The 6,537 occurrences of bastard

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Yea, Death disgraced is hard; Much honour shall be thine"; and called the Captain of the Guard, Yar Khan, a bastard of the Blood, so city-babble saith, And he was honoured of the King--the which is salt to Death; And he was son of Daoud Shah, the Reiver of the Plains, And blood of old Durani Lords ran fire in his veins; And 'twas to tame an Afghan pride nor Hell nor Heaven could bind, The King would make him butcher to a yelping cur of Hind.

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From a bastard baby.

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It was not that bastard concoction I had tasted in the pseudo-Bohemias of Soho; it was not the showy but insipid beverage I should have drunk my fill of at Morven Lodge; it was the purest of her pure vintages, instilling the ancient inspiration which, under many guises, quickens thousands of better brains than mine, but whose essence is always the same; the gay pursuit of a perilous quest.

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It was but the second touch of kindness Gibbie had received since he was the dog's guest: had he been acquainted with the bastard emotion of self-pity, he would have wept; as he was unaware of hardship in his lot, discontent in his heart, or discord in his feeling, his emotion was one of unmingled delight, and embodied itself in a perfect smile.

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A manner Latin corrupt: a kind of bastard Latin.

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Balais: Bastard rubies; said to be so called from Balassa, the Asian country where they were found.

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Here we are on the confines of Normandy, Picardy, and the Ile-de-France, a bastard land whose language is without accent and its landscape is without character.

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"He is Portuguese; he is Malay; he is Japanese, true; but he is a mongrel, sir, a mongrel and a bastard.

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To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, T' enrich a bastard, or a son they hate.

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He's not a short straw better than any bastard in the street!

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He's a damned bastard, and may go about his business when he pleases.

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The opposition, it seemed, wished first to make the crown of England not worth the wearing, and then to place it on the head of a bastard and impostor.

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333 When it is remembered how signally Monmouth, though believed by the populace to be legitimate, and though the champion of the national religion, had failed in a similar competition, it must seem extraordinary that any man should have been so much blinded by fanaticism as to think of placing on the throne one who was universally known to be a Popish bastard.

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But the bastard origin of the action which gave rise to the doubt how far any consideration at all was necessary, made it possible to hold considerations sufficient which had been in debt.

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173/2 Nicolls v. Bastard, 2 C. M. & R. 659, 660; Manders v. Williams, 4 Exch.

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173; Nicolls v. Bastard, 2 C. M. & R. 659, 660; Manders v. Williams, 4 Exch.

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Besides, he is a bastard, knows nothing of his father, and therefore leaves a wide field for conjecture; for every natural son has the right to consider himself, if he likes, the offspring of a monarch.

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Before '93, you know, every bastard was treated as a gentleman, as he might have been the son of some high and mighty personage.

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The object of this was to enable him to appoint as his heir his bastard son, the Duke of Richmond, but this intention was frustrated by the death of the Duke (July 1537).

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The preachers were instructed to prepare the people for the change by denouncing both Mary and Elizabeth as bastards.

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Amongst these latter it is interesting and instructive to note the presence of Lord James Stuart, the bastard brother of the queen and one of the leaders of the Congregation, as prior of St. Andrew's, of Lord James Hamilton son of the Earl of Arran and a follower of Knox as abbot of Arbroath, of John Stuart abbot of Coldingham, of the son of the Duke of Argyll as bishop-elect of Brechin, together with a number of other laymen, who, though holding high office in the Church, were determined to promote the new movement for the sake of the property that they hoped to obtain.

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He commended Artemisia therefore and sent her away to conduct his sons to Ephesos, for there were certain bastard sons of his which accompanied him.

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But let them be in profession and name most farthest from the world, most alienate from it; yea, so far, that they may seem to have no occupying, no kindred, no affinity, nothing to do with it: yet in their life and deeds they shew themselves no bastards, but right begotten children of the world; as that which the world long sithens had by his dear wife Dame Hypocrisy, and since hath brought them up and multiplied to more than a good many; increased them too much, albeit they swear by all he-saints and she-saints too, that they know not their father, nor mother, neither the world, nor hypocrisy; as indeed they can semble and dissemble all things; which thing they might learn wonderful well of their parents.

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Among the plunder and prisoners, crouching down, as if to escape observation, was found a Venetian commissary, who, in the course of the war and before the fight, had spoken contemptuously of the count, calling him "bastard," and "base-born."

