The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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don't you 'eed what a girl says, An' don't you go for the beer; But I was an ass when I was at grass, An' that is why I'm here.

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don't you go for a corp'ral Unless your 'ed is clear; But I was an ass when I was at grass, An' that is why I'm 'ere.

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don't you 'eed what a girl says, An' don't you go for the beer; But I was an ass when I was at grass, An' that is why I'm 'ere.

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Who dares to "write me down an ass," When, spying through the curious mass, I rub my hands, and wipe my glass, If, chance, an _error_ bless my notice-- Will prize when drill'd into his duty, These lovely warts of ugly beauty; For books, when _false_ (it may be new t'ye), Are "TRUE EDITIONS:"--odd,--but _so_ 'tis.

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ASS'N., by Mrs. G. A. L. Merrifield, Treas., $33.64.

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Elizabeth Memorial Ass'n, 4.

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San Francisco, Branch Ass'n, Christian Chinese, 10; Children, 58 cts.

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San Francisco, S. F. Branch Ass'n, 10.

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WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF THE N. J. ASS'N, by Mrs. G. A. L. Merrifield, Treas., $10.00.

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San Francisco, S. F. Branch Ass'n, _for Sch.

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"Imagine," said Mr. Motley, taking out a fresh cigar and a match and proceeding to put them to their respective uses,--"Imagine the vision that appeared to Balaam's ass--and how the ass felt."

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No perfectly reasonable man would ever take such frightful chances as this absurd little ass set his face to without fear.

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Jeremiah had prophesied, that he should neither be regretted nor lamented; but should "be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem:" this was no doubt fulfilled, though it is not known in what manner.

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"Don't be such a confounded ass.

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"The man's a fool," Collier said, "but the biggest ass in the place is Dennison.

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The Subby may be a fair ass, but I caught hold of him, and I must be a bigger fool than he is.

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If I could have got hold of that fellow I think I might have curtailed the length of his smile, but Foster gave me a little satisfaction by saying that if a man was ass enough to write about "exponents of the game," he was probably paid a penny a line for what he wrote, and had sacrificed me for the sake of threepence.

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Lambert stated in a loud voice that it was not cricket, and Collier, who was most completely disorganized both in body and temper, retorted that if it had been cricket Lambert would not have been playing; while Sam, who in some ways was not such an ass as he tried to make out, played the next ball slowly to Lambert at short leg, and ran down the pitch exhorting him to throw it at Collier's head as soon as he got hold of it.

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"I never tell an ass like Pratt anything," I replied, "he would die if he hadn't got something to talk about."

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"The Subby himself must decide that, when he finds out who was ass enough to buy a beard like his."

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A man isn't bound to be an ass because he is a parson."

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Observing the monster raising itself with difficulty, and endeavouring to withdraw its legs from the sticky mud in which they were fixed, the courage of despair rushed into his heart--he left the hut, upsetting everything in his way, and precipitated himself upon his adversary with a view of despatching him with the butt end of his gun, or making him retreat further into the _Mare_, when imagine his consternation and fear,--at the very moment his uplifted arm was stretched out, like Jupiter's in the act of hurling a thunderbolt, the animal raised himself on his haunches, looked him full in the face, opened two enormous jaws, put up two very long ears, and instead of a roar full of rage and ferocity, sent forth the most agonizing and dolorous bray that was ever heard from the throat of any ass, French, English, or Spanish!

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it was an ass the banker had mortally wounded; an unfortunate ass, which, driven by thirst and the heat of the weather, had left his shed at the neighbouring farm-house, to quench it and refresh himself with a bath.

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"Abominable hypocrites, I say; this is a piece of acting, a trick which you have kindly put upon me--this ass was driven here by you, or by some one at your suggestion; I see clearly how it is."

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"No, gentlemen, I feel indignant at the paltry joke you have played upon me--you knew that my sight was weak, and on that infirmity you have practised a very shameful trick; you have said to yourselves, 'Send an ass to this Parisian, he will no doubt take it for a wild boar.'

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I will live on acorns, ants, toad's eggs, and roots, but by the soul of that stupid brute that lays there," and he gave the deceased ass a second kick, "I will not budge until I have killed a wolf: enable me to slaughter a wolf, and I will follow you; nay, what is more, forgive you."

