The 15,767 occurrences of ass
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O that he were here to write me down an ass!
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but, masters, remember that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.
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O that I had been writ down an ass!
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And masters, do not forget to specify, when time and place shall serve, that I am an ass.
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Moreover, sir,--which, indeed, is not under white and black,-- this plaintiff here, the offender, did call me ass: I beseech you, let it be remembered in his punishment.
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you are an ass, you are an ass.
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Dost thou not suspect my years?--O that he were here to write me down, an ass!
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but, masters, remember that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass:--No, thou villain, thou art full of piety, as shall be proved upon thee by good witness.
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O, that I had been writ down, an ass!
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Come, bring away the plaintiffs; By this time our sexton hath reformed signior Leonato of the matter: And, masters, do not forget to specify, when time and place shall serve, that I am an ass.
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Moreover, sir, (which indeed is not under white and black,) this plaintiff here, the offender, did call me ass: I beseech you, let it be remembered in his punishment: And also the watch heard them talk of one Deformed: they say, he wears a key in his ear, and a lock hanging by it; and borrows money in God's name, the which he hath used so long and never paid, that now men grow hard-hearted, and will lend nothing for God's sake: Pray you, examine him upon that point.
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By Cheshu, he is an ass, as in the world.
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If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should also, look you, be an ass and a fool and a prating coxcomb?
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Octavius, I have seen more days than you: And, though we lay these honors on this man, To ease ourselves of divers slanderous loads, He shall but bear them as the ass bears gold, To groan and sweat under the business, Either led or driven, as we point the way; And having brought our treasure where we will, Then take we down his load and turn him off, Like to the empty ass, to shake his ears And graze in commons.
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JAQUES Thus it goes: If it do come to pass That any man turn ass, Leaving his wealth and ease A stubborn will to please, Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame; Here shall he see Gross fools as he, An if he will come to me.
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Why, what an ass am I!
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Cudgel thy brains no more about it, 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 he makes last till doomsday.
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This might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'erreaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?
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Why, I think so; I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry.
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Welcome, ass.
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The devil a Puritan that he is, or anything constantly but a time-pleaser: an affectioned ass that cons state without book and utters it by great swarths; the best persuaded of himself, so crammed, as he thinks, with excellences, that it is his grounds of faith that all that look on him love him; and on that vice in him will my revenge find notable cause to work.
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And your horse now would make him an ass.
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Ass, I doubt not.
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will you make an ass o' me?
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Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me; now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass: so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, and by my friends I am abused: so that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then, the worse for my friends and the better for my foes.
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Will you help an ass-head, and a coxcomb, and a knave?
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Why, I think so; I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry.
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Welcome, ass.
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The devil a puritan that he is, or any thing constantly, but a time-pleaser; an affection'd ass, that cons state without book, and utters it by great swarths; the best persuaded of himself, so cramm'd, as he thinks, with excellencies, that it is his grounds of faith that all that look on him love him; and on that vice in him will my revenge find notable cause to work.
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And your horse now would make him an ass.
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Ass, I doubt not.
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'Slight, will you make an ass o' me?
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Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me.
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Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass: so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, and by my friends I am abus'd: so that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why, then the worse for my friends and the better for my foes.
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an ass-head and a coxcomb and a knave!
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You scurvy valiant ass!
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Would the fountain of your mind were clear again, that I might water an ass at it.
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To an ass, were nothing: he is both ass and ox.
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To an ox, were nothing: he is both ox and ass.
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I would fain see them meet, that that same young Trojan ass that loves the whore there might send that Greekish whoremasterly villain with the sleeve back to the dissembling luxurious drab of a sleeve-less errand.
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There's one grape yet,--I am sure thy father drank wine.--But if thou beest not an ass, I am a youth of fourteen; I have known thee already.
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Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart shall be found an ass.
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If thou art rich, thou art poor; For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee.
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By this Lord Angelo perceives he's safe; Methinks I see a quick'ning in his eye.-- Well, Angelo, your evil quits you well": Look that you love your wife; her worth worth yours.-- I find an apt remission in myself; And yet here's one in place I cannot pardon.-- You, sirrah [to Lucio], that knew me for a fool, a coward, One all of luxury, an ass, a madman; Wherein have I so deserved of you That you extol me thus?
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You shall mark Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave That, doting on his own obsequious bondage, Wears out his time, much like his master's ass, For nought but provender; and when he's old, cashier'd: Whip me such honest knaves.
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Which thing to do,- If this poor trash of Venice, whom I trash For his quick hunting, stand the putting on, I'll have our Michael Cassio on the hip; Abuse him to the Moor in the rank garb,- For I fear Cassio with my night-cap too;- Make the Moor thank me, love me, and reward me For making him egregiously an ass And practicing upon his peace and quiet Even to madness.
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When thou clovest thy crown i' the middle and gav'st 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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May not an ass know when the cart draws the horse?--Whoop, Jug!
