The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Once the "spirits" were "stumped" with a shingle--a very proper yankee jaw-bone of an ass to route such disembodied Philistines.

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"Cox is an ass," responded Bennett.

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The _Hunbilker_ was, in short, a maritime ass in lion's skin, but her role was none the less a responsible one.

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"Silly ass!" muttered Ross; but he, too, followed his chum.

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VIII THE ADVENTURE OF SIR BORS When Sir Bors left Camelot on his quest he met a holy man riding on an ass, and Sir Bors saluted him.

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Speaking of the boast a certain poet was accustomed to make, of the sternness with which he had driven back an ass laden with gold, that had sought to invade the citadel of his integrity, the Doctor remarked, "but the tale has too little evidence to deserve a disquisition; _large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood_."

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Such an ass!"

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To this Tink replied in these words, 'You silly ass,' and disappeared into the bathroom.

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Again Tink replied, 'You silly ass.'

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Overhead Tinker Bell shouted 'Silly ass!' and darted into hiding.

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'You silly ass!' cried Tinker Bell in a passion.

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She whispered in his ear 'You silly ass'; and then, tottering to her chamber, lay down on the bed.

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Several times I thought of breaking the appointment, for I knew I should have to give some explanation of my arrest, and how to do so without appearing an egregious ass I did not know.

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Justly conceiving poverty to be his surest safe guard, he dismissed his servant, sold his camel, and contenting himself with one ass, joined a caravan of poor traders.

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He can't drive you like an ass.

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Go to, metamorphosed and two-legged ass!

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He who does any thing contrair to English law within five hundred leagues of an English lawyer or an English law-court is a very Ass and Dolt.

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Poison yourself then, _mio caro_, if you see no other way of getting out of the Scrape; but pray remember this; That he who has poison about him, and only enough for one, is an Ass.

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The least punishment for a man who has broken the Seventh Commandment is to ride through the streets upon an Ass, with his face towards the Tail, to receive a certain number of Blows upon the Soles of his Feet, and to pay a Fine in proportion to his Estate.

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[Music] Come bring us Wine in plenty, We've Money enough to spend; I hate to see the Pots empty, A Man cannot Drink to's Friend: Then drawer bring up more Wine, And merrily let it pass; We'll drink till our Faces do shine, He that wont may look like an Ass: And we'll tell him so to his Face, If he offers to baulk his Glass, For we defy all such dull Society.

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The Bearward went to save me then, The People flock'd about; I told the Bear-Garden-Men, My Guts they were almost out: They said I stunk most grievously, No Man would pity me; They call'd me witless Fool and Ass, _And a great Boobee_.

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But I have learned so much Wit, Shall shorten all my Cares; If I can but a Licence get, To play before the Bears: 'Twould be a gallant Place indeed, As I may tell to thee: Then who dares call me Fool or Ass, _Or great Boobee_.

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RALPH'S _going to the Wars._ [Music] To the Wars I must alass, Though I do not like the Game, For I hold him to be an Ass, That will lose his Life for Fame: _For these Guns are such pestilent things, To pat a Pellet in ones Brow; Four vurlongs off ch've heard zome zay, Ch'ill kill a Man he knows not how._ When the Bow, Bill, Zword and Dagger, Were us'd all in vighting; Ch've heard my Father swear and swagger, That it was but a Flea-biting: _But these Guns_, &c. Ise would vight with the best of our Parish, And play at Whisters with _Mary_; Cou'd thump the Vootball, yerk the Morrie, And box at Visticuffs with any: _But these Guns_, &c. Varewel _Dick_, _Tom_, _Ralph_ and _Hugh_, My Maypoles make all heretofore; Varewel _Doll_, _Kate_, _Zis_ and _Zue_, For I shall never zee you more: _For these Guns are such pestilent things, To pat a Pellet in ones Brow; Four vurlongs off ch've heard zome zay, Ch'ill kill a Man he knows not how._ _A_ SONG _in Praise of Punch._ [Music] Come fill up the Bowl with the Liquor that fine is, And much more Divine is, Than now a-days Wine is, with all their Art, None here can controul: The Vintner despising, tho' Brandy be rising, 'Tis Punch that must chear the Heart: The Lovers complaining, 'twill cure in a trice, And _Cælia_ disdaining, shall cease to be nice, _Come fill up the Bowl_, &c. Thus soon you'll discover, the cheat of each Lover, When free from all Care you'll quickly find, As Nature intended 'em willing and kind: _Come fill up the Bowl_, &c. _A_ SONG.

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how you protest and solemnly swear, Look humble, and fawn like an Ass; I'm pleas'd, I must own, when ever I see A Lover that's brought to this pass.

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'Ass!'

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A braying ass within a lion's skin!

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He took out the thorn and bound up the poor paw, so the lion stayed with St. Jerome and kept guard over an ass that brought the wood from the forest.