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His importunity succeeded; the murderer was brought to light, the banker cheerfully paid for his shot, and laughed heartily at the adventure; but in spite of his apparent philosophy, I remarked that from that moment he never met an ass that he did not turn away his head; and this is the kind of game that one finds in _Mare_ No.

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These men are mounted either on horseback, or on an ass, or they put on a pair of _sabots_ and walk, each of them dragging after him, through the wood and along the unfrequented paths, his portion of the bait, stopping every now and then to let the soil over which it passes be as much as possible impregnated with the smell of the flesh on the verge of corruption.

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On the other hand, I was convinced that, so far as I was concerned, without trying to lay down a rule for any other man, I would be an ass if I didn't quit it immediately, while I was well and all right, instead of waiting until I had to quit on a doctor's orders, or got to that stage when I couldn't quit.

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The scorpion, which they now call the wild-ass, is in the following form.

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This engine is called a _tormentum_, because all its parts are twisted (_torquetur_); or a scorpion, because it has an erect sting; but modern times have given it the name of the wild-ass, because when wild asses are hunted, they throw the stones behind them by their kicks so as to pierce the chests of those who pursue them, or to fracture their skulls.

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For in the town of Pistoja, at about the third hour of the day, in the sight of many persons, an ass mounted the tribunal, where he was heard to bray loudly.

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So the emperor remained at Carnuntum; and during the three summer months he occupied himself uninterruptedly in preparing arms and magazines, in the hope that chance might afford him a good opportunity of making use of them; intending to take a favourable season for attacking the Quadi, who had lately caused an atrocious disturbance; since in their chief town, Faustinus, the nephew of Juventius, the prefect of the prætorium, who had attained the rank of military secretary, was tortured and then put to death by the executioners, under the very eyes of Probus; having been accused of slaying an ass in some magical operation, as his enemies asserted; but he himself said it was to use for strengthening his hair, which was beginning to fall off.

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A scorpion, a military engine which in ordinary language is also known as the wild-ass, being stationed opposite the dense array of the enemy, hurled forth a huge stone, which, although it fell harmless on the ground, yet by the mere sight of it terrified them so greatly, that in alarm at the strange spectacle they all fell back and endeavoured to retreat.

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"What's the good o' goin' on like that just because a silly ass 'as married beneath 'im?"

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He rides an ass, from all his haughty state disgraced; And by the rabble's mocking gibes his way is traced.

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"Excuse my frankness, Jack, but you're an ass," said the Colonel tartly.

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How cleverly she had deceived him, and what an ass he had been!

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It was that beautiful illustration of what human faith may accomplish; the familiar representation of Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia meekly displaying the contents of her apron before her lord, the Landgrave--that heavy, sporadic type of whiskered ass whose only mission in life seems to be that of pulling the stars and all else down about his wassail-soaked head and ears through sheer avoirdupois and stupidity.

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"You'll forgive me, I'm sure, when I say, that I can't help thinking what an ass your father is!"

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Because the Emperor was known to be kind of heart, and because it was remembered also that this John of Calabria, who went by many names, had by strange chance baptized both Otto and Pope Gregory, the Duke of Franconia's son, therefore the Romans feared lest justice should be too gentle; and having got the antipope into their hands, they dealt with him savagely, put out his eyes, cut out his tongue and sliced off his nose, and drove him to prison through the city, seated face backwards on an ass.

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Peter the Prefect, or Prior, was bound naked upon an ass with an earthen jar over his head, flogged through the city, and cruelly put to death; and at last his torn body was hung by the hair to the head of the bronze horse whereon the stately figure of Marcus Aurelius sat in triumph before the door of the Pope's house, as it sits today on the Capitol before the Palace of the Senator.

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One of the parish priests mounts upon an ass, backwards, facing the beast's tail, and a papal chamberlain leads the animal, holding over its head a basin containing twenty pieces of copper money.

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Samson slew a lion with his hands, and the Philistines with the jaw-bone of an ass.

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But when an ass, without the aid of any Samson, killed a lion in the courtyard of the Palazzo dei Priori, in Florence, the event was looked upon as of evil portent, exceeding the laws of nature.

