The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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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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So they went forth, those brethren, from the House of the Face, but when they were gotten to the gate, who should be there but the Bride awaiting them, and she with an ass duly saddled for bearing the yew-sticks.

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NEW TIDINGS IN THE DALE It was three days thereafter that Gold-mane, leading an ass, went along the highway to fetch home certain fleeces which were needed for the house from a stead a little west of Wildlake; but he had gone scant half a mile ere he fell in with a throng of folk going to Burgstead.

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If any man break the Peace of the Holy Mote, let him be a man accursed, a wild-beast in the Holy Places; an outcast from home and hearth, from bed and board, from mead and acre; not to be holpen with bread, nor flesh, nor wine; nor flax, nor wool, nor any cloth; nor with sword, nor shield, nor axe, nor plough-share; nor with horse, nor ox, nor ass; with no saddle- beast nor draught-beast; nor with wain, nor boat, nor way-leading; nor with fire nor water; nor with any world's wealth.

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"Simpkins is a quarrelsome ass," explained the Colonel, "and somebody will have to smooth those fellows down.

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Oh, Morris, you egregious ass, if you wanted to take to kissing like a schoolboy, why the deuce did you select the high road for the purpose?

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"Well, that your daughter threw over that young ass, Stephen Layard, because--the story seems to me incredible, I admit--she had fallen violently in love with Morris.

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I have a spice of the devil in me, accordingly--a mocking, mortifying devil, that jeers me with my d---d simplicity; and I propose to go and let the swindlers know, in a way as little circuitous as possible, that I am not blind to the fact that they have made an ass of me.

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I will write myself down an ass, for their benefit, only to enjoy the satisfaction of kicking a little like one.

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"You ass!

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What kind of slush was that Bailly Ass Brickhouse tryin' to get off, anyhow?

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He's the most conceited ass in the country.

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As papa has, of course, shown you my last letter, I will continue where I left off... From Carlsruhe we traveled post to Stuttgart, where we passed the greater part of the day in the Museum, in which I saw many things quite new to me; a llama, for instance, almost as large as an ass.

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If from these we turn to compositions universally, and independently of all early associations, beloved and admired; would the MARIA, THE MONK, or THE POOR MAN'S ASS of Sterne, be read with more delight, or have a better chance of immortality, had they without any change in the diction been composed in rhyme, than in their present state?

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To spend one's life in eating, drinking, and sleeping, or like a bullock, in ruminating on food, reduces a man to the level of an ox or an ass.

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"Perhaps so," sais Gage, "ass'felt is very appropriate for a fool's cap."

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"McGraw," said Dunstan rising impatiently, "you're a consummate ass!

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Tom tipped me off, though I had snubbed him, like the egregious ass I was.

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Through the haze of the first two puffs he squinted across at the glum face of his friend, and said: "Don't be an ass.

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"Young Ashton's a bally ass," explained Lord James.

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"Might have known you'd be an ass over it," he commented.

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What an ass a man can make of himself!

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G. (_To himself, fingering a headstall._) Jack's an ass.

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The Punjabis of Isser Jang are all the sons of Belial and a she-ass, but they are very good witnesses, bearing testimony unshakingly whatever the pleaders may say.

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"It was like nothing so much as a big ass," said Patrick, wide-eyed.

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Like an ass, as I was, I had agreed to take Mallon's trip, and I must go ahead if it made or unmade me.

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I wondered what kind of a girl the "boss's" daughter could be, to marry such an ass as this, and I would have been glad to see the photograph of her that he passed to his friends, but I made up my mind that the "boss" was getting a rare prize in a son-in-law.

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Well, when I got home, may I never breathe, if that old ass hadn't taken my sales as evidence of the big demand for the goods and was piling up the store-house with the same stock!"

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I hung on to Spear & Jackson about as long as anyone did in this section, but I had to finally give in, and I was an ass for not taking hold of the Disston saw sooner."

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I wondered if I was ever ass enough to meet our old travelers in any such way.

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He was a King who came "lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass" (Zech.

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The smirking, ass-like multitudes Cringe down at his command.

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Thus with the common ass, we see signs of its original desert-life in its strong dislike to cross the smallest stream of water, and in its pleasure in rolling in the dust.

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BahrÃ¢mgor was said to have been killed while hunting the wild ass (_gor_), by jumping into a pool after it, when both quarry and huntsman disappeared for ever.

