Vulgar words in The House with the Green Shutters (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 9
cocky x 1
damn x 27
knickers x 2
slut x 2
            
spunk x 2
            

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"Easy, damn ye; ye'll smash the bricks!" came a voice.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 401   ~   ~   ~

John set his bare feet wide (he was only in his shirt and knickers) and eyed the man whom his father had "downed" with a kind of silent swagger.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 739   ~   ~   ~

"Oh, I'se warrant Cunning Johnny would get the better of an ass like Gourlay.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 752   ~   ~   ~

"Well, I'm sure!" said the Provost, "he needn't have built such a gra-and house to put a slut of a wife like yon in!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 800   ~   ~   ~

He would lisp out an innocent remark and toddle away, and Gourlay would think nothing of the matter till a week afterwards, perhaps, when something would flash a light; then "Damn him, did he mean '_that_'?" he would seethe, starting back and staring at the "_that_" while his fingers strangled the air in place of the Deacon.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,281   ~   ~   ~

His knickers were open at the knee, and the black stockings below them were wrinkled slackly down his thin legs, being tied loosely above the calf with dirty white strips of cloth instead of garters.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,342   ~   ~   ~

But Wilson, cosy and cocky in his own good opinion, was impervious to the chilly winds of scorn.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,682   ~   ~   ~

Man, have ye no spunk?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,697   ~   ~   ~

In you go to the meeting that oald ass of a Provost has convened, and don't show your face in Templandmuir till you have had it out with Gourlay!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,709   ~   ~   ~

"Oh, he's an ass!" said Gourlay.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,936   ~   ~   ~

Damn her, why didn't she get out of the way?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,158   ~   ~   ~

"Damn it, we have no time to waste.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,180   ~   ~   ~

Man, it's easy to bamboozle an ass like Gourlay!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,277   ~   ~   ~

"Damn you for a measled swine!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,446   ~   ~   ~

"Gaffer, dominie, whatever the damn you ca' him--the fellow that runs the business."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,462   ~   ~   ~

Damn it, sir, am _I_ to be _your_ dominie?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,526   ~   ~   ~

"Damn it, I have enough to thole," Gourlay muttered; "surely there was no need for this to happen."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,551   ~   ~   ~

Damn the fear o't!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,608   ~   ~   ~

It must be a terrible thing when a man has a splurging ass for his son, that never got a prize!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,623   ~   ~   ~

"Oh, damn it, enough of this!" said the baker at last.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,626   ~   ~   ~

"Damn it, man, leave folk alane!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,652   ~   ~   ~

MacCandlish tells me you're a stupid ass, but have some little gift of words.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,709   ~   ~   ~

"Ay, man, dominie, he's an infernal ass, is he noat?" they cried, and pressed for his judgment.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,844   ~   ~   ~

And then he smoked and smoked--two great big cigars after we had finished eating, and then 'Damn it,' says he--he's an awful man to swear--'damn it,' he says, 'there's no satisfaction in cigars; I must have a pipe,' and he actually smoked _four_ pipes before I came away!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,962   ~   ~   ~

Hoochan-doe's a yelling ass, and he threatened Bauldy--oh, he would do this, and he would do that, and he would do the other thing.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,963   ~   ~   ~

'_Damn ye, would ye threaten me?_' cried Bauldy.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,864   ~   ~   ~

good-bye; damn ye, man, good-bye!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,917   ~   ~   ~

He would look round his room and hate it, mutter "Damn it, I must work;" and then, with a heavy sigh, would seat himself before an outspread volume on the table, tugging the hair on a puckered forehead.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,951   ~   ~   ~

"Damn Armstrong!" he thought, "what did he yell like that for?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,036   ~   ~   ~

Damn!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,121   ~   ~   ~

Let him punish all or none, for they had all been kicking up a row--why, big Cunningham had been braying like an ass only a minute before.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,313   ~   ~   ~

And it's your fault too, damn you, for you always spoiled him!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,496   ~   ~   ~

She was a withered old shrew, with fifty times the spunk of Johnny.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,651   ~   ~   ~

"Damn him!" he thought, glowering with big-eyed contempt at the huddled creature; "he hasna the pluck o' a pig!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,762   ~   ~   ~

"Open your mouth!" came the snarl--"_wider, damn ye!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,776   ~   ~   ~

Fine I ken what he needs, though.--Set out the brandy, Jenny, set out the brandy," he roared; "whisky's not worth a damn for him!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,917   ~   ~   ~

"Damn you," he screamed, "leave _me_ alone, will you?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,001   ~   ~   ~

"Damn them, they're all down on me," he thought.

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Damn the thing, why didn't it stop--with its monotonous tick-tack, tick-tack, tick-tack?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,600   ~   ~   ~

"Damn the gurly brute!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,621   ~   ~   ~

There's damn the doubt o' that."

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"The sluts!" said he, with a humph of disgust; "they're still on their backs, it seems."

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