The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Strictly speaking, no doubt, the tame birds have degenerated, both mentally and physically, as surely as the tame ass.

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What an ass a clever woman could make of a man!

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"That ass Swaynston, I suppose," growled the other.

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Who knew what latent capacities for being made an ass of might not develop themselves within him.

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I never could have believed the fellow would turn out such an ass.

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On the other hand carelessness and neglect were severely punished, as in the case of the unskilful physician, if it led to loss of life or limb his hands were cut off, a slave had to be replaced, the loss of his eye paid for to half his value; a veterinary surgeon who caused the death of an ox or ass paid quarter value; a builder, whose careless workmanship caused death, lost his life or paid for it by the death of his child, replaced slave or goods, and in any case had to rebuild the house or make good any damages due to defective building and repair the defect as well.

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Fish are caught in great numbers in the rivers and marshes, chiefly barbel and carp, and the latter attain so great a size that one is a sufficient load for an ass.

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He is a great favourite in Persian tradition, which relates many stories of his valour and beauty, of his victories over the Romans, Turks, Indians and Negroes, and of his adventures in hunting and in love; he is called Bahr[=a]m Gor, "the wild ass," on account of his strength and courage.

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Upon this Rubezahl transformed himself into an ass, and directed the glazier to sell him at the mill which lay at the foot of the mountain, and to be sure to make off with the purchase-money as quickly as possible.

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An honest farmer had once an ass that had been a faithful hard-working slave to him for a great many years, but was now growing old, and every day more and more unfit for work.

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"Houghton always was an ass"--(Houghton was the younger lawyer.

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While a man was playing on the trump marine, I made my observations on a _cat_, a _dog_, a _horse_, an _ass_, a _hind_, _cows_, _small birds_, and a _cock and hens_, who were in a yard, under a window on which I was leaning.

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The _ass_ did not discover the least indication of his being touched, eating his thistles peaceably.

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I've been an ass in my time, I dare say, but not quite such an ass as to go about in a lion's skin!'

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'Hot-headed old ass!' growled Mr. Humpage; 'but there, there, my dear, I'll go.

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And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden all thy life long unto this day?

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And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times?

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Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shalt be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to save thee.

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Who hath sent out the wild ass free?

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Or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

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--The third paragraph (page 34) is the famous story of Balaam's Ass.

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[94] For a recent statistical study of the subject see an article by Ogburn and Kelley in the _Journal of the American Statistical Ass'n._ for September, 1916.

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"Goodness gracious, Heavens alive, you silly old ass--you--you haven't posted it--in the post?"

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He is full of silly ass schemes, and he's romantic."

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I said to Ali yesterday: 'You silly old ass----'" "Oh, you have a girl?" she said disappointedly.

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"You silly ass!" he said.

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"You silly ass," said Hamilton, "detective agencies don't criminally investigate.

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"Don't be an ass.

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"I could explain that they're just the sort of things that a silly ass of a man does, and that they were not intended to be offensive--even that one about her lips being like two red strips.

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"You're an ass, Bones!" he said angrily and hotly.

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"You're not only an ass, but an indelicate ass!

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"Really, my dear Bones," protested Hamilton, when the girl had gone back, scarlet-faced to her office, "you're making a perfect ass of yourself.

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"They think I'm a silly old ass, don't they?"

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"Anybody who's unconventional in business is a silly old ass."

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"On poor old silly ass Bones, and I'm coming through!"

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But he immediately undercuts that tone twice, once by acknowledging the boyfriend's likely infidelity and again by saying that even if the black woman follows his homily, "once you get on, he leave yo' ass for a white girl."

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It was a common saying among the Schoolmen, that an ass, at equal distances from two equal bundles of hay, would starve to death for lack of a motive to choose either.

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What an ass will a man allow himself to become under such circumstances!

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_A READER_ DAUDET to him is e'er Dodett; Dumas he calls Dumass; But prithee do not you forget He's not at all an ass; Because the books that he doth buy, That on his shelf do stand, Hold not one page his eagle eye Hath not completely scanned.

