The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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"They are as wicked as the red ass, and as spiteful as monkeys."

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The very Ass participates The glory Freedom radiates!

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that gives him a naming Base to the ear as an ass's bray.

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I replied like the young ass which I constantly tell myself I have ceased to be: "Oh, displeasure is as much notice as one is entitled to from Miss St.

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"But, kingdom come, what an ass!"

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Dinnis hauls turf in it, takes a sack of potatoes or a pig to market in it, and the stubborn little ass, blind of one eye, has never in his wholly elective course of existence taken up the subject of speed.

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There's ayther a bit of a jauntin' car wid a skewbald pony for drivin', or we can borry the loan of Dinnis Rooney's blind ass wid the plain cart, or we can just take a fut in a hand and leg it over the bog.

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Now Typhon signifies whatever is of a mirey or clayey nature; (and in Hebrew I find the three words clay, red, and ass to be formed from the same root hamr).

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In Egypt it was at first the Scorpion, first zodiacal sign after Libra, and for a long time chief of the winter signs ; then it was the Bear, or the polar Ass, called Typhon, that is to say, deluge,** on account of the rains which deluge the earth during the dominion of that star.

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That ass, Pumblechook, used often to come over of a night for the purpose of discussing my prospects with my sister; and I really do believe (to this hour with less penitence than I ought to feel), that if these hands could have taken a linchpin out of his chaise-cart, they would have done it.

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"You must have observed, gentlemen," said he, "an ignorant and a blatant ass, with a rasping throat and a countenance expressive of low malignity, who went through-I will not say sustained-the rôle (if I may use a French expression) of Claudius, King of Denmark.

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"Balaam's ass has spoken.

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I measured it, as they do an horse, and found that, from the ground to the wither, it was just five feet four inches; which height answers exactly to sixteen hands, a growth that few horses arrive at: but then, with this length of legs, its neck was remarkably short, no more than twelve inches; so that, by straddling with one foot forward and the other backward, it grazed on the plain ground, with the greatest difficulty, between its legs: the ears were vast and lopping, and as long as the neck; the head was about twenty inches long, and ass-like; and had such a redundancy of upper lip as I never saw before, with huge nostrils.

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At first the peacock, with his gorgeous train, demands our attention; but, like most of the gaudy birds, his notes are grating and shocking to the ear: the yelling of cats, and the braying of an ass, are not more disgustful.

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"A wild ass, partly covered with stripes, but not so much as the zebra; a pretty animal to look at, but the flesh is very bad.

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The conversation had not commenced more than a few minutes, when William said-- "Papa, they always say 'as stupid as an ass'.

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Is an ass such a stupid animal?"

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It is usual to say, as stupid as an ass, or as stupid as a pig, or a goose.

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His head, partly bald, would have frightened phrenologists by the shape of its skull, which was like an ass's backbone, an indication of despotic will.

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He is such an Ass."

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Similarly, there was the canvass, representin the picter of the Wild Ass of the Prairies-not that we never had no wild asses, nor wouldn't have had 'em at a gift.

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And when you've no more left to give, they'll laugh at you to your face, and leave you to have your bones picked dry by Wulturs, like the dead Wild Ass of the Prairies that you deserve to be!"

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The little Cambremer, seeing that he was never thwarted, grew as vicious as a red ass.

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This clown had met with Puck, who had clapped an ass's head on his shoulders so that it looked as if it grew there.

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It will come to pass, That every braggart shall be found an ass.

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"Mind you," the Colonial said at last, "I don't say that in this case the Captain was to blame; Halket made an awful ass of himself.

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The four first were the more fortunate, who though they were detained some time by the Turkish bassa, were dismissed at the request of the emperor, who sent him a zebra, or wild ass, a creature of large size and admirable beauty.

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Look where you will, in every high place there sits an Ass, settled beyond the reach of all the greatest intellects in this world to pull him down.

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"Write me down an Ass for the first time in my life!" cried the captain, at the end of his patience.

