Another swearing-curtailing device is to allow the taboo word but disenvowel it, so that fuck and cunt become f-ck and c-nt.

cradling the injured man’s head in her arms

She claims to have been Cleopatra and Marie Antoinette in past lives.

They'll stand to be saddled and, long as nobody does anything ignorant, they're not likely to throw. Aren't any of them gunbroke, but we can get them that way.