Vulgar words in All Afloat - A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways (Page 1)

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ass x 1 damn x 1 hog x 2 jackass x 1 spunk x 1

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But when a vessel is large, and more especially when she is long, the strains known as hogging and sagging are apt to rack her timbers apart.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 770   ~   ~   ~

Now, a series of hogging and sagging strains alternately compresses and opens every resisting join in every {85} timber, with the inevitable result of loosening the whole.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 819   ~   ~   ~

Had this schoolboy known a very little more he might {91} have added jackass brigs to his list of male exceptions.

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Now then, starbowlines, show {122} your spunk!'

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'Now then,' roars the indomitable mate, the moment his dripping {127} yardarm comes from under, 'turn to, there--d' y' think we 're going to hang on here the whole damn' day?'

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They began when, as the saying was, the sailor {172} earnt his money like a horse and spent it like an ass.

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