The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Shot afther shot fell round th' inthrepid ass; but he remained firm till th' dinnymite boat Vesoovyus fired three hundherd an' forty thousand pounds iv gum cotton at him, an' the poor crather was smothered to death.

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"The morre sso ass you assurre me that the man rressponssible hass been drriven frrom among you.

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These ought to have remembered the specified requirement of the law--that if one saw an ass or an ox fall down by the way, he should not hide himself, but should surely help the owner to lift the creature up again.

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Having done what he could by way of emergency treatment as recognized in the medical practise of the day, he placed the injured one upon his own beast, probably a mule or an ass, and took him to the nearest inn, where he tended him personally and made arrangements for his further care.

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Jesus forthwith healed the man; then He turned to the assembled company and asked: "Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?

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[1065] While still in Bethany or in the neighboring village of Bethphage, and according to John's account on the next day after the supper at Simon's house, Jesus directed two of His disciples to go to a certain place, where, He told them, they would find an ass tied, and with her a colt on which no man had ever sat.

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Matthew alone mentions both ass and colt; the other writers specify the latter only; most likely the mother followed as the foal was led away, and the presence of the dam probably served to keep the colt tractable.

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He came riding on an ass, in token of peace, acclaimed by the Hosanna shouts of multitudes; not on a caparisoned steed with the panoply of combat and the accompaniment of bugle blasts and fanfare of trumpets.

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But the Romans saw nothing to fear, perhaps much to smile at, in the spectacle of a King mounted upon an ass, and attended by subjects, who, though numerous, brandished no weapons but waved instead palm branches and myrtle sprigs.

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The ass has been designated in literature as "the ancient symbol of Jewish royalty," and one riding upon an ass as the type of peaceful progress.

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The manner of His entry should have appealed to the learned teachers of the law and the prophets; for Zechariah's impressive forecast, the fulfilment of which the evangelist, John, finds in the events of this memorable Sunday,[1068] was frequently cited among them: "Rejoice greatly, O, daughter of Zion; shout, O, daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.

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Ass, Christ rides upon, 514; as predicted, 517.

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Every human being seems to condemn in the strongest terms the conduct of Wellesley; there never was such an ass, and if he has hatched all this trumpery and made Plunket his dupe, the latter will never get over it; such is the belief, and it really looks like it.

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Ass.

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But nearing home Clive lifted her nose, and sniffing the breeze like a wild ass of the desert sensing unfamiliar things scowled bitterly.

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One was a fat and pompous ass, the other a withered monkey of a fellow who hopped about peering through his monocle at the pictures on the walls, uttering deprecating criticism in the hope of bringing down prices.

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Everyone with any sense of politeness or tact must recognise that it is grossly improper to wound the feelings of the lower orders of creation by the opprobrious use of such epithets as ass, donkey, cat, mule, pig, goose, monkey, and so on.

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WORDS ACCENTED ON THE FIRST SYLLABLE: admirable _ad'mirable_ alias _a'lias_ applicable _ap'plicable_ bicycle _bi'sikle_ chastisement _chas'tisement_ construe _con'strue_ despicable _des'picable_ desultory _des'ultory_ disputant _dis'putant_ exigency _ex'ijency_ explicable _ex'plicable_ exquisite _ex'quisite_ extant _ex'tant_ formidable _for'midable_ Genoa _jen'oa_ gondola _gon'dola_ harass _har'ass_ hospitable _hos'pitable_ impious _im'pious_, not _imp?ous_ industry _in'dustry_ inventory _in'ventory_ lamentable _lam'entable_ mischievous _mis'chievous_ obligatory _ob'ligatory_ pariah _pa'riah_ peremptory _per'emptory_ preferable _pref'erable_ Romola _Rom'ola_ vehemence _ve'hemence_ 224.

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Poor donkey, I'll give him a handfull of grass, I'm sure he's a good-natured honest old ass; He trots to the market, to carry the sack, And lets me ride all the way on his back.

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Instead of moving down the bank I'm ass enough to reel from where I hooked him.

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He spoke to Lyla with grating vehemence: "You've done an excellent job of making an ass of yourself--and of me--haven't you?

