The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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

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Once as she crossed a broken, bare mountain of Roumania she had seen a wild ass perched upon a high summit gazing, as it were, over the wide valley, where beneath, among the rocks, other wild asses wandered.

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But the thing which made a lasting impression, drawing her nearer to nature-life than all that had chanced since she was born, was the fact that on returning, hours after, the wild ass was still standing upon the summit of the hill, still gazing across the valley.

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Fleda had passed on, out of sight of the wild ass on the hills, but for ever after the memory of it remained with her and the picture of it sprang to her eye innumerable times.

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Fleda had passed on, out of sight of the wild ass on the hills, but for ever after the memory of it remained with her and the picture of it sprang to her eye innumerable times.

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

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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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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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"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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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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Fleda had passed on, out of sight of the wild ass on the hills, but for ever after the memory of it remained with her and the picture of it sprang to her eye innumerable times.

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Next, philosophically, or according to the intuitions of the pure reason--in order that you might, by beholding the magnificence of that great civilisation which your fellows wish to destroy, learn that you are an ass, and a tortoise, and a nonentity, and so beholding yourself to be nothing, may be moved to become something.'

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The very sound of those grown-children's rattles turns me sick.... One conceited ass in a generation increasing labour and sorrow, and dying after all even as the fool dies, and ten million brutes and slaves, just where their fore-fathers were, and where their children will be after them, to the end of the farce....

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And as he looked, he began to feel it a pleasure such as his weary heart had not known for many a year, simply to watch her.... 'Positively there is a foolish enjoyment after all in making other fleas smile.... Ass that I am!

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Did I not know that he, too, would prove himself like all the rest--an ass?....

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With a little more bitterness, the cynic moans: our life is like an ass led to market by a bundle of hay being carried before him: he sees nothing but the bundle of hay.

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A woman was in some provinces yoked side by side with an ass to the plough or the harrow; and M. Simond protests that it excited no horror to see the driver distributing his lashes impartially between the woman and her brute yoke-fellow.

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"You young ass!

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We know a playing wit can praise the discretion of an ass; the comfortableness of being in debt, and the jolly commodity of being sick of the plague.

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For indeed I had much rather (sith truly I may do it) show their mistaking of Plato, (under whose lion's skin they would make an ass-like braying against poesy,) than go about to overthrow his authority, whom the wiser a man is, the more just cause he shall find to have in admiration: especially, sith he attributeth unto poesy more than myself do; namely to be a very inspiring of a divine force, far above man's wit; as in the aforenamed dialogue is apparent.

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I know Apuleius [Footnote: In his Latin Romance, the _Metamorphoses_, or the _Golden Ass_.]

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The possession of a very strong ass, able to carry a heavy load of plantains to the embarcadero, was the consummation of all his wishes.

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Nor shall I esteem such riding a dishonour, for I remember to have read that old Silenus, tutor and guide of the merry god of Laughter, when he entered the city of a hundred gates, rode very pleasantly, mounted on a handsome ass."

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"Have done with your replies," exclaimed Don Quixote, "and rise as well as thou art able and sit me on top of thine ass, and let us depart hence before the night comes and overtakes us in this wilderness."

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"Right!" replied Sancho, "but where shall we stow this ass that we may be sure of finding him after the fight is over, for I think it is not the custom to enter into battle mounted on such a beast."

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If thou dost not believe me, Sancho, get on thine ass and follow them fair and softly, and thou shalt see that when they have gone a little way off they will return to their original shapes, and, ceasing to be sheep, become men as right and straight as I painted them to you at first."

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But before thou mountest thine ass, lend me here thy hand and see how many teeth are lacking on this right side of my upper jaw, for there I feel the pain."

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When Sancho heard all this he could not help saying: "I wish Dapple were here, for he deserves at least as long a speech in his praise; but truly, sir knight, if my journey with your letter, and your penance here are really to take place, it would be better to saddle Rozinante again, that he may supply the want of mine ass that was stolen from me."

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"By my father's life," said Sancho, "it is the noblest thing that ever I heard in my life; and now will your worship write the order for the three ass-colts?"

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"Why, I have let slip through my fingers three of the finest ass-colts you ever saw."

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"Why, I have lost the pocket-book," replied Sancho, "which had in it not only the letter for Dulcinea, but also a note of hand signed by my master addressed to his niece, ordering her to give me three ass-colts of the four or five that were left at his house."

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While this was passing, they saw coming along the road on which they were a man riding upon an ass, and when he drew near he seemed to be a gipsy.

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thief Gines, give up my jewel, let go my life, give up mine ass, give up the comfort of my home.

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There was my great stone-paved courtyard, flanked on all sides by disintegrating buildings once occupied by serfs and fighting men; the stables in which chargers and beasts of burden had slept side by side until called by the night's work or the day's work, as war or peace prescribed, ranged close by the gates that opened upon the steep, winding roadway that now dismayed all modern steeds save the conquering ass.

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"Stupid ass!"

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What a stupid, vainglorious ass I was, not to have divined something of the inward fight she was making to conquer the emotions that filled her heart unto the bursting point.

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Silly ass!

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Don't be an ass, Fred."

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Can you--will you pardon the coarse opinions of a conceited ass?

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one would have taken him for an ass braying.

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The Cymeans, you know, had never seen ass or lion; so the ass came the lion over them, with the aid of a borrowed skin and his most awe-inspiring bray; however, a stranger who had often seen both brought the truth to light with a stick.

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This clown had met with Puck, who had clapped an ass's head on his shoulders so that it looked as if it grew there.

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My dear Audley, don't be a greater ass about it than I was at first!'

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I hope he did not make an unusual ass of himself,' said Felix.

