Vulgar words in The Parent's Assistant (Page 1)

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(one's) ass x 1
ass x 3
blockhead x 8
buffoon x 2
            

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"You are a stupid blockhead!

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But come, come!" added the hypocrite, assuming a tone of friendly persuasion, "you won't be such a blockhead, Franklin, as to lose going to the play for nothing; it's only just obstinacy.

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Oakly flew into a passion when he received such a message, declared it was just such a mean, shabby trick as might have been expected from a Scotchman--called himself a booby, a dupe, and a blockhead, for ever having trusted to the civil speeches of a Scotchman--swore that he would die in the parish workhouse before he would ever ask another favour, be it ever so small, from a Scotchman; related to his wife, for the hundredth time, the way in which he had been taken in by the Scotch peddler ten years ago, and concluded by forswearing all further intercourse with Mr. Grant, and all belonging to him.

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Obstinate blockhead!

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Even Mrs. Theresa Tattle's flattery pleased him, and he exerted himself for her entertainment so much that he became quite a buffoon.

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"The man--the actor--the buffoon, that my father told us of, who used to cry behind the mask that made everybody else laugh."

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Fisher betted on Archer's head, who had not sense enough to despise the bet of a blockhead.

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"Hold your tongue, blockhead!" said Archer.

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On his road homewards from Naples to the little village of Resina, where his father lived, he overtook Francisco, who was leading his father's ass.

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"I was not thinking of the ass, boy; I was not thinking of any ass, but of you, when I said, 'Well filled panniers, truly!'

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Why, now, suppose the blockheads, after they had been taken in and found it out, all joined against me, and would buy none of our fish--what then?

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Ay, stroke the long ears of your ass, and look as wise as you please.

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When I am found out for what I am, or when the worst comes to the worst, I can drive a stupid ass, with his panniers filled with rubbish, as well as you do now, HONEST FRANCISCO."

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"I," said Tarlton; "had not I enough to do to take care of myself, you blockhead?

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