The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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"Bertram Connell, your nephew, though a poet and all that, is rather an ass."

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"I said that he was a silly ass and that if I had the chance of a month in the west of Ireland in a sporting sort of house--he told me you hunted a lot--I'd simply jump at it.

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"Oh, what an ass I have been!"

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"They stole the figure whose finger you were ass enough (if you'll allow me the little familiarity) to put your ring on.

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But what an ass that fellow must have been to make such a to-do about his beastly carcass!

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"We might wake up to-morrow and ..." "It's too important to joke about; don't be an ass, Tom."

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Of all beasts not an ass--which is so like your Vainlove.

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Lard, I have seen an ass look so chagrin, ha, ha, ha (you must pardon me, I can't help laughing), that an absolute lover would have concluded the poor creature to have had darts, and flames, and altars, and all that in his breast.

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I am melancholic when thou art absent; look like an ass when thou art present; wake for thee when I should sleep; and even dream of thee when I am awake; sigh much, drink little, eat less, court solitude, am grown very entertaining to myself, and (as I am informed) very troublesome to everybody else.

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Agad, if he should hear the lion roar, he'd cudgel him into an ass, and his primitive braying.

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Why that's some comfort to an author's fears, If he's an ass, he will be tryed by's peers.

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"Some false editions of the book having an owl in their frontispiece, the true one, to distinguish it, fixed in its stead an ass laden with authors.

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Then another surreptitious one being printed with the same ass, the new edition in octavo returned, for distinction, to the owl again.

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The preacher had sunk to the rôle of a conceited clerical ass who regarded science as an enemy to his especial theories and the visible universe as an outlying province of Calvinism; while Viola, who came to the door, was again most humanly charming, delighting his eyes like the morning.

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My father was an attaché of the embassy at Berlin at one time, and was a factor in getting old 'Hair and Goggles' to come over; he was a conceited ass at that time, with more wool than brains, the governor always said; but the governor wanted to do something for the college."

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'This man is a great chemist and physicist,' you say,'but a crazy ass when he sets to work to examine the claims of spiritism,' which is absurd and unjust.

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And for our thoughts, how do they go unlimited and unrestrained?-like a wild ass, traversing her ways, and gadding about, fixed on nothing,-at least not on God; nay, fixed on any thing but God.

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This may make boldness of access, that we have not God to speak to, or come to immediately, as he is clothed with glory and majesty, and as the Jews heard him on mount Sinai, and desired a mediator between him and them, but that great prophet promised to them hath come, and we have him between us and God,-as low as we, that we may speak to him, "riding upon an ass," a low ass, that every one may whisper their desires in his ear-and yet as high as God, that he may speak to God, and have power with him.

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We heard him, say they, and we never heard any speak like him, not so much for the pomp and majesty of his style, for he came low, sitting on an ass, and was as condescending in his manner of speech as in his other behaviour, but because "he taught with authority."

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But because the heart of man is desperately wicked, and hath lost that true ingenuity and nobleness of spirit, and is now become stubborn and froward, as a wild ass, or as a swift dromedary traversing her ways, therefore the Lord takes another way of dealing with men suitable to their froward natures; he gives out his royal statute backed with majesty and authority; "This is his command," &c.-that when fair means could not prevail, other means more terrible might reduce lost rebellious men.

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It was an ancient remark, that "vain man would be wise, though he be born like a wild ass's colt."

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Though he be born as stupid and void of any real wisdom and excellency, as a wild ass's colt, yet he hath this madness and folly superadded to all that natural stupidity, that he seems to be wise and understanding, and truly it was a more ancient disease than Job's days.

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But here is the great instruction of Christianity, to bring man down low from the height of presumption and self-estimation, and make him see himself just as he is by nature, a fool, and a wild ass's colt.

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Don't yoke an ass with an ox (see Deut.

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I.--Feed an ass once, and he will know the place again.

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of an Ass?

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DOES THE LORD REALLY NEED AN ASS?

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The Scriptures foretold that Jesus should come "riding upon an ass."

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Is it not beautiful to think of the poor despised Ass fulfilling so grand a prophecy?

