The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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He made no answer, and Reisen went on:-- "Bressently"-- He stopped his slow walk, brought forward both palms, shrugged, dropped them, bowed, clasped them behind him, brought the left one forward, dropped it, then the right one, dropped it also, frowned, smiled, and said:-- "Bressently"--then a long silence--"effrapotty in my etsteplitchmendt"--another long pause--"hef yoost teh same ettechmendt to Mr. Richlun,"--another interval,--"tey hef yoost tso much effection fur _him_"--another silence--"ass tey hef"--another, with a smile this time--"fur--te teffle himpselluf!"

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Mr. Richlun voss tare, shtayndting yoost so--yoost so--py teh shtofe; undt, Toctor Tseweer, I yoost tell you te ectsectly troot, he toaldt in fife minudts--six minudts--seven minudts, udt may pe--undt shoadt me how effrapotty, high undt low, little undt pick, Tom, Tick, undt Harra, pin ropping me sindts more ass fife years!"

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Vell, sir, he yoost turnun so rate ass a flennen shirt!--'Mr. Reisen,' sayss he to me, 'fot iss udt fot you kot?'

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undt in apowdt a veek I make udt owdt ut layst tot you, Mr. Richlun,'--I lookt um shtraight in te eye, undt he lookt me shtraight te same,--'tot, Mr. Richlun, _you_,' sayss I, 'not dtose fellehs fot pin py mo sindts more ass fife yearss, put _you_, Mr. Richlun, iss teh mayn!--teh mayn fot I--kin _trust_!'"

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Tot prate kot yoost so much sense ass Reisen kot.

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"Doctor, I want you to cure him ass quick ass possible."

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Faw in fact, Mistoo Itchlin, I 'ave ass Dr. Seveeah to haugment me."

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I had the spunk to ass 'im, an' he din 'ave the spunk to dischawge me!

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SOCRATES: You are a dear golden ass if you suppose me to mean that Lysias has altogether missed the mark, and that I can make a speech from which all his arguments are to be excluded.

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SOCRATES: There is something more ridiculous coming:-Suppose, further, that in sober earnest I, having persuaded you of this, went and composed a speech in honour of an ass, whom I entitled a horse beginning: 'A noble animal and a most useful possession, especially in war, and you may get on his back and fight, and he will carry baggage or anything.'

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SOCRATES: And when the orator instead of putting an ass in the place of a horse, puts good for evil, being himself as ignorant of their true nature as the city on which he imposes is ignorant; and having studied the notions of the multitude, falsely persuades them not about 'the shadow of an ass,' which he confounds with a horse, but about good which he confounds with evil,-what will be the harvest which rhetoric will be likely to gather after the sowing of that seed?

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At length entering into some animal of a nature congenial to her former life of sensuality or violence, she takes the form of an ass, a wolf or a kite.

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And if one of your own possessions, an ox or an ass, for example, took the liberty of putting himself out of the way when you had given no intimation of your wish that he should die, would you not be angry with him, and would you not punish him if you could?

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"Then he _must_ be an ass!

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Hence we see how absurdly the man who drew a couple of donkeys acted in endeavouring to prevail upon _us_ to call the picture "_We_ Three"-- _Ille_, _he_,-- may, perhaps, have been qualified to make a _third person_ in the group, and have "written himself down an ass" with some correctness.

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They feasted on the scraps that remained in the alforjas , while Rocinante and Sancho's ass were left free to pluck all the grass they desired.

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This decision was reached when Don Quixote remembered that Silenus, the teacher of the God of Laughter, had entered the city of the hundred gates mounted on a handsome ass.

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Scratching his head, Sancho now began to worry about his faithful donkey, for he believed it was not good taste to go into battle mounted on an ass, and if he dismounted, he was afraid his Dapple would be lost in the ensuing tumult.

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Sancho then said he could plainly see that the man's horse was an ass and that the man had something on his head that shone.

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His next concern was his stomach; and when they found that the barber's ass carried ample supplies, they soon satisfied their appetites.

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CHAPTER XXIII Of What Befell Don Quixote in the Sierra Morena, Which Is One of the Rarest Adventures Related in This Veracious History SANCHO at last convinced his master that they had best hide in the Sierra Morena mountains for a few days, in case a search should be made for them; and Don Quixote was pleased to find that the provisions carried by Sancho's ass had not disappeared.

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Sancho's covetousness did not permit his master to forget the three promised ass-colts; so Don Quixote wrote an order to his niece in the notebook of the ill-starred Cardenio.

