Vulgar words in The American Claimant (Page 1)

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ass x 2
brain x 1
hussy x 1
jackass x 2
            

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See here -have you been training with that ass again-that radical, if you prefer the term, though the words are synonymous-Lord Tanzy, of Tollmache?"

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"Well, yes, if a body may call it that; though it's a pretty strong term for 'dobies and jackass rabbits, boiled beans and slap-jacks, depression, withered hopes, poverty in all its varieties-" "Louise out there?"

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Perfect ass; they say she's got diamonds in every hotel in the country."

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"You lie, you hussy!"

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In the midst of the pathetic silence that was now brooding over the place and moving some few hearts there toward compassion, he began to whimper, then he put his handkerchief to his eyes and buried his face in the neck of the bashfulest young fellow in the company, a navy-yard blacksmith, shrieked "Oh, pappy, how could you!" and began to bawl like a teething baby, if one may imagine a baby with the energy and the devastating voice of a jackass.

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What a brain you have got!

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