The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Preposterous ass!

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For when any mountebank appeared in the city of Montpellier, the magistrates were empowered to set him astride of a meagre, miserable ass, with his face to the animal's tail.

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In larger communities it is natural enough that those of similar tastes should seek each other, but, in a place like Crowheart where the interests and the mental calibre of its inhabitants are practically the same, the man who seeks to establish an 'aristocracy' proclaims himself a petty-minded, silly ass.

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"What an ass!" and it is to be feared he referred to the sole representative of the notable House of Symes.

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MAIN, M.A.F.R., Ass't S. Professor Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, and THOMAS BROWN, Assoc.

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Ass't S. Mathematical Professor at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, and THOMAS BROWN, Assoc.

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Mr. MARTIN LEWIS, as a profoundly silly ass, played a difficult hand without fault.

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In course of time Ben's objections and protests were once for all silenced; he gave me up as an opinionated ass, whom it was waste of time to trouble about any more.

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"I have always," muttered Nigel, "believed myself to be a man of ordinary courage, but _now_--I shall write myself a coward, if not an ass!"

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By that time Nigel had quite recovered his equanimity, and mentally blotted out the writing of "coward" and "ass" which he had written against himself.

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"Come now," he said mentally, "don't be an ass!

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I'm an ass--a dolt--that's all!

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Ass that I am!

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"D'you suppose I'm an ass?" exclaimed the elderly gentleman, in a sudden burst.

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Truly, it seemeth to me that I might style myself an ass without impropriety."

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I tell him 'bout de property--de Lock Doo vat you was--" "Le Rue," exclaimed Redding, suddenly and very angrily, "you're a consummate ass!"

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"All of which goes to prove me an ass," cried Bruce, "for talking about a lady whom I have never seen."

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Since you have a passion for me, as I for you, does not that passion stand in your way like a Balaam's ass?

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and am I not Balaam's ass golden-mouthed occasionally?

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PARASITE: _Sarcoptes scabiei equi._ MALADY: _Sarcoptic acariasis._--This is the special _Sarcoptes_ of the horse, but under favorable conditions it can be transmitted to ass and mule, and even to man, and may live indefinitely on the human skin.

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_Definition._--Strangles is an infectious disease of the horse, mule, and ass, seen most frequently in young animals, and usually leaving them immune from future trouble of the same kind.

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Glanders is a contagious constitutional disease of the genus _Equus_ (the horse, ass, and mule), readily communicable to man, the dog, the cat, the rabbit, and the guinea pig.

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Dourine (also known as maladie du coït, equine syphilis, covering disease, breeding paralysis) is a specific infectious disease affecting under normal conditions only the horse and ass, transmitted from animal to animal by the act of copulation, and due to an animal parasite, the _Trypanosoma equiperdum_.

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There's not an ass in all the parish But he knows my John.

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"What I see and make out," answered Sancho, "is only a man on a gray ass like my own, who has something that shines on his head."

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He rode upon a gray ass, as Sancho said, and this was what made it seem to Don Quixote to be a dapple-gray steed and a knight and a golden helmet; for everything he saw he made to fall in with his crazy chivalry and ill errant notions; and when he saw the poor knight draw near, without entering into any parley with him, at Rocinante's top speed he bore down upon him with the pike pointed low, fully determined to run him through and through, and as he reached him, without checking the fury of his charge, he cried to him, "Defend thyself, miserable being, or yield me of thine own accord that which is so reasonably my due."

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"Will your worship," said Sancho, "tell me what are we to do with this dapple-gray steed that looks like a gray ass, which that Martino[446-5] that your worship overthrew has left deserted here?

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"I have never been in the habit," said Don Quixote, "of taking spoil of those whom I vanquish, nor is it the practice of chivalry to take away their horses and leave them to go on foot, unless indeed it be that the victor have lost his own in the combat, in which case it is lawful to take that of the vanquished as a thing won in lawful war; therefore, Sancho, leave this horse, or ass, or whatever thou wilt have it to be; for when its owner sees us gone hence he will come back for it."

