Vulgar words in Janice Meredith (Page 1)

This book at a glance

bastard x 1
cocky x 1
cuss x 1
damn x 16
hussy x 3
            
make love x 1
spunk x 2
            

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Yet it was not to make love he came; for he sat a silent, awkward figure when once within doors, speaking readily enough in response to the elders, but practically inarticulate whenever called upon to reply to Janice.

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"Now damn me!" swore the squire, rising and pacing the room with angry strides.

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if the men held off the hussies 'ud do the chasm'."

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"For her eventual good I--" "Damn her eventual--" "I fear 't will come to that."

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Fownes, he said that if 't were n't better sport ter catch rabbits, he'd mightily enjoy chasm' the whole company of Invincibles with five grenadiers of the guard, an' Bagby he sassed back by sayin' that Charles need n't be so darned cocky, for he'd run from the regulars hisself, an' then your man tells Joe ter give his red rag a holiday by talkin' about what he know'd of, for then he'd have ter be silent, an' then the captain says he was a liar, and Charles knocks him down, an' stood over him and made him take it back.

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"Most certainly you did, for you--you would have to tell him before--and if you do that, I'll--" "But, Miss Janice, you must n't disgrace--Damn him!

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"Now damn me if--" began the squire.

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Yes, damn ye, for the first time in your life ye shall be made to behave like a gentleman!"

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For a moment Mr. Meredith stood with wide-open mouth, then he roared: "Damn your impudence!

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"Damn them!" cried Brereton.

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"Now damn you for a pack of dirty, low-minded curs!" swore the officer, his face blazing with anger.

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"Damn your rebel submissions and oaths, not worth the paper they 're writ on; but good Madeira,--that smacks loyal and true on a parched tongue and cannot swear false.

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"Damn Campbell's carelessness!" swore Howe.

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Damn Lee for his tardiness and folly, which forces man and beast to journey in such cold."

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I told Friend Penrhyn the other night that if he had the spunk of a house cat he would get something to fight with, if 't were nothing better than a toasting-fork tied to a stick, and cross the river to Washington; and so I say to every man who stays in Trenton.

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"Damn this weather!" swore Brereton, as an especially biting sweep of wind and water made him crouch the lower behind his shivering horse.

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"Damn the commissary!

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"Oh, indeed, madam," gasped Janice, "I alluded not to thy painting and powdering, but to the miniature that--" "Sir William," screamed the dame, too furious even to heed the attempted explanation, "how can you stand there and hear this hussy thus insult me?"

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"Damn you, Jane!" swore the general, bursting into a rage.

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"Damn thy tongue!" roared Howe, springing up.

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ye are there, are ye, hussy?

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As if to make the ill feeling the greater, too, he told the whole party at one point of the route, "If you-alls had been patriots and 'listed four weeks ago, you 'd every one of you've got a bounty of five hundred dollars of the money my saddle-bags is filled with; but you had n't spunk, so it serves you-ails good and handsome that now you've got to fight for 'nary a shillin'."

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"We would n't have been a tinker's damn the richer if we had," snarled one of the unwilling conscripts.

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"You can threat and cuss all you hanker," he chuckled.

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"Ay, and so we ever shall, so long as Britain makes men generals because they are king's bastards."

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