The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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"Sometimes I take those volumes down and think what an ass I was to retire."

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For his stupidity, his ears are changed by Apollo into those of an ass.

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He is often introduced either sitting on an ass, or reeling along on foot, with a thyrsus to support him.

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Lucian combines the two characters, and describes him as an aged man with large straight ears and a huge belly, wearing yellow clothes, and generally mounted on an ass, or supported by a staff, but, nevertheless, as being a skilful general.

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The rest {of his body} is that of a man; in one part alone is he condemned {to punishment}; and he assumes the ears of the slowly moving ass.

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The scholiast of Aristophanes, to explain the story, says either it was intended to shew that Midas, like the ass, was very quick of hearing, or in other words, had numerous spies in all parts of his dominions; or, it was invented, because his usual place of residence was called Onouta, ὄνου ὦτα, 'the ears of an ass.'

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Worcester, Central, Woman's Ass'n, 10; "A Friend," 10, _for Emerson Inst., Mobile, Ala._ Worcester, Adams Square, C., 7.

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Oberlin, Mutual Benefit Ass'n, Clothing, and 4; Miss Nancy Squire, 2.25, _for Skyland Inst., Blowing Rock, N. C._ Toledo, W. M. U., _for S. A., Talladega C._, 10.

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Aurora, New England, Corban Ass'n, Clothing, _for Blowing Rock, N. C._ Chicago, Miss E. Willard, _for Marion, Ala._, 10.

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Ass'n, 61.04.

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WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF THE J. J. ASS'N, by Mrs. J. H. Dennison, Treas., $190.00.

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Chicago, Woman's Ass'n., _for S. A., Pleasant Hill Acad., Tenn._, 20.

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WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION OF MASS., by Miss Miriam L. Woodberry, Ass't Treas., $40.00.

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WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF THE N. J. ASS'N, by Mrs. J. H. Denison, Treas., $45.50.

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And if these clever and able men saw something in it, then he, Skinner, must have been something of an ass to deny himself these things.

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"That's you, Skinner--that's you--for being an ass--a blooming, silly ass!"

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Only silly ass does that.

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He was to contribute a dollar a week to his mother-in-law to make up a loss caused by the advice of a detested, silly-ass brother-in-law, who had always hated him, Skinner.

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"I have put my foot in it somehow," he said to himself, "and I can't make head nor tail of it beyond the fact that I have made an ass of myself.

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Then, trying to shield her, I make matters twenty times worse; for while my answer before led them to believe that she was a perfect stranger to me, I was ass enough to let out just now that I knew her.

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Yea, it is to Israel the Promised Land, till _every_ prophecy be fulfilled; till the King come to Zion, _lowly and riding on an ass_ (Zech.

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The family is indifferent--it only calls him a Silly Ass.

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And whatever it is, it is something, which every now and then compels you to bend down and catch hold of his long silky ears, to look into his honest eyes and say---- "You silly old ass!

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You _dear_ old _silly_ old 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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Well, we thought the Coventry game had done the trick for us just at first, for you never saw such an awful ass as he made of himself one morning at all the classes.

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"That's done the trick," Taylor whispered to me, when Skeats frowned at him once for being such an ass.

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It is ordained by the Shaster, that if a man commit adultery with a woman of a superior cast, he shall be put to death; if by force he commit adultery with a woman of an equal or inferior cast, the magistrate shall confiscate all his possessions, cut off his genitals, and cause him to be carried round the city, mounted on a ass.

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But the laws, of which he is always the interpreter, are not so favorable to his wife; they inflict a severe disgrace upon her, if she commit adultery with any of the higher casts; but if with the lowest, the magistrate shall cut off her hair, anoint her body with Ghee, and cause her to be carried through the whole city, naked, and riding upon an ass; and shall cast her out on the north side of the city, or cause her to be eaten by dogs.

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If a woman of any of the other casts goes to a man, and entices him to have criminal correspondence with her, the magistrate shall cut off her ears, lips and nose, mount her upon an ass, and drown her, or throw her to the dogs.

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It can hardly have escaped the notice of your Querist (although the instance is not one adduced by Ducange), that the phrase, "burial of an ass" #Kevurat Chamor# for "no burial at all," is as old as the time of the prophet Jeremiah.

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Any person I will take in hand I make a clean job of them the same as I would make of any other thing in my yard, coach, half coach, hackney-coach, ass car, common car, post-chaise, calash, chariot on two wheels, on four wheels.

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You can be attending to that ass car out in the yard wants a new tyre in the wheel ... out in the rear of the yard it is.

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Thomas had seen Lawrence D'Orsay doing his usual "silly ass" part in a play.

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"You're an utter ass," said Clint with unflattering conviction.

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Demanded Don angrily] "Don't act like a silly ass," begged Don.

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Don, you're an awful ass, now aren't you?"

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"Better unpack your bag, you silly ass.

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The gravest fish is an oyster; the gravest bird's an ool; the gravest beast's an ass; an' the gravest man's a fool.

