The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Marshal Gilles is a mighty scholar as well, and hath Henriet the clerk--a weak, bleating ass that will some day blab if my master permit me not to slice his gizzard in time--he hath him up to read aloud Latin by the mile, all out of the books called Suetonius and Tacitus--such high-flavoured tales and full of--well, of things such as my master loves."

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If he had been a girl, tears would have blinded his eyes; but being what he was, he merely muttered in anger against himself, "Hang it all, what a wretched ass I am," and turning his back on the sea, made his way as fast as he could into the Casino.

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"Ass--worm--menagerie!" he anathematized himself.

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1. Letters from Mr. Roumanet du Cailland, through Mr. Hunter, Ass't Sec.

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The celebrated Vaucanson, who was one of the greatest contributors to this institution, having quarrelled with the people of Lyons, vowed he would teach an ass to do what they did, and he absolutely invented machinery of such a description that it could be worked by that humble animal, and a piece of drugget with flowers is shown, which was produced by the united ingenuity of M. Vaucanson and the patient labour of the ass.

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A paralyzed old Man on an Ass, which his son was leading, was a true picture of nature, by Leleux; the vigour of the one and the feebleness of the other were admirably contrasted, although rather flat from wanting more shade.

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I was very fond of little Aggie when she was at my mother's; but of course, I was not ass enough to suppose that she was going trotting about the country with me, when she once went up to the Hall as the squire's granddaughter.

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While we sat there one morning, a great noise of shouting was heard, and presently we saw one riding on an ass, followed by a great company, crying 'Hosanna!'

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It should therefore be remembered by every proprietor of land in hill country, that his possessions are the means of a peculiar education, otherwise unattainable, to the artists, and in some degree to the literary men, of his country; that, even in this limited point of view, they are a national possession, but much more so when it is remembered how many thousands are perpetually receiving from them, not merely a transitory pleasure, but such thrilling perpetuity of pure emotion, such lofty subject for scientific speculation, and such deep lessons of natural religion, as only the work of a Deity can impress, and only the spirit of an immortal can feel: they should remember that the slightest deformity, the most contemptible excrescence, can injure the effect of the noblest natural scenery, as a note of discord can annihilate the expression of the purest harmony; that thus it is in the power of worms to conceal, to destroy, or to violate, what angels could not restore, create or consecrate; and that the right, which every man unquestionably possesses, to be an ass, is extended only, in public, to those who are innocent in idiotism, not to the more malicious clowns, who thrust their degraded motley conspicuously forth amidst the fair colors of earth, and mix their incoherent cries with the melodies of eternity, break with their inane laugh upon the silence which Creation keeps where Omnipotence passes most visibly, and scrabble over with the characters of idiocy the pages that have been written by the finger of God.

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He's an ass!' said Mr. Falkirk, who was plainly getting restive.

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"I've been an ass," he admitted bitterly, as he glanced in impotent contempt at the handful of weather-stained buildings which on the map bore the name of a town; "an ass, an egregious, abominable, blethering ass!"

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"Ben," he said instead, "I'm an ass, and I beg your pardon.

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A medal was struck, and extensively circulated, representing the Devil, clothed like a minister or priest, riding on an ass.

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he even called me an ass, for no more serious fault, forsooth, than that I made the round of my guard unattended.

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The men who do not take the trouble to conceal from you their opinion that you are an incompetent ass, and the women who blacken your character and misunderstand your wife's amusements, will work themselves to the bone in your behalf if you fall sick or into serious trouble.

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): "Thou shalt sow thy vineyard with divers seeds"; and: "Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together."

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Neither is it allowed to plough "with an ox and an ass together"; thus a fool should not accompany a wise man in preaching, for one would hinder the other.

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an ass or an ox.

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PRAGUE " Horse, mule, or ass."

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The Ox and Ass legend at the Nativity he realized was the Pseudo-Matthew's description to Habakkuk of the literal presence: "In the midst of two animals thou shalt be known;" which is a mistranslated Hebrew text in the Prayer ascribed to Habakkuk.

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"O-h, what an ass I made of myself.

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I said: On my eye (be it); I do not lend my ear to every ass."

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Twenty of them, all breathing carbonic acid gas, besides yourself--and that ass!"

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"Really, he isn't an ass.

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IZDUBHAR: He talks like a tablet read upside down,--a wild ass braying in the wilderness.

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He felt as if he had been an ass till this moment.

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I wish I had not refused then; I have been an ass throughout.

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"I am to be a domestic chaplain to that pious old ass, Lord Lofton.

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In the ninth chapter of the book of Zechariah, it is written, "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass."

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When our Lord Jesus was about to enter, for the last time, into the holy city of Jerusalem, before his enemies had laid their cruel hands on him, he sent two of the disciples, saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.

