The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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"I publish banns of marriage," said Parson Hales, in those generous old port-wine tones of his, "between Reuben Gold, bachelor, and Ruth Fuller, spinster, both of this parish, and--" Mr. Ferdinand de Blacquaire realized with a shocking suddenness and vividness that he was an ass and a puppy.

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Look at the stormy small capitals of this oatmeal hero, who is supposed to electrify us by the mere fact of his not being an incredible ass and scoundrel!

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which proved instantly efficacious; and a minute or two later I was on shore at Galata, astride a donkey whose tail was industriously twisted round by his driver, and who was followed by an unequally laden brother ass, who bore my portmanteau on one flank and my trunk upon another.

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Just as the old Hoja went by, and the placid little donkey followed at his heels, the Circassian stepped into the horse-road, gave the weapon a braggadocio swing, and at a single blow divided the head of the poor little ass from the body as cleanly as any dandy swordsman of the Guards will sever a hanging sheep.

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If under such conditions a man had no such faith, he would be an ass beyond the reach of satire.

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I called Bru-now "a melodramatic ass" I remember very well, and I told him that if we fell into a habit of getting in the corners to conspire we should only draw suspicion upon ourselves.

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"He made an ass of himself at the Waterfoot, and his stupidity would have let three or four people drown if Young Islay, a callant better than himself had not put out a boat and rescued them.

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Anyway, she's making an ass of somebody!"

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"Ass!" he growled, staring hard at me.

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"Don't be an ass," I returned.

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Here you come and drag me out of jail, telling me I 'm innocent and all that sort of thing, and because I don't strike out hot-footed and throw myself into the presence of the cleanest, sweetest girl in the world, you think I 'm an ass.

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Led by an old eunuch of dubious habits, a crowd of painted young men marched along the highways with an ass that bore an elaborately adorned image of the goddess.

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They wrote ASS on their palms and slapped it on to our backs with a cordial "hello!"

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For which he paid full dear; For, while he spake, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear; Whereat his horse did snort, as he Had heard a lion roar, And galloped off with all his might, As he had done before.

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An ass's foal had lost its dam Within the spacious park; And simple as the playful lamb Had followed in the dark.

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'I daresay you may think me an ass, but I could not for the life of me bear the thought of turning the old man out after all these years.

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Even Baalam's ass cried out in protest when smitten by his brutal master, and God gave him the power to cry out, endowed him miraculously with speech in which to voice his protest.

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"That architect was an ass," says Jarvis; "but mother told him to go ahead.

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Made me feel like a silly ass, you know."

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To the king who "supposed that they were of the same stuff as the Confederates," his chronicler du Bellay replied that "it was folly to disguise an ass as a charger"----"Why pay these cowards," asked the king in return, "who fled like _Grues hier_?"

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An ass brayed, which they took to be a very good omen.

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And when very soon afterwards another ass brayed upon the right hand, furnishing them with Thibaoo, or the omen on the right hand, their satisfaction was very great, for they said openly that after omens so favourable success was absolutely assured.

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'Everything's dangerous for an ass,' said Steinberg.

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And I think that you are the blamedest kind of an ass and a duffer to have pulled me out.

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'Paul Armstrong: the Autobiography of an Ass.'

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Whether Paul were a greater ass than most imaginative boys of his years may be a question, but he was as serious about this matter as if he had been eight-and-twenty, and when he reached home he had been rejected and had died of it, and accepted and married many times over.

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She was neither pleased nor affronted by the vacuous ass's compliments, and when he praised her hair and her complexion, she accepted it as placidly as if she had been a waxen lady in a barber's window.

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To my mind, the man who derides it is, so far as his derision carries him, an ass.'

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Exactly what this gifted and amiable young ass of a Bostonian was doing, and saying, and thinking, and feeling, he had been doing, saying, thinking, feeling a year ago.

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Let me begin by telling you that for some three years of my life, more or less, I made an unexampled ass of myself about a certain lady.

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'I took a fancy to declaim a favourite little bit of Euripides in Endell Street, and a uniformed ass came along and ran me in.

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He is almost prepared to welcome 'free education,' since 'every Englishman who can read, unless he be an Ass, is a reader the more' for Dickens.

