Vulgar words in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. (Page 1)
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But of all the figures which amused me most by its singularity, was that of a woman, who, in a short frock-coat and a low-crowned hat, carried a little barrel at her side, and led an ass loaded with two similar, but rather larger casks.
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"Make way there--out of the road, Mère Madou," cried a dragoon, curveting his horse in such a fashion as almost to upset ass and "cantiniére" together, "the staff is coming."
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My elephant kept crashing along at a steady pace, with blood streaming from his wounds; the dogs, which were knocked up with fatigue and thirst, no longer barked around him, but had dropped astern.
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"Because," he went on without seeming to mind her emotion, "because, I observe, that whenever you want to persuade other people--your mother, or Edgar, or Lettice, for instance--to do something you've set your heart upon, you hussy--you always enlarge upon the happiness it will give to other people; but when you're trying to come round me, you only talk of how comfortable it will make myself."