The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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But you're right--perhaps it behooves me to be moving before all is lost.--Damn it, Morty," he said savagely, "what an ass I have made of myself!"

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Postscriptum: Percival is an egregious young ass.

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x 1 Horse and Man large 3 16 $2 60 x 2 Horse, small 3 48 1 30 x 3 General on Horse 3 27 1 30 x 4 Horse 4 45 1 30 5 Horse, small 4 55 1 30 x 6 Cow 3 38 1 30 x 7 Sheep 4 30 1 30 x 8 Dog, large 3 43 1 30 x 9 Dog, medium 3 48 1 30 10 Dog, small 3 55 1 30 x 11 Monkey on Horse 3 35 1 30 x 12 Cat, large 3 28 1 30 x 13 Cat, small 4 32 1 30 x 14 Rat 4 32 1 30 15 Deer, small 3 32 1 65 16 Camel 3 45 1 30 x 17 Rabbit, large 3 16 1 30 x 18 Rabbit, medium 4 24 1 30 x 19 Rabbit, small 4 38 1 30 x 20 Lady on Swan 3 30 1 30 21 Chicken 3 38 1 30 x 22 Rooster 3 35 1 30 23 Eagle 3 35 1 30 x 24 Crow 3 40 1 65 25 Bear 4 35 1 30 26 Baby, large 3 32 1 65 27 Baby, small 3 30 1 30 28 Jim Crow 3 64 1 30 x 29 Man and Wheelbarrow 3 55 1 65 30 Woman and Churn 4 48 1 30 31 Hand 3 38 1 30 32 Basket and Flowers 3 38 1 30 33 Acorn 3 30 1 30 34 Harp 3 31 1 30 x 35 Fireman 3 24 1 30 x 36 Tom Thumb 3 48 1 30 x 37 Soldier 4 48 1 30 38 Steamboat 3 48 1 30 x 39 Locomotive 3 43 1 30 x 40 Sloop 3 43 1 30 41 Flat Iron 4 48 1 30 42 Key 3 35 1 30 43 Skate 3 55 1 30 44 Pistol 3 48 1 30 x 45 Shovel 3 27 1 30 46 Scissors 3 43 1 30 47 Fiddle 4 38 1 30 48 Bugle 3 55 1 30 x 49 Watch 3 21 1 30 50 Basket with handle 3 31 1 30 x 51 Flower Basket, handle 3 28 1 30 x 52 Pitcher, small 3 33 1 30 53 Rocking Horse, small 3 35 1 30 x 54 Three Figures 3 48 1 30 x 55 Rabbit and Basket 4 16 1 65 x 56 Locomotive, large 3 14 1 30 x 57 Church on Hill 3 18 1 30 58 Tea Pot 3 48 1 30 x 59 Lion 3 70 1 30 60 Sword 3 27 1 30 61 Boy and Goat 3 43 1 30 x 62 Watch, small 3 45 1 30 x 63 Donkey 3 55 1 30 64 Elephant 3 43 1 30 65 Caught in the Act 3 48 1 30 66 Ladders 3 40 1 30 x 67 Horse and Cart 3 28 1 30 x 68 Sparrow 3 19 1 30 69 Small Boat 3 43 1 30 70 Locomotive, small 3 28 1 30 71 Pitchers 3 31 1 65 x 72 Sugar Bowl 3 21 1 65 73 Tea Cup 3 40 1 30 x 74 Coffee Cup 3 21 1 30 75 Saucers 3 35 1 30 x 76 Tea Pot 3 12 2 60 77 Wine Glass 3 41 1 65 78 Wash Tub 3 33 2 00 79 Flower Vase 3 23 1 65 80 Round Table 3 31 1 65 81 Gun 4 48 1 30 82 Pistol 4 32 2 00 83 Pocket Knife 4 38 1 30 84 Dirk 4 40 1 30 85 Rooster, small 5 55 1 30 86 Crucifix 5 32 2 00 87 Axe 4 48 1 30 88 Pipe 6 21 2 00 89 Ass 5 48 1 30 x 90 Deer Lying Down 3 25 1 30 91 Mule 3 21 1 30 x 92 Dog, large 3 12 2 00 x 93 Dog with Basket 3 12 2 00 x 94 Dog standing with Basket 3 15 1 65 x 95 Peacock 3 21 1 65 96 Decanter 3 19 1 65 x 97 Boots 5 27 1 65 98 Plain Basket with Handle 3 23 1 65 99 Wine Glass, large 3 18 2 00 x 100 Fire Horn 3 21 2 00 101 Squirrel