Vulgar words in The Riddle of the Sands (Page 1)
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'But I was knocked up at dawn by a sailor with a message from Dollmann asking if he could come to breakfast with me.
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'With a second hand on board to steer while I conned I should have felt less of an ass.
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I'm not such an ass as to thirst for revenge and all that, like some chap in a shilling shocker.
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It was not that bastard concoction I had tasted in the pseudo-Bohemias of Soho; it was not the showy but insipid beverage I should have drunk my fill of at Morven Lodge; it was the purest of her pure vintages, instilling the ancient inspiration which, under many guises, quickens thousands of better brains than mine, but whose essence is always the same; the gay pursuit of a perilous quest.
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But there's no excuse for those blockheads of statesmen, as they call themselves, who are paid to see things as they are.
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Ass that I am not to have seen it before!
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The discrepancy will not only damn him (that may be immaterial), but it will throw doubt on us.'
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Beyond these was another vessel, a galliot in build, but radiant as a queen among sluts; her varnished sides and spars flashing orange in the sun.
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'Damn!' was all he uttered in the way of gratitude for this mercy, and I felt very much the same; for in a fog Davies in a dinghy was a match for a steamer; in a clear he lost his handicap.
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Come ashore and knock up Dollmann; we must denounce him, and get them both aboard; it's now or never.