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A legend says that Colonna struck the Pope in the face, and that he afterwards made him ride on an ass, sitting backwards, after the manner of the times.

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"You have my gracious permission to make just as big an ass of yourself as you wish.

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Thou impious Pentheus sacrific'd; and thou, The mad Lycurgus punish'd with his axe: By thee the Tyrrhene traitors, in the main Were flung: Adorn'd with painted reins, thou curb'st The lynxes in thy chariot yok'd abreast: Thy steps the Satyrs and Bacchantes tread; And old Silenus; who with wine o'ercharg'd, With a long staff his tottering steps sustains: Or on a crooked ass, unsteady sits: Where'er thou enterest shout the joyous youth, Females and males immingled: loud the drums Struck by their hands resound;--and loudly clash The brazen cymbals: soft the boxen flutes Deep and melodious sound!

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But nevertheless he was annoyed that his son should be such an ass.

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John was always an ass," said Sir Robert, with a crossness which sprang chiefly from the fact that the temperature of the room was higher than usual, and the habits of his evening interfered with.

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it means that your brother is an ass, that is what it means.

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Old Tozer is an old ass, begging your pardon for saying so, and my son is a fool--" "I do not agree to either," said Phoebe gravely, "but never mind, I will certainly hear what you have to say."

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"Stupid ass of course, not to have seen the jewel I held in my hand.

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Howard Ass.

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"But Philip is not an ass; and don't you think I have behaved very well, and may give myself this indulgence the second year?"

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"I thought," he said, "you ass, that you knew exactly what to say."

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A horse was seen, for the first time, to take his bit in his teeth and rush through the streets of Quiquendone; an ox was observed to precipitate itself, with lowered horns, upon one of his herd; an ass was seen to turn himself ever, with his legs in the air, in the Place Saint Ernuph, and bray as ass never brayed before; a sheep, actually a sheep, defended valiantly the cutlets within him from the butcher's knife.

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The King of Kurga put him into a sack, sewed up the mouth of it, and then laid him across the wooden image of an ass, and left him there to die of hunger and suffocation.

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Here's 'Love's an ass!'

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Ass._ _Revue d'Assyriologie._ Professors J. Oppert and E. Ledrain.

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If a man has bought or received on deposit from a minor or a slave, either silver, gold, male or female slave, ox, ass, or sheep, or anything else, except by consent of elders, or power of attorney, he shall be put to death for theft.

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If a patrician has stolen ox, sheep, ass, pig, or ship, whether from a temple, or a house, he shall pay thirtyfold.

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If a veterinary surgeon has treated an ox, or an ass, for a severe injury, and cured it, the owner of the ox, or the ass, shall pay the surgeon one-sixth of a shekel of silver, as his fee.

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If he has treated an ox, or an ass, for a severe injury, and caused it to die, he shall pay one-quarter of its value to the owner of the ox, or the ass.

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If a man has hired an ox, or an ass, and a lion has killed it in the open field, the loss falls on its owner.

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If a man has intrusted ox or ass to ... [Passage mutilated.]

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If he has lost the ox, or ass, given to him, he shall restore ox for ox, and ass for ass to its owner.

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If he has hired an ass, for threshing, its hire is ten _ḲA_ of corn.

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In case of loss caused by neglect or ill-treatment of hired property, or of goods deposited or intrusted, or by want of care in treating diseased limbs, restitution, goods for goods, ox for ox, ass for ass, _et cetera_, was ordered.

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(211) Ilushu-abushu hired a pack-ass, _imer bilti_, of Ardi-Sin and Ṣilli-Ishtar and lost it.

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It consisted of an ass worth fifty shekels, thirty-six shekels for its keep, twelve coats, twelve breastplates (?

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Here is a specimen list of asses which gives some prices:(780) One male working ass for one and a half minas seven shekels, one she-ass for thirty-seven shekels, a second she-ass for one mina, a third she-ass for one royal mina, a fourth she-ass for thirty-two shekels, in all five and a half minas two shekels.

