Vulgar words in Follow My leader - The Boys of Templeton (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 17
cocky x 2
fag x 5
knocked up x 1
            

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"I'm going to bed; I'm fagged."

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"Don't be a young ass," said Dick.

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"Hang it, you young ass," said one boy, whom the child, even in his flutter and misery, recognised as the boy who had accosted them at the door of Westover's that morning, "can't you answer without blubbering like that?

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"Young ass!" said Swinstead; "ran well too."

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I wonder if I'm an ass to accept the whipping-in so easily?

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"What's the use of waking him when he's fagged?

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"Number Two's modest; Number One's cocky."

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"I'm glad you didn't rout me up, for I was regularly fagged last night."

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What an ass he had been going to make of himself, and what a time he would have had if he hadn't found out the trick in time!

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"You'll think me such an ass," said he, appealingly.

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"I do think you an ass already," said the senior, "so, out with it."

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"He'd something to make up for, though, after making such an ass of himself in the second round.

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Don't you be too cocky.

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His two hearers laugh till the boy blushes crimson, and wishes he had not made such an ass of himself.

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Even Birket, who to- day fleshed his maiden bat on the Grandcourt meadow, knocked up his two and threes, with one cut for four into the tent, till it seemed to Templeton that cricket was in the air, and that even Hooker and Duffield could have pulled the match off single-handed.

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"Can't come, you ass!

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who are you calling an ass?" said he, starting up.

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"By Jove!--you young ass!

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But there was that young ass Heathcote, and Coote too, who were certain to do as he did; and the fag of making up his mind for three people was not fair to a fellow.

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The boards underneath cramped him; the sun, too, for some reason or other, became too hot, and the breeze fidgeted him; the last sandwich he had eaten had had too much mustard in it; he was getting fagged of fishing.

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Sometimes his bad memory, and the quick transitions of allegiance through which he was called upon to pass, made him forget his _role_, and condole with Dick on Heathcote's piety, or with Heathcote on Dick's poverty of spirit; and sometimes, when, in the company of the one, he happened to meet the other, he quite lost his head and made an ass of himself to both.

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Dick was delighted to give up the court, but he was far too fagged to play any more.

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"Young ass!" said Dick, "the grub's all you think about.

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"I may have said once I thought Coote was rather an ass, but that was all."

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"I was an ass to let him make a cad of me," said Heathcote.

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