Vulgar words in Colomba (Page 1)

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bastard x 2
hussy x 1
knocked up x 1
            

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At sight of him several guns were loaded, and one shepherd is even said to have levelled his musket at him, but the colonel knocked up the barrel, and said, "Let no man fire without my orders!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 808   ~   ~   ~

All these _signori_ about us are bastards.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,664   ~   ~   ~

"There is no such thing as courage nowadays, and the young chaps make no more fuss about their father's blood than if they were all bastards."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,241   ~   ~   ~

She would let herself be cut in pieces rather than betray her friends," and then, fondly, he turned to the little girl, "That's it, you little hussy; a ban on you, a curse on you--you jade!"

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