The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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22 Ass., pl.

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27 Ass., fol.

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What an ass that masher is!

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Do you think it likely that old Nicholas Gandelu would ever have been ass enough to call his son Gaston?

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"In another moment I should have knocked the conceited ass down.

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"You would not be such an ass," said he.

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Odd, that he had never noticed before how vacuous this fellow was--with his talk of politics, and racing, of this ass and that ass--subjects hitherto of primary importance!

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When the dean of Christ's Church insisted on the use of the Roman Ordinal, he was denounced by the bishop-elect as "an ass-headed dean and a blockhead who cared only for his belly," and when Browne ventured to suggest that the ceremony should be delayed until a decision could be sought, he was attacked as "an apicure," whose only object was "to take up the proxies of any bishopric to his own gluttonous use."

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Thus he had done to Adrastos; and he also changed the names of the Dorian tribes, in order that the Sikyonians might not have the same tribes as the Argives; in which matter he showed great contempt of the Sikyonians, for the names he gave were taken from the names of a pig and an ass by changing only the endings, except in the case of his own tribe, to which he gave a name from his own rule.

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59 ( return ) [ "Ass-ites."]

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You remember Issachar was likened to an ass between two burdens.

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"But, O'Brien, how could you be such an ass?" said Mackinnon.

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For instance, our mayor here is a perfect ass!

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"I told you he was an ass!"

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It doesn't matter that Golushkin is an ass, and as for Kisliakov's letters, they may perhaps be absurd, but we must consider the most important thing.

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"Hold on at least until we get an ultimatum from that commodious ass at the Presidio!

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He concluded this amiable rhapsody, the latter part of which was levelled at a lugubrious weakness of his grandmother's for the superfluous embellishment of the dead, by telling her it was bad enough to be tied by the foot like an ass, without settling down on his back like a cast sheep.

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Among the great wind riders-carried over long distances from every shore and resting on the waves from their exhausting flights-I spotted some magnificent albatross, birds belonging to the Longipennes (long-winged) family, whose discordant calls sound like the braying of an ass.

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"Then be called ten times a donkey, and a mule, and an ass, and begone, or I'll clear the world of thee!"

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Turn cockney up, with no more ado, or you'll both get kicked to hell some dark night by "BALAAM'S ASS."

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What, do you think I'll be such an ass as to have Brains in a country where Brains are a crime?

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Had Titania's eyes been disenchanted when she was fondling the immortal Weaver, she might have perished with disgust; and it is scarcely strange that Miss Mayhew should be ill on finding that she was infatuated with a man who was both ass and villain.

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Anno Domini eighteen-seven, Father Dominguez (now in heaven,-- Obiit eighteen twenty-seven) Found the spring, and found it, too, By his mule's miraculous cast of a shoe; For his beast--a descendant of Balaam's ass-- Stopped on the instant, and would not pass.

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It was called after Dow,-- Which the same was an ass,-- And as to the how Thet the thing kem to pass,-- Jest tie up your hoss to that buckeye, and sit ye down here in the grass.

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Now I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent To say another is an ass,--at least, to all intent; Nor should the individual who happens to be meant Reply by heaving rocks at him, to any great extent.

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Was I such an ass?

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Tell 'ee thou'rt an ass, gell!

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An ass!

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An ass!

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As offspring will only, as a general rule, vary very little from its immediate parents, and as it will fail either immediately or in the second generation if the parents differ too widely from one another, so we cannot get our idea of-we will say a horse-to conjure up to our minds the idea of any animal more unlike a horse than a pony is; nor can we get a well-defined idea of a combination between a horse and any animal more remote from it than an ass, zebra, or giraffe.

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It makes you look like an ass."

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"I only said it made you look like an ass," he remarked.

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That's why I only say you look like an ass.

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You are an ass in some respects; but you are letting yourself look like one now for some shrewd end.

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"I told you that professing to be an ass wouldn't be good enough in this case.

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At length-as common sense will get the better in all cases when a man will but give it fair play-I began to stand convicted in my own mind, as an ass before the interview, for having expected too much-an ass during the interview, for having failed to extract the lady's real purpose-and an especial ass, now that it was over, for thinking so much about it.

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What an ass was I, Alan, not to have anticipated her wishes!

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Notwithstanding all this, Alan, it might be DOOTED, as our old Professor used to say, whether the Justice was anything more then an ass.

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The Justice was an ass, that was clear; but if was scarcely possible he could be so utterly ignorant as not to know what was necessary in so plain a case as mine.

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he is an ass notwithstanding; and his functionary in the drab coat must have a shrewd guess at the consequences of being accessory to an act of murder or kidnapping.

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He gaped and remained silent when the teacher asked him a question, and like an overladen ass patiently suffered all the blows that came down on his back.

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He might cut and carry grass for the ass, which was the only other animal he was permitted to own; and this ass was permitted, because its existence was rather an advantage to the oppressor, who constantly availed himself of the Cagot's mechanical skill, and was glad to have him and his tools easily conveyed from one place to another.

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He was essentially glib, as becomes the young advocate, and essentially careless of the truth, which is the mark of the young ass; and so he talked at random.

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It is easy to be an ass and follow the multitude like a blind, besotted bull in a stampede; and that, I am well aware, is what you and Mrs. Grundy mean by being honest.

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The servant and La Fallotte came on the same ass, making such haste that they arrived at the castle before the day had fully dawned.

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"That's just it; the murderer must have been there and bolted himself in; and they'd have caught him for a certainty if Koch had not been an ass and gone to look for the porter too.