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Then there are slow readers, who plod along through a book, sentence by sentence, putting in a mark conscientiously where they left off to-day, so as to begin at the self-same spot to-morrow; fast readers, who gallop through a book, as you would ride a flying bicycle on a race; drowsy readers, to whom a book is only a covert apology for a nap, and who pretend to be reading Macaulay or Herbert Spencer only to dream between the leaves; sensitive readers, who cannot abide the least noise or interruption when reading, and to whose nerves a foot-fall or a conversation is an exquisite torture; absorbed readers, who are so pre-occupied with their pursuit that they forget all their surroundings--the time of day, the presence or the voices of others, the hour for dinner, and even their own existence; credulous readers, who believe everything they read because it is printed in a book, and swallow without winking the most colossal lying; critical and captious readers, who quarrel with the blunders or the beliefs of their author, and who cannot refrain from calling him an idiot or an ass--and perhaps even writing him down so on his own pages; admiring and receptive readers, who find fresh beauties in a favorite author every time they peruse him, and even discover beautiful swans in the stupidest geese that ever cackled along the flowery meads of literature; reverent readers, who treat a book as they would treat a great and good man, considerately and politely, carefully brushing the dust from a beloved volume with the sleeve, or tenderly lifting a book fallen to the floor, as if they thought it suffered, or felt harm; careless and rough readers, who will turn down books on their faces to keep the place, tumble them over in heaps, cram them into shelves never meant for them, scribble upon the margins, dogs-ear the leaves, or even cut them with their fingers--all brutal and intolerable practices, totally unworthy of any one pretending to civilization.

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To eat our own words would seem to bear some analogy to that diet of east-wind which is sometimes attributed to the wild ass, and might therefore be wholesome for the tame variety of that noble and necessary animal, which, like the poor, we are sure to have always with us.

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There is just a chance that in the last few pages you may get on the right track, but, if you are honest with yourself, you will have to admit that you did it simply by a process of elimination, after you had made an ass of yourself and arrested every innocent person in the book on suspicion.

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Sisters of the one that had murdered his family--the hellish spawn of that accursed Number Eleven vortex that that damnably incompetent bungling ass had tried to blow up....

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[Footnote 26: A wheel similar to the Persian wheel, worked by a mule or an ass, having pots, which throw the water into a trough as they pass round, which trough discharges the water into the garden, and immerges the plants.]

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He frequently hunts the antelope, wild ass, ostrich, and an animal, which, from Shabeeny's description, appears to be the wild cow[65] of Africa.

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The wild ass is very fleet, and when closely pursued kicks back the earth and sand in the eyes of his pursuers.

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He never saw an antelope, wild ass, or ostrich alone, but generally in large droves.

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Another letter from home--or from that ass, eh?

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Oh, what a blind, selfish ass I've been!

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But I can say that, in spite of making it a point of professional honour to try to keep a warm spine and check the unbidden tear from trickling down my nose (which makes you look such an ass before a cynical colleague during the intervals), I was beaten in both attempts.

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"Did you ever see such a tup-headed old ass?" said the Antiquary, "but I must not let him burst in on the ladies in this mad way either."

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"That ass Bill," he said peevishly.

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The more practical Joe toiled behind, bending under the burden of (their treasure trove) a big pumpkin, a basket of persimmons, and a few stalks of sorghum, for, like the Scriptural colts of the wild ass, they passed their time in searching after every green thing.

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The "colts of the wild ass seeking after every green thing" had sought the sorghum patch, and Mammy had taken a basket into the garden for a final gathering of sage leaves.

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"The mass ough' to labour an' we lay on soffies, Thet 's the reason I want to spread Freedom's aree; It puts all the cunninest on us in office, An' reelises our Maker's orig'nal idee," Sez John C. Calhoun, sez he;-- "Thet 's ez plain," sez Cass, "Ez thet some one 's an ass, It 's ez clear ez the sun is at noon," sez he.

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You are not up to the tricks of the trade, and although you may not generally be written down an ass, you must in your new vocation pay your footing.

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When I visited Leeds for the British Association Meeting, I was made a member of Ye Red Lyon Clubbe, a dining club which I understand meets once a year as a relief to the daily monotony of the serious business of the Association--in fact, "for one night only" the British Ass.