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Will the young men and women who read this bear in mind that no one ever used this ass till Jesus did?

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"Do you compare us to an ass?"

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"Man be born like a wild ass's colt."

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And, if you have not remembered the claims God has upon you, the poor ass has the best of it, for the Lord says "The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his Master's crib, but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider."

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13, where you see a young ass with his neck broken?

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An ass in the morning, but the THRONE OF GOD before the sun went down!

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A medical practitioner who had failed to obtain the post of House Surgeon at the Hospital, owing to the support the President had given to another competitor for the post, had alluded to him bitterly as a blatant ass; and a leading publican who had been fined before the magistrates for diluting his spirits, was in the habit of darkly uttering his opinion that Jerry Brander was a deep card and up to no good.

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Ass.

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Ass.

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Ass.

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At the "feast of the ass" an ass was led into church and treated with mock respect.

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Their emblem was the cap with two horns or ass's ears.

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Page A _Are Beasts mere Machines?_ 76 _Ass Cast Away, An_ 196 _Assisting the Aged_ 144 B _Bear and Child, The_ 48 _Bear Cubs, The_ 184 _Broken Heart, The_ 62 C _Calculating Crow, A_ 56 _Canine Sheep-Stealer, A_ 38 _Canine Smugglers_ 36 _Carrier's Dog, A_ 170 _Cat and Crows, The_ 26 _Catcher Caught, The_ 188 _Charitable Canary, A_ 166 _Child Saved, A_ 200 _Choice Retaliation, A_ 82 _Comedy of Quadrupeds, A_ 64 _Concerts of Animals_ 90 _Conversing Parrot, A_ 20 _Crab Fishing_ 152 _Cunning as a Fox_ 66 D _Death of Antiochus Revenged, The_ 52 _Deceiving the Fowler_ 190 _Dinner Bell, The_ 30 _Division of Labour_ 150 _Dog and Goose, The_ 40 _Dog of Montargis, The_ 46 _Dolphin, The_ 50 _Domesticated Seal, A_ 122 _Drawing Water_ 60 E _Elephant Rope Dancing_ 70 _Escape of Jengis Khan_ 176 F _Faithful Companion, A_ 8 _False Alarm, A_ 10 _Filial Duty_ 28 _Foraging_ 132 _Fox Chasing_ 174 G _Generous Revenge, A_ 74 _Goat, The_ 86 _Going to Market_ 134 _Good Finder, A_ 106 _Grateful Lioness, A_ 104 _Grateful Return, A_ 142 H _Heroism of a Hen, The_ 24 _Honours Paid to Living and Departed Worth_ 198 _Horse and Greyhound, The_ 84 _Humane Society_ 172 I _Immovable Fidelity_ 138 _Infant Fascination_ 120 L _Lion and his Keeper, The_ 136 _Long Lost Found Again_ 78 M _Making Sure_ 16 _Maternal Affection_ 116 _Mice as Navigators_ 54 _Mimic_ 22 _Monkey versus Snake_ 160 _More Faithful than Favoured_ 68 _Mother Watching her Young, A_ 88 _Musical Mice_ 162 _Musical Seals_ 108 N _Newfoundland Dog, The_ 4 _Newsman Extraordinary, A_ 182 _Noble Perseverance_ 186 O _Odd Fraternity_ 34 _Of Two Evils Choosing the Least_ 156 _Old Habits_ 192 _Ostrich Riding_ 80 _Oyster Opening_ 146 P _Philosophic Cat, A_ 194 _Pig Pointer, The_ 118 _Porus Saved by his Elephant_ 58 _Power of Music, The_ 18 _Providential Safe Conduct, A_ 72 _Pugnacity_ 168 R _Rare Honesty_ 154 _Refugee Squirrel, A_ 178 _Remorse_ 2 _Retaliation_ 180 _Retribution_ 124 _Rights of Hospitality, The_ 102 S _Sabinus and his Dog_ 42 _Sagacious Bruin_ 12 _Sense of Ridicule, A_ 112 _Shepherd's Dog, The_ 130 _Shrewd Guesser, A_ 96 _Singular Foster-Mother, A_ 128 _Singular Interposition, A_ 32 _Sly Couple, A_ 110 _Snake Destroyers_ 158 _Soliciting Succour_ 164 _Sonnini and his Cat_ 148 _Strange Mouser, A_ 14 _Strange Rooks_ 126 _Studying_ 6 T _Tame Colony, A_ 98 _Tame Hares_ 140 _Tame Sea-gull, The_ 114 _Travellers_ 92 U _Usurper Punished, An_ 100 W _Watch Dog, The_ 94 _Wrens Learning to Sing_ 44 * * * * * A HUNDRED ANECDOTES OF ANIMALS * * * * * ANECDOTE I. Remorse.

