The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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They would certainly look on me as an ass of the first water if I did not--of that I was sure.

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But John Gordon did perceive something, and told himself that that ass Blake had been at work.

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"That young man is a most egregious ass," said Mr Whittlestaff.

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Otherwise I think the bishop is responsible for letting in such an ass as this."

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That ass Montagu Blake every time he opened his mouth as to his own bride let out the idea that John Gordon should have his bride because John Gordon was young and lusty, and because he, Whittlestaff, might be regarded as an old man.

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If a man is not to lie on the hard ground, to endure the heat of the scorching sun, to feed hungrily on a horse or an ass, to see himself mangled and cut in pieces, to have a bullet plucked out of his bones, to suffer incisions, his flesh to be stitched up, cauterised, and searched--all incident to a martial man--how shall we purchase the advantage and pre-eminence we so greedily seek over the vulgar sort?

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He is such an Ass."

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The bumptious and dull ass who announces "Miracles do not happen," is now seen in true perspective and he cuts a poor figure.

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"Don't be an ass--open the door."

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Ass.

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Ass., The which did warfare wage On the dramatic works of this And every other age.

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Ass.

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Ass., A stalwart, dry-goods clerk, Was cast for Orlando, in which rôle He felt he'd make his mark.

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Ass., they have engaged This pet of the P. R.; As Charles the Wrestler he's to be A bright, particular star.

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Ass.

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He had not only passed muster before the high and mighty court of examiners, but had received on the occasion the personal warm congratulations of Abernethy and Sir Astley Cooper; the former of whom, indeed, before he asked M'Linnie a question, gave him confidence in his peculiar way, by requesting him "not to be a frightened fool, for Mr. Abernethy was not the brute the world was pleased to make him out;" and after a stiff and rough examination shook the student heartily by the hand, and pronounced him "not an ass, like all the world, but a sensible shrewd fellow, who, instead of muddling his head with books, had passed his days, very properly, where real life was only to be met with"--_videlicet_, in the dead-house.

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It was very evident that there was no hope of family restoration to be founded on so profound a blockhead--an ass that could not get into the church--that moped and wandered about the woods--that trembled when he was spoken to; and so far from pushing his way in the world, and acquiring a fortune by running off with an heiress, had not courage enough to look a milkmaid in the face.

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"I was an ass--a fool!"

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Imagine that all that has passed since we parted here is a dream; that Verbena Lodge has no existence, and that Mr Dobble is an ass!

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Itinerant vendors, porters, and ass-drivers rush to and fro, jostling against one another.

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And one of them points out to him, behind some tapestry, the body of a man with an ass's head.

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On the other walls of the apartment, medallions of polished brass represent heads of animals--that of an ox, of a lion, of an eagle, of a dog, and again, an ass's head!

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she sprang forth on her iron hoofs; she neighed like an ass; she galloped amongst the rocks.

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From time to time they got out of the way, in order to allow a long, covered chariot, drawn by oxen, to pass, or perhaps it is an ass jolting on his back a woman closely veiled, who also disappears in the direction of the huts.

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He hears the sound of castanets and cymbals, and, in the midst of a rustic crowd, men clad in white tunics, with red bands, lead out an ass, richly harnessed, his tail adorned with ribands and his hoofs painted.

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Silenus, at his side, is dangling upon an ass.

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And inwardly the Admiral cursed his visitor for a meddlesome ass.

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If any boy fail to follow his Leader, he is called the "Ass," and must be ridden by the boy next him.

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Leaves dingle; rescues old man's ass; puts up at small inn on the North Road.

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'Hurt enough,' sobbed the old man, 'I have been just tricked out of the best ass in England by a villain, who gave me nothing but these trash in return,' pointing to the stones before him.

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'I suppose he was the fellow,' said I, 'whom I just now met upon a fine grey ass, which he was beating with a cudgel.'

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but to take from you that ass, of which you have just robbed its owner.'

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'In the history of Herod's ass!' said the jockey; 'well, if I did write a book, it should be about something more genteel than a dickey.'

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'I did not say Herod's ass!' said I, 'but Herodotus, a very genteel writer, I assure you, who wrote a history about very genteel people, in a language no less genteel than Greek, more than two thousand years ago.

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Peppino told me that our mule was the offspring of an ass and a mare.

