Vulgar words in Bulfinch's Mythology (Page 1)
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Apollo would not suffer such a depraved pair of ears any longer to wear the human form, but caused them to increase in length, grow hairy, within and without, and movable on their roots; in short, to be on the perfect pattern of those of an ass.
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He yoked an ass and an ox together to the plough and began to sow salt.
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CHAPTER XXI THE SANGREAL (Continued) SIR BOHORT When Sir Boliort departed from Camelot he met with a religious man, riding upon an ass; and Sir Bohort saluted him.
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This hermit, who appeared shrunk by age and fasting, travelled slowly, mounted upon a wretched ass.
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Some of them bore the human form from the neck to the feet, but had the head of a monkey or a cat; others had the legs and the ears of a horse; old men and women, bald and hideous, ran hither and thither as if out of their senses, half clad in the shaggy skins of beasts; one rode full speed on a horse without a bridle, another jogged along mounted on an ass or a cow; others, full of agility, skipped about, and clung to the tails and manes of the animals which their companions rode.
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you blockhead, you deserve to be thrown over the mosque!"