Vulgar words in Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z (Page 1)

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ass x 1
cuss x 3
            

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He pulled the finger out of the man's mouth, and snapped the blood off it, looked at him, and said: 'There, you lantern-jawed cuss, you have made me cut my finger.'"

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He turned round, looked me coolly in the face, and said, 'Why, what a blundering old cuss you are!'"

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Gentlemen, if one of our New England ancestors were here to-night, expounding his views to us, I am very much afraid that you and I would be tempted to turn round and say: "Why, what a blundering old cuss you are!"

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The literary lion of to-day may be the literary ass of to-morrow, but the ass has his bin full of oats and cannot complain.

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