The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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You should have heard me making that ass Malcolm Cromarty, and the Farmond girl, and this hangman with the glass eye tell me all about themselves and what their business was, without their ever suspecting they were being pumped!

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Ass._, xl.

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I assured him that I was capable of managing an ass, and would take every care of the beast entrusted to me.

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MRS. OLIVER H. P. BELMONT, President Political Equality Ass'n.

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According to their belief, the body of an ox or an ass might be the dwelling place of a human soul.

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Here is a sample of my usual breakfast-table reading: C. W. Barron, the proprietor of the "Boston News Bureau," feels it his duty to inform his readers, the banks and bankers and brokers and representative investors of New England, that that faking ass of State Street, that knave of knaves, Tom Lawson, is braying again, and such braying!--"Butte is to sell at 50, and going to be worth 50."

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then i hapened to think that in the Swiss Family Robinson that the father was triing to ride a wild ass and it kicked and bit and rared and plungged and the only way to stop him was to bite his hear.

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"Comrade," saith he, "wilt thou call me an ass for my pains, I wonder, an I tell thee o' something that is troubling me sorely?"

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AND when they drew near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, at the mount of the Olives, Jesus sent forth two disciples, (2)saying to them: Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye will find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose and bring them to me.

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(4)Now all this has been done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying: (5)Say to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy King comes to thee, Meek, and mounted upon an ass, And upon a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.

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Does not each of you on the sabbath loose his ox or ass from the manger, and lead him away to water him?

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(5)And to them he said: Who is there of you, whose ox or ass[14:5] shall fall into a pit, and he will not straightway draw him up on the sabbath day?

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(14)And Jesus, having found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written: (15)Fear not, daughter of Zion; Behold, thy King comes, Sitting on an ass's colt.

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They applied plasters of bread and ass's milk to their faces at night, and washed them off with milk in the morning.

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_Of the wonderful Transmigration of_ Jack Idle _into the body of an ass_.

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The first room we were conducted into was the habitation of a little ass, who, as soon as we entered the place, began to bray, and kick up his heels, at a most violent rate; but, upon the appearance of Mr. Wiseman (which I have before observed was the Bramin's name) he thought proper to compose himself, and stood as quiet as a lamb.--"This stubborn little beast said our kind conductor, is now animated by the soul of the late master _Idle_.

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If the meanest and most dirty boy in the neighbourhood was in want of a companion, or rather a tool, to assist him in his mischievous pranks, he had nothing to do but to make his application to _Jack Idle_; for foolish Jack (as they truly called him) was at the beck of every mischievous rogue; and when the mischief was done, he was always left, like a stupid ass as he was, to bear the burden of it.

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"What on earth has the little ass been doing with himself?"

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I've made an ass of myself, and got Stan into a mess in the bargain.

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"You'll spoil all, you braying ass, you laughing hyena, you giddy----" Then he paused, as Baldry, Bember, and Viner, after a glance at the pane, burst into laughter also.

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In addition to the not very flattering remarks "the bounders of the Fifth" had to pass on his features, Plunger had to listen to terse descriptions of himself as "that ass, Plunger," "a mixed pickle," "a queer egg," "conceited young biped," and so on.

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"Mr. Devey thinks himself mighty clever now, but he looked an awful ass in the shed last night when all the fellows turned on him for laughing like a paroquet," grinned Plunger.

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Oh, young Plunger had made himself an ass, as usual, over some paragraph in the _Record_.

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"Don't be an ass, Harry," exclaimed Plunger hotly.

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"You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Moncrief minor, letting me make such an ass of myself."

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They made an ass of me too."

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"What are you making that row for, you little ass?" cried Plunger testily.

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"Thought you said you'd got the flag, ass?"

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They were bound round in turn with a sheet of white paper, and on this paper was written in a bold hand: "Your dull ass will only go with beating.

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"Seems to me that Plunger's not the only ass that wants beating.

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Plunger's an ass, but he was quite right for once when he said that we'd have to get up very early in the morning to score off Percival.

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"As I said before, till I was interrupted by an ass braying, I'm not going to spout a lot.

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There's a reason for all things that come to pass, And no man likes to be proved an ass; And hence they refuse to agree with St. Paul, The spiritual body is all in all.

