The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Now it happened one day that my sire rode out a-hunting and gave chase to a wild ass[FN#239] with such hot pursuit that he found himself at eventide separated from his suite; so, wearied with the chase, he dismounted from his steed and seating himself by the side of a forest-path, he said to himself "The onager will doubtless seek cover in this copse."

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Then he went with the other ass, to wit, the beast whereon was laid the corpse to the widow's house and knocked gently at the door.

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The man tells his story, at which the walÝ laughs, calls him an ass for coming so far because of a dream, and adds that he himself had had a similar dream of a great treasure buried in the garden of such a house in Baghdad, but he was not so silly as to go there.

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It is the "wild ass" of Jeremiah (ii.

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The skin of the wild ass's back produces the famous shagreen, a word seemingly derived from the Pers.

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In Lane's story of the man metamorphosed to an ass, the old woman, "quickly covering her face, declared the fact."

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Accordingly, the boys collected their belongings and laded them upon an ass and we walked about half-way when behold, the whole party, big and little, stood still and said to me, "O our lord, we are athirst and burning with drowthiness, nor can we stir from this spot and if we leave it without drinking we shall all die."

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But as he went I bespake him with the words which the poet sang when the Ass of Umm Amr[FN#222] went off:-- Ass and Umm Amr bewent their way; * Nor Ass nor Umm Amr returned for aye, and then I cited the saying of another:-- When I forced him to fare I bade him hie, * Where Umm Kash'am[FN#223] caused her selle to fly."

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Hereat they mounted him upon an ass and bore him to the place he described and, pitching a tent, set him therein and all sat around him.

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Shaw and other travellers mention the Mauritanian "Jumart," the breed between a bull and a mare (or jennyass) or an ass and a cow.

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Buffon disbelieved in the mongrel, holding it to be a mere bardeau, got by a stallion horse out of an ass.

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The model man was Iyás al-Muzani, al-Kazi (of Bassorah), in the 2nd century A.H., mentioned by Al-Harírí in his 7th Ass.

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Hence, if Ass and Umm Amr went off together, it is more than likely that neither came back.--St.]

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It was considered a point of good breeding to use these "Kunyah" for the purpose of varying speech (see al-Hariri Ass.

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Hereupon the youth started from sleep and went forth and found his cousin who was leading a she-mule and an ass, so the twain bestrode either beast and travelled through the remnant of the night until the morning morrowed.

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Then she came to him at midnight leading a she-mule and an ass and bringing somewhat of her father's moneys and she knocked at the youth's door and he came out to her and both went forth, he and she, in the outer darkness of that murky night and the Veiler veiled her way."

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"Then art thou from the foulest and filthiest of a Catamite race, whose youth is a scapegrace and whose old age hath the wits of an ass."

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Do thou cry out to the Syce that he fetch me hither an ass and accompany me to the house of my mother, wherein I shall lie some three nights after the fashion of folk."

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Hereupon he called to the horse-keeper and when he came before him, ordered the man to bring an ass,[FN#387] and mount his mistress and hie with her; and the fellow, hearing these words, was hugely delighted.

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So the Syrian went forth and hired him an ass which he drove out of the city to a neighbouring clump of Ausaj-bushes[FN#595] and other thorns whereof he cut down a donkey-load, and setting the net-full upon the beast's back returned to the city.

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And amongst other things it happened[FN#604] that a Cairene went to borrow a donkey from another man, a Damascene, wishing to ride it to a wedding, and when he met his friend he saluted him and said, "Ho Such-an-one, lend me thine ass for such a purpose."

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The loan of an ass is usually granted gratis in Fellah villages and Badawi camps.

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never saw I thy like for an ass nor aught than thyself meaner of capacity nor mightier of imbecility; for indeed thou carries" in thy head lightness and in thy wits slackness.

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means donkey, ass.

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Appointed Term, which, if it be Advanced may not be Deferred, and if it be Deferred, may not be Advanced, Of the, i. Arab of the Banu Tay, Al-Nu'uman and the, i. Ass, Tale of the Sharpers with the Shroff and the, i. Attaf, The Tale of, vi.

