Vulgar words in Following the Equator (Page 1)
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The Waterbury showed up 11.30, now, and I beat her brains out against the bedstead.
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See him weep; hear him cuss between the lines!
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The educated young gentleman who is chief of the tribe that live in the region about the capital dresses in the fashion of high-class European gentlemen, but even his clothes cannot damn him in the reverence of his people.
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The naturalist said that the oddest bird in Australasia was the, Laughing Jackass, and the biggest the now extinct Great Moa.
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The Botanical Gardens-Contributions from all Countries-The Zoological Gardens of Adelaide-The Laughing Jackass-The Dingo-A Misnamed Province-Telegraphing from Melbourne to San Francisco-A Mania for Holidays-The Temperature-The Death Rate-Celebration of the Reading of the Proclamation of 1836-Some old Settlers at the Commemoration-Their Staying Powers-The Intelligence of the Aboriginal-The Antiquity of the Boomerang CHAPTER IX.
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To your Samson was given supernatural power, and when he broke the withes, and slew the thousands with the jawbone of an ass, and carried away the gate's of the city upon his shoulders, you were amazed-and also awed, for you recognized the divine source of his strength.
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In the Zoological Gardens of Adelaide I saw the only laughing jackass that ever showed any disposition to be courteous to me.
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No amount of horse-racing can damn this community.
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But there are the whirring of locusts, the demoniac chuckle of the laughing jack-ass, the screeching of cockatoos and parrots, the hissing of the frilled lizard, and the buzzing of innumerable insects hidden under the dense undergrowth.
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He is not confined, but loafs all over the house and grounds, like the laughing jackass.
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The stranger is warned against taking cold baths in India, but even the most intelligent strangers are fools, and they do not obey, and so they presently get laid up.
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If he should ever cross to the other side of the Ganges and get caught out and die there he would at once come to life again in the form of an ass.
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The Hindoo has a childish and unreasoning aversion to being turned into an ass.
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One could properly expect an ass to have an aversion to being turned into a Hindoo.
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But the Hindoo changed into an ass wouldn't lose anything, unless you count his religion.
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It is a state which other Hindoos reach by being born again and again, and over and over again into this world, through one re-incarnation after another-a tiresome long job covering centuries and decades of centuries, and one that is full of risks, too, like the accident of dying on the wrong side of the Ganges some time or other and waking up in the form of an ass, with a fresh start necessary and the numerous trips to be made all over again.
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The raindrops were so large and struck the river with such force that they knocked up the water like pebble-splashes.
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All within the space of a single week it had made Jameson an illustrious hero in England, a pirate in Pretoria, and an ass without discretion or honor in Johannesburg; also it had produced a poet-laureatic explosion of colored fireworks which filled the world's sky with giddy splendors, and, the knowledge that Jameson was coming with it to rescue the women and children emptied Johannesburg of that detail of the population.
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Then he muttered something about my being a jackass, and walked away and pointed me out to people, and did everything he could to turn public sentiment against me.
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I seemed to have been lecturing a thousand years, though it was only a twelvemonth, and a considerable number of the others were Reformers who were fagged out with their five months of seclusion in the Pretoria prison.