The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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I'd be waiting still if that ass of a policeman hadn't insisted that I was drunk and dragged me away."

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That young ass Pat Singleton started what he called boat-races on it----" "Oh, Pat Singleton's there?"

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"You remember the day I was hauled up before that old ass of a magistrate.

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Those were the days when one got months of sick leave, before some rotten ass invented convalescent homes for officers and kept them there.

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"Restriction" is the newest ass's-jaw For slaying all our foes, from Wealth to Drink, Hailed with applause, save by the few who think.

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I ruminated upon my singular position for many minutes, arrived at no conclusion--that is to say, no satisfactory conclusion, except that Lawler was an accomplished knave and I was a consummate ass.

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Old Malthus was not such an ass as some folks think.

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"I shall have to let him go," he said to Hamilton, when the two had met one night after Mr. Blowter had retired to bed, "I spent the whole of this afternoon discussing the comparative values of mosquito nets, and he is such a perfect ass that you cannot snub him.

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"I'm afraid you'll find I'm rather an ass, sir," he said, saluting stiffly.

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"Bones, you're an ass!" he said at last.

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"Well, you're an ass!" said Hamilton, who could think of nothing better to say.

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He looked such an ass, an' moreover reminded me so powerfully of an aunt of mine that I simply couldn't do it."

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"I'd be failing in my job of work if I didn't make you realize what a perfect ass you are."

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"Perfect--yes," protested Bones, "ass--no.

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"I've been an ass, sir--too lenient--given you a lot of trouble--shan't occur again."

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"There's an ass," said Hamilton, ticking off one finger; "and there's a silly ass," he ticked off the second; "and there's a silly ass who is such a silly ass that he doesn't know what a silly ass he is: we call him a goop."

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"You're a silly ass," said Bones, "and let it go at that."

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"Sir," he began, "you think I am an ass."

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... what a silly old ass ... ah, would you ... don't do it, Billy...." To Hamilton's eyes the bulk of correspondence rather increased than diminished.

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"Complacent ass," said Hamilton, and returned to his own correspondence.

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I may be an ass, sir, I may even be a goop, but come between me an' my child an' all my motherly instincts--if you'll pardon the paradox--all my paternal--that's the word--instincts are aroused, and I will fight like a tiger, sir----" "What a devil you are for jaw," said Hamilton; "anyway, I've warned you.

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"Because, you silly ass," said Hamilton, "she is a sort of sacred crocodile."

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"Oh, Bones, what an ass you are!"

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"Yes, sir," said Bones, "that I'm an ass, sir, I think?"

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"It was an interestin' conclusion," said Bones, thoughtfully, "not without originality--when it first occurred to you, but as a conclusion, if you will pardon my criticism, sir, if you will forgive me for suggestin' as much--in callin' me an ass, sir: apart from its bein' contrary to the spirit an' letter of the Army Act--God Save the King!--it's a bit low, sir."

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"It's nothing to laugh about, you silly ass," said Bones.

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"I'm an ass, sir," muttered Bones, shakily, "an' somehow I understand that this is the time in my jolly old career when I oughtn't to be an ass....

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"A fine night!" shouted a cheerful ass as I struggled past him.

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"In the early times of the introduction of tobacco, smokers in many countries were condemned to infamous and cruel punishments; had their noses and their lips cut off, and with blackened faces and mounted on an ass, exposed to the coarse jests of the vilest vagabonds and the insults of the multitude.

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On the lid inside was painted the head of an ass.

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There was once, La Mothe remembered, a man who had an only son and an ass.

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Under the same hospitable roof Isaaco lodged for the inside of a week, and then, enriched with the gift of a horse and an ass and twenty bars of beads, went into the wilds to search for the fate of his master.

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Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this, for it will come to pass That every braggart shall be found an ass.

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"S. And if you will be a traveller and wander safely through the world, wheresoever you come have always the eyes of a falcon that you may see far, the ears of an ass that you may hear well, the face of an ape that you may be ready to laugh, the mouth of a hog to eat all things, the shoulder of a camel that you may bear anything with patience, the legs of a stag that you may flee from dangers, and see that you never want two bags very full; that is, one of patience, for with it a man overcomes all things, and another of money, for, They that have good store of crownes, Are called lordes, though they be clownes; and gold hath the very same virtue that charity hath, it covereth a multitude of faults, and golden hammers break all locks, and golden meedes do reach all heights, have always your hand on your hat, and in your purse, for, A purse or cap used more or less a year Gain many friends, and do not cost thee dear.

