The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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"You silly ass!"

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You are the greatest ass living.

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Beginning in the first person, he loathed himself as a thick-headed ass for talking to Betty as he had done; as well put a burr under one's saddle and then feel surprise because the horse bucks.

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Swain was the last man Glass had taken, and Lew Perkins should have known that the sheriff never talked about his work; the old ass was in his green age, his second childhood.

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"Well, you know he made Balaam's ass speak out," said the young abbe quickly.

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Doddering old ass, what did it matter how she looked at him?

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Monumental ass!

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"I'm an ass.

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"What a jolly ass I am!

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What an old ass I've been!

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What rich art patron cares to be told continually by his own walls that Midas had ass's ears; that Lazarus sits ever at the gate?

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The commercial gent, no doubt, thinks the ponderous shopwalker an ass, but refrains from telling him so.

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I have come three thousand miles, and am resolved to set my foot on every peak of these mountains, and poke my head into every chasm, for the sole purpose of demonstrating to the satisfaction of any man one whit less an ass than thyself that the Great Carbuncle is all a humbug!'

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The good advocate, however, had prepared this view for no ass, for the little handmaiden look longingly at the golden heap, and muttered a prayer at the sight of them.

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"Don't be an ass!"

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A man who would mount these without scaling-ladders, is an ass; he who would SAY he mounted them without such assistance, is a liar and a knave.

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The three men, with their liberated prisoner, had just been on the point of escape, when my arrival disconcerted them: I had changed the guard at the gate (whom they had won over likewise); and yet, although they had overcome poor Mac, and although they were ready for the start, they had positively no means for effecting their escape, until I was ass enough to put means in their way.

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An ass would have done it, prided himself had he hit his mark, and what would have been the consequence?

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I long treasured the memory of a story called the "Green Ass," which was, I think, the masterpiece of this unknown Society.

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"She would say that you were an ass!" said I in a muttered tone.

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The stilted ass!

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At length, the creditor's side prevailed and bore off the victory: if (said he) thou art not bold enough to be marked with the comely mark of golden liberty among the prophetic creatures, who enjoy the rank as reasoning beings next to the angels, refuse not the inspiration of the understanding ass, to that day dumb, which would not carry forward the tiara'd magician who was going to curse God's people, but in the narrow pass of the vineyard crushed his loosened foot, and thereby felt the lash; and though he was, with his ungrateful and furious hand, against right justice, beating her innocent sides, she pointed out to him the heavenly messenger holding the naked sword, and standing in his way, though he had not seen him.]

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This was a well-intentioned ass, in short, who could see nothing in life but deeds and documents.

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You are something like an ass!

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I say, I guess I've been no end of an ass."

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We know a playing wit can praise the discretion of an ass, the comfortableness of being in debt, and the jolly commodities of being sick of the plague; so, of the contrary side, if we will turn Ovid's verse, "Ut lateat virtus proximitate mali."

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For, indeed, I had much rather, since truly I may do it, show their mistaking of Plato, under whose lion's skin they would make an ass- like braying against poesy, than go about to overthrow his authority; whom, the wiser a man is, the more just cause he shall find to have in admiration; especially since he attributeth unto poesy more than myself do, namely, to be a very inspiring of a divine force, far above man's wit, as in the fore-named dialogue is apparent.

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O this it is, the knotted straw is found; In tender hearts, small things engender hate: A horse's worth laid waste the Trojan ground; A three-foot stool in Greece made trumpets sound; An ass's shade e'er now hath bred debate.

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But that Captain whom you introduced, like an ass as you were--" "An ass, Mr. Woolsey!

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Slang has engaged her at thirty guineas per week, and she appears next month in Thrum's opera, of which the words are written by a great ass with some talent--we mean Mr. Mulligan.

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Man in his birth is compared to an Ass, (an unclean Beast) and to a wretched Infant in its blood: besides, all the first-born of old that were offered unto the Lord, were to be redeemed at the age of a month, and that was before they were sinners by imitation.