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On a pedestal four feet high, two feet wide, and six feet long, exactly midway betwixt the abutments, let an ass be placed, a boy astride him, a bag drawn before the boy, who holds up a long stick in line with the ass, &c., that is, facing the observer.

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APULEIUS, THE WORKS OF, comprising the Metamorphoses, or Golden Ass; the Death of Socrates; Florida; and his Defences, or Essay on Magic.

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Take it as you like, and think me an interfering ass if you choose, but if I were you I'd somehow get Chetwode back from Newmarket,--and not go about so much with Mrs. Ogilvie."

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"Don't be an ass!

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"We're talking about _your_ troubles.... As if Woodville were such an ass!

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Only shows he doesn't know.... _What_ an ass he must be!"

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"But not such an ass," said Savile.

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As he's an ass, I suppose he packed it among my things.

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"Wilton's an ass," said Chetwode.

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It is, without any doubt, the most brilliant of Chesterton's novels; it is an argument between a Christian ass and a very decent atheist.

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THERE'S something in a stupid ass, And something in a heavy dunce; But never since I went to school I heard or saw so damned a fool As William Wordsworth is for once.

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Let Comedy (-re-)sume ass [The correction is not given in the Murray copy.]

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340 Gurney, Hudson, _The Golden Ass of Apuleius; in English Verse, entitled Cupid and Psyche_, _vi.

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423 There's something in a stupid ass (_Jeux d'Esprit, etc._), vii.

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Agis, he says, has been prancing like an ass stuffed with barley.

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I warn you in advance, you are 'shearing an ass,'-attempting the impossible,-if you deceive yourself as to my power.

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Above thirty years ago I proposed to an old gentleman, whose throat was entirely impervious, to supply him with a few ounces of blood daily from an ass, or from the human animal, who is still more patient and tractable, in the following manner.

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In other words, while he had implicit faith in the ability of Balsam's ass to speak, he was somewhat skeptical on the subject of a bear's singing; and yet he had been assured of the latter, on the testimony of his own exquisite organs.

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The report of what is called "Cooper's Ass-Feast" (Walker's I never heard of), and of the Scotch Greys being concerned in it, reached me _by accident_, for of all the King's good subjects, who are exclaiming against its not being noticed, not one thought it worth his while to apprise the Secretary of State of it.

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I took immediate steps for inquiring into it, and am satisfied that the whole story has no other foundation than Mr. Cooper having invited two officers to dine with him in a small company, and having given them, by way of curiosity, as a new dish, a piece of a young ass roasted.

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Athanasius landed and, mounted on an ass led by Theodore, Abbot of Tabenna, proceeded to the town escorted by a vast throng of people carrying torches and singing hymns of praise.

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WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF THE N. J. ASS'N, by Mrs. J. H. Denison Treas., $80.90.

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Spencer, First C., Brookfield Ass'n pledge, _for Teacher, Porto Rico_, 100.

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Aurora, N. E. C., Corban Ass'n, 2 bbls.

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Goods, _for Saluda, N. C._ Cleveland, Euclid Ave., Ladies' Ass'n, bbl.

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This conversation took place not far from the Nile, at the entrance to the valley of Biban el Molûk, between Lord Evandale, who rode an Arab horse, and Dr. Rumphius, more modestly perched upon an ass, the lean hind-quarters of which a fellah was belabouring.

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The drummers, clad in a mere pleated kilt and bare to the belt, struck with sycamore sticks the wild-ass-skin stretched over their kettledrums suspended from a leather baldric, keeping the time which the drum major marked by clapping his hands as he frequently turned towards them.

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The houses have the earth tint; the bronze complexion of the fellahs recalls it; the trees covered with fine dust, the waters laden with mud, conform to that fundamental harmony; the animals themselves wear its livery; the dun-coloured camel, the gray ass, the slate-blue buffalo, the ash-coloured pigeon, and the reddish birds all fit in with the general tone.

