Vulgar words in The Trembling of a Leaf - Little Stories of the South Sea Islands (Page 1)

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bastard x 1
buffoon x 1
damn x 2
hussy x 1
make love x 2
            

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"I don't care a damn about that.

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He was a mirth-loving man, and perhaps that accounted not a little for his successful amours; since women, for the most part frivolous creatures, are excessively bored by the seriousness with which men treat them, and they can seldom resist the buffoon who makes them laugh.

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The captain was not a shy man and when he saw a pretty girl he made love to her.

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He did not make love to her gently or gaily, but with a black and savage ferocity.

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"Damn the shape of the bay," said the doctor.

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"You poor low-life bastard."

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This was no longer the flaunting hussy who had jeered at them in the road, but a broken, frightened woman.

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