Vulgar words in White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War (Page 1)

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blockhead x 1
damn x 8
jackass x 1
make love x 1
            

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These are the fellows that some officers never pretend to damn, however much they may anathematize others.

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"Damn you!" raged Mad Jack to the quarter-masters; "hard down-- hard _down_, I say, and be damned to you!"

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That's the way to publish, White-Jacket," turning to me--"fire it right into 'em; every canto a twenty-four-pound shot; _hull_ the blockheads, whether they will or no.

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Blast them, Jack, what they call the public is a monster, like the idol we saw in Owhyhee, with the head of a jackass, the body of a baboon, and the tail of a scorpion!"

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Damn me, but these coltings puts the tin in the Purser's pocket.

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Damn me, White-Jacket, I wouldn't call my dog Peter!"

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When you see a fellow yawning about the docks like a homeward-bound Indiaman, a long Commodore's pennant of black ribbon flying from his mast- head, and fetching up at a grog-shop with a slew of his hull, as if an Admiral were coming alongside a three-decker in his barge; you may put that man down for what man-of-war's-men call a _damn- my-eyes-tar_, that is, a humbug.

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And many damn-my-eyes hum-bugs there are in this man-of-war world of ours.

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The picturesque, delightful stern-gallery, also, a broad balcony overhanging the sea, and entered from the Captain's cabin, much as you might enter a bower from a lady's chamber; this charming balcony, where, sailing over summer seas in the days of the old Peruvian viceroys, the Spanish cavalier Mendanna, of Lima, made love to the Lady Isabella, as they voyaged in quest of the Solomon Islands, the fabulous Ophir, the Grand Cyclades; and the Lady Isabella, at sunset, blushed like the Orient, and gazed down to the gold-fish and silver-hued flying-fish, that wove the woof and warp of their wakes in bright, scaly tartans and plaids underneath where the Lady reclined; this charming balcony--exquisite retreat--has been cut away by Vandalic innovations.

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Damn you, you Jonah!

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"Damn you!

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