Vulgar words in Anna St. Ives (Page 1)

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ass x 6
bastard x 1
blockhead x 8
damn x 5
hussy x 2
            
make love x 2
whore x 1
            

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Didst thou ever in thy life behold her without feelings unusual, throbs, doubts, desires, and fears; wild, incoherent, yet deriving ecstasy from that divinity which irradiates her form and beams on every object around her?--Do!--Think me a poor, raving, lovesick blockhead!

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The servants are a parcel of busy blockheads!

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I am an ass!

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The legitimate son of Cato's eldest bastard, he!

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Damn him!

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The French fops, here, all buzz and swarm around her; each making love to her, with all the shrugs, grimaces, and ready made raptures of which he is master; and to which I am obliged patiently to listen, or shew myself an ass.

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'Tis laughable to see with what industry they labour to make love according to her liking; for they find that their own trifling manner is inefficient, and can never succeed with her.

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Let speculative blockheads brew metaphysical nectar, make a hash of axioms, problems, corollaries and demonstrations, and feed on ideas and fatten.

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But the little hussy has been so nice, and squeamish, that I began to fear she would take up her silly spend-thrift brother's whim, and determine to live single: therefore I shall not balk her, now she seems in the humour.

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And in such a generous, noble manner--I am ashamed of myself--He has saved my life, and damn me if I do not feel as if I could never forgive him.

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I jumped headlong down a declivity, because I knew I was a good swimmer, into a lake; but, like a blockhead, never perceived that I should get stunned by the shelving of the rock, and consequently drowned.

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Damn him!

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I sincerely think there is not so foolish a fellow in the three kingdoms, as the noble blockhead to whom I have the honour to be related, Lord Evelyn: and, while I have tickled my fancy with the recollection of my own high descent, curse me if I have not blushed to acknowledge him, who is the head and representative of the race, as my kinsman!

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Damn it!

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They be the betokens of the warnins of the signs of the bloody cross of antichrist, and the whore of Babilon, and of the dispensation of the kole, and the squitter squanderin of the wherewithalls, and the supernakullums.

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If I not note her freaks, if I forget her imperious caprice, if my embittered mind slumber in its intents, say not I am the proud-spirited Clifton you once knew; that prompt, bold, and inflexible fellow, whom arrogance could rouse, and injury inflame, but a suffering, patient ass; a meek pitiful thing, such as they would make me!

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The aunt Wenbourne too still continues to give laud unto Mr. Henley!--Damn Mr. Henley!--But she may be necessary; and, as she is entirely governed by the gull Edward, I must submit to bring myself into his favour.

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I frequently dine with him on what he calls his open day; he being overwhelmed with business, as blockheads usually are; and I do not fail to insinuate the relationship in which, if care be not taken, he may hereafter chance to stand to a gardener's son.

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They are brought to think thus lightly of chastity: but, should you or any one of the gallant phalanx attempt to make Anna St. Ives so think, she would presently cry buzz to the dull blockhead, and give him his eternal dismission.

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My very soul spurns at it!--But 'tis past--Deceitful, damned sex!--Idiot that I was, I began to fancy myself beloved!--I!--Blind, deaf, insensate driveler!--Torpid, blockish, brainless mammet!--Most sublime ass!--Oh for a bib and barley sugar, with the label _Meacock_ pinned before and behind!-- Fairfax, I never can forgive my own absurd and despicable stupidity!--Marriage?--What, with a woman in whose eye the perfect impression and hated form of a mean rival is depicted?--In colours glowing hot!--Who lives, revels, triumphs in her heart!--I marry such a woman?--I?-- 'I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love For other's use.'

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A vile, disgusting, despicable, besotted ass of a world!

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There is no merit in imposing upon stupidity so gross as that of this supercilious blockhead.

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Surely this hussy sleeps?

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I have been the fool, the gudgeon, the ineffable ass to lose a sum of money to him, which to pay would be destruction!--I begin to hate myself with most strange inveteracy!

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