Vulgar words in Mr. Scarborough's Family (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 9
bastard x 6
blockhead x 1
make love x 4
            

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It will be well that I should let my father know that he is mistaken, and also that ass Prodgers.

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His business at the moment was that of making love, a business which is allowed to override all other considerations.

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When a young man has it in him to make love to a young lady, and is earnest in his intention, no duty, however paramount, should be held as a restraint.

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"What are you sniggering there at, you blockhead?"

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He thoroughly believed Mr. Grey, thinking him to be an ass for telling so much truth unnecessarily.

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"I'm a great ass," he said, "to help Augustus in playing his game.

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His father thoroughly despised his brother-in-law, and looked down upon him as an absolute ass.

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Mr. Prosper himself was the stupidest ass!

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And now they would know that he had suddenly ceased to make love.

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Augustus did not think it well that his father's bastard son, who had been turned out of a London club for not paying his card debts, and had then disappeared in a mysterious way for six months, should show himself at the British embassy, and there claim admittance and relationship.

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"You made yourself such an ass about shutting the door that I resolved to leave you to yourself.

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But blood was thicker than water,-though it were but the blood of a bastard.

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"What a fool he had been," he said to himself, sitting opposite to Mountjoy, who in the vacancy of the moment had lighted another cigar; "what an ass!"

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I think, too, that perhaps he saw a screw loose where old Grey did not; but he was such an ass that he could not bring himself to keep on good terms with me for the few months that were left.

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What an idiot, what a fool, what a blind, unthinking ass Augustus has been!"

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But the crash, which had been in truth final, had come afterward, almost as soon as his father had learned what was to be the fate of Tretton; and he had found himself to be a bastard with a dishonored mother,-just a nobody in the eyes of the world.

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It was bad enough, according to the other story, that he should have kept Augustus so long in the dark, and determined to give it all to a bastard by means of a plot and a fraud.

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"Tidy sort of place, ain't it, Tyrrwhit, for a gentleman to hang his 'at up, when we were told he was a bastard, not worth a shilling?"

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"Hare you a bastard, or haren't you?" ejaculated Hart.

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"You knew that they were the boots and the clothes of a man making love, didn't you?

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