The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Now the jealous Ass got it into his silly head that all he had to do to win his Master's favor was to act like the Dog.

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But his weight upset the chair, and Ass and man rolled over together in the pile of broken dishes from the table.

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Even a contemptible Ass let fly his heels and brayed his insults in the face of the Lion.

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It was enough to hang anyone for, much more an Ass.

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[Pg 102] THE ASS AND ITS SHADOW A Traveler had hired an Ass to carry him to a distant part of the country.

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THE MILLER, HIS SON, AND THE ASS One day, a long time ago, an old Miller and his Son were on their way to market with an Ass which they hoped to sell.

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THE LION, THE ASS, AND THE FOX A Lion, an Ass, and a Fox were hunting in company, and caught a large quantity of game.

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THE ASS IN THE LION'S SKIN An Ass found a Lion's skin left in the forest by a hunter.

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Lord Stormont at school began his knack of oral imitations, and when a child, could speak quite as well as afterwards; after his uncle, the disgusting pronunciation of the letter o then too infected his language; he made it come to the ear like an a. Humorously glancing at this affectation, Onslow or Stanhope said "Murray's horse is an ass."

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'Tis now so huge, that he must be an ass Who thinks it ever can be clear'd away: And the time's quickly coming, to be candid, When funded men will swallow up the landed.

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'We shall yet see an ass mount a ladder,'[1] exclaimed Caleb, with uplifted eyes of wonder.

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Open thy gates, and thou and thy people shall have that mercy which they have never shown; but if thou delayest one instant, thus saith the King our master, "I will burst open your portal, and smite, and utterly destroy all that you have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass."'

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Alroy was placed upon an ass with his back to its head.

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[Footnote 1: page 4.--_We shall yet see an ass mount a ladder_.--Hebrew proverb.]

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Is there a more contemptible, a more ludicrous, absolutely ludicrous ass than myself?

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so Fatty he drove up as fur as ass brook and then Beany he drove as fur as the old brick meeting house and then i drove as fur as the hall place where Jethrow lives.

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My boy's an ass."

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Don't grin at me and keep chuckling like an utter ass.

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"I've made a great ass of myself," growled poor Phil.

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The idea of your coming up there among those fellows and making such an ass of yourself--" "The asinine part of this evening's performance belongs to you and your friends, not to me," broke in Felix, hotly,--Phil's tone was _so_ insolent.

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Small of stature, almost dwarfish in size, emaciated by rigid austerities, angular and ungainly in form, clad in a woollen tunic over which he wore a serge cloak that came down to his heels, his head and feet bare, and mounted on an ass that seemed to have practised the same austerities as its master, this singular person rode up and down the land, rousing everywhere as he went the wildest enthusiasm.

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"You ass," said Lambert; "why can't you be like other people?

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But though the Gothic host was approaching with its threatening towers close to the walls, Belisarius would not give the signal, and not a _Balista_, nor a Wild Ass was allowed to hurl its missiles against the foe.

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Then the signal to shoot was given to the soldiers, and hundreds of bolts from Wild Ass and _Balista_ were hurtling through the air, aimed not at Gothic soldiers, but at the luckless oxen that drew the ponderous towers.

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The gentleman on your right hand, Mr. Mullins, who is chiefly remarkable for looking ['like a fool,' put in Coleman, _sotto voce_], before he leaps, so long, that in general he postpones leaping altogether, and is in the habit of making ['an ass of himself,' suggested Coleman]--really, Freddy, I am surprised at you--of making two bites at a cherry--you will be better able to appreciate when you know more of him.

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A pause ensued, during which the whole affair in its true bearings became for the first time clear to my mind's eye; the result of my cogitations may be gathered from the following remark, which escaped me as it were involuntarily--"What a confounded ass I have made of myself, _to be sure_!"

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~32~~"Smithey was in great force to-night," observed Lawless, as the door closed behind him--"nicely they are bleeding that young ass Robarts among them--he has got into good hands to help him to get rid of his money, at all events.

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what an ass you are, to be sure!-- 'Fair clime, whose every season smiles Benignant o'er those blessed isles'-- blessed isles, indeed; what stuff!-- ''Tis Greece, but living Greece no more;' that would do for a motto for the barbers to stick on their pots of bear's grease!-- 'Clime of the unforgotten brave;' _unforgotten_!

