Vulgar words in Rescuing the Czar - Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated (Page 1)

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ass x 4
boob x 1
damn x 4
god damn x 1
poker face x 1
            
scrap x 1
            

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The poor boob!

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'When we came round the bend we saw you scrapping with that outlaw from Trebizond.

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Mikhalovsky, who is now taking great care of himself, drinks some waters, takes green pills and goes to bed at nine, became enraged and refused, but Misha said he was an ass, and simply had to dress and go to the headquarters.

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My astonishment was very great, and I said that "though I have known Baroness B. quite well since I met her in Paris and Monte Carlo and...." (_five lines scratched out from manuscript_).... "Quit your damn jokes for a while," he exclaimed.

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Then I assumed my best poker face and calmly continued: "I don't know, and do not care to know, what you are after, Frank.

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So, finally, damn it all!

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He has not been looked for, as any ass knows where he is.

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I said, spitting through my front teeth onto a sidewalk covered with gleaming white snow, "not me, damn them!

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Am I not an old ass?

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This rhetorical question, in fact, was not necessary, as we all, hearing the word "Proletariat" in the middle of Khokhriakov's speech had already started to make a noise and to applaud, the cheers densely hung in the room,--and even before he said, "I knew you are good proletarians and would drown this proposition, God damn you,--carried,"--the fate of this weak and impossible thing at that time, the hope for a Constituent Assembly,--was told.

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"This ass is propagating,--don't you see, comrades?"

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Damn life!

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