Vulgar words in The Half-Hearted (Page 1)
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Do you remember, John, how we used to call him 'Vaulting Ambition,' because he won the high jump and was a cocky beggar in general?"
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His fault is just this infernal modesty, which makes him shirk fighting some blatant ass or publishing his merits to the world."
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"For you cannot harness the wind or tie--tie the bonds of the wild ass," said George, with an air of quotation.
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In such weather he had a trick of walking with his head high and his nostrils wide, sniffing the air like the wild ass of the desert with which the metaphorical George had erstwhile compared him.
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The ordinary gardener's boy can beat me at making love.
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You were an ass not to come, you know.
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Eton and Oxford, Eton and Oxford--so it had been for generations--an education sufficient to damn a race.
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"Don't be an ass," said Lewis kindly.
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"You're bound not to be an ass," said St. John.