The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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_O gran piccolino Jesu nostro diletto_, he who had seen Thee between the ox and the little ass, breathing upon thy holy breast, would not have guessed thou were begotten of the Trinity!"

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_Videlicet_, Filarete and Domenico, having been removed from the cage, were dragged on hurdles as far as the square of San Joanni, and Frate Garofalo went on an ass, all of them crowned with paper mitres.

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"General Vandeleur is an ass!" returned the other.

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"Frank," he said, smiling, "it's a pity you are an ass, for you have the makings of a man.

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'Well, my friend, since you are an inspired ass, and a confirmed sentimentalist, I imagine you----' 'What would you advise in the circumstances, I mean?'

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With him was brought the corpse of the Prince of Condé, tied to an ass's back, to be afterward exposed by a pillar of the house where Anjou lodged--the butt of the sneers and low wit of the soldiers.

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Next an ass, and then the mules, of which there was a considerable number, were brought to the shambles.

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"What for you'll boo, boo, and scrape, scrape there, you tam ass!" exclaimed Donald, furiously.

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Buridan's Ass!

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I was not there, I had ridden down the night before after dinner on my endless business, took a cup of tea in the mission like an ass, then took a cup of coffee like a fool at Haggard's, then fell into a discussion with the American Consul....

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The triple-headed ass at home, in his plenitude of ignorance, prefers to collect the taxes and scatter the Mataafas by force or the threat of force.

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I am in one of the humours when a man wonders how any one can be such an ass as to embrace the profession of letters, and not get apprenticed to a barber or keep a baked-potato stall.

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And I have no idea what I have said, and I have no idea what I ought to have said, and I am a total ass, but my heart is in the right place, and I am, my dear Henry James, yours, R. L. S. TO MARCEL SCHWOB _Vailima, Upolu, Samoa, July 7, 1894._ DEAR MR. MARCEL SCHWOB,--Thank you for having remembered me in my exile.

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It is beautifully said, beautifully and kindly felt; and I should be a churl indeed if I were not grateful, and an ass if I were not proud.

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The subject of examination was Christ's entry into Jerusalem on an ass's colt.

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It must have deserved the title in the days which I can remember when a Conservative M.P., amidst enthusiastic cheering, at Ipswich, intimated that it was quite as well the sun and moon were placed high up in the heavens, else 'Some reforming ass Would soon propose to pluck them down And light the world with gas.'

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He saw a cross fellow beating an ass, Heavily laden with pots, pans, dishes and glass; He took out his pipe and played them a tune, And the jackass did kick off his load very soon.

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There was an Old Man of Madras, Who rode on a cream-coloured ass; But the length of its ears so promoted his fears That it killed that Old Man of Madras.

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Ah, luckless speech, and bootless boast, For which he paid full dear; For while he spake, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear, Whereat his horse did snort as he Had heard a lion's roar, And gallop'd off with all his might, As he had done before.

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Because he's an ass.

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I'll give him A handful of grass; I'm sure he's an honest, Though stupid, old ass.

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I'll give you some grass, For you know no better, Because you're an ass; But what little donkeys Some children must look, Who stand, very like you, Stock-still at their book, And waste every moment Of time as it passes-- A great deal more stupid And silly than asses!

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Old Jack, the Donkey Old Jack was as sleek And well looking an ass As ever on common Munched thistle or grass; And--though 'twas not gaudy, That jacket of brown-- Was the pet of the young And the pride of the town.

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In this green ditch he often stray'd To nip the dainty grass; And friendly invitations bray'd To some more hungry ass.

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But soon a brown ass, Of respectable look Came trotting up also, To taste of the brook, And to nibble a few Of the daisies and grass.

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Then, with a deep sigh, She directly began, "Don't you think, Mr. Ass, We are injured by man?

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Ass waited a moment, To see if she'd done, And then, "Not presuming To teach," he begun.

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The cow, upon this, Cast her eyes on the grass, Not pleas'd at thus being Reproved by an ass, Yet, thought she, "I'm determined I'll benefit by't, For I really believe That the fellow is right."

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Many who have only read his poetry have been tempted to set him down as an ass, or even as a charlatan; but I never met any one who had known him personally who did not profess a solid affection and respect for the man's character.

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Pepys was not such an ass, but he must have perceived, as he went on, the extraordinary nature of the work he was producing.

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He was not such an ass, besides, but he must have been conscious of the deadly explosives, the gun-cotton and the giant powder, he was hoarding in his drawer.

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"I was an ass till I knew you.

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An ass, the common property of the tribe, stood meditating in the foreground; two urchins, of about from ten to twelve years a-piece--wretchedly supplied in the article of clothing--for the one, provided with only a pair of tattered trousers, was naked from the waist upwards, and the other, furnished with only a dilapidated jacket, was naked from the waist downwards--were engaged in picking up fuel for the fire, still further in front; a few of the ordinary inmates of the place lounged under cover of the smoke, apparently in a mood not in the least busy; and on a couch of dried fern sat evidently the central figure of the group, a young, sparkling-eyed brunette, more than ordinarily marked by the Hindu peculiarities of head and feature, and attended by a savage-looking fellow of about twenty, dark as a mulatto, and with a profusion of long flexible hair, black as jet, hanging down to his eyes, and clustering about his cheeks and neck.

