The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Montbleru took them to the principal church in Antwerp, where there is a God on an ass (*).

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Then he showed them God mounted on an ass, and added, "You will never fail to find Him here at whatever hour you come."

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***** STORY THE SEVENTY-NINTH -- THE LOST ASS FOUND.

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_Of a good man of Bourbonnais who went to seek the advice of a wise man of that place about an ass that he had lost, and how he believed that he miraculously recovered the said ass, as you will hear hereafter._ In the fair land of Bourbonnais, where many good professions are carried on, there lived, not long ago, a doctor of God knows what sort, for never Hippocrates or Galen practised the science as he did.

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_Of a young German girl, aged fifteen or sixteen or thereabouts who was married to a gentle gallant, and who complained that her husband had too small an organ for her liking, because she had seen a young ass of only six months old which had a bigger instrument than her husband, who was 24 or 26 years old._ I have heard it related as true by two noble lords worthy of faith and belief, that in the borders of Germany there lived a young girl, who at the age of about 15 or 16 years was married to a worthy gentleman, who did his best to satisfy the demands which, without saying a word, all girls of that age and condition earnestly ask for.

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"There is a little ass in the house, hardly half a year old, and who has an instrument as big, as thick, and as long as your arm,"--and so saying she held her arm by the elbow and shook it up and down--"and my husband, who is quite 24 years old has but that little bit he has shown you.

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"I'm glad Tom stopped me from making an ass of myself.

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He did not see himself as he was, or he would have seen both Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in one, now riding a black Andalusian stallion, now driving an ass before him.

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He was as mysterious as Borrow himself, and being asked why he was taking this particular road, he answered: "It is an affair of Egypt, brother, and I shall not acquaint you with it; peradventure it relates to a horse or an ass, or peradventure it relates to a mule or a _macho_; it does not relate to yourself, therefore I advise you not to inquire about it--_Dosta_..." He carried a loadstone in his bosom and swallowed some of the dust of it, and it served both for passport and for prayers.

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When he had to leave Borrow he sold him a savage and vicious she ass, recommending her for the same reason as he bought her, because "a savage and vicious beast has generally four excellent legs."

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When he discovered that he was furious with himself, for having been all imaginable kinds of an ass, he perceived that he had done the wisest thing he could in leaving the man to himself, and taking up the line of his journey again.

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Wasn't he a dreadful bore, a blithering ass, after all?

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"Don't be an ass."

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I was the only one who cried, curse me for a silly ass.

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Perfect ass sometimes, you see."

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"If you are afraid of what people will say about it, then all I have to say is that you are worse than a coward: you are a stupid ass.

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647-649.--Concerning the holding in Minnesota Ass'n.

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Co., 243 U.S. 415 (1917), 702 California _v._ Southern Pacific Co., 157 U.S. 229 (1895), 596, 597, 612 California _v._ Thompson, 313 U.S. 109 (1941), 177, 196, 218, 219, 228 California _v._ United States, 320 U.S. 577 (1944), 130 California _v._ Zook, 336 U.S. 725 (1949), 250 California Auto Ass'n.

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533 (1869), 108, 266, 310, 319 Veix _v._ Sixth Ward Building & Loan Ass'n.

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Now any one may be so in practice: but a man who is simply individualistic in theory must merely be an ass.

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"After all, that man is an ass," said Erle.

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What an impudent ass he must be!"

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He may be an ass and yet not impudent, or impudent and yet not an ass.

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Don't you be an ass."

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A good deal may be done in dispute by calling a man an ass or a knave,-but the resolve to use the words should have been made only at the moment, and they should come hot from the heart.

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That evening Mr. Bonteen was singled out by the Duchess for her special attention, and in the presence of all who were there assembled he made himself an ass.

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I bought a horse the other day; my daughter wanted something to look pretty, and like an old ass as I am I gave a hundred and fifty pounds for the brute.

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"Exactly;-though I think he was an addle-pated old ass not to see the thing more clearly.

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Do you seriously suppose I should be such a tenfold ass as to offer the management of my estate to a man I couldn't trust?"

