The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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He is too absurd for anything; an egregious vain ass," returned Ludovico; with very little precaution to prevent the object of his animadversions from hearing them.

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Ass'n v. Perry Local Educs.

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Ass'n, 460 U.S. 37, 45 (1983); see also Int'l Soc'y for Krishna Consciousness, 505 U.S. at 678 ("[R]egulation of speech on government property that has traditionally been available for public expression is subject to the highest scrutiny.

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Ass'n v. Perry Local Educs.

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Ass'n, 460 U.S. 37, 45 (1983), namely, the dissemination and receipt by the public of a wide range of information.

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Ass'n v. Perry Local Educs.

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Ass'n, 460 U.S. 37, 47 (1983).

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"); Student Gov't Ass'n v. Bd.

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State Bar Ass'n, 863 F.2d 371, 379 (5th Cir.

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Student Government Ass'n v. Board of Trustees, supra, 868 F.2d at 482.

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"Why don't you ask 'em about her, you ass?"

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He was in an aggravating mood that made at one moment a very well of information of him, and at the next a mere garrulous ass.

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"Don't be an ass, Brown!"

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"Do you want his armed men down on us, you ass?"

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"You bally ass!"

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Hereupon followed without delay the usual challenge, opening with the words, 'You're an ass,' which sounded almost ridiculous to my own ears when I said them to this seasoned swashbuckler.

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The busy people of a mason's yard The curious Lady view'd with much regard; With steady motion she perceived them draw Through blocks of stone the slowly-working saw; It gave her pleasure and surprise to see Among these men the signs of revelry: Cold was the season, and confined their view, Tedious their tasks, but merry were the crew; There she beheld an aged pauper wait, Patient and still, to take an humble freight; Within the panniers on an ass he laid The ponderous grit, and for the portion paid; This he re-sold, and, with each trifling gift, Made shift to live, and wretched was the shift.

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Thus was the grieving man, with burthen'd ass, Seen day by day along the street to pass: "Who is he, Susan?

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Who, today, could imbue a translation of the Golden Ass with the exquisite flavor of William Adlington's unscholarly version of that masterpiece?

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He even wrote to India for mushroom seed one day, and he hasn't a single mule that wasn't sired by a wild ass.

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Who, today, could imbue a translation of the Golden Ass with the exquisite flavor of William Adlington's unscholarly version of that masterpiece?

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He even wrote to India for mushroom seed one day, and he hasn't a single mule that wasn't sired by a wild ass.

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He is a man of really great knowledge of the literature of Zoology, and if it had not been for the accident of being a procrastinating impracticable ass, he could have been a distinguished man.

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"It does not add to my happiness to know that my son has made an ass of himself.

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"I'll show you, you silly ass-hoaxing me !

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"Like that ass who ran into me this morning round a corner, with the ''Visible Man a-coming, sir!'

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I felt amazingly confident; it's not particularly pleasant recalling that I was an ass.

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"What an infernal little ass!" he said to himself as he crumpled the letter up.

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What did he mean by making such an ass of himself?

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He'sh great ass'h, that fellow.

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Madame Melmotte groaned, and scolded in English, French, and German, and wished that she were dead; she told Marie that she was a pig, and ass, and a toad, and a dog.

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"Don't be an ass, Ju.

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"Because he's an ass and a cur," said Mr Melmotte with an assumed air of indignation.

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Nidderdale is the best fellow going, but he was always an ass."

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By George, what an ass my governor has been.

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Another comedy of less merit is "The Devil is an Ass," acted in 1616.

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This volume published, in a carefully revised text, all the plays thus far mentioned, excepting "The Case is Altered," which Jonson did not acknowledge, "Bartholomew Fair," and "The Devil is an Ass," which was written too late.

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This ass's fortitude doth tire us all: It must be active valour must redeem Our loss, or none.

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SOUSED ("Devil is an Ass"), fol.

