Vulgar words in Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland (Page 1)
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When at length he saw me, the glory flowed suddenly off his legs; he subsided into a country bumpkin, and beat a hasty retreat indoors.
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The inspector, to refute him, unwisely alluded to the Scripture account of Balaam's ass in the twenty-second chapter of Numbers; whereupon, the dominie nearly swooned at the impiety of comparing that inspired animal with a secular beast like Grimm's wolf.
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The following extract is from an "Essay on the '15": "_The Rising of '15 was a failure because the Old Pretender was an unmitigated ass.
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Fancy an ass trying to take charge of a Rebellion!_" A genial gentleman, Mr. Sneyd-Kynnersley, who retired from the Inspectorate some years ago, published in 1908 a book of choice reminiscences, containing some good specimens of schoolboy answers.
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"Well," said the other hoary-headed and infirm octogenarian, "I have no idea what you would do, but I am certain of this, that if I ever got the least bit touched, I would go and make love to the lasses at once."