Vulgar words in A Tramp Abroad (Page 1)
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A jay can cry, a jay can laugh, a jay can feel shame, a jay can reason and plan and discuss, a jay likes gossip and scandal, a jay has got a sense of humor, a jay knows when he is an ass just as well as you do-maybe better.
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The seconds cried "Halt!" and knocked up the combatants' swords with their own.
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"That's about the size of it," I said.
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At the end of an hour my head was in a perfect whirl and I was dead tired, fagged out.
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I measured the ground which this ass traversed, and arrived at the conclusion that what he had accomplished inside of twenty minutes would constitute some such job as this-relatively speaking-for a man; to wit: to strap two eight-hundred-pound horses together, carry them eighteen hundred feet, mainly over (not around) boulders averaging six feet high, and in the course of the journey climb up and jump from the top of one precipice like Niagara, and three steeples, each a hundred and twenty feet high; and then put the horses down, in an exposed place, without anybody to watch them, and go off to indulge in some other idiotic miracle for vanity's sake.
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I think 't if a feller he'ps another feller when he's in trouble, and don't cuss, and don't do no mean things, nur noth'n' he ain' no business to do, and don't spell the Saviour's name with a little g, he ain't runnin' no resks-he's about as saift as he b'longed to a church."
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Mr. Ruskin would have said: This person is an ass.
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You shall have a monument of jackasses' skulls as high as the Strasburg spire if you die before I do.
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We were pretty well fagged out, now, but as we did not wish to miss the Alpine sunrise, we got through our dinner as quickly as possible and hurried off to bed.
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I think you are the very last possibility in the way of an ass."
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The foreign words and phrases which they use have their exact equivalents in a nobler language-English; yet they think they 'adorn their page' when they say STRASSE for street, and BAHNHOF for railway-station, and so on-flaunting these fluttering rags of poverty in the reader's face and imagining he will be ass enough to take them for the sign of untold riches held in reserve.
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And very fatiguing, too; for we had tried hard, along at first, to catch up with the guide, but had only fagged ourselves, in vain; for although he was traveling slowly he was yet able to go faster than the hampered caravan over such ground.
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Every time a poor devil has been set upon his feet I have detected your hand in it-incorrigible ass!"