Vulgar words in Hopes and Fears - or, scenes from the life of a spinster (Page 1)

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ass x 7
buffoon x 1
fag x 3
knocked up x 1
            

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'I can't be hard on him, he is more or less of an ass, and a good sort of fellow, very good to his labourers; he drove Jem Hurd to the infirmary himself when he broke his arm.

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Old Mr. Sandbrook came in, and various other guests arrived, old acquaintance to whom Owen must be re-introduced, and he looked fagged and worn by the time all the greetings had been exchanged and all the remarks made on his children.

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'Then I shan't make such an ass of myself,' returned Owen.

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How can you be such an ass, Charles?

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When Owen next appeared in Woolstone-lane he looked fagged and harassed, but talked of all things in sky, earth, or air, politics, literature, or gossip, took the bottom of the table, and treated the Parsonses as his guests.

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Losing sight of the lakes as they entered the shabby little town, they sprang off the car before a small inn, and ere their feet were on the ground were appropriated by one of a shoal of guides, in dress and speech an ultra Irishman, exaggerating his part as a sort of buffoon for the travellers.

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I didn't think he'd been such an ass, having had one escape.'

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I was an ass to trust to the old woman's dissent for hindering them from finding you out, and getting up a scene.'

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She did not know in the least what he could mean, but she was too sick at heart to ask; she only thought he looked unwell, jaded, and fagged, and with a heated complexion.

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'What a pottering ass to come away from a run on a fool's errand!' he said.

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'I was an ass to suppose such needy rogues could come near girls of fortune without running up the scent.

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'Much better,' he said 'only he is sadly knocked up by the journey.

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