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We are all scattered, and I could find no one but the _solemn ass_ who brings you this and the money.

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"Incomparable ass!" said Somerset, "what have you done?

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"And by the way, what an ass you must have thought me, not to know that this was a back way to Dr. Jekyll's!

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These two equalised bundles of hay might have held in suspense the casuistical ass of Sterne, till he had died from want of a motive to choose either.

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At the moment of his birth came into the world "a calf with a double tongue, and eares longer than any ass's, with his feet turned backwards."

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"[96] An Herculean feat of this "Duns furens," Nash tells us, was his setting Aristotle with his heels upwards on the school-gates at Cambridge, and putting ass's ears on his head, which Tom here records in _perpetuam rei memoriam_.

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who, when his neighbour comes to see him, still sets the best rooms to view; and, if he be not a wilful ass, keeps the rubbish and lumber in some dark hole, where nobody comes but himself, to mortify at melancholy hours."

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In our country, the University of Cambridge was divided by a party who called themselves _Trojans_, from their antipathy to the _Greeks_, or the Aristotelians; and once the learned Richard Harvey, the brother of Gabriel, the friend of Spenser, stung to madness by the predominant powers, to their utter dismay set up their idol on the school-gates, with his heels upwards, and ass's ears on his head.

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Correcting the faults of the version, he says, "The first epistle cost me four pages in scouring;" and, "by the help of a Greek proverb, he calls me downright ass."

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But while Boyle complains of these sprinklings of ink, he himself contributes to Bentley's "Collection of Asinine Proverbs," and "throws him in one out of Aristophanes," of "an ass carrying mysteries:" "a proverb," says Erasmus, (as 'the Bees' construe him.)

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Now you can, upon all occasion, or without occasion, give the titles of _fool_, _beast_, _ass_, _dog_, &c., which I take to be but barking; and they are no better than a man might have at Billingsgate for a box o' the ear.

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There's something come into my thought That must and shall be sung, high and aloof, Safe from the wolf's black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof.

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Who would curry an ass with an ivory comb?

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[425] _Martin_ was a name for a _bird_, and a cant term for an _Ass_; and, as it appears here, an _Ape_.

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That it meant an _Ass_, appears from "Pappe with a Hatchet."

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Of these phantasms and grotesques, one of some general importance is that commonly called Ionic, of which the idea was taken (Vitruvius says) from a woman's hair, curled; but its lateral processes look more like rams' horns: be that as it may, it is a mere piece of agreeable extravagance, and if, instead of rams' horns, you put ibex horns, or cows' horns, or an ass's head at once, you will have ibex orders, or ass orders, or any number of other orders, one for every head or horn.

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Ass's milk was prescribed, and the poor little creature drank it willingly enough out of his tiny china saucer.

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The largest ass will not make an elephant.

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Young Mr. Platitude did not go to college a gentleman, but neither did he return one: he went to college an ass, and returned a prig; to his original folly was superadded a vast quantity of conceit.

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It so happened that this small party got into trouble; whether it was about a horse or an ass, or passing bad money, no matter to you and me, who had no hand in the business; three or four of them were taken and lodged in --- Castle, and amongst them was a woman; but the sherengro, or principal man of the party, and who it seems had most hand in the affair, was still at large.

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CONTENTS.--Concerning Thieves--On Crucifixion--The Tethered Ass--The Raising of the Dead--When Two shall be One--The New Priesthood--St. Winefride's Well and Legend--The Scientific Apprehension of the Super-Physical World.

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"Don't be an ass," said Michael, who hated beards and was delighted to destroy one.

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"O, I know I am an ass," cried the barrister, "and I don't care a halfpenny!

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I know I'm an ass, and you may laugh at me to your heart's delight."

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"That man has been ass enough to steal the cart and the dead body; what he hopes to do with it I neither know nor care.

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"You innocent mutton," said Michael, "it's the seediest commonplace in the English language, and only proves the advertiser is an ass.

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The barber was so haunted by the secret, that at last he could not help relieving himself, by going to a clump of reeds and whispering into them, "King Midas has the ears of an ass;" and whenever the wind rustled in the reeds, those who went by might always hear them in turn whisper to one another, "King Midas has the ears of an ass."

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I'm awfully sorry I made such an ass of myself in the beginning.

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"Don't be an ass!" cried the K. M. "I've mislaid them, that's all."

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{21b} Not always, on horseback: for while the knight, as his Latin designation _eques_ implied, was always mounted on a charger, his lady sometimes rode beside him on an ass:- "A loyely ladie rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly asse, more white than snow; Yet she much whiter; but the same did hide Under a vele, that wimpled was full low; And over all a black stole did she throw: As one that inly mourned so was she sad, And heavie sate upon her palfrey slow."

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My advice to you is to go to your old partners, tell them what an ass you've made of yourself, and ask them to let you have a few thousand on that last note.

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