I found out that French swearing was -- it's close to what you get in French Canada now -- but that the Anglo-Saxons were REALLY GOOD at Anglo-Saxon words. I doubt extremely much that Harriet would have heard those words regularly if her family hadn't been military, but if you ever, ever need a euphemism for penetrative sex, the Brits are your folk.

" {x} ways from Sunday " is from the mid-18th century. (Source: http://grammarist.com/idiom/six-ways-from-sunday/ )

Searchable Georgian and Regency idiomatic database: http://www.pascalbonenfant.com/18c/cant/search.php

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5402

So many ways to say fucking fucksticks, they had to CODIFY IT IN A BOOK.