Vulgar words in Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 (Page 1)

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ass x 1
blockhead x 4
jackass x 2
            

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Take me to him, you fool, you ass; let me have my revenge; or I'll be the death of you."

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"Vell, as you say, we have been both deceived by a great blackguard, and by that 'ere jackass in the corner.

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Now we must not suppose that Squire Potts had, like an old blockhead, admitted these two young men into such close terms of intimacy with his family, upon no further acquaintance than was furnished him by his having helped the one out of a lead shaft, and the other to a dry rig-out after the duckings he had encountered in seeking the necessary aid--quite the contrary; for though the nature of the accident, and the forlorn condition of our pedestrians, would have insured them both food and shelter till the patient could have been safely removed elsewhere; yet the squire would never have admitted any one to the society of the female part of his family, whose respectability and station in society he was at all doubtful about.

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"And so I've no doubt it is," interposed Frank; "for you must either have been doomed to disappointment by your failure, or, if you had succeeded in being the fortunate competitor out of the hundred candidates who are striving for the prize, you would, as a matter of course, have incurred the everlasting enmity of the disappointed ninety-nine, to say nothing of their numerous friends and allies; why, you would be cut up to minced meat amongst them all; and nine-tenths of the reviews and newspapers would be ringing their changes of abuse upon your name, as one of the most blundering blockheads that ever spoilt paper."

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"This really is very provoking," said Job; "and the worst part of the business is, that I can do no good whatever--the poor creature is too far gone in consumption for the skill of the whole faculty put together to save her life; and, bless me, my poor Selim has not only carried me miles and miles over the road to-day, but, like an inconsiderate blockhead, I must gallop him after the hounds, across the country.

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"He!" vociferated the uncle, "a proud blockhead; I heerd of his goings on.

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what have we here--is it a horse or is it a jackass?

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