Vulgar words in Acton's Feud - A Public School Story (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 30
cocky x 2
fag x 2
jackass x 2
            

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"Play the game, and don't be an ass."

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"I object to being called an ass," said Chalmers, in a white rage.

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"But he called me an ass!"

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Ass is a mild term."

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He had the uneasy feeling that he was an arrant ass in thus fooling time away, but had not sufficient self-denial to seize upon a quiet afternoon for a little genuine work.

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"That ass Bourne found the house at last, and then he goes and carefully spots the wrong man.

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"What an awful ass I've been, sir!"

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"'Of future joys,' you ass."

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"Then do it, you ass," said the chairman.

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"I'm an ass," he said to himself; "but, anyhow, I'll look up what the blessed word does mean, and try to do it."

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St. Amory's fags did not spot anything wrong about item one, but the older fellows chuckled a little and said "the manager was a funny ass."

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Where is that ass?"

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"I'll try that left feint on Rogers, the cocky ass!"

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"Oh, don't be an ass, Gus!

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Agreeable to instructions received from you, sir, I prepared----" "Don't be so beastly legal, you ass!"

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"Dunno, quite," said Grim; "but that young ass dropped a cartridge from his pocket the other day."

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Blessed if that usual ass didn't handle the Fifth _v_.

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Jack went, and when Acton put him into the easy-chair and noticed his white, fagged face, he felt genuinely sorry for him.

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I've been an ass, but I've collared some awful luck, and I'm not quite the black sheep I seem.

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Grim was no end cocky over that."

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"We never bargained that old Grim would copy that Fifth Form ass, Todd, and chum up with Lancaster, did we?"

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"Said he was an ass."

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"An ass, a jackass, a howling jackass!" cried Poulett, _crescendo_.

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Toddy was too big an ass even for Cotton," remarked Wilson.

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Grim artistically kept the conversation on Todd, and Gus learned how like an ass each individual of the quintette thought him.

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He had felt the loss of Gus's helping hand terribly, and he had not yet found another ass to "devil" for him in the way of classics or mathematics.

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"You're a funny ass, Cotton.

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"Rather rough in parts, Cotton," said the old man, beaming on the shrinking Jim; "but at least you've not been ploughing Herodotus with the help of your old ass, Bohn."

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"You conceited ass, Grimmy!

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"The sunset, you ass!"

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"You're not quite such an ass as you once were."

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"Yes, but not quite the old ass.

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The care necessary, the cold, cutting wind, and the knee-deep snow, made their progress terribly slow, and Acton began to notice that Senior, despite his anxiety for a sharp pace, was already terribly fagged.

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