Vulgar words in La faute de l'Abbe Mouret (Page 1)

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bastard x 1
damn x 1
hussy x 12
make love x 1
            

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'Shut up, will you, you hussy!' howled her father in a rage.

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Then with a shrug of his shoulders, he added: 'Yes, my word, she is a nice hussy.... Well, till next time, Monsieur le Cure.

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'See,' cried Brother Archangias, interrupting his discourse to point to a tall girl who was letting her sweetheart snatch a kiss, 'there is another hussy over there!'

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He had already tried to silence La Teuse; for he was beginning to feel uneasy amidst the big shameless hussies who filled the church with their armfuls of foliage.

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There were pert, gay little things that filed off, cockade in cap; there were huge ones, bursting with sensuous charms, like portly, fattened-up sultanas; there were impudent hussies, too, in coquettish disarray, on whose petals the white traces of the powder-puff could be espied; there were virtuous maids who had donned low-necked garb like demure _bourgeoises_; and aristocratic ladies, graceful and original, who contrived attractive deshabilles.

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Don't you know how to make love then?'

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He recognised also the pair in the churchyard, that mischievous Vincent and that bold hussy Catherine, who were catching big grasshoppers amongst the tombstones.

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At this the three big hussies felt alarmed, stepped back, and subsided into sedateness.

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'And that drab of yours!' he cried, 'you can't deny that you set her on to damn the priest.'

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'Yes, yes, you set that hussy on to ruin him!' repeated the Brother, wild with rage.

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The Artauds, those bastards who sprang up out of the rocky soil with the persistence of brambles, were now in their turn blowing a blast that reeked of teeming life.

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It is better to drag oneself along on one's back than to think about a hussy as you are always doing.

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The Brother laid down his cards, bent over the table, and whispered close to La Teuse's face: 'That hussy has been here.'

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If ever I find them together again, I will acquaint the hussy with a stout dogwood stick which I have cut expressly for her benefit.

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'Good-bye, you hussy!

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