottle holding full two gallons.

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For men of any spirit at all are like the wild boar; he will run from a superior force, owing perhaps to his not being an ass; but if you stick to his heels too long and too close, and, in short, bore him, he will whirl, and come tearing at a multitude of hunters, and perhaps bore you.

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you shall to bed without paying the usual toll; and oh, but 'tis sweet to fall in with a young man who can withstand these ancient ill customs, and gainsay brazen hussies.

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"Did those hussies pass this way?

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When they came near enough to distinguish faces, Denys uttered an exclamation: "Why, 'tis the Bastard of Burgundy, as I live.

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The Bastard of Burgundy bent his brow gloomily on Denys: "How now, arbalestrier, how comes it thy face is turned southward, when every good hand and heart is hurrying northward?"

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At this the bastard roared, "Jarnac, dismount six of thy archers, and shoot me this white-livered cur dead where he stands--for an example."

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"Strip him naked," said the bastard, in the cold tone of military business, "and put his arms and accoutrements on the spare mule We'll maybe find some clown worthier to wear them."

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And I rede you never mention that hussy's name in this house, that she has laid bare.

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The young landlady, though much occupied with the count, and still more with the bastard, caught sight of Denys, and asked him somewhat anxiously what had become of his young companion?

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At dark, after a long march, the bastard and his men reached "The White Hart;" their arrival caused a prodigious bustle, and it was some time before Manon discovered her old friend among so many.

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"Then swear on the cross of thy sword not to leave the bastard's service until the sedition shall be put down."

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A stern hum ran through the bastard's front rank and spread to the rear.

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The bastard moved out of the line to meet him, and their heads had not been together two seconds ere he turned in his saddle and shouted, "Pioneers, to the van!" and in a moment hedges were levelled, and the force took the field and encamped just out of shot from the walls; and away went mounted officers flying south, east, and west, to the friendly towns, for catapults, palisades, mantelets, raw hides, tar-barrels, carpenters, provisions, and all the materials for a siege.

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"Tuta-tuta-tuta-townsfolk will-h-h-h-hang t'other buba-buba-buba-buba-bastard."

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"Come out, hussy," she screamed to Reicht, "more in front of him, and keep the fool inspired and beautiful.

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And then there's times when their bodies ail like no other living creatures ever I could hear of, and that strings up their feelings so, the patience, that belongs to them at other times beyond all living souls barring an ass, seems all to jump out of 'em at one turn, and into the water they go.

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Margaret had repaired the "To-morrow box," and as she leaned over the glue, her tears mixed with it, and she cemented her exiled lover's box with them, at which a smile is allowable, but an intelligent smile tipped with pity, please, and not the empty guffaw of the nineteenth-century-jackass, burlesquing Bibles, and making fun of all things except fun.

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An hour agone I was rich in a friend, rich in money, rich in hope and spirits of youth; but now the Bastard of Burgundy hath taken my friend, and another gentleman my purse; and I can neither go forward to Rome nor back to her I left in Holland.

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Some mischievous wight loosed a dog as big as a jackass colt, and came roaring after him, and downed him momently.

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And on an ass another wife and new-born child; and one poor quean a-foot scarce dragged herself along, so near her time was she, yet held two little ones by the hand, and helplessly helped them on the road.

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A prophet riding on an ass did meet an angel.

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"Not yet; beating that hussy hath somewhat breathed me.

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"I went up Tiber twice as fast last time with but five mules and an ass."

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"Then he will give thee up my marriage lines, and I shall be an honest woman, and a wretched one, and my boy will not be a bastard; and of course, then we could both go into any honest man's house that would be troubled with us; and even for thy goodness this day, I will--I will--ne'er be so ungrateful as go past thy door to another man's."

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"Give us a buss, hussy!

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"For which month's possession thou wouldst damn thy soul for ever, Thou fool!"

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Whereat five brazen hussies, which they call them maids of honour, did giggle loud.

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