The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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"Of course I'm not, you ass.

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"Why can't you shut up making an ass of yourself?"

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But, I say, Dig, can't you see what a howling ass you're making of yourself?"

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Marky made a regular ass of himself, he was so pleased.

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I felt jolly miserable, I can tell you, at the start, and that ass Dig made it all the worse by fooling about just to show off, and making believe to spar at me, when he was shaking in his shoes all the time; Marky wasn't much better, for he came and said, 'You'll have to run your very best to win it.'

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Next that ass Smedley went and made up to Violet just when she wanted to back us up, and I don't believe she saw a bit of the race till the finish.

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"You can't; you swallow everything any ass tells you!"

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That ass Simson, when he wrote out the tickets, wrote Blazer twice over instead of Blazer and Catterwaul.

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"Young Oakshott," said Arthur, with all the dignity of a Swift exhibitioner, "don't you make a bigger ass of yourself than you can help."

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Er liess von ihr, indem er sass Und einen guten Kropf sich ass, 450 Wonach er schwere Trünke schlang.

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Ass einer zaghaft oder kühn, 430 Sie fanden insgesamt genug, Wie man's mit Anstand vor sie trug.

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Es deucht' ihr gut, sie ass es gern Und sprach also zu ihrem Herrn: "Ist dieses Essen lobesam 200 Wild gewesen oder zahm?"

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Entsetzen traf das holde Weib, 210 Das Herz erkaltet' ihr im Leib, Die Hände fielen ihr zum Schoss, Das Blut ihr aus dem Munde goss; Zuletzt sprach sie in tiefem Schmerz: "Ass ich also des Freundes Herz, 215 Der stetig mich geliebt so sehr, So sag' ich Euch bei meiner Ehr', Dass keine andre Speise mir Von diesem Tage für und für Den Mund berührt.

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The play consisted of a procession representing the Pope, riding in pontifical splendor and attended by pompous retainers; while Christ rode an ass, wearing a crown of thorns and followed by a throng of the lame and the blind.

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Der arm man het ein stück brotz das hůb er zwischen den braten vnd das feur, das der geschmack[5] von dem braten in das brot gieng, da ass er dan das brot, das thet der arm man biss das er kein brot me het, da wolt er hinweg gon.

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Sein Tagwerk konnt' ihm Nahrung bringen; 5 Und wann er ass, so musst' er singen, Und wann er sang, so war's mit Lust; Aus vollem Hals und freier Brust.

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"I should think him an unmitigated ass," retorted the colonel.

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I explained that those marks,"--pointing to the drawing--"represented doors; yet the silly ass couldn't understand how the servants got from their room to the kitchen, nor how they brought our meals from the kitchen to the living-room without going outside and walking round the house.

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The only item that I have had any doubt as to my ability to obtain is--a suitable companion; for of course in my maddest moments I have never been ass enough to contemplate going into so big a thing single-handed.

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"Well, Lemaitre, I always knew you for an ass, but, unless you had told me so with your own lips, I would never have believed you to be such an ass as to sell a man for five hundred dollars when you can just as easily get a thousand for him.

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"Did I not say you are an ass?" retorted Francois.

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Would you take the word of an ass instead of mine?"

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The statement was as follows: Corrected and renewed the Ten Commandments 6.00 Embellished Pontius Pilate and put a new ribbon on his bonnet 3.06 Put a new tail on the rooster of St. Peter and mended his bill 4.08 Put a new nose on St. John the Baptist and straightened his eye 2.06 Replumed and gilded the left wing of the Guardian Angel 5.06 Washed the servant of the High Priest and put carmine on his cheeks 2.04 Renewed Heaven, adjusted ten stars, gilded the sun and cleaned the moon 8.02 Reanimated the flames of Purgatory and restored some souls 3.06 Revived the flames of Hell, put a new tail on the devil, mended his left hoof and did several odd jobs for the damned 4.10 Put new spatter-dashes on the son of Tobias and dressing on his sack 2.00 Rebordered the robe of Herod and readjusted his wig 3.07 Cleaned the ears of Balaam's ass, and shod him 2.08 Put earrings in the ears of Sarah 5.00 Put a new stone in David's sling, enlarged Goliath's hand and extended his legs 2.00 Decorated Noah's Ark 1.20 Mended the shirt of the Prodigal Son, and cleaned the pigs 1.00 ----- 53.83 JOKES The joke maker's association had a feast.

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When the rector complained that a certain parishioner had called him a perfect ass, and asked advice, the reply, though well intentioned, sounded ambiguous: "All you should do vill pe youst to bray for him, as usual."

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* * * _He:_ "By the bye, talking of old times, do you remember that occasion when I made such an awful ass of myself?"

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"He's an ignorant ass, and as slow as a mute at a funeral.