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{104c} O that godly plea of Samuel: Behold here I am, says he, witness against me, before the Lord, and before his Anointed, whose Oxe have I taken, or whose Ass have I taken, or whom have I defrauded, whom have I oppressed, {104d} &c?

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As for Smollett himself, he professedly "follows the plan" of Le Sage, in "Gil Blas" (a plan as old as Petronius Arbiter, and the "Golden Ass" of Apuleius); but he gives more place to "compassion," so as not to interfere with "generous indignation, which ought to animate the reader against the sordid and vicious disposition of the world."

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Right on the path which he was about to descend came two kings walking, bedecked with crowns and purple girdles, and variegated like flamingoes: they drove before them a laden ass.

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Two kings do I see-and only one ass!"

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To him do we convey this ass.

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And verily, it is the strangest thing in a wise man, if over and above, he be still sensible, and not an ass."

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it was a pious, strange litany in praise of the adored and censed ass.

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And thou thyself, thou old pope, how is it in accordance with thee, to adore an ass in such a manner as God?

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even thou couldst well become an ass through superabundance of wisdom.

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-A little valiant nonsense, some divine service and ass-festival, some old joyful Zarathustra fool, some blusterer to blow your souls bright.

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Forget not this night and this ass-festival, ye higher men!

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And should ye celebrate it again, this ass-festival, do it from love to yourselves, do it also from love to me!

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That may be the case, or it may be otherwise; and if in truth the ass did not dance that evening, there nevertheless happened then greater and rarer wonders than the dancing of an ass would have been.

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This belief in faith, if one can so express it without seeming tautological, has certainly been restored to them, and in the first flood of their enthusiasm they use it by bowing down and worshipping an ass!

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It is well known that they were supposed not only to be eaters of human flesh but also ass-worshippers, and among the Roman graffiti, the most famous is the one found on the Palatino, showing a man worshipping a cross on which is suspended a figure with the head of an ass (see Minucius Felix, "Octavius" IX.

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Now, with regard to the actual service and Ass-Festival, no reader who happens to be acquainted with the religious history of the Middle Ages will fail to see the allusion here to the asinaria festa which were by no means uncommon in France, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe during the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries.

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He is therefore highly pleased that the higher men have all blossomed forth; they therefore require new festivals,-"A little valiant nonsense, some divine service and ass-festival, some old joyful Zarathustra fool, some blusterer to blow their souls bright."

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"Ass!" she retorted in a tone of tearful irritation; "of course it was."

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The man had made his fiddle bray like an ass, cluck like a hen, grunt, squeal, bark, neigh, quack, bellow, and growl; that last item, in George's estimation, had almost compensated for the tediousness of the rest of the concert.

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In a field where the dew lay cold and deep I met an ass, new-roused from sleep.

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A white ass, but NOT an albino, has been described without either spinal or shoulder stripe; and these stripes are sometimes very obscure, or actually quite lost, in dark-coloured asses.

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We see several distinct species of the horse genus becoming, by simple variation, striped on the legs like a zebra, or striped on the shoulders like an ass.

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By a reciprocal cross between two species, I mean the case, for instance, of a female-ass being first crossed by a stallion, and then a mare by a male-ass: these two species may then be said to have been reciprocally crossed.

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For instance, I think those authors are right who maintain that the ass has a prepotent power over the horse, so that both the mule and the hinny resemble more closely the ass than the horse; but that the prepotency runs more strongly in the male than in the female ass, so that the mule, which is an offspring of the male ass and mare, is more like an ass than is the hinny, which is the offspring of the female-ass and stallion.

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"I daresay I'm a frightful ass," he said, "but I'm blessed if I know what you're driving at."

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"He was a silly ass to come and do a thing like that!" said Bunting crossly.

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The "mostly fools" theory has been used in an anti-democratic sense; but when I found at last my priceless ass, I did not find him in what is commonly called the democracy; nor in the aristocracy either.

