The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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What an ass he was, he savagely thought, to exhibit himself before her in an attempt like that, without sufficient preparation!

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Now she mounts her dappled ass-- He well-pleased such friend to know-- And right merrily they pass The armorial château; Down the long, straight paths they tread Till the forest, overhead, Whispers low its leafy love; In the archways' green caress Rides the wondrous dryadess-- Thrills the grass beneath her press, And the blue-eyed sky above.

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They stripped him naked and scourged him, defiled his beard, mounted him face backwards on an ass, and paraded him through the streets and bazaars with the utmost cruelty, to the sound of drums, trumpets, guitars, and tambourines.

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He says March ought to have known better than to obey a verbal order when the thing was so serious, and that he was something worse than an ass to mistake a stranger for Johnson, the orderly, whose face March knew almost as well as his own.

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"'I may be an ass, but I'm not a _silly_ ass,'" quoted Tony.

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Doth he not ride upon as ass, while on his head there is a crown of thorns and he is despised?"

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The desert-dust hath dimmed it, the flying wild-ass knows, The scared white leopard winds it across the taintless snows.

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As for myself, there are two moments; one when I think I would not miss the show for millions; another when I think "what an ass I am to be here"; and between these two moments there _is_ a border land when the mind runs all about Life's workshop and tries to do one last bit of stock-taking.

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Whizz--flop--bang--what an ass I am to be here.

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have let the stock run out, because some ass has forgotten to order them in advance.

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Now, I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent To say another is an ass--at least, to all intent; Nor should the individual who happens to be meant Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent.

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"He's also an ass," said Leighton.

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"An ass of the large gray and long-eared species,--I'll grant you that, all right enough; but look here, old man, you've got to overlook the fact that a fellow occasionally lifts his voice and brays.

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I'm thinking some man may be ass enough to say you got a blow without resenting--" Blakely smiled, a contorted and disunited smile, perhaps, and one much trammeled by adhesive plaster.

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Another draws the drunken Bacchus, surrounded by wild women, with old Silenus, half falling from an ass, who would have fallen were he not held up by a satyr who carries a leathern bottle.

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Suddenly a man in foreign garments: wonderfully real and distinct to look at: stood outside the window, with an axe stuck in his belt, and leading by the bridle an ass laden with wood.

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The brisk fire of questioning to which he was exposed elicited from him that he was thinking of an animal, a live animal, rather a disagreeable animal, a savage animal, an animal that growled and grunted sometimes, and talked sometimes, and lived in London, and walked about the streets, and wasn't made a show of, and wasn't led by anybody, and didn't live in a menagerie, and was never killed in a market, and was not a horse, or an ass, or a cow, or a bull, or a tiger, or a dog, or a pig, or a cat, or a bear.

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You wouldn't write me down as altogether a sentimental ass, would you?"

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"What a double distilled ass I nearly made of myself!" he muttered.

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"What an ass I was not to take more care of it!"

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"What an ass I must have seemed, asking that old Johnny for a pardon."

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"Your father and I, and your grandfather Hayle, and this gentleman here----" "Ya-ass, ya-ass!" drawled the nurse in worshipping reminiscence, and Ramsey laughed to Hugh, and all the while the captain persisted: "We've built and owned rival boats----" "Fawty yeah'!" murmured the nurse.

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The man cast a pleading look on the twins, but when Lucian granted him only a withering smile, and Julian with his cane in his folded arms said majestically, "Go, you hopeless ass," he went--with haste.

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"Mr. Hayle," he said, "you don't want to be another 'hopeless ass,' do you?"

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This is a leguminous plant, called also "Ground Furze," which is a favourite food of the donkey, and therefore gets its botanical title from the Greek word _onos_, an ass.

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What is Captain MacWhirr, hero or simply ass?

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Phelps cites, in particular, an ass named Professor Richardson, whose "American Literature," it appears, "is still a standard work" and "a deservedly high authority"--apparently in colleges.

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Beside, the typical American critic of those days was not Poe, but his arch-enemy, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, that almost fabulous ass--a Baptist preacher turned taster of the beautiful.

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He was a bit of an ass----" "He was nothing of the kind," Ethel cried indignantly.

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In dear old France, the Huns advance With bullet, bomb and gas, Jean, It's hardly square that you're not there; (Hank Bourassa's an ass, Jean.)

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In that case you will probably tell your wife that Smith has shown himself to be an insufferable ass, and that you have decided to cut his acquaintance.

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"There are, O Grandson of the Wild Ass.

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Afterwards the Government asserted that this official had warned me, and the utterances of an empty-headed ass dressed in a little brief authority, as the English poet says, were looked upon as the epitome of wisdom.

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But a trap most carefully set may be prematurely sprung by inadvertence, or more often by the over-zeal of some stupid ass who fails to understand his instructions, or oversteps them if they are understood.

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He had read the Bible in a German mission school, and spoke of 'Billiam's donkey' and 'the mighty Simson' where we should speak of Balaam's ass and Samson.

