Vulgar words in Comedies of Courtship (Page 1)

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ass x 8
damn x 1
make love x 3
            

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That's how I came to be such an ass.

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"I am an ass!" said he.

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I don't----" "I know the sort of fellow he is--a dull dry chap, who makes love as if he was dancing a minuet."

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General Bellairs himself (who vaguely supposed that some man might try to make love to his daughter five years hence, and thereupon be promptly sent off with a flea in his ear) was not more unconscious than she that there was, had been, or might be anything, as the phrase runs, 'between' the two junior members of the party.

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I say, I am an ass!"

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He rushed up to the table and panted out, "Found 'em in the pocket of my blazer--must have put 'em there--stupid ass--never thought of it--put it on for tennis--awfully sorry."

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"What an infernal ass that fellow Laing----" "Do you think they saw anything?"

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I said I knew I was an ass, but I thought I knew a pretty girl when I saw one, and I'd go away if she'd show me a prettier one."

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"Don't be an ass, Deane.

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That Charlie did not see her was ridiculously slight evidence whereon to damn so ancient and picturesque a legend.

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"I dare say I was an ass--like better men before me and--er--since me."

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No; what won my heart from an early period of my visit to my cousins, the Poltons of Poltons Park, was the fervent, undisguised, unashamed, confident, and altogether matter-of-course manner in which he made love to Miss Beatrice Queenborough, only daughter and heiress of the wealthy shipowner Sir Wagstaff Queenborough, Bart., and Eleanor his wife.

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