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_See_ Children, Wife: disinheriting a son, 58, 168, 169 giving dowry to a daughter, votary of Marduk, 59, 60 rights, duties, and responsibilities of, 148 _sq._ Father-in-law: and son-in-law not to quarrel over the marriage-portion, 72, E if guilty of incest, 56, 155, 156 responsibilities of, to intended son-in-law, 57, 159-161 Fees, to surgeon: for limb or bowels cured, five shekels of silver, 63, 221 for same on plebeian, three shekels of silver, 63, 222 for same on slave, two shekels of silver, 63, 223 for serious operation on cataract, ten shekels of silver, 63, 215 for same on plebeian, five shekels of silver, 63, 216 for same on man's slave, two shekels of silver, 63, 217 for storage of corn, 53, 120, 121 to builder, two shekels of silver for each SAR built on, 63, 228 to builder of boat, sixty GUR per man, two shekels of silver, 64, 234 to veterinary, for curing ox or ass, one-sixth shekel of silver, 63, 224 Field.

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_See_ Labor, Wages: by king's standard, 49, 51 of boat, 3 ŠE of silver _per diem_, 67, 275; fast boat, 2-1/2 ŠE of silver _per diem_, 67, 276; freight-boat of 60 GUR, 67, 277 of slave, adjustment of wages, 271 of slave, 271 wages or hire fixed for: artisan, 5 ŠE of silver _per diem_, 67, 274 ass for threshing, 10 ḲA of corn _per diem_, 66, 269 boatman, 6 GUR of corn _per annum_, 64, 239 builder, (?)

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ŠE of silver _per diem_, 67, 274 tailor, 5 ŠE of silver _per diem_, 67, 274 wages and time limit, 272, 273 wagon alone, 40 ḲA of corn _per diem_, 272 working ox, 4 GUR of corn _per annum_, 65, 242 young animal for threshing, 1 ḲA of corn _per diem_, 66, 270 Hiring, risks in: bull, known to be vicious, kills freeman, one-half mina of silver, 62, 251 bull, known to be vicious, kills slave, one-third mina of silver, 62, 252 bull, mad and gores, the owner free, 65, 250 ox, broken horn or torn muzzle or tail cut off, quarter the value of ox, 65, 248 ox, cut or broken leg, ox for ox, 65, 246 ox, died from the elements, on affidavit man is free, 65, 249 ox gored to death or killed by blows, ox for ox, 65, 245 ox, loses an eye, half the value of ox, 65, 247 ox or ass killed by lion in open field, owner's risk, 65, 244 slave killed, one-third mina of silver, 65, 252 Hostage for debt.

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_See_ Hire: horse killed, at God's hand, 65, 249 loss by lightning or lion, on herdsman's oath, 66, 266 ox or ass, killed in open field, 65, 244 Palace: its relation to the priesthood, 211 _sq._ place for archives, 322 title for the royal state authority, 61, 187, 192, 193 Partnership: a manufacturing, 292 dissolution of, 288, 291 its earliest appearance, 287 its evidence in Assyrian literature, 290 later Babylonian, 290, 291 its ideogram, 287-289 its relation to capital, 288 old commercial custom, 290 partnership documents, 288 _sq._ powers of attorney, for protection, 292 reckonings, 291 Patrician, highest class in the state, 74 _sq._ Penalties: as demanded for wrong-doing, 96 blood vengeance commuted, 116 for adultery, 117, 118 for perjury in courts of law, 94, 95 imprisoned and bailed out, 117 in courts of law, 94 to prevent failure in contract, 233 woman thrown from a pillar, 140 Penalty due for.

