Vulgar words in A Labrador Doctor - The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (Page 1)
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Camp rules were simple--no clothing allowed except short blue knickers and gray flannel shirts, no shoes, stockings, or caps except on Sundays.
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The knickers were not particularly successful, the legs frequently being carried so high up that there was no space into which the body could be inserted.
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In 1914 one of our distant neighbours, who had caught a live slut in pup, sold her with her little brood for ten thousand dollars.
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We now know that it can be done and must be done as a sign manual of real freedom, which is not the leaving of parents or forbears, incompetent for any reason, free to damn their country with a stream of stunted intellects.
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At first she was naturally called the Flying Dutchman, and was most useful; but here we have learned when a better instrument is available that it is the truest economy to scrap-heap the old.
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We stood on the very rostrum in the theatre where St. Paul and the coppersmith had trouble--while at the time of our visit, the only living inhabitant of that once great city was a hungry ass which we saw harboured in a dressing-room beneath the platform.
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I had also advocated a removable insert of sheet steel in a pocket on the breast of the tunic, this plate to be kept in the trenches and inserted on advancing; and a lobster-tail steel knee-piece in the knickers.
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Since no saint apparently ever wore trousers, or appeared to care about football knickers, I never supposed that they could be the same flesh as myself.