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And, after all, that intolerable ass, Redstone, has corrected fire every time into "the devouring element," and made "the faithful black" into "the African of sable integument, but heart of precious ore."' 'Now, Felix!'

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'You little ass, he was chaffing you.'

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'Well, well, he is a little bit of an ass.

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CHAPTER XXII THE REAL THING AND NO MISTAKE 'With asses all his time he spent, Their club's perpetual president, He caught their manners, looks, and airs-- An ass in everything but ears.'

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For which he paid full dear; For, while he spake, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear; Whereat his horse did snort, as he Had heard a lion roar, And galloped off with all his might, As he had done before.

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The domesticated species comprise the dog, horse, ass, pig, goat, sheep, and several bovine races.

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Bones of the ox, hog, dog, dromedary and ass were not uncommon, but no vestiges of extinct mammalia.

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(ass) : 1.

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We might have presumed that as no living representative of the equine family, whether horse, ass, zebra, or quagga, had been furnished by North or South America when those regions were first explored by Europeans, a search in the transatlantic world for fossil species might be dispensed with.

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CHAPTER XXIV UNDER THE SEA AGAIN "I have not yet told the men what I propose to do," Captain Nicholson informed the boys, ass they made their way aboard the Y-3.

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He wished to know if they were aware that some ass of the evening before had broken a pane of coloured glass in the hall that would cost him four dollars.

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"I'm a silly ass to have even dreamed of finding her as I passed along, and if I had found her what the deuce could I have done about it anyway?

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Good Lord, what an ass I am!

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Jesus sent two disciples ahead and said, Go into the village and ye shall find tied there an ass with her colt.

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All this was done so this saying of the prophet might be fulfilled: Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon a colt, the foal of an ass.

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What an ass I am!"

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"Don't be an ass, Chris."

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"You're a good fellow, Chris, even if you are an ass."

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What an ass he was!

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No, I'll have to go and find that ass Aubrey, and hear all about the Peace Conference.... Heinz can't leave Moki because she's having hysterics on account of Bubu.

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"God, I'm an ass," he muttered.

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Just before it happened we were reading in the Bible-class about Samson--how the spirit of the Lord came upon him, and with the jaw-bone of an ass he slew ever so many of the Philistines; and when the master said that bad word about you, it seemed as if the spirit of the Lord came upon me; for I was not in a rage, but filled with what seemed a holy indignation; and as I had no ass's jaw-bone handy, I took my Caesar, and flung it as hard and as straight, as I could in the master's face.

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There's no a word o' the kin' i' the haill Bible, nor i' the hert o' man--nor i' the hert o' the Maker, do I, i' the hert o' me, believe Cosmo, can YE believe 'at that wee bit foal o' an ass 'at carriet the maister o' 's, a' alang yon hill-road frae Bethany to Jerus'lem, cam to sic an ill hin 'er en' as to be forgotten by him he cairriet?

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The farmer to whom they applied, having learnt that it was for Francis of Assisi, of whom he had heard so much good spoken, went to fetch his own ass to carry him on, during the journey.

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His infirmities and fatigue having compelled him to mount on an ass, his companion, Leonard of Assisi, who followed him on foot, and was also very much fatigued, gave way to human feelings, and said to himself: "His parents were not the equals of mine; yet, there he rides, and I am forced to trudge on foot and lead him."

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The bad health of Francis, the beating which he had received from the devils, and a constant fall of rain, compelled him to ride on an ass.

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They had prepared a crib in the wood, in which was represented the Nativity of our Saviour; they had placed straw there, and, during Christmas-night, also took there an ox and an ass.

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As he passed through the country of Arezzo, his great infirmities compelled him to ask for an ass to continue his journey.

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The great infirmities which the man of God suffered, obliged him to take an ass to carry him from Montaigne to Mount Casal, through the borough of Saint Sepulchre.

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Notwithstanding his other infirmities, whenever he could, he mounted on an ass, and went about, preaching penance, announcing the kingdom of God, and addressing these words to all his hearers: "Jesus Christ, my Love, was crucified."

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His example was an excellent lesson for not losing time, and fostering the idleness of the flesh; he employed himself always holily, and he called his body brother ass, which required to be well worked, to be severely beaten, and to be badly fed.

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As soon as he became aware of it, he inflicted a severe discipline on himself, saying to his body: "O brother ass!

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"My brethren," he said, "if a servant of God gives his body what is reasonable for its nourishment and for its repose, and if the body is nevertheless sluggish, lazy, sleepy at prayer, in watchings, and other good works, it must, then, be chastised, and treated as a horse that refuses to work, or an ass that won't go on, although they are well fed.

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He was a friend of mine, and he used to tell me how thankful he was to get through his solo without breaking down, or, as he preferred to put it, "without making an utter ass of myself."

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The only other being of Cherokee Sal's sex and maternal condition in the settlement was an ass.

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In that rare atmosphere of the Sierra foothills,--that air pungent with balsamic odor, that ethereal cordial at once bracing and exhilarating,--he may have found food and nourishment, or a subtle chemistry that transmuted ass's milk to lime and phosphorus.

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"Me and that ass," he would say, "has been father and mother to him!

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He was a noxious ass, and he satisfied his lust for silly gossip at the cost of his customers.

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Most of us can remember instances of triumphant folly; and that ass Schomberg triumphed.

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Davidson admitted to me that, the hubbub was subsiding; and the affair would have been already forgotten, perhaps, if that ass Schomberg had not kept on gnashing his teeth publicly about it.

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At the time of his immoderate loquacity one of his customers, an elderly man, had remarked one evening: "If that ass keeps on like this, he will end by going crazy."

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