Vulgar words in A Book of Scoundrels (Page 1)

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ass x 2
blockhead x 1
damn x 1
            

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Though he loved good English as he loved good wine, he was never so happy as when (in imagination) he was tying the legs of a Regicide under the belly of an ass.

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Once upon a time, says rumour, he found himself face to face with Oliver Cromwell, whom he dragged from his coach, set ignominiously upon an ass, and so turned adrift with his feet tied under the beast's belly.

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His common method was to price a horse, and while the dealer showed Barney the animal's teeth, Haggart would slip under the uplifted arm, and ease the blockhead of his blunt.

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II--GENTLEMAN HARRY 'DAMN ye both!

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