Vulgar words in The Romany Rye - a sequel to "Lavengro" (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 5
buffoon x 1
damn x 1
jackass x 1
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How strange if, after the lapse of four thousand years, the Hindoos should damn themselves to the blindness so dear to their present masters, even as their masters at present consign themselves to the forgetfulness so dear to the Hindoos; but my glass has been empty for a considerable time; perhaps Bellissima Biondina," said he, addressing Belle, "you will deign to replenish it?"

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I half expected to have heard you make love to her behind the hedge, but I begin to think you care for nothing in this world but old words and strange stories.

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"Hurt enough," sobbed the old man; "I have been just tricked out of the best ass in England by a villain who gave me nothing but these trash in return," pointing to the stones before him.

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"I suppose he was the fellow," said I, "whom I just now met upon a fine grey ass, which he was beating with a cudgel."

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but to take from you that ass, of which you have just robbed its owner."

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It is of no use talking, I only wish the power were in my hands, and if I did not make short work of them, might I be a mere jackass postillion all the remainder of my life."

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"In the history of Herod's ass!" said the jockey; "well, if I did write a book it should be about something more genteel than a dickey."

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"I did not say Herod's ass," said I, "but Herodotus, a very genteel writer, I assure you, who wrote a history about very genteel people, in a language no less genteel than Greek, more than two thousand years ago.

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He would give to a painted harlot a thousand pounds for a loathsome embrace, and to a player or buffoon a hundred for a trumpery pun, but would refuse a penny to the widow or orphan of an old Royalist soldier.

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