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| 22 | 327 | View more quotes about considering">Considering what was involved and how it would be done, it seemed more straightforward and honest than less candid or more circuitous expressions, enveiling euphemisms. |
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| 22 | 324 | "What a vulgar word!" I was silent. |
| 22 | 325 | The word did not seem vulgar to me. |
| 22 | 326 | It seemed to me clear, unambiguous and decisively apt. |
| 22 | 327 | Considering what was involved and how it would be done, it seemed more straightforward and honest than less candid or more circuitous expressions, enveiling euphemisms. |
| 22 | 328 | The abruptness and simplicity of its sound suggested the abruptness and simplicity, the rudeness and irresistibility, the meaningfulness and completeness, of the act. |
| 22 | 329 | Perhaps free women might be disrobed; slaves were stripped. |
| 22 | 330 | To be sure, if the free woman were captured then she, as a capture, would doubtless not be disrobed, so to speak, but would be stripped, as might be a slave. |