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"God knows I should like to take it," returned Sancho, "or at least to change it for my own, which does not seem to me as good a one; verily the laws of chivalry are strict, since they cannot be stretched to let one ass be changed for another; I should like to know if I might at least change trappings."

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People say she and that fantastic ass she's married are devoted.

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In like manner, if animals bred freely _inter se_ before our eyes, as for example the horse and ass, the fact was to be noted, but no animals were to be classed as capable of interbreeding until they had asserted their right to such classification by breeding with tolerable certainty.

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"The true method," he writes, "is the complete description and exact history of each particular object,"[39] and later on he asks, "is it not more simple, more natural and more true to call an ass an ass, and a cat a cat, than to say, without knowing why, that an ass is a horse, and a cat a lynx.

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On turning, however, to Buffon himself, I find the passage to stand as follows:-- "_Although_ the different species of animals are separated from one another by a space which Nature cannot overstep--_yet some of them approach so nearly to one another in so many respects that there is only room enough left for the getting in of a line of separation between them_,"[57] and on the following page he distinctly encourages the idea of the mutability of species in the following passage:-- "In place of regarding the ass as a degenerate horse, there would be more reason in calling the horse a more perfect kind of ass (un âne perfectionné), and the sheep a more delicate kind of goat, that we have tended, perfected, and propagated for our use, and that the more perfect animals in general--especially the domestic animals--_draw their origin from some less perfect species of that kind of wild animal which they most resemble.

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He may be trusted to have seen that if he once allowed the thin end of this wedge into his system, he could no more assign limits to the effect which living forms might produce upon their own organisms by effort and ingenuity in the course of long time, than he could set limits to what he had called the power of Nature if he was once to admit that an ass and a horse might, through that power, have been descended from a common ancestor.

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I may give the following as an example:-- "We do not know whether or no the zebra would breed with the horse or ass--whether the large-tailed Barbary sheep would be fertile if crossed with our own--whether the chamois is not a wild goat; and whether it would not form an intermediate breed if crossed with our domesticated goats; we do not know whether the differences between apes are really specific, or whether apes are not like dogs, one single species, of which there are many different breeds.... Our ignorance concerning all these facts is almost inevitable, as the experiments which would decide them require more time, pains, and money than can be spared from, the life and fortune of an ordinary man.

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But he has shown us long since how clearly he saw the impossibility of limiting mutability, if he once admitted so much of the thin end of the wedge as that a horse and an ass might be related.

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and _sometimes_ equally convenient, 9, 354, 365 Act of Parliament, Natural Selection compared to a certain kind of, 358 Age, old, the phenomena of, 67, 204, 381 Aggregation, the spirit of the age tends towards, 397, 398 Ahead, no organism sees very far, 44, 48, 54, 384 Aldrovandus, Buffon on the learned, 93 Alive, when we must not say that an animal is alive (to be retracted), 279 Allen, Grant, on 'Evolution, Old and New,' 386-388 ---- on the decay of criticism, 388 ---- calls Evolutionism "an almost exclusively English impulse," 393 Alternations of fat and lean years, Buffon on, 125 Amoeba, the, did not conceive the idea of an eye and work towards it, 43, 44, 384 Analogies, false, all words are apt to turn out to be, 365 Animals, contracts among, Dr. E. Darwin on, 205 Ape, the, and man, 90 Apes and monkeys, Buffon on, 153 ---- and children fall on all-fours at the approach of danger, 312 Apparentibus, _de non_, _et non existentibus, &c._, 36 Appearances, rather superficial, our only guide to classification, 34, 35, 36, 198, 204 Appetency, Paley's argument against the view that structures have been developed through, 22, 45 Aristides, C. Darwin as just as, 363 Aristotle denied teleology, 4 Artificial and real foot, differences between, 25 Asceticism, virtue errs on the side of excess rather than on that of, 35 Ass, the, and horse, Buffon's pregnant passage on their relationship, 80, 90, 91, 100, 101, 142, 143, 155, 164, 311 Authority, a hard thing to weigh, 253 BACON, F., on evolution, 69 Balzac, quotation from, on memory and instinct, 67 Bark, Erasmus Darwin's theory of, 208 Beaver, trowel incorporated into the beaver's organism, 8 Bees, neutralization of working, an act of abortion, 250 Beetles, Madeira, Lamarck and C. Darwin's views of their winglessness compared, 373, 380 Begin, How could the eye _begin_?

