The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Fear not, O daughter of Zion; behold thy king cometh sitting upon an ass's colt.

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Conceited ass!' you will probably add.

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The first is about the _Ant_: 'Tis black as night, But it is not night: Like a bird it has wings, But it never sings: It digs through the house, But it is not a mouse: It eats barley and grass, But it is not an ass.

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The lying Ass lay still, And answered, "Yes, I will."

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The Bear resolved in grief and pain, He'd never help an Ass again.

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Ass.

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Ass.

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Ass., 269, 1869 (published in 1870).

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Ass., 379, 1885 (mere mention of family).

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Ass., 266, 1869 (treats of Alaskan Eskimo and Tuski only).

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Ass., 266, 1869.

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Ass., 265, 1869 (group name; includes Innuit, Aleutians, Tuski).

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Ass., 269, 1869 (includes "Ugalense").

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Ass., 375, 1885 (gives tribes and population).

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Ass., 268, 269, 1869 (divided into Sitka-kwan, Stahkin-kwan, "Yakutats").

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Ass., 375, 1885 (enumerates tribes and gives population).

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Ass'n.

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Ass'n, 375, 1885 (mere mention of family).

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Ass'n, 269, 1869 (Queen Charlotte's Ids.

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Others show us winged infants, little Cupids weaving garlands, of which the ancients were so fond; some of the bacchanalian divinities, celebrating the festival of the mills, are crowning with flowers the patient ass who is turning the wheel.

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Thus, a goat in terra cotta indicated a milk-depot; a mill turned by an ass showed where there was a miller's establishment; two men, walking one ahead of the other and each carrying one end of a stick, to the middle of which an amphora is suspended, betray the neighborhood of a wine-merchant.

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The poor ass condemned to do this work must have been a very patient animal; but what shall we say of the slaves often called in to fill his place?

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Elsewhere a wag, parodying the style of monumental inscriptions, had announced that under the consulate of L. Monius Asprenas and A. Plotius, there was born to him the foal of an ass.

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One there sees odd landscapes; a little island on the edge of the water; a bank of the Nile where an ass, stooping to drink, bends toward the open jaws of a crocodile which he does not see, while his master frantically but vainly endeavors to pull him back by the tail.

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Of course the first bush passed by the battery fired the carbine, and Baden-Powell remarks of the incident, "Many a man has nearly been shot by an ass, but I claim to have been nearly shot by a mule."

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You have been very generous, and I'm afraid I've shown myself up for an ungrateful ass, if not worse.

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And now this adumbrated ass of a Quigley, who's been sent on here from St. Louis to take the city desk, he falls for Virgie as a genuine personage.

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"Ass!" snarls Whity under his breath.

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Happier still those to whom it is vouchsafed to possess an ass in addition to the cart.

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Where there were still commons, the poor could pasture an ass, a pig, or geese, the children and young people had a place where they could play and live out of doors; but this is gradually coming to an end.

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Here is the final stanza of the pitiful doggerel with which Wharton boasted that he had "sung a king out of three kingdoms": There was an old prophecy found in a bog: Ireland shall be ruled by an ass and a dog; And now this prophecy is come to pass, For Talbot's the dog, and James is the ass.

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And on the right hand the patesi beheld an ass which lay upon the ground.

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The driver of Ningirsu's chariot was the god Ensignun; it was his duty to keep the sacred chariot as bright as the stars of heaven, and morning and evening to tend and feed Ningirsu's sacred ass, called Ug-kash, and the ass of Eridu.

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These included another chariot drawn by an ass, a seven-headed battle-axe, a sword with nine emblems, a bow with terrible arrows and a quiver decorated with wild beasts and dragons shooting out their tongues, and a bed which was set within the god's sleeping-chamber.

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Another god was the driver of his chariot, and it is interesting to note that the chariot was drawn by an ass, for horses were not introduced into Western Asia until a much later period.

