The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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I find horses of various colours often have a spinal band or stripe of different and darker tint than the rest of the body; rarely transverse bars on the legs, generally on the under-side of the front legs, still more rarely a very faint transverse shoulder-stripe like an ass.

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What an ass the man is to think he cuts one to the quick by giving one's Christian name in full.

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The army now entered upon the desert, where the Greeks were struck with the novel sights which met their view, and at once amused and exhausted themselves in the chase of the wild ass and the antelope, or in the vain pursuit of the scudding ostrich.

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"You silly ass, Bunny, don't tell all Kensington that I'm in town!" replied my tatterdemalion, shooting up and smoothing out into a merely shabby Raffles.

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He was clever, and, therefore, the masters called him idle; and when he did not know his lesson they made him stand in the street, with a pair of ass's ears on his head, and a placard on his back proclaiming to the public that the culprit was a "lazy donkey."

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The particles of fact in the affair are likewise two: First, that Queen Sophie, and from her the Courtier Public generally, expected the Hanover Royal Highness, who probably had real thoughts of seeing Berlin and his Intended, on this occasion; Dubourgay reports daily rumors of the Royal Highness being actually "seen" there in an evanescent manner; and Wilhelmina says, her Mother was so certain of him, "she took every ass or mule for the Royal Highness,"--heartily indifferent to Wilhelmina.

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The ANE DE MIREPOIX (Ass of Mirepoix), [Poor joke of Voltaire's, continually applied to this Bishop, or Ex-Bishop,--who was thought, generally, a rather tenebrific man for appointment to the FEUILLE DES BENEFICES (charge of nominating Bishops, keeping King's conscience, &c.); and who, in that capacity, signed himself ANC (by no means "ANE," but "ANCIEN, Whilom") DE MIREPOIX,--to the enragement of Voltaire often enough.]

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An Austrian Hussar-party gets sight of him, on his tree or other standpoint (Voltaire says elsewhere he was mounted on an ass, the malicious spirit!)

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nor of Montmorency claiming Luxemburg, of which he is Titular "Duke;" nor of Monsignore di Guastalla claiming Mantua; nor of--In brief, the fences are now down; a broad French gap in those miles of elaborate paling, which are good only as firewood henceforth, and any ass may rush in and claim a bellyful.

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de Mirepoix (whom they wittily call "ANE" or Ass of Mirepoix, that sour opaque creature, lately monk), were industrious exceedingly; and put veto on Voltaire.

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And is defined by mankind,--in phraseology which we have heard again since then!--as having "the heart of a Lion and the head of an Ass."

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Yes, my friend; it is a considerable ass, this world; by no means the Perfectly Wise put at the top of it (as one could wish), and the Perfectly Foolish at the bottom.

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And had got the Holy Father's own suffrage for MAHOMET (think of that, you Ass of Mirepoix!

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What is to be done with such an Ass of Balaam?

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Sylvestre Bonnard, your warm coat covers the hide of an ass!"

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We all laughed a great deal about that chronological table; and I cried out, "Petit-Radel is an ass, not in three letters, but in twelve whole volumes!"

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The tracks of wild asses had been frequent, but hitherto I had not seen the animals, as their drinking-hour was at night, after which they travelled far into the desert: however, on the morning of the 29th June, shortly after the start at about 6 A.M., we perceived three of these beautiful creatures on our left--an ass, a female, and a foal.

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Far from the passive and subdued appearance of the English ass, the animal in its native desert is the perfection of activity and courage; there is a high-bred tone in the deportment, a high-actioned step when it trots freely over the rocks and sand, with the speed of a horse when it gallops over the boundless desert.

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The colour of the wild ass is a reddish cream tinged with the shade most prevalent of the ground that it inhabits; thus it much resembles the sand of the desert.

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The height of this male ass was about 13.3 or 14 hands; the shoulder was far more sloping than that of the domestic ass, the hoofs were remarkable for their size; they were wide, firm, and as broad as those of a horse of 15 hands.

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At the close of our march that evening, the morsel of wild ass was cooked in the form of "rissoles:" the flavour resembled beef but it was extremely tough.

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The hide of the wild ass is the finest of all leather, and is so close in the grain that before tanning, when dry and hardened in the sun, it resembles horn in transparency.

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

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"Son of Israel," the master said, "thy Moses was a mighty man, but--ha, ha ha!--I must laugh when I think of his allowing thy fathers the plodding ox and the dull, slow-natured ass, and forbidding them property in horses.

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Behold, thy King cometh unto thee with justice and salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.'"

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thou ass of Antioch!

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"Instead of a Sesostris returning in triumph or a Caesar helmed and sworded--ha, ha, ha!--I saw a man with a woman's face and hair, riding an ass's colt, and in tears.

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"Ass!" said the fourth.

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If you ever perceive a man setting up as a merchant or a manufacturer, or going into the cotton or tobacco trade, or any of those eccentric pursuits; or getting to be a drygoods dealer, or soap-boiler, or something of that kind; or pretending to be a lawyer, or a blacksmith, or a physician-any thing out of the usual way-you may set him down at once as a genius, and then, according to the rule-of-three, he's an ass.

