Vulgar words in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 (Page 1)
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Scarlet has been said to be like the sound of a trumpet; surely then a drum must be taken as the exponent of that ferocious mixture yclept thunder and lightning, erst dear to country bumpkins, and rendered classical by Master Moses Primrose's coat.
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And we gazed in a paroxysm of admiration at the exquisite evolutions and fierce charges that seemed as though they must bear all before them, till this perfection of discipline came to an end, and the long files of troops had taken their slow dusty departure; when, hot and fagged, and with bright colours still dancing before our eyes, we returned to our home.
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Another of our sins which--to make "a clean breast"--we must confess, is that of fickleness in our loves; an occasional flirting with other arts and sciences, in their turn--for we protest against the profligacy of making love to more than one at once!
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It was that he was a blockhead, and had no idea of the absurdity that he was committing.