The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Sancho regarded Don Quixote earnestly while he was giving him this rating, and was so touched by remorse that the tears came to his eyes, and in a piteous and broken voice he said to him, "Master mine, I confess that, to be a complete ass, all I want is a tail; if your worship will only fix one on to me, I'll look on it as rightly placed, and I'll serve you as an ass all the remaining days of my life.

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To which Sancho made answer, "I should be glad if your worship would do me the favour to go out to the castle gate, where you will find a grey ass of mine; make them, if you please, put him in the stable, or put him there yourself, for the poor little beast is rather easily frightened, and cannot bear being alone at all."

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"With this good fellow here," said the duenna, "who has particularly requested me to go and put an ass of his that is at the castle gate into the stable, holding it up to me as an example that they did the same I don't know where-that some ladies waited on one Lancelot, and duennas on his hack; and what is more, to wind up with, he called me old."

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"I don't know," said Sancho Panza; "to me she seems the fairest creature in the world; at any rate, in nimbleness and jumping she won't give in to a tumbler; by my faith, senora duchess, she leaps from the ground on to the back of an ass like a cat."

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No, nothing but one piece of abuse after another, though she knows the proverb they have here that 'an ass loaded with gold goes lightly up a mountain,' and that 'gifts break rocks,' and 'praying to God and plying the hammer,' and that 'one "take" is better than two "I'll give thee's."'

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Behind him, in accordance with the duke's orders, followed Dapple with brand new ass-trappings and ornaments of silk, and from time to time Sancho turned round to look at his ass, so well pleased to have him with him that he would not have changed places with the emperor of Germany.

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"By God," said Sanchica, "I can go just as well mounted on a she-ass as in a coach; what a dainty lass you must take me for!"

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At one moment it seemed to him that he was in the cave of Montesinos and saw Dulcinea, transformed into a country wench, skipping and mounting upon her she-ass; again that the words of the sage Merlin were sounding in his ears, setting forth the conditions to be observed and the exertions to be made for the disenchantment of Dulcinea.

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Roque then withdrew to one side and wrote a letter to a friend of his at Barcelona, telling him that the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha, the knight-errant of whom there was so much talk, was with him, and was, he assured him, the drollest and wisest man in the world; and that in four days from that date, that is to say, on Saint John the Baptist's Day, he was going to deposit him in full armour mounted on his horse Rocinante, together with his squire Sancho on an ass, in the middle of the strand of the city; and bidding him give notice of this to his friends the Niarros, that they might divert themselves with him.

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He had also fixed the mitre on Dapple's head, the oddest transformation and decoration that ever ass in the world underwent.

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Don Quixote dismounted and received them with a close embrace; and the boys, who are lynxes that nothing escapes, spied out the ass's mitre and came running to see it, calling out to one another, "Come here, boys, and see Sancho Panza's ass figged out finer than Mingo, and Don Quixote's beast leaner than ever."

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"You would be the mair beast yourself to do so," said the king; "it is weel kend that I wrestled wi' Dagon in my youth, and smote him on the groundsill of his own temple; a gude evidence that I should be in time called, however unworthy, the Defender of the Faith.--But here comes Maxwell, bending under his burden, like the Golden Ass of Apuleius."

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"Why, Dame Ursley--why, wife, I say--why, dame--why, love, you are wanted more than a strop for a blunt razor--why, dame--" "I would some one would draw a razor across thy windpipe, thou bawling ass!" said the dame to herself, in the first moment of irritation against her clamorous helpmate; and then called aloud,--"Why, what is the matter, Master Suddlechop?

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Dalgarno laughed, and, observing his young friend looked grave, said to him, in a tone of reproach-Why, what!-you are not gull enough to be angry with such an ass as that?"

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"I am a citizen, I care not who knows it; and he who shall speak a word in dispraise of the city, is an ass and a peremptory gull, and I will break his pate, to teach him sense and manners."

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"Why, thou jealous ass," said the young lord, "will not thy load of duty lie the lighter?--Go, take thy breakfast, and drink thy ale double strong, to put such absurdities out of thy head--I could be angry with thee for thy folly, man--but I remember how thou hast stuck to me in adversity."

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"[Footnote: Of the cant words used in this inauguratory oration, some are obvious in their meaning, others, as Harman Beck (constable), and the like, derive their source from that ancient piece of lexicography, the Slang Dictionary] This homily being performed, a dispute arose concerning the special residence to be assigned the new brother of the Sanctuary; for, as the Alsatians held it a maxim in their commonwealth, that ass's milk fattens, there was usually a competition among the inhabitants which should have the managing, as it was termed, of a new member of the society.

