The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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(_An awful prospect._) Long, long ago, when I had not attested, I prized the liberties of this proud race, The right of speech, from haughty rulers wrested, The right to put one's neighbours in their place; I liked to argue and I loved to pass Slighting remarks on Robert, who's an ass, To hint that Henry's manners were no class, Or simply say I did not like his face.

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"I'm most awfully obliged," said Buz in a very low voice; "I do feel such an ass lying here."

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We meant to spoil that meeting, but we began too soon, and they were too strong for us, and... he's an ass, and shouted out all sorts of things he shouldn't--we deserved what we got."

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His father, he said, had been an old fool, an ass, an idiot, a vulgar, ignorant fool; but he was not a man to break his word.

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He did not on that account dislike the young barrister, or call him, even within his own breast, a snob or an ass.

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I have made a confounded ass of myself, and the sooner I get away the better.

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I could knock my own head off, if I only knew how, for having made such an ass of myself."

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He acknowledged that he had made an ass of himself in this affair of Mary Snow.

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He had struggled hard to tell the truth, and in doing so had simply proved himself to be an ass.

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And whilst one ass-ass-in another plies With starch'd civilities--the patient dyes."

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What a thrice-double ass Was I, to take this drunkard for a god, And worship this dull fool!

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Away, ass!

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What an ass art thou!

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Why, thou whoreson ass, thou mistakest me.

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[ Aside ] That such an ass should owe them.

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By this hat, then, he in the red face had it; for though I cannot remember what I did when you made me 155 drunk, yet I am not altogether an ass.

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Page is an ass, a secure ass: he will trust his wife; he will not 270 be jealous.

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I do begin to perceive that I am made an ass.

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If thou art rich, thou’rt poor; For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, 335 Thou bear’st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee.

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[ To Lucio ] You, sirrah, that knew me for a fool, a coward, One all of luxury, an ass, a madman; V. 1 500 Wherein have I so deserved of you, That you extol me thus?

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If thou art chang’d to aught, ’tis to an ass.

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419 200 ’Tis so, I am an ass; else it could never be But I should know her as well as she knows me.

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E. I think thou art an ass.

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I should kick, being kick’d; and, being at that pass, You would keep from my heels, and beware of an ass.

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If thou hadst been Dromio to-day in my place, Thou wouldst have changed thy face for a name, or thy name for an ass .

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S. I am an ass, I am a woman’s man, and besides myself.

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E. Thou art sensible in nothing but blows, and so is an ass.

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E. I am an ass, indeed; you may prove it by my long ears .

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47. an ass ] a face Collier MS. 48.

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Sometimes a horse, sometimes an ass, captivates the fancy of a whole drove of mules, but often an animal nowise akin.

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A certain ass had his quarters in a shed, in front of which was a small yard.

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The owner of the premises one morning, in taking a turn round his garden, observed the footprints of an ass on the walks and beds.

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This was especially noticeable in the case of an ass belonging to a carrier at Wigan.

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THE BRAVE ASS AND HIS FOE.

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Whenever you are attacked by a spiritual or moral foe, imitate the brave ass, and drown it.

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He was so well acquainted with the houses of all his master's customers, that while the baker went into one to deliver his loaves, the sagacious ass would proceed to the door of the next, at which, when he could reach the knocker, he gave a rap-a-tap-tap.

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THE SHIPWRECKED ASS.

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An ass was shipped at Gibraltar on board the _Isis_ frigate, to be sent to Captain Dundas, then at Malta.

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The ship, on her voyage, struck on a sand-bank off Cape de Gat, when among other things thrown overboard was the poor ass; it being hoped that, although the sea was running high, the animal might reach the shore.

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THE MUSICAL ASS.

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You may be esteemed wonderfully clever in the nursery, or even at school; but when you appear among strangers at home, or go out visiting, wait till you are invited to exhibit your talents, or you may be considered as audacious a donkey as was the musical ass.

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_Capt._ (half hesitating).--"That is true, Madam, but I am such an ass, I cannot hide the impulse of the moment."

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I dare say they think such an ass of a woman will be more likely to do us harm than good by her presence.

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In the hands of too many, wealth, according to the genial and redoubtable comparison of Luther, is like a harp in the hoofs of an ass.

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It was a marchand of vegetables in a greasy blouse, leading an ass.

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THE STORY OF BURIDAN'S ASS.

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[13] Buridan[14] (died about 1358) is the creator of the famous ass which, as _Burdin's_[15] ass, was current in Burgundy, perhaps is, as a vulgar proverb.

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Spinoza[16] says it was a jenny ass, and that a man would not have been so foolish; but whether the compliment is paid to human or to masculine character does not appear--perhaps to both in one.

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An ass is _equally_ pressed by hunger and by thirst; a bundle of hay is on one side, a pail of water on the other.

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Surely, you will say, he will not be ass enough to die for want of food or drink; he will then make a choice--that is, will choose between alternatives of equal force.

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All this has been sufficiently discussed elsewhere: "but, masters, remember that I am an ass."

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Lagrange[788] gets mellow with Laplace,[789] And both are wont to say, sir, The _philosophe_ who's not an ass Will drink his bottle a day, sir!

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Loathsome cobbler,... dingy collier,... filthy sow (_scrofa stercorata_),... perfidious boar,... envious crocodile,... malodorous drudge,... wounded basilisk,... rust-colored asp,... swollen toad,... entangled spider,... lousy swineherd (_porcarie pedicose_),... lowest of the low,... cudgelled ass," etc.