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The Arabs often have an ass lead the camels.

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The lion knew that it was the stolen ass, so he led the caravan into the convent grounds.

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Because I didn't want to make a Union-Jack-ass of myself!

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The Bible says an ass spoke up once and reproved a man, and I reckon if an ass can reprove a man, so can a woman.

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Turandot.... Turandot.... What a damned stupid ass the dear fellow is!

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(_Aside._) You ass!

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Ass!

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The creepy jack-ass, I don't believe he's ever been on a horse in his life!

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She had danced with that young ass Don Dudenant a dozen times.

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The masses feel that drunkenness, stupidity, and immorality should be their own special property, and that if anyone of us makes an ass of himself he is poaching on their preserves.

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"What an ass the man was to get in front of the guns!

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It is fond of perching on the back of a horse or an ass, and searching for insects which it finds there in abundance.

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On Palm Sunday, an image of the Saviour seated on an ass is paraded about the principal streets of the town or village.

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The ass is looked upon as something almost sacred, and is never named by any other appellation than the _Burro de Nuestro Señor_ (our Lord's ass).

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When I was proceeding through one of these cavities on Christmas-eve, 1840, I encountered a heavily laden ass coming down a steep declivity.

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And Jesus, when He had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written, Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt."

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They believe that if a woman be delivered of seven male infants successively, the seventh, by an inexplicable fatality, becomes subject to the powers of darkness; and is compelled, on every Saturday evening, to assume the likeness of an ass.

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_King John._-- "It lies as sightly on the back of him, As great Alcides' _shows_ upon an ass."

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And thus the meaning of the passage seems to be: The lion's skin, which once belonged to Richard of the Lion Heart, is as sightly on the back of _Austria_, as were the mysteries of Hercules upon an ass.

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--_Editorial, Journal of the American Medical Ass'n._ RHEUMATISM:--"Unquestionably, the most active cause of rheumatism, as well as of migraine, sick-headache, Bright's disease, neurasthenia and a number of other kindred diseases, is the general use of flesh food, tea and coffee, and alcoholic liquors.

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Ass'n., 129, 204-209, 211, 368, 369 Journal of Inebriety, 131, 192, 329, 413 Kansas prohibits whiskey drug-stores 27 Kassowitz, Prof. Max, 373, 374 Kellogg, Dr. J. H., 36, 89, 95, 121, 129, 141, 152, 166, 176, 185, 195, 199, 255, 378 Kerr, Dr. Norman, 150, 357 Kidneys, 30, 89-95, 276, 425 Koch, Dr., consumption, 153 Knopf, Dr. S. A., 155 Kola, see caffeine.

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Ladies' Freedmen's Ass'n, _for Freight to Saluda, N. C._ 1.00 Westboro.

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The hungry hound upon the bone will pounce He prowling finds, and not mistrustful pass; He asks not whom it did belong to once, The prophet's camel or the sinner's ass.

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'He's gone and made an ass o' himself, has Christopher,' said the housekeeper, colouring with displeasure.

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'He is an ass!' repeated the colonel hotly.

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The identification of Nebuchadnezzar with the bull Apis is not precisely an effort of genius; but the assembling, and putting through their paces, of Balaam's ass and Jonah's whale, the serpent of Eden, and the raven of the Ark, with the three prophets Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel, and with an historical King Amasis and an unhistorical Princess Amaside thrown in, is less a _conte à dormir debout_, as Voltaire's countrymen and he himself would say, than a tale to make a man sleep when he is running at full speed--a very dried poppy-head of the garden of tales.

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I was an egregious ass at twenty-five, and I'm not sure I'm any better now."

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But how about what is called _falling_ in love, when the wild ass has not been craving to have his void filled up at all, but is suddenly brought down unawares by an Amazonian arrow?"

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They were all sorry for him too; they thought he was such an ass.

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Are we refractory in other things, as Balaam's ass said to his master?

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And if the law command to cover a pit, lest an ox or an ass should fall therein, Exod.

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And what else was meant by those laws which forbade them to suffer their cattle to gender with a diverse kind, to sow their field with diverse seed, to wear a garment of diverse sorts, as of woollen and linen, to plough with an ox and an ass together?

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10); who have not displeased their flesh at any time, nor said, "Why hast thou done so?" who do not withhold their heart from any joy, and whatsoever their eyes desire, they keep it not from them; who are like the "wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure" (Jer.

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When Christ cometh to Jerusalem, "meek, and sitting upon an ass" (as the Prophet said), all the city is troubled at his coming, Matt.

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Miller, though Blake was the torment of his life, relaxed after the first quarter of all hour; and our hero, by the same time, gave himself credit for being a much greater ass than he was, for having ever thought Blake's face a sad one.

