Vulgar words in Boycotted - And Other Stories (Page 1)

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ass x 4
blockhead x 1
fag x 1
knock up x 1
            

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So the school was suddenly broken up, the other houses all packed off, the sickly ones among us--there were only one or two--removed to the infirmary, and the rest of us, under the charge of Jolliffe himself, invited to make the best of a bad job, and enjoy ourselves as well as we could, with the promise that if in three weeks no one else showed signs of knocking up, we should be allowed to go home.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 848   ~   ~   ~

I couldn't make the young ass understand that I had no water in the carriage.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 874   ~   ~   ~

The young ass didn't know what I meant.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,875   ~   ~   ~

Hop it, you ass?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,134   ~   ~   ~

Any ass would know what that meant; you would yourselves.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,866   ~   ~   ~

We had seen that Mozart had composed music at six, and written it down very untidily too; we had seen that Marlborough had, by sheer cheek, been made an officer at about our age; that David Wilkie, one of the dullest of boys, had painted pictures while at school; that Scott, a notorious blockhead, had written poetry at thirteen; and that James Watt, at the same age, with very little education, had pondered over the spout of a tea-kettle.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,554   ~   ~   ~

For, though he scorned to say so, he was fagged, and felt he could do with a half- hour's lounge before undertaking a new venture.

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