Vulgar words in Adventures in Australia (Page 1)
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"Him one jackass!" observed our guide, Toby.
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"Jackass!
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It was, as Toby told us, a laughing-jackass, or a gigantic kingfisher.
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Before long, however, my brother was nearly knocked up, and seeing this I proposed that he should remount, and that I should ride Toby's horse.
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In the excitement of the chase, forgetting that we ran great risk of knocking up our horses, away we started.
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As he stooped down, ducks and fowls rushed forward to obtain the food he held in his hand, the pigs came grunting up, and several long-legged birds-- storks I believe they were--stood by waiting for their share, numerous parrots and parroquets were perched on the railings, as tame as the barn-door fowls, while a laughing-jackass looked on complacently from an overhanging bough, every now and then uttering its strange notes.
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I was very thankful when at length day broke, and we were saluted by the merry call of the laughing-jackass.
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Among the boughs we saw numbers of white cockatoos, parrots, laughing-jackasses, and many other birds, who received us, as we prepared to camp for our noon-day meal, with a loud chorus of varied cries.
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The laughing-jackass uttered his cheerful notes, and parrots and other birds began to chirp and screech and chatter.
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Directly afterwards a chorus of cachinnations from a couple of laughing-jackasses, gave me notice that the morning would soon commence.
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I was awakened just before dawn by the "settler's clock," as the laughing-jackass is frequently called; and lifting my head, by the light of the still burning embers of our fire saw the dominie rubbing his eyes, but no one else was moving.