The 15,767 occurrences of ass
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An ass of a Mr. Gilbert Addicote dares us to make good our claim on our property, our timber, because half a score of fir-tree roots go stretching on to his ground.'
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An ass of a Mr. Gilbert Addicote dares us to make good our claim on our property, our timber, because half a score of fir-tree roots go stretching on to his ground.'
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But what made him turn himself into a headlong ass, when he had only to wait a night to sit among friends and worshippers drinking off his tumbler upon tumbler with the honours?
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But what made him turn himself into a headlong ass, when he had only to wait a night to sit among friends and worshippers drinking off his tumbler upon tumbler with the honours?
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The contemplation of the contrast, too, may save me from both: like the logic ass with the two trusses of hay on either side of him.
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The contemplation of the contrast, too, may save me from both: like the logic ass with the two trusses of hay on either side of him.
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She answered, 'The shape of an Ass that will carry two on its back, thou Perversity!'
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Go now, and wait outside the city in the shape of an Ass, with this saddle on thy back.'
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there was the Genie by a well under a palm, and he standing in the shape of an Ass, saddled.
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Surely, the Ass went at such a pace as never Ass went before in this world, resting not by the rivulets, nor under the palms, nor beside the date-boughs; it was as if the Ass scurried without motion of his legs, so swiftly went he.
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Then said she, 'Dismount, and be wary of moving to the front or to the rear of this Ass, and measure thy distance from the lash of his tail.'
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Then said she, 'To-morrow, at noon, we shall reach near the summit of the mountain and the Well of Paravid, if my power last over this Ass; and from that time thou wilt be on the high road to greatness, so fail not to remember what I have done for thee, and be not guilty of ingratitude when thy hand is the stronger.'
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Then she and Shibli Bagarag mounted him again, and she said to him, 'It is well thou wert more vigilant than I, and that the sun rose not on this Ass while I slept, or my enchantment would have thawed on him, and he would have 'scaped us.'
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or the jealousy of this Ass will be aroused, and of a surety he'll spill us.'
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Then they said, 'O Sultan of asses, ruler of monkeys, better that than thyself an ass and an ape!
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So he touched the lips of an animal with the waters of Paravid, and the animal prated volubly in our language of the kick this ass had given him, and the jibe of that monkey, and of his desire of litigation with such and such a beast for pasture; and the others when they spake had the same complaints to make.
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And I'm a Ass!
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Hang that confounded old ass of a Benson!
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He's a boy, this young ass!
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"You're an ass, Brayder," the nobleman exclaimed.
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It's an ass that trusts a fair woman at all, or has anything to do with the confounded set.
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"Ass!" muttered Edward, seeing by the light of his perception, that he was too thoroughly forgiven.
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"And now, farewell, my worthy ass!
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I know what loving a woman is; and a man in my position might be ass enough to--all sorts of things.
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The chairman grasped it: 'You're a hot-headed young fool, sir: you're an ill-tempered ferocious young ass.
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I could do that too, and it would not break me; so don't be a proud young ass, or I 'll throw my money to the geese.
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I dare say the Company will go to the dogs--every ass will follow a Duke.
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You ass, Ferdinand!
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Besides, my good Pericles, none but an ass would quarrel with you.
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"Do you think I can't deal with your women as well as your men, you ass?" said Weisspriess, enraged by the scandal of the scene.
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I know he is, but there 's an ass mounted on the good fellow.
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"I gave you a shilling, you ass!"
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blind ass!
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For personal and patriotic motives, I would have cheered her and been like a wild ass combed and groomed and tamed by the adorable creature.
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An ass of a Mr. Gilbert Addicote dares us to make good our claim on our property, our timber, because half a score of fir-tree roots go stretching on to his ground.'
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But what made him turn himself into a headlong ass, when he had only to wait a night to sit among friends and worshippers drinking off his tumbler upon tumbler with the honours?
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The contemplation of the contrast, too, may save me from both: like the logic ass with the two trusses of hay on either side of him.
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The very Ass participates The glory Freedom radiates!
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that gives him a naming Base to the ear as an ass's bray.
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An incomparable ass is Mr. Freddy Parker."
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Regarding the pious relic, for instance,--the thigh-bone of the saint, preserved in the principal church--he wrote: "A certain Perrelli who calls himself historian, which is as though one should call a mule a horse, or an ass a mule, brays loudly and disconnectedly about the femur of the local god.
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You can't think what an ass he was.
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You remember what an ass you made of yourself?"
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He made a perfect ass of himself, heedless of what anybody though or said of him.
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Oh, hold your tongue, you ass!" said Howard, apostrophising his rebellious mind.
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Worst of all the scene at the Vicarage, the book held in her slender fingers, her look of bewilderment and distress--what a pompous ass he had been, how stupid and coarse!
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"You are an ass!" said Howard, "a real ass!
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I was an ass to get him to do it; I hate doing a stupid thing, and he is simply wild with me.
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I feel rather an ass to have said that about Fred Guthrie; but of course he is hard hit, and I can't think how I shall ever be able to look him in the face.
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What a blind, complacent, petty ass I was--and am too, though I at least perceive it!
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"If you mean I'm an ass, you're right.
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"'I think you'd better not be an ass,' I said.
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"He turned red, and asked: 'What do you mean by being an ass?'
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What an ass he had been.
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Is that prehistoric ass your uncle?
