Vulgar words in The Possessed (The Devils) (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 7
blockhead x 1
buffoon x 11
damn x 40
god damn x 1
            
hussy x 1
knock up x 1
knocked up x 1
            

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I was told that you were quite knocked up with work."

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It's a hymn, if you're not an ass!

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Tell thee I have waked, God damn thee, Wakened under the birch-twigs....' ("As it might be under the birch-rods, ha ha!")

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'Silvery little bird... is... thirsty, Says I'm going to... have a drink, But I don't... know what to drink....' Damn his stupid curiosity!

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Do you understand that there's something higher than brawling... in mankind; there are moments of an hon-hon-honourable man.... Shatov, I'm good; I'll forgive you.... Shatov, damn the manifestoes, eh?"

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"Do you understand, you ass, that I'm in love, that I've bought a dress-coat, look, the garb of love, fifteen roubles; a captain's love calls for the niceties of style.... Open the door!" he roared savagely all of a sudden, and he began furiously banging with his fists again.

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"He's a bug, an ignoramus, a buffoon, who understands nothing in Russia!" cried Shatov spitefully.

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There is a point when he ceases to be a buffoon and becomes a madman.

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Damn it!" cried Shatov, waving his hand.

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The captain spoke excitedly, and genuinely believed, of course, that there was something fine in the American will, but he was cunning too, and very anxious to entertain Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch, with whom he had played the part of a buffoon for a long time in the past.

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Until then he had been talking, as it were, ambiguously, so that Lebyadkin, who had wide experience in playing the part of buffoon, was up to the last moment a trifle uncertain whether his patron were really angry or simply putting it on; whether he really had the wild intention of making his marriage public, or whether he were only playing.

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"That's all very well, but there's no need to be an ass.

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Of course, I'm speaking from your point of view, though, anyway, it would have been better than now when you've almost been married to 'cover another man's sins,' like a buffoon, for a jest, for money."

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She was a capitalist and you were a sentimental buffoon in her service.

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"Foo, damn it all, there's no talking to you.

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Again the same buffoon, Lyamshin, with the help of a divinity student, who was taking a holiday while waiting for a post in the school, succeeded, on the pretence of buying books from the gospel woman, in thrusting into her bag a whole bundle of indecent and obscene photographs from abroad, sacrificed expressly for the purpose, as we learned afterwards, by a highly respectable old gentleman (I will omit his name) with an order on his breast, who, to use his own words, loved "a healthy laugh and a merry jest."

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"Allow me to inform you, sir, that I've no intention of putting up with your sans faisson henceforward, and I beg you to remember..." "Why, damn it all, he is in earnest!"

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The fourth and fifth chapters are... they really are... damn it all, they are beyond words!

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"It... it's... damn it!

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Is it my fault that I look upon you as a most honourable and, above all, a sensible man... capable, that is, of understanding... damn..." The poor fellow evidently could not master his emotion.

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"That's just it; you always cut the ground from under one's feet with your logic, damn it.... Well, here goes... this 'noble personality,' this 'student'... is Shatov... that's all."

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"How should I know?-damn it all."

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Damn it all, don't you know what nothing means?...

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And as for this poem, they say it was written by Herzen to Shatov when he was still wandering abroad, in memory of their meeting, so they say, by way of praise and recommendation-damn it all... and Shatov circulates it among the young people as much as to say, 'This was Herzen's opinion of me.'

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"Well, suppose I haven't-damn him!-what business is that of yours and what bother will it be to you?

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"Well, I don't care, damn it!"

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"I said, 'Damn you and your secret!'

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"Damn you, you really are giving me an idea?"

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"No one but a buffoon can talk like that!" cried the girl, flaring up.

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"He is a buffoon, but he is of use," Madame Virginsky whispered to her.

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"But what do you want with me, damn you?"

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Damn Shigalovism!

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Damn the Pope!

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He shouted that he would annihilate the woman question, that he would eradicate every trace of it, that to-morrow he would forbid and break up their silly fete for the benefit of the governesses (damn them!

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He was a perfect ass and dragged out his article for a whole hour.

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"Why are you an ass?"

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"I am not an ass."

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Damn it!

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"If you were not such a buffoon I might perhaps have said yes now....

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If you had only a grain of sense..." "I am a buffoon, but I don't want you, my better half, to be one!

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"Damn it all, what do you want?"

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Giving us to understand that the separate knots of the general network already covering Russia number by now several hundred, and propounding the theory that if every one does his work successfully, all Russia at a given moment, at a signal..." "Ah, damn it all, I have enough to do without you!" cried Pyotr Stepanovitch, twisting in his chair.

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"Damn it all, I suppose I must"-Pyotr Stepanovitch got up-"though it's early.

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Damn it all, where?"

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"Be so good as to hold the bag while I settle with this blockhead," was how Madame Marya Shatov greeted him below, and she thrust into his hands a rather light cheap canvas handbag studded with brass nails, of Dresden manufacture.

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"Well, damn you, then, I'll come to-morrow.

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If we don't restrain him he will be knocking up all the doctors of the town before the morning; he waked all the dogs in my street.

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Damn it all!

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But, damn it all!

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But, damn it all, never mind, that's no matter!

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"Damn it all, he'll meet them and warn Shatov!" cried Pyotr Stepanovitch, pulling out his revolver.

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Damn it all, fellows like you are capable of anything!

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Only don't trouble yourself; I've provided for all contingencies: I am not going till I've dashed your brains out with this revolver, as I did to that scoundrel Shatov, if you are afraid to do it yourself and put off your intention, damn you!"

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If you are an ass and go off to-morrow to inform the police, that would be rather a disadvantage to us; what do you think about it?

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"Damn it all, he won't shoot himself!" he was thinking.

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"Damn it all, what is it now?" he thought again.

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"No, of course, there's rid need of it, damn the police!

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"Damn it all," Pyotr Stepanovitch cried all at once, ill-humouredly, "he hasn't signed it!

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Oh, damn it all, I don't hear the shot!"

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Oh, damn it, the candle, the candle!

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I can put him in such an attitude oh the floor with an unloaded revolver in his hand that they'd be certain he'd done it himself.... Ach, damn it!

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Damn it all, he'll be sure to miss!"

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Go away, you vile hussy!

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