The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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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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Roger, if I did not respect you so much, I should call you an ass!"

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"Call me an ass, by all means," he said, "if it will relieve your feelings;--but in justice to me, let me know why you do so!

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"Upon my word, Roger de Launay," he said bitterly to himself, "you are an ass sufficiently weighted with burdens!

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At ten, my little flock gathered [Mrs. Hawthorne taught reading, geography, drawing, etc., to several children besides her own, for love, and gave them Sunday-school lessons also]; and I read them the story of Balaam's ass, and about the death of Moses.

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Sheen's the sort of ass who won't do a thing.

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"Don't be an ass," said Barry.

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What an ass you are.

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The news would be about the school at nine o'clock, but if he could keep it from the senior day-room till the brief interval between breakfast and school, all would be well, and he would have the pure pleasure of seeing that backbone of the house make a complete ass of itself.

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And why on earth, if you can win silver medals at Aldershot, didn't you box for the house and smash up that sidey ass Stanning?

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159 Soon after entered a fair lady in mourning weeds, riding on a weeds > clothing, attire 160 white ass, with a dwarf behind her leading a warlike steed, 161 that bore the arms of a knight, and his spear in the dwarf's arms > {Weapons, shield and armour} 162 hand.

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1 A lovely lady rode him fair beside, lovely > lovely; loving; lovable [by virtue of her admirable qualities] fair > fittingly, becomingly; skilfully 2 Upon a lowly ass more white than snow, 3 Yet she much whiter; but the same did hide the same > [her complexion she] 4 Under a veil, that wimpled was full low; wimpled > {Falling in folds} full > very, exceedingly 5 And over all a black stole she did throw, stole > robe 6 As one that inly mourned: so was she sad, inly > inwardly 7 And heavy sat upon her palfrey slow; heavy > sadly palfrey > {Saddle-horse for ladies} 8 Seemed in heart some hidden care she had, Seemed > [It seemed] in heart > in her heart; inwardly 9 And by her, in a line, a milk-white lamb she led.

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1 But this was drawn of six unequal beasts, of > by unequal > different, ill-matched 2 On which her six sage counsellors did ride, 3 Taught to obey their bestial behests, 4 With like conditions to their kinds applied: With like conditions to their kinds applied > (Literally, "With similar qualities to their natures employed"; each beast was appropriate to its rider) 5 Of which the first, that all the rest did guide, 6 Was sluggish Idleness, the nurse of sin; Idleness > [Sloth] 7 Upon a slothful ass he chose to ride, 8 Arrayed in a habit black, and amice thin, amice > cap, hood, cape (of some religious order) 9 Like a holy monk, the service to begin.

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1 And his true love, fair Psyche, with him plays, Psyche > ("The Soul"; her allegorical story is told in _The Golden Ass_ by Apuleius) 2 Fair Psyche, to him lately reconciled 3 After long troubles and unmeet upbrays, unmeet > unfitting; _hence:_ unfair, unreasonable upbrays > reproaches, reproofs 4 With which his mother, Venus, her reviled, 5 And eke himself her cruelly exiled: eke > also 6 But now in steadfast love and happy state 7 She with him lives, and has him borne a child, 8 Pleasure, that does both gods and men aggrate, Pleasure > (Volupia or Voluptas, the personification of sensual pleasure) aggrate > please; gratify (SUS) 9 Pleasure, the daughter of Cupid and Psyche late.

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), _Lucius Apuleius, The Golden Ass_.

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A roof of board is built out in front of the side-room which shelters the ox and ass, and under this lean-to lies the new born babe surrounded by angels who express their childish joy.

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The several pictures which he painted, but which cannot now be found are: "Hark!" which was first exhibited in the Royal Academy; "Scene from Woodstock," "The Eve of St. Agnes," "Jerusalem by Moonlight," "The King of Hearts," "Moonlight at Salerno," "Interior of the Mosque of Omar," "The Pathless Water," "Winter," "Afternoon," "Sussex Downs," "Penzance," "The Archipelago," "Will-o'-the-Wisp," "Ivybridge," "The Foal of an Ass," "Road over the Downs," "The Haunt of the Gazelle," "'Oh, Pearl,' Quoth I," "Miss Flamborough," "The School-girl's Hymn."

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See Murillo Estban, Gaspar Estban, Therese Etchers and etching "Europa and the Bull" "Eve of St. Agnes, The" Fallen, Ambrose "Fall of Man, The" "Fantasy of Morocco" Fawkes, Hawksworth "Feast in the House of Simon" "Feast of Ahasuerus" "Ferdinand of Austria" Ferdinand III., Grand Duke Ferrara, Duke of "Fte Champtre" "Fighting Tmraire, The" Filipepi, Mariano "Finding of Christ in the Temple, The" "Flamborough, Miss" "Flatford Mill on the River Stour" "Flora" (Bcklin) (Titian) "Foal of an Ass, The" Fondato de' Tedeschi Fontainebleau "Fool, The" "Fornarina, The" Fortuny, Mariano Fourment family Fourment, Helena "Four Saints" Francis I. Frari, monks of the Frey, Agnes "Friedland" Gainsborough, Mary Gainsborough, Thomas Gallery, Berlin Dresden Grosvenor Hague, The Hermitage, The Lichtenstein, Vienna Louvre Luxembourg Madrid Naples National, Edinburgh National, London Old Pinakothek, Munich Parma Pitti Palace Uffizi Vienna Garrick "Gay Company in a Park" Gelle.

