Vulgar words in Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 2
brain x 1
hussy x 1
            

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I had to brain him wi' a rack-pin; there was nae doing wi' him.

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Suddenly a man in foreign garments: wonderfully real and distinct to look at: stood outside the window, with an axe stuck in his belt, and leading an ass laden with wood by the bridle.

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The brisk fire of questioning to which he was exposed, elicited from him that he was thinking of an animal, a live animal, rather a disagreeable animal, a savage animal, an animal that growled and grunted sometimes, and talked sometimes, and lived in London, and walked about the streets, and wasn't made a show of, and wasn't led by anybody, and didn't live in a menagerie, and was never killed in a market, and was not a horse, or an ass, or a cow, or a bull, or a tiger, or a dog, or a pig, or a cat, or a bear.

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_Uncle._ "I don't know any such thing, you hussy!

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