The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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He knew he had made an ass of himself,-and was hopelessly endeavouring to show himself to be less of an ass than people thought him, by some success in his violence.

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"The Devil Is An Ass."

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"The Devil Is An Ass."

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you may be, and I trust you are, an angel; but you were an ass.

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Ass, _kaldei_.

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But even accepting the term in the way I know it is meant to be used--say, for instance, as it comes from the mouth of some conservative old gentleman, or supposed scientific authority--one's medical man to wit--"Do you believe in spiritualism?" meaning "Are you such an ass as to believe in table-turning, and rapping, and all that kind of nonsense?"

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On great occasions Peppo could quit his board and straddle upon an ass.

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On the left, we see a live crocodile waiting for its prey amongst the bulrushes: an ass is in the act of walking into the open mouth of the monster, in spite of the efforts of the driver, who vainly endeavours to pull the animal back by its tail.

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"I feel an awful ass" responded Lawrence throwing the note on the table "but now I'm going out for a bit perhaps as you say I shall find an answer waiting for me when I come back."

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The angels nearly always occur in couples, as in the case of Antoine VÃ©rard, one of 22 the earliest printers to adopt this form; but a few exceptions may be mentioned where only one appears, namely, in the Mark of Estienne Baland, Lyons (1515), in which an angel is represented as confounding Balaamâs ass; and in that of Vincent Portunaris, of the same place and of about the same time, in which an angel figures holding an open book; in the four employed by G. Silvius, an Antwerp printer (1562), in three of which the figure is also holding a book; in the elaborate Mark of Philip Du PrÃ©, Paris, 1595, and in the exceeding rough Mark of Jannot de Campis, of Lyons, 1505.

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Printersâ Marks: punning devices, 3 , 10 ; mottoes from sacred history, 8 ; printing press, 12 ; mottoes, 13 ; Hebrew and Greek mottoes, 17 ; the Sphere, 17 , 207 ; the Brazen Serpent, 20 ; Balaamâs Ass, 22 ; Christ on the Cross, 22 ; St. Christopher, 22 ; Saints and 260 Priests, 23 ; The Cross, 23-26 ; St. George and the Dragon, 26 ; Time and Peace, 27 ; musical notes, 29 ; rustic subjects, 29 ; the Cornucopia, 30 ; the Unicorn, 32-34 ; the Griffin, 35 ; the Mermaid, 36 ; the Anchor, 37 ; Angels, 37 ; Arion, 37 ; Bellerophon, 37 ; astrological signs, 37 ; Cat, 38 ; Eagle, 38 ; Fortune, 38 , 44 ; Fountain, 38 ; Heart, 38 ; Hercules, 38 ; Lion, 38 ; Magpie, 38 ; Mercury, 38 ; Pelican, 38 ; PhÅnix, 39 ; Salamander, 39 ; Swan, 39 .

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In the rutting season the bucks make other noises, which somewhat resemble the braying of an ass, and are equally disagreeable to listen to.

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The tall antlered horns, that rose upon the head of one of them, showed that they were deer of some kind; and the immense size of the creature that bore them, together with his ungainly form, his long legs, and ass-like ears, his huge head with its overhanging lip, his short neck with its standing mane, and, above all, the broad palmation of the horns themselves, left Basil without any doubt upon his mind that the animals before him were moose-deer--the largest, and perhaps the most awkward, of all the deer kind.

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They frequently serve better than either asses or mules, as they can pass up and down declivities where neither ass nor mule can travel.

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Now there was neither a salt-mine, nor a lake, nor a drop of salt water, nor yet either cow, goat, or ass, within scores of miles of the place, and still they had both salt and milk!

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In fact, the new-comers had points of resemblance to all four--horse, ass, gnoo, and zebra--and yet they were distinct from any.

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First, we have the common ass, the type of the genus; and of this there are many breeds in different countries, some nearly as elegant and as highly prized as horses.

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Next there is the "onagra," "koulan," or "wild ass," supposed to be the origin of the common kind.

