The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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He wasn't going to be an ass, not if he could help it!

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I _am_ an ass!" he admitted, and in order to get the better of the situation he turned sharply and went back to the inn.

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He had not been such an ass, after all.

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You can't make a silly ass of me as you did of my father.

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The Camera Fiend By E. W. Hornung London T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd. Adelphi Terrace 1911 CONTENTS A CONSCIENTIOUS ASS A BOY ABOUT TOWN HIS PEOPLE A GRIM SAMARITAN THE GLASS EYE AN AWAKENING BLOOD-GUILTY POINTS OF VIEW MR. EUGENE THRUSH SECOND THOUGHTS ON PAROLE HUNTING WITH THE HOUNDS BOY AND GIRL BEFORE THE STORM A LIKELY STORY MALINGERING ON THE TRACK OF THE TRUTH A THIRD CASE THE FOURTH CASE WHAT THE THAMES GAVE UP AFTER THE FAIR THE SECRET OF THE CAMERA A CONSCIENTIOUS ASS Pocket Upton had come down late and panting, in spite of his daily exemption from first school, and the postcard on his plate had taken away his remaining modicum of breath.

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For it was not a very honest way, and the unfortunate Pocket had been called "a conscientious ass" by some of the nicest fellows in his house.

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At the moment he was perhaps neither so acutely conscientious nor such an ass as his critics considered him.

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It was such sport to be flying through a world of buttercups and daisies in a train again, so refreshing to feel as good as anybody else in the third smoker; for even the grown men in the corner seats did not dream of calling the youth an "old ass," much less a young one, to his face.

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And they called him a conscientious ass at school!

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And what chance was there for a boy whose own father thought he posed, whose brothers considered him a bit of a malingerer, and his schoolfellows "a conscientious ass," while his sister spoilt him for un enfant incompris?

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That is the worst of your conscientious ass; he takes his decision like a man; he means to stick to it like a sportsman; but he cannot help wondering whether he has decided for the best, and what would have happened if he had decided otherwise, and what his world will say about him as it is.

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"I wonder who this ass is," said he, tearing it open.

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"He's a confounded ass," said Lord Persiflage to the Baron as he did as he was bid at the club.

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The Baron shrugged his shoulders, as though acknowledging that his young fellow-nobleman certainly was an ass.

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When Crocker declared to Roden personally that his conscience would not allow him to encounter a man whom he believed to be a nobleman without calling him by his title, the office generally felt that Crocker was an ass.

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"Wer nie sein Brod mit Thränen ass, Wer nie die kummervollen Nächte Auf seinen Bette weinend sass, Er kennt Euch nicht, ihr himmlische Mächte!"

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Chicago The Bible Institute Colportage Ass'n 826 North La Salle Street Copyright, 1922 by J. E. Conant FOREWORD The following pages have grown out of a paper, following the same outline more briefly, which was read before the Pastors' Conference of the San Juaquin Valley Baptist Association, the largest association in the Northern California Baptist Convention.

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_A neatly printed pamphlet, 10 cents, postpaid_ =THE BIBLE INSTITUTE COLPORTAGE ASS'N= 826 North La Salle Street, Chicago * * * * * Transcriber's note: Page 11 The word "none" has been changed to "no" in "none effect by a non-belligerent".

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She had a most charming cow, which gave a quantity of milk, a cat to destroy the mice and an ass to carry her fruit, butter, vegetables, eggs, and cheese to markets every Wednesday.

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"We're the team that's going to kick your team's ass at Harajuku Fun Madness," she said.

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That's where the baggy-pants-down-your-ass look comes from you know that?

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The news-reports confirmed it -- they were calling it the DHS gone haywire, blaming it all on the fake-ass "security" that was supposed to be protecting us from terrorism.

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And then you're going to go to pound-you-in-the-ass prison, for a long, long time."

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The funding was kicked off by some tech millionaires who couldn't believe that a bunch of hacker kids had kicked the DHS's ass.

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'He killed three hundred men with the jawbone of an ass.'

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that a man killed three hundred men with the jawbone of an ass?

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Ass'n.

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Woman's H. M. Ass'n for _Missionary, Fort Berthold_ 10.00 Montgomery.

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Woman's Miss'y Ass'n, _for Indian M._ 15.00 Selma.

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Woman's Miss'y Ass'n of Alabama 5.00 Talladega.

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Several others are to be found in the more splendid volumes of Mr. Britton.--The sculpture upon the archivolt is also deserving of observation: upon one of the central stones, is represented the bannered lamb; upon the other, a figure, probably intended for a representation of our Savior entering Jerusalem upon an ass.

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Those merciless religionists pillaged it with an unsparing hand, even consigning a portion of it to the flames: they sacked the churches, and carried off the prelate, whom they forced to accompany them upon an ass, with his face turned to its tail.

