Vulgar words in The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I (Page 1)
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He counted the strokes, and when it had finished looked towards the clock and said, 'Damn you!
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He was very passionate, and Adair said that the first time he ever saw him he unluckily asked him some question about the wild parts of Ireland, when Burke broke out, 'You are a fool and a blockhead; there are no wild parts in Ireland.'
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The word _the_ in the first paragraph was substituted for _a_, and this alteration these blockheads pretend makes a great difference in the sense.
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The King's indolence is so great that it is next to impossible to get him to do even the most ordinary business, and Knighton is still the only man who can prevail on him to sign papers, &c. His greatest delight is to make those who have business to transact with him, or to lay papers before him, wait in his anteroom while he is lounging with Mount Charles or anybody, talking of horses or any trivial matter; and when he is told, 'Sir, there is Watson waiting,' &c., he replies, 'Damn Watson; let him wait.'
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Lord Winchelsea makes an ass of himself, and would like to be sent to the Tower, but nobody will mind anything such a blockhead says.
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The Duke of Clarence could not come, so they put Lord Blessington in the chair, who made an ass of himself.
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O'Connell and Shiel were both at the levee; the former had been presented in Ireland, so had not to be presented again, but the King took no notice of him, and when he went by said to somebody near him, 'Damn the fellow!
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One day in America near the falls of Niagara Moore saw this scene:-- An Indian whose boat was moored to the shore was making love to the wife of another Indian; the husband came upon them unawares; he jumped into the boat, when the other cut the cord, and in an instant it was carried into the middle of the stream, and before he could seize his paddle was already within the rapids.
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He was a sort of bastard Sixtus V., but at an immense distance from that great man, 'following him of old, with steps unequal.'