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That ass of a coachman didn't know.

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Frank will get one of the best estates in England; a seat in the House of Commons will follow as a matter of course; and one of the legislators of this Ass-ridden country will be--MY LOUT!

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(Is it not recorded that even Balaam's ass on which he rode saw the angel with flaming sword, but Balaam saw it not?)

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When master and ass, drawing a heavy burden between them, have climbed a steep mountain range together; clambering over sharp rocks and across sliding gravel where no water is, and herbage is scant; if, when they were come out on the top of the mountain, and before them stretch broad, green lands, and through wide half-open gates they catch the glimpse of trees waving, and there comes the sound of running waters, if then, the master should say to his ass, "Good beast of mine, lie down!

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"I'm a perfect ass at any one's job but my own.

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"I suppose he thinks I am a garrulous sort of ass but I really can't see why he needed to go for your brother last night just because he was gratifying a very reasonable curiosity on my part.

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If they say little, it naturally follows that they say little that is foolish; their extreme lack of confidence leads them to think a good deal over the remarks that they are obliged to make; and, like Balaam's ass, they speak marvelously to the point if a miracle loosens their tongues.

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The next day Gabrielle, mounted on an ass, followed by her nurse on foot, her father on his mule, and a valet who led two horses laden with baggage, started for the castle of Herouville, where the caravan arrived at nightfall.

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"Because, being an ass," said Menteith, aside to the General, "there would be some distant relation between the professor and the students."

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The builder of St. Januarius's Gallery (plunged to the throat in the conspiracy) met with this piece of news, and observed, with characteristic coarseness, "that the Bleater's London Correspondent was a Blind Ass".

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The Tories gently blamed the new King's parsimony: the Whigs sneered at his want of natural affection; and the fiery Covenanters of Scotland exultingly proclaimed that the curse denounced of old against wicked princes had been signally fulfilled, and that the departed tyrant had been buried with the burial of an ass.

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Lord Colambre walked to the church, but the church gate was locked and broken--a calf, two pigs, and an ass, in the churchyard; and several boys (with more of skin apparent than clothes) were playing at hustlecap upon a tombstone, which, upon nearer observation, he saw was the monument of his own family.

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It is surprising how useless you find that piece of ass's skin that you have been putting yourself in such a state about.

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I was ass enough to wonder exceedingly at Mr. Powell failing to notice the misapprehension.

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They thought their uncle no doubt a bore and perhaps an ass.

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Hang it all, I am not a contemptible ass.

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One does not like to call Anthony an ass.

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Ass.

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He seemed to me an enormous ass, with his jealousy and his fears.

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The saint of Avila founds convents, mingles with men of business, and has visions in the intervals of her journeying through Spain upon an ass.

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"Now don't be an ass, Tom," said East, catching hold of him; "you know me well enough by this time; my bark's worse than my bite.

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"Steady there; don't be such an ass, Jack," says the captain; "we haven't got the best wicket yet.

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"What an ass!...

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"The jaw bone of an ass which was a power in the hand used by God, to slay a thousand wicked cruel infidels."

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We must remember that for half a century many of the Jewish people had been constantly looking for the arrival of the Messiah, and there can be little doubt that the entry of Jesus riding upon an ass in literal fulfilment of prophecy must have wrought powerfully upon the imagination of the multitude.

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for every Englishman who can read, unless he be an Ass, is a reader the more for you.

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[98] In the twilight, between the sixth day and the Sabbath, ten creations were, brought forth: the rainbow, invisible until Noah's time; the manna; watersprings, whence Israel drew water for his thirst in the desert; the writing upon the two tables of stone given at Sinai; the pen with which the writing was written; the two tables themselves; the mouth of Balaam's she-ass; the grave of Moses; the cave in which Moses and Elijah dwelt; and the rod of Aaron, with its blossoms and its ripe almonds.