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_Moi_ is an admirable comedy, and De la Porcheraie is almost hideously egoistic; the _Voyage de M. Perrichon_ is delightful reading, and Perrichon is as pompous an ass as I know; but the _Chapeau de Paille_, the _Cagnotte_, the _Trente Millions_, the _Sensitive_, the _Deux Merles Blancs_, the _Doit-On le Dire_, and their compeers--with them it is other-guess work altogether.

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The Rembrandt of _The Syndics_, the Shakespeare of _The Tempest_ and _Lear_--what are these but pits for the feet of the Young Ass?

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As, not content with committing himself thus far, he goes on to prove that Boswell was great because he was little, that he wrote a great book because he was an ass, and that if he had not been an ass his book would probably have been at least a small one, incredulity on these points becomes respectable.

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"What an ass I've been not to have thought of that before, particularly as she has been so constantly in my thoughts.

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He had been living for a time in the little town of Le Monastier, fifteen miles from Le Puy, and here, in the late autumn, he bought an ass which he called 'Modestine,' and with it, to the great interest of his simple neighbours, started on a tour in the Cevennes.

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"Never a little copper ass have I left upon me.

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"You're an ass, John," he said; "picking up the countryside's gossip.

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One day, as the Moorish sovereign was surrounded by his court in the beautiful pavilion built on the ground belonging to the poor woman, the Cadi Bechir presented himself before him, seated on an ass, and carrying in his hand a large sack.

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From thence he was afterward conducted through the streets of the city, seated, half naked, upon an ass, and led to a field termed the _Tablada_, where thirty-seven of his devoted followers were deprived of their heads in his presence.

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Adlington, in his preface to his rendering of _The Golden Ass_ of Apuleius, says that he does not follow the original in certain respects, "for so the French and Spanish translators have not done";[270] Hoby says of his translation of _The Courtier_, "I have endeavored myself to follow the very meaning and words of the author, without being misled by fantasy or leaving out any parcel one or other, whereof I know not how some interpreters of this book into other languages can excuse themselves, and the more they be conferred, the more it will perchance appear.

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"[287] Adlington, the translator of _The Golden Ass_ of Apuleius, says, "I have not so exactly passed through the author as to point every sentence exactly as it is in the Latin.

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"Silly ass," said Laddie.

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"Silly ass!

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"Silly ass!" said Laddie.

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He wondered whether Rachel was considering him a pompous ass.

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The thing was ludicrously unfinished and he was making an ass of himself.

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God, what an ass!

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A sort of indomitable ass.

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I suppose I made an ass of myself.

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Little Nell has her own position in careful and reasonable criticism: even that wobbling old ass, her grandfather, has his position in it; perhaps even the dissipated Fred (whom long acquaintance with Mr. Dick Swiveller has not made any less dismal in his dissipation) has a place in it also.

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Cousin Feenix is a good sketch of the sort of well-bred old ass who is so fundamentally genuine that he is always saying very true things by accident.

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We stood on the very rostrum in the theatre where St. Paul and the coppersmith had trouble--while at the time of our visit, the only living inhabitant of that once great city was a hungry ass which we saw harboured in a dressing-room beneath the platform.

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Incensed at the obstinacy and stupidity of the Phrygian king, Apollo punished him by giving him the ears of an ass.

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But after all, this very humiliating secret was revealed to the world, for some reeds which sprung up from the spot murmured incessantly, as they waved to and fro in the wind: "King Midas has the ears of an ass."

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The tiger, lynx, panther, dolphin, serpent, and ass were sacred to this god.

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Aretias (ă-ree´-she-ass), 221 .

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Ascalaphus (ass-cal´-a-fuss), 55 , 250 .

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Asclepius (ass-clee´-pe-us), 71 , 76 , 176 .

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Asphodel meadows (ass-fo-del), 133 .

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Astarte (ass-tar´-te), 61 .

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Astræa (ass-tree´-ah), 85 .

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Astræus (ass-tree´-us), 68 .

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Astyanax (ass-ti´-a-nax), 304 .

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Athene-Polias (po´-le-ass), 44 , 189 , 199 , 264 .

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Augeas (aw´-je-ass), 242 , 254 .

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Boreas (bo´-re-ass), 171 .

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Marsyas (mar´-she-ass), 78 .

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Pelias (pee´-le-ass), 106 , 213 , 230 .

