Vulgar words in Andersonville — Volume 4 - A Story of Rebel Military Prisons (Page 1)
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The old fellow moved off, but as he did he flung this Parthian arrow: "When Sherman gits down deep, he'll find somethin' different from the little snots of Reserves he ran over up about Milledgeville; he'll find he's got to fight real soldiers."
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You--fellows --will--go--into--a--circus--tent--and--throw--tobacco--quids in--the --face--of--the--lion--in--the--cage--when--you--haven't--spunk enough --to--look--a woodchuck--in--the--eye--if--you--met--him--alone.
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They wore, possibly, a little more clothing than their Senegambian ancestors did; they ate corn meal, yams and rice, instead of bananas, yams and rice, as their forefathers did, and they had learned a bastard, almost unintelligible, English.
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Bad luck to the blatherin' bastards that yez are, and to the mothers that bore ye."
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Finely formed, stalwart, full-fed and well clothed, they formed the most delightful contrast with the scrawny, shambling, villain-visaged little clay-eaters and white trash who had looked down upon us from the sentry boxes for many long months.
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Some wretched idiot, whose grandfather's grave I hope the jackasses have defiled, as the Turks would say, told me that the best preventive of sea-sickness was to drink as much of the milk punch as I could swallow.
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Haynau was the bastard son of a German Elector and of the daughter of a village, druggist.