Vulgar words in The Bertrams (Page 1)

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ass x 13
damn x 1
make love x 5
            

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I'll not allow you to make yourself a miserable ass all for nothing.

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What an ass you are!

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"Aunt, that Mr. M'Gabbery is an ass.

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"You are an ass," said his uncle.

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"Then," said Harcourt, "you are an ass;" and as he spoke he finished the flask.

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He did not make love to her after the manner of his youth.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,967   ~   ~   ~

"Well, perhaps not; except one or two old men whom I have seen making love."

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Now had George Bertram junior not been an absolute ass, or a mole rather with no eyesight whatever for things above ground, he would have seen from this that he might not only have got back his love, but have made sure of being his uncle's heir into the bargain.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,924   ~   ~   ~

But George was an ass, as we have said; and a mole, a blind mole; and a mule, a stiff-necked, stubborn mule.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,662   ~   ~   ~

As Arthur had evinced no symptoms of making love to Miss Gauntlet, the good lady had been satisfied, and now she felt somewhat slighted that her hospitality was not more valued.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 9,232   ~   ~   ~

When gentlemen past sixty make love to ladies past forty, it may be supposed that they are not so dilatory in their proceedings as younger swains and younger maidens.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 9,415   ~   ~   ~

Why had he deceived that woman, and made an ass of himself?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 9,696   ~   ~   ~

"You are a fool, an ass!

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"Damn him!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 11,075   ~   ~   ~

For the traffic over the Nile is great, and for every man, woman, and child, for every horse and every ass, for every bundle of grass, for every cock and for every hen, a din of twenty tongues is put in motion, and a perpetual fury rages, as the fury of a hurricane.

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"Did you ever see such an ass as that Biffin?

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That George Bertram was an amusing fellow, and made love in much better style than the major, certainly was true.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 12,238   ~   ~   ~

"You are an ass-a fool!"

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And then he cut at the rushes with his walking-stick, as he had done before; and bethought himself that in those days he had been an ass.

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