Vulgar words in The Crushed Flower and Other Stories (Page 1)

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ass x 4
damn x 1
            

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A cock crew; somewhere an ass, disturbed in his sleep, brayed aloud and insolently as in daytime, then reluctantly and gradually relapsed into silence.

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But then Thomas never did know anything, though he asked questions about everything, and looked so straight with his bright, transparent eyes, through which, as through a pane of Phoenician glass, was visible a wall, with a dismal ass tied to it.

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now he crept along an abrupt declivity, and suddenly rolled down in a grey ball, rubbing off his skin against the stones; then he jumped up and angrily threatened the mountain with his fist-- "You too, damn you!"

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But it is only dust, my good Thomas, ass's dung trodden underfoot.

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Now it almost stands still, so that one would wish to push it with the hands, to kick it, beat it with a whip like a lazy ass.

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