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Therefore one day when he and his court were sitting in the solemn state that Midas required, there rode into their midst, tipsily swaying on the back of a gentle full-fed old grey ass, ivy-crowned, jovial and foolish, the satyr Silenus, guardian of the young god Bacchus.

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Then he spoke: "The ears of an ass have heard my music," he said.

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"Henceforth shall Midas have ass's ears."

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And when Midas, in terror, clapped his hands to his crisp black hair, he found growing far beyond it, the long, pointed ears of an ass.

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And then, at length, silence was to him a torture too great to be borne; he sought a lonely place, there dug a deep hole, and, kneeling by it, softly whispered to the damp earth: "King Midas has ass's ears."

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And when the winds blew through them, the rushes whispered for all those who passed by to hear: "King Midas has ass's ears!

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King Midas has ass's ears!"

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I should have been delighted to behold How like an ass you look'd, and held the fan.

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_MENEDEMUS alone._ That I'm not overwise, no conjurer, I know full well: but my assistant here, And counselor, and grand controller Chremes, Outgoes me far: dolt, blockhead, ninny, ass; Or these, or any other common terms By which men speak of fools, befit me well: But him they suit not: his stupidity Is so transcendent, it exceeds them all.

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WHAT AN ASS YOU MUST BE, ALWAYS GETTING INTO SCRAPES WITH WOMEN!

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Hamlet saw that pithy old Polonius was a preposterous and orotund ass.

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R. L. S. had been thrilled enough by a few nights spent in the dark with the docile ass of the Cevennes; but here was one, sprung from sober Philadelphia blood, born in Indianapolis and baptized by Henry Ward Beecher, who had pioneered across the fabled Isthmus, lived in the roaring mining camps of Nevada, worked for a dressmaker in Frisco, and venturously taken her young children to Belgium and France to study art.

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"Sturgis, you remember 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' and how Titania, on the application of Puck's clarifying lotion to her eyes, perceives that in Bottom she has loved an ass.

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We passed over in eloquent silence a couple of lurid _affiches_ which declared that "Exhampton Is So Exhilarating" (a middle-aged person in side-whiskers and a purple bathing-suit attempting to drown his unfortunate wife), and that "Rooksea Will Restore the Roses" (a fragile young woman in a deck-chair being nourished out of a box of chocolates by a sentimental ass whose attire proclaimed him a member of the local concert party).

