Vulgar words in The Book of the Bush - Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial - Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others - Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned (Page 1)

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cuss x 1
hussy x 1
jackass x 2
make love x 1
            

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I saw him in Matheson's boarding-house making love to one of the hired girls, and she seemed quite pleased with his polite attentions.

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If this is your little game, captain, all I have to say is, you are the darndest double-faced old cuss on this side of perdition.

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Even the Derwent Jackass, the hypocrite with the shining black coat and piercing whistle, joins in the public outcry, and his character is worse than that of the hawk himself, for he has been caught in the act of kidnapping and devouring the unfledged young of his nearest neighbour.

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"Oh, you impudent hussy!" he said.

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A solitary eaglehawk sat on the top branch of a dead gum-tree, watching him with evil eyes; a chorus of laughing jackasses cackled after him in derision from a grove of young timber; a magpie, the joy of the morning, and most mirthful of birds, whistled for him sweet notes of hope and good cheer; then a number of carrion crows beheld him, and approached with their long-drawn, ill-omened "croank, croank," the most dismal note ever uttered by any living thing.

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