The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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_The Golden Ass of Apuleius; in English verse, entitled Cupid and Psyche_, by Hudson Gurney, 1799.]

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"The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation; And for the bass, the beast can only bellow-- In fact, he had no singing education, An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow; But being the prima donna's near relation, Who swore his voice was very rich and mellow, They hired him, though to hear him you'd believe An ass was practising recitative.

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As though they were in a mere Christian fair, Cheapening an ox, an ass, a lamb, or kid; So that their bargain sounded like a battle For this superior yoke of human cattle.

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'T is not their fault, nor mine, if this be so,-- For my part, I pretend not to be Cato, Nor even Diogenes.--We live and die, But which is best, _you_ know no more than I. V. Socrates said, our only knowledge was[366] "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each man of wisdom, future, past, or present.

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Juan, who had no shield to snatch, and was No Cæsar, but a fine young lad, who fought He knew not why, arriving at this pass, Stopped for a minute, as perhaps he ought For a much longer time; then, like an ass (Start not, kind reader, since great Homer[427] thought This simile enough for Ajax, Juan Perhaps may find it better than a new one); XXX.

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Then, like an ass, he went upon his way, And, what was stranger, never looked behind; But seeing, flashing forward, like the day Over the hills, a fire enough to blind Those who dislike to look upon a fray, He stumbled on, to try if he could find A path, to add his own slight arm and forces To corps, the greater part of which were corses.

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[427] ["As near a field of corn, a stubborn ass ... E'en so great Ajax son of Telamon."

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But these are few, and in the end they make Some devilish escapade or stir, which shows That even the purest people may mistake Their way through Virtue's primrose paths of snows; And then men stare, as if a new ass spake To Balaam, and from tongue to ear o'erflows Quicksilver small talk, ending (if you note it) With the kind World's Amen--"Who would have thought it?"

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'[11] [11: This was the occasion on which Mohammed visited the seven heavens under the care of Gabriel, riding on an ass so restive that he had to be bribed with a promise of Paradise.]

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Finally, the rumour ran that this prince had escaped and joined Jelálli, who, from his habitual prophet's mount, is better known throughout the country as Boo Hamára--"Father of the She-ass."

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Yet, notwithstanding the detailed accounts of battles and reverses--a collation of which shows the "Father of the She-ass" fighting in several places at once, captured or slain to-day and fighting to-morrow, and so on--the Government of Morocco was never in real danger from the "Rogi's" rising, and the ultimate issue was never in doubt.

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Owing to the depression of his shoulders--for he had no more withers than an ass--the way that he jerked down his head, and the suddenness of the stop, a monkey, although he had been holding on with his teeth, must have been unseated.

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They were engaged in prayer one day, when a peasant appeared with an ass, which he noisily drove before him into the poor shelter.

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The latter was stupefied on hearing Francis command the guilty one to eat a lump of ass's dung which lay there, adding: "The mouth which has distilled the venom of hatred against my brother must eat this excrement."

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Mounted upon an ass, he was going on his way, followed by Brother Leonard of Assisi, when a passing glance showed him what was passing in his companion's mind.

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But soon overcome by Francis's preaching, he took himself to task, distributed all his superfluity to the poor, and kept nothing but his house with a small garden and one ass.

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The knight had prepared a stable with straw, and brought an ox and an ass, whose breath seemed to give warmth to the poor _bambino_, benumbed with the cold.

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[6] They had been two days on the road when it became necessary to seek for an ass for Francis, who was too much enfeebled to go farther on foot.

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Nothing could check him, neither suffering nor the entreaties of the Brothers; seated on an ass he would sometimes go over three or four villages in one day.

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Did he sometimes think of the contrast between these honors offered to his body, which he picturesquely called Brother Ass, and the subversion of his ideal?

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The patriarch was a travelling tinker, who wheeled his wares about the country in a barrow; and then, rising in the world, attained the dignity of a hawker, with a cart of goods, drawn by a little gray ass.

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(Ben Jonson's _The Devil is an Ass_.)

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_Samias._ Nay, you are all mass and ass.

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Am I all ass?

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Thus we have such stage-directions as, 'Enter Ver, with his train, overlaid with suits of green moss, representing short grass, singing': 'Enter Harvest, with a scythe on his neck, and all his reapers with sickles, and a great black bowl with a posset in it, borne before him: they come in singing': 'Enter Bacchus, riding upon an ass trapped in ivy, himself dressed in vine leaves, and a garland of grapes on his head; his companions having all jacks in their hands, and ivy garlands on their heads; they come singing.'

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_Devil is an Ass, The_, 71.