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Some years ago, an ass was employed at Carisbrook Castle, in the Isle of Wight, in drawing water by a large wheel from a very deep well, supposed to have been sunk by the Romans.

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An Ass Cast Away.

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An ass, belonging to a captain in the Royal Navy, then at Malta, was shipped on board a frigate, bound from Gibraltar for that island.

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I had not enough to buy either ox or ass.

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Peaks, Passes and Glaciers, 778 Andersen's Fairy Tales, 4 Anglo-Saxon Poetry, 794 Anson's Voyages, 510 Aristophanes' The Acharnians, etc., 344 " The Frogs, etc., 516 Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, 547 " Politics, 605 Armour's Fall of the Nibelung, 312 Arnold's (Matthew) Essays, 115 " Poems, 334 " Study of Celtic Literature, etc., 458 Aucassin and Nicolette, 497 Augustine's (Saint) Confessions, 200 Aurelius' (Marcus) Golden Book, 9 Austen's (Jane) Sense and Sensibility, 21 " Pride and Prejudice, 22 " Mansfield Park, 23 " Emma, 24 " Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion, 25 Bacon's Essays, 10 " Advancement of Learning, 719 Bagehot's Literary Studies, 520, 521 Baker's (Sir S. W.) Cast up by the Sea, 539 Ballantyne's Coral Island, 245 " Martin Rattler, 246 " Ungava, 276 Balzac's Wild Ass's Skin, 26 " Eugénie Grandet, 169 " Old Goriot, 170 " Atheist's Mass, etc., 229 " Christ in Flanders, etc., 284 " The Chouans, 285 " Quest of the Absolute, 286 " Cat and Racket, etc., 349 " Catherine de Medici, 419 " Cousin Pons, 463 " The Country Doctor, 520 " Rise and Fall of César Birotteau, 596 " Lost Illusions, 656 " The Country Parson, 686 " Ursule Mirouët, 733 Barbusse's Under Fire, 798 Barca's (Mme.

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"Lizzie will come round to like her in time, Ted, And, I say, old fellow, since you have been so open with me, I'm going to say something to you that you perhaps may not like, and think I'm an interfering ass.

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"Now, I know I'm a thundering ass but I'll be as meek as a lamb to you, you black-faced, under-sized little beggar."

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"Don't be an ass!

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"What an ass I am, Lacey!

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There, it's out now, and you'll think me an ass."

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The great Irish ass, however, thinks that Forreste is no end of a gentleman.

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It has been often told, but is worth repeating, how a pupil teacher was doing his level best to make the children remember Samson's mighty deeds with the jawbone of an ass, and, recapitulating, he asked, "What did Samson slay ten thousand Philistines with?

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And at once the answer belched proudly from half-a-dozen throats in unison, "The jawbone of an ass."

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There is some meaning and sense (though great wickedness) in coveting our neighbour's house or garden, horse or ass; the unjust steward, though a bad man, at least acted wisely, i. e. according to a worldly wisdom; but those who covet honour, I mean a great name, really covet no substantial thing at all, and are not only "the most offending men alive," inasmuch as this passion for fame may carry them on to the most atrocious crimes, but also the most foolish of men.

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McDonald was disgusted with Pete's calling; said it sounded like the bray of a wild ass of the wilderness.

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"Ass well ass coot pe expectet.

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Ass lonk ass I am uff use, I will liff.

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Such an ass!"

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Only I suppose the little ass and dray wouldn't be grand enough for the wife!

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So then he bethought him of the little ass that was outside under the dray yet.

