The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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That which he saw was at the time of his offering incense, and it was a man standing in the form of an ass.

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5 Joseph puts Mary on an ass, to return to Bethlehem, 6 she looks sorrowful, 7 she laughs, 8 Joseph inquires the cause of each, 9 she tells him she sees two persons, one mourning and the other rejoicing.

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12 The messenger replied, When thou sentest me from Jerusalem to Alexander, I saw Jesus sitting in a mean figure upon a she-ass, and the children of the Hebrews cried out, Hosannah, holding boughs of trees in their hands.

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That which he saw was at the time of his offering incense, and it was a man standing in the form of an ass.

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That which he saw was at the time of his offering incense, and it was a man standing in the form of an ass.

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That which he saw was at the time of his offering incense, and it was a man standing in the form of an ass.

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"My own lawyer, my dear young lady, thereby proved himself an ass."

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Fool, O precious ass that you are!

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"You are such an ass... although I respect your right to religious difference."

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All a trick by some smart-ass author who wanted the audience to put all the pieces together, figure it out, write papers, hold seminars about 'what he really meant', provoke arguments, inspire entire schools of thought... all of that crap.

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Jesus healed the afflicted man and then said, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fall into a pit and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?

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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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Jesus healed the afflicted man and then said, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fall into a pit and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?

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Behold, thy King comes, sitting on an ass's colt.

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To call you an ass is to call you an animal.

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To call you an ass is to speak the truth.

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What an ass I am!

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I wish I had the abilities of the most refined scholars, so that I might tell you in the noblest verse, or else in learned prose, that you will always be, in spite of everything that may be done, the very same you have been all your life; that is to say, a scatter-brain, a man of distempered reason, always perplexed, wanting common sense, a man of left-handed judgment, a meddler, an ass, a blundering, hare-brained, giddy fellow,--what can I think of?

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I have not the slightest doubt now that they regarded me as a cheeky young ass who was trying to show off in regard to things of which he was totally ignorant and of which, needless to say, they were ignorant too, for, alas!

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Economic Ass'n.

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Economic Ass'n, 3d series, Vol.

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"And you'll do well by it," said the priest; "that Capuchin is an ass, and he taught your son rather to bray than to talk.

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But I have read much less than the second vicar of the Bishop of Séez, for, as he had the look and the mind of an ass, he was able to read two pages at the same time, one with each eye.

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"Ah!" said the barber, "he ought rather to have been afraid to engender an ass."

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He's an old ass, and he's getting just what he might have expected.

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What an ass he had made of himself!

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"You silly ass, you!

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"The conceited ass!" muttered the self- appointed outcast; "it doesn't look any more like him than it does like me!"

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Ass that he had been!

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I should not want it to get about that a former officer of mine could possibly make such an ass of himself.

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Shall an ass affect the lyre?

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Shortly after, as my hostess was serving me, I saw that in place of human feet she had ass's hoofs; whereupon I drew my sword, seized, bound, and closely questioned her.

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Reluctantly enough she had to confess; they were sea- women called Ass-shanks, and their food was travellers.

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The change will come; but will not involve an ass's head, nor a pig's heart, but only an improved understanding.

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And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.

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And Samson said, "With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men."

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--"Boar," answered the squire, "I am no boar; no, nor ass; no, nor rat neither, madam.

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His body was cloathed with the skin of an ass, made something into the form of a coat.

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Virgil, I think, tells us, that when the mob are assembled in a riotous and tumultuous manner, and all sorts of missile weapons fly about, if a man of gravity and authority appears amongst them, the tumult is presently appeased, and the mob, which when collected into one body, may be well compared to an ass, erect their long ears at the grave man's discourse.

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I beg ure Onur not to menshion ani thing of what I haf sad, for I wish ure Onur all thee gud luk in the wurld; and I don't cuestion butt thatt u will haf Madam Sofia in the end; butt ass to miself ure onur nose I kant bee of ani farder sarvis to u in that matar, nou bein under thee cumand off anuther parson, and nott mi one mistress, I begg ure Onur to say nothing of what past, and belive me to be, sir, ure Onur's umble servant to cumand till deth, "HONOUR BLACKMORE."

