Vulgar words in The Man Upstairs and Other Stories (Page 1)

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ass x 1
bonehead x 1
cuss x 1
hog x 1
make love x 1
            

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Stuyvesant Milsom, who thought Archibald a bit of an ass, was always ready to sit and listen to his mother on the subject, it being, however, an understood thing that at the conclusion of the seance she yielded one or two saffron-coloured bills towards his racing debts.

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'The police are pretty down on road-hogging in these parts.'

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It's dashed tricky, this making love.

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In those days almost anyone who was not a perfect bonehead could set up as a Wise Man and get away with it.

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I call it mean to give a poor, defenceless kid a cuss-word like--what's it?

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