The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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And you, you senseless ass!

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My Lord Duke is no jog-trot market-ass, I can tell thee, but as fiery a war-charger as man may see in a summer's day.

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"The Lord put His words once into the mouth of an ass," replied Perrote, meekly.

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"I think I may claim to be an ass's equal.

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I will give you this little ass that lays money.

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They disputed a while, but the landlord finally consented; but he had some suspicions; and when the boy and his beast were shut in the room, he looked through the key-hole, and saw that wonder of an ass that laid money in abundance.

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He at once looked for another ass of the same color and size, and while the lad was asleep, exchanged them.

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I have an ass that lays money, a tablecloth that prepares food at my will, and a stick to defend me from whoever annoys me."

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If a few hours after sunset to-night I don't make you find your beauty, you may call me an ass."

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"Your name is ass!"

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"Ass!"

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"Ass, ass!"

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The Lord could not stand it any longer, but seized its ears and pulled them sharply, exclaiming: "Ass!

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Ass!

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Ass!"

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The cook answered: "Whoever counts the hairs on this ass' skin will know how many stars there are in heaven."

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The sick man replied at once: "Do you take me for an ass like yourself?"

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He trained an ass to dance and accompany himself by his braying: in short, the prince boasted that by means of Art one could rule Nature.

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One Sunday two peasants were passing a church; one of them had a hand-cart and the other was leading a she-ass ready to foal.

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108 ("Hans the Hedgehog") and 144 ("The Little Ass").

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Now the girl was enchanted; and when they came to a spring and the brother wanted to drink, she said to him: "Do not drink of this fountain, or you will become an ass."

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Spadònia is the son of a king, who every day has bread baked and sent to the souls in purgatory by means of an ass sent for that purpose by the Lord.

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Apple, unequally divided, indicates true friend, 204 Ass, story of the, 190.

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Ass that lays Money, story of the, 123.

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"That warn't death on the back of a horse, Davy--that was jus' wind on the stomach of an ass."

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Why, if the ole man had missed, the two would'er gone down in history as the champion ass an' his colt.

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Midas again got into trouble by, refusing to adjudge in the matter of musical merit between Pan and Apollo, and this time was punished by having his ears changed into those of an ass.

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If a young ass kicked me would you have me kick it back?"

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But as it is we not only fly into rages with wife and slaves and friends, as if we were slighted by them, but we also frequently, from forming the same idea of being slighted, fall foul of innkeepers and sailors and muleteers, and are vexed at dogs that bark and asses that are in our way: like the man who was going to beat an ass-driver, but when he cried out he was an Athenian, he said to the ass, "You are not an Athenian anyway," and beat it with many stripes.

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And like that person[751] painted as rope-making in Hades and permitting an ass feeding by to eat up the rope as fast as he makes it, so the stupid and thankless forgetfulness of most people comes upon them and takes possession of them, and obliterates from their mind every past action, whether success, or pleasant leisure, or society, or enjoyment, and breaks the unity of life which arises from the past being blended with the present; for detaching to-day from both yesterday and to-morrow, it soon makes every event as if it had never happened from lack of memory.

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Ass-driver, story of Athenian, 282.

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"Confess, holy father," hissed the heir, with the greatest anger, "that such a hindrance would not stop even an ass on his journey."

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"True, but no ass will ever be pharaoh," retorted the minister, calmly.

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Food and drink I had to carry on my back, I was bent down with weight as an ass is bent.

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My neck became stiff, like an ass's neck, and the joints of my back swelled.

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And he says to me, 'Thou art duller than an ass, for an ass would hear music on a hill, and Thou dost not hear it.'

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What was their amazement at beholding a lean ascetic, bareheaded, wearing a coarse garment, riding on a she ass, and unattended!

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Among laborers not an ox or an ass is now visible, but to make up officials journey on horseback or in litters.

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"'Thy son and slave, Ramses, says this to thee, he who all the time of his journey had his eyes open like a fish, and his ears set forward like an ass which is watching.'."

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Soon he was ready to set off, and taking with him an ass laden with bread, a bottle of wine and a young kid, which were Jesse's present to Saul, on he journeyed over the hills and through the valleys until he reached the court of the King, and presently stood in the presence of Saul, who almost as soon as he had looked at the lad with his fair, bright face and sturdy figure, took a great fancy to him, and commanded him to become one of his household and to come and play to him whenever he should be summoned, and also sent this message back to Jesse: "Let David, I pray thee, stand before me, for he hath found favour in my sight."

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Dr. W. C. Deming, Sec., Northern Nut Growers' Ass'n, Westchester.

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So let not the young man be discouraged if he has committed follies; for there seems to emerge a peculiar and vivid wisdom from error, from making an ass of one's self, and all that, more useful to one's own life than any wisdom he can get from sages or copybooks.

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"By George, what an ass I've been!

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It brought me down to bed rock, for I was making a conceited ass of myself that's all, in thinking I could have roses for fodder instead of thistles--and just for the asking!

