Vulgar words in Turned Adrift (Page 1)

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ass x 2
cuss x 2
knock up x 1
            

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"I don't believe the boy is quite such an ass as that; indeed, I regard him as being very far from an ass--except in this one particular instance of organising this mutiny," answered Bligh.

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The mention of sharks gave me an idea, and I asked my companions whether perchance any of them happened to have any small stuff about them out of which we might contrive to make a fishing line; whereupon Chips, with a smile, requested me to vacate my seat in the sternsheets for a moment, and, opening the locker in the after thwart of the boat, produced an excellent cod line, with hooks and sinker all complete, explaining that as soon as he gathered an inkling of what Bainbridge intended on the previous day, he contrived, while engaged in knocking up a temporary pen for the sheep, to filch the said line out of the cook's galley and to secrete it, afterward seizing an opportunity to transfer it to the gig's locker when he learned that she was about to be turned over to us.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 865   ~   ~   ~

"Now, Abe never had amounted to much when I knew him; he was just a low-down, ornery cuss every way that you looked at him.

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I guess we'll have to go on usin' force, now that this cantankerous cuss have obliged us to begin.

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