The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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I know them fits come on you suddenly; but surely you can tell--" "Martin, you are an ass."

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She must also perform the duties of an ass and bear wood for the fires!

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"It is time we had a settlement, she and I. I will lead you to her by those ass's ears of yours and let her hear the truth from your own mouth."

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I shall be kicked out as an incompetent ass; for, respecting the connection, if any, between the narrative of Colonel Menendez, the bat wing nailed to the door of the house, and Mr. Colin Camber, I have not the foggiest notion.

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At Actium, while he was going down to his fleet to engage the enemy, he was met by an ass with a fellow driving it.

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The verse ran as follows: Auriculas asini Mida rex habet; King Midas has an ass's ears; but Cornutus altered it thus; Auriculas asini quis non hahet?

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Who has not an ass's ears?

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At Actium, while he was going down to his fleet to engage the enemy, he was met by an ass with a fellow driving it.

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The verse ran as follows: Auriculas asini Mida rex habet; King Midas has an ass's ears; but Cornutus altered it thus; Auriculas asini quis non hahet?

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Who has not an ass's ears?

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"Ass!" said Potter.

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"Ass!" said Potter, striding up and down the room.

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"Ass!

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Ass!

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Ass!

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Ass!"

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Ass!

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Ass!"

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Look at that ass--glad to crawl in here and nibble a crust from my table to-night!

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Ass!"

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Ass!

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I gave her up, but no sooner had she left us than I found myself impelled to make an offer to a handsome girl of eight-and-twenty who I was ass enough to dream might love me.

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"Trust me," said the knight, again turning to Mary Avenel, "if I do not pity you, lady, who, being of noble blood, are thus in a manner compelled to abide in the cottage of the ignorant, like the precious stone in the head of the toad, or like a precious garland on the brow of an ass.--But soft, what gallant have we here, whose garb savoureth more of the rustic than doth his demeanour, and whose looks seem more lofty than his habit; even as--" "I pray you, Sir Knight," said Mary, "to spare your courtly similitudes for refined ears, and give me leave to name unto you my foster-brother, Halbert Glendinning."

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to be an ass, he understood somewhat of a hawk; but they sent him on the wing through the air himself one bright moonlight night."

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One thing is good, I have silenced the eternal predications of that ass, Adam Woodcock, who has set up for being a preacher and a governor, over me, so soon as he has left the hawks' mew behind him."

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"Why, thou ass," said Lindesay, "thou didst not think that I meant thy fool's head serious harm?

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Catherine had, in the meanwhile, fallen back from the Queen's bed, and taken an opportunity to whisper to Roland, "Methinks, from the information of the threadbare velvet cloak and the solemn beard, there would be little trouble in haltering yonder ass.

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The steamer whistles every minute; its whistle is midway between the bray of an ass and an Aeolian harp.

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Levitan was an ass not to come with me.

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if the public likes my works as little as I do those of other people which I am reading, what an ass I am!

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My calves have turned into cows, my copse has grown at least a yard higher, my heirs will make a capital bargain over the timber and will call me an ass, for heirs are never satisfied.

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They adore their father and have a fanatical faith in him and that means that Tolstoy really is a great moral force, for if he were insincere and not irreproachable his daughters would be the first to take up a sceptical attitude to him, for daughters are like sparrows: you don't catch them with empty chaff.... A man can deceive his fiancee or his mistress as much as he likes, and, in the eyes of a woman he loves, an ass may pass for a philosopher; but a daughter is a different matter.... MELIHOVO, November 21, 1895.

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"Oh, chuck it, you little ass!"

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When they released, "I say, George, you _are_ an ass, you know," he said.

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"Is _that_ what you're driving at, you old ass?

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You are aware that the offspring of the Ass and the Horse, or rather of the he-Ass and the Mare, is what is called a Mule; and, on the other hand, the offspring of the Stallion and the she-Ass is what is called a 'Hinny'.

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Then, if you look at the Hinny,-the result of the union of the Stallion and the she-Ass, then you find it is the Horse that has the predominance; that the head is more like that of the Horse, the ears are shorter, the legs coarser, and the type is altogether altered; while the voice, instead of being a bray, is the ordinary neigh of the Horse.

