Vulgar words in The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 - Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave - among the moors... (Page 1)

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~   ~   ~   Sentence 112   ~   ~   ~

Even as college-lads graduate in their Latin and Greek, so I had graduated upon braining the Grenadier with the demijohn.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 302   ~   ~   ~

He who does any thing contrair to English law within five hundred leagues of an English lawyer or an English law-court is a very Ass and Dolt.

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She was a bitter woman when vexed, and called me "beggar buckra," "poor white trash," "tam lily thief," and the like.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 861   ~   ~   ~

"Surely," I thought, "there must be something wrong in a Faith whose Professors make so light of its ceremonies, and turn Buffoons in the very Temples;" nor could I help murmuring inwardly at that profusion of Pearls, Diamonds, and Rubies bestowed on the adornment of a parcel of old Bones, decayed Teeth, and dirty Rags.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 876   ~   ~   ~

His Episcopal Highness's Master of the Horse (though the title of Master of the Mules, on which beasts the company mostly rode, would have better served him) got somewhat too Merry on Rhenish about Dusk, and was carried out to the stable, where the Palefreneers littered him down with straw, as though he had been a Horse or a Mule himself; and then a little fat Canon, who was the Buffoon or Jack Pudding of the party, sang songs over his drink which were not in the least like unto Hymns or Canticles, but rather of a most Mundane, not to say Loose, order of Chant.

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