Vulgar words in Moby Dick, or, the whale (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 1
blockhead x 1
brain x 1
damn x 10
fag x 2
            
jackass x 1
knock up x 1
            

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"If you make the least damn bit of noise," replied Samuel, "I will send you to hell."

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However, by dint of beating about a little in the dark, and now and then knocking up a peaceable inhabitant to inquire the way, we at last came to something which there was no mistaking.

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"Then be called ten times a donkey, and a mule, and an ass, and begone, or I'll clear the world of thee!"

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Damn me, it's worth a fellow's while to be born into the world, if only to fall right asleep.

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Damn me, but all things are queer, come to think of 'em.

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he called me ten times a donkey, and piled a lot of jackasses on top of THAT!

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Damn me, won't you dance?

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"'Damn your eyes!

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'Damn ye,' cried the Captain, pacing to and fro before them, 'the vultures would not touch ye, ye villains!'

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why, damn your eyes, you mustn't swear that way when you're preaching.

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But the fagged whale abated his speed, and blindly altering his course, went round the stern of the ship towing the two boats after him, so that they performed a complete circuit.

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Damn the devil, Flask; so you suppose I'm afraid of the devil?

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So that when I shall hereafter detail to you all the specialities and concentrations of potency everywhere lurking in this expansive monster; when I shall show you some of his more inconsiderable braining feats; I trust you will have renounced all ignorant incredulity, and be ready to abide by this; that though the Sperm Whale stove a passage through the Isthmus of Darien, and mixed the Atlantic with the Pacific, you would not elevate one hair of your eye-brow.

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"Damn him, cut!" roared Stubb; and so the whale was lost and Pip was saved.

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Here I am, proud as Greek god, and yet standing debtor to this blockhead for a bone to stand on!

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And damn me, Ahab, but thou actest right; live in the game, and die in it!"

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Whether fagged by the three days' running chase, and the resistance to his swimming in the knotted hamper he bore; or whether it was some latent deceitfulness and malice in him: whichever was true, the White Whale's way now began to abate, as it seemed, from the boat so rapidly nearing him once more; though indeed the whale's last start had not been so long a one as before.

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