Vulgar words in The Ghost Ship - A Mystery of the Sea (Page 1)
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"A pack of sheer nonsense, I call it, this going out of our course on a wild-goose chase and tearing away full speed on a wild night like this, in a howling sea, with a gale, too, astern; and all because an ass of a youngster fancies he saw the _Flying Dutchman_!"
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"Don't make such an ass of yourself!
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Why, that cock and bull yarn was exploded years ago, and I didn't think there was a sailor afloat in the present day ass enough to believe in this story!"
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"Oh, damn my arm!" cried the other impatiently, evidently more anxious about the machinery than his arm.
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By George, it makes me sick, Masters, to think that a grown man and a good seaman like yourself should be such a confounded ass!"
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I'se hear um say dey smell de lan' an' de time was 'rive to settle de white trash, dat what dey say, an' take ship.
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'Let the "white trash" see the dog's carcass!
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"The damned lubbers; the damn--" The colonel here broke in with-- "This discovery, I think, broke my heart," cried he, heaving a heavy sigh.
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I do not run away like your white trash!
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This was not an unwise measure for his own sake, apart from any motive he had in advancing my welfare--his real reason for appointing me to the post; for, with the exception of the captain of the mine, a Frenchman, the majority of those employed were half-caste Spaniards and Portuguese, all of whom studied their several individual pockets rather than the interest of their employer, while the main body of workers were peons and mezites, bastard mulattoes, with a large intermixture of negro blood, who valued their own lives as little as they did the lives of those, with whom they had to deal.