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On reaching the Lion d'or we discovered that the only conveyance to be had was a species of open market-cart drawn by two horses, and in which it was necessary that my fair friend and myself should seat ourselves side by side upon straw: there was no choice, and as for Miss Bingham, I believe if an ass with panniers had presented itself, she would have preferred it to remaining where she was.

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Through the partly open door we could smell everything that ever happened since the beginning of the world, and hear most of the elemental music--made, for instance, of the squeal of fighting stallions, and the bray of an amorous he-ass--the bubbling complaint of fed camels that want to go to sleep, but are afraid of dreaming--the hum of human voices--the clash of cooking pots--the voice of a man on the roof singing falsetto to the stars (that was surely the Pathan!)

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"Cuckoo, you ass!" laughed Fred, kicking the chair over backward, and then piling all the veranda furniture on top, to the scandalized amazement of the stately kavass, who came at that moment shepherding a small boy with a large tray and perfectly enormous drinks.

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"Because, you ass, if they get to the place and find if empty they'll deduce, being less than idiots, that we're not far off and that we're at their mercy in the open!

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"All, you ass?

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You pose as a cast-iron materialist with no more ambition than money enough to retrieve your damned estates, and all the while you're the most romantic ass who ever wore out saddle-leather!

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But you're not last, you bally ass!"

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So one of them took an ass and laying on it a bag, wherein was money, lighted down at the money-changer's shop and sought of him change for the money.

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Thou hast no knowledge of this ass's case.

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Concern thyself with silver and gold and what pertaineth thereto of change and exchange; for indeed the virtue of this ass passeth thy comprehension.

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Accordingly the money-changer counted down to him five thousand and five hundred dirhems of his own money, and the owner of the ass took the price and delivered the ass to him, saying, 'Whatsoever betideth, though he abide a deposit about thy neck,[FN#46] sell him not to yonder rogues for less than ten thousand dirhems, for that they would fain buy him because of a hidden treasure whereof they know, and nought can guide them thereto but this ass.

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So the people of the market assembled to him and questioned him of his case; whereupon he acquainted them with his plight and told them what the sharpers had said and how they had beguiled him and how it was they who had cajoled him into buying an ass worth half a hundred dirhems[FN#47] for five thousand and five hundred.

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So I questioned the neighbours of her and they said, "This house hath been empty these many days; but three days agone there came a woman with an ass, and yesternight, at eventide, she took her gear and went away."

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As soon as she was gone, I betook myself to Er Rauzeh and addressed myself to the building of the pavilion, and when it was finished, I furnished it with the goodliest of furniture and sent to the lady to tell her that I had made an end of its building; whereupon she sent back to me, saying, "Let him meet me to-morrow at daybreak at the Zuweyleh gate and bring with him a good ass."

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So I got me an ass and betaking myself to the Zuweyleh gate, at the appointed time, found there a young man on horse- back, awaiting her, even as I awaited her.

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The Fakir and his Pot of Butter...dccccii c. The Fishes and the Crab... dcccciii d. The Crow and the Serpent... dcccciii e. The Fox and the Wild Ass...dcccciv f. The Unjust King and the Pilgrim Prince... dccccv g. The Crows and the Hawk...dccccvi k. The Serpent-Charmer and his Wife... dccccvii i.

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The Fakir and his Pot of Butter...dcx c. The Fishes and the Crab... dcxi d. The Crow and the Serpent... dcxi e. The Fox and the Wild Ass... dcxi f. The Unjust King and the Pilgrim Prince...dcxii g. The Crows and the Hawk... dcxiii h. The Serpent-Charmer and his Wife...dcxiv i.

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Ass, the Sharpers, the Money-Changer and the, ii.

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So one of them took an ass and laying on it a bag, wherein was money, lighted down at the money-changer's shop and sought of him change for the money.

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Thou hast no knowledge of this ass's case.

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Concern thyself with silver and gold and what pertaineth thereto of change and exchange; for indeed the virtue of this ass passeth thy comprehension.

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So I got me an ass and betaking myself to the Zuweyleh gate, at the appointed time, found there a young man on horse- back, awaiting her, even as I awaited her.

