The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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But this amazing little ass was never satisfied, He made more trouble every day than all the rest beside: His ears were long, his legs were short, his eyes were bleared and dim, But nothing in the wide, wide world was good enough for him.

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I move the donkey be dismissed; let's turn him out to grass, And travel on our cheerful way, without the solemn ass."

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But while we sit at Eagle Roost and make our Twelfth Night cheer, Full well we know the solemn ass will not disturb us here: For pleasure rules the roost to-night, by order of the King, And every one must play his part, and laugh, and likewise sing.

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A health, a health to all the world,--and the solemn ass, _outside_!

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The Efendi's ass, however, would hardly move.

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For which he paid full dear; For, while he spake, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear; Whereat his horse did snort, as he Had heard a lion roar, And galloped off with all his might, As he had done before.

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It's idiotic for a man to make such an infernal ass of himself.

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It's because I've been an ass myself that I can see more plainly than any one, perhaps, what cursed folly it is.

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The Scripture says, 'Vain man would be wise, though born like the wild ass's colt.'

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Man is born as the wild ass's colt, going astray from the womb.

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This gentleman I took to be somewhat of an ass by his appearance and manner; but I am not sure he was not the cleverest liar of them all.

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"Your Cousin Tom is an ass," he said, "a malicious one, no doubt; but a mere tool.

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Oh, the consummate young ass!

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Issachar is characterised as the "strong ass"--a drudge, powerful but patient.

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The great mass are gregarious, and whether a lion or a log is chosen for their guidance, it is still the same--they will follow the leader, if regularly recognised as such, even though he be an ass.

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He Who _rode on the Seraphim and came flying on the wings of the wind_ sits on the colt of an ass.

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A grand manner combined with insignificant ideas is like harnessing a Hambletonian with an ass.

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Luther called him an unsophisticated ass and a bloodthirsty enemy of the truth.

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All at once this dunce of an ass which had never been put through a spelling-book began to talk and remonstrated with the prophet: "Am I not thine ass?

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It was an intolerable outrage that an ass should lecture a doctor, and balk him in his designs.

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Luther is that ass.

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It is still beating the poor ass.

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Luther heard himself called "un buon Christiano" at Rome and discovered that that meant as much as "an egregious ass."

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_Pliny_ indeed, in his Natural History, _Lib._ 28, _Cap._ 10. tells ye, He that is bitten by a Scorpion may have relief, if immediately he go and whisper his grief into the Ear of an Ass.

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]; but I can give an instance, that our famous _Ben Johnson_, who I will believe had a Conscience as good as the Doctors, and who liv'd in as Pious an Age, in his Comedy call'd the _Devil's an Ass_ [Footnote: Vid.

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_Devil's an Ass_, p.

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And as 'tis said a Parlous Ass once spoke, When Crab-tree Cudgel did his rage provoke, &c. Here he says, _I brought the Ass in only to laugh at the Miracle_: [Footnote: Collier, p.

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So for half an hour I abused her fiercely; I swore at myself hotly as an ass, a hopeless and unmitigated ass, ever ready to be betrayed and beguiled by woman's wiles, the too easy victim of the first pretty face I saw.

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Stupid ass!

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He was to call me a little before reaching Basle, and, like an ass that I was, I fully relied on his doing so, believing him to be my friend.

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Silly ass that I was, I failed to detect the warning that dropped from her own lips.

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When alone in my gloomy prison, with leisure to reflect more calmly on my painful position, I realized what an ass I had been, and I vented my wrath chiefly on myself.

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"Psha, man, you're an ass.

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In this travesty of the Mass a young girl, dressed to represent the Virgin, riding on an ass and carrying a child in her arms, was conducted to the church door.

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If any one buy from the son or the slave of another man, without witnesses or a contract, silver or gold, a male or female slave, an ox or a sheep, an ass or anything, or if he take it in charge, he is considered a thief and shall be put to death.

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If any one steal cattle or sheep, or an ass, or a pig or a goat, if it belong to a god or to the court, the thief shall pay thirtyfold therefor; if they belonged to a freed man [of the king] he shall pay tenfold; if the thief has nothing with which to pay he shall be put to death.

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If a veterinary surgeon perform a serious operation on an ass or an ox, and cure it, the owner shall pay the surgeon one-sixth of a shekel as fee.

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If he perform, a serious operation on an ass or ox, and kill it, he shall pay the owner one-fourth of its value.

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If any one hire an ox or an ass, and a lion kill it in the field, the loss is upon its owner.

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If he hire an ass for threshing, the hire is twenty _ka_ of corn.

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The WELL-HOUSE is to many persons the most attractive object within the walls of the castle,--for should the solemn ruins fail to impress that sentiment of reflection which proves to others the very zest of their visit, they will at least be not a little amused by the apt performance of a docile ass, whose task it is to draw up water from a well 300 feet deep!

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For the Saviour was born in the open field like a Gipsy, and rode on an ass like one, and went round the land a begging his bread like a Rom.

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"And He rode on an ass?

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The proper Rommany word for an ass is _myla_.

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An ass that carries you is better than a horse that throws you off.

