Vulgar words in The Rough Road (Page 1)

This book at a glance

about the size of it x 1
ass x 12
cuss x 1
damn x 7
scrap x 1
            

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And a damn--I beg your pardon, Uncle Edward--we poor Pacific Islanders lisp in damns for want of deans to hold us up--and a jolly good company too.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 856   ~   ~   ~

"Oh, you solemn comic cuss!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,738   ~   ~   ~

The next day the Adjutant advised him to scrap the lot.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,763   ~   ~   ~

He had never raised his mild tenor voice to damn anybody in his life.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,975   ~   ~   ~

He remembered how he had been bored to death by that stupendous ass of an old woman--for so he had characterized her--during the process of selection and installation.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,726   ~   ~   ~

"Don't be an ass," he cried.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,730   ~   ~   ~

"He has the audacity to call me an ass.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,734   ~   ~   ~

"My old friend Marmaduke has spilled my whisky and called me an ass.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,738   ~   ~   ~

He doesn't like being called Doggie--and I've no--no pred'lex'n to be called an ass.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,567   ~   ~   ~

"Damn him!" said Doggie, in English.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,568   ~   ~   ~

"Damn him!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,981   ~   ~   ~

"That's a guardian, you silly ass," cried Doggie.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,513   ~   ~   ~

Of course Jeanne, knowing him now to be such a gilded ass, would have nothing more to do with him.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,763   ~   ~   ~

"You thought me a rotten ass in those days, didn't you?"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,834   ~   ~   ~

Finding one's soul is a bit high-falutin--but that's about the size of it."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,910   ~   ~   ~

"Damn you, Doggie!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,911   ~   ~   ~

Damn you to little bits!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,947   ~   ~   ~

Even if he committed the military crime (and there was a far more serious crime already against him) of appearing in public in mufti, did that old ass think he was going to swagger about Durdlebury in bottle-green suits, as though he were ashamed of the King's uniform?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,062   ~   ~   ~

"You're an awfully good sort, Oliver," he said, touched, "but would you mind--I feel rather a beast----" "All right, you silly old ass," cried Oliver cheerily.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,121   ~   ~   ~

"Damn the whole infernal place!" cried Doggie, and he heaved a mandolin tied up with disgusting peacock-blue ribbons at the bookcase, and fled from the room.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,315   ~   ~   ~

While I've been morbidly occupied with myself and my grievances and my disgrace and my efforts to pull through, and have gradually developed into a sort of half-breed between a Tommy and a gentleman with every mortal thing in me warped and changed, you've stuck to the original rotten ass you lashed into the semblance of a man, in this very room, goodness knows how many months, or years, or centuries ago.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,155   ~   ~   ~

But, oh, Doggie, what an ass you were to sell the place up!"

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