Vulgar words in The Maid-At-Arms (Page 1)
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Still, for all, the hall was made in good and even noble proportion; simple, as should be the abode of a gentleman; over-massive, perhaps, and even destitute of those gracious and symmetrical galleries which we of the South think no shame to take pride in; for the banisters were brutally heavy, and the rail above like a rampart, and for a newel-post some ass had set a bronze cannon, breech upward; and it was green and beautiful, but offensive to sane consistency.
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"A married man, too," he laughed--"Sir John Johnson, the fat baronet of the Mohawks--" "Damn you, will you hold your silly tongue?" she cried, and rose to launch the glass, but I sprang to my feet, horrified and astounded, arm outstretched.
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And they do say," she added, with scorn, "that the baronet did find one of my old shoon and filled it to my health--damn him!--" "Dorothy!"
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"Is it a shameful oath to say 'Damn him'?"
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They all laugh when I say it--father and Guy Johnson and the rest; and they swear other oaths--words I would not say if I could--but I did not know there was harm in a good smart 'damn!'"
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"Mrs. Van Cortlandt said she was a painted hussy--" began Harry.
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And a cursed fine fellow, if he was second cousin to a Varick, which he could not help, not he!--though I've heard him damn his luck to my very face, sir!
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There's a chair; fill it with that pretty body of yours; cock up your feet--here's a pipe--here's snuff--here's the best rum north o' Norfolk, which that ass Dunmore laid in ashes to spite those who kicked him out!"
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They'll be here to-night, damn them."
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"Don't be an ass!" he shouted.
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"Sir Lupus," I said, angrily, "is a man an ass to defend his own land?"
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"One o' the Calverts, Lord Baltimore's kin, a sort of cousin of the Ormond-Butlers, a supercilious dandy, a languid macaroni; plagues me, damn his impudence, but I can't hate him--no!
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Mark me, George, a petty mile square and a shooting shanty, and this languid ass says he means to fight for it.
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Also, this Captain Walter Butler was overlarding his phrases with "Cousin Ormond," so that I was soon cloyed, and nigh ready to damn the relationship to his face.
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"I never knew an ass who failed to bray in ecstasy at mention of a pair o' stays."
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You may even make love to me if you choose."
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"Make love to you!"
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"He will damn us, perhaps," said Ruyven, sucking his paint-brush and looking critically at his work.
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"Damn us?
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But I do, Ormond, I do; ass that I am.
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"If I'm what I am," he said, hoarsely, "an old jack-ass he-hawing 'Peace!
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"'Damn the convulsions of war, sir!' says I.
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"Yes," broke out Sir Lupus--"that pompous ass, Gates."
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Gates is an envious ass, and unfit to hold your stirrup!"
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you long-eared ass!
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Walter Butler sprang up from the base of the tree where he had been sitting and pointed a shaking finger at Magdalen Brant: "Damn you!" he shouted; "if you call on my Mohawks, I'll cut your throat, you witch!"
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The entire company joined in the chorus, bewailing the late disaster at Ticonderoga, till Jack Mount, nigh frantic with disgust, leaped up into the cart and bawled out: "If you must sing, damn you, I'll give something that rings!"
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"For vy am I an ass to march me py dot ambuscade?
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"Damn them!" growled Elerson to Murphy, "they're advancing without flanking-parties or scouts.
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It's a lie; I don't care a damn about Congress--but let it pass.
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Damn you, you may have the woman I love, but you shall leave me her respect!"
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But the hussy was gone with Magdalen Brant before I dreamed of it--gone on the maddest moonlight quest that mortal ever dared conceive!--one in rags cut from a red blanket, t'other in that rotten old armor that your aunt thought fit to ship from England when her father stripped the house to cross an ocean and build in the forests of a new world.
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Set an ass to catch an ass--eh, George?--" He stopped, his small eyes twinkling with a softer light.