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"Which is Ernestine?" asked another member, generally known at the club as "that ass Bray."

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Miss Quigley is an ass; but we are made to sympathise entirely with the ass, because of that morsel of pathos as to her mother's letters.

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Fetter'd by choice, like Burnell's ass, I ponder-- The flesh on this side, and the spirit yonder.

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Here and there, dotted about the hillsides, the tiny white-washed cabins were full of life; the cocks crowed proudly as they strutted in and out among their plump, sleek wives; the useful ass brayed loudly, roaming about field and lane in enjoyment of a leisure hour; the men were in the fields, cutting the sweet-scented grass, and the women busied themselves about the midday meal, while babies, with dirty faces and naked feet, tumbled about among the wandering pigs and quacking ducks in blissful content.

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"I had leave for a month once; and like an ass I prepared to spend it in a hunting-trip among the Everglades."

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"I saw that I must have made the same sort of an ass of myself that most boys of eighteen do.

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'Pythagoras must have been an ass, but I do believe there are plenty of asses alive to-day who swallow that sort of thing.'

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Then comes the flight into Egypt, with Mary on an ass led by Joseph, the infant Christ in her arms.

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The triumphal entry into Jerusalem is represented by a crowd of schoolchildren waving palm-branches and singing hosannahs round Jesus mounted on an ass.

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And he called the man who said he had seen the spots, an impostor, a blasphemer, a _scavenger_, an ass, a foreigner, and a number of other strange names.

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Every sheep that bleats, every ox that lows, every ass that brays, every bird that sings, and every goose that gabbles, is more of a sage, if not more of a saint, than the great preachers!

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I was ass enough to try that once," said Preston, "when I was just come, and thought I must do everything; but if anybody wants to insult me, let him just ask me to do it again!"

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Balaam's is n't the only ass whose mouth the Lord in his inscrutable wisdom has seen fit to open."

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"I know a triple-expansion ass not a hundred miles from here; so fire away."

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Ventnor, where, as you will perceive we are, is, I will not say built upon hills, but emptied into the cracks and clefts of rocks so that the geography of the town is curious and involved... My brother is intent upon "The Three Midshipmen" or "The Three Admirals" or the three coal-scuttles or some other distinguished trio by that interminable ass Kingston.

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Talking to him you would say: he is an ass, but an agreeable ass, a humble, transparent honourable ass.

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"Well, if you are not the greatest ass in Christendom, then I am--and no doubt about it," said Siegfried, vexed.

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They were right, and I had been an ass and a coxcomb.

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"'Oh, devil take me for a blundering ass!"

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"Don't be an ass, old fellow.

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Now when Octavianus had sent out a commandment as it is aforesaid, then went Joseph and Mary riding on an ass, late in the eventide, toward the city of Bethlehem, and because they came so late, and all places were occupied with pilgrims and other men, and also because they came in poor array and went about the city, none would receive them, and specially, men say, because that Mary, a young woman, sitting upon an ass, heavy and sorry, and full weary of the way, was near to the time of bearing of her child.

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But, particularly and specifically, he damned the young ass who dared to flaunt his feelings and opinions after smiling in his face at his house, for days and weeks and months.

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When the holy men were asleep of nights, on their bed of dry leaves, the Nymphs would steal up and pull their beards, while the young Fauns, slipping into their stable, would pluck out hairs from their she-ass's tail.

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She clipped him in her arms, called him her heavenly Adonis, her darling, her little white ass, and lavished a thousand ardent caresses on him.

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what was written in one sense, you read in another; you are less like a Doctor at his desk than an ass at the manger.

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[Footnote 8: The speech of Balaam's ass or of Balaam, of Achilles and his horses are, of course, necessary conventions of the poet's and do not imply that words passed between the parties.]

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An Ass congratulated a Horse on being so ungrudgingly and carefully provided for, while he himself had scarcely enough to eat, nor even that without hard work.

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The Playful Ass.

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An Ass climbed up to the roof of a building, and, frisking about there, broke in the tiling.