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"Thou art an ass; the start, as you call it, will never happen,-the day's put off.

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"Thou art an ass; the start, as you call it, will never happen,-the day's put off.

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Rebecca was therefore compelled to leave the Laird to proceed at his own snail's pace, convinced, by experience, of the grave-digger's aphorism, that your dull ass will not mend his pace for beating.

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He only regretted that she should live under the same roof with such a worldly-wise man as Bartoline Saddletree, whom David never suspected of being an ass as he was, but considered as one really endowed with all the legal knowledge to which he made pretension, and only liked him the worse for possessing it.

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"One woman," said Sharpitlaw,-for, like all rogues, he was a great calumniator of the fair sex,*-"one woman is enough to dark the fairest ploy that was ever planned; and how could I be such an ass as to expect to carry through a job that had two in it?

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The man who had spoken, no other than our old friend, Dumbiedikes, whose mouth, like that of the prophet's ass, had been opened by the emergency of the case, now joined them, and, with his usual taciturnity, escorted them into the Court-house.

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A thousand dreadful visions haunted his imagination all night, and in the morning he was awaked from a feverish slumber, by the only circumstance which could have added to his distress,-the visit of an intrusive ass.

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Rebecca was therefore compelled to leave the Laird to proceed at his own snail's pace, convinced, by experience, of the grave-digger's aphorism, that your dull ass will not mend his pace for beating.

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Sez I, "You egrejus ass, that air's a wax figger--a representashun of the false 'Postle."

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What sort of sense is thare to King Leer, who goze round cussin his darters, chawin hay and throin straw at folks, and larfin like a silly old koot and makin a ass of hisself ginerally?

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Sez I, "You egrejis ass," gittin up & brushin the dust from my eyes, "I'll sign your papers with this bunch of bones, if you don't be a little more keerful how you make my bread basket a depot in the futur.

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A man is a ass who dispoots it.

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I like a little beer now and then, and when the teetotallers inform us, as they frekently do, that it is vile stuff, and that even the swine shrink from it, I say it only shows that the swine is a ass who don't know what's good; but to pour gin and brandy down one's throat as freely as though it were fresh milk, is the most idiotic way of goin' to the devil that I know of.

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He jined the Church last spring, and the minister said, "You must go home now, Brothern Billins, and erect a family altar in your own house," whereupon the egrejis old ass went home and built a reg'lar pulpit in his sittin room.

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It may be fun to you, but it makes me feel a perfect ass.

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A. HARDIE, Lieutenant-Colonel, Aide-de-camp, and Act'g Ass't Adj't Gen'l."]

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I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant, ----------, Lieutenant-Colonel, Aide-de-camp, and Act'g Ass't Adj't.

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and Ass't Adj't-General."

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A. CAMPBELL, Ass't Adj't-Gen., Army of the Ohio.

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THEODORE Cox, Ass't Adj't-General.

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luckless speech and bootless boast, 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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ASS.--If its head is towards consultant, a piece of good news or an event which has long been waited for is near; if its tail, then further patience is necessary, for there will be delay; if it gallops, it gives warning that if people allow themselves to become too boring their friends may reasonably, be expected to avoid them.

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What an ass I've been.'

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Ass, ass, ass!

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So deplorable, indeed, was the sacrifice of property, that a chronicler of the day mentions, that he had seen a house exchanged for an ass, and a vineyard for a suit of clothes!

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'Oh, don't be an ass,' said Pillingshot, irritably.

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'You utter ass,' he said, in tones of concentrated venom.

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'You know,' said Welch seriously, stooping to unlace his boots, 'rotting apart, you really are a most awful ass.

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Chorus of fieldsmen: 'Get out, Smith, you ass.

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On the desert routes of Palestine a donkey becomes romantic; in a coster-monger's barrow he is only an ass; the donkey himself doesn't see the distinction.

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--Cleopatra in the clay--"Wer nie sein Brod mit thranen ass."

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--Cleopatra in the clay-- "War nie sein Brod mit thranen ass."

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There was a good deal of absurdity one day in a figure in a crinoline petticoat, riding on an ass and almost filling the Corso with the circumference of crinoline from side to side.

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Goethe speaks the word for him: "Wer nie sein Brod mit thranen ass, Er kennt euch nicht, ihr ewige Machte!"

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But Pennini was not such a mollycoddle and ass as he looked, and when he grew up he gave evidence enough of having a mind and a way of his own.

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'No, you ass, a regular burglar.

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What an ass that fellow was to employ violence.

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'Oh, he made an ass of himself,' said Wilson vaguely.

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'You needn't be an ass,' he said shortly.

