The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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The decrotteur, who cleans your shoes at the corner of the Pont Neuf, has a tail of this kind hanging down to his rump, and even the peasant who drives an ass loaded with dung, wears his hair en queue, though, perhaps, he has neither shirt nor breeches.

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In Burgundy I saw a peasant ploughing the ground with a jack-ass, a lean cow, and a he-goat, yoked together.

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In the Cella Sanctior, I found a lean cow, a he-goat, and a jack-ass; the very same conjunction of animals which I had seen drawing a plough in Burgundy.

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Then I whisper-ed to the earth beneath, through the gr ass and thyme, down into the depth of its ear, and again up to the starry space hid behind the blue of day.

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Similarly, there was the canvass, representin the picter of the Wild Ass of the Prairies-not that we never had no wild asses, nor wouldn't have had 'em at a gift.

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And when you've no more left to give, they'll laugh at you to your face, and leave you to have your bones picked dry by Wulturs, like the dead Wild Ass of the Prairies that you deserve to be!"

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"Every one else is an ass, and the Cheapside people the biggest asses of all.

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I've been such an ass that you don't appreciate me.

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They usually don't know what an ass I've been; they only see the surface, which"--and he stretched himself afresh as she looked him up and down--"you CAN imagine them, can't you, rather taken with?

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But will the wild ass submit to the bonds?

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"Have no money dealings with my father," says Marth to Lord Glenvarloch; "for, dotard as he is, he will make an ass of you."

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Jonson seems to have combined some hints taken from this tale, with others from Boccaccio, in the plot of The Devil is an Ass, a play which, though not the most highly finished of his compositions, is perhaps that which exhibits the strongest proofs of genius.

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When Bottom makes his appearance with an ass's head instead of his own, Peter Quince exclaims, "Bless thee!

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They were as untameable, as much wedded to their desolate freedom, as the wild ass.

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"The desert-dust hath dimmed it, the flying wild-ass knows, The scared white leopard winds it across the taintless snows.

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The men who do not take the trouble to conceal from you their opinion that you are an incompetent ass, and the women who blacken your character and misunderstand your wife's amusements, will work themselves to the bone in your behalf if you fall sick or into serious trouble.

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

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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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Further, she caused you to invite me to dinner at the Club, where you called me "a wild ass of the desert," and went home at half-past ten, after discoursing for twenty minutes on the responsibilities of housekeeping.

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What an ass a man can make of himself!

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Jack's an ass.

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"You can write me down an ass this time, Watson," said he.

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"Don't be an ass!" said Peter Hope.

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"I'm not an ass," assured him Joseph Loveredge.

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Must have dropped it, I suppose, when that silly ass tried to stop me.

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"Miss Bulstrode" was given to understand that anything any of the seven could do for her, each and every would be delighted to do, if only for the sake of her brother, one of the dearest boys that ever breathed--a bit of an ass, though that, of course, he could not help.

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"When you have read that," replied Miss Bulstrode, handing her the letter, "perhaps you will agree with me that Herring is--an ass."

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The fellow must be a blithering ass!"

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Don't be an ass, boy.

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"Don't be an ass."

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'With a second hand on board to steer while I conned I should have felt less of an ass.

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I'm not such an ass as to thirst for revenge and all that, like some chap in a shilling shocker.

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Ass that I am not to have seen it before!

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I thought he was a good deal of an ass.

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Nothing was to be done to keep him from looking like an ass.

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Let up on your-self, you blind ass.

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- you are a sucking pig, and if you want to know how I find out things go ask the Delphic Oracle, you blind ass."

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This irritating ass, who has never left his native suburb, suddenly makes up his mind to travel on the Continent.

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"Can't you keep that long-legged ass who bunks under you quiet?"

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"That ass!"

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He had proved himself an ass, and the whole country would ring with mockery of him!

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"I sent a note to your wife about it, but my silly ass of a groom forgot to take this.

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An ass would have introduced Lord Lundie and they would not have believed him.

