Vulgar words in The Rough Road (Page 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.
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"Oh, you solemn comic cuss!"
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The next day the Adjutant advised him to scrap the lot.
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He had never raised his mild tenor voice to damn anybody in his life.
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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.
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"Don't be an ass," he cried.
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"He has the audacity to call me an ass.
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"My old friend Marmaduke has spilled my whisky and called me an ass.
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He doesn't like being called Doggie--and I've no--no pred'lex'n to be called an ass.
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"Damn him!" said Doggie, in English.
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"Damn him!"
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"That's a guardian, you silly ass," cried Doggie.
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Of course Jeanne, knowing him now to be such a gilded ass, would have nothing more to do with him.
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"You thought me a rotten ass in those days, didn't you?"
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Finding one's soul is a bit high-falutin--but that's about the size of it."
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"Damn you, Doggie!
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Damn you to little bits!
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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?
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"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.
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"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.
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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.
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But, oh, Doggie, what an ass you were to sell the place up!"