The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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I was an ass to believe it could ever be otherwise, and I feel that the best thing for us both would have been for me to go away as soon as I found that I was getting fond of her."

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"Don't be a young ass, Bertie.

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He was riding an ass, but when I gave him "Buenos días," he replied with a whining: "Una limosnita!

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The shaggy little ass-colts follow their mothers over the cobbled streets and along mountain trails from birth, and the peon children, wearing the same huge hat, gay sarape, and tight breeches as their fathers, or the identical garb of the mothers, carry their share of the family burden almost from infancy.

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Now and then the mule-cars bowled over a laden ass, which sat up calmly on its haunches, front feet in the air, until the obstruction passed.

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A farmer of sixty, homeward bound to his village of Santa Cruz on a loose-eared ass, fell in with me.

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But that was because he did not want to be seen making an ass of himself, weeping as Bottom the Weaver wept.

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But this seems to have arisen from their misapprehension respecting his principal work, the Golden Ass, which is a romance detailing certain wonderful transformations, and which they appear to have thought was intended as an actual history of the life of the author.

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_Fra Marco e Todaro_, is a Venetian proverb expressing the state of perplexity which we indicate by the figure of an ass between two bundles of hay.]

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They embrace, however, a wide range of subjects, from lofty melodrama to broad farce, as you may see by looking at the advertisements in the Venetian Gazettes for any week past, where perhaps you shall find the plays performed to have been: The Ninety-nine Misfortunes of Facanapa; Arlecchino, the Sleeping King; Facanapa as Soldier in Catalonia; The Capture of Smyrna, with Facanapa and Arlecchino Slaves in Smyrna (this play being repeated several nights); and, Arlecchino and Facanapa Hunting an Ass.

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And they brought out the jaw bone of an ass with which Samson did such great feats, and the sling and stone with which David slew Goliath of Gath.

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But above all, it is an excellent Remedy, and very useful to a sort of People, who are always Travelling in Thought, but never Deliver'd into Action; who are so exceeding busy at Thinking, they have no leisure for Action; of whom the late Poet sung well to the purpose; ---- Some modern Coxcombs, who Retire to Think, 'cause they have nought to do; For Thoughts were giv'n for Actions Government, Where Action ceases, Thought Impertinent: The Sphere of Action is Life's Happiness, And he that Thinks beyond, Thinks like an Ass.

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"Well, I 'uz gwyne to spen' it, but I had a dream, en de dream tole me to give it to a nigger name' Balum-Balum's Ass dey call him for short; he's one er dem chuckleheads, you know.

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Now it moves my pity more than my mirth to see a man whom nature has made no fool be so very industrious to pass for an ass.

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They are decent, he's a fop; in short, they are men, he's an ass.

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Certain travellers on the Upper Nile have distributed the Bedawin into these two groups; add horse-Arabs and ass-Arabs, and you have all the divisions of the race as connected with the so-called "lower animals."

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In equus, we have, in the same situation, the zebra, which actually shews the stripes of the tiger, and is as remarkable for its wildness as its congeners, the horse and ass, are for their docility and usefulness.

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But he's another ass."

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"Don't be a little ass!"

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Again it came quite loud and distinct on the night air--a prolonged, hideous cry, something like the braying of an ass.

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Several ballots had to be taken, and at last resulted in favor of the chief Indian of the Blood Vein River band, Sa-ha-cha-way-ass, and the Councillors elected were the head men from the Big Island, Doghead and Jack-Fish Head bands.

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(Signed) A. G. IRVINE, Ass't Com., N.-W.M.P.

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At that time a hawker used to go from place to place, trafficking in goods carried by an ass.

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Terrified with the fear of death, the ass uttered a cry--the bray of an ass!

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And when he knew him then to be an ass, the future Buddha pronounced the First Verse: "This is not a lion's roaring, Nor a tiger's, nor a panther's; Dressed in a lion's skin, 'Tis a wretched ass that roars!"

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But when the villagers knew the creature to be an ass, they beat him till his bones broke; and, carrying off the lion's skin, went away.

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I'm not going to make such a confounded ass of myself, don't you know.

