Vulgar words in Guy Mannering — Complete (Page 1)

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ass x 3
bastard x 3
hussy x 2
jackass x 1
knocked up x 1
            
slut x 1
spunk x 2
            

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"Once you come to forty year," as Thackeray sings, "then you'll know that a lad is an ass;" and Scott had come to that age, and perhaps entertained that theory of a jeune premier when he wrote "Guy Mannering."

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my horse is almost quite knocked up; can you not give me a night's lodgings?'

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On the contrary, she often contrived to waylay him in his walks, sing him a gipsy song, give him a ride upon her jackass, and thrust into his pocket a piece of gingerbread or a red-cheeked apple.

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Ye may light a spunk o' fire in the red room.'

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CHAPTER XVI Our Polly is a sad slut, nor heeds what we have taught her, I wonder any man alive will ever rear a daughter, For when she's drest with care and cost, all tempting, fine, and gay, As men should serve a cucumber, she flings herself away.

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the bastard kinchin should have walked the plank ere I troubled myself about him.'

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When he was but ten years old he persuaded another Satan's limb of an English bastard like himself to steal my lugger's khan--boat--what do you call it?

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'He says that it is whispered about among tinkers, gipsies, and other idle persons that there is such a plan as I mentioned to you, and that this young man, who is a bastard or natural son of the late Ellangowan, is pitched upon as the impostor from his strong family likeness.'

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'I will not give up one hair of his head, though I should follow them to the court of last resort in his behalf; but what signified mooting points and showing one's hand to that old ass?

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cuddy, an ass.

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hizzie, a housewife, a hussy.

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limmer, a jade, a hussy.

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spunk, a spark.

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