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"I'm making another ass of myself!" he spoke aloud and continued to chew the end of a cold cigar.

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It was an off-time in business and he had leisure to assure himself that he was without doubt the quadruped alluded to above--"An ass that this time is in danger of choosing thistles for fodder when he can get something better."

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Upon an ass behind him was a fellow of the baser sort, a genial, simple follower, seemingly serving him as his squire.

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Presently, an ass, by mischance, setteth foot on the fingers of him who is under the coop and he roareth out, whereupon Pietro runneth thither and espying him, discovereth his wife's unfaith, but ultimately cometh to an accord with her for his own lewd ends_ 286 DAY THE SIXTH 294 THE FIRST STORY.

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For that virtue,[69] which was erst in the minds of the women of times past, those of our day have diverted to the adornment of the body, and she on whose back are to be seen the most motley garments and the most gaudily laced and garded and garnished with the greatest plenty of fringes and purflings and broidery deemeth herself worthy to be held of far more account than her fellows and to be honoured above them, considering not that, were it a question of who should load her back and shoulders with bravery, an ass would carry much more thereof than any of them nor would therefore be honoured for more than an ass.

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The other waited not for him to make an end of his reply, but said, more fiercely than before, 'I know not what hindereth me from coming down and cudgelling thee what while I see thee stir, for a pestilent drunken ass as thou must be, who will not let us sleep this night.'

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'And I,' quoth another, 'do likewise, for that if I believe that my wife pusheth her fortunes [in my absence,] she doth it, and if I believe it not, still she doth it; wherefore tit for tat be it; an ass still getteth as good as he giveth.

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Whatsoever an ass giveth against a wall, such he receiveth (_Quale asino da in parete, tal riceve_).

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The probable reference seems to be to the circumstance of an ass making water against a wall, so that his urine returns to him.]

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* * * * * This story gave such occasion for laughter to all the company that there was none whose jaws ached not therefor, and all the ladies avouched with one accord that Dioneo spoke sooth and that Bernabo had been an ass.

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The lady told him he was an ass and knew not what one beauty was more than another, whereupon he, unwilling to vex her overmuch, took her confession and let her go away with the others.

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PRESENTLY, AN ASS, BY MISCHANCE, SETTETH FOOT ON THE FINGERS OF HIM WHO IS UNDER THE COOP AND HE ROARETH OUT, WHEREUPON PIETRO RUNNETH THITHER AND ESPYING HIM, DISCOVERETH HIS WIFE'S UNFAITH, BUT ULTIMATELY COMETH TO AN ACCORD WITH HER FOR HIS OWN LEWD ENDS The queen's story come to an end and all having praised God for that He had rewarded Federigo according to his desert, Dioneo, who never waited for commandment, began on this wise: "I know not whether to say if it be a casual vice, grown up in mankind through perversity of manners and usances, or a defect inherent in our nature, that we laugh rather at things ill than at good works, especially when they concern us not.

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Whereto he answered promptly, "Madam, the judgment is already given, without hearing more of the matter; and I say that Licisca is in the right and opine that it is even as she saith and that Tindaro is an ass."

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And to assure yourselves that in this I say sooth, do but consider the Cadgers in comparison with other folk; whereas you see all the rest of mankind with faces well composed and duly proportioned, you may see the Cadgers, this with a visnomy very long and strait and with a face out of all measure broad; one hath too long and another too short a nose and a third hath a chin jutting out and turned upward and huge jawbones that show as they were those of an ass, whilst some there be who have one eye bigger than the other and other some who have one set lower than the other, like the faces that children used to make, whenas they first begin to learn to draw.

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Then, neither she nor Federigo purposing that this should be the last, as it had been the first time [of their foregathering], they took order together on this wise, so it should not be needful to send the maid for him each time, to wit, that every day, as he came and went to and from a place he had a little farther on, he should keep his eye on a vineyard that adjoined the house, where he would see an ass's skull set up on one of the vine poles, which whenas he saw with the muzzle turned towards Florence, he should without fail and in all assurance betake himself to her that evening after dark; and if he found the door shut he should knock softly thrice and she would open to him; but that, whenas he saw the ass's muzzle turned towards Fiesole, he should not come, for that Gianni would be there; and doing on this wise, they foregathered many a time.

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Tofano, on the other hand, told them, like an ass as he was, how the case stood and threatened her sore; but she said to the neighbours, 'Look you now what a man he is!

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Lusca, nowise daunted by his austere speech, said to him, 'Pyrrhus, I will e'en bespeak thee both of this and of everything else wherewithal my lady shall charge me when and as often as she shall bid me, whether it cause thee pleasure or annoy; but thou art an ass.'

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Whenas he espied her in church of a Sunday morning, he would say a Kyrie and a Sanctus, studying to show himself a past master in descant, that it seemed as it were an ass a-braying; whereas, when he saw her not there, he passed that part of the service over lightly enough.