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By the way, what an interesting virtue patience is; it is a curious fact in Natural History that some of the lower animals share it with us; for instance, there's nothing so patient as a jack-ass----" "Except a pig," put in Mullins; "they're uncommon--" "Obstinate," suggested Coleman.

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What an ass I was to come here!

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O that he were here to write me down an ass!

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but, 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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To descend to particulars.--Hostilities were commenced by that old ass, Mayor Dullmug, who took out a summons against me for creating a riot and disturbance in the town, and the first day the bench sat I was marched off by two policemen, and locked up in a little dirty room, to keep cool till their worships were ready to discuss me.

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"I wrote a few days since to Lawless, asking him to come down for a week's hunting before the season should be over; and this morning I received the following characteristic answer: 'Dear Oaklands, a man who refuses a good offer is an ass (unless he happens to have had a better one).

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Now, yours being the best offer down in my book ~312~~ at present, I say, "done, along with you, old fellow," thereby clearly proving that I am no ass.

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"I have, under a most precious one," continued Lawless--"regularly put my foot in it--made a complete ass of myself--eh!

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Nobody but such a thickheaded ass as I am would have gone on all this time without seeing how the game stood.

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I've been an awful ass.

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He threw down his pen, and called himself an ass for wasting his time on what nobody would ever look at.

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Was it possible he could have made such an ass of himself?

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"Don't be an ass!" roared Lancelot.

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He was not such a conceited ass as to believe he must necessarily succeed in the crowded ranks of the professions, for none of which had he any particular bent, while he had, he added, with a certain manliness and doggedness for a pacific fellow like Robinson, a considerable interest in the great old shop.

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He hesitated whether to go or stay under the circumstances, but he hated to beat an ignominious retreat, as if _he_ thought that _she_ thought he could not be beside her for a quarter of an hour without making an ass of himself again and pestering her.

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Folsom had known him for years and always as more or less of an ass--a man of so little judgment that, though a major in the line at the outbreak of the war, he had never been trusted with a command in the field, and here he was now a full colonel with only three companies left him.

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Folsom and his people would have been murdered to a man if I hadn't, and yet I hear that absurd old ass at Emory put Dean in arrest for not coming directly home.

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Directly I knew it, I knew that I had been the most unobservant ass alive; for they couldn't possibly be anything else.

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Nothing can well figure as less "big," in an honest thesis, than a marked instance of somebody's willingness to pass mainly for an ass.

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Mayn't it be simply that he's too great an ass?"

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Do you think him an ass for what he said about the theatre--his pronouncing it a coarse art?"

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He was on his guard, however, against making an ass of himself, that is against not thinking out his experiments before trying them in public.

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"So far from 'minding' it I'm eager to see him," Sherringham declared; "and I can imagine nothing better than what you describe--if he isn't an awful ass."

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"And suppose one's a brute or an ass, where's the efficacy?"

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He really knew little about Nick's talent--so little as to feel no right to exclaim "What an ass!" when Biddy mentioned the fact which the existence of real talent alone could redeem from absurdity.

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That sounds fatuous, but to you I don't mind appearing an ass."

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He's not an ass either.

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"They throbbed in me even more than now, and I was trying, like an ass, not to feel them.

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I'm not a little presumptuous ass; I'm a man accomplished and determined, and the omens are on my side."

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"Why you heard: she says I'm an ass."

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"I call him an insufferable ass," Ralph said, on this particular evening.

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Ass'n., by Mrs. J. H. Denison, Treas.

