Vulgar words in Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science (Page 1)

This book at a glance

bastard x 1
knock up x 1
            

Page 1

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,133   ~   ~   ~

Yet with it, I doubt not, some naked black fellow by the banks of the Thames has hunted the mammoth among unbroken forest two hundred thousand years ago and more; with it he has faced the angry cave bear and the original and only genuine British lion (for everybody knows that the existing mongrel heraldic beast is nothing better than a bastard modification of the leopard of the Plantagenets).

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,780   ~   ~   ~

If two of the legs or arms happen to knock up casually against one another, they coalesce at once, just like two drops of water on a window-pane, or two strings of treacle slowly spreading along the surface of a plate.

Page 1