Vulgar words in Venus in Boston; - A Romance of City Life (Page 1)
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Corporal Grimsby, thou art an ass, and these stairs are the devil's trap!"
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Them thieving hussies has got your money, and you must make up your loss the best way you can.
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You impudent hussy, how dare you use such language to me?
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You shall pay dearly for this outrage, damn you!" added the Corporal, again getting into a passion, and turning very red in the face.
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Consider yourself fortunate if you are not held legally responsible for your forcible detention of the young girl in your house, and for your attempted outrage on her person,--damn you!
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I am an old fool, and yet--damn you, sir, what d'ye mean by running against me, eh!--and yet, it did me more good to see that hungry family last night, eat the food that I had provided for them, than it did when I, Gregory Grimsby, was promoted to the elevated rank of Corporal.
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For a moment I was tempted to _taste_ it; but damn me!
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Yet stay--damn it, why not have him disposed of after the manner of the valet?
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This villain Jew Mike is the _cher amie_ of Sow Nance, as she is called; and Nance is in the confidence of Tickels; what wonder that the dirty slut recommended her _pal_ and paramour to the old libertine, as a fit agent to abduct my poor Fanny--and what wonder that he was employed to accomplish that object?
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Now, we are one of those plain people who like to look at things in the light of common reason, without regard to high-sounding titles, or lofty associations; and it is our unpretending opinion that the God of charity and mercy looks down with much greater approbation upon the act of feeding a starving family, or comfortably clothing a few of His naked little ones, than upon the bestowal of twenty or thirty thousand dollars on this or that University, for the purpose of endowing a Professor of Humbugonomy, that he may initiate a class of learned blockheads into the mysteries of star-gazing, patient-killing, legal fleecing, or cheating the devil by turning parson.
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"Is this to be my place of concealment?" demanded Jew Mike, glancing around with a growl of dissatisfaction--"damn it, you couldn't hide a mouse here without its being discovered."
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Notwithstanding the lateness of the hour, several courtezans of the ordinary class were lounging about, or indolently conversing with a few intimate male friends, who were probably their private lovers, or _pimps_.