Vulgar words in The Revolution in Tanner's Lane (Page 1)

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blockhead x 1
buffoon x 1
damn x 2
make love x 1
whore x 1
            

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He admitted the unquestionable right of the Almighty to damn three parts of creation to eternal hell if so He willed; why not, then, one sinner like Zachariah Coleman to a weary pilgrimage for thirty or forty years?

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Again, I say, let no man judge communist or anarchist TILL HE HAS ASKED FOR LEAVE TO WORK, and a "Damn your eyes!" has rung in his ears.

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And yet, when we call to mind the THING then on the throne; the THING that gave 180 pounds for an evening coat, and incurred enormous debts, while his people were perishing; the THING that drank and lied and whored; the THING that never did nor said nor thought anything that was not utterly brutish and contemptible--when we think that the THING was a monarch, Heaven- ordained, so it was said, on which side does the absurdity really lie?

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Here and in the woods adjoining youths and maidens for three hundred years had walked and made love, for, though the existing house was new, it stood on the site of a far older building.

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Bill Rogers was well known as the funny man in Cowfold, a half-drunken buffoon, whose wit, such as it was, was retailed all over the place; a man who was specially pleased if he could be present in any assembly collected for any serious purpose and turn it into ridicule.

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You never take any notice of anything I say; but if Mrs. Bushel or any other blockhead tells you anything, you believe that directly."

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