Vulgar words in The Mayor of Troy (Page 1)
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"Arrah now, and how the divvle, saving your Worship's presence, will I cite the hussy, seein' I never clapt eyes on her?"
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The proverb says that a Polperro jackass is surprised at nothing, and this one, which had been browsing on the edge of the ditch, merely gazed.
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The jackass drew back a little.
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If Jowter Puckey pastured his jackass here, why here then (it was reasonable to surmise) he also pastured the old mare, Pleasant: and if Pleasant browsed anywhere within earshot, why the chances were she would remember and respond to her former master's call.
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He had his two fingers in his mouth to repeat the call when, happening to glance at the jackass, he perceived the beast's ears go up and its head slew round towards the ridge.
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Neither Gunner Sobey nor the mare--nor, for that matter, the jackass--had ever read the eighteenth book of Homer's Iliad; and this must be their excuse for letting pass the encounter with less eloquence than I, its narrator, might have made a fortune by reporting.
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For a while the jackass trotted beside them; but coming to the gate and dismounting to open it, Gunner Sobey turned him back.
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"But," almost shrieked Sir Felix, "damn your eyes, it's _twins_--and both _girls_!"
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Aloft the _Vesuvius_ spread her full sails in cloud upon cloud of dove-coloured grey (for, in fact, she carried very dingy canvas) against the blue of heaven, and reached along with the northerly breeze on her larboard quarter, heeling gently, yet just low enough for the Major to blink as his gaze, travelling beyond the lee bulwarks, caught the dazzle of foam knocked up and spreading off her blunt bows.
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"Damn the fellow!" swore Ben Jope cheerfully, sitting up.
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No, damn it!"