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---- rudimentary organs repeated through mere force of, 38, 39 ---- Buffon on, 148, 159, 160, 161, 162 ---- a second Nature, Lamarck on, 300 Habits, or use, and organ, Lamarck on the interaction of, 292, 311 Haeckel, on design, 4, 5 ---- on Goethe as an evolutionist, 71 ---- does not appear to know of Buffon as an evolutionist, 71, 393 ---- his surprising statement concerning Lamarck, 73 ---- his ignorance concerning Erasmus Darwin, 73, 393 ---- on Lamarck, 246, 247 ---- A. R. Wallace's review of his "Evolution of Man," 382, 384 Hamlet, the "Origin of Species" like "Hamlet" without Hamlet, 363 Handiest, a man should do whatever comes handiest, 51, 52 Hare, Buffon on the, 123, &c. Hartmann's philosophy of the unconscious, and "Life and Habit," 56, 57 Hearing, when we once reach animals so low as to have no organ of, we lose this organ for good and all, 379 Heredity and habit, Buffon on, 148, 159, 160, 161, 162 ---- only another term for unknown causes, unless the "Life and Habit" theory be adopted, 384 Hering, Professor, referred to, 66, 67 ---- his theory as given in "Nature" by Ray Lankester, 198-200 Herschel, Sir John, compares natural selection to the Laputan method of making books, 10 Higgling and haggling of the market, 50 History of the universe, each organism is a, from its own point of view, 31 Horse and ass, Buffon's most pregnant passage on the, 80, 90, 91, 100, 101, 142, 143, 155, 164, 311 ---- and man, skeleton of the, 88, 89 ---- and zebra, Buffon on the, example of irony, 80, 155, 164 Hume, his saying that generation is more remarkable than reason, 233 Huxley, Professor, referred to, 93 ---- pointed out to Professor Mivart the difficulty in the way of natural selection, 344 ---- his ignorance concerning the earlier history of evolution, 392, 393 Hybridism, Buffon on, 117, 118 Hybrids, sterility of, Lamarck on, and C. Darwin on, 272, 273 IDEAS, the bond or nexus of our, 23, 29, 30 Ignorance, the prevailing, concerning the earlier evolutionists, 61 ---- it is easy to hide our, under such expressions as "plan of creation," or natural selection, 358 Imitation, instinct not referable to, as maintained by Erasmus Darwin, 202 Immutability of species and design commonly accepted together, 9, 10 Improvements, small successive, in man's inventions, 44, 46, 47, 54, 55, 384 Inaccuracy of thought, C. Darwin accused of, 359 Incipiency, of complex structures, a difficulty in the way of the Natural selection view of evolution, 21, 22 Incorporate, the designer is, with the organism, 30 Increase, geometrical ratio of Buffon on the, 123 ---- Lamarck on, 280 ---- Patrick Matthew on, 320, 321 Indefinite, with C. Darwin the variations are, 342, 344 Indifference, I say I am more indifferent than I think I am, whether mind is or is not the least misleading symbol for the cause that sustains the universe, 371 Indirect action of conditions of existence according to Lamarck, 294, 299, 306.

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What did that driveling ass of a Schuyler stand _in the wake_ of a runaway horse for, with his shouting and gesticulating, if he wanted to stop him?

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They are altogether too fond of my intelligent ass of a chief officer, and must be got rid of."