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Phidias (fid´-e-ass), 28 .

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Teutamias (tu-ta´-me-ass), 209 .

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Tiresias (ti-ree´-she-ass), 235 , 271 , 274 , 277 , 313 .

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And as when a stubborn ass, upon whose sides[379] many sticks have already been broken, entering in, browses on the tall crop, but the boys still beat him with sticks, although their strength is but feeble, and with difficulty drive him out, when he is satiated with food, so then at length the magnanimous Trojans and far-summoned allies continually followed Ajax, the mighty son of Telamon, striking the middle of his shield with missile weapons.

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It was not too late to cease playing the part of a fool and an ass.

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An instrumental performer makes a bad tone, and the conductor laughs at him, saying it sounds like a wolf howling or an ass braying.

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They then tore off the nails of his fingers and toes with red-hot pincers, tied him to the tail of an ass, and dragged him about the streets; and, finally fastened a cord round his head, which they twisted with a stick in so violent a manner as to wring it from his body.

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They whipped him through the town upon an ass.

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The shekh declared, that he had never sent such a message; that the man who brought it was but an ass, and said it from his own brain; that having heard of Asaad's arrival, he merely wished to see whether the reports respecting his insanity were true or false; that Asaad was his bosom friend, his own son, and that whatever he had was his; and that as for church, and priests, and patriarch, he cared for none of them.

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Asaad.--"But why then do you not paint the _ass_ also, and pay it all obeisance, and all honours, for our Saviour, when he rode upon the ass, was in all honour, and all paid him obeisance; but when he was on the cross, he was in sorrow and disgrace."

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_A Forbear to vex the patient Ass, Its heaving sides to goad, And far and safe its useful back Will carry many a load._ B--THE BITTERN.

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Julia was careless, and withal She rather took than got a fall, The wanton ambler chanc'd to see Part of her legs' sincerity: And ravish'd thus, it came to pass, The nag (like to the prophet's ass) Began to speak, and would have been A-telling what rare sights he'd seen: And had told all; but did refrain Because his tongue was tied again.

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To tire thy patient ox or ass By noon, and let thy good days pass, Not knowing this, that Jove decrees Some mirth t' adulce man's miseries?

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God did forbid the Israelites to bring An ass unto Him for an offering, Only, by this dull creature, to express His detestation to all slothfulness.

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Spur jingles now, and swears by no mean oaths, He's double honour'd, since he's got gay clothes: Most like his suit, and all commend the trim; And thus they praise the sumpter, but not him: As to the goddess, people did confer Worship, and not to th' ass that carried her.

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Neither take out your carriage, "that thine ox and thine ass may rest."

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"Don't be an ass!" answered Sir Adam.

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Don't be an ass, Brook.

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"Don't be an ass, Brook!" exclaimed Sir Adam, for the third time that morning.

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"It's all very well to tell me not to be an ass," answered the young man gravely.

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2-7, where our Lord is represented as making use of both an ass and a colt for His triumphal entry into Jerusalem.

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India's English rulers despise--and rightfully--all marital relations between whites and Hindoos; the children of such marriages are regarded as mules, and are often called such; they are neither horse nor ass, they are half caste.

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'_ "_Between a heifer and an ass Enixa est puerpera; In ragged woollen clad He was Qui regnat super aethera, And patiently may we then pass That sing, and heartily sing we, 'Gloria Tibi, Domine!_" The Queen shivered in the glad sunlight.

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We have somewhere heard that "a live ass is better than a dead lion," which we quote, not as individually applicable, but as a general adage; for we disclaim personalities, and well know that J. K. is an eminent actor, and one whom we have not niggardly praised.

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"Because he is an ass, I reckon."

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* * * * * Coleridge, who was a bad rider, was accosted when on horseback by a wag, who asked him if he knew what happened to Balaam, "The same thing that happened to me--An ass spoke to him."

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The name of the performer on his right hand, ----"Whose growling bass Would drown the clarion of the braying ass," I cannot learn, nor do I think that this group were meant for particular portraits, but a general representation of the violent distortions into which these crotchet-mongers draw their features on such solemn occasions.

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The Captain was walking one day in his park when he came on an intruder in the shape of an ass.

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Apollo, in revenge, endows him with a pair of ass's ears.

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