Vulgar words in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 (Page 1)

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blockhead x 1 damn x 1 jackass x 1

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Sir," he concluded with chilling austerity, "I infer from their proverb that your countrymen are the most offensive blockheads in existence."

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To this message I received the following extraordinary reply: "All right--another bottle of--ice goes: push on--this cheese is too--spare no effort to--hand me those nuts--learn all you can--damn you!"

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Of course I was not for an instant deceived by all this: I knew that under it all lay a particularly forbidding and inhospitable expanse of sagebrush and cactus, peopled with nothing more nearly akin to me than prairie dogs, ground owls and jackass rabbits--that with these exceptions the desert was as desolate as the environment of Ozymandias' "vast and trunkless legs of stone."

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