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  • The hussy's been after my so-called husband for a good thirty years, and when I tried to tell her she was welcome to the worthless oaf -- and good riddance -- the harlot tried bashing me with her purse.

    Static 2010

  • It's like they've been working a corner for years and now some hussy's going to do the job for free.

    Mike Alvear: Sex in 2009: Five Predictions From HBO's Sexpert 2009

  • The hussy's been after my so-called husband for a good thirty years, and when I tried to tell her she was welcome to the worthless oaf -- and good riddance -- the harlot tried bashing me with her purse.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • Jason Locker forbade his son his home if ever he were seen in the hussy's company again, and Homer left by the front door ....

    Scattergood Baines Clarence Budington Kelland 1922

  • Nay, had the hussy's scouringbrush not been her tutelary angel, it had gone with her as hard as with Hagar, the Egyptian!

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • "Like a bayonet," thought Bogdán, and an idea flashed through his mind, to whip the thing out of the scabbard and run it up to the hilt in the hussy's body.

    Menschen im Krieg. English Andreas Latzko 1909

  • Well, as I live, and must some day die, and do hope when I do die to get to heaven, I was so taken aback with the hussy's cunning I could do naught but stand and stare after her for some minutes.

    A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales Am��lie Rives 1904

  • He must part with as much as he possibly could of that last forty pounds; as much, also, as he possibly could of his pride, and submit to have the hussy's foot on his neck.

    The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

  • As for Khema, where are the hussy's manners to go and disturb you when you are engaged?

    The Home and the World Rabindranath Tagore 1901

  • And if I am brave and fine it would be said of me, 'The hussy's gown is brave and fine!'

    The Hidden Children 1899

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