Vulgar words in Vivian Grey (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 1
bastard x 3
buffoon x 1
hussy x 1
jackass x 4
            
knock up x 1
knocked up x 2
make love x 2
            

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In the midst of a park of great extent, and eminent for scenery, as varied as might please nature's most capricious lover; in the midst of green lawns and deep winding glens, and cooling streams, and wild forest, and soft woodland, there was gradually formed an elevation, on which was situate a mansion of great size, and of that bastard, but picturesque style of architecture, called the Italian Gothic.

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The baronet, however, although a bold man to the world, was luckily henpecked; so Vivian made love to the wife and secured the husband.

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And that lord is restless on some downy couch; his night thoughts, not of this sheeny lake and this bright moon, but of some miserable creation of man's artifice, some mighty nothing, which Nature knows not of, some offspring of her bastard child, Society.

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We begin to be knocked up just then, and our appearance is the least brilliant of any part of the day.

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Well, Osborne, I must come and knock you up one of these mornings.

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We are not always in action, not always making speeches or making money, or making war, or making love.

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"My Lord Duke," brayed the jackass; and then he stopped dead, and looked round the room with an unmeaning stare.

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The greedy ass drank his portion with ease, and indeed drank far beyond his limit.

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Grafenberg brayed like a jackass, and Geisenheim chattered like an ape.

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But I daresay my lord will be contented; young men are so easily pleased when there is a pretty girl in the case; you know that, you wench I you do, you little hussy; you are taking advantage of it."

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A stupid jackass, who stared with astonishment at the procession, was saluted with a lusty bray, which immediately induced him to swell the ranks; and, as Essper passed the poultry-yard, he so deceitfully informed its inhabitants that they were about to be fed, that broods of ducks and chickens were immediately after him.

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I desire that I am immediately released from the presence of this buffoon."

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Worthy of being a companion of the fighting bastards of the middle ages.

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Essper's horse was fairly knocked up, and even Max visibly distressed.

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"You're the Purser, I suppose, detected keeping a jackass among the poultry!

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