The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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There were only two other patients in the white men's ward: the purser of a gunboat, who had broken his leg falling down a hatchway; and a kind of railway contractor from a neighbouring province, afflicted by some mysterious tropical disease, who held the doctor for an ass, and indulged in secret debaucheries of patent medicine which his Tamil servant used to smuggle in with unwearied devotion.

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I had not even laughed at him when--here he began to mumble--"that mistake, you know--made a confounded ass of myself."

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'The silly ass won't say anything.'

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A bit of ass's skin.

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Perfect ass, of course.

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Ass!

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A piece of ass's skin, according to Chester...

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"What a bally ass I've been," he said very slow in an awed tone... "You are a brick!" he cried next in a muffled voice.

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Now and again "some fussy ass" deputed from the council-room would come out running to him, and in honeyed tones would administer amazing interrogatories: "Were the Dutch coming to take the country?

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The storming party had come on so quick--Jim said--that notwithstanding the panic of the garrison, there was a "hot five minutes hand-to-hand inside that stockade, till some bally ass set fire to the shelters of boughs and dry grass, and we all had to clear out for dear life."

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It was now he remembered that it is customary in Flanders on that night to replace the hay, carrots, and turnips which the little ones put on the hearth to feed Saint Nicholas' ass, by big dolls, wooden horses, musical instruments, violins, or simply by mannikins in spikelaus, according as each can afford.

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I was not strong in those days; and so your father obtained an ass for me to ride, while he walked by my side.

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He kept in the same stall an ox and an ass.

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Here the grand vizier, himself to Scheherazade, and said, "Daughter, you act just like this ass; you will expose yourself to destruction by your erroneous policy.

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As he drew them towards the shore, he found them very heavy, and thought he had a good draught of fish, at which he rejoiced; but in a moment after, perceiving that instead of fish his nets contained nothing but the carcass of an ass, he was much vexed.

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"I answered, "That it was occasioned by the inadvertency of a broom-seller upon an ass, who coming behind me, while he was looking another way, his ass came against me with so much violence, that I fell down, and hurt my cheek upon some glass."

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Hump-back called to the cat, he clapped his hands to drive her away, but instead of retreating, she stood upon her hinder feet, staring with her eyes like fire, looking fiercely at him, mewing louder than she did at first, and increasing in size till she was as large as an ass.

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I have killed the poor fellow who was brought to me to be cured: doubtless I am the cause of his death, and unless Esdras's ass come to assist me, I am ruined: Mercy on me, they will be here out of hand, and drag me out of my house for a murderer."

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While I was standing in the public inn frequented by the corn merchants, there came up to me a handsome young man, well dressed, and mounted on an ass.

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I mounted an ass I had bespoken the day before, and set out, accompanied by the man who let me the ass.

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They then took him and set him upon an ass which they met by chance, and carried him through the town exposed to the laughter of the people.

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"Why then," said Noor ad Deen, "we just now saw an ass tied at the entrance of your garden, which certainly must be yours, and which you may make use of in this extremity: here are two pieces of gold more; take them, and lead your ass with the panniers to the next vintner's; you may stand at as great a distance as you please, do but give something to the first person that comes by, and desire him to go with your ass, and procure two pitchers of wine; put one in one pannier, in another, another, which he must pay for out of the money you give him, and so let him bring the ass back to you: you will have nothing to do, but to drive the beast hither before you; we will take the wine out of the panniers: by this means you will do nothing that will give you any scruple."

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One day when he was taking the diversion of hunting, he espied a wild ass, which he chased, lost his company, and was carried away so far by his eagerness as to ride on till night.

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At length some charitable passengers drew me out, and placing me upon an ass, carried me home; where I languished for a considerable time, and never could recover my health sufficiently again to attend to my school.

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He kept in the same stall an ox and an ass.

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Here the grand vizier, himself to Scheherazade, and said, "Daughter, you act just like this ass; you will expose yourself to destruction by your erroneous policy.

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I answered, "That it was occasioned by the inadvertency of a broom-seller upon an ass, who coming behind me, while he was looking another way, his ass came against me with so much violence, that I fell down, and hurt my cheek upon some glass."