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INDEX Aberhafesp, Spirit in Church of 169 _Angelystor_, announcing deaths 170 AEschylus' Cave-dwellers 113 _Annwn_, _Gwragedd_ 3 134 Annwn, Plant 3 Antagonism between Pagan faiths 160 161 181 _Animal Folk-Lore_ 308-352 Ass 337 Bee 337-340 Birds Singing 310 Flocking 310 Blind worm 352 Cat 321 323 340-342 Cow 129-137 342 Crow 304 314-315 Crane 321 Crickets 342-3 Cuckoo 317-321 Cock 310 321 Duck 321 Eagle 321 Flying Serpent 349 Frog 281 Fox 193 Goose 304 305 312 Goatsucker 322 Haddock 345 Hare 343-345 Heron 321 323 Hen 305 322 Hedgehog 345 Horse 346 Jackdaw 324 Ladybird 347 Magpie 324-327 Mice 348 Mole 348 Owl 304 327 Peacock 327 Pigeon 327 Pigs 348 Raven 304 328 Rook, Crow 304 314 316 316 Robin Redbreast 329 332 Seagull 329 330 Sawyer, Tit 331 Snakes 348-350 Slowworm 352 Sheep 351 Swallow 330 331 Swan 331 Swift 331 Spider 351 Squirrel 351 Tit-Major 331 Woodpigeon 333-336 Woodpecker 336 Wren 331-333 Yellowhammer 337 All Hallow Eve, Nos Glan Gaua 95 Spirits abroad 138-9 168-70 Divination on 280-1 286 288-9 Apparitions 181-209 293-297 Applepip divination 290 Arawn 128 _Avanc_ 133 "_Bardd Cwsg_, _Y_" 144 284 285 Baring-Gould--Spirit leaving body 293 Piper of Hamelin 307 Beaumaris spirit tale 293 Bell, Hand, used at funerals 171-2 Corpse 172 Passing 171-2 Veneration for 172 Devil afraid of 171 Ringing at storms 173 Spirits flee before sound of 173 Bella Fawr, a witch 223 Betty'r Bont, a witch 236 240 Belief in witchcraft 217 Bennion, Doctor 216 Bees, Buying a hive of 337 Swarming 338 Strange swarm 339 Deserting hive 339 Hive in roof of house 339 Informing bees of a death 339 Putting bees into mourning 340 Stolen 340 _Bendith y Mamau_ 2 Bible, a talisman 151 245 248 Bible and key divination 288 Bingley's North Wales--Knockers 121 Birds singing in the night 305 before February 310 Flocking in early Autumn 310 Feathers of 310 Blindworm 352 Boy taken to Fairyland 48 _Brenhin Llwyd_ 142 Bryn Eglwys Man and Fairies 36 "_British Goblins_," Fairy dances 94 97 "_Brython_, _Y_," Fairies' revels 95 Burne's, Miss, Legend of White Cow 131-2 Burns, Old Nick in Kirk 168 Nut divination 289 _Canwyll Corph_, see Corpse Candle, Canoe in Llyn Llydaw 28 Card-playing 147-151 Cat, Fable of 323 Black, unlucky, &c 321 341 indicates weather 340 Black, drives fevers away 341 May, brings snakes to house 341 Witches taking form of 224 Caesar's reference to Celtic Superstitions 277 310 343 _Careg-yr-Yspryd_ 212 _Careg Gwr Drwg_ 190 Caellwyngrydd Spirit 214 Cave-dwellers 112-13 _Ceffyl y Dwfr_, the Water Horse 138-141 _Cetyn y Tylwyth Teg_ 109 Ceridwen 234 Cerrig-y-drudion Spirit Tale 294 Cerrig-y-drudion, Legend of Church 132 _Ceubren yr Ellyll_, Legend of 191 Changelings, Fairy 51-63 Churches built on Pagan sites 160 Mysterious removal of 174-181 Chaucer on Fairies 89 Charms 238-9 258 262 276 Charm for Shingles 262-3 Toothache 264-266 Whooping Cough 266 Fits 266 Fighting Cocks 267 312 Asthma 267 Warts 267-8 Stye 268 Quinsy 268 Wild wart 268 Rheumatism 269 Ringworm 269 Cattle 269-272 Stopping bleeding 272 Charm with Snake's skin 273 Rosemary 273-4 Charm for making Servants reliable 272 Sweethearts 281 Charm of Conjurors 239-254 Charm for Clefyd y Galon, or