Vulgar words in A Sportsman's Sketches, Volume 2 - Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume 2 (Page 1)

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buffoon x 2
damn x 7
hussy x 1
            

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well done, damn my soul, well done!'

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I was fond of cutting a dash, I am fond of cutting a dash, damn my soul!'

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I like gypsies, damn my soul!

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Then, "Ah, I'll let her know it, the worthless hussy!" she said.

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damn my soul!

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At the slightest retort Tchertop-hanov's eyes blazed, his voice broke.... Ah, er--er--er,' he stammered, 'damn my soul!'...

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She did not once drive him to desperation, she did not set him to suffer the degrading agonies of hunger, but she led him a dance through the whole of Russia from one end to the other, from one degrading and ludicrous position to another; at one time Fate made him 'majordomo' to a snappish, choleric Lady Bountiful, at another a humble parasite on a wealthy skinflint merchant, then a private secretary to a goggle-eyed gentleman, with his hair cut in the English style, then she promoted him to the post of something between butler and buffoon to a dog-fancier....

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His position was the more painful that, with all her care, nature had not troubled to give him the smallest share of the gifts and qualifications without which the trade of a buffoon is almost impossible.

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I spat, and paid him the money: damn the fellow!

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He fancied, he pictured vividly how that loathsome pig-tailed priest would tell the story of the grey horse and the foolish gentleman.... O damn!!

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