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Then after my husband (whom he called a 'silly, unsuspecting ass') had seen the commodore, bought all the stores and trade goods needed for the native divers, and also the diving suits and pumping gear, he (Rawlings) would find a man capable of navigating the vessel, and then, he said, with a laugh that sent a thrill of terror through me, 'we can get rid of him and his wife with little trouble, once we are at sea again.

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He explained that he had actually been ordered away from the beach, bathing suit and all, by some "impertinent ass of an official."

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In fact the man is per [139] fectly comfortable, and is, at the moment, taking aim at somebody else with a two-string crossbow, which would have deadly effect if he wasn't ass enough to aim right at the middle of a cowhide shield.

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It was like the famous lawsuit in Abdera, alluded to by Lucian and amplified by Wieland, concerning the ownership of the ass's shadow, on which all the Abderites took sides, and every one was either a "Shadow" or an "Ass."

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He had to live mainly on a dietary of ass's milk.

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But she added, "He is such an ass that one cannot tell what he thinks; and yet he is not so great a fool as you take him for, neither."

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The general principles underlying orders of all kinds are that they should be "fool proof," and it has been remarked that the writer of orders should always remember that at least one silly ass will try to misunderstand them.

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A meddlesome old maid, who wants to foist her niece on to George Pendle; and she's likely to succeed, too,' added the lady, rubbing her nose with a vexed air, 'for the young ass is in love with Mab, although she is three years older than he is.

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'Still, he is anything but an ass--George.'

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'If he isn't an ass he's a beast,' rejoined Pendle, promptly, 'and it comes to much the same thing.'

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This sapient speech reduced the recalcitrant Jobson to silence, but he still held to his opinion that the over-confident Tinkler had bungled the matter, and in this view he was silently but heartily supported by shrewd Dr Graham, who privately considered that Mr Inspector Tinkler was little better than an ass.

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_Stral._ Do so, and take yon old ass with you.

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And this is much to his credit, for the Perfect Gentleman, as thus wistfully contemplated, is a high ideal of human behavior, although, in the narrower but honest admiration of many, he is also a Perfect Ass.

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"I've shown it to Case, and he says 'Tonio has only one object in life now, in or out of the post, and that is to square accounts with Willett, who was ass enough to strike him.

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It was supposed at the store, and generally in the garrison, that Case had been drinking just enough to make him irresponsible, and in this condition he had ventured up to the post and made an ass of himself just when he was being trumpeted as a lion.

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A well-known eminent _Litterateur_, to whom I suggested this view, objected that Pott is not shown to be such a blackguard as Maginn, and that Maginn was not such an ass as Pott.

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It looks as though Trundle were "an ass," as it is called.

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We may be sure he was, and therefore looking "more of an ass" than ever.

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"Don't be an ass."

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You'd feel such a limp ass to be detained by a fat policeman at the door of Spain, while Carmona and Lady Monica went through, and disappeared."

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What a dull ass!

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"It will be worth while to make time," I hurried to break in, though Dick glared a warning which said, "You silly ass, don't you see the man's laying a trap, and you're falling into it?"

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"Oh, what an ass I am!

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They were beautiful and graceful creatures, very unlike the poor patient ass with which we are acquainted in England, and accustomed to associate with everything that is stupid and obstinate.

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Yet the zebra and the ass are nearly related; indeed, the former is classed by naturalists as an ass.

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The mane and tail were very like those of a horse, while the shape of the head and the colour were those of an ass, the legs and feet, however, showing it to be an antelope.

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It is surprising how useless you find that piece of ass's skin that you have been putting yourself in such a state about.

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I was ass enough to wonder exceedingly at Mr Powell failing to notice the misapprehension.

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They thought their uncle no doubt a bore and perhaps an ass.

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Hang it all, I am not a contemptible ass.

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One does not like to call Anthony an ass.

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Ass.

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He seemed to me an enormous ass; with his jealousy and his fears.

