The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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It was agreeable thus to be an ass... His pride flared up again, and instead of stamping he blew on it.

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Could he meet her without giving her the impression that he was a conceited ass?

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Lo, how the miserable great-eared ass, Dulled with much beating, slowly forth doth pass!

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"There is no castle so well fortified, 10 But if an ass laden with gold comes on, The guard will stoop, and gates fly open wide."

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Sweet wench, I love thee: yet I will not sue, Or show my love as musky courtiers do; I'll not carouse a health to honour thee, In this same bezzling [572] drunken courtesy, And, when all's quaff'd, eat up my bousing-glass [573] In glory that I am thy servile ass; Nor will I wear a rotten Bourbon lock, [574] As some sworn peasant to a female smock.

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"_The Loggia dei Langi_" (at Florence) ... "_the round arches, new to those times ... See Vasari._" "Vasari is an ass with precious things in his panniers; but you must not ask his opinion on any matter.

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'Thou must have the back of an ass to bear all, and the snout of a swine to say nothing.... Travelers must sleep with their eyes open lest they be slain in their beds, and wake with their eyes shut lest they be suspected by their looks.'

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'I remembered having laughed myself when I had seen good men struggling with adversity in the person of a jack-ass, and the recollection filled me with penitence.

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In France, where woman is harnessed with an ass to the plough which her husband drives,--where she digs, and wields the pick-axe,--she becomes prematurely hideous; but in America, where woman reigns as queen in every household, she may surely be a good and thoughtful housekeeper, she may have physical strength exercised in lighter domestic toils, not only without injuring her beauty, but with manifest advantage to it.

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Soon after, they "knocked him down" for a story; and as it requires more brains to tell a story than to sing a song, the poor butt made an ass of himself.

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"You _dumkopf_!" he shouted; "you muddy-brained ass!

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"Oh, what an ass I have been ever to make friends with such a fellow!"

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"No," said the old gentleman, as he sat up in bed, and then began to dress; "he wouldn't go at my wish; but that girl over the way is playing with him, and he is too proud to stand it any longer, besides being mortified at making such an ass of himself.

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Anson behaved like a horse, or, as West and Ingleborough afterwards laughingly said, like an ass, lifting to order each foot in turn for the bottoms of his trousers to be examined and the heels of his boots, which had not been bored nor plugged.

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Now some people once started the idea that a donkey is a very stupid animal; and, like many more such theories, that one has been handed down to posterity, and believed in as a natural history fact, while donkey or ass has become a term of reproach for those not blessed with too much brain.

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"Nay, lad; yow can't kill an ass so easy.

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Leave that owd ass alone, lad, and listen to me."

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Who was the miserable ass who first put that wretched idea into boys' heads, and gave them a mental complaint which has embittered many a lad's life, when, after making some foolish plunge, he has gone on slowly finding out that castles in the air, built up by his young imagination, are glorious at a distance, but when approached the colours fade?

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How can you be such an ass?"

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She felt a mad inclination to take this old ass, this headstrong old fool, this obstinate old wretch, and to stop that short, rapid breath, which was robbing her of her time and money, by squeezing her throat a little.

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If they were both pedestrians, while the Samaritan had a mule or an ass, it is obvious that the two parties were not on equal terms, and that consequently no fair test of their benevolence could in that transaction be obtained.

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"Nothing, madam," he replied, glancing at the leader of the party, "for an ass is braying over it."

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But a more extraordinary ass never existed in this world, be his nation what it may.

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I was assured that Ferdousi was a downright ass when compared to me.

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Why do you refuse to shave this mans companion? said the caliph to the barber: Was not that your agreement? Ali, kissing the ground, answered: Tis true, O caliph, that such was our agreement; but who ever made a companion of an ass before?

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He paid me down one half of the money, and then offered me a half-starved ass in payment of the remainder; but this I refused, and he promised to pay me in full when we met again.

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a doubly accented ass. I continued wrapt up in these sort of meditations, seated with my back against the wall of one of the crowded avenues which lead to the gate of the royal palace, and had so worked up my imagination by the prospect of my future greatness, that on rising to walk away, I instinctively pushed the crowd from before me, as if such respect from them was due to one of my lofty pretensions.

