Vulgar words in Something New (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 5
bonehead x 1
boob x 1
damn x 3
fag x 1
            
jimmy x 1
            

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The hero calls in Gridley Quayle, and that patronizing ass, by the aid of a series of wicked coincidences, solves the mystery; and there am I, with another month's work done."

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They made poor old Percy look like an absolute ass."

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You see, I was rather an ass in those days."

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"I must have been or I shouldn't have been such an ass, don't you know!

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I shall be fagged, disheartened.

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If there's a man in this country with the spirit to break into that castle and steal that scarab and hand it back to me, there's five thousand waiting for him right here; and if he wants to he can knock that old safe blower on the head with a jimmy into the bargain."

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"Damn the thing!"

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You blanked bone-headed, bean-eating boob!" cried Mr. Peters, frothing over quite unexpectedly and waving his arms in a sudden burst of fury.

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The Honorable Freddie said: "A chappie can't take a step in this bally house without stumbling over that damn feller, Baxter!"

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He elaborated a favorite dictum of his: "You can't take a step anywhere without stumbling over that damn feller, Baxter!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,220   ~   ~   ~

Ashe's brain was working rapidly as he made for the shoe cupboard, that little den of darkness and smells, where Billy, the knife-and-shoe boy, better known in the circle in which he moved as Young Bonehead, pursued his menial tasks.

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A chappie looked such an ass getting married!

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