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_See_ Retaliation, Fines: adultery by a wife, strangling, 54, 129 adultery, drowning, 54, 133 death of hostage slave, one-third of a mina of silver, 52, 116 fatal assault on pregnant woman, death of his daughter, 62, 209 imprudent speech, tongue cut out, 61, 192, 150 incest, mother and son burnt, 56, 157 incest, banished the city, 56, 156 incest, half mina of silver and the marriage-portion, 56, 156 incest, strangling, 56, 155 incest, the man cut off from his father's house, 56, 158 incest, woman drowned, 56, 155 on brander for branding without leave, hands cut off, 63, 226; if deceived, accused is free, 63, 227 son for striking father, hands cut off, 61, 194 slave for striking freeman's privates, ear cut off, 62, 205 veterinary, for loss of ox or ass, one-fourth of its value, 63, 225 wet-nurse for neglect, breasts cut off, 61, 194 permanent injury in a quarrel, pay the doctor, 62, 206 rape of betrothed, death, 54, 130 slander, forehead branded, 52, 127 striking a superior's privates, 60 blows of ox-hide scourge, 62, 202 undutifulness and slander, 55, 143 unnatural conduct, eyes torn out, 61, 193, 150 unsuccessful operation by surgeon, hands cut off, 63, 218; same on slave, slave for slave, 63, 219; loss of slave's eye, half his value, 63, 220 Perjury: in capital trial, has death penalty, 44, 3 in civil case, gives damages, 44, 4, 45, 13, 94 Phrase-books: Babylonian, 8 their plan, 8, 9 Pillar, thrown from, a penalty, 140 Pin-money, gift to a wife, 132, 221 Plaintiff, his position in a case, 88, 89 Plebeian, poor man, between patrician and slave: abduction of slave from, 45, 15 assault by, 62, 204, 208 cheaper divorce, 55, 140 fees paid by, 62, 208, 63, 222 harboring fugitive slave, 45, 16 slave-owner, 45, 15, 59, 175, 176 theft from, 45, 8 value of eye or limb, one mina of silver, 62, 198 value of tooth, one-third mina of silver, 62, 201 Pledges and guarantees.

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_See_ Mancipium: of maid, held for debt, 53, 119 Refusal: by slave to name his owner, 46, 18 of conjugal rights, 55, 142 Registration: by the master of the house, 128 guarantee of ancestry, 128 of birth, marriage, and death, 128 Remarriage: marriage-portion goes to the children, 59, 173, 174 of divorced woman, 55, 141 of widow, 59, 173 Remission of penalty, 54, 129 Rent: average, made payable, 48, 42, 43, 49, 55, 50, 62, 65 five ḲA of corn on each GUR of corn, 53, 121 for storage of corn, 53, 121 of garden plot, 50, 60, 61, 62 of unbroken land, on three-year lease, 48, 44 on garden plot, ten GUR of corn for each GAN of land, 50, 63 paid at harvest-time, 48, 47 payments in kind, 48, 47, 49 ten GUR of corn for each GAN of land, 48, 44 wrought on shares, 50, 64, 65 Repatriation of slave, 67, 280, 281 Repudiation: of adoptive parents, 61, 192 of father by son, 41, I of husband by wife, 42, V, 138, 142 of mother by son, 41, II of wife by husband, 42, VI, 138, 142 Responsibility in service: of employer, 42, VII of tenant farmer, and neglect punished, 65, 253-256 Restitution, compensation, damages, reimbursement: accident, builder gives slave for slave, 64, 231 boatman must restore the weak boat, 64, 235; must restore the lost boat, 64, 236; must restore boat and cargo, 64, 237 builder must rebuild, 64, 232 builder of unkeyed wall must rebuild, 64, 233 considered as an ancient custom, 98 death in highway robbery, one mina of silver to relatives, 46, 24 depreciation of property, make it good from the corn hoed, 65, 254 diminishing ox or sheep, give up to the agreements, 66, 264 embezzlement of goods, sheep or ox, tenfold return, 66, 265 fatal operation on slave, slave for slave, 63, 219 fivefold by carrier for goods lost, stolen, or appropriated, 45, 12, 52, 112 loss made good, if herdsman at fault, 66, 267 loss of goods, goods for goods, 64, 231 owner of boat in collision responsible for boat and cargo, 64, 240 ox gored, ox for ox, 65, 246 ox injured seriously, ox for ox, 65, 246 ox or ass lost, restore ox or ass, 66, 263 _shadduf_, or plough, three shekels of silver, 66, 260 simple, 44, 4, 5, 8, 45, 9, 10, 12 sixfold for overcharging agent, 51, 107 tenfold for theft by poor man, 44, 8 thirtyfold for theft by patrician, 44, 8 threefold for cheating principal, 51, 106 twelvefold for false sentence by judge, 44, 5 twofold for goods in store, 53, 120, 124, 126 twofold for pretence of losing goods, 53, 126 watering machine stolen, five shekels of silver to owner, 66, 259 Retaliation.

