Vulgar words in The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves (Page 1)
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About three months after this transaction, his niece Aurelia, with her mother, having been to visit a lady in the chariot, the horses being young, and not used to the traces, were startled at the braying of a jackass on the common, and, taking fright, ran away with the carriage, like lightning.
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'Respect mine a--!' cried this ferocious commander; what, d'ye think to frighten us with your pewter piss-pot on your skull, and your lacquered pot-lid on your arm?
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mun be playing his pranks with Gilbert too, as sure as I'm a living soul--I'se wager a teaster, the foul fiend has left the seaman, and got into Gilbert, that he has--when a has passed through an ass and a horse, I'se marvel what beast a will get into next."
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The waiters were so distracted by a variety of calls, that they stood motionless, in the state of the schoolman's ass between two bundles of hay, incapable of determining where they should first offer their attendance.
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Aristotle was a pedantic blockhead, and still more knave than fool.
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The knight, in order to meditate on this unexpected adventure, sat down by his old friend, and entered into a reverie, which lasted about a quarter of an hour, and might have continued longer had it not been interrupted by the voice of Crabshaw, who bawled aloud, "Look to it, my masters--as you brew you must drink--this shall be a dear day's work to some of you; for my part, I say nothing--the braying ass eats little grass--one barber shaves not so close, but another finds a few stubble-- you wanted to catch a capon, and you've stole a cat--he that takes up his lodgings in a stable, must be contented to lie upon litter."
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He was continually surrounded and preyed upon by certain vermin called Led Captains and Buffoons, who showed him in leading-strings like a sucking giant, rifled his pockets without ceremony, ridiculed him to his face, traduced his character, and exposed him in a thousand ludicrous attitudes for the diversion of the public; while at the same time he knew their knavery, saw their drift, detested their morals, and despised their understanding.
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This hint was not lost upon his companion, counsellor, and buffoon, the facetious Davy Dawdle, who had some humour, and a great deal of mischief, in his composition.
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Art thou a spirit of grace, or goblin damn'd?
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It was my son of a bitch of a horse that would not obey the helm, d'ye see, whereby I cou'd n't use my metal, d'ye see.