Vulgar words in Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II - From Teheran To Yokohama (Page 1)
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"Noon ass?"
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"Sheerah ass?"
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This wild hilarity and mimic warfare of the desert is kept up until the ragged edge of their exuberance is worn away, and their horses are well-nigh fagged out; we then halt for an hour to allow the horses to recuperate by nibbling at a patch of reeds.
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"Kishtee ass?"
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Many of the horses are pretty badly fagged, they have had nothing to eat all day and next to nothing to drink, and the party are straggling along the trail for a couple of miles back.
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To the uninitiated a "peg" is a rather ambiguous term, but to the Anglo-Indian its interpretation takes the seductive form of a big tumbler of brandy and soda, a "long drink," than which nothing could be more acceptable in my present fagged-out condition.
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Having discovered in me a jackass incapable of the Fat-shan pronunciation of Sam-shue, he retires on his dignity from further interest in my affairs.
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No other human being is capable of soaring to the height of the Chinaman's falsetto modulations, as he heaps reproaches and cuss-words on his enemy's queue-adorned head.
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Sure enough the Chinaman is "a peculiar little cuss," whether seen at home or abroad.
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you look bad about the eyes," says the observant doctor, upon shaking hands; "you look haggard and fagged out."