Vulgar words in The Pharaoh and the Priest - An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt (Page 1)

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ass x 9
bastard x 1
buffoon x 6
            

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"Confess, holy father," hissed the heir, with the greatest anger, "that such a hindrance would not stop even an ass on his journey."

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"True, but no ass will ever be pharaoh," retorted the minister, calmly.

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Food and drink I had to carry on my back, I was bent down with weight as an ass is bent.

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My neck became stiff, like an ass's neck, and the joints of my back swelled.

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And he says to me, 'Thou art duller than an ass, for an ass would hear music on a hill, and Thou dost not hear it.'

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,407   ~   ~   ~

Temples they turn into ruins, the vessels of the gods they use at their banquets, and make buffoons of priests and sages.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,019   ~   ~   ~

In turn appeared dancers, gymnasts, buffoons, performers of tricks, swordsmen; when any one gave an unusual proof of dexterity, the spectators threw to him gold rings or flowers from their garlands.

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May his children die out, and his house be filled with bastards who will spit on him and expel him!

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What was their amazement at beholding a lean ascetic, bareheaded, wearing a coarse garment, riding on a she ass, and unattended!

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Among laborers not an ox or an ass is now visible, but to make up officials journey on horseback or in litters.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,241   ~   ~   ~

In turn appeared acrobats, serpent-charmers, dancers, buffoons, and jesters, who called forth shouts from the audience.

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"Worthless buffoon!" whispered she; "Thou who art hardly fit to be a singing slave in my mansion."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,292   ~   ~   ~

"'Thy son and slave, Ramses, says this to thee, he who all the time of his journey had his eyes open like a fish, and his ears set forward like an ass which is watching.'."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 11,550   ~   ~   ~

He was at a school of the priests when, on the festival of the goddess Mut, after various amusements they introduced the most famous buffoon in Egypt.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 11,555   ~   ~   ~

"They want to make me like that buffoon," thought he.

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