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Sharpest thorns are found around the rose; the thistle is the royal bloom of Scotland; and, if our old white ass could speak her mind, doubtless she would call it King of Flowers.

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They have an agèd ass which they gleefully mount in turns, on Play Days, in the courtyard and in the meadow.

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Therefore riding is not altogether strange to them, although my palfrey, Iconoklastes, is somewhat of an advance upon their mild ass, Sheba."

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Perhaps, after all, the attachment might have lived and died without exceeding the "muffin" phase, had not the "beauty," Captain of the battery cut in, and made rather strong running, too, partly because he considered her "fetching," and partly, he said, "from regard to Leigh, who was making an ass of himself."

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"I came upon a very touching tableau in the saloon," said he; "the bride was reluctantly pecking at some chicken, and that ass, Butler, feeding her with a fork."

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"What an ass a fellow looks who can't ride!"

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"Sir William Norris, Masulipatam"--these were the first words he caught; and immediately afterwards the voices broke into the second verse: "Says Governor Pitt, Fort George, Madras, 'I know what you are: an ass, an ass, An ass, an ass, an ASS, an ASS,' Signed 'Governor Pitt, Fort George, Madras.'"

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He fixed his merry eyes on the boy, and, beating time with his hook, went on with the song in stentorian tones: "An ass, an ass, an Ass, an ASS, Signed 'Governor Pitt, Fort George, Madras.'"

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Well, whatever happened he could only drift--drift, and look like an ass to Lady Caroline, the most absolute as well as deceitful ass--an ass who was also a reptile, for she might well think he had been mocking her out in the garden when he said, no doubt in a shaking voice--fool and ass--that he had come because he couldn't help it; while as for what he would look like to his Rose--when Lady Caroline introduced him to her--when Lady Caroline introduced him as her friend whom she had invited in to dinner--well, God alone knew that.

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But our author finds, that commendation is no more his talent, than flattery was that of Æsop's ass; and therefore falls immediately, from pawing with his fore-feet, and grinning upon one prince, to downright braying against another.

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_Must._ Horse or ass, that's as thy mother made thee: but take earnest, in the first place, for thy sauciness.--[_Lashes him with his Whip._]--Be advised, friend, and buckle to thy geers: Behold my ensign of royalty displayed over thee.

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But when I found you had, as I thought, put Wimp on the wrong scent, when I felt sure that by arresting Mortlake he was going to make a greater ass of himself than even nature had been able to do, then I forgave you.

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I've been an awful ass.

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He threw down his pen, and called himself an ass for wasting his time on what nobody would ever look at.

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Was it possible he could have made such an ass of himself?

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"Don't be an ass!" roared Lancelot.

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"Friend Ass," said the Fox, as he met him one day, "What can people mean?--Do you know what they say?"

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To such an assertion from the insolent organs of pretentious ignorance I should be content with the simple rejoinder that Shakespeare most assuredly did nothing whatever of the sort; but to return such an answer in the present case would be to write myself down--and that in company to which I should most emphatically object--as something very decidedly more--and worse--than an ass.

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"Plon is an ass," said Jean gruffly, for he did not like any one to find a flaw in the wife whom he often scolded himself.

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Then it breaks off again and resumes with the entrance of Puck and Bottom adorned with an ass's head.

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He dreams that he cannot get dressed, that he cannot get his head attended to, because, as a matter of fact, his head is not his own excellent head, but the head of an ass with long ears, a snout, and hair that itches.

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To him the whole circle of childhood fantasy reveals itself; nothing is changed, nothing but this absurd ass's head which he wears, and this curious longing for dry, sweet hay.

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Do not study it with Bottom's ass's head, and do not be so blasé that you reject the performance because it does not command the latest electrical effects."

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Then I will answer, because it is not forbidden in my catechism; if the game had been an ox or an ass, I would not have taken it.

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There isn't one man in a hundred who'll give a chance like that to a young ass that's played the goat as I did."

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Of course he makes a fine ass of himself.

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Sandeman, put your sword to the carcass o' this muckle ass and see will it louse his tongue.

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"The desert-dust hath dimmed it, the flying wild-ass knows.

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no ass!

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Ass.

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Ass.

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Ass.

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Ass'n.

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Ass.

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A valuable Spanish ass belonging to Mr. M'Cowan of Tralee was saturated with paraffin, set on fire, and horribly burned.

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As when (the boys o'erpower'd) a sluggish ass, On whose tough sides they have spent many a staff, Enters the harvest, and the spiry ears Crops persevering; with their rods the boys 675 Still ply him hard, but all their puny might Scarce drives him forth when he hath browsed his fill, So, there, the Trojans and their foreign aids With glittering lances keen huge Ajax urged, His broad shield's centre smiting.

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It must be borne in mind that among the people of the East, an ass was a beast upon which kings and princes might ride with dignity.

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he is an ass already; he has a handsome mistress, and you shall make an ox of him ere long.

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[_Strikes him._ _Thers._ Thou scurvy valiant ass!

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_Thers._ If I could have remembered an ass with gilt trappings, thou hadst not slipped out of my contemplation.

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_Thers._ Would the fountain of his mind were clear, that he might see an ass in it!

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I shall be mistaken for some valiant ass, and die a martyr in a wrong religion.

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