Vulgar words in From Cornhill to Grand Cairo (Page 1)
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The streets were crowded with people watching for the august arrival, and lined with the squat military in their bastard European costume; the sturdy police, with bandeliers and brown surtouts, keeping order, driving off the faithful from the railings of the Esplanade through which their Emperor was to pass, and only admitting (with a very unjust partiality, I thought) us Europeans into that reserved space.
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They were making love just as they do on the Boulevard.
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A little way from him, there was a sort of play going on--a clown and a knowing one, like Widdicombe and the clown with us,--the buffoon answering with blundering responses, which made all the audience shout with laughter; but the only joke which was translated to me would make you do anything but laugh, and shall therefore never be revealed by these lips.