The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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You're the most arrant ass--idiot--but this caps all--'come out here and live with us!'

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George, what an ass you are!"

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"Oh, ye needna fear," said the Scot, "I'm no' sic an ass as to trust to my ain legal knowledge.

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Firstly, you couldn't say it at all till you'd learned Arabic," returned Molloy; "secondly--if I may be allowed for to follow suit an' sermonise--'cause you shouldn't say it if you could; an', thirdly, 'cause you'd be a most awful Jack-ass to say it if you did.

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"Ass that I was to speak of it to her at all," muttered Mr Crossley, walking up and down the room with spectacles on forehead, and with both hands in his trousers-pockets creating disturbance among the keys and coppers.

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Again it came, quite loud and distinct on the night air--a prolonged, hideous cry, something like the braying of an ass.

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What mean you by galloping over the country thus like a wild ass--eh?"

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Here, too, dwell the wild horse and the wild ass, the deer, the buffalo, and the badger; all, men and brutes alike, wild as the power of untamed and ungovernable passion can make them, and free as the wind that sweeps over their mighty plains.

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No, the wild ass of the prairie is a large, powerful, swift creature.

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If an ass had been what he styled "barrow-knighted," he would have lain down and let it walk over him--perhaps would even have solicited a passing kick--certainly would not have resented one.

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"Hold hard, you frightened ass!" shouted Jack as a billet of wood whizzed over his head.

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"Well, Jerry," retorted Jack, with a smile, as he leaned back and regarded his work with his head very much on one side, and his eyes partially closed, after the manner of knights of the brush, "I'm not offended, because I'm just as much of an ass as you are of a lion."

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"Not at all," cried Jack; "I can unravel it in a minute, and settle the whole question by proving that there does exist an equality between us; for it is well-known, and generally admitted by all his friends, and must be acknowledged by himself, that Peterkin is an ass."

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"Even admitting that," rejoined Peterkin, "it still remains to be proved that a philosopher, a gorilla, and an ass are equal.

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From that moment--to his own surprise, and according to his own statement--he became an ass!

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It must not be supposed that the coast-guard-man was literally astride of a live ass!

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Why, there may be no end o' cats and galleys takin' the beach wi' baccy an' lush enough to smother you up alive, an' you sittin' there snuffin' the east wind like an old ass, as ye are."

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Seizing Mrs Foster by the shoulders, he stared into her face, and said, "Mother, I have been an ass!

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Tell him, with my luv, to mix a spoonful o' pepper, an' two o' salt, an' wan o' mustard, an' a glass o' whisky in a taycup, with a sprinklin' o' ginger; fill it up with goat's milk, or ass's, av ye can't git goat's; bait it in a pan, an' drink it as hot as he can--hotter, if possible.

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"He's a stupid ass," thought Ruby to himself, and then, turning to Minnie, directed her attention to a curious natural arch on the cliffs, and sought to forget all the rest of the world.

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The drawing might have served almost equally well for an ass, or even for a cow, but Sally watched it with intense interest.

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"You're right Mister Seadrift, you're right, sir, and I'm a ass.

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But I can't help thinking that we might have learned something about him by this time, only our interpreter is such an unmitigated ass, he seems to understand nothing--to pick up nothing."

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"Ass!

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"Ass that I am!" he said, knitting his brows, clenching his teeth, and putting a heavy dab of crimson-lake on the ceiling!

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Does you t'ink Sally's an ass?"

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"Ah!" remarked another, "but I have met a man who had seen it himself on his first voyage, when he was quite a youth; and he said it had a bull's head and horns, with a dreadful long body all over scales, and something like an ass's tail at the end."

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"That ass Bladud won her, and although he does turn out to be her brother, that does not interfere with his right to break off the engagement if so disposed.

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Left to himself and the divinity school, he'll turn into a perfect ass as preacher."

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"To teach him what an ass he really is.

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"As for you, Brenton, I wonder you're not as bad as Baalam's ass.

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What an insufferable ass he was, to have been thinking that her frequent calls had been due to any other motive!