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"I think I am bewitched," said Jenkin, giving a glance towards his dress, "or that these fool's trappings have made as great an ass of me as of many I have seen wear them; but let line once be rid of the harness, and if you catch me putting it on again, I will give you leave to sell me to a gipsy, to carry pots, pans, and beggar's bantlings, all the rest of my life."

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Make no intimacy with any one in Whitefriars--borrow no money, on any score, especially from my father, for, dotard as he seems, he will make an ass of you.

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See to me, man,--(he pointed to the pockets of his great trunk breeches, which were stuffed with papers)--"We are like an ass--that we should so speak--stooping betwixt two burdens.

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Then he said: "I've been an awful ass, Maxwell, but that's no reason why I should keep on being one, is it?

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"Don't be an ass, Scott," said Mr. Dwyer, who was too excited to be polite or politic.

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And when one comes to think that he for whom these sacrifices are to be made is one of our brethren, a gentleman to whom we would not trust our fortune, if we had one, a man who buttons his coat just as all of us do, it is enough to make one burst into a roar of laughter so loud, that starting from the Luxembourg it would pass over the whole of Paris and startle an ass browsing in the pasture at Montmartre.

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I remember well enough that my roundheaded father-in-law, Fairfax, had the island from the Long Parliament; and was ass enough to quit hold of it at the Restoration, when, if he had closed his clutches, and held fast, like a true bird of prey, as he should have done, he might have kept it for him and his.

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"Right as a pint bumper, Tom," said his friend-"Isschar is an ass that stoopeth between two burdens."

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"May go to the devil for a self-conceited ass.

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"Treason!-treason!" exclaimed the old Knight-"Treason against God and King Charles!-Oh, for one half-hour of the broadsword which I parted with like an ass!"

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He made certain comparisons in which Russia was frequently mentioned and three or four of the directors afterwards referred to him as an "undignified little ass."

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"Now it may well seem strange that such a man should be privileged to see a vision; but we do read in the Bible of a prophet who did not even know his duty to an ass, so that the ass had to teach it him.

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Curse me, for a hopeless ass!

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Don't be an ass!" he said.

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At least, it may be that ass of a curate that has put confession in his head--to save his soul, of course!

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As to what might be in season or out of season, he never would pretend to judge, he said, but even Balaam's ass knew when he had a call to speak.

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At least, it may be that ass of a curate that has put confession in his head--to save his soul, of course!

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As to what might be in season or out of season, he never would pretend to judge, he said, but even Balaam's ass knew when he had a call to speak.

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"I was a silly ass even to think such a thing.

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I must have appeared the most solemn ass in creation, and if I had come there with the idea of amusement, I should have felt like one.

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"You're no end of a silly ass in some ways.

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"He called me a silly ass," I answered promptly.

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Ass that he was not to see what he ought to have known so well, that he was playing the fool to her; he, with a grown-up son, to pretend to romance with a girl!

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'And an ass,' added Concha.

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In this pamphlet, which is not only indecorous but indecent, he is referred to as "the celebrated Lorenzo Daponte, who after having been Jew, Christian, priest, and poet in Italy and Germany found himself to be a layman, husband, and ass in London."

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The young hero is a blazing ass, who is in love with two girls at the same time, and whose fluency of speech is in inverse proportion to his power of will.

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Contrasted with him is the girl Varenka, a simple child of nature, who prefers silly romances to Russian novels, and whose virgin naivete is a constant puzzle to the conceited ass who does not know whether he is in love with her or not.

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"Once you come to forty year," as Thackeray sings, "then you'll know that a lad is an ass;" and Scott had come to that age, and perhaps entertained that theory of a jeune premier when he wrote "Guy Mannering."

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'I will not give up one hair of his head, though I should follow them to the court of last resort in his behalf; but what signified mooting points and showing one's hand to that old ass?

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cuddy, an ass.

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"Well, Master," said the straggler, as he leant his back against the barn, and his two companions sat down on the ground in the shelter, "I have heard a lot about the Cause, but all I know is that my Lord of Essex sent to call out five-and-twenty men from our parish, and the squire, he was in a proper rage with being rated to pay ship money, so--as I had fallen out with my master, mine host of the 'Griffin,' more fool I--I went with the young gentleman, and a proper ass I was to do so."

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"Look you here," said Jeph, "walk down with me to my good Captain's quarters, and he will give you a protection which you may shew to any man who dares to touch aught that is ours, be it corn or swine, ox or ass."

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"The jawbone of an ass," promptly answered Jephthah.

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"Pass, jawbone of an ass," responded the sentry, "and all's well.

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I would beat it out of him, as I was wont with our old ass."

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Don't ye know that, you ass?

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But a light rein is needed for this wild ass of the West, Clayton.

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What an ass!"

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"I don't like him, but I've never suspected him of being a stupid ass before."

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If he'd had his hair cut regularly, he wouldn't have looked such an ass when Delilah got through with him."

