Vulgar words in Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know (Page 1)

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ass x 7
jackass x 2
snag x 1
            

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He turned and went home, where he saddled the thin ass and hung across its back two large panniers.

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He was comforting himself with the hope of soon finding himself at the feet of the beautiful Princess of Cashmere, when he met a fine striped ass, which a vigorous peasant was beating violently with a stick.

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There is nothing rarer, swifter, or more beautiful than an ass of this kind.

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Rustem was growing desperate, when he met a camel-driver, who said to him: "You have a very stubborn ass there, master, which insists on carrying you where you do not want to go.

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I was the eagle which struggled with the vulture, and which the vulture plucked; I was the elephant which made off with your baggage to compel you to return home; I was the striped ass which would fain have carried you back to your father; it was I who led your horses astray, who produced the torrent which you could not cross, who raised the mountain which checked your unlucky advance; I was the physician who advised your return to your native air, and the magpie which urged you not to fight."

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Is it not true that you became in turn an eagle, an elephant, an ass, a doctor, and a magpie, to protect me from ill?"

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She grabbed with both hands at a snag near by, to steady herself with, but as she touched it, it twined itself round her wrists, like a pair of handcuffs, and gripped her so that she couldn't move.

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"I am after breaking my heart riding this ass of a horse; but will you give me the limping white garron for him?"

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They went in coaches and carriages, on horses and jackasses, riding and walking, crawling and creeping.

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They went in coaches and carriages, on horses and jackasses, riding and walking, and crawling and creeping.

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