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A Horse, proud of his fine trappings, met an Ass on the highway.

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An Ass was loaded with good provisions of several sorts, which, in time of harvest, he was carrying into the field for his master and the reapers to dine upon.

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A man wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner that he should try him before he bought him.

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A Man once kept a Goat and an Ass.

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An Ass and a Cock were together, when a Lion, desperate from hunger, approached.

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An Ass, being driven along the high road, suddenly started off, and bolted to the brink of a deep precipice.

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A little scoundrel of an Ass, happening to meet with a Boar, had a mind to be arch upon him, and so, says he: "Your humble servant."

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The Horse fell down straightway under the weight, no longer equal to the burden, and said to his master: "You must now e'en go to the war on foot, for you have transformed me from a Horse into an Ass."

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An Ass once carried through the streets of the city a famous wooden Image, to be placed in one of its temples.

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it is not yet come to this, that men pay worship to an Ass."

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A man had an Ass and a Maltese Lap-dog, a very great beauty.

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The Ass was left in a stable, and had plenty of oats and hay to eat, just as any other Ass would.

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An Ass, feeding in a meadow, saw a Wolf approaching to seize him, and immediately pretended to be lame.

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A traveler hired an Ass to convey him to a distant place.

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The Horse and the Loaded Ass.

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An idle Horse, and an Ass laboring under a heavy burden, were traveling the road together.

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The Horse was ill-natured and refused to do it; upon which the poor Ass tumbled down in the midst of the highway, and expired.

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An Ass, having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived on, to give them such beautiful voices.

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An Ass, having put on the Lion's skin, roamed about in the forest, and amused himself by frightening all the foolish animals he met with in his wanderings.

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The Sensible Ass.

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A Lion and an Ass made an agreement to go out hunting together.

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"Yes, indeed," said the Lion; "and I assure you, you would have frightened me too, if I had not known you to be an Ass."

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"Pray, honest friend," said a townsman, "is that Ass your own?"

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On the next day, being driven a long journey, and feeling very weary, he exclaimed in a disconsolate tone: "I must have made a mistake; my father, after all, could have been only an ass."

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A certain Huckster who kept an Ass, hearing that Salt was to be had cheap at the sea-side, drove down his Ass thither to buy some.

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The Wild Ass and the Lion.

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A Wild Ass and a Lion entered into an alliance that they might capture the beasts of the forest with the greater ease.

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The Lion agreed to assist the Wild Ass with strength, while the Wild Ass gave the Lion the benefit of his greater speed.

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23:4): "If thou meet thy enemy's ass going astray, bring it back to him."

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But it is not left to his discretion to permit an injury to be done to another's good name, hence he is accounted guilty if he fails to resist when he can, for the same reason whereby a man is bound to raise another man's ass lying "underneath his burden," as commanded in Deut.

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For this could have an evil result if, as indeed happened, he were to be met by some animal which it would be unlawful to sacrifice, such as an ass or a human being.

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Nevertheless if the patriarchs of old had perfection of mind together with wealth and marriage, which is a mark of the greatness of their virtue, this is no reason why any weaker person should presume to have such great virtue that he can attain to perfection though rich and married; as neither does a man unarmed presume to attack his enemy, because Samson slew many foes with the jaw-bone of an ass.

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And yet it is not necessary for the precepts first of all to be observed without the counsels, and afterwards with the counsels, just as it is not necessary for one to be an ass before being a man, or married before being a virgin.

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21:33, 34): "If a man open a pit... and an ox or an ass fall into it, the owner of the pit shall pay the price of the beasts."

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"I'd be a wonderful ass not to take advantage of Judge Nickols Powers' brain and money, plus Gregory Goodloe's brain and training and money combined, to get a result that will be worth a hundred thousand dollars to me and all the fame I can conveniently wear.

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I can't say that it puzzles me at all, If all things be considered: first, there was His lady-mother, mathematical, A----never mind;--his tutor, an old ass; A pretty woman--(that's quite natural, Or else the thing had hardly come to pass) A husband rather old, not much in unity With his young wife--a time, and opportunity.

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