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This is the eleventh question of the twelve in Al-Hariri, Ass.

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xxiv., and the sixth of Ass.

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In the xxiiid Ass.

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See also Ass.

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See Al-Hariri's Ass.

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In Al-Hariri (Ass.

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"I am speaking of the game, Citizen Lepitre; do me the pleasure of not making yourself an ass.

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"I will show you at once that I have told you the truth, and that you are making an ass of yourself, or at least that you are on the point of doing so.

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"You are an ass for letting him talk such nonsense, and for believing it yourself, Citizen Joly," cried Naudin with a laugh, and then entering the anteroom.

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"All the others would leave him, but I pay no attention to old Fritz's snarling and scolding, for he pays for it afterward; first, it rains abusive words, then dollars, and if the stupid ass hits me over the head, he gives me at least a ducat for it.

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I remain the fine handsome fellow that I am, if the old bear does call me an ass!

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Remember it, you ass!"

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Permit me to say to you that Goethe behaved like a brute and an ass to you!"

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I insist upon it that that man is sometimes a brute and an ass!

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I hope you will not visit the very learned Herr Nicolai, the insipid prosaist, the puffed-up rationalist, who believes that his knowledge permits him to penetrate every thing, and who is a veritable ass."

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"If Lavater says so, he is a fool and an ass," cried Chodowiecki, furiously, "and he can hide himself in the remotest corner of the earth.

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To the May-sports upon the Blockberg they ride upon a little ass with golden horns--with Pharisaical mien, praying with their eyes, 'I thank Thee, O Lord, that I am a philosopher, that I am not as the world's children, vain, proud, and arrogant.'

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Ass.

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Don't be an ass and throw yourself away.

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The humble ass hung his head in his usual manner, and it demanded little fancy from Ethelberta to imagine that he despised her.

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"I'll tell you the whole rigmarole," replied the genial ass.

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I therefore modestly opened my mouth in parable, recounting some half-dozen noteworthy reminiscences, as they occurred to my imagination, and always slightly or scornfully referring to the magnanimous and indomitable hero of my yarn as 'one of these open-hearted English fools,' or as 'an ass of a John Bull that had n't sense enough to mind his own business.'

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Dot molestation to youzelluf solitary vill pe, unt von apology ver despicable iss to me reqvire ass der conseqvence.

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"Vill you said, mit you proximate-ensuing interview, dot der two Yarman moreprogues schall peen ass pig fools ass efer!"

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Twilight is here, soft breezes bow the grass, Day's sounds of various toil break slowly off, The yoke-freed oxen low, the patient ass Dips his dry nostril in the cool, deep trough.

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The others who did not like him called him "an affected ass."

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But Jimmy was not destined soon to forget her, for as the jobless days passed and he realized more and more what an ass he had made of himself, and why, he had occasion to think about her a great deal, although never in any sense reproaching her.

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What an ass I used to be, Tweeny.

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He noted too a little ass that was standing beyond the curraghs, sheltering himself where the cliffs hollowed in.

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Now this ass was as curious as the seal, and when he saw the smooth creature that was moving its head about with such intelligence he came down to the water's edge.

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"I'm Cock-o'-the-Walk," said the Cock to a rusty ass's shoe.

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One pulled in a black ass loaded with nets.

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She had neither ox nor ass nor sheep nor pig.

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THE BRAYING OF AN ASS XI.

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"Behold," announced Peppino gravely, "Italy's latest translation of the Golden Ass of Apuleius."

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THE BRAYING OF AN ASS When on the morrow, towards the twenty-second hour, the High and Mighty Gian Maria Sforza rode into his capital at Babbiano, he found the city in violent turmoil, occasioned, as he rightly guessed, by the ominous presence of Caesar Borgia's envoy.

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But so far, we have only heard the braying of an ass."

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"The braying of an ass?" he muttered, facing Caterina.

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"The jaw-bone of an ass did sore execution on one occasion, Madonna, and it may again.