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While I was standing in the public inn frequented by the corn merchants, there came up to me a handsome young man, well dressed, and mounted on an ass.

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I mounted an ass I had bespoken the day before, and set out, accompanied by the man who let me the ass.

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They then took him and set him upon an ass which they met by chance, and carried him through the town exposed to the laughter of the people.

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One day when he was taking the diversion of hunting, he espied a wild ass, which he chased, lost his company, and was carried away so far by his eagerness as to ride on till night.

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Of course Everard Benson had a weak heart, but still, to win prizes, remember parrots, toady Miss Perry, despise Miss Rosseter, give tea-parties in his rooms (which were in the style of Whistler, with pretty books on tables), all this, so Jacob felt without knowing him, made him a contemptible ass.

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"Ass (Shakespeare)," I said.

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"It's really very silly of him," said Archie, "because--go away--because everybody knows that--get away, you ass--that wasps aren't dangerous unless--confound you--unless--I say, isn't it time we got up?"

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"Don't be an ass; it's a place like Oxford Circus.

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I don't wish to be anything but polite, but for a silly ass commend me to the owner of that brown thing."

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The family is indifferent--it only calls him a Silly Ass.

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And whatever it is, it is something which every now and then compels you to bend down and catch hold of his long silky ears, to look into his honest eyes and say-- "You silly old ass!

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You DEAR old SILLY old ass!"

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I think you are a silly ass.

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"All I meant was--" "Personally, as you know," I said to Dorothy, "I think he's a silly ass.

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And they were the ones you knew most about; since every American jack-ass that got rich quick and wanted to set himself up above his fellows would proceed to get English clothes and English servants and English bad manners.

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"How could you be such an ass?

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I will explain that the Oracle is an innocent old ass who eats for four and looks wiser than the whole Academy of France would have any right to look, and never uses a one-syllable word when he can think of a longer one, and never by any possible chance knows the meaning of any long word he uses or ever gets it in the right place; yet he will serenely venture an opinion on the most abstruse subject and back it up complacently with quotations from authors who never existed, and finally when cornered will slide to the other side of the question, say he has been there all the time, and come back at you with your own spoken arguments, only with the big words all tangled, and play them in your very teeth as original with himself.

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A self-complacent ass, ready to be flattered out of your senses by every petticoat that chooses to take the trouble to do it!"

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Now, therefore, send the Christian dog on all fours, and barefoot, into the holy place to mend the clock, and let him go as an ass!"

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He did not mention that he was a lineal descendant of Balaam's ass, but everybody knew that without his telling it.

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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become, until he goes abroad.

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I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass.

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I shall always delight to meet an ass after my own heart when I shall have finished my travels.

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Not much use as far as the other world is concerned, but much, very much use, as concerns this; because there, if a man be rich, he is very greatly honored, and can become a legislator, a governor, a general, a senator, no matter how ignorant an ass he is--just as in our beloved Italy the nobles hold all the great places, even though sometimes they are born noble idiots.

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It was getting late, and we had no time to fool away on every ass that wanted to drivel Greek platitudes to us.

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Patriarchal Customs-Magnificent Baalbec-Description of the Ruins-Scribbling Smiths and Joneses-Pilgrim Fidelity to the Letter of the Law-The Revered Fountain of Baalam's Ass CHAPTER XLIV.

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Not content with doubling the legitimate stages, they switched off the main road and went away out of the way to visit an absurd fountain called Figia, because Baalam's ass had drank there once.

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So we journeyed on, through the terrible hills and deserts and the roasting sun, and then far into the night, seeking the honored pool of Baalam's ass, the patron saint of all pilgrims like us.

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Beautiful stream in a chasm, lined thick with pomegranate, fig, olive and quince orchards, and nooned an hour at the celebrated Baalam's Ass Fountain of Figia, second in size in Syria, and the coldest water out of Siberia-guide-books do not say Baalam's ass ever drank there-somebody been imposing on the pilgrims, may be.

