Vulgar words in Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau (Page 1)

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blockhead x 1
damn x 2
hussy x 1
jackass x 1
make love x 2
            

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Dazzled by the blaze of cochineal, he recalls the poems of the Veda, the religion of Brahma and its castes; brushing against piles of ivory in the rough, he mounts the backs of elephants; seated in a muslin cage, he makes love like the King of Lahore.

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Damn it!

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Finot examined the magistrate with a tipsy eye, and thought him a bit of a blockhead.

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"Damn it!" said Cesar, "at the rate things are going now, a merchant will soon be a licensed thief.

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The squandering hussy hasn't a farthing left; they sold her furniture,--she had signed promissory notes.

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The worthy man, led on by false hopes, allowed Adolphe Keller to sound and fathom him, and he stood revealed to the banker's eyes as a royalist jackass on the point of failure.

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Among their many virtues, the Ragons were noted for the possession of old wines which had come to perfect mellowness, and for certain of Madame Anfoux's liqueurs, which certain persons, obstinately (though it was said hopelessly) bent on making love to Madame Ragon, had brought her from the West Indies.

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