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"Now, tinker," said Drysdale, nodding at Blake, who rattled on,-- "Chance feeds us, chance leads us; Round the land in jollity; Rag-dealing, nag-stealing, Everywhere we roam; Brass mending, ass vending, Happier than the quality; Swipes soaking, pipes smoking, Ev'ry barn a home; Tink, tink, a tink a tink, Our life is full of fun, boys; Clink tink, a tink a tink, Our busy hammers ring; Clink, tink, a tink a tink, Our job will soon be done boys; Then tune we merrily The bladder and the string."

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I was ass enough to take off my cap and make a low bow as I came up to him, and he pulled off his uniform cap in return, and we stood there bowing to one another.

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Simon had himself given Harry some advice on the point, but not to much purpose, it would seem, as he summed up his notions on the subject by the remark that, "'Twas waste of soap to lather an ass."

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Don't be such an ass.

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"Don't be an ass, Franklyn," I said firmly.

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"So, Coker" (Coker wore a blue necktie), said the Doctor, "you emulate the wild ass in more qualities than those of stupidity and stubbornness, do you?

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"Don't be an ass, sir!" said Paul angrily.

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At the foot of the inner side of the said door, to amuse himself, Antonio made a little scene in bronze, wherein he portrayed himself and Simone and their disciples going with an ass laden with good cheer to take their pleasure in a vineyard.

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Then there follow the building of the proud Tower of Nimrod, the burning of Sodom and the other neighbouring cities, and the stories of Abraham, wherein there are some very beautiful effects to be observed, for the reason that, although Benozzo was not remarkable for the drawing of figures, yet he showed his art effectually in the Sacrifice of Isaac, for there he painted an ass foreshortened in such a manner that it seems to turn to either side, which is held something very beautiful.

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"The pen is mightier than the sword," shouted Sir Simon, "and unfortunately the sword is out of date nowadays, or I would challenge him upon the spot; but, my boy, you have the pen, and you can use it, and a jolly sight better than the silly ass who wrote that article.

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"Very likely, very likely, but a live ass is a different thing to a dead lion."

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He would take another case of Biblical history; it was without question an ass who had upon a certain occasion been the one to see when a Lion had stood in his path.

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5 And he said unto them, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a well, and will not straightway draw him up on a sabbath day?

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"And the only thing necessary to that end is that that ass Raybold shall keep out of my sight."

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Occasionally Coleridge tried himself in the other field, as in his "Lines to a Young Ass."

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Oh, what a cursed ass and fool--and thief, I've been!"

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Instead, the Wittenbergers, with the silent consent of Melanchthon, circulated a caricature in which Flacius was accorded the role of a braying ass being crowned by other asses with a soiled crown.

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I saw too plainly, in all their good-natured faces, that they regarded me as the greatest ass they had ever seen, or as an odd kind of cow gone wrong, and of no use to the three acres.

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Mr. Willis is not _quite_ an ass.

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Produced by Chris Curnow, Verity White, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: _Nat'l Ass'n Audubon Societies_ The passenger pigeon, an extinct species.]

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[Illustration: _Nat'l Ass'n Audubon Societies_ The sage grouse, which is in danger of extinction.]

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He is a humbug or an ass," continued the Count, his wrath growing fiercer as he poured it out,--"an ass if he believes such an infamous law to be constitutional; and if he does not believe it, he is a humbug and a scoundrel for advocating it."

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He inquired after me, and, as my friend was leaving him, sent me a characteristic message,--"Tell C---- that he is an ass."

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Gurowski, utterly heedless of all around him, raised his voice above the tumult, and roared that Horace Greeley was "an ass, a traitor, and a coward."

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If from Heaven (as Elisha's servant and Balaam's ass could discern Angels) let their testimony be received.

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"Wait a moment--don't be an ass," expostulated his cousin.

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"You blithering ass!

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"Hold on, Hawke, you ass!" shouted Dennis at the top of his voice, but he was too late.

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"Don't be an ass," said Delavoy-Bagotte.

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Jim felt a good deal as he had done when he knocked down Mr. Billy's chauffeur--rather degraded and humiliated, as if he had made an ass of himself.

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But when the Pronunciation requires it, or when the _Singular_ ends in _s_, _x_, _sh_, or _ch_, the _Plural_ is usually formed by adding the Syllable _es_; as _Ass Asses_, _Fox Foxes_, _Sash Sashes_, _Church Churches_.

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"Now you've made an ass of yourself and let her get away without finding out who she was or where she lived."

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He liked her--and he was an ass!

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A. Packard, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 10.00 Woman's Home Missionary Union of the N. J. Ass'n.

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For example, I now grapple with that very odd line-- "As great Alcides' shoes upon an ass."

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"It lies," observes the Bastard, "It lies as sightly on the back of him (_Austria_) As great Alcides' (_robe_) shows upon an ass:-- But, ass, I'll take that burden from your back," &c. Were it not that _doth_ is the usual word in this play, I might be tempted to read _does_.

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