Vulgar words in Driftwood Spars - The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who - Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life (Page 1)
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Swinging at the end of a cord tied to his hands, which were bound behind his back, was the boy Moussa Isa the Somali, apparently dead, for his eyes were closed and he gave no sign of pain as Ibrahim's gang of pimps, panders, bullies and _budmashes_[18] kept him swinging to and fro by blows of _lathis_[19] and by kicks, while Ibrahim and his friends, at a short distance, strove to hit the moving body with stones.
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"Good," murmured the old Arab, "now brain him as he comes up--and secure his body."
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An individual, notoriously slack and incompetent, ten years his junior, had been promoted over his head, because he was somebody's cousin and the kind of fatuous ass that only labours industriously in drawing-rooms and at functions, recuperating by slacking idly in offices and at duties--a paltry but paying game much practised by a very small class in India.
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What a milk-and-water young ass he had been, hanging about round good, silly, little Mrs. Dearman, denying himself champagne at dinner-parties, earning opprobrium as a teetotaller, going to bed early like a bread-and-butter flapper, and generally losing all the joys of Life!
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The little affected pimp unkind to Mrs. Dearman!
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Damn reformation, teetotality, the earnest, and the strenuous.
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When, after that dinner, General Miltiades Murger made love to Mrs. Dearman on the verandah, he also made an enemy, a bitter, cruel, and vindictive enemy of Mr. Ross-Ellison (or rather of Mir Ilderim Dost Mahommed Mir Hafiz Ullah Khan).
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Was it _his_ fault that his officers were fools and his men damn-fools?
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Mrs. Gosling-Green (_née_ a Pounding-Pobble, Superiora Pounding-Pobble, one of the Pounding-Pobbles of Putney) was under the orders, very much under the orders, of the wife of the Sergeant-Major, and early and plainly learnt that good woman's opinion that she was a poor, feckless body and eke a fushionless, not worth the salt of her porridge--a lazy slut withal.
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To make love to me!