Vulgar words in Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 (Page 1)

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damn x 1
fag x 1
knickers x 1
spunk x 1
            

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~   ~   ~   Sentence 235   ~   ~   ~

Our visitor had five badly-wounded officers, one shot through the lungs and hip, and all full of bullets and spunk.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 328   ~   ~   ~

The French infants, boys and girls up to any age, are all dressed in navy knickers and jerseys and look so jolly.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 451   ~   ~   ~

Then you joined the throng in the dressing-station, and for hours doctors of all ranks, Sisters and orderlies, grappled with the stream of stretchers, and limping, staggering, bearded, dirty, fagged men, and ticketed them off for the motor ambulances to the Hospitals, or back to the train, after dressing them.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 569   ~   ~   ~

One was an angelic gunner boy with a septic leg and an undaunted smile, except when I dressed his leg and he said "Oh, damn!"

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