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Now along the canal comes a charming group: a young woman robed in a long blue mantle, the folds of which fall chastely around her, is seated upon an ass which a man, still vigorous but whose beard is already streaked with gray and white hairs, leads carefully.

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Perhaps they are aware that Homer compared Ajax to an ass, a comparison which is ridiculous in the West; and they also remember that one of their ancestors bore Miriam, the Virgin Mother of Issa, under the sycamore of Matarieh.

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No one in Cairo considers it undignified to ride an ass,--old men, grown men, dignitaries, townspeople, all use them.

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In the East a rider, whether on horseback or on an ass, is always accompanied by two or three footmen.

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Every minute Decamp's "Turkish Patrol," that startling painting which made such a sensation in the Exhibition of 1831, passed before me, amid a cloud of dust, and made me smile; but no one appeared to notice the comicality of the situation: a stout man dressed in white with a broad belt around his waist, perched on a little ass and followed by three or four poor devils, thin and tanned, with hungry mien, who through excess of zeal and in hope of backshish, seem to carry along the rider and his steed.

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When thou clovest thy crown i' the middle, and gavest away both parts, thou borest thine ass on thy back o'er the dirt: thou hadst little wit in thy bald crown when thou gavest thy golden one away.

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3), and Hamlet of the grave-digger as an "ass" and "rude knave."

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He's made an ass of himself, but it's none of my business.

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Appuleius, the celebrated author of the _Metamorphoseon de Asino aureo_ (Metamorphoses of the Golden Ass), and who lived in the 2nd century, under the Antonines, having married a rich widow, was accused by her father Æmilian, before Claudius Maximus, pro-Consul of Asia, of having employed sorcery and charms in order to gain her affections (a parallel case with that of Shakspear's Othello).

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Here belong also the golden ass [K. H. M., No.

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48 Why, what an ass am I!

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Cudgel thy brains no more about it, 15 for your dull ass will not mend his pace with beating; and, when you are asked this question next, say, a grave-maker, the houses that he makes, last till doomsday.

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This might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent Heaven, might it not?

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Ass'n, April 16, 1898.

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I own myself an ass, and I await your orders."

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"No more an ass than I, sir," returned the captain.

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'A barrister is like Balaam's ass, only speaking when he sees the angel,' was a familiar saying in the seventeenth century.

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They were the mock masque, each resembling an ape, each wearing a fantastic dress that heightened the hideous absurdity of his monkey's visage, each riding upon an ass, or small pony, and each of them throwing shells upon the crowd by way of a largess.

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He remembered how he had been bored to death by that stupendous ass of an old woman--for so he had characterized her--during the process of selection and installation.

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

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"He has the audacity to call me an ass.

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"My old friend Marmaduke has spilled my whisky and called me an ass.

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He doesn't like being called Doggie--and I've no--no pred'lex'n to be called an ass.

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"That's a guardian, you silly ass," cried Doggie.

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Of course Jeanne, knowing him now to be such a gilded ass, would have nothing more to do with him.

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"You thought me a rotten ass in those days, didn't you?"

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Even if he committed the military crime (and there was a far more serious crime already against him) of appearing in public in mufti, did that old ass think he was going to swagger about Durdlebury in bottle-green suits, as though he were ashamed of the King's uniform?

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"You're an awfully good sort, Oliver," he said, touched, "but would you mind--I feel rather a beast----" "All right, you silly old ass," cried Oliver cheerily.

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While I've been morbidly occupied with myself and my grievances and my disgrace and my efforts to pull through, and have gradually developed into a sort of half-breed between a Tommy and a gentleman with every mortal thing in me warped and changed, you've stuck to the original rotten ass you lashed into the semblance of a man, in this very room, goodness knows how many months, or years, or centuries ago.

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But, oh, Doggie, what an ass you were to sell the place up!"

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Let me see: Ass, 1; Farmer Killwell, 2; somebody's papa, but not mine.

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