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Over it is a very ancient ruin, with no known history-supposed to have been for the worship of the deity of the fountain or Baalam's ass or somebody.

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Provisions reached such a figure that "an ass' head was sold for eighty pieces of silver and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver."

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The Syrian army broke camp and fled, for some cause or other, the famine was relieved from without, and many a shoddy speculator in dove's dung and ass's meat was ruined.

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The guide said it was because this was one of "the very stones of Jerusalem" that Christ mentioned when he was reproved for permitting the people to cry "Hosannah!" when he made his memorable entry into the city upon an ass.

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He had made an egregious ass of himself before the whole ship.

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This ass ought to be as submissive as a serf of the thirteenth century was to his lord; to obey and be silent, advance and stop, at the slightest word.

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Monsieur was trying to hold the balance with the help of the Parliament, but was too great an ass to do any such thing.

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He was the first man to resist; he had been the first hero, and yet he was left for half an hour to lead about a horse, an ass, and an old mule, as though he were still the ostler at an auberge, and then he was merely taken into the servants' hall, and asked to eat cold meat, while Cathelineau was brought into a grand room upstairs to talk to lords and ladies; this made Peter fidgety and uncomfortable; and when he heard, moreover, that Cathelineau was to sup upstairs at the same table with the Marquis and the ladies, all his pleasure in the revolt was destroyed, he had no taste for the wine before him, and he wished in his heart that he had joined the troops, and become a good republican.

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The trials of silence, secrecy, and hardihood in passing through the dread elements of fire and water were ancient literary materials; they may be found in the account of the initiation of a neophyte into the mysteries of Isis in Apuleius's "Metamorphoses; or, The Golden Ass," a romance written in the second century.

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And by the side of this Knight rode a lovely Lady upon a snow- white ass.

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"Soon after entered a fair Lady in mourning weeds, riding on a white ass with a Dwarf behind her leading a warlike steed, that bore the arms of a knight, and his spear in the Dwarf's hand.

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At once my fellow- traveller struck his forehead with both his fists: "Oh, what an ass I am!" exclaimed he, "what an old ass I am!

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"Skinner," he said, "you're an ass!

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"Bully for you, Alden P., you old, three-ply, copper-riveted, reinforced, star-spangled jack-ass!" he murmured.

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"Don't be an ass, Skinner," Cappy interrupted tartly.

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"Skinner," he continued, "don't be an ass!

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"All the same, old fellow," he said, "if you worry for another five minutes about Reggie, you're an ass."

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"Clumsy ass I was!" he declared, completing his task and setting the result before her.

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Also the fat eunuch, Houman, who was mounted on an ass, rode up and said, "What, Egyptian who dared to twist the beard of the Great King, you laugh, do you?

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"A man's an ass to linger anywhere north of the equator," he grumbled.

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The deacon, he is a hangman's ass, Polemeia!

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But an ass-foal it is!

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'What an ass I was not to think of it before!

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But an ass-foal it is!

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'What an ass I was not to think of it before!

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No, I never would believe that you were a villain, but neither could I ever have believed that you were quite such an ass."

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"His Highness thinks perhaps," said Martin, "that the man who does an ass's work must necessarily be an ass," at which sally the Prince laughed again.

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The Mpangwe deride the savagery of these races, who have never heard of a man riding a horse or an ass, which the Mpongwes call Cavala and Buro burro).

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The less wealthy sort of "gentlemen" here are placed in smaller graves near the villages; and the slaves are still "buried with the burial of an ass,"-- cast forth into the bush.

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But first be sure it is not the conscience of an ass!"

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don't you 'eed what a girl says, An' don't you go for the beer; But I was an ass when I was at grass, An' that is why I'm 'ere.

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don't you go for a corp'ral Unless your 'ed is clear; But I was an ass when I was at grass, An' that is why I'm 'ere.

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don't you 'eed what a girl says, An' don't you go for the beer; But I was an ass when I was at grass, An' that is why I'm 'ere.

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'Don't be an ass.

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'Take a pill, and don't be an ass.

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