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At this moment a man, mounted on an ass, was seen on the road, and Sancho, no doubt feeling instinctively the proximity of his beloved animal, recognized in the man Gines de Pasamonte.

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Sancho was moved to tears by his master's wrath, and he confessed in a broken voice that if he had only had a tail he would have been a complete ass himself.

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But, he said, if his master should care to attach one to him, he would willingly wear one, and serve him all his life as an ass.

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She suggested that when he had his government in hand, he ought to pension Dapple off and let him quit working; and Sancho thought that was by no means a bad idea, for, he said, he would not be the first ass to be so pensioned.

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But my own impression is that a man has to be a bit of an ass before he can be improved by marriage.

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¶Also, an ass was dressed in pontifical robes at a sort of National fete, and a few days later at a public masquerade, the President replying to praises of the New Era explained himself as follows: "In one single instant you make vanish into nothingness the errors of eighteen centuries"; by which he meant to honor the paganism of the new French political Millennium.

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The French are Christians, not the slightest doubt of that; and as Christians do not envy the German ox, ass or maid-servant.

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Yes, everybody is an ass, of course; but there is one who is monumental.

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They dug up the body of the poor old boatman, tied it to the back of an ass, and turned the animal loose.

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"Ass!" cried John.

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To warm Him in His holy bed, Upon Him ox and ass do breathe.

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Niles is an ass--a pompous, self-satisfied ass!

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"Ass!" he said.

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"What ass?"

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THE SPANISH JADE CHAPTER I THE PLEASANT ERRAND Into the plain beyond Burgos, through the sunless glare of before-dawn; upon a soft-padding ass that cast no shadow and made no sound; well upon the stern of that ass, and with two bare heels to kick him; alone in the immensity of Castile, and as happy as a king may be, rode a young man on a May morning, singing to himself a wailing, winding chant in the minor which, as it had no end, may well have had no beginning.

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A young girl, riding an ass, had come to the church of the convent, where he happened to be, cleaning the sanctuary.

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Just behind the drummers came two gorgeously clad small boys astride an ass begarlanded with flowers; and when the musicians stopped for a minute to tighten their drums so as {239} to make confusion worse confounded, I made inquiry as to the meaning of the procession.

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Ass'n: Monson Cong.

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Her babble ran through his head like music, and it softened his heart, so that almost nothing could bring him to earth except the recitations of Teed, who crashed through the classics like a bull in a china-shop or, as Litton's Greeks put it, like an ass among beehives.

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I'm an ass,' he said.

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You see, my valet--officious ass!--had left his address at the express office.

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"'What an ass!'

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If a man who had never seen a locomotive or a motor-car or a tandem or a telephone or an electric light or the sons and daughters of a new millionaire or the home and crest of the same or a bill of a modern merchant were to come down out of the backwoods and try to tell us how to run the world, we should think him an ass, and wisely.

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There's more real practical Christianity among these people than I ever saw before, and it's hard work to be an ass here.

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Conceited young ass!

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In fact, I was now a great blustering, overpowering, preposterous ass.

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"Well," exclaimed Langford at last, "you're positively the _sentimentalest_ ass I ever met.

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His body was carried, with infamous ribaldry, on an ass to the castle of Jarnac, and thrown contemptuously upon the ground.

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No, not dead yet--Dr. Frank is trying--Don't stand there like an ass, man!

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That braying ass did us plenty of harm.

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Well, to get on with my story, we talked about the weather, and the war, and what an ass the Ta'ita'ifono was, and finally got round to the matter in hand.

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Anyway, it was as plain as daylight that I had lost my time and money in bothering about Oppenstedt, and that I might as well give him up as the most incorrigible, stiff-necked, self-opinionated, blunder-headed ass and lunatic this side of Muggin.

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Why had God ever made such a silly ass of a baker?

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He said he was just as big an ass as I was, and came out handsome about its being both our fault, and how it didn't matter a hill of beans anyway, for we'd soon get our spades on to it.

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When they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples, saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.

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All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet, saying, Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.

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And he took him, and healed him, and let him go; and answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass, or an ox, fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath-day?

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[75] A year later his attack on the distinguished French metallurgist Fremy, whom he describes as an "ass" for his interest in the so-called cyanogen process of steel making, did little to enhance his reputation, whatever the scientific justification for his attack.

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You maudlin ass.

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_Quit crying, you old fool, you maudlin ass ..._ "My boots," he whispered, "my boots ... please ..." "You've got them on, Donny."

