Vulgar words in Black Beetles in Amber (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 9
cuss x 2
damn x 6
jackass x 4
slut x 1
            

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The jackass rabbit sorrows as he lopes; The sage-brush glooms along the mountain slopes; In rising clouds the poignant alkali, Tearless itself, makes everybody cry.

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If ears are what you want, Charles Crocker's there-- Betwixt the greatest ears, the greatest ass."

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Religion, learning, birth and manners, too, All that distinguishes a man from you, Pray damn at will: all shining virtues gain An added luster from a rogue's disdain.

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Thus the poor ass whose appetite has ne'er Known than the thistle any sweeter fare Thinks all the world eats thistles.

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THERSITES So, in the Sunday papers _you_, Del Mar, Damn, all great Englishmen in English speech?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 677   ~   ~   ~

A glory that is kindled by the papers Is transient as the phosphorescent vapors That shine in graveyards and are seen, indeed, But while the bodies that supply the gas Are turning into weeds to feed an ass.

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One can but wonder sometimes how it feels To _be_ an ass--a beast we beat condignly Because, like yours, his life is in his heels And he is prone to use them unbenignly.

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On a mare's nest, maybe, You'd incubate a little jackass baby.

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Mahomet Stanford pounded his breast, Pixley Pasha he thus addressed: "Dog of mendacity, cheat and slave, May jackasses sing o'er your grandfather's grave!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,398   ~   ~   ~

To save your scoundrel client from a cell As loth to swallow him as he to swell Its sum of meals insurgent (it decries All wars intestinal with meats that rise) You turn your scurril tongue against the press And damn the agency you ought to bless.

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Nay, every editorial ass, To prove they never come to pass Will damn his soul eternally, Although in his own journal he May read the printed shame.

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Upon the Reservation wide We give for his inhabiting He goes a-jackass rabbiting To furnish his inside.

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You damn all witnesses, all jurors too (And swear at the attorneys, I suppose, But _that's_ commendable) "till all is blue"; And what it's all about, the good Lord knows, Not you; but all the hotter, fiercer glows Your wrath for that--as dogs the louder howl With only moonshine to incite their rage, And bears with more ferocious menace growl, Even when their food is flung into the cage.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,719   ~   ~   ~

With leisurely alacrity approached The herald god, to whom his mind he broached: "In San Francisco two belligerent Powers, Such as contended round great Ilion's towers, Fight for a stable, though in either class There's not a horse, and but a single ass.

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But damn you!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,015   ~   ~   ~

you horrid and infernal cuss!

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MOUNTWAVE: This cuss must be expelled.

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SMYLER: Thou dammid slut!

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His heart was dark, his mind was dark-- "Ignorant ass!" the people said.

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Not ignorant but skilled, alas, In all the secrets of his trade: He knew more ways to be an ass Than any ass that ever brayed.

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