Vulgar words in Frank Mildmay - Or, the Naval Officer (Page 1)

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Thus, by the covetousness of this woman, who was the grey mare, and the folly of the master, who, in anything but Greek and Latin, was an ass, my good principles were nearly eradicated from my bosom, and in their place were sown seeds which very shortly produced an abundant harvest.

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"Damn his mamma, and you too," said Pat, "look at my eye."

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"Damn your eye," said the waiter: "it's a pity he had not served the other one the same way; no more than you deserve for striking a child; the boy is game, and that's more than you are; he is worth as many of you as will stand between this and the iron chair at Barbican."

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'Damn Mr Spratt, I'll teach him to keep his hat-box safe another time; over with it'--and away it went over the lee gangway.

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The rear-admiral, Sir Hurricane Humbug, stood on the platform looking at us (I was afterwards told), and was heard to exclaim, "Damn his eyes" (meaning our captain), "there he goes at last!

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damn me, think I didn't know a cat from a rabbit?

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The first thing I said, as soon as I could speak, was "Damn that fire-ship, and the lubber that set her on fire."

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One man being confined in the guard-house for having got drunk and misbehaved, stamped on the ground, and roared to the guard, "Let me out, or, damn your eyes, I'll knock a hole in your bottom, scuttle your island, and send you all to hell together."

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"Damn the dog that won't say amen to that," said the master; "but where do you mean to carry me to?

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"Damn the mother-country," muttered the Yankee; "stepmother, I guess you mean, tarnation seize her!!!"

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As he descended, I said to myself, "Damn your monkey face, you coffee-coloured little rascal--no thanks to you if I have passed.

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One would think, damn your beard, that you were brushing flies off a sleeping Venus, instead of punishing a scoundrel with a hide as thick as a buffalo's, and be damned to him.

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Do your duty, sir, damn your soul."

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I wish there was no shore, and then, damn the dog that couldn't swim!

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No, sir; stay on board, or damn me, I'll break you like an egg-shell, before you have taken a shine out of that fine new epaulette!

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Now I have got you, I'll keep you, damn my eyes!"

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But that sort of work did not last long, as you may suppose; their eyes were all fried out, damn me, in three or four weeks!

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Damn me, they trained a parcel of poodle dogs to watch the shells when they fell, and then to run and pull the fuses out with their teeth.

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Why, damn me, sir, the poop was crowded like a sheepfold, and all bellowing to me for help.

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Damn my eyes, I suppose we diddled at least a hundred men."

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Damn it, I don't mean dead pickled salmon; I mean live pickled salmon, swimming about in tanks, as merry as grigs, and as hungry as rats."

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'Damn it, admiral,' says I, 'no skulking.'

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I got my commission by religion, damn me, I found my old admiral was a psalm-singer; so, says I, 'my old boy, I'll give you enough of that;' so I made the boatswain stuff me a hassock, and this I carried with me everywhere, that I might save my trousers and not hurt my knees; so then I turned to and prayed all day long, and kept the people awake singing psalms all night.

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"Now I say (hiccup), you Frank, you are a devilish good fellow; but that one-eyed son of a gun, I'll try him by a court-martial, the first time I catch him drunk; I'll hang him at the yard-arm, and you shall be my first lieutenant and _custos-rottorum_, damn me.

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Only you come and tell me the first time he is disguised in liquor, and I'll settle him, damn his cock eye--a saucy, Polyphemus-looking _son of_ a--(hiccup) a Whitechapel bird-catcher."

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"Don't tell me; damn me, who is afeard to die?

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"Damn the dog that says yon of Jock Thompson," replied the Caledonian, who stood by.

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He is one of us; he is a seaman every inch of him, and you must flog us, and some fifty more, if once you begin; for damn my eyes if we don't heave the log with the second mate, and then lay-to till the frigate comes alongside."

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Fly, blockhead!

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"Damn the topsail-tie!--cut it away.

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I know your face, but damn me if I have not forgot your name."

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"Well, sir," he continued, "how do you like your new ship--how do you like your old captain?--good fellow, isn't he?--damn his eyes-- countryman of mine--I knew him when his father hadn't as much money as would jingle on a tombstone.

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Damn me, sir, that fellow was like the Grand Signior, and he kept his seraglio in the garret over my bedroom, instead of being at his post in the kitchen killing the rats that are running about like coach-horses."

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yes--damn my blood," wiping his face; "how the spray flew from the old beldame!

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"Why, was you such a damn flat as to believe what I said, eh?

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"Damn Maria."

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