Vulgar words in The Wind Bloweth (Page 1)
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And I hope to my God you're better off at the end nor me--me that once talked to earls and barons, and now clucks to a wheen o' hens; me that once had my coach and pair, and now have only an ass with a creel o' turf; and no care of money once on me, and now all I have is my spinning-wheel, and the flax not what it used to be, but getting coarser.
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And you say: 'Sure I'd rather be a tinker traveling the roads, with his ass and cart and dog and woman, nor a galley-slave to this bastard of a mate that has no more feeling for a poor sailorman nor a hound has for a rabbit.
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And you stand up bravely, and you look the man of the public house square in the shifty eyes, and you say: 'Listen, bastard!
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And then suddenly her ancient shrill voice cut the air like a drover's whip: "You Orange bastard!"
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Not that it mattered a tinker's curse, but-- Oh, damn the wrestler from Aleppo!
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Damn women!
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Oh, damn it!
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And Fenzile had watched him go with quivering lip.... Oh, damn himself for his suspicions, for his annoyance, and damn the fatuous Arab fool for arousing them.... Christ, if only he had that fellow on board ship.
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Oh, damn the clubs!
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"Sure, she treated me right," he would say as the others said, "but God damn!
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"Up comes your uncle Alan; and he says: 'Has anybody put out to give those poor bastards a hand?' says he.
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Look at the way you're letting her come up, you Highland bastard.
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And he said: "Damn the subtleties!
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As long as we are pleasant, witty, as long as we are buffoons ... but let us be human beings, Shane, and they hate us."
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The Hebrides passed them like islands in a dream, purple, gleaming strangely in the sunlight, now a black shower whipping over them, now sunshine pouring in great floods.... Lewis went by, and then Harris.... North Uist where the winds blow so hard they have an old word: _Is traugh fear na droiche air mhachair Uistibh_: 'Tis a pity of the slut's husband on the plains of Uist.... You'll be needing buttons on your coat there....
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"Steer her, you Swede bastard.... Where the hell did you ever steer before?