Heart Disease 274 _Clefyd yr Ede Wlan_, or Yarn Sickness 275 Christmas Eve, free from Spirits 192 Churns witched 238 _Clefyd y Galon_ 274 _Clefyd yr Ede Wlan_ 275 Crickets in House lucky 342 Deserting house unlucky 343 Crane, see Heron _Coblynau_, Knockers 112-121 _Coel Ede Wlan_, or Yarn Test 283 Corpse Candle 298-300 Cock, unlawful to eat 343 Devil in form of 310 Offering of 311 Crowing of, at doors 311 Crowing at night 298 Crowing drives Spirits away 311 Charm for Fighting 312 White, unlucky 321 341 Crow 304 314 315 Conjurors 251-262 Charms of 239 254 258-260 Tricks of 255 257 260-1 Cow, Dun 129 131 137 Legend of White 131 Freckled 130-1 Fairy Stray 134-137 Witched 243 _Cyhyraeth_, Death Sound 302 Cynon's Ghost 212 Cuckoo Superstitions 317-321 _Cwn Annwn_ 125-129 Dancing with Fairies 36-39 Davydd ab Gwilym and the Fairies 3 24 Death Portents 297-307 _Deryn Corph_, Corpse Bird 297 Devil 143-192 Devil's Tree 185 Bridge 190 Kitchen 190 Cave 191 Door 170 Destruction of Foxes 193 Dick Spot 212 255 256 Dick the Fiddler 84 Divination 279-290 Candle and Pin 287 _Coel Ede Wlan_, or Yarn Test 283 Frog stuck with Pins 281 Grass 288 Hemp Seed 286 Holly Tree 288 Key and Bible 288 Lovers' 289-90 Nut 289 Pullet's Egg 286 Snail 280 St. John's Wort 280 _Troi Crysau_, Clothes Drying 285 _Twca_, or Knife 284 Washing at Brook 285 Water in Basin 287 Dogs, Hell 125 127 Sky 125 127 Fairy 49 81 83 125 Dwarfs of Cae Caled 97 Droich 113-121 _Dyn Hysbys_ 209 259 _Drychiolaeth_, Spectre 301 302 Eagle, Superstitions about 263-4 321 _Erdion Banawg_ 131 _Ellyll_ 3 4 111 191 _Dan_ 112 _Ellyllon_, _Menyg_ 111 _Bwyd_ 111 Elf Dancers of _Cae Caled_ 98-100 Stones 110 Shots 110-11 Elidorus, the Fairies and 32-35 Epiphany 285-6 Evil Eye 219 Fable of Heron, Cat, and Bramble 323 Magpie and Woodpigeon 335 Robin Redbreast 329 Sea Gull 329 Famous Witches-- Betty'r Bont 236 240 Bella Fawr 223 Moll White 229 232 Pedws Ffoulk 242 Fabulous Animals, see Mythic Beings Fairies, Origin of 1 2 35 36 Chaucer's reference to 89 Shakespeare's reference to 72 96 97 Milton's reference to 86 Fairies inveigling Men 36-44 Working for Men 85-87 Carrying Men in the air 100-102 in Markets and Fairs 108 Binding Men 112 Children offered to Satan by 63 Love of Truth 35 Grateful 72 Fairy Animals 81-3 124-5 129-132 Dances 87-97 Tricks 100-103 Knockers 112-124 Ladies marrying Men 5-24 Changelings 51-63 Implements 109-112 Men captured 104-107 Mothers and Human Midwives 63-67 Money 82-84 Riches and Gifts 72-81 Visits to human abodes 68-71 Families descended from 6 28 Fetch 294 Fire God 152 Fish, Satan in 153 Flying Serpent 349 Foxglove 111 Frog Divination 281 _Fuwch Frech_ 129-132 _Gyfeiliorn_ 129 134-137 _Ffynnon y Fuwch Frech_ 130 _Elian_ 216 _Oer_ 223 Gay, Nut divination 289 Giraldus Cambrensis 27 32 182 reference to Witches 233-236 Ghost, see Spirit Ghost in Cerrigydrudion Church 132 Aberhafesp Church 169 Powis Castle 204 revealing Treasures 202 at Gloddaeth 193-4 Nannau Park 191 Tymawr 195 Frith Farm 196 Pontyglyn 197 Ystrad Fawr 197-8 Ty Felin 198 Llandegla 199 Llanidloes 199-200 Llawryglyn 348 Clwchdyrnog 202 Llanwddyn 212 David Salisbury's 201 Cynon's 212 Squire Griffiths' 200 Sir John Wynne's 211 Raising 215 Visiting the