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He had remained aft in order to somewhat allay the alarm which the outcry of the steward had excited; but he was itching to get to the scene of action himself, although he had sent Mr McCarthy there already, besides ordering the crew to their respective stations, and having the hose-pump manned.--"Oh, no, nothing at all, only one of that ass, Llewellyn's, happy discoveries, another sort of ghost in the cabin!

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"A pack of sheer nonsense, I call it, this going out of our course on a wild-goose chase and tearing away full speed on a wild night like this, in a howling sea, with a gale, too, astern; and all because an ass of a youngster fancies he saw the _Flying Dutchman_!"

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"Don't make such an ass of yourself!

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Why, that cock and bull yarn was exploded years ago, and I didn't think there was a sailor afloat in the present day ass enough to believe in this story!"

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By George, it makes me sick, Masters, to think that a grown man and a good seaman like yourself should be such a confounded ass!"

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"What an ass I am!"

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"Don't be an ass, George," said the Big Business Man.

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As for that insufferable ass, Horner, he was always asking me whenever we met, which was much oftener than I cared about, with a provoking simper and his unmeaning, eye-glass stare and drawling voice--coupled with a tone of would-be-facetious irony--"Bai-ey Je-ove!

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But what annoyed John Hardy even more than that ass Tom Atkins having run him out was that the captain had never given young James Black any opportunity of showing his batting skill, as, being persuaded by Charley Bates, who pooh-poohed the youngster's abilities _in toto_, he had only sent him in as "last-man," and Black hadn't, of course, the chance of playing a ball.

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I'm an ass to stand for it."

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An ass will with his long ears fray The flies that tickle him away; But man delights to have his ears Blown maggots in by flatterers.

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The voice of a human being close to me, somehow, has the effect of helping me to recover my wits completely; and as I kneel and make fast the stretcher, and then once again take my seat in the stern of the boat, I feel quite myself again, and wonder at myself for being such an ass.

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"What a young ass you are not to play in the match!" you say to Ebenezer, hardly able to contain yourself.

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What an ass I had been!

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What an ass I was to snub those jolly Cambridge fellows!

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She's rather an ass, and must have been getting up her English for our benefit, for she's called us "nice young Englese gentilman" about a hundred times already.

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We tried to make the fellow understand, but he was an ass.

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What a double-distilled ass I am!

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If he still failed to meet the school requirements, his parents were requested to remove him, and he left, without a stain on his character, as the magistrates say, but he was written down an ass.

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"What an ass Tom Bowling was to give himself up; it would have been all right if he had sat still."

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"It is different, now that they have got hold of that ass, Buller; what a joke it all is, isn't it?"

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Unluckily these rumours reached Crawley's ears; some friendly ass "thought he ought to know," as is always the case when anything unpleasant is said, and it fretted and annoyed him exceedingly.

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[Illustration] [Illustration] THE JEALOUS ASS.

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"There lived," says friend Esop, "some ages ago, An ass who had feelings acute, you must know; This ass to be jealous, felt strongly inclined, And for reasons which follow, felt hurt in his mind."

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Had they enter'd the room while the donkey withdrew, They'd have seen their own folly and punishment too: Let them think of this fable, and what came to pass; Nor forget, he who play'd this fine game was _an ass_.

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A lion once a hunting took An ass, and hid him in a nook.

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"No ass more famously could do," The lion says, "but thee I knew, Or I might have been frightened too."

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An ass once found a lion's skin, And rolling up himself therein, From every fold that he came nigh, Made flocks, and herds, and shepherds fly.

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Ranging the country round, at last He meets his master where he pass'd, Who long-ears instantly descries Through his magnificent disguise: Laying his cudgel on his side, "Get home, thou stupid fool," he cried: "With others for a lion pass; I know thee for an arrant ass."

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A rustic bringing to the fair An ass, that he might show him there, Sleek and well looking let him trot; He followed with his son on foot.

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An ass accompanied by a horse uncourteous, Who only had his harness on his back; And the poor jackass staggered 'Neath the load of vegetable and a pack; He begged the horse to help him, If he could-- But not a single bit, The other would.

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She blushed her consent, though the stuttering lass Said never a word except "You're an ass---- An ass--an ass-iduous teaser!"

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It professes to embody that portion of the first scene in the fourth act where the spell-blinded queen caresses Bottom the weaver, on whose shoulders Oberon's transforming wand has placed an ass' head.

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Mustard-Seed, a fairy of dwarfish stature, stands on tiptoe in the hollow of Bottom's hand, endeavoring to reach his nose--his fingers almost touch, he is within a quarter of an inch of scratching, but it is evident he can do no more, and his new master is too much of an ass to raise him up.

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"Vastly, Northcote," returned Fuseli, "you are an angel at an ass--but an ass at an angel!"

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In Salvator Rosa's celebrated picture of La Fortuna, the nose of one powerful ecclesiastic, and the eye of another were detected in the brutish physiognomy of the swine treading upon pearls, and in an ass, scattering with his hoofs the laurel and myrtle which lay in his path; and in an old goat, reposing on roses, some there were, who even fancied they discovered the Infallible Lover of Donna Olympia, the Sultana, queen of the Quirinal!