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for lapse of time, 124 ; comb-making of bee, 125 ; birds feeding young, 19 , 126 ; nest-building, gradation in, 18 , 120 , 121 , 122 ; instincts, complex, difficulty in believing in their evolution, 20 , 121 Intermediate forms, see Forms Island, see Elevation, Fauna, Flora Island, upheaved and gradually colonised, 184 Islands, nurseries of new species, 33 , 35 n. , 185 , 189 Isolation, 32 , 34 n. , 64 , 95 , 183 , 184 Lepidosiren, 140 n. , 212 Limbs, vertebrate, of one type, 38 , 216 Mammals , arctic, transported by icebergs, 170 ; distribution, 151 , 152 , 193 ; distribution of, ruled by barriers, 154 ; introduced by man on islands, 172 ; not found on oceanic islands, 172 ; relations in time and space, similarity of, 176 ; of Tertiary period, relation of to existing forms in same region, 174 Mammals, Names of :- Antelope, 148 ; Armadillo, 174 ; Ass, 79 , 107 , 172 ; Bat, 38 , 123 , 128 n. , 131 , 132 , 214 ; Bear, sterile in captivity, 100 ; -whale-like habit, 128 n. ; Bizcacha, 168 , 203 , 212 ; Bull, mammæ of, 232 ; Carnivora, law of compensation in, 106 ; Cats, run wild at Ascension, 172 ; -tailless, 60 ; Cattle, horns of, 75 , 207 ; -increase in S. America, 90 ; {261} -Indian, 205 ; -Niata, 61 , 73 ; -suffering in parturition from too large calves, 75 ; Cheetah, sterility of, 100 and n. ; Chironectes, 199 ; Cow, abortive mammæ, 232 ; Ctenomys, see Tuco-tuco; Dog, 106 , 114 ; -in Cuba, 113 and n. ; -mongrel breed in oceanic islands, 70 ; -difference in size a bar to crossing, 97 ; -domestic, parentage of, 71 , 72 , 73 ; -drooping ears, 236 ; -effects of selection, 66 ; -inter-fertile, 14 ; -long-legged breed produced to catch hares, 9 , 10 , 91 , 92 ; -of savages, 67 ; -races of resembling genera, 106 , 204 ; -Australian, change of colour in, 61 ; -bloodhound, Cuban, 204 ; -bull-dog, 113 ; -foxhound, 114 , 116 ; -greyhound and bull-dog, young of resembling each other, 43 , 44 n. , 225 ; -pointer, 114 , 115 , 116 , 117 , 118 ; -retriever, 118 n. ; -setter, 114 ; -shepherd-dog and harrier crossed, instinct of, 118 , 119 ; -tailless, 60 ; -turnspit, 66 ; Echidna, 82 n. ; Edentata, fossil and living in S. America, 174 ; Elephant, sterility of, 12 , 100 ; Elk, 125 ; Ferret, fertility of, 12 , 102 ; Fox, 82 , 173 , 181 ; Galeopithecus, 131 n. ; Giraffe, fossil, 177 ; -tail, 128 n. ; Goat, run wild at Tahiti, 172 ; Guanaco, 175 ; Guinea-pig, 69 ; Hare, S. American, 158 n. ; Hedgehog, 82 n. ; Horse, 67 , 113 , 115 , 148 , 149 ; -checks to increase, 148 , 149 ; -increase in S. America, 90 ; -malconformations and lameness inherited, 58 ; -parentage, 71 , 72 ; -stripes on, 107 ; -young of cart-horse and racehorse resembling each other, 43 ; Hyena, fossil, 177 ; Jaguar, catching fish, 132 ; Lemur, flying, 131 n. ; Macrauchenia, 137 ; Marsupials, fossil in Europe, 175 n. , 177 ; -pouch bones, 232 , 237 ; Mastodon, 177 ; Mouse, 153 , 155 ; -enormous rate of increase, 89 , 90 ; Mule, occasionally breeding, 97 , 102 ; Musk-deer, fossil, 177 ; Mustela vison , 128 n. , 132 n. ; Mydas, 170 ; Mydaus, 170 ; Nutria, see Otter; Otter, 131 , 132 , 170 ; -marsupial, 199 , 205 , 211 ; Pachydermata, 137 ; Phascolomys, 203 , 212 ; Pig, 115 , 217 ; -in oceanic islands, 70 ; -run wild at St Helena, 172 ; Pole-cat, aquatic, 128 n. , 132 _n._; Porpoise, paddle of, 38 , 214 ; Rabbit, 74 , 113 , 236 ; Rat, Norway, 153 ; Reindeer, 125 ; Rhinoceros, 148 ; -abortive teeth of, 45 , 231 ; -three oriental species of, 48 , 249 ; Ruminantia, 137 and n. ; Seal, 93 n. , 131 ; Sheep, 68 , 78 , 117 , 205 ; -Ancon variety, 59 , 66 , 73 ; -inherited habit of returning home to lamb, 115 ; -transandantes of Spain, their migratory instinct, 114 , 117 , 124 n. ; Squirrel, flying, 131 ; Tapir, 135 , 136 ; Tuco-tuco, blindness of, 46 , 236 ; Whale, rudimentary teeth, 45 , 229 ; Wolf, 71 , 72 , 82 ; Yak, 72 Metamorphosis, literal not metaphorical, 41 , 72 Metamorphosis, e.g.

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John, the beloved disciple, dressed in green raiment with a red mantle, led the little ass, carrying in his hand a long pilgrim staff.

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A doctor beside me whispered "anæmic," the red-haired ass!

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It was the big Sikh who had done the horrible gurgling; the silly ass had joined in with several Chinese, professional gamblers, and of course lost, and unlike a Burman or a Chinaman, the native of India can't lose stolidly.

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You remember there was an old mangled-eared ass, used by the shepherd to carry the hides of slaughtered oxen, called by my servants, out of ridicule, Sárvölgyi.

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The one says, 'I, a male ass, wish to graze with you, a female-ass, on thistles;' or, 'I, a man, wish to be your god, woman, to care for you.'

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This chief magistrate did not seem to be very learned; a little less and he would have been an ass, a little more and he would have known how to read.

