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Patrick O’Brian’s arsenal of insults, put-downs, and terms of disapprobation are Shakespearean in their plenitude, from the garden-variety “grass-combing bugger” (a sailor’s term of contempt for a mere tiller of the land) to an admiral’s characterization of Jack as a…
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