Earth 192 Glain Nadroedd 350 Goat-sucker 322 Goblins, different kinds of 5 97 Golden Chair 77 Goose flying over House 304 laying small egg 305 egg laying 312 Gossamer 112 _Gwiber_, Flying Serpent 349 _Gwion Bach_ 234 _Gwragedd Annwn_ 3 _Gwrach y Rhibyn_ 142 _Gwr Cyfarwydd_ 38 55 257 259 _Gwyddelod_ 80 _Gwyll_ 4 _Gwylliaid Cochion_ 4 5 6 25 26 Haddock, why so marked 345 Hag, Mist 142 Hare 227-230 236 343-345 crossing the road 230 Caesar's reference to 343 Giraldus Cambrensis on hags changing themselves to 233 hares Man changed to a 236 Witch hunted in form of 230-233 Witch shot in the form of 228 S. Monacella, the patroness of hares 345 Harper and Fairies 91 Hedgehog sucking Cows 345 fee for destroying the 346 Hen Chrwchwd, a humpbacked fiend 142 Hen laying two eggs 305 March Chickens 322 Sitting 322 Hindu Fairy Tale 6-8 Heron, sign of weather changing 321 323 Fable of 323-4 Horse, Water, a mythic animal 138 White, lucky 346 Headless 155 Shoe Charm 246 Huw Llwyd, Cynfael, and Witches 224-227 Huw Llwyd and Magical Books 252 Hu Gadarn and the Avanc 133 Ignis Fatuus 112 Jackdaw considered sacred 324 _Jack Ffynnon Elian_ 216 Knockers, or Coblynau 4 97 in Mines 112-121 Ladybird, Weather Sign 347 Lady Jeffrey's Spirit 199 Lake Dwellers 27 28 Llanbrynmair Conjuror 258-9 Llangerniew Spirit 170 Llandegla Spirit 199 Llanddona Witches 222-3 Laying Spirits 209-215 Laws against Witches 218 _Llyn y Ddau Ychain Banawg_ 132 Legends-- _Careg Gwr Drwg_ 190 _Ceubren yr Ellyll_ 191 Fairy Changelings 51-63 _Dafydd Hiraddug_ 158-160 Devil's Bridge 190 Freckled Cow, or _Y Fuwch Frech_ 130 Fairy Marriages 5-24 Fairies inveigling Mortals 32-50 Fairies and Midwives 63-67 Flying Snake 349 Removal of Churches 174-181 Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr 10 Ghosts, see Ghost Spirits, see Spirit Satan or Devil, see Satan _Lledrith_, or Spectre 303 _Llysiau Ifan_, St. John's Wort 280 _Llyn y Geulan Goch_ Spirit 162-166 _Llyn Llion_ 133 Magpie teaching Wood Pigeon to make Nest 335 Superstitions 324-327 Magician's Glass 255 Marriages, Fairy 44-48 Man dancing with Fairies 90 91 witnessing a Fairy dance 90 93 taken away by Fairies 32 36 37 101-102 turned into a Hare 236 turned into a Horse 236 May-day Revels 95 Evil Spirits abroad 168 Mermaids 142 Monacella, S. 345 Moles, Weather Sign 318 Moll White, a Witch 229 232 _Meddygon Myddvai_, Physicians 6 23 24 Mythic Beings-- _Avanc_ 133 _Ceffyl y Dwfr_, Water Horse 138 _Cwn Annwn_, Dogs of the Abyss 125 _Cwn Bendith y Mamau_, Fairy Dogs 125 _Cwn Wybir_, Sky Dogs 125 127 Dragon, or Flying Serpent 349-50 Fairies, see Fairy _Fuwch Frech_, Fairy Cow 129-134 _Fuwch Gyfeiliorn_ 134-137 _Gwrach y Rhibyn_, Mist Hag 142 Knockers, see above Mermaids and Mermen 142 Torrent Spectre 141 _Ychain Banawg_ 130-133 _Y Brenhin Llwyd_, the Grey King 142 Mysterious removal of Churches-- Llanllechid 174 Corwen 174 Capel Garmon 175 Llanfair D. C. 175 Llanfihangel Geneu'r Glyn 176 Wrexham 177 Llangar 179 Denbigh 180 Names given to the Devil 191-2 Nightmare 237 North door of Churches opened at Baptisms 171 North door of Churches opened for Satan to go out 170 North side of Churchyard unoccupied 171 _Nos Glan Gaua_ 95 138-9 168-170 280 281 286 288-89 _Ogof Cythreuliaid_ Devils' Cave 191 Ogwen Lake, Tale of Wraith 292 Old Humpbacked, Mythic Being 142 Omen, see Divination 279-290 Owl 304 327 Pan, prototype of Celtic Satan 146 Passing Bell 171-2 Peacock, Weather Sign 327 Pedwe Ffoulk, a Witch 242 Pellings, Fairy Origin 6 13 Pentrevoelas Legend 8 Physicians of Myddfai 6 23 24 Pig Superstitions 154 348 Pigeon Superstitions 327 Pins stuck in "Witch's Butter" 249 Places associated with Satan 190-1 _Plant Annwn_ 3 4 Poocah, Pwka, Pwca 121-124 138-40 Raven 304 328 Rhamanta, see Divination, 279-290 on Hallow Eve 281 _Rhaffau'r Tylwyth Teg_, Gossamer 112 _Rhys Gryg_ 24 Robin Redbreast 329 332-3 Rook, see Crow Rooks deserting Rookery 316 building new Rookery 316 Sabbath-breaking punished 152-157 Satan, see Apparitions and Devil afraid of Bell-sounds 171 appearing to Man carrying Bibles 183 appearing to a Minister 184 appearing to a Man 185 appearing to a Sunday-breaker 152-3 appearing to a Sunday traveller 153 appearing as a lovely Maid 186 appearing to a young Man 188 appearing to a Collier 189 appearing to a Tippler 156-7 carrying a Man away 187 in form of a Pig 166 in form of a Fish 153 disappearing as a ball or wheel of fire 148 150 and Churches 160-170 outwitted 157-160 playing Cards 147 148 149 snatching a Man up into the air 150 Sawyer Bird, Tit-Major 331 Seagull, a Weather Sign 329-30 Seventh Daughter 250 Son 266 Shakespeare's Witches 219 220 221 Sheep, Black 351 Satan cannot enter 351 Sir John Wynne 211 Slowworm 352 Snakes 348 Flying 349 Snake Rings 350 Spells, how to break 244-251 Spectral Funeral 301-2 Spirit, see Ghost Spirit laying 209-211 Spirits laid for a time 164 199 200 210 212 allowed to visit the earth 168 sent to the Red Sea 193 209 210 214 sent to Egypt 211 riding Horses 202 Spirit ejected from Cerrig-y-drudion Church 132 Llanfor Church 152-166 Llandysilio Church 166-7 Spirit in Llangerniew Church 170 Aberhafesp Church 169 Llandegla 199 Lady Jeffrey's 199-200 calling Doctor 294 St. John's Eve 52 95 168 280 St. David 299 307 Spiritualism 290-297 Spirit leaving body 291-293 Spider 351 Squirrel hunting 351-2 Swallow forsaking its nest 330 Breaking nest of 331 Swan, hatching eggs of 381 Swift, flying, Weather Sign 331 _Swyno'r 'Ryri_ 254 262 263-4 Taboo Stories 6 8-24 Tegid 306 Tit-Major, Weather Sign 331 _Tolaeth_ 303 Tobit, Spirit tale 182 210 Torrent Spectre 141 Transformation 227 234-237 Transmigration 276-279 _Tylwyth Teg_, see Fairies Van Lake Fairy tale 16-24 Voice calling a Doctor 294 Water Horse 138-141 Water Worship 161 Welsh Airs 84 88 _Aden Ddu'r Fran_ 84 _Toriad y Dydd_ 88 Williams, Dr. Edward, and Fairies 97 Witches 216-251 Llanddona 222-3 transforming themselves into cats 224-226 transforming themselves into hares 227-235 hunted in form of hare 230-233 killed in form of hare 228 in churn in form of hare 229 cursing Horse 242 cursing Milk 238-9 cursing Pig 238 how tested 250-1 Spells, how broken 244-250 Punishment of 243 Laws against 218 Wife snatching 29 Woodpecker, Weather Sign 336 Woodpigeon 333-336 Wraith 292 294 308 Wren, unlucky to harm 331-2 Hunting the 332 Curse on breaker of nest 333 _Wyn Melangell_ 345 _Ystrad Legend_ 12 Yarn Sickness 275-6 Test 283-4 _Yspryd Cynon_ 212 _Ystrad Fawr_ 197-8 THE FAIRIES.