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There is also the "dziggetai," or "great wild ass," of Central and Southern Asia, and another smaller species the "ghur" found in Persia.

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First, there is the "wild ass," which, as already stated, extends from Asia into the north-eastern parts of Africa, contiguous to the former continent.

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"Look here, Elizabeth," I said firmly, "I'll have nothing to do with your silly ass tricks.

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He called the judge "a sot," "a brute," "an ass," "a profligate vagabond," and closed his article in the following language: "Feeling some resentment for the wrongs our territory has so long suffered by these men, pressing upon us like a dispensation of wrath,--a judgment--a curse--a plague, unequalled since Egypt went lousy,--we sat down to write this article with some bitterness, but our very gall is honey to what they deserve."

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If that light within become but a more active kind of darkness;--if, abdicating the measuring reed of modesty for scepter, and ceasing to measure with it, we dip it in such unctuous and inflammable refuse as we can find, and make our soul's light into a _tallow_ candle, and thenceforward take our guttering, sputtering, ill-smelling illumination about with us, holding it out in fetid fingers--encumbered with its lurid warmth of fungous wick, and drip of stalactitic grease--that we may see, when another man would have seen, or dreamed he saw, the flight of a divine Virgin--only the lamplight upon the hair of a costermonger's ass;--that, having to paint the good Samaritan, we may see only in distance the back of the good Samaritan, and in nearness the back of the good Samaritan's dog;--that having to paint the Annunciation to the Shepherds, we may turn the announcement of peace to men, into an announcement of mere panic to beasts; and, in an unsightly firework of unsightlier angels, see, as we see always, the feet instead of the head, and the shame instead of the honor;--and finally concentrate and rest the sum of our fame, as Titian on the Assumption of a spirit, so we on the dissection of a carcass,--perhaps by such fatuous fire, the less we walk, and by such phosphoric glow, the less we shine, the better it may be for us, and for all who would follow us.

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Lord Winchelsea makes an ass of himself, and would like to be sent to the Tower, but nobody will mind anything such a blockhead says.

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The Duke of Clarence could not come, so they put Lord Blessington in the chair, who made an ass of himself.

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Northern Nut Growers Ass'n.

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Nay, surely even Professor Virchow's "dearest foes," the "plastidule soul" and "Carbon & Co.," have more to say for themselves, than the linguistic accomplishments of Balaam's ass and the obedience of the sun and moon to the commander of a horde of bloodthirsty Hebrews!

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[34] Tertullian mentions one of these coarse caricatures--a figure with one foot hoofed, wearing a toga, carrying a book, and with long ass's ears, under which was written, "The God of the Christians, Onokoites."

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He says that Christians were actually charged with worshipping the head of an ass.

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Very different from the ass in Aesop, who disguised himself with a lion's hide, our lion was obliged to conceal himself under the skin of an ass; and, while he embraced the dictates of reason, to obey the laws of prudence and necessity."

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i. p. 51,) confounds the antelope with the roebuck, and the wild ass with the zebra.]

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His right hand was first cut off; and, after he had been exposed, mounted on an ass, to the public derision, John was beheaded in the circus of Aquileia.

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18 ( return ) [ Justinian an ass-the perfect likeness of Domitian-Anecdot.

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But the repetition of partial and passionate invectives degraded, in their eyes, the majesty of the purple; they renounced allegiance to the prince who refused justice to his people; lamented that the father of Justinian had been born; and branded his son with the opprobrious names of a homicide, an ass, and a perjured tyrant.

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The engine was named the wild ass, a calcitrando, (Hen.

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Otherwise, the famous Bologna sausages are said to be made of ass flesh, (Voyages de Labat, tom.

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A fanatic monk ran through the streets with a drawn sword, denouncing against him the wrath and the sentence of God; and a vile plebeian, who represented his countenance and apparel, was seated on an ass, and pursued by the imprecations of the multitude.

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p. 44,) who affirms that Dioscorus kicked like a wild ass.