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He has the right to do His own will and pleasure; and if He instructed Nephi how to fashion his boat, or Noah to build an ark against the deluge, or caused Balaam's ass to speak and rebuke the madness of his master, or Moses to lead the children of Israel through the Red Sea, without any boat at all, or the walls of Jericho to fall to the ground, and the people to become paralyzed through the tooting of rams' horns, or empowered Joshua to command the sun to stand still while he slaughtered his enemies, is any of these things more wonderful than the other?

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The enemies of Christ said He was a gluttonous man and a wine bibber, a friend of the publicans and sinners; that after the people at the marriage feast were well drunken, He turned water into wine that they might have more to drink; that in the cornfield He plucked the cars of corn and ate them; that He saw an ass hitched, and without leave took it and rode into Jerusalem; that He went into the Temple and overset the tables of the money changers and took cords and whaled them out, telling them they had made His Father's house a den of thieves.

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To Charles he also sent the image of an ass, which, by touching a certain string, did open its mouth and wave its ears in a manner most curious to behold, wherewith the infant was infinitely delighted, as was I, without enquiring at that time into the exquisite mechanism whereby the extraordinary demonstrations were produced.

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As if I should have been such an ass as to get caught myself.

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He might be a fool, a puppy, an intolerably bore, an infinite ass.

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Just then the super gives Fuzzy a prod and he howls like Balaam's ass, but the coon stands there smiling and not feazed a bit.

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Speeches, when delivered in the midst of a popular tumult, must be pithy in order to be effective: nor was Appius such an ass as to have lost the opportunity afforded him by this dialectic display, of effectually securing his captive.

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He told me that the animal was a quagga, which somewhat resembles a well-shaped ass.

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First, then, there is the domestic _Ass_; and of this species there are almost as many varieties as of the horse,--some of them, as the Guddha of the Mahrattas, not larger than a mastiff, while others exist in different parts of the world as large as a two-year-old heifer.

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Asses are found of a pure white, and black ones are common, but the usual colour is that to which they have given their name--the "colour of an ass."

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Another species of wild ass is the Kiang.

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It is the Dziggetai, and the Wild Ass of Cutch, and also the Yototze of the Chinese; but it is very probable that all these are the names of different species.

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When the Israelites had sown their crops, the Midianites would come up and leave nothing for the Israelites to live on, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass; for they came up with their cattle and their tents.

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And he found a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, and having seized it, he killed a thousand men with it.

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Then Samson said: "With the jaw-bone of an ass have I piled them, mass on mass; A thousand warriors have I slain with the jaw-bone of an ass."

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Then Abigail quickly rose and mounted an ass; and five of her maids followed as servants.

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Then she saddled an ass and said to her servant, "Drive on fast, do not stop until I tell you."

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The famine was so severe in Samaria while they were besieging it, that an ass's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver.

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"Once upon a time an ass kicked a lion, but the lion was dead."

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The British Workman is not quite an ass, And where he wants to whet (with beer) his throat, Where are you like to get your two-thirds Vote?

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"I said it's the bother and the gawdfers.... Rhyming slang, silly ass.

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Once again, I have made an ass of myself.

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I've been a twenty-two carat, pink-eyed, black-striped wild ass of the desert, though not halfway as big a fool as Curly.

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It had never once been whitewashed since it was first built; but, on the other hand, it was richly adorned outside with the Christian names and the nicknames of all the urchins who had ever been inside its walls, names to which later generations of scholars had taken good care to add such distinguishing epithets as ass, swine, &c., &c. Those, moreover, who possessed a taste for art did not omit to paint on the wall, with red chalk, hussars, two-legged heads with six noses and one eye, large meerschaum pipes, &c., &c. Here and there, too, the remains of big black ink blots and red splodges, like hideous bunches of cherries, pointed to past combats in which inkpots had been hurled and fists used freely; these pictorial devices, however, were but fragmentary, as the various generations of students had from time to time dug large bits of mortar out of the walls with their nails to serve as sand for blotting their themes.

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