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These, he says, are better than those born of a horse and a she-ass.

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At least he made no public comment; but when Nesta bothered him later for an opinion, he said shortly,-- "He looks an ass."

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He looks a stuck-up ass."

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"Can't a gentleman look an ass?

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"All the same," thought Eustace, "he's a silly ass."

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A cart and harness were sold for 100 shekels, six riding-horses for 300 shekels, one "ass from the West" for 130 shekels, one steer for 30 shekels, 34 _gur_ 56 _qas_ of grain for 137 shekels, 2 homers 40 _qas_ of oil for 16 shekels, two long-sleeved robes for 12 shekels, and nine shawls for 18 shekels.

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In the year of the death of Cyrus a Babylonian gentleman bought "a mouse-colored ass, eight years old, without blemish," for 50 shekels (£7 10s.

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At the same time, however, an ass of inferior quality went for only 13 shekels.

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"Silly ass!" said she to herself, and she went to lean over the rail and watch for the coming of the others.

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"Where's Ben----" began that stupid ass of a boy, but I checked him with a malevolent and meaning glance, and the youth, looking frightened, dived into the back parlour in search of my head-gear.

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If he is repeating them second hand, he is nothing but an ass, a dupe of some real propagandist, and he should be reported and punished just the same.

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He declared me a perfect ass.

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Every one knew that the village veterinary was an ass, while every one knew that doctors were scientific men, even in the smallest village.

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What she can see in him you cannot for the life of you perceive, while he, on his part, secretly wonders why the woman he loves ever sought friendship with such a pompous, dull ass as you are.

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La Hontan calls the _caribou_ a species of wild ass; and Charlevoix says that its form resembles that of the ass, but that it at least equals the stag in agility.]

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What an awfully old ass you have been, JAB, to go and blurt out everything in print--about your breach of promise case, and getting to know us, and--worst of all--being merely a bogey prince.

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He's such a jolly innocent kind of old ass, and they like him because he's no end of sport.

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But that horse behaved like a dull-headed ass, and cared no more for the waving of official caps than for the wild screaming of our steam whistle.

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'Don't be an ass, man.

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Then I heard him mutter to himself, 'I was an ass to have missed that.'

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'Don't be an ass, Luscombe,' said the Scotchman; 'I will tell you everything presently, but can't you see that----' 'I can see that he's going to live,' I interrupted.

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Ride forth upon me as Thou didst ride into Jerusalem mounted upon the humble little beast, a colt, the foal of an ass, and let me hear the children cry to Thee, "Hosanna in the highest.

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She was game and didn't make a murmur, but Frankling made a pale-gray ass of himself.

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Then that black ass gives me out 'leg before.'

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Besides myself there were a sturdy blue-nose or Nova-Scotian; a long-limbed, slab-sided herring-back or native of New Brunswick, a big thick-headed ass of an Englishman and a smart thief of a Cockney, known to us all as Ginger.

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Between ourselves, he is better where he is; he is a horrible ass."

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One or another, every now and then, raises its head aloft, and so holds it, while giving utterance to a series of cries as hoarse and long-drawn as the braying of an ass, to which sound it bears a ludicrous resemblance.

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This singular bird has been christened "Jackass penguin" by sailors, on account of its curious note, which bears an odd resemblance to the bray of an ass.

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This is the trick of some scoundrel tailor, who sent home a coat too small for the wearer, and thus persuaded him (he must have been an ass) to tie two buttons together, and so make both ends meet.

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"Don't be an ass," chided Torrance, his eyes still on the trees.

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In some western villages a man in Scottish dress led about an ass decorated with a blue ribbon and wearing a paper crown; and at Exeter an effigy of Bute remained hanging on a gibbet for a fortnight, no one daring to remove it.

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A pretty Defence truly, and yet as this was the Excuse of _Balaam_'s Ass to his Master, one wou'd think none but an Ass wou'd plead it, and I will venture to say, they had better Change it for a solemn Vow, never to be guilty of such a Folly again.

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A stray ass, turned out to browse on the common, seemingly actuated thereto by sympathy or proximity of either man or beast, burst into one of those hysterical, though exquisite cadences, which defy all imitation, and at the same time produce an extraordinary and irresistible effect on the animal economy.

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The salutation of an ass by night is ever held a sound of ill-omen; and lo!

