Vulgar words in Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories (Page 1)
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The iron-souled truth-monger would plainly manifest, or even utter the fact, that he didn't want to see those people-and he would be an ass, and inflict a totally unnecessary pain.
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Why, I was as fagged out, then, as if I had been chopping wood all day.
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His first act was to proclaim the sacredness and inviolability of the ass; his second was to add this particular ass to his cabinet and make him chief minister of the crown; his third was to have all the statues and effigies of nightingales throughout his kingdom destroyed, and replaced by statues and effigies of the sacred donkey; and, his fourth was to announce that when the little peasant maid should reach her fifteenth year he would make her his queen and he kept his word.
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This explains why the moldering image of the ass adorns all these old crumbling walls and arches; and it explains why, during many centuries, an ass was always the chief minister in that royal cabinet, just as is still the case in most cabinets to this day; and it also explains why, in that little kingdom, during many centuries, all great poems, all great speeches, all great books, all public solemnities, and all royal proclamations, always began with these stirring words: "Waw... he!
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You say 'flahsk' and 'bahsket,' and 'jackahss'; we say 'flask,' 'basket,' 'jackass'-sounding the 'a' as it is in 'tallow,' 'fallow,' and so on.
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When you are exhausted, you say you are 'knocked up.'