The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Somebody gives me to him, like a she-ass or she-goat, or any other domestic animal.

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I should feel like an ass.

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Superintendent Seegrave is an ass."

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I could scarcely believe him (taking Mr. Franklin's view) to be quite such an ass as that.

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I can't affirm that he was on the watch for his brother officer's speedy appearance in the character of an Ass--I can only say that I strongly suspected it.

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The silly ass who owns her,-he's captain too, named Davies,-he's lost his certificate, or something.

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But I made a young ass of myself,-played myself out before I was twenty-one.

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But I must look up that ass of a cook, and see what he's done to your mutton."

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I'm an ass, and yet somehow I would like to tell you."

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That captain was a silly ass.

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"What an ass I was to mention it to you!

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I heard his astonished cry, "don't be a silly ass, man!"

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"Look here, Prendick," said Montgomery, "you're a silly ass!

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"I was a silly ass," said Montgomery.

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"This silly ass of a world," he said; "what a muddle it all is!

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"You're a solemn prig, Prendick, a silly ass!

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Amongst large-winged birds, carried a long distance from all lands and resting upon the waves from the fatigue of their flight, I saw some magnificent albatrosses, uttering discordant cries like the braying of an ass, and birds belonging to the family of the long-wings.

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They uttered a cry like the braying of an ass, were about the size of a goose, slate-colour on the body, white beneath, with a yellow line round their throats; they allowed themselves to be killed with a stone, never trying to escape.

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It is a spell, a witchery, ruled by chance alone, inexplicable--a fairy queen enamored of a clown with ass's ears.

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Next he came on two women who had with them an ass between two panniers, laden with country stuff; and they were sitting by the wayside, one old and the other young.

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They had a sumpter-ass with them for their livelihood on the waste; but they went afoot crowned with flowers, and the pipe and tabour playing before them, and much people brought them on the way.

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The masses feel that drunkenness, stupidity, and immorality should be their own special property, and that if any one of us makes an ass of himself, he is poaching on their preserves.

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"What an ass the man was to get in front of the guns!

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These were easily obtained effects; and I explained to M. de Chagny that Erik imitated the roar of a lion on a long tabour or timbrel, with an ass's skin at one end.

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What an exquisite ass I was!"

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He had been an ass, but it was not irreparable; he could make another statue in a couple of months.

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"Gloriani 's an ass!" said Roderick, almost fiercely.

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If Roderick had taken it ill (which was unlikely, for we know he thought Gloriani an ass, and expected little of his wisdom), he might have been soothed by the candid incense of Sam Singleton, who came and sat for an hour in a sort of mental prostration before both bust and artist.

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I was a great ass.

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"Though I 'm a great ass, all the same, eh?

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"I was a great ass, but it does n't make the blow any easier to bear."

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"Because your great-grandfather was an ass, is that any reason why you should be?

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As he did so his ears tingled--he had come very near being an ass.

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Once in the street, he stood for some time on the pavement, wondering whether, after all, he was not an ass not to have discharged his pistol.

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As the father of Isaac and Ishmael, he is ultimately the common ancestor of the Israelites and their nomadic fierce neighbours, men roving unrestrainedly like the wild ass, troubled by and troubling every one (xvi.

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The giraffe is found in the western districts, the zebra and wild ass frequent the lower plateaus and the rocky hills of the north.

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and Ass.

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and Ass.

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In some places, occupying the sides and hollows of ravines, are found the rose bay (Nerium Oleander), called in Persian khar-zarah, or ass-bane, the wild laburnum and various Indigoferae.

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The wild ass, Gorkhar of Persia (Equus onager), is frequent on the sandy tracts in the south-west.

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The open savannas are the home of large ungulates, especially antelopes, the giraffe (peculiar to Africa), zebra, buffalo, wild ass and four species of rhinoceros; and of carnivores, such as the lion, leopard, hyaena, &c. The okapi (a genus restricted to Africa) is found only in the dense forests of the Congo basin.

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Abu Musa was appointed umpire on the part of Ali, and 'Amr-ibn-el-Ass, a veteran diplomatist, on the part of Moawiya.

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Allan continued his studies for some time in London; but his attempt to establish himself there was unsuccessful, and after exhibiting at the Royal Academy (1805) his first picture, ''A Gipsy Boy and Ass,'' an imitation in style of Opie, he determined, in spite of his scanty resources, to seek his fortune abroad.

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Passo di Lares (Lares Glacier to the Lobbia Glacier), snow... 10,483 Passo di Cercen (gal di Genova to Fucine), snow...9,984 Passo della Lobbia Alta (Lobbia Glacier to the Mandron (Glacier), snow...9,961 Passo di Presena (Val di Genova to the Tonale Pass), snow...9,879 Pisgana f'ass ()al di Genova to Ponte di Legno), snow...9,626 Bocca di Tuckett (Campiglio to Molveno), snow...8,714 Passo di Val Morta or del Diavolo (Val Seriana to Sondrio), foot path...8,534 Ulocca di Brenta (Pinzolo or Campiglio to Molveno), snow...8,376 Passo del Groste fcampiglio to Clesl, foot path...8,006 Passo di Veniua (kal Brembana to Sondrio), foot path...7,983 Passo del Salro (Val Seriana to Sondrio), foot path...7,937 Passo del Venerocolo (Val di Scalvc to the Aprica road), bridle path....7,595 Passo della Forcellina or di Campo (Cedegolo to the Val di Fomo), foot path...7,507 V'asso di Idordona (Val Brembana to Sondrio), foot path...6,824 Passo di San Marco (Bergamo to Morbegno), bridle path...6,513 Croce Domini Pass (Breno to Bagolino in Val Caffaro), bridle path...6,217 Tonale Tass (.Trent to Edolo), carriage road...6,181 Passo di Zovetto (Val di Scalve to Edolo), bridle path...5,968 Colle Maniva (Val Trompia to Bagolino), bridle path...5,476 Campo or Ginevrie Pass (Oimaro by Campiglio to Pinzolo), carriage road...5,407 Ciampenjoch (Cles to Meran), foot path...5,051 Mendel Pass (Botzen to Cles), railway on the E. slope...4,462 Passo di Castione or Presolana Pass (Clusone to the Val di Scalve), carriage road...4,219 Aprica Pass (Edolo to Tirano), carriage road...3,875 17.