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He made choice of the humble, despised ass; her trappings were the outer garments of those poor men, fishermen and such like, who followed him; and who took them off, to make, as it were, a saddle and saddle-cloth for their beloved Master; while others, seeing that no more were wanted for that purpose, spread theirs on the ground that he might ride over them.

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Yet he, the Maker of all things, took upon him the nature of man; and so you see, for once, a poor animal enjoyed even greater privilege and happiness than when the creatures were first brought to Adam; and that animal was no other than the persecuted ass!

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Yes, I very often think of this, when I see the cruelties committed on some overworked animal, in a cart, or ridden by an unfeeling person; and the mischief, the wicked mischief, that Satan finds for idle hands to do, in the field, or by the way-side, where the poor ass is quietly nibbling at such coarse weeds as neither horse, nor cow, nor sheep would touch.

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I have said nothing about the wonderful story of an ass which you will find in the book of Numbers, chapter xxii.

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5; and in the 12th verse we read a reason given for keeping holy and quiet the Sabbath day, "that thine ox and thine ass may rest."

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"He's a confounded old ass, but he's a brainy one."

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I wasn't responsible for the helmet I wore, and I had felt all along that I looked like an ass in it.

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"Steady, you ass!--How can I loose you?--There!"

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But if he _don't_ win,' I says, 'I'll give you fi' pun to buy yourself some manners with, fi' pun for your missus to get her a better 'usband, and fi' pun for that bald-faced, ewe-knecked, calf-kneed son of a laughin' jack-ass who calls you dad.'

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Artists and poets: they were all alike--dirty beggars, all manners and no morals, who could talk the hind-leg off a she-ass.

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"Shut up, you ass!" said the girl as she released the bob-tail.

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Billy Bluff, the old ass, was fussing about on the edge of the tide, barking at her.

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"Ass!" muttered the young man.

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"I have been a howling young ass!" he told himself, his contempt suddenly swerving upon himself.

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What an ass he had been in supposing that she cared for him!

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I, poor, penniless, plain simple fool that I am, have been ass enough to love you, Lady Laura Standish; and I brought you up here to-day to ask you to share with me-my nothingness.

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"I have simply been the greatest idiot, the greatest coward, the most awkward ass that ever lived!"

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"Mr. Monk," said Phineas, "I have made an ass of myself so thoroughly, that there will at any rate be this good result, that I shall never make an ass of myself again after the same fashion."

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But do not suppose that you have made an ass of yourself,-that is, in any special degree.

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"I have to think whether I have courage enough to refuse to make myself an ass."

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"Ass!" she exclaimed.

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"Lord Fawn!" he said, "the greatest ass in all London!

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"I have made such an ass of myself."

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Wellesley College, Indian Ass'n.

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Spare me, Mathesis, though thy foe I be, Though at thy altar ne'er I bend the knee, Though o'er thy "Asses' Bridge" I never pass, And ne'er in this respect will prove an ass; Still let mild mercy thy fierce anger quell!

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I beg your pardon, I--I----What an ass I am, always putting my foot into it.

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After a course of ass's milk, which does not seem to have done him much good, the ex-dramatist retired to Bath, a very fashionable place for departing life in, under easy and elegant circumstances.

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Some strange birds and animals are given at the end of this book, the most interesting of all being an accurate picture of the zebra, here called the _Fu-lu_, which means "Deer of Happiness," but which is undoubtedly a rough attempt at _fara_, an old Arabic term for the wild ass.

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On my last visit to England I found that quite a number of dogs have been bred in this way, viz., a first cross between the bull and terrier, especially in the neighborhood of Birmingham in the middle of England; but these dogs are no more like the Boston terrier than an ass is like a thoroughbred horse.

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Doubtless some of the simpler members of that audience would follow the drift of the Sassenach poet only at a certain distance; but Bottom's "transformed scalp," a pasteboard ass's-head, come all the way from Nathan's, was eloquent without help of an interpreter.

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In addition to the animals aforementioned, the ass, too, was probably at one time venerated in one of the districts of Gaul, and it is not improbable that Mullo, the name of a god identified with Mars and regarded as the patron of muleteers, mentioned on inscriptions (at Nantes, Craon, and Les Provencheres near Craon), meant originally 'an ass.'

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Small is the flock, and there you'll see The she-ass and the wether; This goat's a he, and that's a she, The bull-calf and the heifer.

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On an ass the elder borne All the mad crew guideth; Mirth and laughter at the view Through Love's glad heart glideth.

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I vow, &c. The next is _The Last Will of the Dying Ass_.

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THE WILL OF THE DYING ASS.

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While a boor, as poets tell, Whacked his patient ass too well, On the ground half dead it fell.

