Vulgar words in The Innocents Abroad — Volume 04 (Page 1)
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~ ~ ~ Sentence 17 ~ ~ ~
Fully one-half of the buried city, perhaps, is completely exhumed and thrown open freely to the light of day; and there stand the long rows of solidly-built brick houses (roofless) just as they stood eighteen hundred years ago, hot with the flaming sun; and there lie their floors, clean-swept, and not a bright fragment tarnished or waiting of the labored mosaics that pictured them with the beasts, and birds, and flowers which we copy in perishable carpets to-day; and here are the Venuses, and Bacchuses, and Adonises, making love and getting drunk in many-hued frescoes on the walls of saloon and bed-chamber; and there are the narrow streets and narrower sidewalks, paved with flags of good hard lava, the one deeply rutted with the chariot-wheels, and the other with the passing feet of the Pompeiians of by-gone centuries; and there are the bake-shops, the temples, the halls of justice, the baths, the theatres-all clean-scraped and neat, and suggesting nothing of the nature of a silver mine away down in the bowels of the earth.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 279 ~ ~ ~
It was getting late, and we had no time to fool away on every ass that wanted to drivel Greek platitudes to us.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,232 ~ ~ ~
We add what dignity we can to a stately ruin with our green umbrellas and jackasses, but it is little.