Vulgar words in Such Is Life (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 5
buffoon x 1
cuss x 4
damn x 1
fag x 1
            
knock up x 1
pimp x 2
scrap x 1
snag x 1
white trash x 1
            

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I was thinkin' we might manage to knock up some sort o' swap.

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"Well," said Price emphatically, and qualifying every word that would bear qualification, "so fur as workin' on Sundays goes, I'm well sure I allus worked on Sundays, an' I'm well sure I allus will; an' I'm well sure 'ere ain't no cuss on me.

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Why, I dunno what the (complicated expletive) a cuss is!

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"I'll tell you the whole rigmarole," replied the genial ass.

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I hope he'll scratch the bridle off, and roll on the saddle till it's not worth a cuss.

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Patronised by noblemen, gentlemen, clergymen, and intermediary pimps of substantial position, the institution naturally appealed to the highest sentiments (which is saying extremely little) of a Protestant half-population forced into servility by agrarian conditions.

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I therefore modestly opened my mouth in parable, recounting some half-dozen noteworthy reminiscences, as they occurred to my imagination, and always slightly or scornfully referring to the magnanimous and indomitable hero of my yarn as 'one of these open-hearted English fools,' or as 'an ass of a John Bull that had n't sense enough to mind his own business.'

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And then, avoiding the eye of the grand old saint, and hating myself as a buffoon, I continued, "My own conjecture is that something must have occurred to irritate the dramatist whilst he was writing that passage, and the expression slipped from his pen unawares."

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My horse was provokingly fagged .

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At breakfast, I remember, there occurred a slight misunderstanding between Mrs. Beaudesart, the housekeeper, and Ida, the white trash whose vocation was to wait on the narangies.

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"And yet Collins can't ride worth a cuss," contributed Moriarty confidentially.

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Varnhagen von Ense tells us how Continental gentlemen envied the social usage which permitted Lord Castlereagh, in 1815, to show off his bruising ability at the expense of a Viennese cabman--probably some consumptive feather-weight, and certainly a man who had never seen a scrapping-match in his life.

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For instance, when bar-loafer meets pimp, at £1 a side, then comes the raw-meat business.

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Maestros, and highclass critics, and other unwholesomely cultured people, might possibly sit on you, or damn you with faint praise; but you could afford to take chance of that, for beyond all doubt, the million would idolise you.

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Dot molestation to youzelluf solitary vill pe, unt von apology ver despicable iss to me reqvire ass der conseqvence.

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"Vill you said, mit you proximate-ensuing interview, dot der two Yarman moreprogues schall peen ass pig fools ass efer!"

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"You'll be bumpin' up agen a snag some o' these times, young feller," muttered the bullock driver.

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