Vulgar words in The Strollers (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 2
blockhead x 4
buffoon x 2
damn x 2
hussy x 1
            
make love x 4
snag x 1
            

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I am sure," he added, bowing to the manager with ready grace, "if they were as charming in the old days, after the lords tossed the men, they made love to the women."

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If you are a philosopher, you can study human nature through the buffoon and the mummer.

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In Greece, she was a goddess; in Rome, a hussy; in England, a sprightly dame; now, a straight-laced Priscilla.

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And this one, damn him!

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"Oh, sometimes we run foul of a snag or sawyer, occasionally collapse a boiler and blow up sky-high.

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Very well; and there is something for yourself, blockhead."

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"Even if he calls you 'liar' and 'blockhead'?"

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You know the saying: 'Love makes time pass--'" "'And time makes love pass,'" laughed Mauville, somewhat unnaturally, his cynicism fraught with a twinge.

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Then, chuckling: "A week ago my stupid doctors had me laid out in funereal dignity, and now I am making love to a fine woman.

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I am such an ass I have even returned a fair petitioner's perfumed note!

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Make love in thy youth, and in old age, attend to thy salvation.'"

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"'Yes?' you blockhead!" shrieked the master.

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"Gratitude for having been called 'idiot,' 'dog,' and 'blockhead' nearly all my life!

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"Oh, why did the critics so damn the book it fairly leaped to popularity!" went on the bard.

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"Who'll buy my nostrums?" cried the buffoon.

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"Colonel Saint-Prosper, or set me down for an ass--or Plato, which is the same thing!"

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