Vulgar words in Elbow-Room - A Novel Without a Plot (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 4
blockhead x 1
brain x 2
cuss x 1
jackass x 3
            

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Mr. Potts, perfectly frantic with rage, forgot where he was; and holding his clinched fist under Smiley's nose, he shrieked, "I've half a mind to brain you, you scoundrel!"

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What an ass I've made of myself!

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But nothin' of that sort ever happens in this jackass kind of a land.

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If that jackass on the bench had any sense, he could see that the hat is glued fast.

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Then what does that ass do but put me out agin and lock up the jail and put crape on the door, while he went off to the funeral.

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I went there eight times, and there was always some jackass of an excuse for crowdin' me out, and I don't know if I'll ever get in agin.

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"Perfect ass, of course; but I let him run along, and pretty soon he says, 'I've just bought half a barrel of salt mackerel, which I'm going to put in the Schuylkill.

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One of the other commissioners,' so this terrific blockhead said, 'insisted on trying the experiment with the oyster that produces tripe, so's to enable the people to catch tripe and oysters when they go a-fishing.

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"You intolerable ass!" exclaimed the major as the clerks and reporters came rushing in and began to place Partridge on his legs; "it wasn't lightning.

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"If you do, I'll brain you with an inkstand," said the major.

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Eight men couldn't cuss 'em to satisfy me.

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