Vulgar words in War Letters of a Public-School Boy (Page 1)

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buffoon x 1
fag x 1
get laid x 1
knocked up x 1
scrap x 2
            

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St. Paul's knocked up 188 in their first innings.

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Macaulay in his Essay on Mackintosh's "History of The Revolution" describes the condition of England in 1678, after eighteen years of Charles the Second's reign, in graphic words, beginning "Such was the nation which, awaking from its rapturous trance, found itself sold to a foreign, a despotic, a Popish court, defeated on its own seas and rivers by a State of far inferior resources, and placed under the rule of pandars and buffoons."

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It is great to be so near the scrapping, and I only hope a chance of real fighting does come my way.

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The end of it all is that everyone is scrapping against someone else for some selfish aim, and the main object and high ideals for which we entered the war are wholly forgotten.

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He saw that the horse was now tired out and got on his back without difficulty, and as the animal by this time was utterly fagged, he found little trouble in keeping his seat.

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You may recollect Saillard getting laid out in the second half, Haileybury continuing without a full-back--with very sound judgment as it turned out, for this enabled them to play us off our legs in the scrum and control the game with eight forwards to seven, and we never got the ball to give to our eight outsides.

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