Vulgar words in Thais (Page 1)

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Sometimes the breathing of an ass, or the soft lowing of an ox, accompanied, like a chorus of invisible spirits, the voice of the slave as he recited the gospels.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,570   ~   ~   ~

But He is not eternal, since He had a beginning; as to thinking that He existed before He was begotten, we must leave that absurdity to the Nicaean mules, and the obstinate ass who too long governed the Church of Alexandria under the accursed name of Athanasius.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,578   ~   ~   ~

There was a moment's silence, during which Hermodorus, his arm extended on the cloth, pointed to a little ass in Corinthian metal which bore two baskets--the one containing white olives, the other black olives.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,041   ~   ~   ~

As he prayed and prophesied thus, a lad passed on an ass.

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A veiled woman would pass on an ass, preceded by black eunuchs, who cleared a passage for her by the free use of their sticks.

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If only God exists, that he may damn me.

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