Vulgar words in The Birds (Page 1)

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ass x 2
bastard x 4
            

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With you a word is an omen, you call a sneeze an omen, a meeting an omen, an unknown sound an omen, a slave or an ass an omen.

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Come, beat him as I do, and put some life into him; he is as lazy as an ass.

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(1) The law will not allow you an obolus of the paternal property, for you are a bastard and not a legitimate child.

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HERACLES I a bastard!

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HERACLES But what if my father wished to give me his property on his death-bed, even though I be a bastard?

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Listen; thus runs Solon's law: "A bastard shall not inherit, if there are legitimate children; and if there are no legitimate children, the property shall pass to the nearest kin.

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