Vulgar words in Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero (Page 1)

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ass x 1
damn x 5
knock up x 1
make love x 1
sleazy x 1
            
snag x 1
            

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What an ass he had been.

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"Yes--Miss Ruth--Now, please, my dear girl, keep on being young and very beautiful and very wholesome, for you are every one of these things, and I know you'll forgive me for saying so when I tell you that I have two strapping young fellows for sons who are almost old enough to make love to you.

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Old Colonel Purviance, of the Chesapeake Club, for one--a big- paunched man who always wore, summer and winter, a reasonably white waistcoat and a sleazy necktie; swore in a loud voice and dropped his g's when he talked.

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Now you go to bed, and damn quick, too!

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Wet it, damn ye!

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"Fall back, men,--fall back, damn ye!"

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"Common gratitude, damn you, Jack, ought to put more sense in your head," as though one ought to have been "grateful" for a seat at a gambling table and two rooms in a house supported by its profits.

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The second Mukton Lode scoop,--the one so deftly handled the night of Arthur Breen's dinner to the directors,--had somehow struck a snag in the scooping with the result that most of the "scoopings" had been spilled over the edge there to be gathered up by the gamins of the Street, instead of being hived in the strong boxes of the scoopers.

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I am going to drop some of these trees; get two or three choppers from the village and knock up a log-house like the one I camped in when I was a boy."

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Damn that boy--I might have known he would land on his feet."

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