Vulgar words in The Tithe-Proctor - The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two (Page 1)

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ass x 3
blockhead x 1
damn x 4
knocked up x 3
make love x 1
            
spunk x 2
            

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"He is certainly as good as a farce," said the father; "and if the rascal had kept from making love, I should have still been glad to have him here from time to time to amuse us."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 655   ~   ~   ~

"It is dreadful," said the father; "but the truth is, we must have the country, at least this part of it, proclaimed, and martial law established;--damn the murdering scoundrels, nothing else is fit for them.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 695   ~   ~   ~

Nobody, for instance, would look without astonishment at the ease with which he swung a pack, that was weighty enough to load an ass, over his shoulder, or the lightness and agility with which he trotted on under it from morning till night, and this during the very severest heat of summer.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,982   ~   ~   ~

let him preach and stick to his controversy with Father Tom--from whom he hadn't so much to brag of--but as for you, Fergus, you are, to spake plainly, a thorough ass.

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"I am fairly knocked up, I admit," said M'Carthy--"in fact, I am more jaded than I ever was in my life."

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"Why, then," observed another, "who 'ud think that poor die-away Vread had so much spunk in her?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,339   ~   ~   ~

"Why, if you insist upon it, I'll go," replied Finnerty, and four friends about you will be betther and safer than one; but in troth, to tell you the truth, Mr. M'Carthy, I'm a'most fairly knocked up myself, havin' been down the counthry and through the hills the greater part of the day.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,438   ~   ~   ~

Sure, now, Jerry, if you have one spunk of common charity in your composition, you'll take me up on your back and carry me home, otherwise I'll lie down on the road, and either die at wanst or sleep it out till mornin'."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,525   ~   ~   ~

"No, Miss Julia; but the truth is, he's a poor cur of a creature that's not able to undertake a man's task at all; he's lyin' knocked up in Frank Finnerty's; moanin' and groanin' an' yowlin', like a sick hound; I had to carry or drag him over half the mountains; for, from the blessed hour of twelve o'clock this day, he wasn't able to put a foot undher him, an' he did nothing but blasphayme' an' curse every one he knew; your fathers and brothers, your sisther, and mother, and yourself; he cursed and blasphaymed you all, helther skelther; I could bear all, Miss.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,222   ~   ~   ~

"Not at all, you blockhead; although you get a magistracy in the paragraph, you don't imagine, I expect, you should get one directly.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,538   ~   ~   ~

Think of you or I living to see ourselves rolling about in a rich carriage, with a lump of a mithre, like a pair of ass's ears stuck together, painted on the outride of it, and we waiting, and drinkn' of the best.

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I say, don't curse me--or rather, do curse me--damn me--damn my soul--damn my soul--ha!

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