and Box 5 33 1 65 102 Broom 3 13 1 65 x 103 Bust of Napoleon 4 20 2 00 104 Ladys 3 28 1 65 x 105 Cupid 3 21 1 65 106 Rabbit 3 10 2 60 107 Fish on Plate 3 19 1 65 x 108 Rooster 3 14 1 65 x 109 Owl 3 16 1 65 x 110 Cupid and Basket 8 19 1 65 x 111 Pony 3 18 1 65 x 112 Dog 3 15 1 65 x 113 Cat and Dog Fighting 3 18 1 65 114 Grasshopper 3 13 2 60 x 115 Steamboat 3 19 1 30 x 116 Sea Lion 3 12 1 65 x 117 Rhinoceros 3 15 1 65 x 118 Tiger 3 15 1 65 x 119 Bear, small 3 20 1 65 120 Bear, Medium 3 16 1 65 x 121 Bear, large 3 8 2 60 x 122 Ape 3 14 1 65 x 123 Large Hand 3 11 1 65 x 124 Bear sitting up 3 16 1 65 x 125 Camel 3 18 1 65 x 126 Squirrel 3 13 1 65 127 Horse Jumping 3 30 1 65 x 128 Lamb Lying Down 3 14 1 65 129 Sugar Bowl 3 21 1 65 130 Double Pointed Iron 3 16 1 65 131 Boy on Rocking Horse 3 19 2 00 132 Elephant 6 21 2 00 133 Captain Jack 3 18 1 65 134 Frog Smoking 3 16 1 65 135 Swan 3 18 1 65 136 Trumpet 3 16 1 65 137 Boots 3 19 1 30 x 138 Elephant 3 14 1 65 x 139 Monkey on Camel 3 20 1 65 x 140 Cupid on Lion 3 18 1 65 141 Rabbit 4 25 1 65 142 Monkey Dressed in Soldier Clothes 3 24 1 30 143 Pipe 6 33 2 00 x 144 Sloop 3 12 2 00 x 145 Rabbit and Wheelbarrow 3 6 2 60 x 146 Lamb, large 4 14 2 60 x 147 Monkey on Camel 3 8 2 60 x 148 Boy and Large Lamb 3 11 2 60 x 149 Pig 3 18 1 65 150 Dog in Kennel 3 15 1 65 x 151 Fancy Clock 3 18 1 65 152 Small Boy 3 30 1 65 x 153 Mazeppa 3 13 2 00 154 Crane 3 15 2 00 155 Squirrel 3 10 2 00 156 Boy Riding Dog 3 18 2 00 157 Goat Jumping 3 16 1 65 x 158 Cow and Calf 3 23 1 65 159 Organ Grinder with Monkey 3 24 1 65 160 Chriskingle Deer and Sleigh 2 10 1 65 x 161 Basket 3 19 1 65 x 162 Baby in Cradle 3 16 1 65 x 163 Horse 3 20 1 65 x 164 Soldier Boy 3 13 1 65 165 French Lady 4 15 2 00 166 Fancy Bottles 4 12 1 65 167 Boy Stealing Apples 3 13 2 00 x 168 Hussar 3 9 1 65 169 Scotchman 3 11 1 65 170 Rabbit Soldier 3 9 2 00 171 Rabbit Drummer 3 9 2 00 x 172 Rabbit Sportsman 3 16 1 65 x 173 Railroad Car 3 18 1 30 174 Fancy Tea Kettle 3 11 1 65 175 Spread Eagle 2 7 1 65 x 176 Chinaman and Dog 3 13 2 00 177 Rabbit Traveller 3 16 1 65 x 178 Frog on Bicycle 3 15 2 00 179 Ostrich 3 12 2 00 180 Tramp 3 12 1 65 181 Fox 2 12 1 30 x 182 Horse and Jockey 3 19 2 00 183 Piggyback 3 16 1 65 184 Fancy Pitcher, large 3 13 2 00 x 185 Sail Boat 3 15 2 00 x 186 Irishman and Pig 3 15 2 00 187 Monkey and Piggyback 3 15 2 00 188 Policeman and Boy 3 14 2 00 189 Dog and Deer 3 12 2 00 x 190 Boy and Bicycle 3 18 2 00 191 Owl on Tree 3 12 2 00 192 Puss in Boots 3 10 2 00 x 193 Kangaroo 3 11 2 00 x 194 Giraffe 3 12 2 00 x 195 Fancy Pipe 2 12 2 00 x 196 Rifle 4 38 1 30 197 Irishman 3 23 1 30 x 198 Chinaman 3 19 1 30 x 199 Israelite 2 10 1 30 200 Uncle Sam 3 23 1 30 201 Dutchman 3 16 1 30 x 202 Dog Sitting Up 3 12 1 65 203 Basket 3 14 2 00 204 Dog Running 3 21 1 30 205 Shears 3 38 1 30 206 Shovel 3 21 1 30 LARGE MOULDS FOR HOLLOW OR CLEAR TOYS.