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Decidedly, I am nothing but an ass!"

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"Ass!" replied the detective, shrugging his shoulders and turning on his heel.

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That man Roby is a chattering ass.

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As it was, Lopez bore with him, simply noting in his own mind that Everett Wharton was a greater ass than he had taken him to be.

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Then after a pause Everett made his apology,-"I know I made a great ass of myself last night."

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I had made an ass of myself.

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The three were alone together, and when Emily had asked after her brother, Mr. Wharton had laughed and said that Everett was an ass.

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He ridiculed the idea of any quarrel, but again said that Everett was an ass.

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That ass Everett is quarrelling with me at this moment because I won't give him money to go and stand somewhere."

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"What an ass he is!" said Fletcher,-as he got the handle of the stick well into his hand.

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I told him I should see you as a matter of course, and he said something rough,-about your being an ass."

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What an ass you are!"

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Ever since I began putting my name on the same bit of paper with yours I've been an ass."

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"You're an ass, Sexty, and always were.

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But don't you spoil it all by making an ass of yourself."

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Two negroes, belonging to a Creole gentleman, who lodged in the same house, taking their station at a window in the stair-case, about ten feet from our dining-room door, began to practise upon the French-horn; and being in the very first rudiments of execution, produced such discordant sounds, as might have discomposed the organs of an ass.

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-- I wonder, Dick, you did not put me in mind of sending for my own matrasses -- But, if I had not been an ass, I should not have needed a remembrancer -- There is always some plaguy reflection that rises up in judgment against me, and ruffles my spirits -- Therefore, let us change the subject.

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It is an unnatural assembly of objects, fantastically illuminated in broken masses; seemingly contrived to dazzle the eyes and divert the imagination of the vulgar -- Here a wooden lion, there a stone statue; in one place, a range of things like coffeehouse boxes, covered a-top; in another, a parcel of ale-house benches; in a third, a puppet-show representation of a tin cascade; in a fourth, a gloomy cave of a circular form, like a sepulchral vault half lighted; in a fifth, a scanty flip of grass-plat, that would not afford pasture sufficient for an ass's colt.

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He too pronounces ex cathedra upon the characters of his contemporaries; and though he scruples not to deal out praise, even lavishly, to the lowest reptile in Grubstreet who will either flatter him in private, or mount the public rostrum as his panegyrist, he damns all the other writers of the age, with the utmost insolence and rancour -- One is a blunderbuss, as being a native of Ireland; another, a half-starved louse of literature, from the banks of the Tweed; a third, an ass, because he enjoys a pension from the government; a fourth, the very angel of dulness, because he succeeded in a species of writing in which this Aristarchus had failed; a fifth, who presumed to make strictures upon one of his performances, he holds as a bug in criticism, whose stench is more offensive than his sting -- In short, except himself and his myrmidons, there is not a man of genius or learning in the three kingdoms.

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And I have seen the Park, and the paleass of Saint Gimses, and the king's and the queen's magisterial pursing, and the sweet young princes, and the hillyfents, and pye bald ass, and all the rest of the royal family.

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I expect my dew when I come huom, without baiting an ass, I'll assure you.

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-- The lieutenant charged himself with this commission, and immediately set out a horseback for his lordship's house, attended, at his own request, by my man Archy Macalpine, who had been used to military service; and truly, if Macalpine had been mounted upon an ass, this couple might have passed for the knight of La Mancha and his 'squire Panza.

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Mr Machappy is a gentleman born, and has been abroad in the wars -- He has a world of buck larning, and speaks French, and Ditch, and Scotch, and all manner of outlandish lingos; to be sure he's a little the worse for the ware, and is much given to drink; but then he's good-tempered in his liquor, and a prudent woman mought wind him about her finger -- But I have no thoughts of him, I'll assure you -- I scorn for to do, or to say, or to think any thing that mought give unbreech to Mr Loyd, without furder occasion -- But then I have such vapours, Molly I sit and cry by myself, and take ass of etida, and smill to burnt fathers, and kindal-snuffs; and I pray constantly for grease, that I may have a glimpse of the new-light, to shew me the way through this wretched veil of tares.

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

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It has more than once happened to me to see minds, graceful and majestic as the Titania of Shakspeare, bewitched by the charms of an ass's head, bestowing on it the fondest caresses, and crowning it with the sweetest flowers.

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For it ran as follows:-- "DEAR SLEIGHT, "As I found I couldn't get a chance to make any examination of the ship except as occasion offered, I just went in to rent lodgings in her from the God-forsaken old ass who owns her, and here I am a tenant for two months.

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A biped, with an ass's snout, brayed close to his ear, ending his discordant uproar with a peal of human laughter.

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He said: "Well, I am an ass!"

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"I knew a case of softening of the brain that began--" "Oh, you're a silly ass!" said George, cutting him short; "you know everything."

