Vulgar words in Amelia — Volume 3 (Page 1)

This book at a glance

blockhead x 3
damn x 1
hussy x 1
pimp x 7
slut x 2
            
whore x 1
            

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"That may be," said the colonel; "but damn me, if I would take an affront of any man breathing, for all that.

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"Your wife," said he, "is a vain hussy to think herself worth my anger; but tell her I have the vanity myself to think I cannot be angry without a better cause.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 783   ~   ~   ~

Must he not himself think, if ever he reflects at all, that so glorious a Master will disdain and disown a servant who is the dutiful tool of a court-favourite, and employed either as the pimp of his pleasure, or sometimes, perhaps, made a dirty channel to assist in the conveyance of that corruption which is clogging up and destroying the very vitals of his country?

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"Timothy, you blockhead," answered another; "--Timothy."

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"Why, by pimping," answered the other; "he is pimp in ordinary to my Lord----, who keeps his family; or how the devil he lives else I don't know, for his place is not worth three hundred pounds a year, and he and his wife spend a thousand at least.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,647   ~   ~   ~

"Your slut," said she; "your wench, your shepherdess."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,859   ~   ~   ~

Indeed it is not very probable he should; for the master, who, in preference to a very learned and proper man, was chosen by a party into this school, the salary of which was upwards of a hundred pounds a-year, had himself never travelled through the Latin Grammar, and was, in truth, a most consummate blockhead.

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"If the little slut be above ground," cried he, "I will find her out, and bring her to justice."

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The colonel therefore employed an inferior kind of pimp to watch the lodgings of Miss Matthews, and to acquaint him if Booth, whose person was known to the pimp, made any visit there.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,273   ~   ~   ~

The pimp faithfully performed his office, and, having last night made the wished-for discovery, immediately acquainted his master with it.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,278   ~   ~   ~

Now it happened that this pimp had more masters than one.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,281   ~   ~   ~

This subaltern pimp was with his superior Trent yesterday morning, when he found a bailiff with him in order to receive his instructions for the arresting Booth, when the bailiff said it would be a very difficult matter to take him, for that to his knowledge he was as shy a cock as any in England.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,291   ~   ~   ~

For this good woman was, as well as dame Purgante in Prior, a bitter enemy to all whores, especially to those of the handsome kind; for some such she suspected to go shares with her in a certain property to which the law gave her the sole right.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,426   ~   ~   ~

Can honour dictate to him to disobey the express commands of his Maker, in compliance with a custom established by a set of blockheads, founded on false principles of virtue, in direct opposition to the plain and positive precepts of religion, and tending manifestly to give a sanction to ruffians, and to protect them in all the ways of impudence and villany?"

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