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But she made out a porter and asked him, as Art had bid her, for Mr. Moloney's ass-cart.

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"Moloney's ass and dray?

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That ass is middling slow!"

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That ass-cart!

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All ran away as though they ran a race, When each had managed to upset her glass On the corks banging, like a timid little (l)ass.

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"Don't be an ass.

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I couldn't bear to lose the silly old ass altogether."

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Or will he be the same old silly ass, no use to anybody, always dirty, always smiling, always in the way, a clumsy, blundering fool of a dog who knows you can't help loving him?

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"Hallo, old ass," I said to him through the bars, and in the little space they gave him he wriggled his body with delight.

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Oh, I am an ass.

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And why should I label one who was speaking so eloquently for himself; who said from the tip of his little black nose to the end of his stumpy black tail, "I'm a silly old ass, but there's nothing wrong in me, and they're sending me away!"

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But I had a letter from Peter to-day which ended like this:-- "By the way, I was an ass last week.

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"Dennis," I said, "you're an ass."

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Some declared that they had met him mounted on an ass on the road leading to Nahrawan, and had heard him say, "Be not like those simpletons who think that I have been scourged and put to death."

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Elsewhere he says, referring to the Gospel narrative of Christ's entry into Jerusalem (not mentioned in the Koran), and taking the ass as the symbol of the body pampered by the sensualist:-- You deserted Jesus, a mere ass to feed, In a crowd of asses you would take the lead; Those who follow Jesus, win to wisdom's ranks; Those who fatten asses get a kick for thanks.

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If an ass could somewhat catch of Jesus' mind, Classed among the sages he himself would find; Though because of Jesus you may suffer woe, Still from Him comes healing, never let Him go.

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'Back to each other we reflections throw,' So spake Arabia's Prophet long ago; And he, who views men through self's murky glass, Proclaims himself no lion, but an ass.

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(_Alger: Poetry of the Orient._) The entrance of our Lord into Jerusalem is referred to in the following passage from the Masnavi of Jalaluddin Rumi:-- Having left Jesus, thou cherishest an ass, And art perforce excluded like an ass; The portion of Jesus is knowledge and wisdom, Not so the portion of an ass, O assinine one!

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Thou pitiest thine ass when it complains; So art thou ignorant, thine ass makes thee assinine, Keep thy pity for Jesus, not for the ass, Make not thy lust to vanquish thy reason.

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"You're talking like an ass!" he said sharply.

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'Oh, no!' cried Ass; 'in Switzerland The mountain peaks are finer.'

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'They'd make _us_ into food,' cried Ass, 'They'd fry our bones in batter; I will not walk ten thousand miles To make a Chinee fatter.'

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When its mother has just returned from the sea, she stands up over her little one, and makes a great noise something between the quacking of a duck and the braying of an ass.

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If inspiration should her aid refuse To him who takes a Pixy for a muse, Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass The bard who soars to elegize an ass.

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"Mind what you're after, and don't make such a row, you ass's head," he continued authoritatively, "or you'll have Noel or some one in here."

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He had always made Bliss a laughing-stock, had nicknamed him Ass's Head, and had taught others to jeer at his backwardness.

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"O Tracy, what an utter, utter ass, and fool, and wretch, I've been."

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In short, to distinguish is folly; 'Twixt the pair I am come to the pass Of Macheath, between Lucy and Polly,-- Or Buridan's ass.

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Is there any more expensive way of keeping either an ass or a man than in idleness?

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Great be the glory the future awards you, You that have given the first-born a cropper, Bay-leaves immortal encircle your topper; Though you're a scientist, you are no dry ass-- I take off my hat to you, KARL, for I share Your "very sensible bias."

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Then follow couplets, among which are these:-- "Beneath this sod, mark reader, as you pass The carcase buried of a great jack-ass: Perfidious, smiling, fawning, cringing slave, Hell holds his spirit, and his flesh this grave.

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When a silly ass got up at the first Hague Peace Conference in 1899, and talked about the "amenities of warfare" and putting your prisoners' feet in warm water and giving them gruel, my reply, I regret to say, was considered brutally unfit for publication.

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