The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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What a CONCEITED and heedless ass!

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When at last Toad had talked himself to a standstill, there was silence for a while; and then the Rat said, 'Now, Toady, I don't want to give you pain, after all you've been through already; but, seriously, don't you see what an awful ass you've been making of yourself?

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Yes, I've been a conceited old ass, I can quite see that; but now I'm going to be a good Toad, and not do it any more.

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I'm a stupid ass, I am!

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'Oh, you silly ass, Mole!' cried Toad, 'You've been and spoilt everything!'

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"Go on, you silly ass!" said I.

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You and I have put up too many thoughts together and chased them where-ever{sic} they would double, Bertie; so just write to me like a good fellow, and tell me that I am an ass.

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Bobby was fairly cornered, for he had bought two ferrets on tick, and promised to pay a shilling a week, thinking the shillings were going on for ever, the silly young ass.

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Whomsoever they greet may bark like a dog, meeouw like a cat, or bray like an ass, as much as he chooses; but if he speaks a decent word, his tongue shall be silenced with stripes.

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I'm not your kind: I don't let a girl like that upset me till I can't think of anything else, and go making such an ass of myself that the whole town gabbles about it.

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"Ass!" exclaimed Corliss, as the door closed.

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"Ass!"

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Doddering old ass of a Pryor!

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He was conscious of no surprise; it was as if he had divined all along the sinister shadows of Lord Plowden and Lord Plowden's gardener, lurking in the obscurity behind this egregious old ass of a Tavender.

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I hold the whip-hand, and I should be an ass not to remember things.

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"Don't pull it; you've got it all wrong, you stupid ass!" you shout.

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"Now for breakfast we shall want a frying-pan" - (Harris said it was indigestible; but we merely urged him not to be an ass, and George went on) - "a tea-pot and a kettle, and a methylated spirit stove."

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And Harris never sees what an ass he is making of himself, and how he is annoying a lot of people who never did him any harm.

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We got up tolerably early on the Monday morning at Marlow, and went for a bathe before breakfast; and, coming back, Montmorency made an awful ass of himself.

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"Oh, don't be a stupid ass!" said Harris's head.

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"Look at your nose, you stupid ass!" came the same voice again, louder.

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When Harris or George makes an ass of himself on dry land, I smile indulgently; when they behave in a chuckle-head way on the river, I use the most blood-curdling language to them.

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O you Cynics with your sneers, Fallen brains and hearts of brass, Tweak me by my foolish ears, Write me down a simple ass!

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-- here -- don't be an ass, Sit down and tell me!

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Never mind what a personality is but go on-and, Peter, you young ass, keep still."

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Pride, however, sustained a fall when it was pointed out that the initials formed the ominous word "Ass."

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The house appeared asleep; yet if I attempted to wake any one, I had no guarantee it might not prove either the aunt with the gold eyeglasses (whom I could only remember with trembling), or some ass of a servant-maid who should burst out screaming at sight of me.

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'What!' they would have said, 'that young ass to be concealing anything!

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I could have flung my plate at him to be such an ass, and to have so little a gift of languages where that was the essential.

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He stood before me, brilliantly illuminated on the background of impenetrable night and falling snow, stricken to stone between his double burden like an ass between two panniers, and gaping at me like a blunderbuss.

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The sentiments expressed were popular; some ass, whom the devil moved to be my enemy, proposed three cheers, and they were given with a will.

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Thin Noah spoke him fairly, thin talked to him sevarely, An' thin he cursed him squarely to the glory av the Lord: - "Divil take the ass that bred you, and the greater ass that fed you - Divil go wid you, ye spalpeen!" an' the Donkey went aboard.

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"The desert-dust hath dimmed it, the flying wild-ass knows, The scared white leopard winds it across the taintless snows.

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"Confound that ass!" said Carlton, dropping back to the marble pavement again, and gazing impotently up at the row of figures outlined against the sky.

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I found I was out by what might easily cover six months' salary and profit, and I could have kicked myself all round the village to have been such a blamed ass, sitting boozing with that Case instead of attending to my own affairs and taking stock.

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One thing I saw, I had been ass enough to give him warning, and that which I meant to do I must do at once.

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"An old rogue, I tell you; and an old ass to boot.

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About five o'clock Mr. Thoburn stopped in long enough to say: "What's this I hear about Carter making an ass of himself to-day?"

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"Dick's an ass, and he's treated me like a villain, but look at that baby!

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She had never repeated that remark, for the Doctor had raged like a wild bull, denouncing the brutal bluntness of her mind, bemoaning his own fate to be so unequally mated with an ass, and, what touched Anastasie more nearly, menacing the table china by the fury of his gesticulations.

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He said his name was Skeggi and that he was a man from Ass in Vatnsdal in the North.

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Thorvald Asgeirsson dwelt in Ass in Vatnsdal and was a great chief.

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Grettir rode to Ass in Vatnsdal and was welcomed by Thorvald, who asked him all about his encounter with Glam.

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He had killed the son of Eid of Ass, the son of Skeggi, and been outlawed for it.

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"David, I'm an ass," he said.

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"Oh, don't be an ass," said Rose.

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"I say, Carey, why are you being such a silly ass?

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I don't want to frighten them, and then on the other hand I don't want to be such an ass as to ask L150 if they're quite willing to give L300.

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"Don't be an ass.

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What- "Where love is the case, The doctor's an ass."

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It is easy to be an ass and follow the multitude like a blind, besotted bull in a stampede; and that, I am well aware, is what you and Mrs. Grundy mean by being honest.

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Only Polonius, or the like solemn sort of ass, can offer us a succinct proverb by way of advice, and not burst out blushing in our faces.