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But, then, in highly complex and scientific civilisations, nine times out of ten, he only wants his own ass back.

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{6} In the Golden Ass of Apuleius, which Polia should not have read.

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"Heavens and earth!" muttered Captain Mitchell, "I should not have believed that anybody could be ass enough--" He paused, then went on mournfully: "But what's the good of all this?

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"A rival comes upon the scene," he continues--"a fatheaded ass, according to my information--and they have a stand-up fight.

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On the back of the strangely-moving ass I have urged--or, to speak more correctly, the proprietor of the ass, or his agent, from behind has urged--my wild career across the sandy heaths of Hampstead, and my canoe has startled the screaming wild-fowl from their lonely haunts amid the sub-tropical regions of Battersea.

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He thought I was a clumsy ass at first, and said so; but, on recognising me, apologised for his mistake.

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He can conduct himself sensibly without making an ass of himself.

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Now, had I been anything but a preposterous ass, my answer would have been different; but then I was not myself, and I could not help noticing how tenderly her finger traced out those two letters F. S., so I laughed rather brutally and answered: "Follow the instinct of your sex and stick to the Paris hats and things."

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And on the right hand the patesi beheld an ass that lay upon the ground.

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Stupid ass.'

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"My opinion of you," I said, "is that you are naturally a hopelessly irresponsible, well-meaning ass.

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I had hoped to get from Suddhoo many rupees while he lived, and many more after his death; and behold, he is spending everything on that offspring of a devil and a she-ass, the seal cutter!"

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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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"You ass!

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The hero calls in Gridley Quayle, and that patronizing ass, by the aid of a series of wicked coincidences, solves the mystery; and there am I, with another month's work done."

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They made poor old Percy look like an absolute ass."

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You see, I was rather an ass in those days."

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"I must have been or I shouldn't have been such an ass, don't you know!

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A chappie looked such an ass getting married!

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But I was reckoning like an infernal ass, to imagine for a moment that I could thus hoodwink such a woman as Nina San Croix.

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He felt his own feebleness, and he sought for an ass or a camel, a bow or a sling, to widen his range of power, as he sough fetish or a planet in the world beyond.

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"Then I was a great ass," remarked Aunt Barbara.

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Sometimes the breathing of an ass, or the soft lowing of an ox, accompanied, like a chorus of invisible spirits, the voice of the slave as he recited the gospels.

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But He is not eternal, since He had a beginning; as to thinking that He existed before He was begotten, we must leave that absurdity to the Nicaean mules, and the obstinate ass who too long governed the Church of Alexandria under the accursed name of Athanasius.

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There was a moment's silence, during which Hermodorus, his arm extended on the cloth, pointed to a little ass in Corinthian metal which bore two baskets--the one containing white olives, the other black olives.

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As he prayed and prophesied thus, a lad passed on an ass.

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A veiled woman would pass on an ass, preceded by black eunuchs, who cleared a passage for her by the free use of their sticks.

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For you, M. Fonvelle, you are an ass!

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"There were other reasons," I replied, "why I should have demonstrated myself an ass, had I fallen in love with Priscilla.

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"No, madam, no; I am a mere ass!"

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If he had ever entertained thoughts of resistance, he had none now, and the power to oppose was so completely lost for want of exercise that hardly did the wish remain; there was nothing left save dull acquiescence as of an ass crouched between two burdens.

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Whose ox had he taken, whose ass had he taken, or whom had he defrauded?

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The foundations were of palm-trees, a hundred feet long and more-the palm-tree grows to a greater height than that, and under pressure it will curve upwards like the spine of an ass beneath a load.

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Listen: DEAR CHILDREN, "It has suddenly occurred to me that some ass of a policeman may want to see your license, and I have therefore procured one for you.

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No one liked dogs better than he, if this ass of a collie only knew it.

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"Don't be an ass!" said Jack "But I have," he protested--"I have.

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