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Then with gesture sad and low, Streaming eyes and words of woe, He at length addressed it so: "Had I known, my gentle ass, Thou from me so soon wouldst pass, I'd have swaddled thee, alas!

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He who saith this testament Will not hold, let him be shent; He's an ass by all consent.

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La sol fa, He's an ass by all consent, La sol fa mi re ut.

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Our laquais Camillo suffered himself to be turned off, rather than put wood on the fire three times a-day; he would rather, he said, "starve in the streets than break his back by carrying burdens like an ass; and though he was miserable to displease the Onoratissimo Padrone, his first _duty_ was to take care of his own health, which, with the blessing of the saints, he was determined to do."

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Under the vast side of the Palatine Hill, on the side of the Circus Maximus, I met a woman mounted on an ass, habited in a most beautiful and singular holiday costume, a man walked by her side, leading the animal she rode, with lover-like watchfulness.

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The only plough I saw would have excited the amusement and amazement of an English farmer: I should think it was exactly similar to the ploughs of Virgil's time: it was drawn by an ox and an ass yoked together, and guided by a woman.

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"I am afraid Bovyer is about making an ass of himself.

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"Get out of here, and don't let me see your face, or hear your trampling ass-hoofs again!

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She pictured to herself Herr Van de Greutz's face when, in company with some other chemist, he found the ground rice, while his cook with the "ass-hoofs" carried the explosive to her native land.

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There they were, sleeping under an ass-cart, quite happy and satisfied.

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If I had but a couple of pounds, I could buy a little ass and earn a share of money bringing turf to the big town; or I could job at the fairs.

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I was one evening a while ago getting ready the supper for my husband and my children, when there came a man and a young woman to the door, and the woman riding an ass.

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"Girt round with mine enemies, Miss Eleanor," he laughed, "and I slay them with the jaw bone of an ass."

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"Do you suppose that little kindergarten ass thought he had come and caught me off duty?"

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gr ow dr aw pl ay s ky sm all sl ay fl ower cr ow st ay st and cl ean fr ay gl ass pr ay tr ay br own sp in str ay bl ue sw ing sl ow st ore sl ack bl ow tr ack dw arf gl ow The teacher must pronounce the syllables that the children have, as yet, no power to master, e.g., with the word "grow", (1) the children will blend g and r, gr; (2) teacher pronounces "ow"; (3) children blend "gr" and "ow" until they recognise "grow."

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DAVID H. MONTGOMERY, C AMBRIDGE , M ASS .

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I did not witness this accident, and when Campbell reported the matter I am reported to have said, "What a silly ass!"

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I'd been taking snaps of the grave, and I was burbling away like an ass about how important this was and how it was positive proof of sapience, and he was insisting that we get back to camp at once.

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Respectfully dedicated to my ill-used long-eared friend, Neddy Bray Some fowk choose one thing, some another, To grace ther prose or rhyme; Some sneerin say 'at tha'lot my brother, Maks me choose thee for mine; Well, let 'em sneer owd Neddy lad, Or laff at my selection, Who fail to see ther type i' thee Are void o' mich perception.-- Ther's things more stupid nor an ass, An things more badly treated, Tho' we ait beef, an' tha aits grass, May be we're just related.

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"Ther's nowt else at aw'd like, soa if yo cannot gie me that, it matters little to me what aw get; an' as for net spaikin weel for th' skooil, aw dooan't see that; Balaam's ass spake varry weel for him, an' aw dooan't see but what one mud spaik varry weel for th' taichers."

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'Tha's tow't me a lesson,' he sed, 'an' for th' futur, as long as iver aw can do for misen, aw'l niver seek onybody's ass istance.

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After it he ran an at last it flew into a ass-middin, an nah he felt sewer on it.

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He managed to crawl in, an in a minnit he wor up to his knees i' ass an puttaty pillins.

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"I'm an ass to do it, but I want to tell you."

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Can anybody with any rudiment of intellect feel otherwise in the social environment you and I inhabit--where distinction and inherited position count for absolutely nothing unless propped up by wealth--where any ass is tolerated whose fortune and lineage pass inspection--where there is no place for intelligence and talent, even when combined with breeding and lineage, unless you are properly ballasted with money enough to forget that you have any?"

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He's just a plain ass--an average ass--ownerless, and, like all asses, convinced that he can take care of himself.

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He said laughingly, not looking at her: "Oh, I wasn't ass enough to be deceived, Sylvia.

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He hesitated, then frankly awkward: "I say, Mallett, I'm a sort of an ass about these things.

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He said, very red in the face, but with a voice well modulated and even: "I think I've made a good deal of an ass of myself.

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In the rear room of each house were the stalls of the family ox and ass.

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