Vulgar words in Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 (Page 1)
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For except being knocked up for a day or two by the unwonted effort, I doubt whether there will be any other.
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If she does not knock up I shall be pleasantly surprised.
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I shall try to stand an hour or two of the Academy dinner, and hope it won't knock me up.
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...X. is, I am afraid, more or less of an ass.
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My dear Knowles, May jackasses sit upon the graves of all telegraph clerks!
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What an ass a man is to try to prevent his fellow-creatures from being humbugged!
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The following letter to Sir M. Foster shows how little Huxley was now able to do in the way of public business without being knocked up:--] Hodeslea, October 20, 1891.
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So far as I have seen any notices, the British critic (what a dull ass he is) appears to have been seriously struck by my sweetness of temper.
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My dear Donnelly, My wife got better and was out for a while yesterday, but she is knocked up again to-day.
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My dear Romanes, My wife and I, no less than the Hookers who have been paying us a short visit, were very much grieved to hear that such a serious trouble has befallen you.
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It is not exactly what I could wish, as I was hurried over it, and knocked up into the bargain, but I have tried to give a fair view of him.
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They knock me up for a week afterwards.
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The fact is, I have been knocked up ever since Tuesday, when our University Deputation came off; and my good wife (who is laid up herself) suspects me (not without reason) of failing to take advantage of a gleam of sunshine.
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One morning I went to breakfast with him, and we got into very intimate conversation, when he wound up by saying, 'In my opinion, Plato was an ass!
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Clifford, of February 10, 1895:--] Men, my dear, are very queer animals, a mixture of horse-nervousness, ass-stubbornness and camel-malice--with an angel bobbing about unexpectedly like the apple in the posset, and when they can do exactly as they please, they are very hard to drive.