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there is your saddle safe and sound, you can ask no more. To the peasant I exclaimed, You could not say more if your beast had actually been killed; take him and walk away, and return thanks to Allah that it is no worse. As for the horse-dealer, I inveighed against him with all the bitterness of a man who had been cheated of his property:--You have a right to talk indeed of having been deceived, when to this moment you know that you have only paid me one-half of the cost of the horse, and that you wanted to fob me off with a dying ass for the other half. I offered to return him the money; but this he refused: he insisted upon my paying him the keep of the horse besides: upon which a new quarrel ensued, in which arguments were used on both sides which convinced neither party, and consequently we immediately adjourned to the _daroga_ or police magistrate, who, we agreed, should decide the question.

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Pheasants from Mazanderan were there also, as well as some of the choicest bits of the wild ass and antelope.

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Our women, when they get a piece, bore a hole through it, and hang it about their necks by way of ornament; and if we, after a life of hard toil, can scrape up some fifty tomauns, we bury them in the earth, and they give us more anxiety than if we possessed the mountain of light.[73] Then approaching to put his mouth to my ear, he whispered with great earnestness, You are a Mussulman, in fine, and no ass.

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I will stick to what the sage Locman, I believe, once said on this occasion, which runs something to this purpose: If you are a tiger, be one altogether; for then the other beasts will know what to trust to: but if you wear a tigers skin, and long ears are discovered to be concealed therein, they will then treat you even worse than if you walked about in your own true character, an undisguised ass. I kept turning over in my mind whether I should release him or not; and was fluctuating in great perplexity between the ass and the tiger, when Yûsûf returned.

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The serdar, ass that he is, instead of waiting for the artillery, and availing himself of the infantry, attacks a walled town with his cavalry only, and is very much surprised that the garrison shut their gates, and fire at him from the ramparts: of course he can achieve nothing, and retires in disgrace.

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Please God, do you say? said he in a fury: am I come all this way that men should call me ass?

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Ass, fool, dolt, that I am, not to have known better.

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Keep to your silence, and your sighs, and your shrugs, and your downcast looks, and who is there that will discover you to be an ass?

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The mollah bashi (between you and me, be it said) is in every degree an ass,--one who knows as much of religion and its duties, as of Frangistân and its kings.

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His establishment consisted of a cook, and a servant who acted in the triple capacity of head-servant, valet, and groom; and his stud, for the present, was composed of one ass.

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After considerable trouble, said he, I have managed to procure a white one, which, you know, is an animal that confers consideration on its rider; but, as my business and my dignity increase, I intend to promote myself to a mule. I did not lose this opportunity of informing him that I had a very good one to dispose of; and, after some negotiation, it was decided that we should keep both mule and ass; he, as the dignitary, riding the former, whilst I should be carried about on the humbler beast.

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Here, ferashes (calling his officers to him), here, tear this wretchs turban from his head and his cloak from his back; pluck the beard from his chin; tie his hands behind him, place him on an ass with his face to the tail, parade him through the streets, and then thrust him neck and shoulders out of the city, and let his hopeful disciple (pointing to me) accompany him. Happy was I not to have been recognized for the lover of the unfortunate Zeenab.

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Nadâns beard was ripped from his chin with as much ease by the ferashes as if they were plucking a fowl; and then, with abundance of blows to hasten our steps, they seized upon the first ass which they met, and mounted the priest, the once proud and ambitious priest, upon it, and paced him slowly through the streets.

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I opened it, and read as follows: O my lord and master, The humble inferior who presumes to address the prop of the true faith, the terror of infidels, and the refuge of the sinner, begs leave to lay before him, that after having encountered a thousand difficulties, he has at length succeeded in getting from the peasantry of his villages one hundred tomauns in ready money, besides the fifty _kherwars_, or ass loads of grain: that the man, Hossein Ali, could or would not pay anything, although he had bastinadoed him twice, and he had in consequence taken possession of his two cows: that he would go on beating and exerting himself to the best of his abilities; and if some one was sent for the money which he had now in hand, he would deliver it over upon receiving a proper order. The note then finished with the usual form of words from an inferior to his master, and was sealed with a small seal, upon which was impressed Abdul Kerim, the name of the writer.