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The writers, whose awkward satire is praise, describe him as an itinerant pedler, who drove an ass with some paltry merchandise to the country fairs; and foolishly relate that he met on the road some Jewish fortune-tellers, who promised him the Roman empire, on condition that he should abolish the worship of idols.

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The hands and feet of the rebel were amputated; he was placed on an ass, and, amidst the insults of the people, was led through the streets, which he sprinkled with his blood.

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2311 ( return ) [ The patriarch Anastasius, an Iconoclast under Leo, an image worshipper under Artavasdes, was scourged, led through the streets on an ass, with his face to the tail; and, reinvested in his dignity, became again the obsequious minister of Constantine in his Iconoclastic persecutions.

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The pope was degraded in a synod; the praefect was mounted on an ass, whipped through the city, and cast into a dungeon; thirteen of the most guilty were hanged, others were mutilated or banished; and this severe process was justified by the ancient laws of Theodosius and Justinian.

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108 ( return ) [ Mokawkas sent the prophet two Coptic damsels, with two maids and one eunuch, an alabaster vase, an ingot of pure gold, oil, honey, and the finest white linen of Egypt, with a horse, a mule, and an ass, distinguished by their respective qualifications.

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The same caliph descended from his horse, and dirtied his robe, to relieve the distress of a decrepit old man, who, with his laden ass, had tumbled into a ditch.

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On the way they overtook the patriarch, without attendance and almost without apparel, riding on an ass, and reduced to a state of apostolical poverty, which, had it been voluntary, might perhaps have been meritorious.

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An ass and his driver, which were erected by Augustus in his colony of Nicopolis, to commemorate a verbal omen of the victory of Actium.

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By his intemperate discipline, the patriarch Athanasius 2 excited the hatred of the clergy and people: he was heard to declare, that the sinner should swallow the last dregs of the cup of penance; and the foolish tale was propagated of his punishing a sacrilegious ass that had tasted the lettuce of a convent garden.

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Very different from the ass in Æsop, who disguised himself with a lion's hide, our lion was obliged to conceal himself under the skin of an ass; and, while he embraced the dictates of reason, to obey the laws of prudence and necessity."

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His right hand was first cut off; and, after he had been exposed, mounted on an ass, to the public derision, John was beheaded in the circus of Aquileia.

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The hands and feet of the rebel were amputated; he was placed on an ass, and, amidst the insults of the people, was led through the streets, which he sprinkled with his blood.

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The pope was degraded in a synod; the præfect was mounted on an ass, whipped through the city, and cast into a dungeon; thirteen of the most guilty were hanged, others were mutilated or banished; and this severe process was justified by the ancient laws of Theodosius and Justinian.

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The same caliph descended from his horse, and dirtied his robe, to relieve the distress of a decrepit old man, who, with his laden ass, had tumbled into a ditch.

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An ass and his driver, which were erected by Augustus in his colony of Nicopolis, to commemorate a verbal omen of the victory of Actium.

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"But still it requires no beard to discover that I have made an ass of myself.

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"Silly ass vowed it was the periscope of an enemy's submarine coming to the surface."

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Use both and bring the punch, as I told thee; or I will give thee hay for thy evening meal, as were fitting for an ass's feed!'

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'Will you go and leave me to myself, Forstner, you insufferable ass!'

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Beside this, on the other half of the door, there follows the scene when He rides on an ass into Jerusalem, while the children of the Hebrews, in various attitudes, are casting their garments on the ground, with the olives and palms; not to mention the Apostles, who are following the Saviour.

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In the fourth scene it pleased Lorenzo to make the apparition of the three Angels in the valley of Mamre, giving them a close likeness one to the other, while that most holy patriarch is seen adoring them, with much appropriateness and vivacity in the position of his hands and the expression of his countenance; and, in addition, Lorenzo showed very beautiful feeling in the figures of his servants, who, remaining at the foot of the mountain with an ass, are awaiting Abraham, who had gone to sacrifice his son.