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Ovid, amonges other thinges smale* *small Saith, Midas had, under his longe hairs, Growing upon his head two ass's ears; The whiche vice he hid, as best he might, Full subtlely from every man's sight, That, save his wife, there knew of it no mo'; He lov'd her most, and trusted her also; He prayed her, that to no creature She woulde tellen of his disfigure.

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But natheless her thoughte that she died, That she so longe should a counsel hide; Her thought it swell'd so sore about her heart That needes must some word from her astart And, since she durst not tell it unto man Down to a marish fast thereby she ran, Till she came there, her heart was all afire: And, as a bittern bumbles* in the mire, *makes a humming noise She laid her mouth unto the water down "Bewray me not, thou water, with thy soun'" Quoth she, "to thee I tell it, and no mo', Mine husband hath long ass's eares two!

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*olive trees <4> A thousand men he slew eke with his hand, And had no weapon but an ass's cheek.

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When they were slain, so thirsted him, that he Was *well-nigh lorn,* for which he gan to pray *near to perishing* That God would on his pain have some pity, And send him drink, or elles must he die; And of this ass's check, that was so dry, Out of a wang-tooth* sprang anon a well, *cheek-tooth Of which, he drank enough, shortly to say.

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"Nigellus Wireker," says Urry's Glossary, "a monk and precentor of Canterbury, wrote a Latin poem intituled 'Speculum Speculorum,' ('The mirror of mirrors') dedicated to William Longchamp, Bishop of Ely, and Lord Chancellor; wherein, under the fable of an Ass (which he calls 'Burnellus') that desired a longer tail, is represented the folly of such as are not content with their own condition.

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"Dun" is a name for an ass, derived from his colour.

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These folk take little regard of the riding of God's Son of heaven, and of his harness, when he rode upon an ass, and had no other harness but the poor clothes of his disciples; nor we read not that ever he rode on any other beast.

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And not to wander like a dulled ass, Ragged and torn, disguised in array, Ribald in speech, or out of measure pass, Thy bound exceeding; think on this alway: For women be of tender heartes ay, And lightly set their pleasure in a place; When they misthink,* they lightly let it pace.

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"Nor jompre* eke no discordant thing y-fere,** *jumble **together As thus, to use termes of physic; In love's termes hold of thy mattere The form alway, and *do that it be like;* *make it consistent* For if a painter woulde paint a pike With ass's feet, and head it as an ape,<32> It *'cordeth not,* so were it but a jape."

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A pike with ass's feet etc.

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"But if you're bent on being an ass, then, for heaven's sake, go and be one," he added irritably.

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"Now don't be a downright ass, Christopher," put in Jim Weatherby.

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"It makes me sick to see a man act like an ass."

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"Precious old ass!" he muttered, and unbarred the door.

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It is an old, and thoroughly Hindu, Legend composed in Sanskrit, and is the germ which culminated in the Arabian Nights, and which inspired the "Golden Ass" of Apuleius, Boccacio's "Decamerone," the "Pentamerone," and all that class of facetious fictitious literature.

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The groundwork of the tale is the metamorphosis of Lucius of Corinth into an ass, and the strange accidents which precede his recovering the human form.

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It is true that we once heard of a camel being married to a jenny-ass; when the ass, looking up to the camel, said, 'Bless me, what a bridegroom!' and the camel, hearing the voice of the ass, exclaimed, 'Bless me, what a musical voice!'

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at the time of marriage to have an ass!

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Hearing the donkey thus speak Sanskrit, for it was never known that an ass could discourse in that classical tongue, the minds of the people were changed, and they confessed that, although he had an asinine form he was unquestionably the son of Indra.

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Vikram was the second son of an old king Gandharba-Sena, concerning whom little favourable has reached posterity, except that he became an ass, married four queens, and had by them six sons, each of whom was more learned and powerful than the other.

