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A. HAMMERTON Editor of Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia MCMX Table of Contents ABOUT, EDMOND King of the Mountains AINSWORTH, HARRISON Tower of London ANDERSEN, HANS Improvisatore APULEIUS The Golden Ass ARABIAN NIGHTS AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE AUERBACH, BERTHOLD On the Height AUSTEN, JANE Sense and Sensibility Pride and Prejudice Northanger Abbey Mansfield Park Emma Persuasion BALZAC, HONORà DE Eugénie Grandet Old Goriot Magic Skin Quest of the Absolute BECKFORD, WILLIAM History of the Caliph Vathek BEHN, APHRA Oroonoko BERGERAC, CYRANO DE Voyage to the Moon BJÃRNSON, BJÃRNSTJERNE Arne In God's Way BLACK, WILLIAM Daughter of Heth BLACKMORE, R.D.
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"She's a partner in Barley's Bank, you fool, you ass!"
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Finally, in the midst of night, she led me out of the robbers' den and took me across a rocky path to a dumb peasant with an ass, which I was made to mount.
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* * * * * APULEIUS The Golden Ass Apuleius was born about 125 A.D., at Madaura, in Africa.
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His good fame was darkened by the success of an amusing romance, "The Golden Ass," which he wrote, by way of recreation, at Rome.
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It was an age of wild superstition and foolish credulity; and his readers confused the author of "The Golden Ass" with the hero of it.
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_III.--Lucius Becomes an Ass_ In the middle of the night I heard a knock at my door.
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Every hair on me changed into a bristle; my hands turned into hoofed forefeet; a tail grew out of my backbone; my face lengthened; and I found, to my horror, that I had become an ass.
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My own horse and an ass belonging to Milo conceived a strange dislike to me.
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What an ass I was!
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In order to avoid being whipped for his carelessness, the slave resolved to let the priests dine off a haunch of their own ass.
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It was a poor gardener who needed an ass to cart his stuff to market.
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He, too, wanted an ass to carry his heavy kit.
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Though I was changed into an ass, L could not relish hay and grass and food of that sort, and I derived scarcely any nourishment from it.
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In a short time I became famous throughout Greece as the "Golden Ass," and I was bought by the town for use in the public show.
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On a day he went forth, and casting in his net, drew up with great labour a dead jackass; casting again, an earthen pitcher full of sand; casting a third time vexatiously, potsherds and shattered glass; and at the last a jar of yellow copper, leaden-capped, and stamped with the seal-ring of Solomon, the son of David.
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"A wild ass's skin engraved with Sanscrit characters.
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Ass!
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But as he was too poor to marry her, he never made love to her.
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"So," he said, when he was at last alone, "in this enlightened age, when science has stripped the very stars of their secrets, here am I frightened out of my senses by an old piece of wild ass's skin.
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"Is the Manse to be turned topsalteery, and made a byword a' because o' a foreign hussy?" asked Leezibeth.