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bastards!"

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First they remove the layers of mother-of-pearl, which are known in the industry by the names legitimate silver, bastard white, or bastard black, and these are shipped out in cases weighing 125 to 150 kilograms.

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The professor who spoke to me in this language told me that the French possessed no poetical literature, and he said the reason of this was that the French language was a bastard language; that it was, in fact, a kind of pidgin Latin.

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you d--- little yelling Popish bastard," he said, and stooped to pick up another; the crowd had gathered quite between the horses and the inn door by this time, and the coach was brought to a dead stand-still.

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One of them jeered him for his black eye, which was swelled by the potato, and another called him a bastard, on which he and Harry fell to fisticuffs.

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He asked me much about young H. E., 'that bastard,' as he called him; doubting my lord's intentions respecting him.

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"You little bastard beggar!" he said, "I'll murder you for this!"

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"Bastard or not," said the other, grinding his teeth, "I have a couple of swords, and if you like to meet me, as a man, on the terrace to-night--" And here the Doctor coming up, the colloquy of the young champions ended.

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What matters whether or no I make my way in life, or whether a poor bastard dies as unknown as he is now?

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She must be my Lady Marchioness, and I remain a nameless bastard.

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The Duchess, in reply to my aunt's eager clamor, said haughtily, that she had done her best for the legitimate branch of the Esmonds, and could not be expected to provide for the bastard brats of the family.

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"Bastards!" says the Viscountess, in a fury.

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"There are bastards among the Churchills, as your Grace knows, and the Duke of Berwick is provided for well enough."

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I like to think that Jack Haythorn, who sneered at me for being a bastard and a parasite of Webb's, as he chose to call me, and with whom I had had words, shook hands with me the day before the battle began.

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And our Grandmother used to tell us children, that on his first presentation to my Lord duke, the Duke turned his back upon my Grandfather; and said to the Duchess, who told my lady dowager at Chelsey, who afterwards told Colonel Esmond --"Tom Esmond's bastard has been to my levee: he has the hang-dog look of his rogue of a father"--an expression which my Grandfather never forgave.

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Thank you, Mr. Bastard.')

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'The mischievous bastard!' exclaimed the Quaker, terrified out of his usual moderation of speech-'the doomed gallows-bird!-he will break Solomon's wind to a certainty.'

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They are such smuggling blackguards, that they must run in their very music; but I'll sort them waur than ony gauger in the country.-Stay-hark-it 's no a fiddle neither-it's the pipe and tabor bastard, Simon of Sowport, frae the Nicol Forest; but I'll pipe and tabor him!-Let me hae ance my left hand on his cravat, and ye shall see what my right will do.

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Nanty Ewart was soon heard calling about, 'Break open yon chest-take out your capful, you bastard of a powder-monkey; we may want it again.

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'I gave the bastard a penny to buy me snuff,' said the pauper, 'and he has rendered no account of his intromissions; but I'll gar him as gude.'

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We brought face to face, he the bastard Faulconbridge, I the bastard Mudarra.

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Nodier pointed out that Faulconbridge is the same person spoken of by Mathieu Paris as Falcasius de Trente, bastard of Richard Coeur de Lion.

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But where there is light, there is shadow; and the lofty light of the soul casts upon the clouds of the mid-world the shadow of the spiritual man and of his powers; the bastard vesture and the bastard powers of psychism are easily attained; yet, even when attained, they are a delusion, the very essence of unreality.

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You can get the bastards, I the legitimate children."

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Thereupon, seized with a furious desire to slay Bertha and the monk's bastard, he sprang up the stairs with one bound; but at the sight of the corpse, for whom his wife and her son repeated incessant litanies, having no ears for his torrent of invective, having no eyes for his writhings and threats, he had no longer the courage to perpetrate this dark deed.

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It is strange to add that, judging by ordinary rules, the garrison of Orleans ought to have been quite sufficient in itself in numbers and science of war, to have beaten and dispersed the English force which had thus succeeded in shutting them in; there were many notable captains among them, with Dunois, known as the Bastard of Orleans, one of the most celebrated and brave of French generals, at their head.

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"Are you the Bastard of Orleans?" she said.

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To-day M. d'Alençon, the Bastard of Orleans, and Gaucourt were to leave Selles, following the Maid.

