The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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"Triple ass!" said Athos, rising; but he sank down again immediately.

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"Let us see: Buckingham dead or grievously wounded; your conversation with the cardinal overheard by the four Musketeers; Lord de Winter warned of your arrival at Portsmouth; d'Artagnan and Athos to the Bastille; Aramis the lover of Madame de Chevreuse; Porthos an ass; Madame Bonacieux found again; to send you the chaise as soon as possible; to place my lackey at your disposal; to make you out a victim of the cardinal in order that the abbess may entertain no suspicion; Armentieres, on the banks of the Lys.

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"And not more than justice, either, you ass!

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"Triple ass!" said Athos, rising; but he sank down again immediately.

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what an ass!

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"Yes," added Planchet, "like the famous ass of Buridan.

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"Yes," added Planchet, "like the famous ass of Buridan.

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"I should be an ass not to: I've got a wire here saying they must have it for another month at any price."

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The case had once seemed amusing because so typical; now, it rather irritated Nick that Vanderlyn should be so complete an ass.

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Oh, I know--I've behaved like a brute: a cursed arrogant ass!

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You couldn't wish that ass a worse kicking than I've given him!

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At Milford his bicycle made, so to speak, an ass of itself.

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And he was here, stranded and sold, an ass, and as it were, the son of many generations of asses.

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Something within him protested that he was a hot-headed ass even as he went towards the door again.

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But did there not exist in the island some animal which might supply the place of the horse, ass, or ox?

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But what sort of dark cool spiritual germination is possible with an ass like Whippham about?

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The Maternal Instinct A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.

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Even her alleged superior endurance, as Havelock Ellis has demonstrated in "Man and Woman," is almost wholly mythical; she cannot, in point of fact, stand nearly so much hardship as aman can stand, and so the law, usually an ass, exhibits an unaccustomed accuracy of observation in its assumption that, whenever husband and wife are exposed alike to fatal suffering, say in a shipwreck, the wife dies first.

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It must be obvious to even so pathetic an ass as a university professor of history that very few of the genuinely first-rate men of the race have been, wholly civilized, in the sense that the term is employed in newspapers and in the pulpit.

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Our politics thus degenerates into a mere pursuit of hobgoblins; the male voter, a coward as well as an ass, is forever taking fright at a new one and electing some mountebank to lay it.

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Besides, what an ass I have been.

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Yes, I could make up my mind to it; but--I know myself--I should be ass enough to go back to her.

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In a MS., where I met the answer, I wrote below:-- With Esop's lion, Burns says: Sore I feel Each other's scorn, but damn that ass' heel!

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Of Eve's first fire he has a cinder; Auld Tubalcain's fire-shool and fender; That which distinguished the gender O' Balaam's ass: A broomstick o' the witch of Endor, Weel shod wi' brass.

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Titania was still sleeping, and Oberon, seeing a clown near her who had lost his way in the wood and was likewise asleep, "This fellow," said he, "shall be my Titania's true love"; and clapping an ass's head over the clown's, it seemed to fit him as well as if it had grown upon his own shoulders.

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Come, sit with me," said she to the clown., "and let me play with your amiable hairy cheeks, my beautiful ass!

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"I had rather have a handful of dried peas,"' said the clown, who with his ass's head had got an ass's appetite.

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When the fairy king saw the clown sleeping in the arms of his queen, he advanced within her sight, and reproached her with having lavished her favors upon an ass.

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And in such wild sayings, and scraps of songs, of which he had plenty, this pleasant, honest fool poured out his heart even in the presence of Goneril herself, in many a bitter taunt and jest which cut to the quick, such as comparing the king to the hedgesparrow, who feeds the young of the cuckoo till they grow old enough, and then has its head bit off for its pains; and saying that an ass may know when the cart draws the horse (meaning that Lear's daughters, that ought to go behind, now ranked before their father); and that Lear was no longer Lear, but the shadow of Lear.

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Full many I've known into heaven to pass Straight and with ease, with the head of an ass!"

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----- IF the ass that bore the Saviour Were to Mecca driven, he Would not alter, but would be Still an ass in his behavior.

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And after all this misery they have given you a necklace of honour, as they hang a girdle of bells round the breast of an ass to deafen it on its journey, and prevent it from feeling fatigue.

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With great difficulty he was able to mount an ass; and he fled, clinging to its hair, howling, weeping, shaken, bruised, and calling down the curse of all the gods upon the army.

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But Iaokanann replied: "I shall cry aloud like a savage bear, like the wild ass, like a woman in travail!

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The attendants had served them with a ragout composed of the flesh of the wild ass, an unclean animal, and their anger knew no bounds.

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The devil's an ass: if I were a painter, I would draw him like an idiot, a driveller with a bib and bells.

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Your horse is an ass, sir!

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'Slife, we shall have a quarrel betwixt an horse and an ass, before they find one another out.--You must not take anything amiss from your friends, sir.

