Vulgar words in The Life of John Clare (Page 1)

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hussy x 1
knocked up x 2
make love x 2
            

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John was quite content with this information, and kept on steadily in his course; reading and fiddling the first day, and making love and burning lime the other six days of the week.

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He took Clare aside on the instant, telling him, with much warmth, that it was not the custom at Chiswick to make love to other men's wives, and that, however much he admired his sonnets, he did not like his mode of distributing them.

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The muse is a fickle hussy with me; she sometimes stirs me up to madness, and then leaves me as a beggar by the wayside, with no more life than what's mortal, and that nearly extinguished by melancholy forebodings.'

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My legs were nearly knocked up and began to stagger.

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I have but a slight recollection of my journey between here and Stilton, for I was knocked up, and noticed little or nothing.

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