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The same tradition recounts how, at a more recent epoch, it reared its majestic head, embosomed in a spacious tract of woods and thickets, while the hermits who had fixed themselves upon its summits, received their daily bread from the charity of the priest of the neighboring parish of Beauvoir; an ass spontaneously undertaking the office of conveying it to them, till on the road he fell a prey to a wolf, who was then constrained by Providence to devote himself to the same pious labor.

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The soldier had a lion's head, the officer an ass's head, and the general had no head at all.

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See yonder pair, fonder ne'er rode at a canter,- She smiles on her Poet, contented to saunter; Some envy her spouse, and some covet her filly, He envies them both-he's an ass, Piccadilly!

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'Young ass's colt!' the printer fulminated.

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The printer snarled: 'Know'st thou not, young ass, that this man was thrown out of his mastership at Eton for his foul living?'

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Other wild men were leading in a lion, immense and lean as if it were a fawn-coloured ass.

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'Ass that you are,' the King said, 'fetch me a stool from the chapel, that I may not stand all the day.'

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diser ass alle tag die speiss von der kuchen und den honig behielt er in ein irden fleschlein das hieng ob seiner petstat so lang biss es voll ward.

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+Ass.+ _Sans._ C'hara.

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Ass, Aryan words for, iv.

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Seneca drollingly related the deifying of Claudius; Plutarch the dialogue betwixt Gryllus and Ulysses; Lucian and Apuleius the story of an ass; and somebody else records the last will of a hog, of which St. Hierom makes mention.

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For if anyone be so short-sighted as to take a mule for an ass, or so shallowpated as to admire a paltry ballad for an elegant poem, he is not thereupon immediately censured as mad.

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As suppose any one should hear an ass bray, and should take it for ravishing music; or if any one, born a beggar, should fancy himself as great as a prince, or the like.

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), to wear out themselves in fret and drudgery; to be deafened with the noise of gaping boys; and in short, to be stifled with heat and stench; and yet they cheerfully dispense with all these inconveniences, and, by the help of a fond conceit, think themselves as happy as any men living: taking a great pride and delight in frowning and looking big upon the trembling urchins, in boxing, slashing, striking with the ferula, and in the exercise of all their other methods of tyranny; while thus lording it over a parcel of young, weak chits, they imitate the Cuman ass, and think themselves as stately as a lion, that domineers over all the inferior herd.

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Why, an ass, or a plough-jobber, shall sooner gain it than a wise man.

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Thus in his progress to Jerusalem he chose to ride sitting upon an ass, though, if he pleased, he might have mounted the back of a lion with more of state, and as little of danger.

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Baalam's ass, for instance, was not a performing "moke"; it does not appear to have known a single trick; and when it opened its mouth and talked in good Moabitish, the miracle was certain and triumphant.

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Evidently Paul could bray on occasion as lustily as Balaam's ass.

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Ravens bring a prophet sandwiches, another prophet besieges a tile, an axe swims on the water, a man slays a thousand men in battle with the jawbone of a donkey, an ass speaks, and a whale swallows and vomits a man.

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You must remember, however, that it took an ass to know an angel at first sight in Balaam's time.

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Balaam never suspected that there was an angel in his path until that ass told him!

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BALAAM'S ASS.

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It may be that the whole menagerie of Eden spoke in the human tongue, and that Balaam's ass was only what the biologists would call "a case of reversion" to the primitive type.

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BALAAM'S ASS.

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Drunken and impotent Silenus, in the Pagan mythology, joins in the professions of Bacchus on a sober ass, and the patient animal staggers beneath the heavy burden of a fat-paunched tipsy god.

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Apulius and Lucian transform the hero of their common story into an ass, and in that shape he encounters the most surprising experiences.

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Voltaire makes an ass play a wonderful part in his "Pucelle."

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And lastly, Coleridge has some very pious musings on an ass, wherein the animal is lifted into the sphere of religion.

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Secondly, I wished to lead you through the various stages of literary treatment of the ass, from the comic to the pathetic, and finally to-the religious, in order that you might approach in a proper frame of mind the consideration of Balaam's ass, who is the most remarkable of all the four-legged asses mentioned in the Bible.

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Jesus rode into Jerusalem on an ass, and also apparently on a colt, having probably one leg over each.

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With the jawbone of an ass Samson slew a thousand Philistines; and if the rest of the animal accorded with that particular bone, he must have been a tough ass indeed.

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But all these are of little interest or importance beside the wonderful ass of the prophet Balaam, whose history is contained, with that of his master, in the twenty-second, twenty-third, and twenty-fourth chapters of the Book of Numbers.

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So the prophet rose up in the morning, saddled and mounted his wonderful ass, and went off with the princes of Moab.