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The first of them came in the time of Adam, when God cursed the ground for his sake; the second was this one in the time of Abraham; the third compelled Isaac to take up his abode among the Philistines; the ravages of the fourth drove the sons of Jacob into Egypt to buy grain for food; the fifth came in the time of the Judges, when Elimelech and his family had to seek refuge in the land of Moab; the sixth occurred during the reign of David, and it lasted three years; the seventh happened in the day of Elijah, who had sworn that neither rain nor dew should fall upon the earth; the eighth was the one in the time of Elisha, when an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver; the ninth is the famine that comes upon men piecemeal, from time to time; and the tenth will scourge men before the advent of Messiah, and this last will be "not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.

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The Sodomite had been attracted by a rarely magnificent carpet, strapped to the stranger's ass by means of a rope.

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[188] It happened once that her oldest son Reuben was tending his father's ass during the harvest, and he bound him to a root of dudaim, and went his way.

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[190] When Leah heard the braying of Jacob's ass, she ran to meet her husband,[191] and without giving him time to wash his feet, she insisted upon his turning aside into her tent.

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He was mounted upon the very ass that had borne Abraham to the Akedah on Mount Moriah, the ass upon which the Messiah will appear riding at the end of days.

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They were like the portly gentleman riding an ass.

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If thou art chang'd to aught, 'tis to an ass.

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'Tis so, I am an ass; else it could never be But I should know her as well as she knows me.

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I think thou art an ass.

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I should kick, being kick'd; and being at that pass, You would keep from my heels, and beware of an ass.

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If thou hadst been Dromio to-day in my place, Thou wouldst have chang'd thy face for a name, or thy name for an ass.

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I am an ass, I am a woman's man, and beside myself.

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Thou art sensible in nothing but blows, and so is an ass.

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I am an ass indeed; you may prove it by my long 'ears.

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Ay, just,--a verse in Horace;--right, you have it.-- [Aside] Now, what a thing it is to be an ass!

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this woodcock, what an ass it is.

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Preposterous ass, that never read so far To know the cause why music was ordain'd!

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Away, away, mad ass!

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Away, ass!

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What an ass art thou!

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Why, thou whoreson ass, thou mistak'st me.

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[Aside] That such an ass should owe them.

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A message well sympathized; a horse to be ambassador for an ass.

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Therefore, as he is an ass, let him go.

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It lies as sightly on the back of him As great Alcides' shows upon an ass:-- But, ass, I'll take that burden from your back, Or lay on that shall make your shoulders crack.

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I was not made a horse; And yet I bear a burden like an ass, Spur-gall'd and tir'd by jauncing Bolingbroke.

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[Re-enter PUCK, and BOTTOM with an ass's head.]

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you see an ass-head of your own, do you?

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BOTTOM I see their knavery: this is to make an ass of me; to fright me, if they could.

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The shallowest thickskin of that barren sort Who Pyramus presented in their sport, Forsook his scene and enter'd in a brake; When I did him at this advantage take, An ass's nowl I fixed on his head; Anon, his Thisbe must be answerèd, And forth my mimic comes.

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I led them on in this distracted fear, And left sweet Pyramus translated there: When in that moment,-so it came to pass,- Titania wak'd, and straightway lov'd an ass.

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I must to the barber's, monsieur; for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face; and I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me I must scratch.

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Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.

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I have had a dream-past the wit of man to say what dream it was.-Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.

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THESEUS With the help of a surgeon he might yet recover and prove an ass.

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SLENDER By this hat, then, he in the red face had it; for though I cannot remember what I did when you made me drunk, yet I am not altogether an ass.

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Page is an ass, a secure ass; he will trust his wife; he will not be jealous; I will rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman with my aqua-vitae bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling gelding, than my wife with herself; then she plots, then she ruminates, then she devises; and what they think in their hearts they may effect, they will break their hearts but they will effect.

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FALSTAFF I do begin to perceive that I am made an ass.

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There is no honesty in such dealing; unless a woman should be made an ass and a beast, to bear every knave's wrong.

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Come, you virtuous ass, you bashful fool, must you be blushing?

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you are an ass; you are an ass.

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