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'Don't be an ass,' said Pringle, with a laugh which should have been careless, but was in reality merely feeble.

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'I know you wouldn't be ass enough to do a thing like that without a jolly good reason.

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'Don't be an ass.'

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Don't sit there looking like a beastly churchwarden, you ass.

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You ass, how can I let them know?

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Silly ass!

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I have already told you that he was a silly ass.

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The next morning he procured a number of clumsy waggons, with horses, asses, camels, and provisions; and his caravan set out, to travel all day over a plain, a "goodly land," the almond-tree in blossom, orange and olive, everywhere lilies, the scarlet anemone, he considering himself so familiar with the way, that he was their only guide, though the morning was misty; and through the plain of Sharon they wended over the worst roads in existence, until, passing into a country of rocks, they made out afar the mountains of Judæa, whose patches of white stone look like snow in sunshine, on the roads streams of wayfarers, tending all eastward to Jerusalem, lines of camels and waggons, pedestrians with wine-skins, mother and sucking child on the solitary ass, and the Bedouin troop; but Spinoza was all solitary among fastnesses on the third forenoon when he muttered nervously: "I must certainly have lost the way".

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The transformation was rapid for the reason that it was natural, seeing that it had been Europe only that, like a Circe, had bewitched them into beastial shapes, "sharks", and "bulls", and "bears", mediæval Jews, for example, having been debarred from every pursuit save commerce: so that Shylock was obliged to turn into a Venetian; and, in ceasing to be a Hebrew, became more Venetian than the Venetians, for the reason that he had more brains, ready to beat them at any game they cared to mention; but the genuine self of Shylock was a vine-dresser or sandal-maker, as Hillel was a wood- chopper, David a shepherd, Amos a fig-gatherer, Saul an ass-driver, Rabbi Ben Zakkai a sail-maker, Paul a tent-maker: so that the return to simplicity and honesty was quickly accomplished.

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"That fellow Blanton is an officious ass," he growled, "and you"--he checked himself.

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To be sure the only time I ever tried, I made a giddy ass of myself and got into a jolly mess, but I wonder will I succeed with this.

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"I was," said Max expressively, "not only because I always like to get back to the Manor, but because I was pleased with myself to think I'd scored with this especial bit of work, a job of smoothing down an elderly ass who was inclined to be a trifle footy.

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To be sure the only time I ever tried, I made a giddy ass of myself and got into a jolly mess, but I wonder will I succeed with this.

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"Did you ever hear such an old tup-headed ass?" said Oldbuck, briefly apostrophizing Lovel.

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Some gentlemen-I was ass enough to be one-took small shares in the concern, and Sir Arthur himself made great outlay; we were trained on by specious appearances and more specious lies; and now, like John Bunyan, we awake, and behold it is a dream!"

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At length, having premised that the poem was a dialogue between the poet Oisin, or Ossian, and Patrick, the tutelar Saint of Ireland, and that it was difficult, if not impossible, to render the exquisite felicity of the first two or three lines, he said the sense was to this purpose: "Patrick the psalm-singer, Since you will not listen to one of my stories, Though you never heard it before, I am sorry to tell you You are little better than an ass"- "Good!

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But yonder comes the prudent Caxon.-Hold up your head, you ass-your betters must bear the blame for you-And here, take this what-d'ye-call it"-(giving him his sword)-"I wonder what I would have said yesterday to any man that would have told me I was to stick such an appendage to my tail."

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"Did you ever hear such an old tup-headed ass?" said Oldbuck, briefly apostrophizing Lovel.

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Vexed at this circumstance, he walked along the shore, where a man met him riding on an ass, and took him up with him.

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Some led an ass loaded with water, and, where-ever they found a window open, inundated the apartment within by means of a pump.

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"There is room for little choice in our family; Dick is a gambler, John a boor, and Wilfred an ass.

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"There is room for little choice in our family; Dick is a gambler, John a boor, and Wilfred an ass.

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Blanked infernal fat-headed silly ass of a game!

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Why can't that lazy ass Mayo go with his sister?"

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I will get him a cup of hot ass's milk; that will give him strength without fevering his blood.

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Our youth is a perfect ass, an infernal young fish, a puppy-dog--pah!"

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"Why, the maid--" "Ass!

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"My poor ass," said Anthony, edging nearer the better to peer into my face, "I have been endeavouring to give you a brief description of Raydon Manor--the house peeping amid the trees yonder."

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But your dress is a thought too sombre, I think, considering your youth, though I'll admit it suits you and there's a devilish tragic melancholy Danish-air about ye as should nail the female orb--" "Don't be an ass, Anthony.

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"Ha, Perry!" he exclaimed, as we prepared to drop into the garden below, "I'm a curst, dull-witted ass--here have I been sedulously guzzling ale, rum, brandy and dooce knows how many kinds of wine, and what I really needed was blood, d'ye see?

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I made an egregious ass of myself once, and once is quite enough.

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She had been breaking her heart for the great ass all these months.

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"I always thought you were a young ass, Bertie," Harry said sternly, "but I have not realized before how utterly assified you are."

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