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I asked that footling ass Bland-Potterton.

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But of all the figures which amused me most by its singularity, was that of a woman, who, in a short frock-coat and a low-crowned hat, carried a little barrel at her side, and led an ass loaded with two similar, but rather larger casks.

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"Make way there--out of the road, Mère Madou," cried a dragoon, curveting his horse in such a fashion as almost to upset ass and "cantiniére" together, "the staff is coming."

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He might have argued the point had not there been another interruption and after a moment he left, shrugging his shoulders a trifle, and condemning himself as an ass for his failure to remember who this "Mabel" was.

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Called you an impertinent ass."

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And yet you will think me an ass when I say that, up to this moment, I have never troubled myself nor been troubled about money matters.

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It is well to fast; but that only can be called true fasting, when we give the body no more food than is needful for it that it may retain its health and endure labor and watchfulness--that the old ass do not become too obstinate, and going on the ice to dance, break a bone; but go on subject to control, and following the spirit; not after the manner of those who, whenever they fast, fill themselves so full of fish and the best wine, that their bellies are puffed out.

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If the being shorn and anointed makes a priest, then might I easily shear an ass and anoint him, so that he should be a priest also.

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But they have hence inferred that _creatura_ means an ox or an ass, as the Pope also speaks of it.

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The prophet Samuel, also, "You know that I have taken of you no man's ass or ox."

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Upon this, he rose up and mounted upon an ass.

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For then you may answer, Has not God spoken even by an ass?

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Besides they are sensual or brutish men, who have no more understanding and spirit than an ox or an ass; they walk according to their natural reason and fleshly mind.

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"I suppose it is all right; but how is it possible for a man to make such a consummate ass of himself?"

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"'You're like the wild ass that sniffed up the wind instead of goin' in for sommat more substantial,' I says.

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Every householder has a horse or an ass, mostly a horse, and young girls career adown the mountain sides in what seems the maddest, most reckless way, guiding their half-broken, mustard-coloured steeds with a single rein of plaited straw, adjusted in an artful way which is beyond me to describe.

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Looking back, he says he cannot conceive how he could be such an ass.

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HUMOROUS INCIDENTS narrated: The Phoenix Park Orator, 9; An "Iligant" Tenant, 31; "The Devil's Bite," 56; The Timprance Man, 56; A Lending Transaction, 80; The Galway Fisherman, 124; "When I'm sober," 148; "'Tis Home Rule ye want," 160; Mr. Morley and the Car-driver, 177; The Wild Ass, 181; Michael and the Postal Service, 208; The Cattle Boat, 275; A Question of Feet, 357; An Irish Retort, 364; Finn Water _v._ Purgatory, 354.

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The idea of your crying because I was pushed against the wall to make room for an unknown ass like Mr. Philip Ayre!"

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"Pooh!" he said; "sit down then and don't be an ass."

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"I'll sit down, but perhaps I can't help being an ass."

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Miss Crosbie opened the parcel and presented Henry with a neat pocket-book, inside of which were a pencil, a leaf of ass's-skin, a penknife, and a pair of scissors.

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I am such an ass I have even returned a fair petitioner's perfumed note!

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"Colonel Saint-Prosper, or set me down for an ass--or Plato, which is the same thing!"

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So with 'obstinacy' (_ob-sto_), which, by the way, the phrenologists represent, literally enough, by an ass in a position which assuredly Webster had in his mind when he wrote his definition of this word; thus: ... '_in a fixedness in opinion or resolution that cannot be shaken at all, or without great difficulty_.'

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Having learned, though in an illegitimate way, that the friend of PAN, the great king of the golden touch, had ass's ears, he _must_ tell it again, though in murmurs and whispers: 'Qui cum ne prodere visum Dedecus auderet, cupiens efferre sub auras, Nec posset reticere tamen, secedit, humumque Effodit: et domini quales aspexerit aures, Vox refert parva; terræque immurmurat haustæ.

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I'm not a bad fellow, but I swear I'm only human, and if you are leading me on to make a worse ass of myself than usual, why, then, I quit."

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For many octaves Mychowski fell as a stone from a star, and as he crashed into the very cellarage of hell he heard four snapping chords and found himself on the floor of his bedroom.... "The F minor Ballade, of course," he cried; "and a nice ass I made of myself last night.

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"Don't be an ass, Thayer.

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"Why, you ignorant ass!" sneers De Vronde, out loud, so's Miss Vincent can hear him.

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She's made an ass of you--she and that Duke person!

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