Vulgar words in Jacob Faithful (Page 1)

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ass x 1
damn x 3
jackass x 2
make love x 12
            

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"O, damn your Greek and Latin!" cried old Tom; "keep that for to-morrow.

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"'I've seen the madam,' said Holmes to me--for you see all the liberty men were walking up the hill at the same time--'and I'd rather make love to the breaker than to her.

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"I shall prove but a sorry sweetheart, for I have never made love in my life."

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"Have you ever had anybody to make love to?"

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"Well, then, you shall make love to me in Latin, that's agreed."

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"O, if you make love properly, I shall soon understand you; I shall read the English of it in your eyes."

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"Nay," replied I, "that's not fair; I did as you desired--I made love in Latin."

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"Now, Mr Jacob, I plainly see that you know nothing about making love.

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I hope I didn't hurt you--I'm very sorry if I did; but no more making love in Latin.

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I take Mr Turnbull's word, not that I can find it out yet, that you are a very good-tempered, good-looking, clever, modest lad; and as an apprentice who remains with my father must live with us, of course I had rather it should be one of that sort than some ugly, awkward brute who--" "Is not fit to make love to you," replied I.

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"We will pass the evening better than making love, after all, especially if you hit so hard.

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Do you know, Jacob, that I made love to him, just to see how he'd take it.

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'Damn Sall's shoe,' said he, 'haven't I enough to look after without your wife's confounded shoes, which can't be worth twopence?'

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I don't wear an ass's head to please anybody--that's all.

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Here Caliban, in the third boat, began playing the fiddle and singing to it-- "Gaffer, Gaffer's son, and his little jackass, Were trotting along the road."

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The chorus of which ditty was "Ee-aw, Ee-aw!" like the braying of a jackass.

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I then tried to catch hold of the man who had sunk the boat by his attempt to toss the oar, but he very quietly said, "No, damn it, there's too many; we shall swamp the wherry; I'll swim on shore"--and suiting the action to the word, he made for the shore with perfect self-possession, swimming in his clothes with great ease and dexterity.

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"Why, when we make love, and ask you to marry, don't you always pout, and say, 'No!'

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