Vulgar words in A Winter Amid the Ice - and Other Thrilling Stories (Page 1)

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ass x 2
blockhead x 1
            

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A horse was seen, for the first time, to take his bit in his teeth and rush through the streets of Quiquendone; an ox was observed to precipitate itself, with lowered horns, upon one of his herd; an ass was seen to turn himself ever, with his legs in the air, in the Place Saint Ernuph, and bray as ass never brayed before; a sheep, actually a sheep, defended valiantly the cutlets within him from the butcher's knife.

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The words "blockhead" and "booby" were the mildest which they now applied to each other.

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