Vulgar words in A Second Book of Operas (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 2
bastard x 2
buffoon x 3
make love x 6
            

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~   ~   ~   Sentence 479   ~   ~   ~

He lost his temper and killed his music master with his lute; Samson, after using an implement which only the black slaves of our South have treated as a musical instrument, to slay a thousand Philistines, jubilated in song:-- With the jawbone of an ass Heaps upon heaps!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 480   ~   ~   ~

With the jawbone of an ass Have I slain a thousand men!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 734   ~   ~   ~

He was in fact an operatic tenor comme il faut, who needed only to be shut up in a subterranean jail with the young woman who had pursued him up hill and down dale, in and out of season to make love to her in the most approved fashion of the Paris Grand Opera.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 767   ~   ~   ~

The Occident is rude: Gerald, an English officer, breaks through a bamboo fence and makes love to Lakme, who, though widely separated from her operatic colleagues from an ethnological point of view like Elsa and Senta, to expedite the action requites the passion instanter.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 927   ~   ~   ~

A musketeer saunters along, stops and makes love to her.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 959   ~   ~   ~

The word that meant straw was afterward used for mattress which was stuffed with straw and then for the buffoon, who wore the mattress cloth suit.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 963   ~   ~   ~

This buffoon was seen at shows of strolling mountebanks.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 968   ~   ~   ~

The Italian Pagliaccio is a species of clown, and Punchinello was never a mere buffoon.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 969   ~   ~   ~

The Punch of the puppet-show is a bastard descendant of the latter, but the original type is still seen in Naples, where he wears a white costume and a black mask.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,009   ~   ~   ~

The hospitable villager playfully suggests that it is Tonio's purpose to make love to Nedda.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,084   ~   ~   ~

Taddeo makes love to Colombina and Harlequin, entering by the window, lifts him up by the ears from the floor where he is kneeling and kicks him out of the room.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,664   ~   ~   ~

Cio-Cio-San has been "outcasted" and Pinkerton comforts her and they make love in the starlight (after Butterfly has changed her habiliments) like any pair of lovers in Italy.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,941   ~   ~   ~

It is even likely that vigorous English would have been a better vehicle than the "soft, bastard Latin" for the forceful utterances of the operatic people.

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