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The sotilicarios, says the chronicler, could not fly because there were no quill-feathers in their wings; in size they were as large as drakes, and their cry resembled the braying of an ass.

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"But I'm still a posturing, narrow-living ass, ain't I?" he said, "like the rest of the writing tribe."

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The nine of hearts was a caricature of the English Copper and Brass Company, with the following epigram: "The headlong-fool that wants to be a swopper Of gold and silver coin for English copper, May, in Change Alley, prove himself an ass, And give rich metal for adultrate brass."

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To meet an ass, is in like manner unlucky.

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The Ass and his Driver, cast by order of Augustus after the battle of Actium, in commemoration of his having discovered the position of Anthony through the means of an ass-driver.

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In the reign of Philippe le Bel, he appeared to a monk in the shape of a dark man riding a tall black horse, then as a friar, afterwards as an ass and finally as a coach-wheel.

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Brantôme, who relates this story, adds, that the victor might have done as he pleased with the body, cut off the head, dragged it out of the camp, or exposed it upon an ass; but that being a wise and very courteous gentleman, he left it to the relatives of the deceased to be honourably buried, contenting himself with the glory of his triumph, by which he gained no little renown and honour among the ladies of Paris.

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With the jawbone of an ass, with the skeleton philosophy of pagan Greece, did the Samson of the schools put to flight his thousand Philistines.

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These shapes were tolerable; but by the mass, He's metamorphosed me into an ass!'

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

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Placing the few books he possessed upon a little ass, he took leave of his companions about fifteen or twenty days after they came out of prison.

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"Oh, don't be an ass.

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3d., to remunerate Elizabeth Wright, whose husband was a tailor, for militia clothing; an Act appropriating £1,000 as an encouragement for the cultivation of hemp; an Act regulating the police within the town of Kingston; an Act granting to His Majesty duties on licences to hawkers, pedlars, and petty chapmen, and other trading persons; £10 to be the cost of a license to a person travelling on foot; £10 for every horse, ass, mule, or other beast of burden; £5 for every other beast; £50 for a decked vessel; £40 for every boat; and for every non-resident of the province £50 a year; an Act providing a salary of £500 a year for a Provincial Agent in Great Britain, to correspond with the Governor and with the Speakers of the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council, who was to be removed on addresses from the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly; an Act granting £6,000 to His Majesty for the use of common schools; to the Home District £600 annually; to the District of Newcastle £400; to the Midland District £1,000; to the District of Johnstown £600; to the Eastern District £800; to the London District £600; to the Gore District £600; to the Niagara District £600; to the Western District £600; and to the Ottawa District £200; an Act granting £21,000 for the building and repairing of bridges and for the repairing of highways; an Act granting £1,000 to defray the expenses of any commission for ascertaining titles to lands in the Niagara District; and an Act to repeal and amend part of an Act for laying out and repairing the public highways.

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Neither a man's ox nor ass was his own.

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"Oh, what an ass I am," he said, "for thus teasing you about nothing; no, I only mean that there is One _only_ who cannot die, who never changes, only One.

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Having obtained this, he purchased a long false beard, a black gown, and various boxes and retorts, so that he could readily pass for a travelling physician; these articles he placed upon an ass, and rode back to the castle of Thiuli-Kos.

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"I deserve ass's ears!" he exclaimed; "for, like an ass, have I trodden Fortune under my feet."

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21:34, If an ox or ass fall into a pit left uncovered, "the _owner_ of the pit shall make it good, and give money to the _owner_ of them."

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Look at thy food and drink, they are not spoiled; and look at thine ass; for we will make thee a sign to men.

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In Mohammed's time, however, it should be noted, the number of the sleepers was undetermined; they were credited with a dog who slept with them, like Ezra's ass; and Mohammed's notion of the time they slept was only one hundred years.

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As it is told in Denmark the enchanted princess agrees with the king's son to wind a red silken thread around her little finger; and by this means he identifies her, though in the form of a little grey-haired, long-eared she-ass, and again of a wrinkled, toothless, palsied old woman, into which the sorceress, whose captive she is, changes her.

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Dick's an ass!"

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But, never having heard of nor seen such a creature in all her life, she only looked up with a quiet expression of curiosity, and said-- "What bees an ass?"

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a--" roared our hero, with a mingled feeling of exasperation and savage glee--"an ass?

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Why, it's a lovely slender creature, with short pretty ears and taper limbs, and a sleek, glossy coat, like--like _me_, Mary, dear; why, I'm an ass myself.