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It chanced one day that as he sauntered about the quarter on the stroke of noon, he encountered Bentivegna del Mazzo, driving an ass laden with gear, and accosting him, asked whither he went.

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As it is, thanks to your disloyalty, we have gotten so many buffets this past night that an ass would go to Rome for less, without reckoning that we have gone in danger of being expelled the company into which we had taken order for having you received.

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'Marry,' quoth she, 'he lieth in his throat, for he was never abed with Niccolosa, seeing that I have lain here all night; more by token that I have not been able to sleep a wink; and thou art an ass to believe him.

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In the course of his travels he contracted a strait friendship with one who styled himself Pietro da Tresanti and plied the same trade with the aid of an ass he had.

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Nevertheless, in the matter of lodging, having but one sorry little bed, in which he slept with his handsome wife, he could not entertain him as he would, but, Dom Gianni's mare being lodged with Pietro's ass in a little stable he had, needs must the priest himself lie by her side on a truss of straw.

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Then, there being now, by reason of the words that Pietro had spoken, no longer any means of making a mare of the young woman, she donned her clothes, woebegone and disconsolate, and Pietro, continuing to ply his old trade with an ass, as he was used, betook himself, in company with Dom Gianni, to the Bitonto fair, nor ever again required him of such a service."

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"It's Yaspard Adiesen masquerading like an ass," said Harry Mitchell at last.

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"I might have guessed as much if I had not been an ass," Yaspard exclaimed.

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Alvina saw the dim ass come up, wander uneasily to the stream, plant his fore legs, and sniff the water, his nose right down.

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And from far away came the wild braying of an ass, primeval and desperate in the snow.

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And the crumbs of snow were like a speckled veil, faintly drifting the atmosphere and powdering the littered threshold where they stood--a threshold littered with faggots, leaves, straw, fowls and geese and ass droppings, and rag thrown out from the house, and pieces of paper.

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They needn't put me down for such an ass.

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James Joynes, aged 12, was bitten by an ass, on each side of the middle finger; the wounds were severe, and almost immediately followed by swelling and great pain.

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If Balaam's ass (or say, Crazy), had spoken these words, grandmother could not have been more astonished.

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"Jerry, ye ass, I'll bet ye them three white chuckies[1] he'll lose!"

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"I remember," said Charley, "that Midas was said to have ass's ears."

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If we could find some blithesome ass to pay him for the _Herald_ enough money to take him out of our scrambled Bedlam of a town, bring the idiot on, and he (Giddings) would arrange things so we could have our touting done as we liked it!

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"'They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep; And Bahram, that great hunter--the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep!'

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"Well, I congratulate you, Giddings; and don't make such an ass of yourself, please, any more.

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I didn't think Giddings was so many kinds of an ass!"

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If he had grown to be the least like Mr. LOUIS NAPOLEON PARKER'S _Disraeli_, if he had taken to standing over Governors of the Bank of England and forcing them to sign documents under threat of smashing up their silly old bank, if he had been such a judge of men as to have made that prize ass, _Lord Deeford_, his secretary, or conducted his _menage_ at Downing Street in the highly diverting manner exhibited in Mr. PARKER's second Act, one trembles to think what they would have called him--and done to him.

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For which he paid full dear; For while he spake, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear.

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"You seem a genial sort of ass," he said.

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From which the reader may assume that his lordship was a bit of an ass--but no.

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I suppose that ass Barraclough turned her down.

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The pulpit where he was to speak had been filled with filth, and the skin of an ass tacked over the sacred desk.

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O eternal and most gracious God, who hast been pleased to speak to us, not only in the voice of nature, who speaks in our hearts, and of thy word, which speaks to our ears, but in the speech of speechless creatures, in Balaam's ass, in the speech of unbelieving men, in the confession of Pilate, in the speech of the devil himself, in the recognition and attestation of thy Son, I humbly accept thy voice in the sound of this sad and funeral bell.

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Would tell him of blessed St. Francis and of Poverty, his sweet, sad bride; of his sermon to the birds dwelling in the oak groves along Tiber valley; of the mystic stigmata, marking as with nail prints his hands and feet, and of that indomitable love towards all creatures, which found alike in the sun in heaven and the heavy-laden ass, brothers and friends.

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I wasn't thinking what I was saying, I'm an ass.

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He was not such a fatuous ass as to have mistaken Helen's frank _camaraderie_, her bright interest in things, her charming little ways of showing cousinly regard, for some deeper, more personal feeling?

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Dickie thinking over his restless night, his fierce efforts at self-conquest, those long hours in the saddle designed for the reduction of a perfervid imagination, wrote himself down an ass indeed.

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I have time--too much of it--and I'm not quite an ass.

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He, like an ass, evidently had blundered.

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For, between ourselves, Janetta, I made such an ass of myself last summer that my ears burn to think of it, and it was not a particularly honorable or gentlemanly ass, I believe, so that I deserve to be drowned in the deep sea for my folly.

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