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A white ass, but not an albino, has been described without either spinal or shoulder stripe; and these stripes are sometimes very obscure, or actually quite lost, in dark-coloured asses.

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We see several very distinct species of the horse-genus becoming, by simple variation, striped on the legs like a zebra, or striped on the shoulders like an ass.

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By a reciprocal cross between two species, I mean the case, for instance, of a stallion-horse being first crossed with a female-ass, and then a male-ass with a mare: these two species may then be said to have been reciprocally crossed.

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For instance, I think those authors are right, who maintain that the ass has a prepotent power over the horse, so that both the mule and the hinny more resemble the ass than the horse; but that the prepotency runs more strongly in the male-ass than in the female, so that the mule, which is the offspring of the male-ass and mare, is more like an ass, than is the hinny, which is the offspring of the female-ass and stallion.

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This is how the rhyme goes--a fairly modern version of a much older doggerel: "He had nor horse, nor ox, nor ass, but the deer so little and limber; They ran in the forest to please themselves, why shouldn't they draw his timber?"

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"No need for formality," he said, and felt like an ass.

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"More so had it been an ass's carcase, perhaps."

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He is a most insufferably conceited ass about his golf, for a man who plays as badly as he does; in addition to which he usually beats me.

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I fled, leaving that ass, Steel, cooing the most puerile rot about how he couldn't forget her and so forth.

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If the enemy is an ass, and a fool, and a prating coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should also, look you, be an ass, and a fool, and a prating coxcomb, in your own conscience, now?

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These shepherds sold us milk, and one of them offered to lend my father an ass for a knife which he had seen him take from his pocket.

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In these exhibitions, Balaam, superbly habited and wearing an enormous pair of spurs, rode a wooden ass, in which the speaker was concealed.

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The giant Harapha now appears, and mocks Samson with the taunt that had he met him before he was blind, he would have left him dead on the field of death, "where thou wrought'st wonders with an ass' jaw."

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If he had only lived five years longer, he would have seen the great church of Notre Dame solemnly consecrated by legislative decree to the worship of Reason, bishops publicly trampling on crosier and ring amid universal applause, and vast crowds exulting in processions whose hero was an ass crowned with a mitre.

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In the _Golden Ass_ of the Greek romancist of the second century, who, in common with his cotemporary the great rationalist Lucian, deserves the praise of having exposed (with more wit perhaps than success) some of the most absurd prejudices of the day, his readers are entertained with stories that might pretty nearly represent the sentiments of the seventeenth century.

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In short, who seems to be a blend Of Balaam's Ass, the bore's godsend And _Mrs. Gamp's_ elusive friend?

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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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The Turks say that a fool has three points in common with an ass,--he eats, he drinks, and he brays at other asses.

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I sat by the library fire and thought it all over, and I said to myself at last, "Paul Griggs, thou art an ass for thy pains, and an inquisitive idiot for thy curiosity."

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They are described usually as riding together in a chariot which is sometimes said to be drawn by horses, and this would suit their name; but more often the poets say that their chariot is drawn by birds, such as eagles or swans, and sometimes even by a buffalo or buffaloes, or by an ass.

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Holbein, illustrating Erasmus, knows but of one representation of a fool: with a staff and ass's ears.

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'not even the peeping of an ass is safe.'

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In court the potter, asked of what he complained, replied: 'Of the peeping of an ass.'

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Mr. LYALL SWETE played competently a poisonous ass of a vicar, and was responsible for the production, which was admirable.

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"Hold thy blatant tongue for an ass as thou art!" was his civil reply to Basset's lyric on his valour.

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I tell thee what, Jack Enville--there is _one_ ass aboard the fleet, and his name is neither Arthur Tremayne nor--saving your presence--Robin Basset.

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The man is an ass, but he is legal guardian of the place, and has not done badly in collecting money for the restoration; so we must bear with him."

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"I can't think how I managed to come off; I don't usually make such an ass of myself."

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"Don't be an ass, Dick!"

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"I don't suppose I should have done so now, if you hadn't been such a stubborn young ass.

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"What an ass I am to be upset by a lovers' quarrel.

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The Board of Trade was, of course, an ass; that goes without saying (_ça va sans dire_); but it is childish of literary men to come there and pretend to be nonplussed.

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