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Ass, the Sharpers, the Money-Changer and the, ii.

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He was adopting the injured magisterial tone of the man who is ridiculously trying to conceal from himself and others that he has recently behaved like an ass.

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Peel-Swynnerton's unspoken comment to Mr. Mardon's back was: "Ass!"

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"What an ass I must have looked!

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the young ass has been fool enough to let it out, has he?

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"I hope he won't be an ass," returned Clement.

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He was extremely ingenious in inventing designs, artful in contriving the means to accomplish his purposes, and resolute in executing them: for as the most exquisite cunning and most undaunted boldness qualified him for any undertaking, so was he not restrained by any of those weaknesses which disappoint the views of mean and vulgar souls, and which are comprehended in one general term of honesty, which is a corruption of HONOSTY, a word derived from what the Greeks call an ass.

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"And that I am a most preposterous ass!--and that last, look you, is more valuable than all the others.

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"Sir," said he, chuckling, "hark to that lovely rascal in the cart, yonder--hark to him; Galen was an ass and Hippocrates a dunce beside this fellow--hark to him."

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Our Peter fellow is like to become a preposterous ass.

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"Any man in such a condition would be a pitiful ass!" said I. Charmian only laughed at me again, and went back to her scribbling.

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"Ass!" said I.

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"But I never quote you Greek or Latin; that is surely something, and, as for thinking, would you have me a thoughtless fool or an impulsive ass?"

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An' when they keepers tried to tak' 'im, 'e rose up, 'e did, an' throwed some on 'em this way an' some on 'em that way--'twere like Samson an' the Philistines; if only 'e'd 'appened to find the jaw-bone of a ass lyin' 'andy, 'e'd ha' killed 'em all an' got away, sure as sure.

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"You look--" began Roger, and stopped suddenly, and then wondered why he stopped, and told himself he was an ass.

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'What an ass I was!

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If you wanted to fight, why did you tell that ass you wanted to?

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"Put that thing up again, you ass; people will come out of that house at the first clash of the steel."

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I would confess it even to that old ass in brown flannel who talked to us about Love.

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The case was this:- An ass belonging to a Serawoolli negro (a native of an interior country near the river Senegal) had broke into a field of corn belonging to one of the Mandingo inhabitants, and destroyed great part of it.

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On the road we overtook a woman and two boys with an ass; she informed us that she was going for Bambarra, but had been stopped on the road by a party of Moors, who had taken most of her clothes and some gold from her; and that she would be under the necessity of returning to Deena till the fast moon was over.

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"The crazy ass!" he said to himself.

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I have brought an ass for her to ride.'

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Wives are not viewed so near; naught will I add; Why, neighbour Stephen, dost thou think me mad, To give my mule to boot?--of mules the king; Not e'en an ass I'd to the bargain bring; Change wife for wife, the barter will be fair; Then each will act with t'other on the square.

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From this to thee great profit will arise; Thy ass, so slow is found, that when supplies, It carries to the market, 'tis so late, The hour is almost past ere at the gate, And then thy cabbages, and herbs, and roots, Provisions, provender, and wares and fruits, Remain unsold, and home to spoil are brought, Since rarely far from thence such things are sought.

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No mare, replied the husband, I desire; An ass for me is all that I require.

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The wife replied, What price, I pray?--Three crowns rejoined the man; Then thou'rt a silly ass, said mistress Nan; To-day, by my address, I've gained a crown, And sold the same for twenty shillings down: My bargain luckily the first was made; The buyer, (who of flaws is much afraid) Examines now if ev'ry part is tight; He's in the tub to see if all be right.

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THE PACK-SADDLE A FAMOUS painter, jealous of his wife; Whose charms he valued more than fame or life, When going on a journey used his art, To paint an ASS upon a certain part, (Umbilical, 'tis said) and like a seal: Impressive token, nothing thence to steal.

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Her joys So exquisite that she averred The other nightingale, the bird Who warbles to the woods his bliss, Was but an ass compared with this.

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No mare, replied the husband, I desire; An ass for me is all that I require.

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