The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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'If I were a theatrical ass,' he thought, 'I suppose I should be taking a horse-whip or a pistol or something!'

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You ass!

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I might have been saved all this if I had not been ass enough to put my neck into Gardner's noose that unlucky Derby-day.

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Why did you help me to salt, you old ass; why did you help me to salt?

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And to think that when I got back from the war with them Boers, after being left for dead on Spion Kop with a bullet through my lung and mentioned in a dispatch--yes, I, Sergeant Quick, mentioned in a dispatch by the biggest ass of a general as ever I clapped eyes on, for a job that I won't detail, no one in my native village ever took no note of me, although I had written to the parish clerk, who happens to be my brother-in-law, and told him the train I was coming by.

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Did you notice anything except bones and gold when that unutterable ass, Quick, suddenly turned on the lights--I mean struck the match which unfortunately he had with him."

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"Then he is an ass!" interrupted Quick; "for the Abati have no gratitude."

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"I'm not such an ass when I talk to myself.

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"You're an ass!" shrieked Rickie.

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He would say, "I love Miss Pembroke." and Stewart would reply, "You ass."

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"You ass," again.

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Now that's over and we shall never be that kind of an ass again.

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You're an ass, and I'm not.

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"You ass!" sputtered Rickie, who had taken to laugh at nonsense again.

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what an ass!

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what an ass!

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There is a bacchanalian monk, with ass's ears and glass in hand, laughing in the face of a whole community, as on the lavatory of the Abbey of Bocherville.

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So, when you addressed me, I was as foolish as an ass before a turnspit.

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Rot not like an unlettered ass, quasi asinus illitteratus , on the straw seats of the school.

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He tells us that the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of London had a boxing match in the Abbey; that the champion rode up the Hall on an ass, which turned restive and kicked over the royal table with all the plate; and that the banquet ended in a fight between the peers armed with stools and benches, and the cooks armed with spits.

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Many of Lucian's dialogues may also properly be called Varronian satires, particularly his true history; and consequently the "Golden Ass" of Apuleius, which is taken from him.

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Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain does clear-- Then you know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to Forty Year.

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There's not an ass in all the parish But he knows my John.

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Away--away from the dwellings of men, By the wild deer's haunt, by the buffalo's glen; By valleys remote where the oribi plays, Where the gnu, the gazelle, and the hartebeest graze, And the kudu and eland unhunted recline By the skirts of gray forest o'erhung with wild vine: Where the elephant browses at peace in his wood, And the river-horse gambols unscared in the flood, And the mighty rhinoceros wallows at will In the fen where the wild ass is drinking his fill.

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I think that Smith is thought an ass,-- I know that when they walk in grass She wears balmorals.

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"The mass ough' to labor an' we lay on soffies, Thet's the reason I want to spread Freedom's aree; It puts all the cunninest on us in office, An' reelises our Maker's orig'nal idee," Sez John C. Calhoun, sez he;-- "Thet's ez plain," sez Cass, "Ez thet some one's an ass, It's ez clear ez the sun is at noon," sez he.

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He caught their manners, looks, and airs; An ass in everything but ears!

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"Last year I rode a she-ass that could argue better than you!

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I was short and abominably dressed, and stood and stared in her face and never said a word, because I was shy, like an ass!

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But, to prove that this time I was speaking absolutely seriously, and especially to prove this to the prince (for you, prince, have interested me exceedingly, and I swear to you that I am not quite such an ass as I like to appear sometimes, although I am rather an ass, I admit), and-well, ladies and gentlemen, will you allow me to put just one more question to the prince, out of pure curiosity?

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Paul is an element--" "Paul," Mr. Treffry growled, "is an ass!"

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"Monsieur le Seneschal," said he in calmer tones, putting his anger from him, "at the best you are a blunderer and an ass, at the worst a traitor.

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In all these epistles, blockhead, dunce, ass, coxcomb, were the best epithets he gave poor John.

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The husband would gladly have taken a few rupees, and walked away; but the persecutors of my servant interfered, and insisted that he should be brought to trial in order that they might have the pleasure of smearing him with filth, giving him a flogging, beating kettles before him, and carrying him round on an ass with his face to the tail.

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He is a stupid, credulous, prosing old ass; yet I heartily wish that we had a good deal more of him.

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The masculine reader will now understand Carmen's confusion and blushes, and believe himself an ass to have thought them a confession of original affection.

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"Because he was such an egotistical ass as TO KEEP THE LETTER PROPOSING IT, which she had duly returned, among his papers as a sentimental record.

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But one of the heavy critics got hold of it, and made Mandeville appear, even to himself, he confessed, like an ass, because there was nothing in the volume about geology or mining prospects, and very little to instruct the student of physical geography.

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'What an ass I was to sell,' said he, 'when all this money was to be won!'

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"'And so you WERE an Ass,' said his partiklar friend, Colonel Claw, K.X.R., a director of the line, 'a double-eared 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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Mary, had you not preferred an ass to a man, would you have married Jack Bray, when a Michael Angelo offered?

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"Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear; Then you know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to forty year.

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To provision this immense army, and a population of double the amount within the walls, his Majesty caused the country to be scoured for fifty miles round, and left neither ox, nor ass, nor blade of grass.

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We have, however, come across a single specimen of pure gold evidently overlooked by the serene ass who has compiled this volume.

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'I've been an ass,' he thought; 'a horrible ass.'

