Vulgar words in In the Days of the Comet (Page 1)

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ass x 1
bastard x 1
damn x 1
make love x 3
scrap x 1
            
slut x 2
            

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When one is in love, in this fermenting way, it is harder to make love than it is when one does not love at all.

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"Damn them and him!"

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The nights had become very warm, and when next day I had ranged Shaphambury in vain, I was greatly tormented, as that unparalleled glory of the night returned, to think that under its splendid benediction young Verrall and Nettie made love to one another.

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I wanted fiercely; I made love impatiently.

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But at least it was like meeting a familiar house-slut, washed and dignified, dressed in a queen's robes, worshipful and fine...

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,904   ~   ~   ~

He went on, as though speech was necessary to make it credible, to describe Laycock, who first gave the horror words at the cabinet council, "an undersized Oxford prig with a tenoring voice and a garbage of Greek--the sort of little fool who is brought up on the admiration of his elder sisters... "All the time almost," he said, "I was watching him--thinking what an ass he was to be trusted with men's lives...

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And through all the world go our children, our sons the old world would have made into servile clerks and shopmen, plough drudges and servants; our daughters who were erst anaemic drudges, prostitutes, sluts, anxiety-racked mothers or sere, repining failures; they go about this world glad and brave, learning, living, doing, happy and rejoicing, brave and free.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,129   ~   ~   ~

Then we had the whole of the superseded steam-railway system to scrap and get rid of, stations, signals, fences, rolling stock; a plant of ill-planned, smoke-distributing nuisance apparatus, that would, under former conditions, have maintained an offensive dwindling obstructive life for perhaps half a century.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,134   ~   ~   ~

Then innumerable triumphs of our old, bastard, half-commercial, fine-art were presently condemned, great oil paintings, done to please the half-educated middle-class, glared for a moment and were gone, Academy marbles crumbled to useful lime, a gross multitude of silly statuettes and decorative crockery, and hangings, and embroideries, and bad music, and musical instruments shared this fate.

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