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The following is given as a cure for the sting of the scorpion: "The patient is to sit on an ass, with his face to the tail of the animal, by which the pain will be transmitted from the man to the beast."

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A patient ass stood near a house, and a family of not much more rational animals was grouped around it.

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"Well, the only animal made with a cross on his back is an ass," said Margaret; "and one would think a man should be better than an ass; but if his chief business be to make himself look like one, I don't see that he is so much better."

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I knew well thou wert an ass, but I did not think thee unfaithful.

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One day, during the prevalence of this disease, an ass belonging to Daniel's father was missing.

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"Like lions that die of an ass's kick," those wronged great souls lay prostrate before Hazlet's wrathful heels.

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In the rutting season the bucks make other noises, which somewhat resemble the braying of an ass, and are equally disagreeable to listen to.

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The tall antlered horns, that rose upon the head of one of them, showed that they were deer of some kind; and the immense size of the creature that bore them, together with his ungainly form, his long legs, and ass-like ears, his huge head with its overhanging lip, his short neck with its standing mane, and, above all, the broad palmation of the horns themselves, left Basil without any doubt upon his mind that the animals before him were moose-deer--the largest, and perhaps the most awkward, of all the deer kind.

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Although Greece was involved for years in war and ancient Troy was destroyed and all its inhabitants slaughtered because of the seduction of one woman; and Semiramis, through her beauty, got all her successive husbands in chancery; and poor, susceptible Samson, from firing Philistine vineyards and killing lions bare-handed, and the Philistines by the thousands with the jaw-bone of an ass, was reduced through Delilah to bitter repentance and turning Philistine mill-stones; and we know that the familiar infatuation of Antony for Cleopatra ruined Antony; and we are familiar with the well-known maxim of the French police-minister, that to catch a criminal it was but necessary to first locate _the woman_ and the man would soon be found,--society has determined to ignore the influence of the animal passions as factors in our every-day life, or factors in the estrangements, coldness, and the bickerings that end in divorces.

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At the show I asked a gentleman what he wanted for a very beautiful female ass, only one year old; he said that he could have 1,000 dollars, 250 pounds for her, but that he had refused that sum.

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At every following vacation, he was handed over from the one pedagogue to the other, of those whose names were renowned for the Busbian system of teaching by stimulating both ends: he was horsed every day and still remained an ass, and at the end of six months, if he did not run away before that period was over, he was invariably sent back to his parents as incorrigible and unteachable.

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Littlebrain's heart failed him as he pulled to the ship; even the geese hissed at him, as much as to say, "If you were not such a stupid ass, we might have been left alive in our coops."

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There is much more in this business than meets the eye, and any man who believes that Jack Talbot would mix himself up in it must be a most determined ass.

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"If you didn't mean to be funny," he concluded, "you must be an ass."

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"Sorry I turfed[9] that little ass so hard," said the Duffer to John.

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"Kick it, Duffer--kick it, you old ass!"

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I believe the silly little ass thinks you the greatest thing on earth."

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"I expect he'll make an awful ass of himself."

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"You're a silly old ass!

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But he may make an ass of me."

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"No--hook it, you ass."

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"I'm a jealous ass, Cæsar.

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"_What?_" "Don't look at me like that, you silly old ass!

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"The jaw-bone of that ass that Samson killed a thousand Philistines with," returned Persis severely, "ain't to be compared for deadliness, it seems, with a woman's collar-bone.

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I have resided in billets with an old man and his wife, who possess seven hens, an ass, and a small field of onions.

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"Thou art an ass!" was the civil answer.

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"Then Friar Andrew Rous is the longest-eared ass I have lightly seen.

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By the side of each ass was one of the padres of the mission, and each of these held in his hand the implements of his trade--book, rosary, and crucifix.

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Ass., 1869, p. 86.

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Report of Gen. Ass._ Adj.

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Permit me to say that the late Bishop James W. Hood represented that county and played a most prominent part and afterward became Ass't Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State.

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"What a fool I have been!--an ass--a dolt--to have been so blinded!

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He never would have suspected, for instance, that J. Harry Stott, who in his own environment was a person of some little consequence, in another could appear a complete and unmitigated ass.

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DUCHESS You tasselled ass, why did you let him have it?

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One of these widows, named Anna Salters, lived at Takany, and was one of those who, when ----[213] gave himself out as the Lord Jesus, and allowed himself to be carried around on an ass, shouted Hosanna as he rode over their garments, for which conduct he was arrested, his tongue bored through with a red-hot iron, and his forehead branded with a B, for blasphemer.

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"It is the advice of an ass," retorted Hans fiercely.

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What if "pique, or wounded pride, or disappointed affection" should tempt the poor little girl to throw herself away on such an ass!

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You could not make him laugh by cooing and smirking and talking nonsense, and otherwise making an ass of yourself before him.

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Now, had such a result been prognosticated only a very few years back, the man whose foresight had led to such a large view of the subject would have been mouthed at as mad all over the American continent, and written down knave or ass, or both, in every practical journal of Europe.

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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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But I got three month for that, and--" "Hold your tongue, you ass," exclaimed half-a-dozen voices, "the booby's mad, and should be sent to St.

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The paper, inscribed as follows, is stitched inside the clothing: "Ass Sant Petter sat at the geats of Jerusalm, our Blessed Lord and Sevour Jesus Christ Passed by, and sead, 'What eleth thee?'

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