Vulgar words in Lord Jim (Page 1)
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There were only two other patients in the white men's ward: the purser of a gunboat, who had broken his leg falling down a hatchway; and a kind of railway contractor from a neighbouring province, afflicted by some mysterious tropical disease, who held the doctor for an ass, and indulged in secret debaucheries of patent medicine which his Tamil servant used to smuggle in with unwearied devotion.
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He said 'Damn!' as he tumbled; an instant of silence followed upon his screeching: Jim and the skipper staggered forward by common accord, and catching themselves up, stood very stiff and still gazing, amazed, at the undisturbed level of the sea.
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He wouldn't be terrified with a pack of lies by a cocky half-bred little quill-driver.
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I had not even laughed at him when--here he began to mumble--"that mistake, you know--made a confounded ass of myself."
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Damn him!
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'The silly ass won't say anything.'
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A bit of ass's skin.
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Perfect ass, of course.
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Ass!
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'Damn rocks and hurricanes.
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A piece of ass's skin, according to Chester...
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"What a bally ass I've been," he said very slow in an awed tone... "You are a brick!" he cried next in a muffled voice.
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Now and again "some fussy ass" deputed from the council-room would come out running to him, and in honeyed tones would administer amazing interrogatories: "Were the Dutch coming to take the country?
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The storming party had come on so quick--Jim said--that notwithstanding the panic of the garrison, there was a "hot five minutes hand-to-hand inside that stockade, till some bally ass set fire to the shelters of boughs and dry grass, and we all had to clear out for dear life."
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If Sherif Ali's emissaries had been possessed--as Jim remarked--of a pennyworth of spunk, this was the time to make a rush.