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Thou art (without a figure) just one half of an ass, and Baldwin yonder, thy half-brother, is the rest.

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[Sings]:- Prithee fill me the glass, Till it laugh in my face, With ale that is potent and mellow; He that whines for a lass Is an ignorant ass, For a bumper has not its fellow.

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A worker at work is hard-headed enough to know that when an orator tells him he is not working and not earning any money, the orator is an ass.

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The firepan, the kindling, the bitumen were his own; but the lumber, of rags, old wood and nameless combustible rubbish (for all is fuel to him), was gathered from huckster, and ass-panniers, of every description under heaven.

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It has to hear of innumerable fresh revolts, Brigand expeditions; of Chateaus in the West, especially of Charter-chests, Chartiers, set on fire; for there too the overloaded Ass frightfully recalcitrates.

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An Ass, housed in Priest's cloak, with a mitre on its head, and trailing the Mass-Books, some say the very Bible, at its tail, paces through Lyons streets; escorted by multitudinous Patriotism, by clangour as of the Pit; towards the grave of Martyr Chalier.

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Chalier's Ass Procession, at Lyons, was but a type of what went on, in those same days, in all Towns.

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Now, it would be a long task to tell of the work which Israel did in his new calling: how he regulated the market dues, and appointed a Mut'hasseb, a clerk of the market, to collect them--so many moozoonahs for every camel sold, so many for every horse, mule, and ass, so many floos for every fowl, and so many metkals for the purchase and sale of every slave; how he numbered the houses and made lists of the trades, assessing their tribute by the value of their businesses--so much for gun-making, so much for weaving, so much for tanning, and so on through the line of them, great and small, good and bad, even from the trades of the Jewish silversmiths and the Moorish packsaddle-makers down to the callings of the Arab water-carriers and the ninety public women.

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Set the man on an ass, and let the girl walk barefoot before him; and let a crier cry beside them, 'So shall it be done to every man who is an enemy of the Kaid, and to every woman who is a play-actor and a cheat!'

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Between these came the victims of the Basha's order--Naomi first, barefooted, bareheaded, stripped of all but the last garment that hid her nakedness, her head held down, her face hidden, and her eyes closed--and Israel afterwards, mounted on a lean and ragged ass.

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Look at his bony and ragged ass!

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Jaques replies: If it do come to pass That any man turn ass, Leaving his wealth and ease A stubborn will to please, Ducdame, ducdamè, ducdamè: Here shall he see Gross fools as he, An if he will come to me.

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They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahrám, that great Hunter--the wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.

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'It's like my luck,' he said, 'to spend my last hours on earth with an ass.'

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'And a treacherous ass,' he strangely added, tossing across to me a crumpled bit of paper which he had been holding in his hand.

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"I must admit," said the stranger, "that I have no idea how the letters could be engraved so deeply on the skin of a wild ass."

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"Virtue, the subject of every drama at the theatre, the denoument of every play, the foundation of every court of law..." "Be quiet, you ass.

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After all, this last word of moral science is scarcely more than the cry of Pyrrhus set betwixt good and evil, or Buridan's ass between the two measures of oats.

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"This," replied the man of science, as he flung himself down into his armchair, "is an ass' skin, sir."

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"A very rare variety of ass found in Persia," the naturalist continued, "the onager of the ancients, equus asinus, the _koulan_ of the Tartars; Pallas went out there to observe it, and has made it known to science, for as a matter of fact the animal for a long time was believed to be mythical.

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In Persia they breed asses for the saddle, a cross between a tamed onager and a she-ass, and they paint them red, following immemorial tradition.

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"It is simply a piece of the skin of an ass, sir," said Raphael.

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I should likewise place on record, that the first ass that had ever been seen in this part of the country, came in the course of this year with a gang of tinklers, that made horn-spoons and mended bellows.

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Cater's a bit of an ass, but there's no harm in him.

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The only other being of Cherokee Sal's sex and maternal condition in the settlement was an ass.

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In that rare atmosphere of the Sierra foothills,--that air pungent with balsamic odor, that ethereal cordial at once bracing and exhilarating,--he may have found food and nourishment, or a subtle chemistry that transmuted ass's milk to lime and phosphorus.

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"Me and that ass," he would say, "has been father and mother to him!

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And then they came up to Barker with tears in their eyes, dropped their heads on his shoulder, and murmured exhaustedly: "You blessed ass!"

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We know he's an old ass; a good many outsiders consider that he's a bit soft or ratty, and, as we're likely to be mates together for some time on that fencing contract, if we get it, you might as well know what sort of a man he is and was, so's you won't get uneasy about him if he gets deaf for a while when you're talking, or does funny things with his pipe or pint-pot, or walks up and down by himself for an hour or so after tea, or sits on a log with his head in his hands, or leans on the fence in the gloaming and keeps looking in a blank sort of way, straight ahead, across the clearing.