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CONTENTS PAGE _How William of Palermo was carried off by the Werwolf_ 1 _The Disenchantment of the Werwolf_ 13 _The Slaying of Hallgerda's Husbands_ 28 _The Death of Gunnar_ 45 _Njal's Burning_ 71 _The Lady of Solace_ 84 _Una and the Lion_ 93 _How the Red Cross Knight slew the Dragon_ 105 _Amys and Amyle_ 128 _The Tale of the Cid_ 141 _The Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance_ 165 _The Adventure of the Two Armies who turned out to be Flocks of Sheep_ 177 _The Adventure of the Boiling Lights_ 190 _The Helmet of Mambrino_ 194 _How Don Quixote was Enchanted while guarding the Castle_ 202 _Don Quixote's Home-coming_ 209 _The Meeting of Huon and Oberon, King of the Fairies_ 213 _How Oberon saved Huon_ 221 _Havelok and Goldborough_ 234 _Cupid and Psyche_ 251 _Sir Bevis the Strong_ 267 _Ogier the Dane_ 287 _How the Ass became a Man again_ 298 _Guy of Warwick_ 309 _How Bradamante conquered the Wizard_ 320 _The Ring of Bradamante_ 331 _The Fulfilling of the Prophecy_ 341 _The Knight of the Sun_ 351 _How the Knight of the Sun rescued his Father_ 360 _ILLUSTRATIONS_ _COLOURED PLATES_ _How Gunnar met Hallgerda_ _Frontispiece_ _The Werwolf carries Prince William away_ _To face p._ 2 _The Lady of Solace_ " 86 _At the sight of the Lion she flung down the pitcher_ " 102 _The End of the Dragon_ " 124 _Softly she rose to her feet and stole out of the wood_ " 134 _Aphrodite finds Psyche's Task accomplished_ " 264 _How the Fairies came to see Ogier the Dane_ " 288 _PLATES_ _The Lovers meet by plan of Alexandrine_ _To face p._ 8 _The Bearskin--Am not I a bold Beast?_ " 14 _The Fury of the Werwolf_ " 24 _How Thorwald was slain by Thiostolf_ " 32 _Thiostolf decides to slay Glum_ " 40 _Otkell and Gunnar in the Field_ " 58 _Gunnar's last Fight and Hallgerda's Revenge_ " 66 _How Kari escaped from Njal's House_ " 78 _The Lady of Solace helps the Fallen Knight_ " 88 _The Red Cross Knight enters the Monster's Cave_ " 96 _Una saved by the Wood-Folk_ " 106 _Arthur fights the Seven-Headed Serpent_ " 112 _In the Cave of Despair_ " 120 _Rodrigo brings home the head of Gomez_ " 142 _Don Diego and Don Fernan show that they are cowards_ " 154 _Don Quixada declared that he would give his Housekeeper and his Niece into the bargain for the pleasure of bestowing one kick on Ganelon the traitor_ " 166 _Don Quixote determines to attack the Windmills_ " 180 _How the Galley Slaves repaid Don Quixote_ " 198 _The Meeting of Huon and Oberon_ " 216 _Round the Bag which held the Boy a brilliant Light was shining_ " 236 _Zephyr carries Psyche down from the Mountain_ " 254 _Little Bevis avenges his Father_ " 268 _Strong Sir Bevis keeps the Two Dragons at Bay_ " 278 _Bradamante defeats the Wizard with the Ring_ " 326 _Roger borne away from Bradamante_ " 332 _The Two Damsels rescue Roger from the Rabble_ " 336 _The Giant's Daughter reproaches the Two Brothers_ " 360 _The Knight of the Sun fights the Serpent_ " 366 _ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT._ PAGE _The Emperor carries William away_ 5 _The Werwolf's Visit to the Cave_ 19 _Hauskuld's Pride in Hallgerda_ 29 _How Gunnar slew Thorgeir, Otkell's Son_ 63 _Sudden Departure of Una's Parents_ 94 _In Archimago's Cell: the Evil Dream_ 100 _The Two Cups_ 132 _Sir Amyle arrives in time to save the Ladies_ 139 _Don Quixote belabours the Muleteer_ 175 _Don Quixote's Battle with the Wine-skins_ 203 _Huon defeats the Giant Agrapart_ 227 _Havelok presents Goldborough to the English People_ 247 _Aphrodite brings Cupid to Psyche_ 252 _Joyfully the Eagle bore back the Urn_ 265 _Ogier the Dane meets Morgane le Fay at last_ 293 _Apuleius changes into an Ass_ 302 _HOW WILLIAM OF PALERMO WAS CARRIED OFF BY THE WERWOLF_ Many hundreds of years ago there lived in the beautiful city of Palermo a little prince who was thought, not only by his parents but by everyone who saw him, to be the handsomest child in the whole world.