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Being only an ass, and not a man, he had a greater aptitude for seeing angels.

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* Balaam's ass was a "she," but the sex is immaterial, and as we commenced with the masculine gender we will continue with it.

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Singular to relate, Balaam was not in the least astonished at hearing an ass speak.

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Then the ass rejoined, "Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day?

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Now, dear reader, you will observe that the ass, being indeed an ass, saw the angel first, and that Balaam, who was a wise man, did not see the angel until his wits were disordered by the wonder of a talking donkey.

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The angel of the Lord said to Balaam, while he remained flat on his face, "Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times?

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When the Lord "opened his eyes," and made his vision like unto the vision of an ass, he saw the angel plainly enough; and how could he possibly have done so before?

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Here endeth the story of Balaam's Ass.

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Soon after Joshua, being near Jericho, like Balaam's ass saw an angel with a drawn sword in his hand.

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The Jews "utterly destroyed all there was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword."

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There was nothing for it but to agree to the conditions, so it was decided that Simeon should be left behind, and the order was given that all the sacks should be filled with corn, and that every man's ass should be laden with as much corn as could be carried; only, instead of taking money for the corn, Joseph ordered that it should be secretly hidden in the sacks, each man's money in his sack of corn.

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And so we gladly turn away from this picture to think of another Conqueror of whom the Bible tells us, and who is described in these words: _Behold, thy King cometh unto thee: He is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass.... And the battle-bow shall be cut off: and He shall speak peace unto the nations: and His dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth_.

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I---- --I'm an ass?--a blankety, blank ass?

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Where had the confounded ass gone?

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"But look here, detective," cried Barnes again, "who was that inordinate ass who locked me up?"

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{7} And, since our dainty age Cannot endure reproof, Make not thyself a page To that strumpet the stage; But sing high and aloof, Safe from the wolf's black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof.

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Finally, Don Pedro stuffed Currito so full, and made him drink so often to the health of the newly married pair, that the muleteer Dientes was obliged to carry him home to sleep off the effect of his excesses, slung like a skin of wine across the back of an ass!

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To Charles he also sent the image of an ass, which, by touching a certain string, did open its mouth and wave its ears in a manner most curious to behold, wherewith the infant was infinitely delighted, as was I, without inquiring at that time into the exquisite mechanism whereby the extraordinary demonstrations were produced.

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Tommy and the Ragged Boy--Story of Androcles and the Lion--Conversation on Slavery--Conversation about an Ass--Tommy's Present and its consequences--The Story of Cyrus--Squire Chase beats Harry--Harry saves the Squire's life--Making Bread--Story of the Two Brothers--Story of the Sailors on the Island of Spitzbergen, 47 CHAPTER III.

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Tommy and the Ragged Boy--Story of Androcles and the Lion--Conversation on Slavery--Conversation about an Ass--Tommy's Present and its consequences--The story of Cyrus--Squire Chase beats Harry--Harry saves the Squire's life--Making Bread--Story of the Two Brothers--Story of the Sailors on the Island of Spitzbergen.

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_H._--He said, that it was his daddy's ass, and so that he had a right to beat it; and that if I said a word more he would beat me.

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_H._--I told him, if it was his father's ass, he should not use it ill; for that we were all God's creatures, and that we should love each other, as He loved us all; and that as to beating me, if he struck me I had a right to strike him again, and would do it, though he was almost as big again as I was.

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In the same stable were six goats, one of which having brought forth two dead kids the night before, they went to carry her a small vessel of rye-flour gruel; there were also an ass, and five or six fowls.

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I have heard my uncle and many sensible people say the same; but, in order to acquire this species of it, both goodness of heart and a just way of thinking are required; and therefore many people content themselves with aping what they can pick up in the dress, or gestures, or cant expressions of the higher classes; just like the poor ass, which, dressed in the skin of a lion, was taken for the lion himself, till his unfortunate braying exposed the cheat."

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"It is a trifling one that I have read," answered Miss Simmons, "of somebody who, having procured a lion's skin, fastened it round the body of an ass, and then turned him loose, to the great affright of the neighbourhood.

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In the meantime the victorious ass pranced and capered along the fields, and diverted himself with running after the fugitives.

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At length a resolute fellow ventured by degrees nearer to this object of their terror, and discovering the cheat that had been practised upon them, divested the poor ass of all his borrowed spoils, and drove him away with his cudgel."

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Tommy kept his seat with infinite address; but he now began seriously to repent of his own ungovernable ambition, and would, with the greatest pleasure, have exchanged his own spirited steed for the dullest ass in England.

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You ass!"

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[Sidenote: The child Christ was so clean that ox and ass worshipped him.]

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The child Christ was so clean that ox and ass worshipped him.

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Some silly ass sent me wrong."

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