Vulgar words in Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia - with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. (Page 1)
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"At every attempt I made to take the mule by the head"-such was his account-"he reversed his position, and launched his heels at me with a viciousness that rendered the enterprise not a little dangerous, for I do not know anything so funky as an ass's heels.
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They were not to be hurried, and if they had been gifted like Balaam's ass, I imagine they would have agreed with Giovanni in wishing _l'Inglesi all'Inferno_.
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"Cicero, who hated Tigellius, the flattering musical buffoon so well described by Horace, thus lashes his country in a letter to Fabius Gallus: 'Id ego in lucris pono non ferre hominem pestilentiorem putriâ suâ.'