Vulgar words in The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World (Page 1)
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All hands rushed to the damaged barge and found that a snag, a sunken log, had penetrated the bottom.
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To reach this camp they had to charter jackasses.
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An old time screw with beam attachment presses on the stone cover, and as an ass, hitched to the end of the beam, tramps wearily round and round the screw presses the stone tight on the olives, squeezing the oil into cemented grooves at the bottom of the bowl through which it flows into casks.
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"As large as an ass, my master."
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It's a wonder he imagined them so small as an ass, for it is their national characteristic to exaggerate."
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"Wal, ef yo' aint jus' th' cutes' little cuss I ever seed paddlin' aroun' out here in the ice like a beaver."
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Directly after leaving the old negro, Boyton espied something in the river below him, which he thought was a snag or the floating branches of a tree; but as he drove swiftly along and looked more closely, he saw it was a large deer swimming across.
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It was a long, tiresome pull through the dead stretch, and he arrived at Suncook at dark pretty well fagged out.
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Above Burlington they ran across somewhat of a snag in the shape of a pilot's union.
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During the forenoon after leaving the camp of the rustlers, Paul was hurled violently against a snag and his dress began leaking.
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In the midst of the storm, they ran against a snag, but fortunately, no damage was done.
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The river was full of obstructions and suddenly Boyton and Creelman in his canvas canoe, were flung on a snag, the latter losing an oar.