Vulgar words in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 - "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" (Page 1)
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In the case of Portland cement mortar, a quantity sufficient only for the day's use should be "knocked up," but with Roman cement fresh mixtures must be made several times a day, as near as possible to the place of using.
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In bastard tuck pointing (L), the ridge, instead of being in white lime putty, is formed of the stopping mortar itself.
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On his way through France he had the insolence to make love to the queen of France.
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The same year he accompanied the princess Henrietta to Paris on her marriage with the duke of Orleans, but made love to her himself with such imprudence that he was recalled.
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Dryden described him under the character of Zimri in the celebrated lines in _Absalom and Achitophel_ (to which Buckingham replied in _Poetical Reflections on a late Poem ... by a Person of Honour, 1682_):-- "A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman and buffoon.... Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late, He had his jest, but they had his estate."