Vulgar words in Famous Americans of Recent Times (Page 1)

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blockhead x 3
jackass x 1
pimp x 1
            

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~   ~   ~   Sentence 475   ~   ~   ~

He was reconciled with General Winfield Scott, whom, in 1817, he had styled an "assassin," a "hectoring bully," and an "intermeddling pimp and spy of the War Office."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 521   ~   ~   ~

For the improvement of the breed of mules, he imported an ass from Malta, and another from Spain.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,656   ~   ~   ~

We have a country governed by blockheads and knaves; the ties of marriage, with all its felicities, are severed and destroyed; our wives and daughters are thrown into the stews; our children are cast into the world from the breast forgotten; filial piety is extinguished; and our surnames, the only mark of distinction among families, are abolished.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,985   ~   ~   ~

I have two hundred and fifty lots at Blockhead's Point, worth $150 a piece; some on them are worth $200.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,986   ~   ~   ~

I have one hundred lots at Jackass Inlet, worth at least $100, at the very lowest calculation.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,109   ~   ~   ~

If we must have a Pope, let us have a Pope of our own,--an American Pope, an intellectual, intelligent, and moral Pope,--not such a decrepit, licentious, stupid, Italian blockhead as the College of Cardinals at Rome condescends to give the Christian world of Europe."

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