Vulgar words in Arabian nights. English (Page 1)

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ass x 6
bastard x 2
buffoon x 1
hussy x 1
make love x 1
            

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He pondered all this and mourned and reviled Alaeddin for the excess of his rage against him and at times he would exclaim, "For this bastard's death underground I am well satisfied and hope only that some time or other I may obtain the Lamp, seeing how 'tis yet safe."

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Now it happened one day that my sire rode out a-hunting and gave chase to a wild ass[FN#239] with such hot pursuit that he found himself at eventide separated from his suite; so, wearied with the chase, he dismounted from his steed and seating himself by the side of a forest-path, he said to himself "The onager will doubtless seek cover in this copse."

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Quoth the foremost of them, "O my brethren, our father showed him the liveliest affection when he was to us naught save a vagrant and unknown, and indeed made him our ruler and our governor; and now, hearing of his victory won from the ogre and learning that the stranger is his son, will not our sire forthwith appoint this bastard his only heir and give him dominion over us so that we must all be forced to fall at his feet and bear his yoke?

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"Off with thee, O laziest of hussies and good for nothing of baggages," cried the fisherman, "away with thee this instant; perchance he hath a copper to lend us."

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Then he went with the other ass, to wit, the beast whereon was laid the corpse to the widow's house and knocked gently at the door.

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Moreover, on each side of the square elephants were ranged in ranks, the number amounting to well nigh one thousand, their trunks and ears and hinder parts being painted with cinnabar and adorned with various lively figures; their housings were of gold brocade and their howdahs purfled with silver, carrying minstrels who performed on various instruments, whilst buffoons delighted the crowd with their jokes and mimes played their most diverting parts.

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The man tells his story, at which the walÝ laughs, calls him an ass for coming so far because of a dream, and adds that he himself had had a similar dream of a great treasure buried in the garden of such a house in Baghdad, but he was not so silly as to go there.

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[FN#205] Her modesty was startled by the idea of sitting: at meat with a strange man and allowing him to make love to her.

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It is the "wild ass" of Jeremiah (ii.

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The skin of the wild ass's back produces the famous shagreen, a word seemingly derived from the Pers.

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In Lane's story of the man metamorphosed to an ass, the old woman, "quickly covering her face, declared the fact."

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