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The Lion, the Cock, and the Ass A Lion was about to attack a braying Ass, when a Cock near by crowed shrilly, and the Lion ran away.

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He was essentially glib, as becomes the young advocate, and essentially careless of the truth, which is the mark of the young ass; and so he talked at random.

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He changed his stick from one hand to the other, and - "O, for God's sake, don't be an ass!" he cried.

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"Ass?

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If they come into the dance, you'll see who's an ass.

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And if it be delightful to the Old Man, it is none the less profitable to his younger brother, the conscientious gentleman I feel never quite sure of your urbane and smiling coteries; I fear they indulge a man's vanities in silence, suffer him to encroach, encourage him on to be an ass, and send him forth again, not merely contemned for the moment, but radically more contemptible than when he entered.

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According to the latter, every lad who goes to sea is an egregious ass; never to forget your umbrella through a long life would seem a higher and wiser flight of achievement than to go smiling to the stake; and so long as you are a bit of a coward and inflexible in money matters, you fulfil the whole duty of man.

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Buridan's Ass!

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I was not there, I had ridden down the night before after dinner on my endless business, took a cup of tea in the Mission like an ass, then took a cup of coffee like a fool at Haggard's, then fell into a discussion with the American Consul...

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The triple- headed ass at home, in his plenitude of ignorance, prefers to collect the taxes and scatter the Mataafas by force or the threat of force.

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XXX If antique times admired Silenus old That oft appeared set on his lazy ass, How would they wonder if they had behold Such sights as from the myrtle high did pass?

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- It is an affair of Egypt, brother, and I shall not acquaint you with it; peradventure it relates to a horse or an ass, or peradventure it relates to a mule or a macho; it does not relate to yourself, therefore I advise you not to inquire about it - Dosta ( enough ).

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After we had waited amongst the assembled multitude a considerable time, the first of the culprits appeared; he was mounted on an ass, without saddle or stirrups, his legs being allowed to dangle nearly to the ground.

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Though under the necessity of making frequent journeys to Salamanca, he kept no mule, but contented himself with an ass, borrowed from the neighbouring miller.

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I was a regular ass about saying prayers.

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Ah, Lord, who hast created all, How hast thou made thee weak and small, To lie upon the coarse dry grass, The food of humble ox and ass.

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Ach Herr, du Schoepfer aller Ding', Wie bist du worden so gering, Dass du da liegst auf duerrem Gras, Davon ein Kind und Esel ass.

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"For tragedy implies some ponderable matter in dispute, some dignus vindice nodus; and this piece of work was all about the petulance of a young ass that had been spoiled, and wanted nothing so much as to be tied up and soundly belted.

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"Hurt enough," sobbed the old man, "I have just been tricked out of the best ass in England by a villain, who gave me nothing but these trash in return," pointing to the stones before him.

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"I suppose he was the fellow," said I, "whom I just now met upon a fine gray ass, which he was beating with a cudgel."

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but to take from you that ass, of which you have just robbed its owner."

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"In the history of Herod's ass!" said the jockey; "well, if I did write a book, it should be about something more genteel than a dickey."

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"I did not say Herod's ass," said I, "but Herodotus, a very genteel writer, I assure you, who wrote a history about very genteel people, in a language no less genteel than Greek, more than two thousand years ago.

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"I'm sorry to have made an ass of myself."

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Many who have only read his poetry have been tempted to set him down as an ass, or even as a charlatan; but I never met any one who had known him personally who did not profess a solid affection and respect for the man's character.

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Pepys was not such an ass, but he must have perceived, as he went on, the extraordinary nature of the work he was producing.

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He was not such an ass, besides, but he must have been conscious of the deadly explosives, the gun-cotton and the giant powder, he was hoarding in his drawer.

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'I was an ass till I knew you.

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It would have been the action of an ass; but it would have shown that I had the blood and the natural affections of a man.

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Because my father had made a bigger ass of himself than I supposed.

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The Great Ass must have brains and spirit kicked and cudgeled into it."

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"What an ass I'm making of myself!" reflected he.

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And Tetlow--the serious and squab young ass was gazing at her with the expression men of the stupid squab sort put on when they wish to impress a woman.

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"Don't be an ass, old man.

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Surely, never since man was created has there been such another ass as I."

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Did that well-meaning ass--Tetlow--tell you?"

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I confess I don't look back with any satisfaction on those months when I was making an ass of myself about you.

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"An awful ass, wasn't I?"

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He had known what a prejudiced ass Galland was, how unfit he was for the office of judge; but he had up to that time hidden the full truth from himself.

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"I'm not such an egotistical ass as to imagine a woman of your sort could be genuinely in love with a man of my sort," replied he.

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If you had asked either what Republican and Democrat meant he would have been as vague and unsatisfactory in his reply as would have been any of his followers bearing torch and oilcloth cape in political processions, with no hope of gain--beyond the exquisite pleasure of making a shouting ass of himself in the most public manner.

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Sawyer, a shrewd money maker, was an ass in other ways, was strongly seized of the itch for public office.

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When I saw that my begging was as useless as the soap they use to wash an ass's head, I became patient and waited for time--which cures everything--to cure my trouble, knowing it all came from suffering through that damned metamorphosis.

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Up to then I had felt as spirited as a stallion, but I suddenly realized they had made an ass of me: my daughter wasn't mine at all.

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Like an ass.

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"Like him!" roared Dickens, "not at all; he is a dreadful Old Ass!"

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Eshwell was inclined to fat; Tempest was gaunt and had the hollow, burning eye that bespeaks the sentimental ass.

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An old optimist is an old ass.

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