Vulgar words in The Grim Smile of the Five Towns (Page 1)

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ass x 2
damn x 4
make love x 4
            

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He could decidedly do nothing that evening except make a blundering ass of himself.

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You can't tell a woman you've called to make love to her, and when your previous call happens to have been ten years ago, some kind of an explanation does seem to be demanded.

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Then, somehow or other, he was making love to her, the monster Stephen being absent.

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She was shocked by his making love to her, and she moved a little farther off him on the sofa (he had sat down by her on a vague sort of sofa in a vague sort of room); but still she was thrilled, and she could not feel as wicked as she felt she ought to feel.

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She could not but admit, also, that if the dream went on being fulfilled, within forty-eight hours Mr Bittenger would have made love to her, and would have killed her husband.

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'What an ass I am!

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'Damn you, Ol!'

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Do you imagine anyone cared a twopenny damn for Perkins's Wedgwood ware?'

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Why, damn it!

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The constitution of the team for this next season--why, damn it, it's a question of national importance!

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