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But I see that's a delicate matter and I am an ass; forgive me.

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Koch, like an ass, did not stay at the door; so the murderer popped out and ran down, too; for he had no other way of escape.

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"Of course, I am an ass," he observed, sombre as a storm cloud, "but still... you are another."

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what an ass you are sometimes!

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Katerina Ivanovna flushed crimson and at once said aloud across the table that the man who sent it was "a drunken ass!"

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"Look at that ass!" said Soames; "he must be mad to walk like that in this heat!"

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How on earth a fellow could make such an ass of himself Soames could not conceive; but he had done so, and all the rancour and hidden jealousy that had been burning against him for so long was now focussed in rage at this crowning piece of extravagance.

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Why, pray, do you talk nonsense, as if you had fallen from an ass?

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First, of course, he will have to "find" himself, as the French say, and if he does not find an ass, then, like Saul the son of Kish, he may discover a kingdom.

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What an ass a man can make of himself when he thinks he's being preternaturally clever!'

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By the way, I can't help being an ass tonight; I'm obliged to go on blithering.

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

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"Look at young Davies makin' an ass of himself over mutton-dressed-as-lamb old enough to be his mother!"

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FIRST SERVANT Now give him this other one kneaded up with ass's dung.

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The iron-souled truth-monger would plainly manifest, or even utter the fact that he didn't want to see those people--and he would be an ass, and inflict totally unnecessary pain.

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you ass,' were all Percy's thanks; for at that moment a horseman came forward from among the enemy, a gigantic form on a tall white horse, altogether a 'dark gray man,' the open visor revealing an elderly face, hard-featured and grim, and the shield on his arm so dinted, faded, and battered, as scarce to show the blue chief and the bleeding crowned heart; but it was no unfamiliar sight to Malcolm's eyes, and with a slight shudder he bent his head in answer to the fierce whisper, 'Old Douglas himself!' with which Hotspur's son certified himself that he had the foe of his house before him.

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In the ages of faith, an ass dressed in sacerdotal robes was gravely conducted to the cathedral choir at a certain season, and mass was said before him, and hymns chanted discordantly.

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Ass., August 7, 1789.

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ass.

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ass.

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[Footnote 5207: "Procèx-verbaux de l'ass.

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[Footnote 5208: "Procès-verbaux de l'ass.

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[Footnote 5217: "Procès-verbaux de l'ass.

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72] [Footnote 5219: "Procés-verbaux de l'ass.

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[Footnote 5227: "Procèx-verbaux de l'ass.

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[Footnote 5229: "Procèx-verbaux de l'ass.

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[Footnote 5240: "Procès-verbaux de l'ass.

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"Procès-verbaux de l'ass.

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[Footnote 5248: "Procès-verbaux de l'ass.

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[Footnote 5250: "Procès-verbeaux de l'ass.

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[Footnote 5251: Archives nationales, G, 322 (Memorandum on the excise dues of Compiègne and its neighborhood, 1786)] [Footnote 5252: "Procès-verbaux de l'ass.

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[Footnote 5253: "Procès-verbaux de l'ass.

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[Footnote 5256: "Procès-verbaux de l'ass.

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[Footnote 5260: "Procès-verbaux de l'ass.

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[Footnote 5262: De Tocqueville, 385.--"Procès-verbaux de l'ass.

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[Footnote 5269: "Procès-verbaux de l'ass.

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[Footnote 5317: "Procès-verbaux de l'ass.

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[Footnote 5324: De Calonne, "Mémoires presentés à l'ass.

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[Footnote 5337: "Process-verbaux de l'ass.

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[Footnote 5342: "Procès-verbaux de l'Ass.

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The volunteers, however, force open the guard-house, and throw the man out of the first-story window; they then finish him off with "blows with clubs and weights," drag his body along the street and cast it into the river.--The evening before, at Clairac,[3255] M. Lartigue-Langa, an unsworn priest, pursued through the street by a troop of men and women, who wanted to remove his cassock and set him on an ass, found refuge, with great difficulty, in his country-house.

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"Men, under his government, who had hitherto been considered incapable are made useful; men hitherto considered distinguished found themselves mixed in with the crowd; men hitherto regarded as the pillars of the State found themselves useless ... An ass or a knave need never be ambitious to approach Bonaparte, they will make nothing out of him."]

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He was no ass, notwithstanding his peculiarities, and made good use of his opportunity.

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"Who, I?" replied the counsellor "I will not give up one hair of his head, though I should follow them to the court of last resort in his behalf--but what signified mooting points and showing one's hand to that old ass?

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THE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS An honest farmer had once an ass that had been a faithful servant to him a great many years, but was now growing old and every day more and more unfit for work.

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So he picked out a fine head and ate of it; but scarcely had he swallowed two bites when he felt himself quite changed, and saw with horror that he was turned into an ass.

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Then the witch herself took it into the kitchen to be dressed; and when it was ready she could not wait till it was carried up, but took a few leaves immediately and put them in her mouth, and scarcely were they swallowed when she lost her own form and ran braying down into the court in the form of an ass.

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Now the servant-maid came into the kitchen, and seeing the salad ready, was going to carry it up; but on the way she too felt a wish to taste it as the old woman had done, and ate some leaves; so she also was turned into an ass and ran after the other, letting the dish with the salad fall on the ground.

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Some days after, the miller came to him and told him that the old ass was dead; 'The other two,' said he, 'are alive and eat, but are so sorrowful that they cannot last long.'

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He had got that off his mind; she would not let Annette commit herself with that cheerful young ass until...!

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'Posing ass!' thought Soames.

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