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These had all perished: ox, cow, horse, mule, ass, sheep, or goat, not one survived--only the camels.

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-- Everybody knows that Homer compared the Telamonian Ajax, in a moment of heroic endurance, to an ass.

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But the Mahometan, too solemn, and also perhaps too stupid to catch the fanciful colors of things, absolutely by choice, under the Bagdad Caliphate, decorated a most favorite hero with the title of the _Ass_--which title is repeated with veneration to this day.

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The wild ass is one of the few animals which has the reputation of never flying from an enemy.]

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--It might be objected that the Oriental ass was often a superb animal; that it is spoken of prophetically as such; and that historically the Syrian ass is made known to us as having been used in the prosperous ages of Judea for the riding of princes.

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These had all perished: ox, cow, horse, mule, ass, sheep, or goat, not one survived--only the camels.

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-- Everybody knows that Homer compared the Telamonian Ajax, in a moment of heroic endurance, to an ass.

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The wild ass is one of the few animals which has the reputation of never flying from an enemy.]

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As near a field of corn, a stubborn ass, Upon whose sides had many a club been broke, O'erpow'rs his boyish guides, and ent'ring in, On the rich forage grazes; while the boys Their cudgels ply, but vain their puny strength, Yet drive him out, when fully fed, with ease: Ev'n so great Ajax, son of Telamon, The valiant Trojans and their fam'd Allies, Still thrusting at his shield, before them drove: Yet would he sometimes, rallying, hold in check The Trojan host; then turn again to flight, Yet barring still the passage to the ships.

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Ass'd.

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_But David he allowed to live._ In Samuel we learn how Jahweh, because of an attack upon the Israelites four hundred years before the time of speaking, ordered Saul to destroy the Amalekites, "man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass."

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What an ass I was!

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Eh, he will think he has been an ass to sleep so long, and on duty, and orders to carry to Archangel's Rise!"

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What a beast and ass I've been!"

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What an ass I was!

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Eh, he will think he has been an ass to sleep so long, and on duty, and orders to carry to Archangel's Rise!"

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What a beast and ass I've been!"

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Oh, what a cursed ass and fool--and thief, I've been!"

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Oh, what a cursed ass and fool--and thief, I've been!"

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I wanted to say to Hungerford that I was an ass; but that was even harder still.

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I wanted to say to Hungerford that I was an ass; but that was even harder still.

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Nothing could better indicate its prevalence and its scope than the following passage from Aristophanes, where he ridicules the readiness of his contemporaries to see in everything an omen, or, as he puts it, punning on the Greek word, a "bird": "On us you depend," sings his chorus of Birds, "On us you depend, and to us you repair For counsel and aid, when a marriage is made, A purchase, a bargain, a venture in trade; Unlucky or lucky, whatever has struck ye, An ox or an ass, that may happen to pass, A voice in the street, or a slave that you meet, A name or a word by chance overheard, You deem it an omen, and call it a Bird."

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"If the peace is disturbed, if there is conspiracy to injure a country not at war with our own, if arms are borne with menace, if His Excellency--" "His Excellency--my faith!--You're an ass, Garon!" cried the young Seigneur, with an angry sneer.

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If he knows that an army of his dollars is playing at fox-and-geese, he'll not make eyes at Lady Lawless this way--little ass."

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"'You are something of an ass,' he mused, and took a pinch of snuff.

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"'You are something of an ass,' he mused, and took a pinch of snuff.

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Achocre = dolt, ass.

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Achocre = dolt, ass.

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Why does the wild ass forage with a strange herd, or the pig put his feet in the trough?

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Why does the wild ass forage with a strange herd, or the pig put his feet in the trough?

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"You think I'm a fool and an ass--you ignorant, brainless, lying cub!

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"You think I'm a fool and an ass--you ignorant, brainless, lying cub!

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Did he not take to foray as a wild ass to bersim?

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Did he not take to foray as a wild ass to bersim?

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Presently, with the bedroom lamp in his hand, he went upstairs, humming to himself the chanson the workmen had sung that afternoon as they raised again the walls of the mill: "Distaff of flax flowing behind her Margatton goes to the mill On the old grey ass she goes, The flour of love it will blind her Ah, the grist the devil will grind her, When Margatton goes to the mill!

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On the old grey ass she goes, And the old grey ass, he knows!"

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On the old grey ass she goes, And the old grey ass, he knows!"

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