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And I hang about round here, like the silly ass that I am!"

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In the wonderful story of the Peau de Chagrin, 103 the hero becomes possessed of a magical wild ass' skin, which yields him the means of gratifying all his wishes.

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103 ( return ) [ peau de chagrin: skin of a wild ass.]

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Is it putting that ring on your finger will keep you from getting an aged woman and losing the fine face you have, or be easing your pains, when it's the grand ladies do be married in silk dresses, with rings of gold, that do pass any woman with their share of torment in the hour of birth, and do be paying the doctors in the city of Dublin a great price at that time, the like of what you'd pay for a good ass and a cart?

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Gather up your gold now, and begone from my sight, for if ever I set an eye on you again you'll hear me telling the peelers who it was stole the black ass belonging to Philly O'Cullen, and whose hay it is the grey ass does be eating.

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So was the lion's skin by the ass, but it showed him only the more an ass.

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"He won't have anything to say to me--thinks I'm an ass.

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Now, as they passed the outskirts of a wood, They saw, with mingled pleasure and surprise, Fast tethered to a tree an ass, that stood Lazily winking his large, limpid eyes.

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And drive the ass before you with your staff; And when you reach the convent you may say You left me at a farm, half tired and half Ill with a fever, for a night and day, And that the farmer lent this ass to bear Our wallets, that are heavy with good fare."

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"I am a sinful man, although you see I wear the consecrated cowl and cape; You never owned an ass, but you owned me, Changed and transformed from my own natural shape All for the deadly sin of gluttony, From which I could not otherwise escape, Than by this penance, dieting on grass, And being worked and beaten as an ass.

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"To-morrow morning, with the rising sun, Go back unto your convent, nor refrain From fasting and from scourging, for you run Great danger to become an ass again, Since monkish flesh and asinine are one; Therefore be wise, nor longer here remain, Unless you wish the scourge should be applied By other hands, that will not spare your hide."

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Good father, the rebellious flesh, I see, Has changed you back into an ass again, And all my admonitions were in vain."

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"If this be Brother Timothy," they cried, "Buy him, and feed him on the tenderest grass; Thou canst not do too much for one so tried As to be twice transformed into an ass."

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INTERLUDE "Signor Luigi," said the Jew, When the Sicilian's tale was told, "The were-wolf is a legend old, But the were-ass is something new, And yet for one I think it true.

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'T is my brother's voice; A sound unwelcome and inopportune As was the braying of Silenus' ass, Once heard in Cybele's garden.

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Old towns, whose history lies hid In monkish chronicle or rhyme, Burgos, the birthplace of the Cid, Zamora and Valladolid, Toledo, built and walled amid The wars of Wamba's time; The long, straight line of the high-way, The distant town that seems so near, The peasants in the fields, that stay Their toil to cross themselves and pray, When from the belfry at midday The Angelus they hear; White crosses in the mountain pass, Mules gay with tassels, the loud din Of muleteers, the tethered ass That crops the dusty wayside grass, And cavaliers with spurs of brass Alighting at the inn; White hamlets hidden in fields of wheat, White cities slumbering by the sea, White sunshine flooding square and street, Dark mountain-ranges, at whose feet The river-beds are dry with heat,-- All was a dream to me.

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A great multitude of people Fills all the street; and riding on an ass Comes one of noble aspect, like a king!

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V. THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT Here JOSEPH shall come in, leading an ass, on which are seated MARY and the CHILD.

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For men of any spirit at all are like the wild boar; he will run from a superior force, owing perhaps to his not being an ass; but if you stick to his heels too long and too close, and, in short, bore him, he will whirl, and come tearing at a multitude of hunters, and perhaps bore you.

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And then there's times when their bodies ail like no other living creatures ever I could hear of, and that strings up their feelings so, the patience, that belongs to them at other times beyond all living souls barring an ass, seems all to jump out of 'em at one turn, and into the water they go.

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And on an ass another wife and new-born child; and one poor quean a-foot scarce dragged herself along, so near her time was she, yet held two little ones by the hand, and helplessly helped them on the road.

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A prophet riding on an ass did meet an angel.

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"I went up Tiber twice as fast last time with but five mules and an ass."

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Oh, little ass, little dolt, little maniac, fit only for a madhouse, talking to iron figures and taking them for real men!

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"Then thou wert an ass!" said his father.

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"It is that ass Bastin up to some game.

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I tell thee, thou ass of Issachar, thou art King Arthur of Britain, whom the fairies stole away from the field of Avalon; and I am Dame Guenevra, famed for her beauty."

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Hark thee, Thomas, do thine ears know the singing of Blondel from the braying of an ass?"

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"In faith, my liege," replied Thomas, "I cannot well say; but setting Blondel out of the question, who is a born gentleman, and doubtless of high acquirements, I shall never, for the sake of your Grace's question, look on a minstrel but I shall think upon an ass."

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From the mob came a certain taunt: "You silly ass."

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