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To see him riding on an ass hung round with cooking tins, at the head of the procession of the beasts of burden, suggested to the uninformed spectator that those beasts of burden and their loads had all been stolen.

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FOOTNOTES: [31] The domestic ass.

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'Your dull ass will never mend his pace with beating.'

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Now, strictly speaking, in order to hallucinate honestly, your opium-writer ought to have had some practical knowledge of opium-eating: then could he descant with the authority of experience--yea, though he write himself thereby down an ass--on its effects upon mind and body; then could he tell of luxuries and torments in true Frenchified detail; then could he expound its pains and pleasures with all the eloquence of personal conviction.

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It would be bad for business, a jury would never convict, and---- SLADDER: I didn't say they would; but if some interfering ass were to write to the papers to say that Cheezo wasn't made from milk, we should have to go to the expense of buying a dozen cows, and photographing them, and one thing and another.

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Not a horse nor a mule nor an ass was in its stall.

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B. I like the voice of man, not the braying of an ass.

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or whatever thou art, thou stolid ass!"

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But it is observable that so long as the church, in true imitation of Christ, can be content to ride upon an ass, carrying herself and her government along in a mean and simple guise, she may be as she is a Lion of the tribe of Judah; and in her humility all men, with loud hosannas, will confess her greatness.

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But when, despising the mighty operation of the Spirit by the weak things of this world, she thinks to make herself bigger and more considerable, by using the way of civil force and jurisdiction, as she sits upon this Lion she changes into an ass, and instead of hosannas, every man pelts her with stones and dirt.

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The author claims that the patriarchal history is made up of little scraps of poetry; the fall of our first parents was their seeing a dark veil one day in their wandering, and they, in consequence thereof, went out of the pleasant place where they had been dwelling; the deluge was simply a metaphorical description of the increase of evil among men; the ark was only a mystical vessel typifying faith, truth, and other correctives of sorrow and sin; "there never was a single man Noah, who put all those creatures into a boat and saved himself;" no sacrifice appeared to Abraham when about to offer Isaac, but "his lifted arm seems to be seized as by the hand of an angel;" the crossing of the Red Sea by Israel, and the destruction of Pharaoh and his host, were the natural results of tide and storm; the bitter waters were sweetened by a friendly weed that grew close at hand; the speaking of Balaam's ass was only the twirling of his long ears and loud braying; and the walls of Jericho fell merely by the natural force of loud, fearless, and honest speaking,--just as West India Slavery tumbled down by the agency of the noble voices that thundered, trumpet-like, in righteous indignation against it.

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[Illustration: 41.jpg SHE-ASS AND HER FOAL.]

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In one very ancient form of the Egyptian legend, the sun is represented by a wild ass running round the world along the sides of the mountains that uphold the sky, and the serpent which attacks it is called _Haiû_.

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* The colour of his hair was compared with that of a red- haired ass, and on that account the ass was sacred to him.

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That doddering ass!

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"Oh, put that thing up, you ass!" said Garman disgustedly.

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"And I don't forget that he went aboard the _Crested Foam_ blind drunk, and made an ass of himself generally!" said Bruce, rousing again.

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And certainly a girl like Nita Selim would have been able to bear precious little of it.... Conceited ass!

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"I'm not such an ass as that!

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And you hold yours, as much as you can; for, though you think you're pretty clever, you'd make a silly kind of ass in a witness-box."

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"I fear I am an ass where women's affairs are concerned," he said.

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As you know, I was ass enough to dread arriving in Paris.

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Ass again!

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I enact the "heavy father" even more ostentatiously than if I weren't ass enough to prefer a rôle for which time and our relationship have unfitted me.

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What Browning felt about frescoes may be applied--_mutatis mutandis_--to books in such an asylum as I am trying to portray: Wherever a fresco peels and drops, Wherever an outline weakens and wanes Till the latest life in the painting stops, Stands One whom each fainter pulse-tick pains: One, wishful each scrap should clutch the brick, Each tinge not wholly escape the plaster, A lion who dies of an ass's kick, The wronged great soul of an ancient Master.

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The stags stopped and gazed at us stupidly, without taking to flight, then began to utter cries which sounded wonderfully like the braying of an ass; upon which Uncle Jeff lifted his unerring rifle and brought one of them down, when the rest, taking fright, scampered off.

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[Footnote 66: We have a similar series of transformations (mouse, cat, dog, ass, buffalo) in the story of Noor Ed-Deen and Shes Ed-Deen in the _Thousand and One Nights_.]

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Ark, ass entering, ii.

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Ass and Devil, ii.

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Iblees (Satan), entering ark with ass, ii.

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"No fellow would be ass enough to advertise himself like that in earnest.

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"And I don't see why you should call the advertiser in my paper an ass.

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"But, as a matter of fact, the 'ass' as you call him, _is_ my friend, a very intimate friend indeed."

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He learned to speak Italian as easily as he learned to walk, and he could pour out liquid line after line of old Italian poetry, if he had not all a British male's self-conscious fear of making an ass of himself.