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There is given a long list of generals who surrounded and accompanied him, three or four princes of the blood, the Bastard of Orleans, the Archbishop of Rheims, marshals, admirals, and innumerable seigneurs, among whom was our young Guy de Laval who wrote the letter to his "mothers" which we have already quoted and whose faith in the Maid we thus know; and our ever faithful La Hire, the big-voiced Gascon who had permission to swear by his _bâton_, the d'Artagnan of this history.

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I'm not goin' to let any man call him a bastard!"

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'You are either a liar or a bastard, then,' said the marquis, who had not been brought up in a school of which either self-restraint or respect for women were prominent characteristics.

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'He ance gae me a shillin', an' it helpit, as ye ken, to haud me alive to face him this day.--No liar, my lord, but a bastard, thank heaven.'

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Jean de Gast, usually known as the Bastard de Vaurus, nominally was of the Armagnac or patriotic party, but, in fact, pillaged indiscriminately, especially capturing travellers on their way to Paris, and setting on their heads a heavy price, failing which he hung them upon the great elm-tree in the market-place.

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'Methought the House of Somerset was a mere bastard slip, with which even King Henry with all his insolence could not expect you to wed in earnest.

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He succeeds to the bastard born and dying in his seigniory without leaving a testament or legitimate children.

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Add to this a continual double sense, the author hidden behind his characters, truth put into the mouth of a clown, malice enveloped in simple utterances, the master duped but saved from being ridiculous by his deportment, the valet rebellious but preserved from acrimony by his gaiety, and you can comprehend how Beaumarchais could have the ancient regime played before its head, put political and social satire on the stage, publicly attach an expression to each wrong so as to become a by-word, and ever making a loud report,[4144] gather up into a few traits the entire polemics of the philosophers against the prisons of the State, against the censorship of literature, against the venality of office, against the privileges of birth, against the arbitrary power of ministers, against the incapacity of people in office, and still better, to sum up in one character every public demand, give the leading part to a commoner, bastard, bohemian and valet, who, by dint of dexterity, courage and good-humor, keeps himself up, swims with the tide, and shoots ahead in his little skiff, avoiding contact with larger craft and even supplanting his master, accompanying each pull on the oar with a shower of wit cast broadside at all his rivals.

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Right to property of deceased persons without heirs, to that of deceased bastards, the possessions of condemned criminals either to death, to the galleys or to exile, etc., (no profit).

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"March, rascal, you bastard!

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A publican, who refuses to distribute anti-Catholic lists, is supposed to have a mine in his cellar filled with kegs of gunpowder and with sulfur matches all ready; he is hacked to pieces with a saber, and twenty guns are discharged into his corpse: they expose the body before his house with a long loaf of bread on his breast, and they again stab him with bayonets, saying to him: "Eat, you bastard, eat"--More than five hundred Catholics were assassinated, and many others, covered with blood, "are crowded together in the prisons, while the search for the proscribed is continued; whenever they are seen, they are fired upon like so many wolves."

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Malouet, on leaving it, is almost dragged from his carriage, and the crowd around him cry out, "There goes the bastard who denounced the people!"

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One day Hua, on going up the steps of the Tuileries terrace, is seized by the hair by an old vixen who bids him "Bow your head to your sovereigns, the people, you bastard of a deputy!"

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"I shall have a good supper to-night," he exclaimed "(or the head of that bastard Peynier is a fat one, and I'll stick it in my Pot!")]

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We heard citizens all in rags say that it was a pity; he looks like a good sort of a bastard."]

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The officer of the guard argues with him, upon which he extends his hand to the king, exclaiming: "Touch that hand, bastard, and you have shaken the hand of an honest man!

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Add also, and especially, the future iron-handed representatives, uncouth, authoritarian, and narrow-minded, excellent troopers for a political militia, Bourbotte, Duquesnoy, Rewbell, and Bentabole, "a lot of ignorant bastards," said Danton,[3415] "without any common sense, and patriotic only when drunk.

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"Your victory is only half-won," writes Hébert in his Père Duchesne, "all those bastards of intriguers still live!"