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I'm not a fool if I am an ass.

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He understood then that she had been sufficiently struck by him to ask his name, and judged that Billy would treat him to some such pardonable epithet as "awful ass," in order to keep her attention on himself.

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"If it were not for that prig Lohm, that interfering ass, that incomparable rhinoceros----" "He wants to marry her, of course."

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But there are many chances for error in this process; for instance, I might say: "To call you an animal would be to state the truth"--to which you would agree; and, "To call you an ass would be to call you an animal"--to which you would also agree; from which I might conclude that, "To call you an ass would {30} be to state the truth"--which you might have a vague idea was not true.

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Besides these animals, the mule, ass, buffalo, antelope, hyena, camel, and dog contract the disease naturally, and sheep, goats, cats, and small laboratory animals succumb to artificial inoculation.

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Its children are taught to derive their faith from such legends as that of the holy Saint Francis, who, to convince a heretic, showed the _hostia_ to an ass, which on beholding the sacred dough immediately kneeled!

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Yet almost in our own day France put God out of her institutions; set up and crowned a prostitute as the goddess of reason; and trailed the Bible through the streets of Paris, tied to the tail of an ass!

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Mahomet describes it to be a beast as white as milk, and of a mixed nature, between an ass and a mule, and also of a size between both; but of such extraordinary swiftness as to equal even lightning itself.

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Newburgh, Ass.

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And you, you silly-ass Rand, have a mint waiting for you up home, and we have to come find you and lead you up there and shove your nose into it.

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The controversialist, whose letter I read with bewilderment and pain, involved his real belief in ingenious sentences, so that one would think that he accepted the statements of the Old Testament, such as the account of the Creation and the Fall, the speaking of Balaam's Ass, the swallowing of Jonah by the whale, as historical facts.

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"For when thou hast passed through that cavern blind, A place of dim grey meadows shalt thou find, Wherethrough to inmost hell a path doth lead, Which follow thou, with diligence and heed; For as thou goest there, thou soon shalt see Two men like peasants loading painfully A fallen ass; these unto thee will call To help them, but give thou no heed at all, But pass them swiftly; and then soon again Within a shed three crones shalt thou see plain Busily weaving, who shall bid thee leave The road and fill their shuttles while they weave, But slacken not thy steps for all their prayers, For these are shadows only, and set snares.

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But Psyche at that name, with quickened heart Turned eagerly, and hastened to depart Bearing that burden, hoping for the day; Harmless, asleep, the triple monster lay, The ferryman did set her in his boat Unquestioned, and together did they float Over the leaden water back again: Nor saw she more those women bent with pain Over their weaving, nor the fallen ass, But swiftly up the grey road did she pass And well-nigh now was come into the day By hollow Tænarus, but o'er the way The wings of Envy brooded all unseen; Because indeed the cruel and fair Queen Knew well how she had sped; so in her breast, Against the which the dreadful box was pressed, Grew up at last this foolish, harmful thought.