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The painter drew an ass carrying a packsaddle loaded with a crown and sceptre, while a similar saddle, also bearing the ensigns of royalty, lay at his feet; these last were all new, and the ass scented them, with an eager desire to change them for those he bore.

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I know you did wish it, and that I have made a real ass of myself.

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There is at present a lively anticipation of the elections, in which, contrary to everybody's wishes, our friend Magnus is pushing the claims of Aulus's son;[104] and in that matter his weapons are neither his prestige nor his popularity, but those by which Philip said that any fortress could be taken--if only an ass laden with gold could make its way up into it.

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I know you did wish it, and that I have made a real ass of myself.

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"Hurt enough," sobbed the old man; "I have been just tricked out of the best ass in England by a villain who gave me nothing but these trash in return," pointing to the stones before him.

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"I suppose he was the fellow," said I, "whom I just now met upon a fine grey ass, which he was beating with a cudgel."

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but to take from you that ass, of which you have just robbed its owner."

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"In the history of Herod's ass!" said the jockey; "well, if I did write a book it should be about something more genteel than a dickey."

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"I did not say Herod's ass," said I, "but Herodotus, a very genteel writer, I assure you, who wrote a history about very genteel people, in a language no less genteel than Greek, more than two thousand years ago.

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It is said that Giotto painted for him a saddled ass, with another new saddle at its feet at which it was sniffing, as if he wished for it in place of the one he had on.

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Look what an ass is among a sort of apes, even the very same is he among his fellows."

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9., where, though it occurs in the plural, it refers to two individuals: "For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both _parties_ shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, _he_ shall pay double unto his neighbour."

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Then should he have a free gift of my bauble," responded the jester, shaking on high that badge, surmounted with the golden head of an ass, and jingling with bells.

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"That did I," returned Randall, "as I rode by on mine ass.

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They parted at the great west door of the Abbey, where, by way of vindicating his own character for buffoonery, Randall exclaimed, "Where be mine ass?" and not seeing the animal, immediately declared, "There he is!" and at the same time sprang upon the back and shoulders of a gaping and astonished clown who was gazing at the rear of the procession.

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"I cry you mercy," quoth the jester; "'twas mine own ass I sought, and if I have fallen on thine, I will but ride him to York House and then restore him.

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Perronel, well accustomed to horse, ass, or foot, undertook to ride behind the child, as she called Jasper, who--as a born Londoner--knew nothing of horses, though both the other prentices did.

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"Ass!

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Hewlett retreated to find it, while the captain said something about "stupid ass."

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Sometimes the sound is not unlike the bray of an ass, occasionally it reaches the dignity of the roar of a lion with the bleating of a goat thrown in, then as quickly changes to the solemnity of a church organ.

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Why, she might have had Master Barnaby Final, that was as decent a man as ever stepped in leather--he wanted her: but Benden promised a trifle better in way of money, and Master Hall, like an ass as he was, took up wi' him.

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I have here an ass laden with pots and pans, and driven by a good man and true, a Gospeller to boot--one of your own men from the cloth-works, that is ready to guard his master's daughter at the hazard of his life if need be.

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In fact, the new-comers had points of resemblance to all four--horse, ass, gnoo, and zebra--and yet they were distinct from any.

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Modern naturalists have divided the _Equidae_, or horse family, into two genera--the _horse (equus_) and the _ass (asinus_)--the principal points of distinction being, that animals of the horse kind have long flowing manes, full tails, and warty callosities on both hind and fore limbs; while asses, on the contrary, have short, meagre, and upright manes, tails slender and furnished only with long hairs at the extremity, and their hind limbs wanting the callosities.

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First, we have the common ass (_Asinus vulgaris_), the type of the genus; and of this there are many breeds in different countries, some nearly as elegant and as highly prized as horses.

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Next there is the "onagra," "koulan," or "wild-ass" (_Asinus onager_), supposed to be the origin of the common kind.

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There is also the "dziggetai," or "great wild-ass" (_Asinus hemionus_), of Central and Southern Asia, and another smaller species the "ghur" (_Asinus Hamar_) found in Persia.

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First, there is the "wild-ass" (_Asinus onager_), which, as already stated, extends from Asia into the north-eastern parts of Africa, contiguous to the former continent.

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Its cry has some resemblance to that of the pelican; but it will also, when excited, give rent to a noise not unlike the braying of an ass.

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He hesitated with a diffident charming smile, feeling, as he often did in front of his father, that he ought to apologise for his existence, and yet fiercely calling himself an ass for such a sentiment.

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Because I am an ass!

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But the fellow was only a decent, dull, pushing, successful ass, and quite unable to assimilate Mr Orgreave; Edwin could never comprehend how Clara, so extremely difficult to please, so carping and captious, could mate herself to a fellow like Benbow.

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"You are an ass!" murmured the impartial watcher in the conning tower.

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