Vulgar words in Chapters from My Autobiography (Page 1)
This book at a glance
|
~ ~ ~ Sentence 260 ~ ~ ~
He called on me, shook hands cordially, and said at once, without any preliminaries, "I am substantially an obscure person, but I have at least one distinction to my credit of such colossal dimensions that it entitles me to immortality-to wit: I refused a book of yours, and for this I stand without competitor as the prize ass of the nineteenth century."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 863 ~ ~ ~
I explained to him that he was an ass, but he stuck to his proposition, and I said, "Go on and try it, and see."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,878 ~ ~ ~
Upon suggestion I fled from snakes; passed buckets at a fire; became excited over hot steamboat-races; made love to imaginary girls and kissed them; fished from the platform and landed mud-cats that outweighed me-and so on, all the customary marvels.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,134 ~ ~ ~
For his own amusement-for he was not generally laboring for other people's amusement-Steve was constantly and persistently and loudly and elaborately making love to that mulatto girl and distressing the life out of her and worrying the old mother to death.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,139 ~ ~ ~
She quite well understood that by the customs of slaveholding communities it was Steve's right to make love to that girl if he wanted to.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,420 ~ ~ ~
As I say, he always sent a detailed statement of the month's profit and loss on the chickens-at least the month's loss on the chickens-and this detailed statement included the various items of expense-corn for the chickens, boots for himself, and so on; even car fares, and the weekly contribution of ten cents to help out the missionaries who were trying to damn the Chinese after a plan not satisfactory to those people.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,961 ~ ~ ~
All human beings would like to dress in loose and comfortable and highly colored and showy garments, and they had their desire until a century ago, when a king, or some other influential ass, introduced sombre hues and discomfort and ugly designs into masculine clothing.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 3,468 ~ ~ ~
As secretary there was nothing for him to do except to scrap-book the daily reports of the great trial of the Tichborne Claimant for perjury.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,898 ~ ~ ~
I acquired some of this learning in Jackass Gulch, California, more than forty years ago.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,899 ~ ~ ~
Jackass Gulch had once been a rich and thriving surface-mining camp.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,906 ~ ~ ~
Last winter, here in New York, I saw Hoppe and Schaefer and Sutton and the three or four other billiard champions of world-wide fame contend against each other, and certainly the art and science displayed were a wonder to see; yet I saw nothing there in the way of science and art that was more wonderful than shots which I had seen Texas Tom make on the wavy surface of that poor old wreck in the perishing saloon at Jackass Gulch forty years before.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,910 ~ ~ ~
With practice, that champion [Pg 334] could score nineteen or twenty on the Jackass Gulch table; but to start with, Texas Tom would show him miracles that would astonish him; also it might have another handsome result: it might persuade the great experts to discard their own trifling game and bring the Jackass Gulch outfit here and exhibit their skill in a game worth a hundred of the discarded one, for profound and breathless interest, and for displays of almost superhuman skill.