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In German you are not permitted to call an official a "silly ass," but undoubtedly this particular man was one.

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Then it was that Harris called the man a silly ass.

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"You did me the honor to believe I was one once, when I was simply the most palpable ass and bungler living," said Paul bitterly.

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Here's a man offers to give me the half of a treasure he finds, and I care no more for it than a German for cold water; the fairy wishes to entertain me in her palace, and I care as little for it as an ass for music; and now that I am called to the crown, here I stand and let a rascally thief cheat me out of my trump-card!"

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Be wise and keep open your eyes, for in these woods is a most wicked ogre who changes his form every day, one time appearing like a wolf, at another like a lion, now like a stag, now like an ass, like one thing and now like another.

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Then she turned to run after the fugitives again, but Parsley, seeing her approach, threw the second gall-nut on the ground, and lo, a fierce lion arose, who, lashing the earth with his tail, and shaking his mane and opening wide his jaws a yard apart, was just preparing to make a slaughter of the ogress, when, turning quickly back, she stripped the skin off an ass which was grazing in the middle of a meadow and ran at the lion, who, fancying it a real jackass, was so frightened that he bounded away as fast as he could.

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But such is the fate of him who washes an ass's head!

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Well was it said by the philosopher, He who lies down an ass, an ass he finds himself.'

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And he was just going to draw his sword, when all at once he stood fixed like a sheep that has seen the wolf and can neither stir nor utter a sound, so that the ogress led him like an ass by the halter to her house.

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By travelling through the world he will at least become a man, and no longer be such a stupid ass, such a simpleton, such a lose-the-day fellow, such a----'" "Stop, stop!" cried Moscione, "you tell the truth and I believe you.

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But the Prince was so averse to marriage and so obstinate that, whenever a wife was talked of, he shook his head and wished himself a hundred miles off; so that the poor King, finding his son stubborn and perverse, and foreseeing that his race would come to an end, was more vexed and melancholy, cast down and out of spirits, than a merchant whose correspondent has become bankrupt, or a peasant whose ass has died.

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she broke the cask into seventy pieces, and returned grumbling home, and said to her mistress, "Ass come past, tub fell down at the well, and all was broken in pieces."

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Or as some lazy ass that has had many a cudgel broken about his back, when he into a field begins eating the corn--boys beat him but he is too many for them, and though they lay about with their sticks they cannot hurt him; still when he has had his fill they at last drive him from the field--even so did the Trojans and their allies pursue great Ajax, ever smiting the middle of his shield with their darts.

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For the second there was a six-year old mare, unbroken, and in foal to a he-ass; the third was to have a goodly cauldron that had never yet been on the fire; it was still bright as when it left the maker, and would hold four measures.

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"Have you been here all night, you young ass?" said the Doctor.

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Our men were slashing about and firing, and so were the dacoits, and in the thick of the mess some ass set fire to a house, and we all had to clear out.

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Fortunately his eldest daughter was a young woman of resource, or the poor gentleman, naturally carried off his feet by this adoration of youth and beauty, might have made an ass of himself.

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But Percy's an ass!

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What I mean to say is, he's more or less bound to look a fearful ass.

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"If I weren't a silly ass, there would be none of this trouble.

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He was a fluent talker, and I was ass enough to listen to him.

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Griswold pretends the reason he doesn't speak to you is because he's too superior, but the real reason is that he knows whenever he opens his mouth he shows he is an ass."

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And then I'm going to find Chester Griswold and tell him he's an ass and a puppy!"

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What he said to that was: 'Don't be an ass!'

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This time Senator Seward did not trouble himself even to tell Sam he was an ass.

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So, he told himself, in thinking of Monica except as a charming companion, he was an ass.

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And then, arguing that in calling himself an ass he had shown his saneness and impartiality, he felt justified in seeing her daily.

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With the wine dripping off it, The grin of an ass on a bald-pated prophet.

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GAMALIEL BRADFORD ROUSSEAU THAT odd, fantastic ass, Rousseau, Declared himself unique.

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It is a more significant fact that a female zebra would not admit the addresses of a male ass until he was painted so as to resemble a zebra, and then, as John Hunter remarks, "she received him very readily.

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We know that, when the domestic ass varies and becomes reddish-brown, grey, or black, the stripes on the shoulders and even on the spine frequently disappear, though we cannot explain the cause.

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Ass, colour-variations of the.

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Hunter, J., on the number of species of man; on secondary sexual characters; on the general behaviour of female animals during courtship; on the muscles of the larynx in song-birds; on strength of males; on the curled frontal hair of the bull; on the rejection of an ass by a female zebra.

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Zebra, rejection of an ass by a female; stripes of the.

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A certain infallible ass, called Pope Leo XII., killed a little boy in two hours, by gilding him to adorn the pageant of his first procession as Pope.

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"Why, no; a lion is not an ass.

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"What an ass I was to think I could have missed him," he muttered to himself.

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"He's a heavy ass," said Stanley.

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'So that fellow's going to be an ass, too?

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