Vulgar words in The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) (Page 1)

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ass x 2
fag x 1
            

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Your letter, notwithstanding its reproach, was very welcome and very kind, only you must be fagged with the book, and saddened by Lady Byron's state of health, and anxious about Gerardine perhaps.

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No horse or ass, untrained to the mountains, could have kept foot a moment where we penetrated, and even as it was one could not help the natural thrill.

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The President--'The President's an ass; _he_ is not worth thinking of.'

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