Vulgar words in The Day of Wrath (Page 1)
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It had never once been whitewashed since it was first built; but, on the other hand, it was richly adorned outside with the Christian names and the nicknames of all the urchins who had ever been inside its walls, names to which later generations of scholars had taken good care to add such distinguishing epithets as ass, swine, &c., &c. Those, moreover, who possessed a taste for art did not omit to paint on the wall, with red chalk, hussars, two-legged heads with six noses and one eye, large meerschaum pipes, &c., &c. Here and there, too, the remains of big black ink blots and red splodges, like hideous bunches of cherries, pointed to past combats in which inkpots had been hurled and fists used freely; these pictorial devices, however, were but fragmentary, as the various generations of students had from time to time dug large bits of mortar out of the walls with their nails to serve as sand for blotting their themes.
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I wonder they don't become utter blockheads beneath the strain.
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"Blockheads!" this was his usual mode of addressing his _jeunesse dorée_--"blockheads!
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"Hie, there, you blockhead!
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"And now, Guszti Klimpa, stand out and repeat to these blockheads what I have been saying."
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"That is what I don't mean to tell to the first blockhead I meet.
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"'Well,' says that squinting blockhead Hamza, 'if there's no poison in that cask there is in the other, so draw us some out of that, Samsi!'
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And you, you senseless ass!
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I will not presume to deny that they may, perhaps, intend to do what you say, such ideas may and do occur at times to some blockhead or other.
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"Look now, blockhead!
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you blockheads, you brutes, you stupid numbskulls!"