Vulgar words in The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 - Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave - among the moors... (Page 1)
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I simply endeavoured to make Captain Dangerous express himself as a man of ordinary intelligence and capacity would do who was born in the reign of Queen Anne,--who received a scrambling education in that of George the First,--who had passed the prime of his life abroad and had picked up a good many bastard foreign words and locutions,--whose reading had been confined to the ordinary newspapers and chap-books of his time (with perhaps an occasional dip into the pages of "Ned Ward" and "Tom Brown"),--and who in his old age had preserved the pseudo-didactic of his youth.
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Go to, metamorphosed and two-legged ass!
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The cook leered at me, while another saucy slut handed me a great lump of dry bread, and a black-jack with some dregs of the smallest beer at the bottom.
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A boy that has got legs with skin on 'em, and doesn't know where to run to, is a jackass.--Stop!" he continued, as if a bright idea had just struck him; "did you ever hear of the Blacks?"
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Speak, or I'll brain you with this Flail."
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And then he asked me whether I had any Money, whereto I answered that I had a Guinea; and little doubting in my Quaking Heart but that he would presently Wrench it from me, if haply he were not minded to have Meal as well as Malt, and brain me as he had threatened.
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"No-man's-land is just in the left-hand top Corner of Charlwood Chase, after you have turned to the left, and gone as far forward as you can by taking two steps backward for every one straight on," answers the saucy hussy.
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My sprightly ways and random talk amused her Grace for awhile; but she had too many gewgaws and playthings, and I found, after not many days, that my popularity was on the wane, and that I could not hope to maintain it against the attractions of a French waiting-maid, a monkey, a parrot, a poodle, and a little Dwarfish boy-attendant that was half fiddler and half buffoon.
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Here dwelt a vagabond tribe of Bastard Verderers and Charcoal-burners, savage, ignorant, brutish Wretches, as superstitious as the Manilla Creoles.