Vulgar words in Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) - Letters from the Front (Page 1)

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damn x 4
knock up x 1
make love x 5
            

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The nurse tossed her pretty head with its wealth of jet black hair, and as she smoothed his pillows with infinite care she murmured: "Fighting and making love, making love and fighting--it is all one to you, Karl.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 744   ~   ~   ~

They are either eating, smoking, sleeping, or making love; and they do enough love-making in twenty-four hours to last an ordinary everyday sort of white man four months, even if he puts in a little overtime.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 898   ~   ~   ~

It is not exactly an amble, but a cousin to it, marvellously easy to the rider, whilst it enables the nag to get over a wonderful lot of ground without knocking up.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 996   ~   ~   ~

Damn the fighting," he broke out fiercely.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 997   ~   ~   ~

"Damn the fighting.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,011   ~   ~   ~

Oh, damn the war," the lad called again in his pain.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,528   ~   ~   ~

Ask--yes, ask; but don't stop at asking--damn somebody high up in power.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,789   ~   ~   ~

When the sun comes out to-morrow and the day after, he will be dancing a most unholy dance or be making love to "Dinah," filling in the intervals by cursing in three different languages stray horses that steal our fodder.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,377   ~   ~   ~

These natives know how to make love, and they know how to make war, but, as my soul liveth, they don't know how to make beer.

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