Vulgar words in Jaffery (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 12
brain x 1
damn x 18
hussy x 2
            

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"Oh, damn the dynamic widow," he replied, corrugating his serene and sunburnt forehead.

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The war correspondent who goes out there not knowing his ground will be a silly ass.

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"I've never done that exactly, you silly ass," said he.

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"Euphemia is a damn fool," she said serenely.

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"I am here, Jaff Chayne," she said, "because Euphemia is a damn fool.

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"She must he a damn fool, don't you think so?"

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In short he makes the very silliest ass of himself, and the elfin princess, who of course has come into contact with the Real Beautiful Young Man of the Story Books, won't have anything to do with the Ogre; and if he is more rumbustious than he ought to be, generally finds a way to send him packing.

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"A woman who married a coward would be a damn fool--especially in Albania.

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On his first meeting with her he had disclaimed the subtler mental qualities, videlicet his similitude of the bumble-bee; now, however, he went further, declaring himself, to a subrident host, to be a chuckle-headed ass, only fit to herd with savages.

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"Oh, damn the next book," said he, flicking the ash off his cigarette.

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At a florist's hard by, a young flower seller--a hussy if ever there was one--but bewitchingly pretty--carried on her poetical avocation; and of her did my hulking and then susceptible friend become ragingly enamoured.

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I repeat, she was a hussy.

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Damn you--take the twopence."

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I think I threatened to brain him with it if he stirred.

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"The whole damn thing seems to be waste-paper basket," said Jaffery, standing over me.

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"There is a book, damn you," he roared fiercely, "and you've seen it, and I've got it.

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And"--alas for the superficiality of Mrs. Considine's training--"I'm going to do as I damn well like."

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And having destroyed everybody who cares for you and is good to you, you'll feel a silly ass--such a silly ass that you'll forget to stick it into yourself."

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The only alternative was to say the damn thing had been lost or burnt and take the consequences.

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You see, if this idea hadn't come off, I should have looked such a stupendous ass."

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Jaffery called me, among other things, an amazing ass--he has an Eastern habit of, facile vituperation--and roared about the drawing-room.

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If you let her persuade you to change one word, as true as I'm standing here, I'll tell her the whole thing, and damn the consequences!"

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She would no more think of breaking a "damn" than her marriage vows or a baby's neck.

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"I'm not such an ass as to fall off a footling balcony.

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I can tackle men right enough, but when it comes to women, I seem to be a bit of an ass.

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I've been a damn fool."

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"I've been a damn fool," she repeated.

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Unreservedly she had laid herself as a "damn fool" at our feet--or rather at Jaffery's feet, for I did not count for much.

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They come and tell her about their wives and their girls and what rotten food they've got--'Everybody has got rotten food on board ship, you silly ass!' quoth Liosha.

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Tumble down every one of you, or I'll damn soon make you,' cried Andrews.

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Oh, the silly ass!

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Here was a new Liosha, as far apart from the serene young barbarian who had come to us two and a half years before blandly characterising Euphemia as a damn fool because she would not let her buy a stocked chicken incubator and take it to the Savoy Hotel, as a prairie wolf from the noble Great Dane.

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