Vulgar words in The Prairie (Page 1)
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In the mean time the naturalist stood like a statue of amazement, permitting a well-grown ass, against whose approach he no longer offered his boasted shield of light, to smell about his person, without comment or hinderance.
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"It is your own ass," cried Ellen, the instant she found breath for words; "your own patient, hard working, hack!"
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She gave me a deal of trouble, that slut, she did!"
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"Then was your buffoon a fool to my Hector!
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"Hold!" cried Ishmael, knocking up the levelled weapon of his too eager son.
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"Twenty--no, damn it, it's worth thirty dollars, if it's worth a cent!"
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"Friend, it will be necessary to slaughter this ass."
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"There's argument and good logic in it," said Paul; "music is music, and it's always noisy, whether it comes from a fiddle or a jackass.
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"The moment my back is turned, pull upon the rein of your ass, until you lose sight of the savages.
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"Ay, but I did not tell him to make an ass outdo the speed of a horse:--you are right--you are right," said the trapper, interrupting himself, as by gradually lessening the distance between them, his eyes assured him it was Obed and Asinus, whom he saw; "you are right, as certainly as the thing is a miracle.
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"Had there been rotary levers for two of the members, a moiety of the fatigue would have been saved, for one item--" "That, for your moiety's and rotaries, and items, man; a jaded ass is a jaded ass, and he who denies it is but a brother of the beast itself.
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Give me a cotton-wood, and I will turn you out a canoe that shall carry us all, the jackass excepted, in perhaps the work of a day and a night.
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Whether Asinus had acquired so much knowledge, by his recent experience, as to know the value of his sonorous properties, or the strange spectacle of a dozen hags flitting past him, filling the air with such sounds as were even grating to the ears of an ass, most moved his temper, it is certain that the animal did that which Obed was requested to do, and probably with far greater effect than if the naturalist had strove with his mightiest effort to be heard.
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Not that I mean to say Ellen was not altogether forced to what she did, and therefore she is just as innocent, in this matter, as yonder jackass, who was made to carry her, and greatly against his will, too, as I am ready to swear he would say himself, if he could speak as loud as he can bray."
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"What the devil, old trapper, do you mean to foot it to the settlements, when here is a boat that will float the distance in half the time, that the jackass, the Doctor has given the Pawnee, could trot along the same."