Vulgar words in The Red Planet (Page 1)
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But all the same-" "Well, damn it all!" cried Sir Anthony, in a quavering voice, "he died like a man and there's nothing more to be said."
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Then, like an ass, I began to cry, too; for I loved the boy, and that perhaps helped her on a bit.
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Since the mount of Balaam, there was never such an intelligent idiot of an ass.
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From Aristotle to William James, I have dipped into quite a lot of them-Descartes, Berkeley, Kant, Schopenhauer (the thrice besotted Teutonic ass who said that women weren't beautiful), for I hate to be thought an ignorant duffer-and I have never come across in them anything worth knowing, thinking, or doing that I was not taught at my mother's knee.
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All these great thinkers have their niches in the Temple of Fame, and I'm quite aware that the consensus of human judgment does not immortalise even such an ass as Schopenhauer, without sufficient reason.
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Then Randall, like a silly young ass, said, from the depths of his easy chair, a very silly thing.
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Well-you thought I was a damn little fool the other day, didn't you?
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A pretty ass I'd look if there was a hitch-say through some fool of a copying clerk-and I didn't get it after all.
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I've come to the conclusion that he was the damn'dest, filthiest, lyingest hound that ever was pupped."
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As a matter of fact, the whole damn thing had gone out of my head for years.
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They regarded it as a heritage from their pompous ass of a father.
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Do you think the lives of hundreds of his men-and perhaps the fate of thousands-can be entrusted to any brainless ass?
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"Marigold," said I, "don't be an ass."
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Damn patriots!
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"Either you're just a wanton little hussy or you must care for the fellow."
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"There has been a good deal of scrapping around Ypres lately-that given away by the communiques; but for reasons which both the Censor and yourself will appreciate, I can't be more explicit as to locality.
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"When I've got it in my hand, I don't seem to care a damn what I do.
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Oh, damn the fellow!"
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So for the sake of principle he continued to damn the fellow.
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"But it doesn't matter a damn with regard to what I want to say.
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"I suppose you think me a conceited ass," he continued.
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"Sometimes circumstances, especially if a man's own damn foolishness has contrived them, tie him hand and foot.
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I don't care a damn whether I die or live.
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Even out there, when I don't care a damn whether I live or die, the blasted thing gets hold of me."
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Knocked up, I suppose, by your journey to town.
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"Then he says, very haughty, as if I was the dirt under his feet-I suppose, Sir Anthony Fenimore and Major Meredyth, you think that me and my class are by divine prescription the dirt beneath your feet, but you're damn well mistaken-then he says: 'What the devil do you mean?' and catches hold of the front wheel of the bicycle and swings it and me out of his way so that I had a nasty fall, with the machine on top of me, and he marches off.
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I was absolutely determined that none of my friends, none of you good people, should know what an ass I had made of myself.
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"That I was making an ass of myself?"
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That's why I have reason on my side when I say that, all through Phyllis Gedge, I made an ass of myself."
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"An ass in sheep's clothing."
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Suppose Leonard Boyce did make love to Althea Fenimore-trifle with her affections, in the old-fashioned phrase.
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"I'll own that until lately I accused him of unforgivable sin-deceiving me and making love to another girl and driving her to suicide.
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But I bade him not be an ass, but send her along when he had to finish with her; with the result that for some months my pretty little Phyllis has been an inmate of my house.