Vulgar words in The Gorilla Hunters (Page 1)
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"Ay, in capital time, if you don't knock up."
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_I_ knock up!
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I was much alarmed as well as surprised at this course of conduct; for although my friend was an inveterate joker, he was the very reverse of what is termed a buffoon, and never indulged in personally grotesque actions with a view to make people laugh--such as making faces, a practice which, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, causes the face-makers to look idiotical rather than funny, and induces beholders to pity them, and to feel very uncomfortable sensations.
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"I'd rather you'd go yourself," replied Peterkin; "for, to say truth, I'm pretty well knocked up to-day.
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"Not at all," cried Jack; "I can unravel it in a minute, and settle the whole question by proving that there does exist an equality between us; for it is well-known, and generally admitted by all his friends, and must be acknowledged by himself, that Peterkin is an ass."
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"Even admitting that," rejoined Peterkin, "it still remains to be proved that a philosopher, a gorilla, and an ass are equal.
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So hardened had we all become during the course of our travels that we found ourselves not only equal to Makarooroo in pedestrian powers, but superior; for when occasion required we could almost knock him up, but I am free to admit that we never succeeded in doing this thoroughly.
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But we found ourselves at the end of the second week so terribly knocked up that we agreed to devote the whole of the next Sabbath to repose.
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I'll engage to take him on my back when he knocks up on the march--for we have a march before us, as I shall presently explain--and when we get into a canoe he will be able to rest."
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You great puffing blockhead, what are you staring at?"