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There is then in the structure of his words something tragic and something comic, something blustering and something low, an obscurity, a vulgarness, a turgidness, and a strutting, with a nauseous prattling and fooling.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

"You're the most rudest boy ever I see," cried Madame Duval, angrily: "but, I promise you, I'll tell your father what you say, for I've no notion of such vulgarness."

From Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Burney, Fanny