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If only Brenton had been aware how, long ago, Opdyke had been detailed to show him life as it was, and to teach him what an ass he easily might become, there would have been a certain fitness, to his mind, in the later situation.

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Once more Opdyke had been detailed to show him life as it really was, life and some other things, to point out to him, not what an ass he might, but what a hypocrite he had, become.

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CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE "He isn't always such an ass," Dolph said, as he crossed his legs, preparatory to a long discussion.

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The Bacchanals and the Satyrs follow {thee}; the drunken old man, too, {Silenus}, who supports his reeling limbs with a staff, and sticks by no means very fast to his bending ass.

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the beautiful gray ass!

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But as vor me, d'ye zee, with theäse here bit O' land, why I have ev'ry thing a'mwost: Vor I can fatten vowels for the spit, Or zell a good fat goose or two to rwoast; An' have my beäns or cabbage, greens or grass, Or bit o' wheat, or, sich my happy feäte is, That I can keep a little cow, or ass, An' a vew pigs to eat the little teäties.

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'Numskull,' 'beast,' 'fool,' 'puppy,' 'knave,' 'ass,' 'mongrel-cur,' are but a few of the epithets employed.

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The wild ass starting in the forest glade Ran to the covert; the affrighted wolf Skulked through the thicket to a closer brake; The sluggish bear, awakened in his den, Roused up and answered with a sullen growl, Low-breathed and long; and at the uproar scared, The brooding eagle from her nest took wing."

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But, said the uncompromising Forster, "I am truly sorry, my dear Dickens, that I cannot reciprocate your friend's compliment, for _a d----nder ass I never encountered in the whole course of my life_!"

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better than ass, however."

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)_ Now, don't sit there looking a silly ass.

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"So the old boy's dead," he reflected; "and that drunken tattooed ass and his daughter are to come in for the money and the mines!

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If it had been an ass, it would have been attended with an idea of the obstinacy and the reluctance of this animal, which would have suggested its being too difficult; it would not, therefore, have excited, in any manner, the risible faculty.

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Pontifically, compassionately, almost affectionately indeed, he makes it plain to you what an ass you in reality are, and he looks so wise the while that you are hardly able to bear it.

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There followed an agonizing little pause during which you had time to think that you had got the thing wrong, had made an ass of yourself, and were disgraced for evermore.

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When you have been such an ass as to ride your horse into a bog, there is a good deal of excuse for your botching getting the beast out again, as that is in the nature of things a difficult job.

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Oh, for a mighty Sampson to strike the imbeciles with the jaw of an ass, for a mental Hercules to loosen the fontanelles of their petrified skulls and put some sense into them!

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In a letter which he wrote he spoke of one youthful divine as "a conceited ass who had preached for forty minutes."

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[_To BLAND._] You _are_ a patent ass.

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The king has an ass that produces gold coins in profusion every day of his life.

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This ass the princess asked might be sacrificed, in order that she might have his skin.

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_What_ an ass a man can make of himself when he thinks he's being preternaturally clever!"

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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 an ass laden with wood by the bridle.

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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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They drew up the certificate of decease according to the papers found on your friend Lefébure, and as they were yours----" "Why, they mistook him for me; and that ass Rabassu went off with the ship to bring the notary the news of my death."

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There is no trace of Jesse having servants; his youngest child does menial work; the present which he sends to his king when David goes to court was simple, and such as a man in humble life would give--an ass load of bread, one skin of wine, and one kid--his flocks were small--"a few sheep."

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"There's a mistake, you blamed ass!" he screamed.

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He had never been clever; he smarted now under the revelation that all things considered he was an immitigable ass.

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"Don't be an ass, Comly," said the Governor.

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Attention was first directed to this by the following circumstance, related by Sir Everard Home: A young chestnut mare, seven-eighths Arabian, belonging to the Earl of Morton, was covered in 1815 by a Quagga, which is a species of wild ass from Africa, and marked somewhat in the style of a Zebra.

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Morrison, Esq., of Bognie, had a fine Clydesdale mare which in 1843 was served by a Spanish ass and produced a mule.

