Vulgar words in War and Peace (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 1
bastard x 2
blockhead x 5
buffoon x 11
damn x 2
            
fag x 1
hussy x 2
make love x 2
slut x 1
son of a bitch x 2
            

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* A bastard.

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"If you, sir, choose to make a buffoon of yourself," he said sharply, with a slight trembling of the lower jaw, "I can't prevent your doing so; but I warn you that if you dare to play the fool in my presence, I will teach you to behave yourself."

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"Lavwuska!" he shouted loudly and angrily, "take it off, blockhead!"

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"Turn back with your slut!"

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She must be shown that the blockhead thinks nothing of her and looks only at Bourienne.

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The assistant looked fagged out.

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"Put him beside his wife and he looks a regular buffoon!"

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Natasha looked joyfully at the familiar face of Pierre, "the buffoon," as Peronskaya had called him, and knew he was looking for them, and for her in particular.

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He was the buffoon, who went by a woman's name, Nastasya Ivanovna.

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Nastasya Ivanovna the buffoon sat with a sad face at the window with two old ladies.

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"Nastasya Ivanovna, what sort of children shall I have?" she asked the buffoon, who was coming toward her in a woman's jacket.

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"Why, fleas, crickets, grasshoppers," answered the buffoon.

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Young ladies, married and unmarried, liked him because without making love to any of them, he was equally amiable to all, especially after supper.

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At supper after the opera he described to Dolokhov with the air of a connoisseur the attractions of her arms, shoulders, feet, and hair and expressed his intention of making love to her.

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In my house... horrid girl, hussy!

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You've disgraced yourself like the lowest of hussies.

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She said and felt at that time that no man was more to her than Nastasya Ivanovna, the buffoon.

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The crowd drew up to the large table, at which sat gray-haired or bald seventy-year-old magnates, uniformed and besashed almost all of whom Pierre had seen in their own homes with their buffoons, or playing boston at the clubs.

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"No peace, damn them!" he muttered, angry he knew not with whom.

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And drive faster, blockhead!"

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Though people were afraid of Marya Dmitrievna she was regarded in Petersburg as a buffoon, and so of what she had said they only noticed, and repeated in a whisper, the one coarse word she had used, supposing the whole sting of her remark to lie in that word.

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"Oh, tell that blockhead," he said in reply to the question from the Registrar's Department, "that he should remain to guard his documents.

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"Blockhead!

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No one found more opportunities for attacking, no one captured or killed more Frenchmen, and consequently he was made the buffoon of all the Cossacks and hussars and willingly accepted that role.

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You ass!

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"Do you understand, damn you?" shouted a voice, and Pierre woke up.

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Serves them right, the bloody bastards!" he cried, suddenly lifting his head.

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What has become of you, you son of a bitch?

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"And that son of a bitch Petrov has lagged behind after all, it seems," said one sergeant major.

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