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'AMR-IBN-EL-ASS, or 'AMR (strictly 'AMR B.

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3 Ass.

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....... Can use this horse, goat, wolf, and ev'ry beast, And is not ass himself to all the rest!

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Conceive you--that ass!

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"You're an hysterical ass," I said a little impatiently.

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Oft too with oil or apples plenty-cheap The creeping ass's ribs his driver packs, And home from town returning brings instead A dented mill-stone or black lump of pitch.

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"The crazy ass!" he said to himself.

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-He is Roped In.-His Dull Eyes Lit Up.-Four Aces, you Ass!

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There wasn't a human being in this town but knew that that boy was a perfect chucklehead; perfect dummy; just a stupid ass, as you may say.

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This ass had been reading the 'Jibbenainosay,' no doubt, and had had his poor romantic head turned by it; but as I had not yet seen the book then, I took his inventions for truth, and did not suspect that he was a plagiarist.

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All I desired to ask Mr. Bixby was the simple question whether he was ass enough to really imagine he was going to find that plantation on a night when all plantations were exactly alike and all the same color.

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He said, 'Well, taking you by-and-large, you do seem to be more different kinds of an ass than any creature I ever saw before.

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It was nothing; I could have done it easy enough, and I said so; but everybody went on just the same, making a wonderful to do over that ass, as if he had done something great.

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I suppose I'll never hear the last of how I was ass enough to heave the lead at the head of 66.'

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-He is Roped In.-His Dull Eyes Lit Up.-Four Aces, you Ass!

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'Four ACES, you ass!' thundered Backus, covering his man with a cocked revolver.

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They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter--the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, and he lies fast asleep.

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They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter--the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.

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BAHRAM GUR.--Bahram of the Wild Ass--a Sassanian Sovereign--had also his Seven Castles (like the King of Bohemia!)

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of asno an ass.]

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asinus ass.

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See Ass.]

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Ass (?

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), n. [F. ass‚cution, fr.

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Ass¶ish (?

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), a. Resembling an ass; asinine; stupid or obstinate.

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), n. A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column; Ð an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking.

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½A fool's bauble was a short stick with a head ornamented with an ass's ears fantastically carved upon it.¸ Nares.

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To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass.

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Bray, n. The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.

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Bray¶er, n. One that brays like an ass.

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See under Ass, Bascule, Bateau.

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?ass as fire.

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[Sp., an ass.]

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Wherever a fresco peels and drops, Wherever an outline weakens and wanes Till the latest life in the painting stops, Stands One whom each fainter pulse-tick pains: One, wishful each scrap should clutch the brick, Each tinge not wholly escape the plaster, --A lion who dies of an ass's kick, The wronged great soul of an ancient Master.

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The fool shall mount an Arab steed And Jesus ride upon an ass.

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And don't you think you were an ass?"

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Good LORD, what an ass you've made of yourself now!"

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"Why, what an ass you are, Buck," observed Presley calmly.

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Returning to the issue at hand, if your Papist wishes to make a great fuss about the word "alone" (sola), say this to him: "Dr. Martin Luther will have it so and he says that a papist and an ass are the same thing."

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An ass truly does not have to sing much as he is already known for his ears.

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I have learned what an art and job translating is by experience, so I will not tolerate some papal ass or mule as my critic, or judge.

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"Yes: you were so patient, and so dear to her; and you saw at once what a damned ass I'd been!"

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He caught her hands, pulled her close, and, with his forehead drawn into its whimsical smiling wrinkles, "Look here," he cried, "if Darrow wants to call me a damned ass too you're not to stop him!"

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Did Judy really think you could bring yourself to marry that portentous little ass?

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And perhaps you won't think poor old Gus such an awful ass as some people do."

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That silly ass Silverton brings them to the house--he writes poetry, you know, and Bertha and he are getting tremendously thick.

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Lord knows I've been patient enough--I've hung round and looked like an ass.

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I didn't begin this business--kept out of the way, and left the track clear for the other chaps, till you rummaged me out and set to work to make an ass of me--and an easy job you had of it, too.

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I say, Lawrence, chuck your engagement and take pity on me--it gives me the blue devils to dine alone, and there's nobody but that canting ass Wetherall in the club."

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'Stop it, you SILLY ass!' cried the Rat, from the bottom of the boat.

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Indeed, I have been a complete ass, and I know it.

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'O STOP being an ass, Toad!' cried the Mole despairingly.

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If there's nothing really the matter, the doctor will tell him he's an old ass, and cheer him up; and that will be something gained.

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The air of the narrow cell took a rosy tinge; he began to think of his friends, and how they would surely be able to do something; of lawyers, and how they would have enjoyed his case, and what an ass he had been not to get in a few; and lastly, he thought of his own great cleverness and resource, and all that he was capable of if he only gave his great mind to it; and the cure was almost complete.

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O, my!' he gasped, as he panted along, 'what an ASS I am!

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