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"If I do not revenge myself upon him," thought the beautiful Padmavati, smiling like an angel as she listened to the youth's confidence, "may I become a gardener's ass in the next birth!"

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The king caused the wicked Jayashri's face to be smeared with oily soot, and her head and eyebrows to be shaved; thus blackened and disfigured, she was mounted upon a little ragged-limbed ass and was led around the market and the streets, after which she was banished for ever from the city.

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Now, whenever entering a corpse, whether it be of man, woman, or child, I feel peculiarly modest; I know that my tenement lately belonged to some conceited ass.

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For these six things tend to lower a man: -- friendship with the perfidious; causeless laughter; altercation with women; serving an unworthy master; riding an ass, and speaking any language but Sanskrit.

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He told them that they had taken up an ass's load of religion, and had better apply to honest industry.

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Presently he caused the minister Abhaichand to be seized, had his head shaved all but seven locks of hair, ordered his face to be blackened, and mounting him on an ass, with drums beaten, had him led all about the city, and drove him from the kingdom.

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But these women will talk aloud, and scold as the braying ass, and make the house a scene of variance, like the snake with the ichneumon, the owl with the crow, for they have no fear of losing their noses or parting with their ears.

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confounded ass!"

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"If only I might have had a little longer acquaintance with my part," he reflected bitterly as he sat by the fire, "I should have been better able to deal with that pompous ass!"

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Turn then from wits; and look on Simo's mate, No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate.

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let the secret pass, That secret to each fool, that he's an ass: The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie?)

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that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk, Satire or sense, alas!

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True, conscious honour is to feel no sin, He's armed without that's innocent within; Be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass; Compared to this, a minister's an ass.

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Have you not seen, at Guildhall's narrow pass, Two aldermen dispute it with an ass?

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One, one man only breeds my just offence; Whom crimes gave wealth, and wealth gave impudence: Time brings all natural events to pass, And made him an attorney of an ass.

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And I knew he would presently close the session with the same old argument that was always his stay and his support in time of need; the same old argument, the one I couldn't answer-because I dasn't: the argument that I was an ass, and better shut up.

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But Proudie, ass as he is, knows the world too well to get such a hornet's nest about his ears.'

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Then she came to the allusion to her own pious labours, and she said in her heart that Mr Slope was an affected ass.

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He had, as was his wont, asked himself a great many questions, and given himself a great many answers; and the upshot of this was that he had set himself down for an ass.

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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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Ass!

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Hermes always ran frisking to meet them, outstripping by his swiftness the slow plodding of the little ass.

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I will venture to say that, if Jesus Christ was now to pass through the most pious countries in Christendom, with a train of women such as used to follow him, fondling about him, combing his hair, anointing him with precious ointments, washing his feet with tears and wiping them with the hair of their heads, and unmarried, or even married, he would be mobbed, tarred and feathered, and rode, not on an ass, but on a rail... Did he multiply, and did he see his seed?

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A popular one at the Tabernacle services began:-- "Old Uncle Sam has sent, I understand, Du dah, A Missouri ass to rule our land, Du dah!

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Our God, who has commanded us to love our enemies, and to suffer without repining, would certainly not permit us to cross the seas, merely because murderers clothed in scarlet, and wearing caps two foot high, enlist citizens by a noise made with two little sticks on an ass's skin extended.

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FREEMAN'S PROTEGE ON SOUTHERN CIVILIZATION--HE TALKS AT THE RECEPTION AND MAKES OF HIMSELF AN ASS--THE ANOMALOUS CREATURE ON EXHIBITION--HE SHOWS THE CLOVEN FOOT.

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The defendant was held "because it was found that this was for default of guarding them,...for default of good guard," in 27 Ass., pl.

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; 27 Ass.

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114/1 See 27 Ass., pl.

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10; 27 Ass., pl.

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176/4 29 Ass.

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13; 42 Ass., pl.

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244/1 29 Ass., fol.

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400b, Section 10; 22 Ass., pl.

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22 Ass., pl.

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