Vulgar words in A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America (Page 1)
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We were placed in a good bed--the state-bed of course--and as we lay, paid our devotions to Urania, and contemplated the beauties of the starry firmament, through an aperture in the roof which would have admitted a jackass.
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At present there is a snag steam-boat stationed on the Mississippi, which has almost entirely cleared it of these obstructions.
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It has a most powerful engine; and when the crew discover a snag, which always lies with the stream, and is known by the ripple on the water, they run down below it for some distance in order to gather head-way--the boat is then run at it full tilt, and seldom fails of breaking off the projecting branch close to the trunk.
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To have _the liberty_ of being seized by a press-gang, torn away from their wives and families, and flogged at the discretion of my lord Tom, Dick, or Harry's bastard."