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To ensure this, 1. we abolish, according to rule, the freedom of bequest,[2156] 2. we prescribe equal and obligatory divisions of all inheritances;[2157] 3. we include bastards in this under the same title as legitimate children; 4. we admit representation à l'infini,[2158] "in order to multiply heirs and parcel out inheritances;"[2159] 5. we reduce the disposable portion to one-tenth, in the direct line, and one-sixth in a collateral line; 6. we forbid any gift to persons whose income exceeds one thousand quintals of grain; 7. we inaugurate adoption, "an admirable institution," and essentially republican, "since it brings about a division of large properties without a crisis."

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Adulterous bastards are excepted.

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"That bastard there," exclaims Danton, "is not even able to boil an egg!"

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At last, 'scoundrel, monster, bastard,' says he, 'are you a marquis?'

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"[32127] They consider themselves lucky if they get off with a volley of obscene oaths, for he generally draws his saber: "The first bastard that mentions supplies, I will cut his head off.

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"[32128] And to the president of the military commission, who demands that verdicts be rendered before ordering executions: "You, you old rascal, you old bastard, you want verdicts, do you!

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"My brave bastards, my good sansculottes your time is come!

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It is well to state that I saw some deputies come into this large hall, also former marquises, counts and knights of the poniard of the ancient regime... but I confess that I cannot remember the true names of these former nobles.... for the devil himself could not recognize those bastards, disguised like sans-culottes."]

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"It is too good for bastards who are going to be guillotined."....

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I shall do what I can to have the pleasure of seeing one of these damned bastards play hot cockles."]

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He admits to Massena that "that little bastard of a general frightened him."

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This view, at once leveling and authoritative, tending to exaggerate the attributes of the State and the supreme power of the prince,[2333] was nevertheless inclined * to put natural right in the place of positive law,[2334] * to preferring equity and logic to antiquity and to custom, * to reinstate the dignity of man among the qualities of mankind, * to enhance the condition of the slave, of the provincial, of the debtor, of the bastard, of woman, of the child, and * to recover for the human community all its inferior members, foreign or degraded, which the ancient constitution of the family and of the city had excluded from it.

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Me let him escape!--the bastard kinchin should have walked the plank ere I troubled myself about him."

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When he was but ten years old, he persuaded another Satan's limb of an English bastard like himself to steal my lugger's khan--boat--what do you call it--to return to his country, as he called it--fire him!

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"Oh, certainly," replied Pleydell--"well, and he says--" "He says that it is whispered about among tinkers, gipsies, and other idle persons, that there is such a plan as I mentioned to you, and that this young man, who is a bastard or natural son of the late Ellangowan, is pitched upon as the impostor, from his strong family likeness."

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* A bastard.

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Serves them right, the bloody bastards!" he cried, suddenly lifting his head.

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This person, who it seemed was the high priest, carried in his hand a double roll of parchment written over with characters which we afterwards discovered were bastard Hebrew, very ancient and only decipherable by three or four of the Abati, if indeed any of them could really read it.

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To the house at the head of the bridge there had been affixed three small banners, representing the king, the dauphin, and Marguerite of Flanders, and six little pennons on which were portrayed the Duke of Austria, the Cardinal de Bourbon, M. de Beaujeu, and Madame Jeanne de France, and Monsieur the Bastard of Bourbon, and I know not whom else; all being illuminated with torches.

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who has cut, in the very middle of the central portal, that new and bastard arch?

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with Monsieur the Bastard of Bourbon.

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I have been told that by birth he is the bastard of an archdeacon and a devil.

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"Eheu!" sighed the broken-hearted Gringoire, " bassa latinitas -bastard latin!"

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At night, when the remainder of the beggar horde slept, when there was no longer a window lighted in the dingy façades of the Place, when not a cry was any longer to be heard proceeding from those innumerable families, those ant-hills of thieves, of wenches, and stolen or bastard children, the merry tower was still recognizable by the noise which it made, by the scarlet light which, flashing simultaneously from the air-holes, the windows, the fissures in the cracked walls, escaped, so to speak, from its every pore.

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Never did gangs of "floaters" help the political boss and ward-heeler rob the public treasury with greater success than did this other brand of the bastard citizen help his boss to hog the public domain.

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With them was a descendant of one of the bastards of Henry the Fourth, Lewis Duke of Vendome, a man sunk in indolence and in the foulest vice, yet capable of exhibiting on a great occasion the qualities of a great soldier.

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At the first glimpse of danger the bastard's heart had died within him.

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