Vulgar words in The Armourer's Prentices (Page 1)

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ass x 6
buffoon x 2
country bumpkin x 1
jackass x 1
            

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And half a dozen men still sat there, one or two snoring, two playing at dice on a clear corner of the board, and another, a smart well-dressed fellow in a bright scarlet jerkin, laying down the law to a country bumpkin, who looked somewhat dazed.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,113   ~   ~   ~

Then should he have a free gift of my bauble," responded the jester, shaking on high that badge, surmounted with the golden head of an ass, and jingling with bells.

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In truth, though Harry Randall had been a wild and frolicsome youth in his Hampshire home, the effect of being a professional buffoon had actually made it a relaxation of effort to him to be grave, quiet, and slow in movement; and this was perhaps a more effectual disguise than the dark garments, and the false brown hair, beard, and moustache, with which he concealed the shorn and shaven condition required of the domestic jester.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,105   ~   ~   ~

"That did I," returned Randall, "as I rode by on mine ass.

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They parted at the great west door of the Abbey, where, by way of vindicating his own character for buffoonery, Randall exclaimed, "Where be mine ass?" and not seeing the animal, immediately declared, "There he is!" and at the same time sprang upon the back and shoulders of a gaping and astonished clown who was gazing at the rear of the procession.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,119   ~   ~   ~

"I cry you mercy," quoth the jester; "'twas mine own ass I sought, and if I have fallen on thine, I will but ride him to York House and then restore him.

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good jackass," crossing his ankles on the poor fellow's chest so that he could not be shaken off.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,348   ~   ~   ~

Perronel, well accustomed to horse, ass, or foot, undertook to ride behind the child, as she called Jasper, who--as a born Londoner--knew nothing of horses, though both the other prentices did.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,717   ~   ~   ~

I'm a wedded man," said Randall, who certainly, in private life, had much less of the buffoon about him than his father-in-law.

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"Ass!

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