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After that if any farmer thought that he was not properly represented in Parliament, it showed that he was an ass.

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Gerald told himself, "don't be an ass!

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"Well, then you'd have made an ass of yourself I don't suppose it ud be the first time," said Jimmy.

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Like King Midas, before whose thirsty lips every thing turned to gold, and who was starving in the midst of all his glory, I beseech you, stepfather, undertake the role of the barber, bore a hole and cry out in it that I have ass's ears--ears as long as those of King Midas.

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You made an ass of yourself.

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I am sorry, too, that you think I made an ass of myself.

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You must think me an utter ass.

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The master mouth has no more than before; the owner, methinks, is like Genus in the fable, who is perpetually winding a rope of hay and an ass at the end perpetually eating it.

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The men called an ass a savant; and said of Caffarelli Dufalga, alluding to his wooden leg, 'He laughs at all these troubles; he has one foot to France.'"

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--"What an ass that Junot is!

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He is an ass; so much the worse for him."

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The men called an ass a savant; and said of Caffarelli Dufalga, alluding to his wooden leg, 'He laughs at all these troubles; he has one foot to France.'"]

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"-"What an ass that Junot is!

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He is an ass; so much the worse for him."

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; and a masked figure, representing Doctor Gall, was seated on an ass, his head turned to the animal's tail, and receiving from the hands of a woman who followed him, and was also seated on an ass, heads covered with wigs made of long grass.

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; and a masked figure, representing Doctor Gall, was seated on an ass, his head turned to the animal's tail, and receiving from the hands of a woman who followed him, and was also seated on an ass, heads covered with wigs made of long grass.

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Who for seeing me one while cold and presently very fond towards my wife, believes the one or the other to be counterfeited, is an ass.

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Madame, how should I hate such a recommendation of being a clever fellow at writing, and an ass and an inanity in everything else!

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I have often seen these counterfeit and artificial liberties practised, but, for the most part, without success; they relish of AEsop's ass who, in emulation of the dog, obligingly clapped his two fore-feet upon his master's shoulders; but as many caresses as the dog had for such an expression of kindness, twice so many blows with a cudgel had the poor ass for his compliment: "Id maxime quemque decet, quod est cujusque suum maxime."

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We eat and drink, indeed, as beasts do; but these are not actions that obstruct the functions of the soul, in these we maintain our advantage over them; this other action subjects all other thought, and by its imperious authority makes an ass of all Plato's divinity and philosophy; and yet there is no complaint of it.

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Who for seeing me one while cold and presently very fond towards my wife, believes the one or the other to be counterfeited, is an ass.

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Madame, how should I hate such a recommendation of being a clever fellow at writing, and an ass and an inanity in everything else!

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I have often seen these counterfeit and artificial liberties practised, but, for the most part, without success; they relish of AEsop's ass who, in emulation of the dog, obligingly clapped his two fore-feet upon his master's shoulders; but as many caresses as the dog had for such an expression of kindness, twice so many blows with a cudgel had the poor ass for his compliment: "Id maxime quemque decet, quod est cujusque suum maxime."

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We eat and drink, indeed, as beasts do; but these are not actions that obstruct the functions of the soul, in these we maintain our advantage over them; this other action subjects all other thought, and by its imperious authority makes an ass of all Plato's divinity and philosophy; and yet there is no complaint of it.

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He did indeed seem to lead a mysterious life of his own and paid very little attention to Maggie, asking her once whether she did not think The Golden Ass wonderful, and what did she think of Petronius; and when Maggie laughed and said that she was glad to say she never read anything, he left her in an agitated horror.

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Paul seemed to them frankly an ass, and they would be glad when he went away.

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He did not seem to Maggie an ass.

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It was only that he had been an egregious ass to think that he could win her love, in the face of a man like Captain Leo Frazer.

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When he was ill, I left him to Ernescliffe, and lay on the floor like an ass; and if he were to ask me to touch his arm, I should be as bad again.

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If I had not gone on like an ass the other day, and incited them to pull down the fences, they would not have done it afterwards, and perhaps I ought to have kept on guard longer.

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