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Asses are the prevailing beasts of burden, carrying about turf in creels or drawing hay--a big load to a small ass.

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The patient ass, with his straw harness and creels, is the prevailing beast of burden everywhere I have travelled since I entered Enniskillen with the exception of Sligo.

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Well, this man since the famine, has no stock but one ass and a few hens.

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He drew home seventy ass loads of turf at the rate of two loads per day--twenty-two Irish miles of a walk.

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A man with a team of horses on his farm is in a different position from a man with only an ass and creels.

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As there was an ass in one, and a goat browsing in the other, I do not know but what it was the best thing they could do to leave them untilled.

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I particularly noticed in every corner of Ireland where I have been that where I saw the tall chimneys of factories in operation I did not see barefoot women with barefoot asses selling ass loads of turf for threepence.

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She loved him so, and would forgive him after he had talked quietly to her, and told her what an ass he was.

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"He is not such an ass!

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He is as miserly as a dog, hard as an ass, bigoted as a sacristan, it is true; but he is as honest as one can be.

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But here's the mischief--man's an ass, I say; Too fond of thunder, lightning, storm, and rain; He hides the charming, cheerful ray That spreads a smile o'er hill and plain!

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The mother was distracted, raving, wild-- Shrieked, tore her hair, embraced and kissed her child-- Afflicted every heart with grief around: Soon as the shower of tears was somewhat past, And moderately calm th' hysteric blast, She cast about her eyes in thought profound And being with a saving knowledge blessed, She thus the playhouse manager addressed: "Sher, I'm de moder of de poor Chew lad, Dat meet mishfartin here so bad-- Sher, I muss haf de shilling back, you know, Ass Moses haf not see de show."

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"Heavens, what an ass!"

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The verger met them in his blue silk gown, And humbly bowed his neck with reverence down, Low as an ass to lick a lock of hay: Looking the frightened verger through and through, And with his eye-glass--"Well, sir, who are you?

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Once on a time a certain English lass Was seized with symptoms of such deep decline, Cough, hectic flushes, every evil sign, That, as their wont is at such desperate pass, The doctors gave her over--to an ass.

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although you must Through this ordeal pass, You will not be, I hope--I trust-- A wholly senseless ass.

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Striped Zebra--Onager Calcitrant--Common Ass, And I--and all were there!

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An ass's hoof alone can hold That poisonous juice, which kills by cold.

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Methought when I this poem read, No vessel but an ass's head Such frigid fustian could contain; I mean the head without the brain.

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I like advice-- "Grill, you're an ass!"

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I ain't a goin' to stand this 'ere, you know: but 'taint no ass kickin' agin stone walls and iron spikes: wot I shall try and do is to gammon the parson.

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Sagard (1636) calls it _Caribou ou asne Sauuages_, caribou or wilde ass.--_Hist.

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Only some there are who have taxed the author with want of memory or sincerity, because he forgot to give an account who it was that stole Sancho's Dapple, for that particular is not mentioned there, only we find, by the story, that it was stolen; and yet, by and by, we find him riding the same ass again, without any previous light given us into the matter.

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"But still--but still," said Sebastes of Mitylene, the young Greek aforesaid, "were the Emperor to discover"-- "Ass!" replied Harpax, "he cannot discover, if he had all the eyes of Argus's tail.--Here are twelve of us sworn according to the rules of the watch, to abide in the same story.

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Surely though my captain, Achilles Tatius, is, under favour, little better than an ass, he cannot be so false of word as to train me to prison under false pretexts?

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"Pity," said the Emperor, "that a character such as you describe this Prince to be, should be under the dominion of a fanaticism scarce worthy of Peter the Hermit, or the clownish multitude which he led, or of the very ass which he rode upon!