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Here, you see, is a most curious thing: you take exactly the same elements, Ass and Horse, but you combine the sexes in a different manner, and the result is modified accordingly.

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"And a sloppy young ass that heard him," says Huggo, "oh, an awful ass, asked me why the Head had said I must be proud of you, and I told him, and I said, 'I bet you're not proud of your mother.'

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So this frightful ass said--what do you think he said?

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Huggo mimicked the voice in which the frightful ass had said this; and Rosalie, at the words and at his tone, had across her body a sudden chill, as it were physical.

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Because P makes ass Pass.

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He impressed us, we found afterwards, as a poseur beyond question, a conscious Ishmaelite in the world of wit, and in some subtly inexplicable way as a most consummate ass.

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I merely showed Mr. What's-his-name that he was making an ass of himself.

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H'ass most tremenjouse!

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In the confusion of my senses I heard it say solemnly--- "The sins of her fathers have overtaken her, as the Book of Exodus proclaim'd: therefore is her inheritance wasted, and given to the satyr and the wild ass."

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G. W. C. CONTENTS THE AMBITIOUS FOX AND THE UNAPPROACHABLE GRAPES THE PERSEVERING TORTOISE AND THE PRETENTIOUS HARE THE PATRICIAN PEACOCKS AND THE OVERWEENING JAY THE ARROGANT FROG AND THE SUPERIOR BULL THE DOMINEERING EAGLE AND THE INVENTIVE BRATLING THE ICONOCLASTIC RUSTIC AND THE APROPOS ACORN THE UNUSUAL GOOSE AND THE IMBECILIC WOODCUTTER THE RUDE RAT AND THE UNOSTENTATIOUS OYSTER THE URBAN RAT AND THE SUBURBAN RAT THE IMPECUNIOUS CRICKET AND THE FRUGAL ANT THE PAMPERED LAPDOG AND THE MISGUIDED ASS THE VAINGLORIOUS OAK AND THE MODEST BULRUSH THE INHUMAN WOLF AND THE LAMB SANS GENE THE SYCOPHANTIC FOX AND THE GULLIBLE RAVEN THE MICROSCOPIC TROUT AND THE MACHIAVELIAN FISHERMAN THE CONFIDING PEASANT AND THE MALADROIT BEAR THE PRECIPITATE COCK AND THE UNAPPRECIATED PEARL THE ABBREVIATED FOX AND HIS SCEPTICAL COMRADES THE HOSPITABLE CALEDONIAN AND THE THANKLESS VIPER THE IMPETUOUS BREEZE AND THE DIPLOMATIC SUN ILLUSTRATIONS "THE FOX RETREATED OUT OF RANGE" "HE STROVE TO GROW ROTUNDER" "AN ACORN FELL ABRUPTLY" "SAID SHE, 'GET UP, YOU BRUTE YOU!'"

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THE PAMPERED LAPDOG AND THE MISGUIDED ASS A woolly little terrier pup Gave vent to yelps distressing, Whereat his mistress took him up And soothed him with caressing, And yet he was not in the least What one would call a handsome beast.

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At all events, whate'er his race, The pretty girl who owned him Caressed his unattractive face And petted and cologned him, While, watching her with mournful eye, A patient ass stood silent by.

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And promptly screamed aloud for aid: No ass was ever more dismayed.

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Midas, the king, has the ears of an ass.

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_The Reeds._ Midas, the king, has the ears of an ass.

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[50] _The Reeds._ Midas, the king, has the ears of an ass.

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_The Reeds._ Midas, the king, has the ears of an ass.

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And much I fear if you have not the ears You have the judgement of an ass.

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Oh, Midas, ass-eared king!

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In the mean time the naturalist stood like a statue of amazement, permitting a well-grown ass, against whose approach he no longer offered his boasted shield of light, to smell about his person, without comment or hinderance.

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"It is your own ass," cried Ellen, the instant she found breath for words; "your own patient, hard working, hack!"

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"Friend, it will be necessary to slaughter this ass."

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"Ay, but I did not tell him to make an ass outdo the speed of a horse:--you are right--you are right," said the trapper, interrupting himself, as by gradually lessening the distance between them, his eyes assured him it was Obed and Asinus, whom he saw; "you are right, as certainly as the thing is a miracle.