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Then all at once she remembered a certain Red Cross Knight whose fame had spread even to her distant land, and, ordering her white ass to be saddled, she set forth in quest of him.

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Then, mounting her milk-white ass, she set out to follow them.

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'Master Quixada!' cried he, wiping off the blood as he spoke, 'what villain has served you like this?' but, as Don Quixote only replied to his questions with long stories of the heroes of romance, the man gave it up, and after gathering up the stray bits of armour, and even the broken lance, helped the Don on to his own ass and took Rozinante by the bridle.

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'Worshipful knight,' answered Sancho Panza, 'I will do all that you bid me, but, by your leave, I will bring my ass also, for she is a good ass, and never did I walk when a beast was at hand.'

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'I know not,' replied Don Quixote, 'if any knight was ever yet followed by a squire mounted on an ass's back.

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'But what shall I do with my ass?' inquired the squire anxiously, 'for I suppose that until this day no man has ever yet ridden into combat on an ass.'

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'Then, if you repent you of the wrong that you have done me,' said the man, 'I pray you, worshipful knight, to deliver my leg from the bondage of this ass, who has my leg fastened between the stirrup and the saddle.'

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'And what,' inquired Sancho, 'shall we do with the grey horse that looks so like an ass?

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'That he be laid on an ass and burned at the stake,' cried they.

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[Illustration: APULEIUS CHANGES INTO AN ASS] 'Come hither, and quickly,' she said; and without stopping to question her Apuleius hastened by her side to the dwelling of the witch Pamphile.

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Apuleius had been changed, not into a nightingale, but into an ass!

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'I do not want to be an ass at all; my arms and back are aching already, and if I am not swiftly restored to my own shape I shall not be able to overthrow the champion in the wrestling match to-morrow.'

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[Apuleius, _The Golden Ass_.]

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He made a clean breast of it to his brother that evening, who, of course, called him an ass, and everything else complimentary, and was deservedly angry.

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In short, he made a regular ass of himself.

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"You ass, you!

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"I don't believe a word that ass says."

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For the Landfield man has no notion of coming to close quarters; he is their crack drop-kick, and would be an ass indeed if he did not employ his talent with such a chance as this.

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I'm certain not half the fellows would have believed Simon if you hadn't--" "Made such an ass of myself," said Oliver, laughing.

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Ass that I was to think, after all my wasted time and sin, I had any chance against you or Wraysford!

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[Illustration] _"Balaam's Ass"_ [Sidenote: _Vanity Fair_, Jan 11, 1879.]

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The inference ... is that all the world, competent and incompetent together, must receive the painter's work in silence, under pain of being classed with Balaam's ass....

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There could be no better illustration of all this than that Mr. Whistler has suggested of Balaam's ass.

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_For the Ass was right_, although, nay, because he was an ass.

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The fact, doubtless, explains the conviction of the race in their mission, but I fancy you will admit that this is the _only Ass on record_ who ever _did_ "see the Angel of the Lord!" and that we are past the age of miracles.

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_"Balaam's Ass"_, 41.

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Then Samson came on in his fury, armed with the jawbone of an ass; Turiddu said it was of a horse, but I knew better, at least, I knew what it ought to have been.

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But by the time that I had come to this point the pretty Ippolita, whose name I had intended to place there, was no longer the moment's idol of my soul, and between the two dainty girls that had succeeded her I sat for a long while embarrassed, like the schoolman's ass between the two bundles of hay, not knowing, as it were, at which to bite.

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As I have already said, I had no great yearning for these magnificent mercenaries of the hosts of Love, for these bejewelled amazons that seemed made merely to prove to man that he is no better than an unutterable ass.

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When the same king asked him to paint a picture which would represent his kingdom, Giotto drew an ass bearing a saddle on which were a crown and sceptre, while at the feet of the ass there was a new saddle with a shining new crown and sceptre, at which the ass was eagerly smelling.

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Soon I discovered a heap on the stern, which on closer inspection proved to be nets, and my fears boiled down showed me they were simply fishermen and I an ass and somewhat ashamed of myself.

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Opening it and pretending to read, I said in a solemn tone of voice: "When time and place adhere write me down an ass."

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He told him it was wrong for him to ride on horseback beside one like thee--for whom to ride an ass were signal honour.

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"What do we want with fifty mules, O ass?" he asked in Arabic.

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