Vulgar words in Bones - Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country (Page 1)
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"I shall have to let him go," he said to Hamilton, when the two had met one night after Mr. Blowter had retired to bed, "I spent the whole of this afternoon discussing the comparative values of mosquito nets, and he is such a perfect ass that you cannot snub him.
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"I'm afraid you'll find I'm rather an ass, sir," he said, saluting stiffly.
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"Bones, you're an ass!" he said at last.
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"Well, you're an ass!" said Hamilton, who could think of nothing better to say.
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He looked such an ass, an' moreover reminded me so powerfully of an aunt of mine that I simply couldn't do it."
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"I'd be failing in my job of work if I didn't make you realize what a perfect ass you are."
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"Perfect--yes," protested Bones, "ass--no.
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"I've been an ass, sir--too lenient--given you a lot of trouble--shan't occur again."
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"There's an ass," said Hamilton, ticking off one finger; "and there's a silly ass," he ticked off the second; "and there's a silly ass who is such a silly ass that he doesn't know what a silly ass he is: we call him a goop."
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"You're a silly ass," said Bones, "and let it go at that."
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"Sir," he began, "you think I am an ass."
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"What a brain you must have, Bones!" he said admiringly.
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... what a silly old ass ... ah, would you ... don't do it, Billy...." To Hamilton's eyes the bulk of correspondence rather increased than diminished.
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"Complacent ass," said Hamilton, and returned to his own correspondence.
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I may be an ass, sir, I may even be a goop, but come between me an' my child an' all my motherly instincts--if you'll pardon the paradox--all my paternal--that's the word--instincts are aroused, and I will fight like a tiger, sir----" "What a devil you are for jaw," said Hamilton; "anyway, I've warned you.
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"Because, you silly ass," said Hamilton, "she is a sort of sacred crocodile."
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"Oh, Bones, what an ass you are!"
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"Yes, sir," said Bones, "that I'm an ass, sir, I think?"
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"It was an interestin' conclusion," said Bones, thoughtfully, "not without originality--when it first occurred to you, but as a conclusion, if you will pardon my criticism, sir, if you will forgive me for suggestin' as much--in callin' me an ass, sir: apart from its bein' contrary to the spirit an' letter of the Army Act--God Save the King!--it's a bit low, sir."
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"It's nothing to laugh about, you silly ass," said Bones.
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"If you come anywhere near me with a mustard plaster," said Hamilton, pardonably annoyed, "I'll brain you!"
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"I'm an ass, sir," muttered Bones, shakily, "an' somehow I understand that this is the time in my jolly old career when I oughtn't to be an ass....
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"Damn," he said, and the wheel of the _Zaire_ spun, and the little boat came broadside to the stream before the threshing wheel got purchase on the water.
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"I killed him, O fool," said M'gobo loudly, "though his father turned woman at the last--with these hands I cut him, using two knives----" "Damn you!" said Bones, and shot him dead.