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Apply to the throat hair cut at midnight from the black shoulder stripe of the colt of an ass.

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_Ass_.

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The stripe over the shoulders of the ass is said to have been made by our Lord when He rode into Jerusalem on an ass, and ever since the mark remains.

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It was thought that the milk of an ass could cure the "decay," or consumption.

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People then believed that ass's milk was more nutritious than other kind of food for persons whose constitutions were weak.

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"You inveterate ass!

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The man was an ass to ask me, and I told him so."

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"Why," said he, "who'd be ass enough to be marching or drilling with trumpet calls this hour of the night and in the midst of a campaign?"

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Thus, if I were to say, 'You are an _ass_-it rests on ass; but if I were to say, '_You_ are an ass-it rests on you, Sir James.'

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'Awful ass if you do,' cried Augustus, who had a knack of overhearing what was not intended for his ears.

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'Why am I an ass?' demanded Smythe.

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A Dane once brought to his country a beautiful he-ass from Andalusia, and the animal was exhibited as a curiosity in all the towns.

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The other then perceived his want of foresight; and in order to remedy it, he had written at the foot of the portrait of the Prince of Denmark, '_This is the original Ass._' ETHEL'S ORANGE-PLANT.

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"And there's the colour of your hair, la-ass," he answered, laughing.

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"Nothing to what they got from him, Betsy--unless I'm an ass.

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The _fêtes_ go on, and every thing at Orthez breathes of gaiety and splendour; the people have their games; the Pyrrhic dances, called _sauts Basques_, are in full force, performed by the Escualdunacs in their parti-coloured dresses, and red sashes; the Béarnais execute their spiral dances,[47] and sing their mountain-songs and ballads; some cast great stones and iron bars, in which exercises is distinguished Ernauton d'Espagne, the strong knight mentioned in Froissart as being able to bring into the hall of Gaston an ass fully laden with fuel, and to throw the whole on the hearth, to the great delight of all present.

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I thought of Aristotle, who denied the existence of a mule because it was neither a horse nor an ass.

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Her father knew him very well, and, although they seldom met, he had that strong admiration for him which a vigorous and overbearing personality sometimes extends to a shy and unworldly friend-- "A perfect frost as a lawyer," he used to say, "but as a poet, sir, Shakespeare is an ass beside him, and if any one asks you who said so, tell them that I did, sir."

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An old ass was native to that field also.

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S in isle, island, ass, as is uz, s single is as T in whitsunday, and watch, catch, clutch.

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I will subscribe an old saing in English, as easy as any thing, if custom and fashion tnu it: _An As an Mul carrid Runlets ov Wine, But d' Ass did gron undr er burdn gret: Qo'd' Mul, Modr, wat al u dus to win?

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George acted like such an ass!"

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"Emile, forgive me, but sometimes you seem to me deliberately to lie down and roll in pessimism rather as a horse--" "Why not say an ass?"

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"An ass, then, my dear, lies down sometimes and rolls in dust.

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"What an ass!"

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"Don't be an ass, Gaspare.

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The doctor's rather an ass, very French and excitable, but he does his best.

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could I scale Parnassus, where the Muses sit inditing Those pretty poems never known to fail, How quickly would I print (the world delighting) A Grecian, Syrian,[221] or _Ass_yrian tale; And sell you, mixed with western Sentimentalism, Some samples of the _finest Orientalism._ LII.

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[hp] Who knows to what his ribaldry may run, When such an ass[549] as this, like Balaam's, prates?"

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[549] {518}[Compare-- "One leaf from Southey's laurels may explode All his combustibles, 'An ass, by God!'"

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His vest resembled the aurora borealis, and his voice was a cross between a cane mill and the bray of an ass.

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Ass--Quarrel between friends; (one sleeping) security; (one braying) dishonor; (ears of one) scandal; (one laden) profit.

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Young Mr. Platitude did not go to college a gentleman, but neither did he return one; he went to college an ass, and returned a prig; to his original folly was superadded a vast quantity of conceit.

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It so happened that this small party got into trouble; whether it was about a horse or an ass, or passing bad money, no matter to you and me, who had no hand in the business; three or four of them were taken and lodged in --- Castle, and amongst them was a woman; but the sherengro, or principal man of the party, and who it seems had most hand in the affair, was still at large.

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What an ass, what an idiot, I was!

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"And Moses took his wife and sons and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt."

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