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And growing heated as he spoke, the more he sought to expound his conception, to the end that they might understand it and believe in it, the greater grew their doubts about his proposal, so that they believed in him less and less, and held him to be an ass and a babbler.

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"SAMUEL C. MIDLAM, _Acting First Ass't Engineer_.

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A few rebels, like Herscher, who, from hatred of the conventional, go for exaggeration and ugliness, or like myself, who, thanks to that old ass, love roughness and contortion so much, that my sculpture, they say, is "like a bag of walnuts."

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What you ought to have done, sir, is to describe me as a sort of ass--genial and all that sort of thing, but a commonplace sort of ass."

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"You're an ass," said Hamilton, struggling to preserve his sense of annoyance.

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"Don't be an ass," begged Hamilton.

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"A fortnight ago," said Hamilton, "I told this silly ass----" "Your jolly old brother is referrin' to me, dear lady," explained Bones.

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Not so much noise, you silly old ass!"

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Mojeri is an ass, sir--a jolly old fraud an' humbug, sir.

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"You silly ass," growled the Commissioner, "they aren't trypnosomes!

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"Sir an' Excellency," he said gratefully, "comin' from you, this tribute to my scientific----" "Don't be an ass, Bones!" said Sanders irritably.

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"Don't be an ass, Bones.

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"No, silly ass ... shadings ... direction of water--am I right, sir?"

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"'Why, you silly old ass----'" "I beg your pardon!" exclaimed the startled Sanders.

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"'Why, you silly old ass,' I said, 'how are you going to grub 'em?'

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"Well here's for your jack-ass--which way's the herd?"

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Yes, I did knock a woman down and tear her dress and look like an ass and set the whole room laughing at me, women and all--the best-bred and sweetest of them!

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The talk of that ass Kennedy seems to have hypnotised me as well as himself!

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"Silly ass," observed Winn.

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"Of course a fellow who wasn't seedy wouldn't have made an ass of himself over riding the Cresta," Winn explained, eyeing her thoughtfully.

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"You rather have me there," he admitted; "I suppose I have been rather an ass."

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Nut Growers Ass'n.

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One represented the entrance of Christ into Jerusalem, "meek, and sitting upon an ass,"(127) and followed by His disciples in travel-worn garments and with naked feet.

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"(661) Five hundred years before, the Lord had declared by the prophet Zechariah, "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: He is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

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"That rascal's not sick, any more than he's a person of honour.--Thee bestride thy horse, lad--without thou canst find an ass, which would suit with thee better.--Now, Hans, come and help me to mount."

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'I'm an awful ass,' he said aloud to himself, in a reproachful tone.

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It was a great relief to look like a human being and a gentleman, even at the cost of calling himself an ass for having tried to look like something else.

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"La Brosse is an ass," cried the king, and crumpled the paper beneath his feet.

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Knowles (not Sheridan Knowles, but Knowles of the Cheetham Hill Road[28]) is an ass to him.

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Not because the proofs concern me at all (I should be an ass as well as a thankless vagabond if they did), but because of that unspeakable restless something which would render it almost as impossible for me to remain here and not see the thing complete, as it would be for a full balloon, left to itself, not to go up.

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"I really began to think we might have an adventure; and as I had brought (like an ass) a bag of Napoleons with me from Genoa, I called up all the theatrical ways of letting off pistols that I could call to mind, and was the more disposed to fire them from not having any."

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But O my smooth friend, what a shining impostor you must think yourself and what an ass you must think me, when you suppose that by putting a brazen face upon it you can blot out of my knowledge the fact that this same unnatural young gentleman (if to be decent is to be necessarily unnatural), whom you meet in those other books and in mine, _must_ be presented to you in that unnatural aspect by reason of your morality, and is not to have, I will not say any of the indecencies you like, but not even any of the experiences, trials, perplexities, and confusions inseparable from the making or unmaking of all men!"

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"'Ass!' said Kimber.

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