Vulgar words in The Soul of the War (Page 1)

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buffoon x 1
damn x 5
hussy x 1
make love x 2
            

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All this misery, all that damn thing over there"--he waved his paw at the darkening hills beyond which was a great hostile army--"the sight of all these refugees spilt out of their cities and homes as though a great hand had tipped up the earth, is beginning to tell on us, my lads.

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One man behaved like a buffoon, or as though he had lost his wits.

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They didn't care a damn for old Von Kluck and all his hordes.

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"Serve him damn well right!" said a sergeant to whom I had been talking.

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Hélène Procès, who was bold enough to lodge a complaint to one of their officers about a soldier who had tried to make love to her in the German way.

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One of them, a most buxom and jolly soul, who, as she confided to me, "didn't care a damn," had established friendly relations with a naval lieutenant, and I had great trouble in dragging her away from his engaging conversation.

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Slavs with matted hair, American girls in Futurist frocks, Italians like figures out of pre- Raphaelite frescoes, men with monkey faces and monkey manners, men with the faces of mediaeval saints a little debauched by devilish temptations, filled the long bare room, spoke in strange tongues to each other, and made love passionately in the universal language and in dark corners provided with ragged divans.

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Of course our Government had been asleep as usual, and didn't care a damn.

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"Bring us back some German helmets, Jock!" the girls had shouted out, "And mind your P's and Q's with them French hussies."

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