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For the same reason, a mysterious book of Apuleius, in which an ass figures largely, was called "The Golden Ass."

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The Pagans accused the Christians of worshipping an ass, and they did not invent this reproach, but it came from the Samaritan Jews, who, figuring the data of the Kabalah in regard to the Divinity by Egyptian symbols, also represented the Intelligence by the figure of the Magical Star adored under the name of _Remphan_, Science under the emblem of Anubis, whose name they changed to _Nibbas_, and the vulgar faith or credulity under the figure of _Thartac_, a god represented with a book, a cloak, and the head of an ass.

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Apuleius represents Lucius, while still in the form of an ass, as addressing his prayers to Isis, whom he speaks of as the same as Ceres, Venus, Diana, and Proserpine, and as illuminating the walls of many cities simultaneously with her feminine lustre, and substituting her quivering light for the bright rays of the Sun.

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In Egypt the Scorpion first ruled, the sign next the Balance, and long the chief of the Winter signs; and then the Polar Bear or Ass, called Typhon, that is, _deluge_, on account of the rains which inundated the earth while that constellation domineered.

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Cancer, in which are the stars termed _Aselli_, or little assess, is the device of the flag of _Issachar_, whom Jacob compares to an ass.

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He then completed his triumph, mounted on an ass, in the constellation Cancer, which then occupied the Solstitial point of Summer.

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Ashlar, perfect, connected with the double cube of Perfection, 503-m. Ashlar, perfect, typifies the State, 5-m. Ashlar, rough, changed in form from triangular to cubic, 787-m. Ashlar, rough, to be prepared for the work, is a shapeless stone, 787-m. Ashlar, rough, typifies People rude and unorganized, 5-m. Asp, dedicated to Isis, worn on her head and on others', 501-m. Ass, Christians accused of worshipping an; origin of, 103-u.

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Golden calf of Aaron was one of the oxen under the bronze laver, 818-l. Golden Fleece of Aries guarded by a serpent, 498-m. "Golden Numbers," "golden verse," "golden Ass", 103-u.

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Issachar, compared to an ass, has for a device Cancer, 461-l. Ivy over East window of old churches is the Hedera Helix of Bakchos, 483-m. Izeds, created by Ormuzd, offices of the twenty-eight, 257-u.

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Salt represented by the Hermetics under the form of a cubical stone, 775-l. Salt represents to Hermeticists Absolute Matter, regenerated by Azoth, 778-m. Salt, with the Hermetics, corresponds with the Earth, 773-l. Salutary number is six, contains the source of our happiness, 628-m. Samaneans, a Society of Buddhist Prophets, belief of, 277-l. Samaritan invented the accusation of Christians worshipping an ass, 103-u.

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Thartae, a god with the head of an ass, Christianity said to be the reign of, 103-u.

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"Of course you've made an ass of yourself, Edgington," said Mr. Brassfield, "but you've gone through with it consistently, and it's all right.

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One chronicler relates that he saw a house exchanged for an ass and a vineyard for a suit of clothes.

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My voice sounded rather harsh and peculiar on this occasion, and was more like the bray of an ass than anything else, but they made no motion as if they heard me, or were aware of my existence.

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"An Ass.--'And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee that thou hast smitten me these three times?'

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He turned and went home, where he saddled the thin ass and hung across its back two large panniers.

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He was comforting himself with the hope of soon finding himself at the feet of the beautiful Princess of Cashmere, when he met a fine striped ass, which a vigorous peasant was beating violently with a stick.

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There is nothing rarer, swifter, or more beautiful than an ass of this kind.

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Rustem was growing desperate, when he met a camel-driver, who said to him: "You have a very stubborn ass there, master, which insists on carrying you where you do not want to go.

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I was the eagle which struggled with the vulture, and which the vulture plucked; I was the elephant which made off with your baggage to compel you to return home; I was the striped ass which would fain have carried you back to your father; it was I who led your horses astray, who produced the torrent which you could not cross, who raised the mountain which checked your unlucky advance; I was the physician who advised your return to your native air, and the magpie which urged you not to fight."

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Is it not true that you became in turn an eagle, an elephant, an ass, a doctor, and a magpie, to protect me from ill?"

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"I am after breaking my heart riding this ass of a horse; but will you give me the limping white garron for him?"

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When Miss Farnham had gone in and there was nothing left for him to do but to compass his own disappearance, Broffin went away, telling himself with many embellishments that for once in his professional career he had made an ass of himself.

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If awd to live life o'er ageean, Awd think misen an ass, If aw didn't tak for company, A bonny Yorksher lass.

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They may call me a fooil or a ass, To tawk abaat wantin a wife; But there's nowt like a true hearted lass, To sweeten a workinman's life.

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And when I still hung back--"Don't be an ass, Bertie.

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"My dear Zaidie, it has been my fate to have many friends who have had honeymoons on earth, and some of their experience seems to be that the man who contradicts his wife during the first six weeks of matrimony simply makes an ass of himself.

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