Vulgar words in Stories of Comedy (Page 1)
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"I don't say they didn't; but there's a great difference between a ship of seven hundred tons and a hooker."
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"Confound you, you blockhead!" roared the captain, in a rage,--"'twould take the patience of the pope and the cardinals, and the cardinal virtues into the bargain, to keep one's temper with you.
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But the widow said she was a light-minded hussy, and persisted as usual in her lamentations and mourning.
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Captain O'Grady (of an Irish regiment) attempted to bribe the servants, and one night actually scaled the garden wall; but all that he got was his foot in a man-trap, not to mention being dreadfully scarified by the broken glass; and so _he_ never made love any more.
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The fact is, the young hussy loved a dance or a game at cards much more than a humdrum conversation over a tea-table; and so she plied her sister day and night with hints as to the propriety of opening her house, receiving the gentry of the county, and spending her fortune.