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"Thy beauty, thou unparalleled fool," said Achilles, "must, I ween, be the daughter of the large-bodied northern boor, living next door to him upon whose farm was brought up the person of an ass, curst with such intolerable want of judgment."

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The ostrich and the cameleopard, the wild ass and the zebra, the chamois and the ibex of Angora,--all brought their tributes of beauty or deformity to these vast aceldamas of Rome: their savage voices ascended in tumultuous uproar to the chambers of the capitol: a million of spectators sat round them: standing in the centre was a single statuesque figure--the imperial sagittary, beautiful as an Antinous, and majestic as a Jupiter, whose hand was so steady and whose eye so true, that he was never known to miss, and who, in this accomplishment at least, was so absolute in his excellence, that, as we are assured by a writer not disposed to flatter him, the very foremost of the Parthian archers and of the Mauritanian lancers [_Parthyaion oi toxichæs hachribentes, chai Mauresion oi hachontixein harizoi_] were not able to contend with him.

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The ordinary boy has no chivalry--at least, he has got it all right under the surface, only he is in the silly-ass stage, and he forgets it.

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Many boys are inclined to be cruel simply because they don't think--they are not yet manly enough--they are, as I said before, in the silly-ass stage.

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--_The Devil is an Ass_, Act iv., SC.

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Rather an ass.

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Only a perfect ass would spend his time rushing about the place saying _noblesse oblige_ to people.

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He had always known that old Bill was a dear old ass, but he had never dreamed that he was such an infernal old ass as this.

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A presentiment had come upon him that he was about to look a perfect ass.

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He had always looked on himself as rather a chump--well-meaning, perhaps, but an awful ass.

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The effect that Claire had always had on him was to deepen the conviction, which never really left him, that he was a bit of an ass.

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'Ass!' hissed Subconscious Self.

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'Ass!

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Other minor points of interest in connection with the _Jacobite's Journal_, are the tradition associating Hogarth with the rude woodcut headpiece (a Scotch man and woman on an ass led by a monk) which surmounted its earlier numbers, and the genial welcome given in No.

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"As for me," said my wife, "I have brought good news, for I find we have still on board a cow, an ass, two goats, six sheep, a ram, a pig, and a sow, and I have found food for them all."

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My wife said that the death of the boa took a great weight off her mind, for she thought it would lie in wait for us near the Cave, starve us out, and then kill us as it had done the poor ass.

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The boa's skin we hung up at the door of the Cave, over which Ernest wrote the words, "No ass to be found here," which we all thought to be a good joke.

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Some utter ass left his or her gum on the floor and of course I stepped in it."

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"Young ass!" cried Caroline.

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And here is the other side of the shield, credited to Iniquity in "The Devil is an Ass":-- "Nay, boy, I will bring thee to the bawds and roysters At Billingsgate, feasting with claret-wine and oysters; From thence shoot the Bridge, child, to the Cranes in the Vintry, And see there the gimblets how they make their entry."

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That these pasties were highly appreciated is the only conclusion which can be drawn from the contemporary exclamation, "I'll not take thy word for a Dagger pie," and from the fact that in "The Devil is an Ass" Jonson makes Iniquity declare that the 'prentice boys rob their masters and "spend it in pies at the Dagger and the Woolsack."

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But his Highness, who was talking Latin to the Deacon of Colberg, turned on the doctor with--"Apage te asine!" and strode forward, whilst one of the nobles gave a free translation aloud for the benefit of the others, saying, "And that means: Begone, thou ass!"

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When the fool heard this, he clapped the little man on the back, shouting, "Well done, ass!

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For his lordship was not such a rough ass as _Dom.

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But the young lord pointed with his sword to his people, who now came riding out of the coppice, about eighteen strong, armed with sabres, pikes, and muskets, and said, "There is my authority, and I would let you feel it on your back if I did not know that you were but a stupid ass.

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