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There was one which could not bear donkeys, and which used to stretch out its great teeth like some massive serpent after every poor diminutive ass that came with a coster's barrow.
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"Their wagon hitched to a star-which goes round and round like an ass in a gin," laughed Lilly.
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I heartily hope he'll beat that ass Chilvers.'
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If it seems to you to have no chance, keep it till I return, as I hate the humiliation of refusals.--Don't think I made an ass of myself the other night.
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But, oh, ass that I was!'
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"Don't be an ass, Mallow.
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"Because I know he's a dissipated young ass," returned Mallow roughly; "and I daresay you know it also."
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Silly ass!
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"Don't think me a conceited ass," he said, trying to laugh, "but Maraquito is in love with me.
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Jacob said of Issachar that he was "a strong ass dwelling between the terms.
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"[83] And so it is that a man in this state, and that feeleth the earnest of everlasting joy in his affection, is as "an ass, strong and dwelling between the terms"; because that, be he never so filled in soul of ghostly gladness and joy in God, yet, for corruption of the flesh in this deadly life, him behoveth bear the charge of the deadly body, as hunger, thirst, and cold, sleep, and many other diseases; for the which he is likened to an ass as in body; but as in soul he is strong for to destroy all the passions and the lusts of the flesh by patience and abstinence in the sensuality, and by abundance of ghostly joy and sweetness in the affection.
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But by day imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, stops a hole to keep the wind away; and the wild ass of the ninety-day tour stamps his heedless hoofs over the spot where sleeps the dust of departed grandeur.
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It only goes to show what an ass a donkey is.
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When a woman begins to talk of a man in this way, he is an ass who does not win her; and, for my part, I used to follow her about, and put myself in an attitude opposite her, 'and fascinate her with my glance,' as she said, most assiduously.
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But I only said, 'Pooh, madam, you are an ass!' being angry at her silly timidity, which was always showing itself in a thousand disagreeable ways now; and, turning round to Bryan, said, 'I promise your Lordship a good flogging if you mount him without my leave.'
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"Thank you, madam, I need nothing here," said Antony, stalking proudly off; while Humfrey, exclaiming "Don't be an ass, Tony!--Mother, no one would care to ask what we had given one another black eyes for in a friendly way," tried to hold him back, and he did linger when Cis added her persuasions to him not to return the spectacle he was at present.
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What an ass he had been not to have remembered himself and to have been collected,-not to have bethought himself on the occasion of all that might be due to Adolphus Crosbie!
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And then the idea came upon him whether he had not altogether made himself an ass in this matter.
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"What an ass I am to be afraid of her!" he said to himself as he walked along under the elms of Guestwick manor, which overspread the road to Allington.
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"What an ass I am to be afraid of her!"
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No one thinks of defending himself to a newspaper except an ass;-unless it be some fellow who wants to have his name puffed.
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You're making an ass of yourself.
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Nevertheless, when she flirted with Cradell, he did not like it, and was ass enough to speak to Cradell about it.
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"What an ass I have been,-always and ever!" he said to himself.
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He had talent enough, and his sort of talent would reach round the whole situation, but, as Fulkerson said, he was as many kinds of an ass as he was kinds of an artist.
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"Beaton has his times of being the greatest ass in the solar system, but he usually takes it out in personal conduct.
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Fulkerson was still morally crawling round on his hands and knees, as he said, in abject gratitude at Beaton's feet, though he had his qualms, his questions; and he declared that Beaton was the most inspired ass since Balaam's.
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We stopped at one place where a fellow was handling the cartridges pretty freely, and Mr. Dryfoos happened to caution him a little, and that ass came up with one of 'em in his hand, and began to pound it on the buggy-wheel to show us how safe it was.
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All he wants is somebody to take him in hand and keep him from makin' an ass of himself and kickin' over the traces generally, and ridin' two or three horses bareback at once."
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She made me feel ass number one.
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"I am an ass; and our science is a bubble."
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Stupid ass!"
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She is not such an ass."
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It was all the assent he could effect: and at that moment there passed through him the sacrilegious thought that the Conqueror must have imported an ass or two among his other forces, and that one of these, intermarrying with Saxon blood, had produced a mule, and that mule was his friend.
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"[Greek]," ladies, is "divination by means of an ass's skull."
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ass!!!!"
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On Bazalgette: "Ass!
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thus fully prepared, add the grace of the throne, The folly of monarchs, and screen of a crown-- Take a prince for his purpose, without ears or eyes, And a long parchment roll stuff'd brimful of lies: These mingled together, a fiat shall pass, and the thing be a Peer, that before was an ass.
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I remember in the fairy tales where a yellow dwarf steals a princess, and shows her his duchy, of which he is very proud: among the blessings of grandeur, of which he makes her mistress, there is a most beautiful ass for her palfrey, a blooming meadow of nettles and thistles to walk in, and a fine troubled ditch to slake her thirst, after either of the above mentioned exercises.
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"Well," said the squire, "very glad to see you, Harry; but do you mean to tell me that your mother's religion is not good enough for a damned ass like you?"
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Both the men make me wish to burst upon the scene, when they are grossly mishandling some simple situation; but while I want to kick King, when he is retreating with dignity, my only desire is to explain to Prout as patiently as I can what an ass he is.
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And that ass from Illinois--" "Oh, poor papa!
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I suppose that arrogant old ass of a Triscoe looks upon me as a grinning dotard."
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