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"Oh, you ass!" he cried.

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They made me out a braggart, a bully, and a conceited ass--indeed, almost everything unpleasant was said of me except that I was a coward.

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I knew that this was so, and I hoped her brother would not be such an ass as to insist upon a duel, and make me pretend to fight him, that her father would be honest enough to pay his debts, and that some day she and I might be friends.

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You were an ass to do it, but it was great.

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Ass.

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"Where that boy and your money are concerned you're such an ass, Joe, I'm almost tempted to charge you a million extra for the operation.

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He remembered the last time he saw her--refusing to help her from a place of danger in the cedar branches--when he put his love into a single eloquent phrase: 'You silly ass!' then cast her adrift for ever because she said 'Thanks awfully,' and gave him a great wet kiss.

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If David had been a wealthy and most pious Jerusalem shopkeeper, who subscribed largely to missionary societies to the Philistines, but who paid the poor girls in his employ only two shekels a week, refusing them ass-hire when they had to take their work three parts of the way to Bethlehem, and turning them loose at a minute's warning, he certainly would not have been selected to be part author of the Bible, even supposing his courtship and married life to have been most exemplary and orthodox.

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"Insolent little ass," I answered, "I'll cut him dead when we meet again."

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"So I should think; a purse-proud ass!"

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And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day?

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I was an ass and a brute and a fool not to know."

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"Clumsy ass!" he muttered.

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"Don't be an ass."

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The one on the envelope, you ass.

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And I, like a blithering ass, kept on telling her I couldn't live without her, that I'd make her happy, that she didn't know what she was saying, and--But, good Lord, she kept on saying no!

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Don't be an ass.

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"Good Lord, do you think I'm an ass?"

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"What an ass I am!

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"By Jove, Sara, what an insufferable ass he is!"

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His blood, which is the meritorious cause of man's redemption, even the blood of the everlasting covenant, he counteth 'an unholy thing,' or that which has no more virtue in it to save a soul from sin than has the blood of a dog (Heb 10:29).42 For when the apostle says, 'he counts it an unholy thing,' he means, he makes it of less value than that of a sheep or cow, which were clean according to the law; and, therefore, must mean, that his blood was of no more worth to him, in his account, than was the blood of a dog, an ass, or a swine, which always was, as to sacrifices, rejected by the God of heaven, as unholy or unclean.

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what an ass art thou become to sin?

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So, in another place, man by nature is compared to the ass, to a wild ass.

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'For vain or empty man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt' (Job 11:12).

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It strikes the ear as something beneath the dignity of a hart to bray like an ass.

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Of his riding on an ass also; all this they saw, when they spake of him (John 12:41).

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This text some have greatly sought to evade, counting the duty here, on this day to be done, a duty too inferior for the sanction of an old seventh day sabbath; when yet to show mercy to an ass on the old sabbath, was a work which our Lord no ways condemns (Luke 13:15, 14:5).

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And he the jaw-bone of an ass espied, And took and smote them till a thousand died.

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Then said he, with an ass's jaw-bone I Have made mine enemies in heaps to lie.

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Behold I have destroy'd a thousand men With this same worthless ass's jaw.

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And Issachar is a strong ass between Two burdens crouching, who when he had seen That rest was pleasant, and the land was good, His servile neck unto the yoke he bow'd.

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Enoch begat Irad, a wild ass; Irad begat Mehujael, one presumptuous above measure, his name signifies, one teaching God.

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How did Baalam's ass speak!

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This would be ploughing with an ox, and an ass together (Deut 22:10): heavenly persons suit best for communion in heavenly matters.

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Now he was to ride from the prison to the place of execution upon an ass, with his face to the beast's tail, and was to be stripped from the shoulders to the waist, that he might be tormented all the way he went with burning torches continually thrust to his sides; but he, nothing at all afraid, spake in his exhortation to the people to fly from their sin and idolatry; he would also catch hold of the torches and put them to his sides, to show how little he esteemed the worst that they could do.

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He said, That the disciples went at the bidding of their Master, and took away the owner's ass; and therefore he could do so too.

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And how many did Samson slay with the jaw-bone of an ass?

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For as God hath appointed out beforehand the number of his elect, so also he hath determined in his good pleasure the day of their bringing in, and will then have them as certainly as the wild ass is found in her month (Gal 1:15,16; Hosea 6:11; Jer 2:24).

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Man in his birth is compared to an ass, an unclean beast, and to a wretched infant in its blood (Job 11:12; Eze 16).

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or whose ass have I taken?

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And for the inconsiderableness Of things, by which I do my mind express, May I by them bring some good thing to pass, As Samson, with the jawbone of an ass; Or as brave Shamgar, with his ox's goad (Both being things not manly, nor for war in mode), I have my end, though I myself expose To scorn; God will have glory in the close.

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