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_See_ Assault, Fines: of father by son, 61, 195, 149 Suitor: his relation to bride's parents, 123 rejected, his rights, 57, 160 rejected through calumny by comrade, 57, 161 refuses to marry, 57, 159 Suits of many kinds, 102-107 Suits at law: damages for loss and breach of trust, 107 deposit, 106 family dispute, 104 forged will, 106 for income, 102, 103, 104 gift, 103 house, 104 inheritance, 103, 106 land, 104 legacy, 106 loss of hired ass, 106 over adoption, 106 partnership, 102 property, 102, 103, 104 rent, 106 theft of a bull, 107 theft of four slaves, 107 title to garden, 105 vexatious persecution, 104, 107 Summons to appear in court, 53, 127 Surgeon: operations and fees, 63, 215, 223.

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M62 Witchcraft and the ordeal by water M63 False witness in capital suit M64 In civil case M65 Judgment once given not to be altered M66 Burglary and acceptance of stolen goods M67 Dealings with irresponsible persons M68 Theft M69 Procedure in case of the discovery of lost property M70 Judgment by default M71 Kidnapping M72 Abduction of slave M73 Harboring a fugitive slave M74 The capture of a fugitive slave M75 Burglary M76 Highway robbery M77 Theft at a fire M78 Duties and privileges of an officer over the levy M79 Rights and duties of his son M80 Penalty for neglect of his benefice M81 His ransom, if captured M82 Duties of district governors M83 Governors not to oppress subordinates M84 The benefice of a levy-master, warrant-officer, or tributary inalienable M85 Not to be bequeathed to his family M86 The obligation resting upon a buyer of real estate M87 A benefice not to be exchanged M88 Responsibilities of land-tenants M89 The rent of unbroken land M90 Loss of crop by storm apportioned between landlord and tenant M91 Landlord cannot restrain a satisfactory tenant from subletting M92 Abatement of debt on account of storm, flood, or drought M93 Rights in a crop pledged for debt M94 Riparian responsibilities M95 Penalty for neglect to shut off water M96 Damage done to growing crop by sheep M97 Cutting down a tree without permission M98 Rent of a garden-plot M99 Garden rented on shares M100 Obligations of owner to gather a date-crop assigned for debt M101 Eviction of house-tenant M102 Acceptance of goods in payment of debt, in default of money or corn M103 Responsibility of a travelling salesman M104 Robbery, substantiated by oath, a valid excuse M105 Responsibility to be indicated by legal receipts M106 Punishment of fraud of an agent M107 Fraud practiced by principal M108 Fraud in ordinary drink-traffic M109 Connivance at unlawful assemblages M110 Drink-traffic forbidden to votaries M111 Rate of payment with produce M112 Carrier's liability for misappropriation of goods M113 Unauthorized seizure of goods denied a creditor M114 Punishment of vexatious distraint M115 Creditor responsible for fair treatment of a man held as security for debt M116 Limitations on the holding of such hostages M117 Responsibility of owners of warehouses M118 Rate of payment for storage of corn M119 Receipt for deposit of valuables M120 Responsibility of bankers M121 Their own losses no excuse M122 Depreciation of property M123 Slander of votary or married woman M124 Marriage-bonds M125 Punishment of flagrant adultery M126 Rape of a betrothed virgin M127 Suspicion of adultery cleared by oath M128 Ordeal of water permissible to accused wife M129 Rights and duties of the wives of those who have been taken captive in war M130 Right of a deserted wife to remarry M131 Rights of a divorced woman who has borne children M132 Rights of a divorced woman who is childless M133 Status of a worthless wife M134 Status of a wife who repudiates her husband M135 Marriage with a votary M136 A votary's rights against a maid assigned to her husband M137 Status of a wife afflicted with a disease M138 Wife's right to property deeded to her by her husband M139 Marital responsibility for ante-nuptial debts M140 Connivance at husband's murder by a wife M141 Incest with own daughter M142 Incest with daughter-in-law M143 Incest with mother M144 Incest with step-mother M145 Penalty for breach of promise M146 Rights of a rejected suitor M147 Slandering rival not to profit by his calumny M148 Disposal of a wife's marriage-portion M149 Effect upon the inheritance of a father's gift to a favorite son M150 Reservation of a bride-price for a young unmarried brother M151 Inheritance of children in case of two fruitful marriages M152 Disinheritance of a son M153 Status of children by a