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"I've been a little, fluffy ass!" said Dink, marvelously stimulated to repentance by the episode which had gone before.

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He had made an ass of himself, a complete, egregious ass.

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At about the age of twelve he read in a German book about the Messiah-King whom many Jews still awaited and who would come riding, like the poorest of the poor on an ass.

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There is a gray white ass and a pale brown cow behind her.

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One of the farmer's daughters drove a young ass, who, harassed by the wasps, which are very numerous at the time when the air is full of the aroma of ripening fruits, impatiently shook his long ears.

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Of all the wild asses that roam the plain, the wildest wild ass that roams the plain is indubitably the one that lifts his voice and heel against that socialism known as "public ownership of public utilities," on the ground of "principle."

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As to that military metaphor--the "marching" and so forth--its inventor was as great an ass as any one of the incalculable multitude of his plagiarists.

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And it is practical politics to be an ass.

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But the suicide--his is the foeman that never missed a mark, his the sea that gives nothing back; the wall that he mounts bears no man's weight And his, at the end of it all, is the dishonored grave where the wild ass of public opinion "Stamps o'er his head but can not break his sleep."

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One man wrote me from Croydon:-- "Dear Sir,--Are you a fool or merely a silly ass?"

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He never replied to that, and I suppose that now he goes about telling his friends that I am a fool, a silly ass, and a typical Scot.

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"I did," she blurted out nervously; "I said you were just a silly ass."

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Abraham had always obeyed God, and believed his word, and now, though he could not understand, he rose up early in the morning and took his young son, with two servants, and an ass loaded with wood, to the place of which God had told him.

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So all the little boys of Bethlehem under two years of age were killed by the order of this wicked king, and the Holy Child whom Herod believed would be destroyed with them was safely borne in His mother's arms along the road to Egypt, while Joseph walked beside them and led the patient ass, and angels went with them unseen to be their guard by night and by day.

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The road was crowded with people who with lifted faces and songs of praise waved branches of palm as they walked before and beside Jesus, who was riding toward Jerusalem, seated upon a young ass, after the manner of the kings and prophets of ancient Israel.

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After Jesus and His friends had left Bethany to go to Jerusalem He had sent two of His disciples to a village near by to bring to Him an ass, with its colt, that they would find tied there, and they were to say to the owner of the asses, "The Lord hath need of them," that the words of the prophet might be fulfilled, "Tell ye the daughter of Zion, 'Behold thy king cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt, the foal of an ass.'"

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Their prospectus concludes with a panegyric on the English government, for favoring education among the natives, saying that not only speculative, but practical knowledge is necessary, as says the poet-philosopher Saadi: "Though thou hast knowledge, if thou dost not apply the same, thou art of no more value than the ignorant; thou art like an ass laden with books."

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Now the King having one day out of caprice besought him to paint his realm for him, Giotto, so it is said, painted for him an ass saddled, that had at its feet a new pack-saddle, and was sniffing at it and making semblance of desiring it; and on both the old pack-saddle and the new one were the royal crown and the sceptre of sovereignty; wherefore Giotto, being asked by the King what such a picture signified, answered that such were his subjects and such the kingdom, wherein every day a new lord was desired.

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_This ass is, by interpretation,_ _Some province poor, or prostrate nation._ _The thieves are princes this and that,_ _On spoils and plunder prone to fat,--_ _As those of Austria, Turkey, Hungary._ _(Instead of two, I've quoted three--_ _Enough of such commodity.

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This time, the king, t' insure success, Took for his aide-de-camp an ass, A creature of stentorian voice, That felt much honour'd by the choice.

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Cried out the much-elated ass.

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The donkey, had he dared, With anger would have flared At this retort, though justly made; For who could suffer boasts to pass So ill-befitting to an ass?

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Their Maker chooses but a few With power of pleasing to imbue; Where wisely leave it we, the mass, Unlike a certain fabled ass, That thought to gain his master's blessing By jumping on him and caressing.

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An ass, with relics for his load, Supposed the worship on the road Meant for himself alone, And took on lofty airs, Receiving as his own The incense and the prayers.

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A gardener's ass complain'd to Destiny Of being made to rise before the dawn.

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Anon it came to pass He was a collier's ass.

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With wit unseemly and profane, He mocks our venerable race-- On each of his who lacketh brain Bestows our ancient surname, ass!

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