Vulgar words in Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm (Page 1)

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ass x 9
ugly as sin x 1
            

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Her own daughter, who was as ugly as sin, and had only one eye, complained to her, and said, "I never had the chance of being a Queen."

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T here was once an ass whose master had made him carry sacks to the mill for many a long year, but whose strength began at last to fail, so that each day as it came found him less capable of work.

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And when his time was up, his master said to him, "As you have behaved yourself so well, I will give you an ass of a remarkable kind: he will draw no cart, and carry no sack."

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And when he had been looking about him about the world a long time, he thought he would go and find out his father, who would perhaps forget his anger and receive him kindly because of his gold ass.

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After that the guest paid his reckoning and went to bed; but the landlord slipped down to the stable in the middle of the night, led the gold-ass away, and tied up another ass in his place.

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"Nothing but an ass," answered the son.

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"Yes," answered the son, "but this is no common ass.

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"Now, pay attention," said he, and cried, "Bricklebrit!" but no gold pieces came, and that showed that the animal was not more scientific than any other ass.

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"Yes," said he, "you may talk of your self-spreading table, gold-supplying ass, and so forth; very good things, I do not deny, but they are nothing in comparison with the treasure that I have acquired and carry with me in that sack!"

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