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I have now an opportunity of setting up for a martyr, and _that_, now I recollect it, is worth more than the loss of my worldly goods, my house, my furniture, my white ass, and even my mûties. Then what do you propose doing? said I.

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Are you an ass, that you should start at a shadow?

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Had you appeared with a better coat or a richer cap than they, or had you been mounted on a horse, when they could only afford an ass, then, perhaps, nothing more would have been said, but that you were more expert in making your fortune, and a better retailer of your wares.

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As for the horses and velvet which I used to bestride, happy should I now be could I claim even an ass for my own.

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However, as none among our own countrymen could contradict us, we were listened to as oracles, and we exemplified what the poet Al Miei has so justly remarked: That in the country of the dumb the sound of one voice, be it even that of an ass, would be called harmony. The English elchi (ambassador) had reached Tehran a few days before we arrived there, and his reception was as brilliant as it was possible for a dog of an unbeliever to expect from our blessed Prophets own lieutenant.

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Magsman's account of the show-house during his occupancy is sufficiently absurd to begin with--"the picter of the giant who was himself the heighth of the house," being run up with a line and pulley to a pole on the roof till "his 'ed was coeval with the parapet;" the picter of the child of the British Planter seized by two Boa Constrictors, "not that we never had no child, nor no Constrictors either;" similarly, the picter of the Wild Ass of the Prairies, "not that _we_ never had no wild asses, nor wouldn't have had 'em at a gift."

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I lived for months one time in the Hôtel de Transylvania, Rue Condé, and kept my _carosse de remise_, and gambled like every other ass of my kind in Paris till I had not a louis to my credit.

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"It is little good to play the guitar to an ass," said the Frenchman, and fell to his viands.

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I suppose, madam, you made him drink plentifully of ass's milk.

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What with all your Communistic legislation and bad harvests, and backing good things that don't come off-like an ass as I was-by Jove, I feel disposed to quit the whole business and compete for a Mandarin's Button in China.

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I have been an Ass, a deluded Fool, a very Coxcomb from my Birth till this Hour, and heartily repent my little Faith.

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_Moret._ Is this he that us'd to prance before our Window and take such care to shew himself an amorous Ass?

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_Will._ I know you take me for an errant Ass, An Ass that may be sooth'd into Belief, And then be us'd at pleasure.

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_Blunt._ Not an Ass, to be laught at, Sir.

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Then shews his Politicks, to let you see Of State Affairs he'll judge as notably, As he can do of Wit and Poetry._ _The younger Sparks, who hither do resort, Cry-- Pox o' your gentle things, give us more Sport; --Damn me, I'm sure 'twill never please the Court._ _Such Fops are never pleas'd, unless the Play Be stuff'd with Fools, as brisk and dull as they: Such might the Half-Crown spare, and in a Glass At home behold a more accomplisht Ass, Where they may set their Cravats, Wigs and Faces, And practice all their Buffoonry Grimaces; See how this-- Huff becomes-- this Dammy-- flare-- Which they at home may act, because they dare, But-- must with prudent Caution do elsewhere.

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for thou'rt a rich Ass, and may'st do it.

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_Will._ So, she has sent her Matron to our Coxcomb; she saw he was a Cully fit for Game-- who would not be a Rascal to be rich, a Dog, an Ass, a beaten, harden'd Coward-- by Heaven, I will possess this gay Insensible, to make me hate her-- most extremely curse her-- See if she be not fallen to Pray'r again, from thence to Flattery, Jilting and Purse-taking, to make the Proverb good-- My fair false _Sybil_, what Inspirations are you waiting for from Heaven, new Arts to cheat Mankind!-- Tell me, with what Face canst thou be devout, or ask any thing from thence, who hast made so leud a use of what it has already lavish'd on thee?