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Thus, if a member of the upper class were guilty of stealing an ox, or a sheep, or an ass, or a pig, or a boat, from a temple or a private house, he had to pay the owner thirty times its value as compensation, whereas if the thief were a member of the middle class he only had to pay ten times its price, but if he had no property and so could not pay compensation he was put to death.

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Thus, if a lion killed a hired ox or ass in the open country, or if an ox was killed by lightning, the loss fell upon the owner and not on the man who hired the beast.

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The impurities which it contained were sufficient in the long run to ruin the strongest teeth; eating it was an action of grinding rather than chewing, and old men were not unfrequently met with whose teeth had been gradually worn away to the level of the gums, like those of an aged ass or ox.

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When it came to be a question of some large animal or of objects of considerable value, the discussions which arose were keen and stormy: it was necessary to be agreed not only as to the amount, but as to the nature of the payment to be made, and to draw up a sort of invoice, or in fact an inventory, in which beds, sticks, honey, oil, pick-axes, and garments, all figure as equivalents for a bull or a she-ass.

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The wild ass and onager roamed in small herds between the Balikh and the Tigris.

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* The horse is denoted in the Assyrian texts by a group of signs which mean "the ass of the East," and the camel by other signs in which the character for "ass" also appears.

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Frost is of rare occurrence in winter, and rain is infrequent at any season; the sun soon burns up the scanty herbage which the spring showers have encouraged, but fleshy plants successfully resist its heat, such as the common salsola, the salsola soda, the pallasia, a small mimosa, and a species of very fragrant wormwood, forming together a vari-coloured vegetation which gives shelter to the ostrich and the wild ass, and affords the flocks of the nomads a grateful pasturage when the autumn has set in.

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* He was accompanied by his wife Ati, riding on an ass, from which she alighted in order to gain a closer view of the strangers.

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"His victuals and his supply of water are about his neck like the burden of an ass,--and his neck and throat suffer like those of an ass,--so that the joints of his spine are broken.--He drinks putrid water, keeping perpetual guard the while."

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His fatigues soon tell upon his health and vigour: "Should he reach the enemy,--he is like a bird which trembles.--Should he return to Egypt,--he is like a piece of old worm-eaten wood.--He is sick and must lie down, he is carried on an ass,--while thieves steal his linen,--and his slaves escape."

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The episodes which have been preserved deal with some of his exploits against the Philistines, and there is a certain humour in the chronicler's account of the weapons which he employed: "with the jawbone of an ass have I smitten a thousand men;" he burned up their harvest also by letting go three hundred foxes, with torches attached to their tails, among the standing corn of the Philistines.

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und Ass_,, pp.

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The wild ass was still to be found in large numbers, as well as the goat, the ostrich, and small game, but the lion was now rarely met with, and the beaters were no longer sure of finding him in his ancient haunts.

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The recognised offering consisted of flowers, bread, fruit, and perfumes, but these were often accompanied, as in all ancient religions, by a bloody sacrifice; the sacrifice of a horse was considered the most efficacious, but an ox, a cow, a sheep, a camel, an ass, or a stag was frequently offered: in certain circumstances, especially when it was desired to conciliate the favour of the god of the underworld, a human victim, probably as a survival of very ancient rites was preferred.

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They delighted to hunt the bull, the wild boar, the deer, the wild ass, and the hare, as the Pharaohs or Assyrian kings of old had done; and they would track the lion to his lair and engage him single-handed; in fact, they held a strict monopoly in such conflicts, a law which punished with death any huntsman who had the impertinence to interpose between the monarch and his prey being only abolished by Artaxerxes.

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On his arrival at Memphis, Ochus gave orders that an ass should be installed in the temple of Phtah, and have divine honours paid to it; he next had the bull Apis slaughtered and served up at a set banquet which he gave to his friends on taking possession of the White Wall.