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Look, they weep; And I, an ass, am onion-ey'd: for shame, Transform us not to women.
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O couldst thou speak, That I might hear thee call great Caesar ass Unpolicied!
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When you speak best unto the purpose, it is not worth the wagging of your beards; and your beards deserve not so honourable a grave as to stuff a botcher's cushion or to be entombed in an ass's pack-saddle.
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I' the city of kites and crows!--What an ass it is!--Then thou dwell'st with daws too?
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I will fly, like a dog, the heels of an ass.
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I wish not so; unless it had been the fall of an ass, which is no great hurt.
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That such a crafty devil as is his mother Should yield the world this ass!
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What a thrice-double ass Was I, to take this drunkard for a god, And worship this dull fool!
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thou thinkst thou hast the goldsmith's wife in hand, whom thou enticedst from her husband with all his plate, and when thou turndst her home to him again, madst him, like an ass, pay for his wife's board.
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Because I'm an ass.
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Away, you kind ass!
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What an ass are you; here's a stir indeed: here's 'message,' 'arrant,' 'banishment,' and I cannot tell what.
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You are now a laboring ass.
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Lucien, smitten with love of Paradox, set himself to mount and ride that unruly hybrid product of Pegasus and Balaam's ass; started out at a gallop over the fields of thought while he took a turn in the Bois, and discovered new possibilities in Blondet's outline.
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(3) See The Golden Ass.
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Apuleius in The Golden Ass gives an interesting account of his induction into the mysteries of Isis: how, bidding farewell one evening to the general congregation outside, and clothed in a new linen garment, he was handed by the priest into the inner recesses of the temple itself; how he "approached the confines of death, and having trod on the threshold of Proserpine (the Underworld), returned therefrom, being borne through all the elements.
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"The feesh in this loch," said the boatman, "iss not so numerous ass the feeshermen, but more wise.
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"Oh, yess," said be, "and it iss not an easy life, and I am not saying that it will be so warm and dry ass liffing in a rich house.
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He took Gilbert by the arm and, as he dragged him to the first floor: "You ass," he said, "is that the way you make inquiries?
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Vaucheray showed more intelligence; moreover, he had given up all hope of escape, because of his wound; and he snarled: "Let the governor have his way, you ass!...
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What an ass!...
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But what you don't know, you silly ass, is that I have come straight from Stanislas Vorenglade's and that Stanislas Vorenglade left Paris four days ago!
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What an ass!
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What an ass!"
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There came to him the conviction that he had been arrogant, a conceited ass, bent on ruin, "a sickly soul," he said.
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We may be wrong; they may call us a conceited ass and laugh at us behind our backs, but so long as we do not find it out, it doesn't matter.
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Says Goethe: "Wer nie sein Brot in Thranen ass Wer nie die kummervollen Nachte Auf seinem Bette weinend sass Er weiss Euch nicht--himmelischen Machte."
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I'd like to have it out and talk sense to a spook, and show him what an ass he's making of himself.
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He was, however, conscious that he had made an ass of himself, but he did not much mind, for it could not be said that May had shone, either.
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"Officious ass!" said the stout man.
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Nothing better has he met, even now that he knows "a lad is an ass."
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Issachar shall be a strong ass, lying down between the borders.
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Moses therefore took his wife, and his sons, and set them upon an ass; and returned into Egypt, carrying the rod of God in his hand.
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The firstborn of an ass thou shalt change for a sheep: and if thou do not redeem it, thou shalt kill it.
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If a man open a pit, and dig one, and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall into it, 21:34.
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If that which he stole be found with him, alive, either ox, or ass, or sheep: he shall restore double.
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To do any fraud, either in ox, or in ass, or sheep, or raiment, or any thing that may bring damage: the cause of both parties shall come to the gods: and if they give judgment, he shall restore double to his neighbour.
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If a man deliver ass, ox, sheep, or any beast, to his neighbour's custody, and it die, or be hurt, or be taken by enemies, and no man saw it: 22:11.
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If thou meet thy enemy's ox or ass going astray, bring it back to him.
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Six days thou shalt work: the seventh day thou shalt cease, that thy ox and thy ass may rest: and the son of thy handmaid and the stranger may be refreshed.
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The firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a sheep: but if thou wilt not give a price for it, it shall be slain.
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Moses therefore being very angry, said to the Lord: Respect not their sacrifices: thou knowest that I have not taken of them so much as a young ass at any time, nor have injured any of them.
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And the angel said to him: Why beatest thou thy ass these three times?
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Thou shalt not do any work therein, thou nor thy son nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant nor thy maidservant, nor thy ox, nor thy ass, nor any of thy beasts, nor the stranger that is within thy gates: that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest, even as thyself.
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If thou see thy brother's ass or his ox to be fallen down in the way, thou shalt not slight it, but shalt lift it up with him.
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Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.
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