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"Three circlesquarers to the manner born, Switzerland, France, and England did adorn, De Fauré in equations did surpass, Joseph at contradictions was an ass.

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Buridan's Ass, I, 37.

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We've taken people for what they seemed to be--as I, ass that I was, took Marston--and never poked into their histories.

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"That little woman upstairs--you'll think me an awful ass.

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You know what an old ass it is--he wouldn't listen.

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I told him so--the old ass!

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I blame myself for being a blind ass.

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He has taken pains to be an ass, though not to be a scholar, and is at length discovered and laughed at.

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No importunate beggar can stand and rattle his tin box on the summit, and if he could, there is no passenger to heed or hear him; the Sabine model belle is not there to offer herself to the first artist who wants a madonna or a saint, nor amateur bandits, nor faun-like children playing on the steps; even the patient goats, long since milked, lie panting under the convent wall; not a dog is visible on the large _immondezaro_ in front of it; and had we not had already painful experience of the heat of the day, the donkey who lives below, in the court of the Palazzo Mignanelli, exhibits it most strikingly; there he stands, a fine subject for Pinelli, with a wo-begone countenance,--Sancho's ass not more triste--ruminating over a heap of fresh vegetables, which he feebly snuffs, and wants resolution to stoop his head and munch; whilst his adopted friend, the large house-dog, totally regardless of his charge, sleeps heavily in the opposite corner of the court.

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They brought him to the city, seated on an ass.

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211; but neither the statutes referred to, nor the case cited from 12 Ass.

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If that young ass attacks him he'll get the licking he wants, and if you're in any doubt about my pronouns----" "Oh, dash you and your pronouns!

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"And must I wear an ass's head to be in character?"

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The ring hangs from the neck of a monster with a human head having ass's ears, the neck is snake-like, bat's wings are upon the shoulders, the paws are those of a wolf.

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Legend adds that the schoolman, made famous by his thesis, that if an ass were placed equidistant between two bundles of hay of equal attraction he would die of hunger before he could resolve to eat either, was saved by his disciples, who placed a barge, loaded with straw, below the tower to break his fall.]

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McDonald was disgusted with Pete's calling; said it sounded like the bray of a wild ass of the wilderness.

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"This letter, Johnson, is only a delicate intimation from the governor that I'll make another blooming ass of myself with this," commented Bobby, tapping his finger on the check, and placing the letter face downward beside it, where he eyed it askance.

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He was keenly aware that he had made an ass of himself in business four successive times, and that Jolter knew it.

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I felt as stupid as an ass looks.

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"They tell us that the Savior rode an ass," said Alf, "but we have seen heaven gallop by on a horse."

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The chase, however, in which the Persians chiefly delight, and for which those greyhounds are most highly valued, is that of the ghoo-khur, or wild ass.

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These qualities, and the nature of the ground over which it is usually chased, render the capture of the wild ass very uncertain, and its pursuit extremely hazardous to the sportsman.

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"When the Persians go out to hunt the wild ass, relays of greyhounds are placed at various distances in the surrounding country, in such directions as are most likely to be traversed by the object of pursuit; so that when one relay is tired, there is another fresh to continue the chase.

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It is true that I was admitted only to the outer basin, where the coasting steamers lay, and that the man 'Roaring John' threatened me with all the curses he could command if I passed the gate which opened into the dock beyond; but such threats to a man whose business it was to lay bare mystery had no more effect on me than the braying of an ass in a field of clover.

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"You will think I am a sentimental ass, but I have always wanted you to have the best of things, Mabel, and I have been horribly afraid that Fate, or Mother, or perhaps even I, were shoving you into taking the second best."

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However, it seems a man must have either ass's ears or a cloven foot; and, soon or late, most of us expect to find our hero in Bottom's predicament.

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XVI PHILIP TO JESSICA MY DEAR MISS DOANE: So your servant has a cloven hoof and just escapes the adornment of ass's ears!

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You once intimated that I wore ass's ears.

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She will not look now, I trust, for that cloven hoof which I never had and those ass's ears which, alas!

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She had, he thought, been now wooed long enough, and, as he told his wife more than once, was making an ass of herself.

