Vulgar words in Three Men on the Bummel (Page 1)
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He said: "Well, I am an ass!"
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This annoyed the Professor still more; he called the second boy a blockhead, though really I cannot see why, and passed on to the third, who, for the last minute, had been sitting apparently on hot plates, with his right arm waving up and down like a distracted semaphore signal.
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He makes love, quarrels with his wife, and feeds the children quite in public.
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"I knew a case of softening of the brain that began--" "Oh, you're a silly ass!" said George, cutting him short; "you know everything."
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In German you are not permitted to call an official a "silly ass," but undoubtedly this particular man was one.
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Then it was that Harris called the man a silly ass.
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But that is his idea; and maybe it is in no worse taste than is a mixture of bastard Elizabethan with imitation Louis XV, the whole lit by electric light, and smothered with photographs.