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_La Nu._ Thou formal Ass disguis'd in generous Leudness, see-- when the Vizor's off, how sneakingly that empty form appears-- Nay 'tis thy own-- Make much on't, marry with it, and be damn'd.

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alas no, I'm a Fool, a Country Fop, an Ass, I; but that you may perceive your selves mistaken, Gentlemen, this is but an earnest of what's to come, a small token of remembrance, or so-- and yet I have no Charms, I; the fine Captain has all the Wit and Beauty-- but thou'rt my Friend, and I'll impart.

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_Alon._ I know not why an Ass should have more privilege than any other rude Beast.

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_Hau._ May I so?-- and why, Sir?-- am I, Sir-- an Ass, Sir?

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_1 Sold._ Ay, ay, a _Lambert_, a _Lambert_, he has Courage, _Fleetwood's_ an Ass to him.

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Oh that fortune had brought me to the field where thou art famed to have wrought such wonders with an ass's jaw!

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Thus naked Pict in Battel fought, Or undisguis'd his Mistress sought; And knowing well his Ware was good, Refus'd to screen it with a Hood; His visage dun, and chin that ne'er Did Raizor feel or Scissers bare, Or knew the Ornament of Hair, Look'd sternly Grim, surprized with Fear, I spur'd my Horse as he drew near: But Rhoan who better knew than I, The little Cause I had to fly; Seem'd by his solemn steps and pace, Resolv'd I shou'd the Specter face, Nor faster mov'd, tho' spur'd and lick'd, Than _Balaam's_ Ass by Prophet kick'd.

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Of relief in kind perhaps the following item is one of the most original in the history of the Poor-law:-- L s. d. Gave James D---- for an Ass... 0 8 0 to which is added that the Overseer paid to Mr. Beldam this J. D.'s rent.

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"Oh, I'm nobody," said Steve bitterly; "I'm a donkey and an ass."

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"Yes," said the doctor quietly, "but that is rather running wild; a donkey and an ass are the same thing, Stevey, my lad.

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He comprehended the next minute, and eagerly lent his aid, for the little priest, twisting up his gown and securing it round his waist, began to prove himself a worthy descendant of the Good Samaritan, though wanting in the ability to set the wounded traveller upon his own ass.

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"Don't you hurry no man's beast; you may hev an ass of your own some day."

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Though unable to rise, the whip was a second time applied, when Kafa ordered that she should be placed on an ass.

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A soldier, Bloore, lost his way in the woods while looking for an ass which had strayed, and in the search another sick man, Walter, was found.

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Another robber, however, who had attempted to carry off a great coat from an ass driven by one of the sick men, was wounded, and Mansa's son insisted that he should be killed, as otherwise they would not fulfil the orders of the king, who had directed that every person be shot who stole from the caravan.

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Park, having turned the horses and ass to feed, sat down in the shade to watch the pulsations of his dying friend.

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"That fellow's an extraordinary ass with a boat."

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Horrid ass, isn't he?

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"I'm not quite an ass.

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A third was the jaw-bone of an ass with the teeth loose in the socket, and which, when struck by the hand, made a capital rattle.

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"They will run down any of the wild animals found in these forests, as well as the danta, or wild ass--the black bear, red leopard, tiger-cat, the deer, and fox; though it is necessary to follow them closely, since, not being well broken-in, they will devour their prey, if they have an opportunity, before the hunter comes up," observed Uncle Richard, as we were about to start, our canine companions barking and yelping round us.

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To avenge you, I, bonnet on head and whip in hand--that whip which was never used but on a horse--this time to be disgraced by falling on the back of an ASS....

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TOO MUCH LIBERTY IN PLACES AND NOT ENOUGH ELSEWHERE.--THOUGHTS ON THE LATE WAR--WHO IS THE BIGGER ASS, THE MAN WHO WILL NOT FORGIVE AND FORGET, OR THE MAWKISH AND MOIST EYED SNIVELLER WHO WANTS TO DO THAT ALL THE TIME?

