Vulgar words in Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ (Page 1)

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"Did he not swear he could drive them--swear it by all his brood of bastard Latin gods?

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"Son of Israel," the master said, "thy Moses was a mighty man, but--ha, ha ha!--I must laugh when I think of his allowing thy fathers the plodding ox and the dull, slow-natured ass, and forbidding them property in horses.

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Behold, thy King cometh unto thee with justice and salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.'"

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thou ass of Antioch!

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Worthy son of the bastard Roman Jove!

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"Instead of a Sesostris returning in triumph or a Caesar helmed and sworded--ha, ha, ha!--I saw a man with a woman's face and hair, riding an ass's colt, and in tears.

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