Vulgar words in The River War - An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan (Page 1)
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With him he scoffs at the diplomatists; despises the Government; becomes impatient--unreasonably, perhaps--with a certain Major Kitchener in the Intelligence Branch, whose information miscarried or was not despatched; is wearied by the impracticable Shaiggia Irregulars; takes interest in the turkey-cock and his harem of four wives; laughs at the 'black sluts' seeing their faces for the first time in the mirror.
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Since they would not run their loss was heavy, and it was a strange sight--the last vivid impression of the day--to watch them struggling through the deep sand, with the dust knocked up into clouds by the bullets which struck all round them.