Vulgar words in Tell England - A Study in a Generation (Page 1)
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Don't be a sloppy ass," I said, feeling that I had been fairly trapped into deserting a fellow-victim, and backing our common tyrant.
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Damn!"
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"No, damn you!" cried my patient with extraordinary conviction.
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It seems, as I recall it, a fine sentence, but at that moment, when I wanted to be a wild ass among men, it was a _lie_.
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"Now don't be an ass, Bicky," said Stanley, who deemed that a Court of Inquiry over which he presided was much too weighty an affair to be approached with levity; "it's no joking matter.
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"You're all right," he decided, "except that you're an ass.
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Take your medical man's word for it--you're an ass.
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Put him beside the other ass for company."
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"Silly ass, Osborne," roared Cover-point, quite gratuitously, for no one had addressed him for the last twenty minutes.
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The last thing that I heard was the batsman's voice shouting: "I'm not an ass.
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Why have I got that ass, Freedham, on the brain?"
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"Ray, you old ass," he began.
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I tried to drag my arm away, but he held it too tight, and proceeded to make the remarkable statement: "You old ass!
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"Damn!" said White.
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You--oh, damn!"
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It stands to reason that it can't be right for all the wealth to be in the pockets of the few, and for there to be a distinct and cocky governing class.
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He made a peculiarly effective exit, his hat tilted at what he called a "damn-your-eyes" angle.
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"Oh, I don't know, steward, damn you," he sighed.
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"Damn the man--_what_," cried the Major.
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"Oh, God damn you to hell!
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Then I saw proportion, and decided on a tariff, allowing an officer a 'damn' and a man a 'bloody.'
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"Well, then, don't be an unseemly ass.
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Pass your glasses, damn you.
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After the lighters, the _Snaefell_, an old Isle of Man steamer, came alongside, and, having taken some hundreds of men aboard, edged away from us, while Major Hardy, his heart ever overthrowing his dignity, said wrathfully: "Give 'em a cheer or something, damn you."
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Major Hardy scanned them through his eyeglass, and then turned snuffily upon us and said: "Damn your English reticence!
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Damn your unimaginative silence!
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"Damn," repeated Jimmy.
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"Damn," answered Jimmy with great readiness.
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You've been hogging it all the afternoon."
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"I beg your pardon, damn you," corrected the Major.
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"Well, Rupert and I thought that we'd--that p'raps you'd look after these envelopes, in case--" "Oh, damn!" said Monty.
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Damn beauty!
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Damn everything!"
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"Damn the bloody horse," I said aloud.
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He enjoined me not to be an ass, and I rebuked him severely for speaking to his doctor like that, and, going out of the dug-out, broke off all communication with one so rude.
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"Damn the doctor!"