Vulgar words in Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (Page 1)
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Who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
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Father Adam had a cart, and to draw the cart a diminutive she-ass, not much bigger than a dog, the colour of a mouse, with a kindly eye and a determined under-jaw.
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I remembered having laughed myself when I had seen good men struggling with adversity in the person of a jackass, and the recollection filled me with penitence.
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As for these two girls, they were a pair of impudent sly sluts, with not a thought but mischief.
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But the instinct of an ass is what might be expected from the name; in half a minute she was clambering round and round among some boulders, as lost a donkey as you would wish to see.
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What the devil was the good of a she-ass if she could not carry a sleeping-bag and a few necessaries?
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I heard the runnel with delight; I looked round me for something beautiful and unexpected; but the still black pine-trees, the hollow glade, the munching ass, remained unchanged in figure.
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He found at least one telling word to say in his defence; for when the roof fell in and the upbursting flames discovered his retreat, and they came and dragged him to the public place of the town, raging and calling him damned--'If I be damned,' said he, 'why should you also damn yourselves?'
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At the top, as is the habit of the country, the path disappeared; and I left my she-ass munching heather, and went forward alone to seek a road.