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A man need not compose an epic on a system of philosophy to write himself down an ass.

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"One doesn't want to be a flatulent ass of course," said Tarvrille, "still--" He resumed with an air of plunging.

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Fred treated me as a simpleton in these matters, and was always calling me an ass; I have quite a painful recollection of my inferiority to him, in such things, and of begging him to instruct me.

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Fred told his friend I was an ass, but I could not get the idea of a cunt, not being a round hole quite out of my head, until I had fucked a woman.

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I have a confused recollection of thinking myself the next day an ass, for having missed a good opportunity of spermatizing a fresh cunt; yet for some reason or another it must have been three days before I went to try my luck again.

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Suddenly a man, in foreign garments: wonderfully real and distinct to look at: stood outside the window, with an axe stuck in his belt, and leading an ass laden with wood by the bridle.

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The brisk fire of questioning to which he was exposed, elicited from him that he was thinking of an animal, a live animal, rather a disagreeable animal, a savage animal, an animal that growled and grunted sometimes, and talked sometimes, and lived in London, and walked about the streets, and wasn't made a show of, and wasn't led by anybody, and didn't live in a menagerie, and was never killed in a market, and was not a horse, or an ass, or a cow, or a bull, or a tiger, or a dog, or a pig, or a cat, or a bear.

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[1592:A]The command to go into the village nearby and bring the colt that would be found tied there, was in fulfillment of a prophesy made five hundred years before by Zachariah, 9th chapter, 9th verse:--"Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion: shout O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: He is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass."

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1953 _Deuteronomy xxii, 4._--"Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or ass fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them; thou shalt surely help him lift them up again."

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

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

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She had never repeated that remark, for the Doctor had raged like a wild bull, denouncing the brutal bluntness of her mind, bemoaning his own fate to be so unequally mated with an ass, and, what touched Anastasie more nearly, menacing the table china by the fury of his gesticulations.

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5, 6, individualized by the mention of particular wild beasts--the hind and the wild ass.

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Ass!" says the master, "Go drink that Water, That drowns not the Fire, That burns not the Whip, That thrashes not the Doggie, That bites not the Johnnie, Who chases not the Nanny, that eats the grapes, Down in the garden."

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Sword!" says the master, "Go kill that Ass there, That drinks not the Water, That drowns not the Fire, That burns not the Whip, That thrashes not the Doggie, That bites not the Johnnie, Who chases not the Nanny, that eats the grapes, Down in the garden."

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Ass.

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I smelt burning, roasting flesh, something like the smell that spread around Cucugnan when Eli, the marshal, burned the hoof of an old ass while shoeing it.

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An ass was sunning itself in the town hall square, and a flock of pigeons were in the church fountain, but there nobody to direct me to the orphanage.

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Chickens were scratching around in the main courtyard, pigs were wallowing under the fine columned galleries, an ass was grazing in the chapel overgrown with grass, and pigeons were drinking from the huge rain-water filled fonts.

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--Yes, Prior, regularly every evening.... As well as that, as the night approaches, I get, begging your pardon, the sweats, which grip me just like Capitou's ass when he sees them coming to saddle him.

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He is slow, but I scarcely think he is quite such an ass as the kangaroo.

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What an ass I've made of myself; but, just wait till I catch that Hawkshaw."

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You talked like an ass, that first night, Spencer."

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You say I talked like an ass, that first night.

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I'm an ass--that's all!"

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And he had ascribed that action to timidity or even--blatant ass!--to fear for his safety.

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"It is Julian's handwriting, Aunt," he shouted, and then exclaimed, as Mrs. Troutbeck, who was on the sofa, gave a low cry and fell back fainting, "What an ass I am to blurt it out like that!"

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I was a great ass in those days, but I think that now I have learnt something."

