Vulgar words in The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition - Vol. 1 (of 25) (Page 1)
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"I forgot to say," remarks the early Stevensonian hero, after describing a day full of adventures with Red Indians, "that I had made love to a beautiful girl."
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We know what effect it has in life, and how your dull ass will not mend his pace with beating.
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There was a father and mother; two daughters, brazen, blowsy hussies, who sang and acted, without an idea of how to set about either; and a dark young man, like a tutor, a recalcitrant house-painter, who sang and acted not amiss.
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He took unconstitutional liberties with the person of his sovereign; kicked his fellow-marionnettes in the mouth with his wooden shoes, and whenever none of the versifying suitors were about, made love to Thisbe on his own account in comic prose.
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_Who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?_ JOB.
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Father Adam had a cart, and to draw the cart a diminutive she-ass, not much bigger than a dog, the colour of a mouse, with a kindly eye and a determined under-jaw.
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I remembered having laughed myself when I had seen good men struggling with adversity in the person of a jackass, and the recollection filled me with penitence.
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As for these two girls, they were a pair of impudent sly sluts, with not a thought but mischief.
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But the instinct of an ass is what might be expected from the name; in half a minute she was clambering round and round among some boulders, as lost a donkey as you would wish to see.
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What the devil was the good of a she-ass if she could not carry a sleeping-bag and a few necessaries?
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I heard the runnel with delight; I looked round me for something beautiful and unexpected; but the still black pine-trees, the hollow glade, the munching ass, remained unchanged in figure.
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He found at least one telling word to say in his defence; for when the roof fell in and the upbursting flames discovered his retreat, and they came and dragged him to the public place of the town, raging and calling him damned--"If I be damned," said he, "why should you also damn yourselves?"
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At the top, as is the habit of the country, the path disappeared; and I left my she-ass munching heather, and went forward alone to seek a road.
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Great people of yore, kings and queens, buffoons, and grave ambassadors, played their stately farce for centuries in Holyrood.