Vulgar words in The Journal to Stella (Page 1)

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ass x 1
bastard x 1
damn x 1
hussy x 3
slut x 17
            
whore x 4
            

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When this thing is made known, tell me impartially whether they give any of the merit to me, or no; for I am sure I have so much, that I will never take it upon me.--Insolent sluts!

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Then I went to see the Ladies Butler, and the son of a whore of a porter denied them: so I sent them a threatening message by another lady, for not excepting me always to the porter.

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See here now; an't you an impudent lying slut?

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Now, Mistress Dingley, an't you an impudent slut, to expect a letter next packet from Presto, when you confess yourself that you had so lately two letters in four days?

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But what now, you saucy sluts?

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Mr. Addison and I are different as black and white, and I believe our friendship will go off, by this damned business of party: he cannot bear seeing me fall in so with this Ministry: but I love him still as well as ever, though we seldom meet.--Hussy, Stella, you jest about poor Congreve's eyes;[36] you do so, hussy; but I'll bang your bones, faith.--Yes, Steele was a little while in prison, or at least in a spunging-house, some time before I came, but not since.

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Yes, you are a pretending slut, indeed, with your fourth and fifth in the margin, and your journal, and everything.

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you are a wheedling slut, you be so.

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Impudent slut, when did you ever answer my tenth, or ninth, or any other number?

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Spiteful sluts, to affront Presto's writing; as that when you shut your eyes you write most like Presto.

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Biddy Floyd is like to do well: and so go to your Dean's, and roast his oranges, and lose your money, do so, you saucy sluts.

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O, faith, you are an impudent slut, I remember your doings, I'll never forget you as long as I live.

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Stella, hussy, don't you remember, sirrah, you used to reproach me about meddling in other folk's affairs?

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What, must a woman be ravished because she is a whore?--The Secretary and I go on Saturday to Windsor for a week.

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I believe I have told you he is an old Scotch fanatic, and the damn'dest liar in his office alive.

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I often advised the dissolution of that Parliament, although I did not think the scoundrels had so much courage; but they have it only in the wrong, like a bully that will fight for a whore, and run away in an army.

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I hear Prior's commission is passed to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary for the peace; my Lord Privy Seal, who you know is Bishop of Bristol, is the other; and Lord Strafford, already Ambassador at The Hague, the third: I am forced to tell you, ignorant sluts, who is who.

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"[15] I beg your pardon; I have cheated you all this margin, I did not perceive it; and I went on wider and wider like Stella; awkward sluts; SHE WRITES SO SO, THERE:[16] that's as like as two eggs a penny.--"A weak old man," now I am saying it, and shall till to-morrow.--The Duke of Marlborough says there is nothing he now desires so much as to contrive some way how to soften Dr.

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I satisfied all your fears in my last: all is gone well, as you say; yet you are an impudent slut to be so positive; you will swagger so upon your sagacity that we shall never have done.

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MD can have no letter from Presto, says you; and yet four days before you own you had my thirty- seventh, unreasonable sluts!

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Dilly will be governed like an ass; and she will govern like a lion.

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He has left legacies to about twenty paltry old whores by name, and not a farthing to any friend, dependent, or relation: he has left from his only child, Lady Barrymore,[6] her mother's estate, and given the whole to his heir-male, a popish priest, a second cousin, who is now Earl Rivers, and whom he used in his life like a footman.

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After him it goes to his chief wench and bastard.

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Is she not a detestable slut?

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Swift often calls his correspondents "sluts."

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6 O Lord, drunken slut.

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