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If any man says a word against rum, I'll call him an infernal ass.

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His name was Aniceto, but we called him El Burro on account of his laugh, which sounded like the braying of an ass.

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He couldn't, as an ignorant and conceited ass, lose such a good opportunity of asserting his faithfulness and importance to his church.

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All the boys considered Malachi the greatest ass on the station, and there was no doubt that he _was_ an awful fool.

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To the latter years of his residence at Jena, which may be called the political portion of Schlegel's literary career, belongs the _Gate of Honour for the Stage-President Von-Kotzebue_, (_Ehrenpforte fur den Theater Präsidenten von Kotzebue_, 1800,) an ill-natured and much- censured satire in reply to Kotzebue's attack, entitled the _Hyperborean Ass_ (_Hyperboreischen Esee_).

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The extremes of fanciful and vulgar are united when the enchanted Titania awakes and falls in love with a coarse mechanic with an ass's head, who represents, or rather disfigures, the part of a tragical lover.

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In _The Devil's an Ass_ the poet has failed to draw due advantage from a fanciful invention with which he opens, but which indeed was not his own; and our expectation, after being once deceived, causes us to remain dissatisfied with other scenes however excellently comic.

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"No-ride thy mule, and lead thine ass; I am surer on mine own feet, and will walk."

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Presently our whipping-boy passed him, then wheeled about and scanned his figure well, saying to himself, "An' that is not the very vagabond his Majesty is in such a worry about, then am I an ass-though belike I was that before.

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These are brief and drawn to the life--how vivid are the pictures of the war-horse and the wild ass!--those of xl., xli.

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), the wild ass, the war-horse.

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His spirit changed its dwelling, and he saw Himself an ass; and after that an ox, A cow, a goat, a sheep, a bird, a worm.

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The word "ass," as applied to a human being, is not current in good literature, unless low comedy be entitled to that position, and coming from Hawthorne, of all writers, it seems like an oath from the mouth of a woman.

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To think that, only yesterday, when she said she would like to go to Bayreuth for the season, I was such an ass as to offer to take one of those jolly little places the King of Bavaria has there, for the two of us.

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It is most undeniably true, "that there is no place like England," for men who are in "easy circumstances," and who therefore think no more of direct or indirect taxation, and of those multitudinous burthens which highly-civilized life imposes, than a besom-maker's ass does of the load under which it daily journeys.

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And now, look you, the work I have for you since you know so well how to use this bottle, is, to get with all speed to the Hall; they will be having refreshments; you add a _good sound sleep_, on the plea of getting a cup of strong coffee which will steady you; force your way into whatever room they are; I wish you had not been such an ass as to take to the bottle to-night; your game is to say nothing of Paris, or of the part I played with that little fool of a Clarmont.

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"There was a hunting match agreed upon betwixt a lion, an ass, and a fox."

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The petition had been largely signed; many tearful and eloquent meetings had been held, and a committee of sappy women been appointed to go in deep mourning and wail around the governor, and implore him to be a merciful ass and trample his duty under foot.

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There's not an ass in all the parish But he knows my John.

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The face of the patriarch is full of faith, and yet self-sacrifice; the nude figure of Isaac, bronzed in the parts which have been exposed to the sun, most tenderly expresses a trembling dread, mingled with trust in his father; the landscape is also very airy and beautiful, and a characteristic group of a servant and the browsing ass is very effective in the background.

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Ponder this, therefore; for I have known men otherwise happy, who long for a good beef-steak pudding as vainly as the Golden Ass longed for a meal of roses.

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I have not been such an ass as to suppose I ever had a chance, though you know I would lay down my life for you willingly; but I did not seem to mind Bathurst.

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"Well, then," the Doctor said hotly, "I regard you as an ass."

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"Don't be an ass, Julian," I replied weakly.

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"Don't be an ass, James.

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"You're an ass," he said.

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This ass is, by interpretation, Some province poor, or prostrate nation.

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[16] A man, whom I shall call an ass-eteer, His sceptre like some Roman emperor bearing, Drove on two coursers of protracted ear, The one, with sponges laden, briskly faring; The other lifting legs As if he trod on eggs, With constant need of goading, And bags of salt for loading.