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Here wide tracts of arid and treeless country were now to be seen covered with aromatic herbage, where the Scenite Arabs were wont to pursue the lion, wild ass, ostrich, bustard, antelope, and gazelle; a few abandoned forts, such as Korsortê, Anatho, and Is (Hit) marked the halting-places of armies on the banks of the Euphrates.

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Neacles also painted for Aratus; and we might almost suppose that it was as a gift to the King of Egypt that he painted his Sea-fight between the Egyptians and the Persians, in which the painter shows us that it was fought within the mouth of the Nile by making a crocodile bite at an ass drinking on the shore.

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In a third the king and queen are seen playing at chess or checkers in the form of a lion playing with a unicorn or horned ass.

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To their mystic rites we may trace many of the reproaches thrown upon Christianity, such as that the Christians worshipped the head of an ass, using the animal's Koptic name _Eeo_, to represent the name of IAn, or Jahveh.

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And for a time I was just ass enough to believe you, wasn't I?"

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I'm sure you're joking, big brother, about being an ass, or poking fun at me.

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"I suppose I was an ass to think that you might love me.

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Verily I am an ass.

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'Masters, remember that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.'

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"No, no more than an ass that won't budge an inch, saving your presence."

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What an old ass your father is!"

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Ass., (Kind hearer, although your Knowledge of French is not first-class, Don't call that Amature.)

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Ass., The which did warfare wage On the dramatic works of this And every other age.

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Ass.

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Ass., A stalwart dry-goods clerk, Was cast for _Oriando_, in which _rôle_ He felt he'd make his mark.

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Ass.

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Ass.

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"What would you say if I told you that this adventure was merely to prove to myself what a consummate ass the average man can be upon occasions?"

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"I am in hopes that I am neither a positive ass nor a superlative one, only comparative."

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I recalled to mind the shop of the dealer in antiquities in Balzac's _La Peau de Chagrin_, and glanced about (not without a shiver) for the fatal ass's skin.

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"Don't be an ass!

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Ass!

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"What do you think I am in my old age,--an ass?

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Ass.

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Ass.

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Ass._ IV, 689.

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I was a romantic-minded young ass, and the situation flattered my generous conceit.

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I am not ass enough to suppose that Lady Greendale would even dream for a moment of setting her cap at a Colonel on half pay, but if a woman is in the marrying line she always expects a certain amount of what you may call delicate attention.

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I begin to think that I was an ass to leave the army."

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"Don't be an ass, Jimmy; I haven't known you all these years for nothing... Is it true that Cynthia's chucked you?"

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That was what Sangster was saying; and Jimmy--well, Jimmy flushed uncomfortably as he answered with a sort of bravado: "Don't be a silly old ass!

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"Kettering--that stuck-up ass!" he said savagely.

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Look here, Jimmy, don't be an ass!

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"Don't be an ass; go to bed."

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"Interfering old ass," he said affectionately.

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Apuleius, however, in the tenth book of his _Metamorphosis_ or "Golden Ass," gives sufficient details of the performance of the Judgment of Paris to show that it strongly resembled the best form of ballet opera known in modern times.

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Another mode of executing the same conception--the ears of an ass--is shown in Fig.

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"Thou art a hopeless ass, John.

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Sophie is credited with having commented on this scene with the remark that it was the only case where she had ever witnessed a personal illustration of Æsop's fable of the lion put to flight by an ass.

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In a lecture on English Literature in our Universities you will certainly not miss to apply the first, which runs, 'Many an ass has entered Jerusalem.'

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How dare you drink of the Bays' water, You children of an Ass?"

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'Nothing, except making a blithering ass of me.

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'What an ass I have been!' he lamented sorrowfully.

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'What a sublime ass!

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"I don't know just how you happen to be in this game," pronounced Chamberlain hotly, "but all I've got to say is you're an ass--an infernal ass."

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too late--and when he comes, be it late or early, she crowns him, even though he be a long-eared ass.

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