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"Eh, lass!" he said, hauling her back by the string; "gin ye had but the tongue o' the prophet's ass, ye wad sune pint out the rascals that misguided and misgrugled ye that gait.

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He mind 't him o' Balaam's ass, Wi' a differ ye may ken: The Lord he open'd the ass's mou' The minister open'd 's ain.

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I will be at the other side of the ford, with the jewels hidden in a sack on an ass.

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Didst thou from service the wild ass discharge, And break his bonds, and bid him live at large, Through the wide waste, his ample mansion, roam, And lose himself in his unbounded home?

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32 Xenophon says, Cyrus had horses that could overtake the goat and the wild ass; but none that could reach this creature.

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He itched with love, and then did sing or say; The noise was such as all the nymphs did frown, And well suspected that some ass did bray.

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Stupid ass-s-s-s!

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It was rather too late in the day, when you had waded half-seas over in your translation, to find out either that you yourselves were ignoramuses, or that your principal was an ass.

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"Oh I suppose you're right, but--" "My dear ass, of course I am right.

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"Oh, I suppose you are right, but----" "My dear ass, of course I am right.

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My brother's a bit of an ass at times."

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"Well, he must be an ass then," said Mansell.

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"If the master is such an arrant ass as to let you crib, it is his own lookout; and, after all, we take the sporting chance."

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"And we shall have that silly ass Armour captain of the House."

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He'd mucked it up four times running, only the silly ass had done both the unseens with "the Bull" the week before, and he was too damned slack to alter them, and write them down wrong.

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He always was an ass, my brother."

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Damned ass, the man is."

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And to his dying day Gordon will maintain that they would have won but for that silly ass of an umpire, FitzMorris.

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"But, you silly ass, the fellow who ought to have brought it will get into the very Hades of a row."

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I have done the wrong stuff for that ass Jenks.

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Mansell protested: "Now don't be a damned ass, my good man; you don't know when you are well off.

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He is a most damnable ass, but his form is a glorious slack."

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"Because Simonds has made rather an ass of himself in the last two matches, Bull thinks the whole House is slack.

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Some silly ass put his bayonet through a carriage window.

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He had had hopes of some splendid row, and after all, it was only about a silly ass and a bayonet.

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He had looked "some ass."

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His domestic virtues, however, were sadly lost on Fernhurst, who looked on him as a general buffoon, a hopeless ass.

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"Look here, Caruthers," he said one evening, during hall, in the last half of the summer term, "I don't want to say anything; but you know you are making a most awful ass of yourself."

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"Oh, don't be a damned ass, Betteridge, preaching to me.

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Two minutes later he would emerge with a broad grin on his face, and murmur to whoever might be near that Claremont was "a most damnable ass, but none the less a pleasant creature."

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"What does the fool mean by making a little ass like Burgoyne captain?" complained Gordon.

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"Silly ass the man must be.

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And, my God, Caruthers, you did look an ass when you missed that catch."

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"Oh, don't be an ass.

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"That you are a sillier ass than I thought you were," said Davenport.

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You can't think how much more silly you look by playing the ruddy ass during the small hours inside a stinking booth!

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Don't be an ass.

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Gordon had always looked upon Rudd as a guileless ass who was no good at games, did nothing for the House, and was only useful as the universal provider of cribs.

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"Of course not, you ass!

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"Confounded old ass," said Mansell.

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Betteridge, you absurd ass, why did you print this thing?"

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Gordon was fifth in the House; and, good Lord, that amazing ass Rudd was a prefect, and second in the House!

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"But, damn it all, Rudd, if you are such a weak-kneed ass as to be ragged by a fool like Stockbrew, you jolly well oughtn't to be head of the House.

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But I am jolly well not going to be made an ass of by Rudd.

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Why, make Rudd look a bigger ass than we.

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We will just tap him; the crowd will roar with laughter; it will be damned amusing, and Rudd will look a most sanguinary ass."

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We couldn't wreck like that again; and, what's more, we shouldn't let an ass like Bray make so many runs again.

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What an ass the man was, thought Gordon.

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R. Blossom, Ass'e, Matteawan, N. Y.

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But where a vowel is followed by two consonants, one of which is unheard or only heard slightly, as in _acc_use, sh_all_, _ass_emble, _diss_emble, kind_ness_, com_pass_, _aff_ect, _app_ear, _ann_oy, or when the second or third consonant is a liquid, as in _betray_, _beslime_, _besmear_, _depress_, _dethrone_, _agree_, the vowel preceding is so much more short than long as to be regularly admissible as short, rarely admissible as long.

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"The fellow is a consummate ass," the man on Gregory's left whispered.

