Vulgar words in A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales (Page 1)
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Neither did Keren waste much love upon her; she said from th' very start that th' hussy had a sly tongue; "and a sly tongue," saith she, "doth ever mate with a false heart," saith she; "and from such a marriage what offspring can ye look for, unless it be for mischief?" saith she.
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Well, as I live, and must some day die, and do hope when I do die to get to heaven, I was so taken aback with the hussy's cunning I could do naught but stand and stare after her for some minutes.
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Robin, I'll make love to you, As men to other maidens do.
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And so 'twas; but, for all I could do, I could not feel angered with the hussy.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 879 ~ ~ ~
"There, then," quoth I, "is Davy Short hose, the poulterer--" "A bangled-eared buffoon as ever lived!" quoth she; "and a fool into the bargain."
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"And as for Dame Visor's hussy, let her learn to bridle her tongue," quoth I.
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But that evening as I came home, about the going down o' th' sun, I did hear voices i' th' kitchen, and, looking in at th' window, behold, there was that hussy Ruth a-plucking of Keren by th' kirtle, and Keren a-holding of a pan o' milk above her head, as though she had half a mind to souse her cousin in 't.
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Then stood my lass quite still, and her face like the milk in her pan, and she looks down on th' hussy, as a horse might look down on a kitten which it hath unwitting trampled on, and she saith, "I would I knew whether or no thou speakest the truth!"
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Now the pup seemed to be filled with the spirit o' th' Lord all on a sudden, after th' fashion o' th' talking jackass i' th' Scriptures; for if a didna talk a did th' next thing to 't--a tried to.
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Well, as I said--or as I meant to say--Master Hacket wedded th' Visor hussy within two weeks o' th' day whereon he and my Keren had 't so fierce i' Sweethearts' Way.
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"What!" saith she, "thou hast ta'en it on thyself to offer my bread and meat to a good-for-naught hussy as ne'er had a civil word for any o' us!
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Thou godless hussy, thou!
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"Th' hussy!" quoth she--"th' ungrateful hussy!
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"Comrade," saith he, "wilt thou call me an ass for my pains, I wonder, an I tell thee o' something that is troubling me sorely?"