Vulgar words in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Page 1)

This book at a glance

arse x 1
damn x 14
jackass x 1
knickers x 1
piss x 1
            
shite x 1
whore x 1
            

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-Damn me, said Mr Dedalus frankly, if I know how you can smoke such villainous awful tobacco.

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A score of the younger boys in white knickers and singlets came pattering down from the stage, through the vestry and to the chapel.

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-Damn this blankety blank holder, he said, taking it from his mouth and smiling and frowning upon it tolerantly.

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He doesn't smoke and he doesn't go to bazaars and he doesn't flirt and he doesn't damn anything or damn all.

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-I wouldn't, said Heron, damn me if I would.

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That is horse piss and rotted straw, he thought.

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The whores would be just coming out of their houses making ready for the night, yawning lazily after their sleep and settling the hairpins in their clusters of hair.

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They moved in slow circles, circling closer and closer to enclose, to enclose, soft language issuing from their lips, their long swishing tails besmeared with stale shite, thrusting upwards their terrific faces... Help!

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-I don't care a damn about you, Cranly, answered Temple, moving out of reach of the uplifted stave and pointing at Stephen.

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-Damn your yellow insolence, answered Lynch.

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Damn you and damn everything.

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-Neither my arse nor my elbow!

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Cranly laughed, tightening his grip on Stephen's arm, and said: -The distillery is damn good.

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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.

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-I don't care a flaming damn what anyone calls him, Cranly said rudely and flatly.

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-Do you fear then, Cranly asked, that the God of the Roman catholics would strike you dead and damn you if you made a sacrilegious communion?

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Damn the dean of studies and his funnel!

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Damn him one way or the other!

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