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It has been my rule in life either to make friends with the Mammon of Unrighteousness--he's a muddle-headed ass is Mammon, and you can steer clear of his unrighteousness if you're sharp enough--or else to cast my bread upon the waters in the certainty of finding it again after many days.

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"Imbecile, pig, triple ass that I am!

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'I can't be hard on him, he is more or less of an ass, and a good sort of fellow, very good to his labourers; he drove Jem Hurd to the infirmary himself when he broke his arm.

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'Then I shan't make such an ass of myself,' returned Owen.

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How can you be such an ass, Charles?

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I didn't think he'd been such an ass, having had one escape.'

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I was an ass to trust to the old woman's dissent for hindering them from finding you out, and getting up a scene.'

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'What a pottering ass to come away from a run on a fool's errand!' he said.

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'I was an ass to suppose such needy rogues could come near girls of fortune without running up the scent.

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The Fates sing of thee that thou shalt many times be thought an ass and a dull ox, and shalt with a godlike indifference believe it.

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Fate's prophecy is fulfilled; you call the man an ox and an ass.

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It seems wrong somehow, demoralizing, for one human being to place himself in that humiliating relation to another, to become a draft animal, to be forced to lower himself to the level of an ox or an ass.

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Just above the Virgin in the picture the head of an Ox and an Ass may be seen.

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The competition between man and man in the modern foot-race is certainly fair; but, for the better regulation of the movements of public runners, it might be expedient that an amateur, mounted on an ass, should keep pace with the performers, and, by the judicious application of a whip, prevent any of the tricks belonging to the turf, such as crossing and jostling, that gamesters might have a fair chance for their money.

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Cast in the real Yorick mould is the scene in which Pumper kills a marmot (Hamster); upon his master's expostulation that God created the little beast also, Pumper is touched, wipes the blood off with his cuff and buries the animal with tenderness, indulging in a pathetic soliloquy; the whole being a variant of Yorick's ass episode.

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A former acquaintance of Frau Kurt, whose favorite reading was Shandy, Wieland's "Sympatien" and the Sentimental Journey, serves to satirize the influence of Yorick's ass episode; this gentleman wept at the sight of an ox at work, and never ate meat lest he might incur the guilt of the murder of these sighing creatures.

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Pankraz, on going home, takes his Yorick and reads again the chapter containing the dead-ass episode; he spends much time in determining which event was the more affecting, and tears flow at the thought of both animals.

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On one occasion she refused to drive home, as this would take the horses out in the noonday sun and disturb their noonday meal,--an exorbitant sympathy with brute creation which owes its popularity to Yorick's ass.

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Had he made an irrevocable ass of himself over this lump of ancient human flesh?

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"Don't be an ass," he snorted.

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"Then the rhino, flushed with victory, went for the nearest brute, a wild ass, and soon he had the whole of them--asses and zebras--kicking the stomach out of him, or into him, perhaps, by the way he bellowed.

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Gents' Benev Ass'n 1.00 Mittineague 31.29 South Hadley Falls 12.11 Springfield.

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Y. P. M. C. 20.00 Annual Meeting of Hudson River Ass'n 6.12 ------ 402.12 --------- $6,105.41 ESTATE.

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"A Friend," _for Industrial Ed._ 20.00 Woman's Home Missionary Union of N. J. Ass'n, by Mrs. J. H. Denison, Treas., _for Woman's Work_: Washington, D. C. First Cong.

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Then there are all the titles of early Romance itself at your disposal--'Theagenes and Chariclea,' or 'The Ass' of Longus, or 'The Golden Ass' of Apuleius, or the titles of Gothic Romance, such as 'The most elegant, delicious, mellifluous, and delightful History of Perceforest, King of Great Britain.'"

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[Illustration: So Doll and the cow danced "the Cheshire round"] He saw a cross fellow was beating an ass, Heavy laden with pots, pans, dishes, and glass; He took out his pipe and played them a tune, And the jackass's load was lightened full soon.

