Vulgar words in The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales (Page 1)
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"Prudence, you're spunk!" exclaimed Mose, in terms of the warmest admiration.
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The fair Julia is just twenty--eyes, you dog--lips, you rascal--a shape, you blockhead, to bewitch an anchorite.
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"I made you a fair offer, shipmate, and you rejected it like a long-shore jackass as you are.
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But, masters, remember that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.--SHAKSPEARE, _Much Ado about Nothing._ Many of our readers have doubtless witnessed, or perchance participated in, the amusement of acting charades--a divertisement much in vogue in social circles, and if cleverly done, productive of much mirth.
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Amidst smothered laughter, the audience guessed the second syllable of the charade--_ass_.
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"You had _cat_ and _trophy_--but where was the _ass_?"
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The next night the charade was ass-ass-in, and Blinks went on for the first two syllables.
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O, what an ass I was."
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"Why, it was all about horseracing, pugilism, and cock fighting, you jackass!"
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"O, you blockhead!" screamed his mother,--she was a bit of a virago, Mrs. Trotter was,--"you've ben gettin' another lickin', I know."
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If our government had had any spunk, we'd have pitched into 'em long ago.
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I shouldn't wonder if he was ass enough to get spliced one of these days, and take his wife to sea.