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TOO MUCH LIBERTY IN PLACES AND NOT ENOUGH ELSEWHERE.--THOUGHTS ON THE LATE WAR--WHO IS THE BIGGER ASS, THE MAN WHO WILL NOT FORGIVE AND FORGET, OR THE MAWKISH AND MOIST-EYED SNIVELLER WHO WANTS TO DO THAT ALL THE TIME?

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An Ass, finding a Lion's skin, disguised himself with it, and ranged about the forest, putting all the beasts that saw him into bodily fear.

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He had not gone far before he overtook an Ass, who was labouring under a heavy burthen, and moving slowly on in the same track with himself.

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The poor, patient Ass, not daring to dispute the matter, quietly got out of his way as fast as he could, and let him go by.

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The good man, terrified at this outrageous conduct, and unable to endure the weight of so heavy a beast, cried out; upon which one of his servants, running in with a good stick, and laying heartily upon the bones of the poor Ass, soon convinced him that everyone who desires it is not qualified to be a favourite.

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With the jawbone of an ass he might put to flight a thousand Philistines, and with a trident drive a four-in-hand of porpoises.

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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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The testimony of all impartial contemporary observers accords with the deliberate opinion given by Gouverneur Morris to Alexander Hamilton in 1796, that the French people in general were royalists at heart, and utterly averse to the general overthrow of their institutions by the legislative mob at Paris, or, as Mirabeau comprehensively called them, 'that Wild Ass of the National Assembly.'

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Mayor 458 Shakspeare and the old English Actors in Germany, by Albert Cohn 459 Ten Children at a Birth 459 George Herbert and Bemerton Church, by H. T. Ellacombe 460 Minor Notes:--Lord Mayor's Show in 1701--Sir Thomas Phillipps's MSS.--Translation from Owen, &c.--Epigram on the late Bull--Bailie Nicol Jarvie--Hogs not Pigs--The Baptized Turk 460 QUERIES:-- Gray--Dryden--Playing Cards 462 Minor Queries:--Pretended Reprint of Ancient Poetry--The Jews' Spring Gardens--Cardinal Allen's Admonition to the Nobility--"Clarum et venerabile Nomen"--Whipping by Women--Lærig--MS. History of Winchester School--Benedicite--The Church History Society--Pope Ganganelli--Sir George Downing--Solemnization of Matrimony--Passage in Bishop Butler--The Duke of Wharton's Poetical Works--Titus Oates--Translations of Erasmus' Colloquies and Apuleius' Golden Ass, &c. 463 REPLIES:-- Holme MSS.--The Cradocks 465 Antiquity of Smoking 465 Antiquitas Sæculi Juventus Mundi 466 Albemarle, Title of, by Lord Braybrooke 466 Replies to Minor Queries:--Cromwell Poisoned--"Never did Cardinal bring Good to England"--Gloves not worn in the Presence of Royalty--Nonjurors' Oratories in London--"Filthy Gingran"--Michael Scott--The Widow of the Wood--Modum Promissionis--End of Easter--First Earl of Roscommon--Dryden's "Absolom and Achitophel"--Cabalistic Author--Becket--Aërostation--Kilt--Bacon Family, &c. 467 Miscellaneous:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 470 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 470 Notices to Correspondents 470 * * * * * NOTES.

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Moreover, Cuvier is in error as to the statement of Herodotus respecting the animal's size: he says that the animal is equal in size, not to an ass, but to the largest ox.

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_Erasmus' Colloquies--Apuleius' Golden Ass, Translations of._--Will any of your readers be kind enough to enlighten a provincial ignoramus by answering the following Queries:-- 1.

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Is there an English translation of Apuleius' _Golden Ass_?

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"Watch what you're doing, you ass!"

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"Ass," she said.

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Having finished this machine, on which I bestowed no small labour, I was hugely pleased with it, and only wished I had a beast, if it were but an ass, to draw it; however, that task I was satisfied to perform myself, since there was no help for it; so I made a good strong cord out of my fishing-lines, and fixed that to drag it by.

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It gave him the idea of an ass's head; which, however, could not by any process have been turned into flint.

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(Sec'y of Ass'n.

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=Treasurer of Ass'n.= Reed, Frank, Daleville.

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