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"Had there been rotary levers for two of the members, a moiety of the fatigue would have been saved, for one item--" "That, for your moiety's and rotaries, and items, man; a jaded ass is a jaded ass, and he who denies it is but a brother of the beast itself.

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Whether Asinus had acquired so much knowledge, by his recent experience, as to know the value of his sonorous properties, or the strange spectacle of a dozen hags flitting past him, filling the air with such sounds as were even grating to the ears of an ass, most moved his temper, it is certain that the animal did that which Obed was requested to do, and probably with far greater effect than if the naturalist had strove with his mightiest effort to be heard.

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"Silly ass!" he laughed aloud, continuing on his way.

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He dismissed it with a "Silly ass!" of scorn, lighted a cigarette, and began running, with trained eye, the indexes of the books and marking the pages sought with matches.

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You've roughed and rowdied over the world--" "Played the wild ass," Graham laughed in.

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Ass.

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"He killed three hundred men with the jawbone of an ass."

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that a man killed three hundred men with the jawbone of an ass?

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"He'll be a boy," Robert Ferguson said, "until he makes an ass of himself by falling in love.

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I--" he paused, and laughed: "I was twenty, just out of college, when I made an ass of myself over a girl who was as vain as a peacock.

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Don't be an ass."

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She had had a letter from Blair, and all her joyousness had fled: "_The Dean is an ass, of course; but mother'll get excited about it, I'm afraid.

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Helena Richie was immensely proud of this sudden, serious manhood; but Elizabeth's uncle took it as a matter of course:--had he not, himself, ceased to be an ass at twenty?

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"Why _am_ I such an ass?" he asked himself; then said, with studied lightness, that he was afraid he would have to absent himself from business for still a little longer, as he was going abroad.

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"What an ass I am!" he said to himself; "she has gone to her uncle's, of course."

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Those of the elephant, camel, buffalo and bullock, horse, ass, pony, dog, goat, sheep and kid, lizard, wild-cat and pigeon, with men, women, and children's feet, naked and shod, were all recognisable.

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Their calves gambolled by their sides, the drollest of animals, like ass-colts in their antics, kicking up their short hind-legs, whisking their bushy tails in the air, rushing up and down the grassy slopes, and climbing like cats to the top of the rocks.

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The wild ass* [This, the _Equus Hemionus_ of Pallas, the untameable Kiang of Tibet, abounds in Dingcham, and we saw several.

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It differs widely from the wild ass of Persia, Sind, and Beloochistan, but is undoubtedly the same as the Siberian animal.]

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Ass.

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Ass, wild, ii.

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The wild ass* grazing with its foal on the sloping downs, * This, the Equus Hemionus of Pallas, the untameable Kiang of Tibet, abounds in Dingcham, and we saw several.

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It differs widely from the wild ass of Persia, Sind, and Beloochistan, but is undoubtedly the same as the Siberian animal.

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Ass.

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Ass, wild, ii.

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It was a far-fetched and not very happy piece of revenge, when they of the other side took pleasure in spelling his name 'CLesel,' as much as to say, He of the 150 ass-power.

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"Basest and hungriest inditer," "groom," "rank pettifogger," "mere and arrant pettifogger," "no antic hobnail at a morris but is more handsomely facetious;" "a boar in a vineyard," "a snout in this pickle," "the serving-man at Addlegate" (suggested by 'the maids at Aldgate'), "this odious fool," "the noisome stench of his rude slot," "the hide of a varlet," "such an unswilled hogshead," "such a cock-brained solicitor;" "not a golden, but a brazen ass;" "barbarian, the shame of all honest attorneys, why do they not hoist him over the bar and blanket him?"

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I am an old ass!

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"He stands," said the town-jester, who had crowded into the gay throng, "before the gate, like Balaam's ass in the Mystery, when the animal sees so much more than can be seen by any one else."

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The English Ass and the German Ass are touchingly alike.

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The shade of difference is that the English Ass's sublime self-satisfaction is in the German Ass self-glorification.

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The English Ass smirks and plumes himself; the German Ass blusters and bullies and defies."

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