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You hear what that old ass, Sir Thomas, says."

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"He's more of an ass, and twice as headstrong as I thought him," said Parson John to Miss Marrable the next day; "but still I don't think it will come to anything.

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"My dear girl," said Fenwick, "what can you expect from an ass but his ears?"

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"It is intolerable to me," he said, "that I should be impeded in my free action by the interference and accusations of such an ass as that."

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What an ass he must have been not to know his own possessions!

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A man should never be ass enough to ask any woman a second time.

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The gathered soldiers laughed till their sides were sore, and when tired of this fun they let the Arabs take away, as best they could, their ill-used, though happy, ass.

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A-a-as-ass-tounding!

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W-what a c-ca-cat-as-ass-astrophe!

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Ass.

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Ass.

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Ass., 269, 1869 (published in 1870).

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Ass., 379, 1885 (mere mention of family).

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Ass., 266, 1869 (treats of Alaskan Eskimo and Tuski only).

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Ass., 266, 1869.

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Ass., 265, 1869 (group name; includes Innuit, Aleutians, Tuski).

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Ass., 269, 1869 (includes "Ugalense").

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Ass., 375, 1885 (gives tribes and population).

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Ass., 268, 269, 1869 (divided into Sitka-kwan, Stahkin-kwan, "Yakutats").

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Ass., 375, 1885 (enumerates tribes and gives population).

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Ass'n.

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Ass'n, 375, 1885 (mere mention of family).

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Ass'n, 269, 1869 (Queen Charlotte's Ids.

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"Are you going to be ass enough to pop your gun in the air?" indignantly.

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"Don't be an ass, Ferringhall," he said tersely.

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"Blithering ass!"

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"Sir John is an ass!" he declared.

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Secker._ With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.--_Madden._ Every braggart shall be found an ass.--_Shakespeare._ Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.--_Charles Buxton._ ~Boldness.~--Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.--_Smollett._ Women like brave men exceedingly, but audacious men still more.--_Lemesles._ ~Bondage.~--The iron chain and the silken cord, both equally are bonds.--_Schiller._ ~Books.~--If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!--_Thackeray._ When a new book comes out I read an old one.--_Rogers._ Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.--_Paxton Hood._ Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there.

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He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station, but he must know something more to keep it.--_Colton._ Thou true magnetic pole, to which all hearts point duly north, like trembling needles!--_Byron._ Judges and senates have been bought for gold.--_Pope._ Gold is, in its last analysis, the sweat of the poor, and the blood of the brave.--_Joseph Napoleon._ Gold all is not that doth golden seem.--_Spenser._ There is no place so high that an ass laden with gold cannot reach it.--_Rojas._ ~Good.~--When what is good comes of age and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.--_George Eliot._ How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil!--_Carlyle._ Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.--_Milton._ Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

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Nothing can be made of nothing: he who has laid up no materials can produce no combinations.--_Sir J. Reynolds._ ~Irony.~--Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.--_Bulwer-Lytton._ ~Irresolution.~--Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness.

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This maxim is doubtless a very admirable one, and in some respects true; but unhappily it is laughed at in court.--_Rousseau._ Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort.--_Patrick Henry._ A king ought not fall from the throne except with the throne itself; under its lofty ruins he alone finds an honored death and an honored tomb.--_Alfieri._ One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings is, that nature disapproves it; otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass in place of a lion.--_Thomas Paine._ He on whom Heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.--_Corneille._ Kings' titles commonly begin by force which time wears off, and mellows into right; and power which in one age is tyranny is ripened in the next to true succession.--_Dryden._ ~Kisses.~--It is as old as the creation, and yet as young and fresh as ever.

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"Little ass!" said Maynard.

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but I will see her again, and obtain her forgiveness--fool, idiot, dolt, ass, that I am, to suffer my cursed temper to master reason and affection at the risk of losing the dearest blessing of life--a lovely and an amiable woman!

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"Silly young ass," he said, in a voice loud enough for the object of his wrath to hear.

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"Don't be an ass, Ronnie," said Dennis, cheerfully.

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" In Lyons a Bible was tied to the tail of an ass and dragged in a procession through the streets of that city.

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