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All three drank deeply: asseteer and ass For boon companions of their load might pass; Which last became so sore a weight, The ass fell down, Belike to drown, His rider risking equal fate.

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This time, the king, t' insure success, Took for his aide-de-camp an ass, A creature of stentorian voice, That felt much honour'd by the choice.

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Cried out the much-elated ass.

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If he had dared, the donkey Had shown himself right spunky At this retort, though justly made; For who could suffer boasts to pass So ill-befitting to an ass?

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The people, who had thought a slave an ass, Much wonder'd how it came to pass That one alone should have more sense Than all their men of most pretence.

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The most an ass is not the one that rides!"

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"Ass!

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ass!" our man replied; "we're asses three!

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I do avow myself an ass to be; But since my sage advisers can't agree, Their words henceforth shall not be heeded; I'll suit myself."

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Their Maker chooses but a few With power of pleasing to imbue; Where wisely leave it we, the mass, Unlike a certain fabled ass, That thought to gain his master's blessing By jumping on him and caressing.

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The mule and ass, to bear the treasure, Their service tender'd, full of pleasure; And then the caravan was none the worse, Assisted by the camel and the horse.

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When, in the far-off past, The fare of gentlemen was mast, And even hats were never felt, Horse, ass, and mule in forests dwelt.

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[18] An ass, with relics for his load, Supposed the worship on the road Meant for himself alone, And took on lofty airs, Receiving as his own The incense and the prayers.

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[27] Clad in a lion's shaggy hide, An ass spread terror far and wide, And, though himself a coward brute, Put all the world to scampering rout: But, by a piece of evil luck, A portion of an ear outstuck, Which soon reveal'd the error Of all the panic-terror.

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[15] A gardener's ass complain'd to Destiny Of being made to rise before the dawn.

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Anon it came to pass He was a collier's ass.

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There jogg'd in company an ass and horse; Nought but his harness did the last endorse; The other bore a load that crush'd him down, And begg'd the horse a little help to give, Or otherwise he could not reach the town.

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'Ay, sirs, a dunce, a country clown, The greatest blockhead of your town,-- Nay more, an animal, an ass,-- The stupidest that nibbles grass,-- Needs only through my course to pass, And he shall wear the gown With credit, honour, and renown.'

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Ten years must roll, and then the learned ass Should his examination pass, According to the rules Adopted in the schools; If not, his teacher was to tread the air, With halter'd neck, above the public square,-- His rhetoric bound on his back, And on his head the ears of jack.

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[24] _Steed of the Arcadian breed_.--An ass, as in Fable XVII, Book VIII.

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He would not be too delicate, Nor spoil a dinner for a plate, Which, but for that, his favourite dish, Were all that any ass could wish.

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Hear how Descartes--Descartes, whom all applaud, Whom pagans would have made a god, Who holds, in fact, the middle place 'Twixt ours and the celestial race, About as does the plodding ass From man to oyster as you pass-- Hear how this author states the case 'Of all the tribes to being brought By our Creator out of nought, I only have the gift of thought.'

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For a sheep with the rot, Or scabby, mangy ass, Or some snarling cur, With less meat than fur, On which I've broken fast!

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With wit unseemly and profane, He mocks our venerable race-- On each of his who lacketh brain Bestows our ancient surname, ass!

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"My lord," the other ass replied, "Such talents in yourself reside, Of asses all, the joy and pride."

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Ass and Dog.

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Ass and his Masters.

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Ass and Horse.

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Ass and Lion, hunting.

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Ass and Little Dog.

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Ass and Old Man.

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Ass and Thieves.

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Ass bearing Relics.

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Ass, Dead, and Two Dogs.

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Ass in Lion's Skin.

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Ass loaded with Sponges, and the Ass loaded with Salt.

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Ass, Miller, and Son.

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Dog and Ass.

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Dog, Little, and Ass.

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Horse and Ass.

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Lion and Ass hunting.

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Miller, Son, and Ass.

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Old Man and Ass.

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Thieves and Ass.

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