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Woman's Home Miss'y Ass'n, to const.

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Ass'n: Springfield, First, 26.96; South, 81.81; Blandford, 6; Palmer, Second, 50; Mittineague, 28 192.77 --------- $5,198.63 LEGACY.

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The 'ass's bridge,' as he calls it, had been impassable for twenty years.

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_Cancer._--A total ass's milk diet--about two quarts a day, without any other meat or drink--will in time cure a cancer in any part of the body, with mere common dressings, provided the patient is not quite worn out with it before it is begun, or too far gone in the common duration of life and even in that case, it will lessen the pain, lengthen life, and make death easier, especially if joined with small interspersed bleedings, millepedes, crabs' eyes prepared, nitre and rhubarb, properly managed.

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I have moved up town because I thought it would be more pleasant; I bought a modest kind of family carriage because I could afford it, and believed it would add to our recreations and health; the carriage and horses required care; I engaged a man to attend to them, fix up the garden, and be useful generally, and added a girl or two to your domestic departments, in order to lighten your own cares, &c. Now, all this, my dear woman, you ought to know, rests a very important responsibility upon my shoulders, health, life, and--two thousand dollars a year, and if you imagine it compatible with common sense, or consonant with my judgment, to make an ass or fool of myself, by going into the extravagances and tom-fooleries of Tannersoil, our neighbor over the way, who happens for the time to be 'under government,' with a salary of nothing to speak of, but with stealings equal to those of a successful freebooter, you--you--you have placed a--a bad estimate upon my common sense, Madam."

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What a stupid ass a man is to hang around in this world until he's a nuisance to himself and every body else!" grunted old Job, as he groped his way down stairs, and into the parlor.

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Ma'am, you've got great treasures here; a man must be a stupid ass to call these _incumbrances_.

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If it be in thy mind to prate further, get thee into the market place, where, mounted upon an ass, thou mayst draw around thee certain of the populace whose wont it is to gather for such discourse."

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"Bill's an ass!" said the Gardener, and put his heavy foot cautiously on the ice.

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Among the prejudices about public worship (class 2) in his work, we meet with the charge of ass-worship (in Tertullian and Minucius Felix, ch.

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Among the vulgar prejudices thus named, the only two that need further mention are the charges of priest-worship and ass-worship.

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i. p. 256, &c. But the fact of the charge has been corroborated by the recent discovery in excavations made in some substructions on the Palatine hill, of a _graffito_ or pencil-scratching, in which a person is worshipping toward a cross, on which hangs suspended a human figure with the head of a horse, or perhaps wild ass, and underneath is the inscription "Alexamenus is worshipping God," Αλεξαμενος σεβετε [sic for σεβεται] Θεον.

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Ass, worship of, imputed to Christians, 405.

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There is always a time in a man's life when he can be made a complete ass of if the woman with the will to make an ass of him happens along coincidently.

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The Scotsman, though perhaps as big an ass, was not so dead of heart; and I have only bracketed them together because they were fast friends, and disgraced themselves equally by their conduct at the table.

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According to the latter, every lad who goes to sea is an egregious ass; never to forget your umbrella through a long life would seem a higher and wiser flight of achievement than to go smiling to the stake; and so long as you are a bit of a coward and inflexible in money matters, you fulfil the whole duty of man.

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But he had slipped away, and left me empty-handed and kicking myself for an ass.

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I suppose this paper appeared about two hours ago, and already I can't move a yard without having to suffer the condolences of some sympathizing ass.

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In the centre above is a curtained recess, with the Virgin in bed, and the Child in a kind of cradle, above which the heads of the ox and ass appear.

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On the other face are foliage scrolls with animals within them; on Eve's side an ass, horse, camel, elephant, hippopotamus, and the Oriental _motif_ of a griffin stooping over its prey; on Adam's side a woman riding on a horse, a centaur with a dart, a mermaid, a sea-horse, and at the bottom a griffin devouring a scroll, with a human head attached.

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"O thee silly, igerant ass!" said Mr. Bumpkin; "I can't help saying it, Joe-the Queen doan't gie leave, it be the kernel.