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"No, Sir...." "Well, get it, then; and don't be an ass."

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Garton seemed to him an ass just then.

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Was he just a towny college ass like Robert Garton, as far from understanding this girl?

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'You're an ass!' he thought.

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But he may be an ass, and yet respected; or a ruffian, and yet be exceedingly popular; or a rogue, and yet excuses will be found for him.

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A man can't help being a fool, be he ever so old, and Sir George is a greater ass at sixty-eight than he was when he first entered the army at fifteen.

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Dull as you may be (and we have as good a right to assume that my lord is an ass, as the other proposition, that he is an enlightened patriot);--dull, I say, as you may be, no one will accuse you of such monstrous folly, as to suppose that you are indifferent to the good luck which you possess, or have any inclination to part with it.

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"Good Lord," he said, "you are a silly ass!"

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"He's a silly ass," responded T. X.

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"What an ass I am."

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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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Courtland took it with the sickening consciousness that for the last five minutes he had been an unconscionable ass.

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Leave that to the ineffable ass who put them there.

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And of all days their wont is to honour most that on which they were born, each one: on this they think it right to set out a feast more liberal than on other days; and in this feast the wealthier of them set upon the table an ox or a horse or a camel or an ass, roasted whole in an oven, and the poor among them set out small animals in the same way.

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201 These vessels are made both of very large size and also smaller, the largest of them having a burden of as much as five thousand talents' weight; 202 and in each one there is a live ass, and in those of larger size several.

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Also by night the Scythians used to make similar attacks: 129, and the thing which, strange to say, most helped the Persians and hindered the Scythians in their attacks upon the camp of Dareios, I will mention, namely the voice of the asses and the appearance of the mules; for Scythia produces neither ass nor mule, as I have declared before, nor is there at all in the Scythian country either ass or mule on account of the cold.

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"Now Balaam's she-ass has also started to talk!" said the old man, laughing.

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It is your license for the name of savage and ass."

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"Fancy, my dear fellow, that I revolted against the directions of that ass of a doctor, and I resolved to go out, whether it suited him or not: and, consequently, I told the valet who waited on me to bring me my clothes."

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"Fancy, my dear fellow, that I revolted against the directions of that ass of a doctor, and I resolved to go out, whether it suited him or not: and, consequently, I told the valet who waited on me to bring me my clothes."

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I should have turned back and gone away when I found out what an ass I was likely to be, but I was--afraid--you know, of alarming you by the noise."

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Think of me, old fellow, as the wretchedest ass you ever met, but not such a cad as this would make me!"

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

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"Lord, what an ass!"

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"You're an ass, then."

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"Ass" was evidently the word, and the angel retired, smiling with mundane satisfaction over the compliment that reached her ears.

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He is such an ass and so respectable, that one wonders he has not succeeded in the world; and yet somehow they laugh at him; and you and I shall be Ministers as soon as he will.

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I get on with him, therefore, much better than Mr. Prince, who scorns him for an ass, and under whose keen eyes the worthy Doctor writhes like a convicted impostor; and many a sunshiny afternoon would he have said, "Mr. T., sir, shall we try another glass of that yellow sealed wine which you seem to like?"

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I thought how I had mimicked him, and what an ass I had been.

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Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear-- Then you know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to Forty Year.

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And every day it came to pass, That four lusty meals made he; And, step by step, upon an ass, Rode abroad, his realms to see; And wherever he did stir, What think you was his escort, sir?

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Mailla, s. Ass, donkey.

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Ass and foal.

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In the old time the Roman who got from his brother money or other things on trust, and did not pay him again, could be made to work for him as horse, ass, or wood cutter for a year and a day.

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If a Roman got money, or other things, from my hand on credit, and did not repay me, how could I make him labour for me as horse, ass, or stick-cutter for one day, not to say for a year?

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What an ass I made of myself!

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So I am an old ass, and nothing more need be said about this.

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Indeed, this could hardly be ascertained with mammals, except by comparing the products of {their} whole life; and, as far as I know, this has only been ascertained in the case of the horse and ass, which do produce fewer offspring in {their} lifetime than in pure breeding.

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Now, Fritz Muller writes to me from S. Brazil: "I have been assured, by persons who certainly never had heard of Lord Morton's mare, that mares which have borne hybrids to an ass are particularly liable to produce afterwards striped ass-colts."

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The mule is more ass-like, and the hinny more horse-like, both in the respective lengths of the ears and the shape of the tail; but one point I have observed which I do not remember to have met with, and that is that the coat of the mule resembles that of its dam the mare, and that of the hinny its dam the ass, so that in this respect the prepotency of the sexes is reversed."

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From the geographical distribution of the striped and unstriped species of Equus there seems to be something very mysterious about the loss of stripes; and I cannot persuade myself that the common ass has lost its stripes owing to being rendered more conspicuous from having stripes and thus exposed to danger.

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Ass.

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I having C. purpureum, out of modesty like an ass refused.

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Ass, hybrids between mare and.

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The three condemned men were preceded by a constable, who rode backwards on an ass, and held in his hand a long pole, on the end of which were hung, still bleeding, the amputated limbs of a poor Jew who had suffered torture and death for some trifling crime.

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Then, striking his forehead, "Oh, thou wilt never be aught but an ass, Jean La Fontaine!" he added."

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"I say I shall never be aught but an ass," answered La Fontaine, with a heavy sigh and swimming eyes.

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