Vulgar words in Rattlin the Reefer (Page 1)
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The hussy was as straight as an arrow, yet, for the sake of coquetry, or singularity, she would sit in the Methodist chapel, with her dimpled chin resting upon an iron hoop, and her finely formed shoulders braced back with straps so tightly, as to thrust out in a remarkable manner her swanlike chest, and her almost too exuberant bust.
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He would bind himself an apprentice to a country carpenter, and make pigsties--he would turn usher, and the boys should bump him for an ass--he would run away.
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Being certainly in the latter predicament, I was only saved from becoming an utter and egregious ass by the advent of one, the cleverest, most impudent, rascally, agreeable scoundrel that ever swindled man or deceived woman, in the shape of a wooden-legged usher.
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She permitted him, as she did everybody else, as far as words were concerned, to make love as fast as he pleased.
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"Damn it, younker, you'd provoke a saint.
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"Damn the tobacco box--and damn that--never mind--no, no, doctor, you had better order the box to be buried with you, for nobody _could_ use it after you; but if I might presume so far--might use the very great liberty to make a selection, I would request, entreat, nay, implore you to leave me the whole _suit of clothes_ in which you are now standing; and if you would be so considerate, so kind, so generous, by God I'll have them stuffed and preserved as a curiosity."
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"Damn you and your slush-tub too--out of my way!
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Young gentleman, truly--a conceited little bastard!"
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"Pray, sir," said I, walking up to him, deliberately and resolutely, "how do _you_ know that I am a bastard?"
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Punish me--mast-head me--do anything, Captain Reud, but call me not bastard."
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There was much more than ready-made love in these arrangements; anyone may buy that for ready-money; but a ready-made progeny, a ready-made household, and a ready-made wife, without one stiver of ready money, was the astonishment; but English sailors can do anything.
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Now I knew this to be a lie; for, under that very respectable pedagogue, and in that very respectable seminary, as the reader well knows, I was the _fagged_, and not the fagger.
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Seeing there were so many hundred boys under Mr Roots, my schoolfellow you might have been; but may I be vexed, if ever I fagged you or any one else!
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Damn his smooth face!--I've a great mind to wake him, and hit him a wipe across the chaps.
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"Damn his smooth face!--I should like to have the spoiling of it."
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I was of the right sort--the good fellow,--damn him who would hurt a hair of my head.
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Yes--no--damn me--it must be Ralph Rattlin--it bean't, sure--and here on his beam ends, a shot in his hull, and one of his spars shattered.
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"Damn them!--on course--certainly."