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"I am sure everyone in the regiment would be glad, for he is an insufferable ass.

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But, as he said to himself, he need not mind them, as the fellow's own comrades regarded him, as one of them said, as "an insufferable ass."

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I know all about it, because there was a howling young ass in the regiment from which I exchanged.

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ass-eoir, _to sit down_;-eyez,-eyons, _sit down_;-is,-irent,-it, _seated_.

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I even think I ran up and down the room and pretty well made what Percival Benson would call "a bally ass" of myself.

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Some there are who have turned the saints into pagan gods; some who have measured purgatory into years and days and cheat themselves with indulgences against it; some theologians who spend all their time discussing such absurdities as whether God could have redeemed men in the form of a woman, a devil, an ass, a squash or a stone, others who explain the mystery of the Trinity.

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Among other expressions used by Calvin, the public prosecutor, were these: that he regarded Servetus's defence as no better than the braying of an ass, and that the prisoner was like a villainous cur wiping his muzzle.

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To depict the pope or Luther or the Huguenots in their true form their enemies drew them with claws and hoofs and ass's heads, and devil's tails, drinking and blaspheming.

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That ass of a Kitty Mallison.

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"My duty is a most painful one," said the Pelican; "for" ("whereas," said the Swallow) "the prisoner known" ("named and described," added the Swallow), "as Dot is now before you," ("to be tried, heard, determined and adjudged," gabbled the Swallow) "on a charge of cruelty" ("and feloniously killing and slaying," prompted the Swallow) "to birds and animals," ("the term not applying to horse, mare, pony, bull, ox, dog, cat, heifer, steer, calf, mule, ass, sheep, lamb, hog, pig, sow, goat, or other domestic animal," interposed in one breath the Swallow, quoting the Cruelty to Animals Act) "she is" ("hereby," put in the Swallow) "brought to trial on" ("divers," whispered the Swallow) "charges," ("hereinafter," said the Swallow) "to be named and described by the" ("aforesaid," interjected the Swallow) "birds and animals," ("hereinbefore mentioned," stated the Swallow) "the said animals being denizens of the Bush" ("and in no wise relating to horse, mare, pony, bull, ox,"--began the Swallow again, when the Cockatoo raised his crest, and screamed out "STOP THAT, I TELL YOU!" and the Pelican continued stating the charge.)

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The ox and ass are close at hand, and Jesus lies in jewelled robes on straw within the manger.

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Some of the misereres of the stalls still bear portraits of the shepherd thief, and of the ox and ass who blinked so blindly when the kings, by torchlight, brought their dazzling gifts.

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The ox and ass are close at hand, and Jesus lies in jewelled robes on straw within the manger.

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Some of the misereres of the stalls still bear portraits of the shepherd thief, and of the ox and ass who blinked so blindly when the kings, by torchlight, brought their dazzling gifts.

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Wall painting 4 Vignette on Papyrus 5 Enamelled Brick, Nimroud 6 " " Khorsabad 7 Wild Ass.

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7.--WILD ASS.

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If they were not able to skin a flint, they knew well what was meant by "skinning a flayed dog," and "shearing an ass."

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These and similar sayings, being of a simple character, may have been due to the same thought occurring to different minds, and this may be the case even where there is more point; thus, "an ass laden with gold will get into the strongest fortress," has been attributed to Frederick the Great and to Napoleon, and may have been due to both.

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We have read of two eminent comic writers in classical times dying of laughter at seeing an ass eat figs.

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"He would have eaten squab pie in Devonshire, and the pie which is squabber than squab in Cornwall; sheep's-head with the hair on in Scotland, and potatoes roasted on the hearth in Ireland, frogs with the French, pickled-herrings with the Dutch, sour-krout with the Germans, maccaroni with the Italians, aniseed with the Spaniards, garlic with anybody, horse-flesh with the Tartars, ass-flesh with the Persians, dogs with the North-Western American Indians, curry with the Asiatic East Indians, bird's-nests with the Chinese, mutton roasted with honey with the Turks, pismire cakes on the Orinoco, and turtle and venison with the Lord Mayor, and the turtle and venison he would have preferred to all the other dishes, because his taste, though Catholic, was not undiscriminating."

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We consider that to call a man an ass is a reproach, but in the East in bewailing a lost friend they frequently exclaim, "Alas, my jackass!" for they do not associate the animal with stupidity, but with patience and usefulness.

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Thus, also, to call a man an ass would not win a smile from most of us, but we relax a little when the writers in a high church periodical, addicted to attacking Mr. Spurgeon, upon being accused of being actuated by envy, retort that they know the commandment--"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's ass."

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