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[6] It was long ago stated by Haller, that when a mare had a foal by an ass and afterwards another by a horse, the second offspring begotten by the horse nevertheless approached in character to a mule.

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The _mule_ is the progeny of the male ass and the mare; the _hinny_ that of the horse and the she ass.

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Mr. Orton says--"The mule, the produce of the male ass and mare, is essentially a _modified ass_: the ears are those of an ass somewhat shortened; the mane is that of the ass, erect; the tail is that of an ass; the skin and color are those of an ass somewhat modified; the legs are slender and the hoofs high, narrow and contracted, like those of an ass.

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In fact, in all these respects it is an ass somewhat modified.

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The hinny, on the other hand, the produce of the stallion and she ass, is essentially a _modified horse_.

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The body and barrel, however, of the hinny are flat and narrow, in which it differs from the horse and resembles the she ass.

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Griffith smiled at all this, with that lordly superiority the male sometimes wears when he is behaving like a dull ass; and smoked his pipe, and resolved to indulge her whim as soon as ever he had got his hay in.

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An ass and a camel are [in this respect] the same as a female buffalo.

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No, he wouldn't tell me what it was; he would give me the night to guess, and if I shouldn't guess it would be because I was as big an ass as himself.

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However, a lone man might be an ass: he had room in his life for his ears.

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Ladies' Freedmen's Ass'n _for share, Tougaloo U._, and to const.

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W. M. Ass'n.

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The only animal which the Bible calls patient is an ass, and that's both good doctrine and good natural history.

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"It makes me sick every time I think what an ass I've been."

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Pepys was not such an ass, but he must have perceived, as he went on, the extraordinary nature of the work he was producing.

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He was not such an ass, besides, but he must have been conscious of the deadly explosives, the guncotton and the giant powder, he was hoarding in his drawer.

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He was to wonder of course, tinglingly enough, whether he had really made an ass of himself, and there was this amount of evidence for it that there certainly _had_ been a series of moments each one of which glowed with the lucid sense that, as she couldn't like him as much as _that_ either for his acted clap-trap or for his printed verbiage, what it must come to was that she liked him, and to such a tune, just for himself and quite after no other fashion than that in which every goddess in the calendar had, when you came to look, sooner or later liked some prepossessing young shepherd.

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He had hesitated like an ass erect on absurd hind legs between two bundles of hay; the upshot of which must have been his giving the falsest impression.

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"She has told me she thoroughly likes me and that--though a fellow feels an ass repeating such things--she thinks me perfectly charming."

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"Of course I shall," the young man unreservedly agreed--"like a wanton meddling ass!"

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"If I'll obligingly announce to the world that I've made an ass of myself you'll kindly forbear from your united effort--the charming pair of you--to show me up for one?"

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Looked like a bally ass.

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"I've been an ass.

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Maybe it was the whiskey, I don't know, but I'm an ass, a cad, a bounder-everything that's rotten."

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Mr. Waterton further tells us, that a boy of ten or eleven years of age was bitten by a vampire, and a poor ass, belonging to the young gentleman's father, was dying by inches from the bites of the larger kinds, while most of his fowls were killed by the smaller bats.

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From the time, however, that the finer animals became common, asses seem to have fallen into disrepute; and we read that the greatest of all beings, when performing His Divine Mission upon earth, and was about to give himself up as a sacrifice for us, rode into Jerusalem upon an ass, thereby shewing his humility.

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Mr. Bell describes an ass which belonged to his grandfather, who was so swift, that matches were made against him by the possessors of the fastest asses which could be found; but he beat them all, and even followed the hounds, coming up in gallant style, at the death of the fox.

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Bishop Heber gives the following description of an ass which he saw in a paddock, near Bombay, and which portrays a different disposition.

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He says, "it was a noble wild ass from Cutch, as high as a well grown Galloway, a beautiful animal, admirably formed for fleetness and power, apparently very gentle and fond of horses, and by no means disliked by them; in which respect the asses of India differ from all others of which I have heard.

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The same fact has been told me of the wild ass in Rajpootana."

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Their bearing is most noble, they are the size of an ass, have black bands about the head, looking like a stall collar.

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