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'But, Duncan, smuggling is against the law, and it will be their own fault----' 'Well, but, Mr. Allan, you will pe for punishing folks that iss not deserving to pe punished if you do such a foolish thing ass to pring the police to them, and--och!

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'Some ass went and told him that Mrs. Macdonnell was worse.'

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This theme also is expanded into several sections; the first of which may portray the clownish Athenian tradespeople, and the second, the brays of Bottom after he has been transformed into an ass, _e.g._ [Music] [Footnote 208: This is exceptionally effective in the four-hand version--in fact, it was often played as a pianoforte duet by his sister Fanny and himself--although the real poetic effect is inseparably connected with the orchestral treatment.]

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Now this is come to pass, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken through the prophet, saying, "Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, Meek, and riding upon an ass, And upon a colt the foal of an ass."

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"The desert-dust hath dimmed it, the flying wild-ass knows.

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A nose-slitten, hide-worn Ass, lame, scissor-legged, and galled, limped forward.

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The muddy-minded moon-calves who chatter in their usual addle-pated fashion about the chances of _Jimjams_, ought to deceive nobody now that their insane folly has been exposed by me for about the thousandth time; but the general public is such a blathering dunderheaded ass that it prefers to trust itself to the guidance of men like Mr. JEREMY, who knows as much about a horse as he does about the Thirty-nine Articles.

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He said: "Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold thy King cometh unto thee; he is just, and having salvation (political as well as spiritual salvation); lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass."

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Often did he moralize on the sad Kismet that had reduced him to the task of daily laboring for his bread to make a shoe, perhaps for an ass.

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And without another word Hadji Ahmet, with a sack on his shoulder, went forth to gather the cast-off shoes of horse, ox, or ass, wondering if his wife would prove an exception in this, as she had in many other ways, to other women.

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I'm going to let you live so I can have a good laugh every time I see you go by--Old Dusty Rhodes, the Speed King, the Wild Ass of the Desert, the man that couldn't stop to get rich!

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She decided to buy a strong ass to do the work, and having chosen one, and after some bargaining with the owner as to its price, she went to the cupboard in the wall to fetch the money.

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When she came to the surface screaming and struggling, the vengeful cat seized her again and rolled her in the ash-heap on the floor; then when she rose, dirty, blinded, and disgusting to behold, he thrust her from the door, saying: 'Begone, and when you meet a braying ass be careful to turn your head towards it.'

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If not I will transform you into an ass, and heavy loads shall be piled on your back, and men shall ride you.

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Truly, he was an ass; and a very ugly one, too!

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This time it is the old ass!

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The gnome, however, set off above ground as speedily as possible, and disguising himself as a farmer, bought an ass in the nearest market-town, and brought it back loaded with sacks of turnip, carrot, and radish seed.

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What kind of a thing is that, master?" said the Prince, making himself look as stupid as an ass; "I should like to see that."

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She then came to him, dragging a shaggy little grey ass with long ears.

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It has hands like a woman, feet like a woman, the body of a woman; but its head is the head of an ass, and its hair is fur."'

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When did I ever give birth to an ass?'

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And Dschemila took the mirror and looked into it, and combed her hair with the comb, and she had no longer an ass's head, but the face of a beautiful maiden.

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THE ASSES OF BALAAM By DAVID GORDON Illustrated by Schoenherr * * * * * _The remarkable characteristic of Balaam's ass was that it was more perceptive than its master.

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Sometimes a child is more perceptive--because more straightforward and logical--than an adult...._ [Illustration] _It is written in the Book of Numbers that Balaam, a wise man of the Moabites, having been ordered by the King of Moab to put a curse upon the invading Israelites, mounted himself upon an ass and rode forth toward the camp of the Children of Israel.

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Lord Norbury on some circuit was on the bench speaking, and an ass outside brayed so loud that nobody could hear.

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To-day that ass Lord Londonderry (who has never yet had his windows mended from the time they were broken by the mob at the Reform illumination) brings on a motion about Belgium.

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If he was not such an ass that nobody does anything but laugh at what he says, this would be very important.

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