Vulgar words in At a Winter's Fire (Page 1)
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"Don't be a ass, Fred!" said the banjo, aggrieved.
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He said, "I know damn well about you, Dignum; and for all your damn ingenuity, I'll bring you with a crack to the ground yet."'
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Thither there came to me one morning a letter from William Tyrwhitt, the polemical journalist (a queer fish, like the cuttle, with an ink-bag for the confusion of enemies), complaining that he was fagged and used up, and desiring me to say that nowhere could complete rest be obtained as in King's Cobb.
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"For an independent thinker," he said, "you are rather a pusillanimous jackass.
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"Friends," went his formula, nasal and forcibly spasmodic in the best gull-catcher style, "p'raps you will ask why I, a able-bodied man, are asking for ass--ist--ance in your town.
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Then followed an elaborate presentation, in singsong verse, of his own undeserved indigence and the brutality of employers, and so the recitation again:-- "Friends, the least ass--ist--ance would be welcome.
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You sit in your com--for--ta--ble 'ouses, and I ask you to ass--ist a fellow creature, driven to this for no fault of his own--for many can 'elp one where one cannot 'elp many."
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"Don't be an ass!"
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"But one day, during maneuvers, there came to the camp a grey-faced man, a newspaper correspondent, and young Shrike knocked up a friendship with him.
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I was a presumtious ass, and born to cast up figgers with a pen behind my ear.'