slave-woman M154 The rights of a widow in personal property M155 Her rights in the home M156 Dower rights of her children by second marriage M157 Property rights of the children of slave-father and free mother M158 Property rights of the young children of a widow who remarries M159 The property rights of a votary M160 Her right to convey property M161 Her right of inheritance M162 Her proportion of her father's property M163 Additional privileges of votary of Marduk of Babylon M164 Rights of a daughter by a concubine, if provided for by father on marriage M165 If not so provided for by father M166 Adoption of natural son M167 Adoption of child of living parents M168 Responsibilities of a craftsman to his adopted child M169 Rights of inheritance of an adopted son M170 Obligations on discarding an adopted son M171 Punishment for the repudiation of adoptive parents M172 Penalty of substituting one infant for another M173 Assault on a father M174 Graded penalties for assault and battery M175 Brutal assault M176 Fatal assault M177 Assaults upon pregnant women M178 Gradation of surgeon's fees M179 Penalties for unskilful operations M180 Cure of limb or bowel M181 Fees for the treatment of the diseases of animals M182 Brander's liabilities M183 Builder's fee and liabilities for bad workmanship M184 Boatmen's fees and liabilities M185 Hire of boats M186 Responsibility of boatmen carrying goods M187 Law of collision M188 Working ox not to be distrained M189 Hire of oxen and cows M190 Liability for loss of ox or ass by accident M191 Compensation for loss of ox by ill-treatment M192 Responsibility for unavoidable accidents to a hired ox M193 Death by goring, accidental M194 Responsibility for a vicious ox M195 Responsibility of a tenant farmer M196 Wages of laborers M197 Theft of agricultural instruments M198 Wages of herdsmen M199 Their liability M200 Hire of animals for threshing M201 Hire of wagon, oxen, and driver M202 Graded wages of day-laborers M203 Wages of artisans M204 Hires of various boats M205 Compensation for defect discovered in a slave after sale M206 Manumission of native slaves taken captive and bought back by travelling merchant M207 Of foreign slaves M208 Punishment for repudiating a master M209 General character of the Ḥammurabi Code M210 Bibliography M211 Agent not able to recover without power of attorney M212 Responsibility of one who sells M213 Permanent settlements at marriage between father of bride and the bridegroom M214 Inheritance rights of children of second marriage M215 Procedure in case the father-in-law is unable to carry out his promise of dowry M216 Marriage-portion of childless wife M217 Rights of inheritance of a childless widow M218 The rights of a widow with children in case of re-marriage M219 Division of the estate of a man twice married M220 The three great classes of the population: the gentry, the common men, and the slaves 62 § 15.

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Ass._, iv., p. 13 f. 645 Much earlier plans will be found, pp.

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The young men, on their return home, as they were about to enter the village, saw an ass feeding by the roadside.

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She in a hurried tone talked of a dragoon horse, an ass, a child, and a tinker.

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Some hold the one, and some the other; But howsoe'er they make a pother, The diff'rence was so small, his brain Outweigh'd his rage but half a grain; Which made some take him for a tool That knaves do work with, call'd a Fool; And offer'd to lay wagers that As Montaigne, playing with his cat, Complains she thought him but an ass, Much more she wou'd Sir Hudibras: For that's the name our valiant knight To all his challenges did write.

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"I oppose it not," said Maria, "because ass's milk is like the turnip--if it does no good it does no harm."

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As a poet, your place is first, I know; but believe me, friend, when it comes to 'tone' and 'mode,' and the power to sing, I confess I have no fear--nor an equal," the conceited ass declared.

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ASS'N., by Mrs. G. A. L. Merrifield, Treas., $13.34.

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San Francisco, S. F. Branch Ass'n, 10.

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San Francisco, Branch Ass'n of Christian Chinese, 10.

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