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PAGE DEDICATION v Introduction 1 Lion, Tiger, and Traveller 4 Spaniel and Chameleon 6 Mother, Nurse, and Fairy 7 Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts 9 Wild Boar and Ram 10 Miser and Plutus 11 Lion, Fox, and Gander 12 Lady and Wasp 14 Bull and Mastiff 15 Elephant and Bookseller 16 Turkey, Peacock, and Goose 18 Cupid, Hymen, and Plutus 20 The Tamed Fawn 21 Monkey who had seen the World 22 Philosopher and Pheasant 24 Pin and Needle 25 Shepherd's Dog and Wolf 26 The Unsatisfactory Painter 27 Lion and Cub 29 Old Hen and Young Cock 30 Ratcatcher and Cats 31 Goat without a Beard 33 Old Woman and her Cats 34 Butterfly and Snail 36 Scold and Parrot 37 Cur and Mastiff 38 Sick Man and the Angel 39 Persian, Sun, and Cloud 41 Fox at the point of Death 42 Setting Dog and Partridge 43 Universal Apparition 44 Owls and Sparrow 46 Courtier and Proteus 47 Mastiff 49 Barley Mow and Dunghill 50 Pythagoras and Countryman 51 Farmer's Dame and Raven 52 Turkey and Ant 54 Father and Jupiter 55 Two Monkeys 56 Owl and Farmer 58 Juggler and Vice 59 Council of Horses 61 Hound and Huntsman 63 Poet and the Rose 64 Cur, Horse, and Shepherd's Dog 66 Court of Death 67 Florist and Pig 68 Man and Flea 69 Hare and many Friends 71 Dog and Fox 72 Vulture, Sparrow, and Birds 75 Ape and Poultry 78 Ant in Office 81 Bear in a Boat 85 Squire and Cur 88 Countryman and Jupiter 91 Man, Cat, Dog, and Fly 95 Jackall, Leopard, and Beasts 98 Degenerate Bees 101 Packhorse and Carrier 104 Pan and Fortune 107 Plutus, Cupid, and Time 109 Owl, Swan, Cock, Spider, Ass, and Farmer 113 Cookmaid, Turnspit, and Ox 117 Raven, Sexton, and Earthworm 120 Town Mouse and Country Mouse 124 Magpie and Brood 126 The Three Warnings 129 POSTSCRIPT 131 GAY'S FABLES.

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A lion cub of sordid mind Avoided all the lion-kind, And, greedy of applause, sought feasts With asses and ignoble beasts; There, as their president appears, An ass in every point, but ears.

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The clown, who heard Pythagoras, Waxed in a rage, called him an ass; Said man was lord of all creation.

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We give your ancestors their due, But any ass is good as you.

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As you are asinine and crass, So do we treat you--as an ass."

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OWL, SWAN, COCK, SPIDER, ASS, AND FARMER.

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The spider plied the weaver's art; And for the donkey, dull and crass, You should have let him be an ass."

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"Balaam's ass?" suggested Lady Ingleby, promptly.

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"But Balaam's ass is neither the only animal in the Bible, nor the most interesting case.

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The instinct of the ass would have been to flee in terror from the lion; but, undoubtedly, a Divine assurance overcame her natural fear; and all men who passed by beheld this remarkable sight:--a lion and an ass standing sentry, one on either side of the dead body of the man of God; and there they remained until the old prophet from Bethel arrived, to fetch away the body and bury it."

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It is I who have been a thoughtless ass.

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"Ass!" said Ronnie, affectionately.

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"Certainly not," answered his host; "but I shall think you a confounded ass.

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"You're making a prodigious ass of yourself," observed Wayland, with calm contempt.

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Frémont, a conceited ass, went back on this plank in our platform, and we dropped him and helped elect Lincoln again."

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In the first place there would be the agent's profound amazement at the fact that Nicholas was not lying, as he had supposed, in the tomb of his ancestors; in the second place there would be his discomfiture in realizing that Nicholas had been entirely aware of his own movements, and the small act of petty spite towards Job Grantley and Antony; and in the third place there would be his amazement and discomfiture combined when he found that Nicholas was not the doddering old ass he had taken him for, but a man prepared to take matters into his own hands, and put a stop once and for all to a long system of tyranny.

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"Silly old ass!" thought Pa, with a grin.

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I've told him that the doctor's orders here are very simple .... "Herr Cox," says he to me--Herr's German--I must explain that to Box, because, though Box is a good fellow, yet--he's--in fact--he's an ass.

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Boodels is an ass."

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At last he returned home, and it was probably at this period of his career that he wrote his famous novel, the _Metamorphoses_ or _Golden Ass_.

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Above all the _Golden Ass_ has kept his name alive to our own day.

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The verve, the humour, and above all the welter of warmth and colour that characterize the _Golden Ass_ make us forgive the palpable degradation of the Latin language.

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The sacrifice is not so great in these works as it must necessarily be in any English translation of the more exotic and more brilliant-hued _Metamorphoses_, better known as _The Golden Ass_.

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But I beg you, Aemilianus, in future to abstain from reviling any one for their poverty, since you yourself used, after waiting for some seasonable shower to soften the ground, to expend three days in ploughing single-handed, with the aid of one wretched ass, that miserable farm at Zarath, which was all your father left you.

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Had Aristotle known this, Aristotle who records as a most remarkable phenomenon the fact that the fish known as the small sea-ass alone of all fishes has its diminutive heart placed in its stomach, he would assuredly have mentioned the fact.

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I'm rather an ass at names, I'm afraid."

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"Yes, you may not believe me, but I acted like a damned silly ass.

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Mind you, I am not as a rule a silly ass," the baronet added with dignity, "but that night I actually confided in a woman!"

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"Good so far, but the next riddle wasn't of the simple kind--or else I'm even a bigger ass than I endeavour to look!

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He has lost his best client, with whom he was on excellent terms and whose family he had served all his life, and he has now got instead an unsatisfactory young ass whom he suspects, or says he suspects, of murder, and who so loathes Rattar that, as far as I can judge, he will probably take his business away from him.

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