Vulgar words in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 (Page 1)
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All the terms of reproach you apply to us when you forget your chivalry manners, such as _witch_, _shrew_, _termagant_, _slut_, and so on, were all originally made by men for men,--at least so Archdeacon Trench tells us.
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There is not a great event in English or American annals which is not directly traceable to what was done in the year 1066 by that buccaneering band which William the Bastard led from Normandy to England, to enforce a claim that had neither a legal nor a moral foundation, and which never could have been established had Harold's conduct been equal to his valor, and had Fortune favored the just cause.
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He had to contend with every species of deleterious influence,--ferocious, drunken, dissolute, and imbecile kings, the reckless intrigues of monasticism at the instigation of Rome, and the unprincipled and infamous ambition of the Norman Bastard, who crept into England during this great man's exile, and fled in all haste at his return.
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He was always "William the Bastard," and he is so to this day.
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Not so William;--a bastard was William at the hour of his birth; a bastard in prosperity; a bastard in adversity; a bastard in sorrow; a bastard in triumph; a bastard in the maternal bosom; a bastard when borne to his horror-inspiring grave.
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'William the Conqueror' relatively, but 'William the Bastard' positively; and a bastard he will continue so long as the memory of man shall endure."
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Sir Francis seems to have forgotten the Bastard of Orleans.
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Lord Macaulay calls the Tudors "a line of bastards," and ranks them with the "succession of impostors" set up by the adherents of the White Rose.
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A man has no associate so intimate as his own character, his own career,--his present and his past; and if he builds up his career of timid and base actions, they cling to him like evil companions, to sophisticate, to corrupt, and to damn him.
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did not his terrible purpose peep out all the time he was making love to you?
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_Prisoner._ If you and Thomas Hayes speak true, that gives half an hour you were making love with the murderer after he left me.
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That Thomas Leicester went from me to the kitchen, and there, for a good half-hour, drank my ale (as it appears), and made love to his old sweetheart, Caroline Ryder, the false witness for the crown; and went abroad fresh from _her_, and not from _me_.