Vulgar words in My Brilliant Career (Page 1)
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Dick Melvyn of Bruggabrong was not recognizable in Dick Melvyn, dairy farmer and cocky of Possum Gully.
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An actress--a vile, low, brazen hussy!
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"The handsome gentleman is very kind to amuse himself at the expense of a little country bumpkin, but he would do well to ascertain if his flattery would go down before administering it next time," I said sarcastically, and I heard him calling to me as I abruptly went off to shut myself in my room.
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Such a beau of beaux, no doubt he was annoyed that an insignificant little country bumpkin should not be flattered by his patronage, or probably he thought me rude or ill-humoured.
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A moiety of the last-mentioned--dirty, besotted, ragged creatures--had a glare in their eyes which made one shudder to look at them, and, while spasmodically twirling their billies or clenching their fists, talked wildly of making one to "bust up the damn banks", or to drive all the present squatters out of the country and put the people on the land--clearly showing that, because they had failed for one reason or another, it had maddened them to see others succeed.
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You wicked hussy, what will become of you!"
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You'll come to some harm yet, you immodest, bold, bad hussy!
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A jackass laughed his joy as he perched on the telegraph wire out in the road.
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I'm goin' on to knock them up at Bimbalong."
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Before we had gone half our journey the horses knocked up.
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"By damn, pigs was up last Toosday!
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It was not the poor food and the filthy way of preparing it that worried me, or that Mr M'Swat used "damn" on an average twice in five minutes when conversing, or that the children for ever nagged about my father's poverty and tormented me in a thousand other ways--it was the dead monotony that was killing me.
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I was pronounced too ill to act as scribe; Lizer was suggested, and then Jimmy, but M'Swat settled the matter thus: "Sure, damn it!
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Sure, damn it, wot's the good er bein' alive if we can't help each other sometimes.
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I don't mind how much I help a person if they have a little gratitood, but, damn it, I can't abear ingratitood."