The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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That cheap old humbug, that maundering old ass?

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Then who can hope to know what my feelings were, to hear this armor-plated ass start in on it again, in the murky twilight of tradition, before the dawn of history, while even Lactantius might be referred to as "the late Lactantius," and the Crusades wouldn't be born for five hundred years yet?

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Why, she was a perfect ass; and yet the king and his knights had listened to her as if she had been a leaf out of the gospel.

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I had started a number of these people out-the bravest knights I could get-each sandwiched between bulletin-boards bearing one device or another, and I judged that by and by when they got to be numerous enough they would begin to look ridiculous; and then, even the steel-clad ass that hadn't any board would himself begin to look ridiculous because he was out of the fashion.

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No, confound her, her intellect was good, she had brains enough, but her training made her an ass-that is, from a many-centuries-later point of view.

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In my way home, I looked into another cabinet, the greatest ornament of which was a most sublime thistle by Snyders, of the heroic size, and so faithfully imitated that I dare say no ass could see it unmoved.

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They care not a hair of an ass's ear whether their houses be gloomy and ill-contrived, their pavements overgrown with weeds, and their shops with filthiness, provided the carcasses of Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthazar might be preserved with proper decorum.

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It was in vain that Pen recalled to his own mind what a stupid ass Foker used to be at school--how he could scarcely read, how he was not cleanly in his person, and notorious for his blunders and dulness.

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Was Titania the first who fell in love with an ass, or Pygmalion the only artist who has gone crazy about a stone?

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And he pointed his hand towards the pale, languid gentleman who said, "Don't be an ass, Ned."

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"I do not choose that questions should be asked: or, perhaps, I am an ass, and don't wish it to be said that George Warrington writes for bread.

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Mr. Willis is not _quite_ an ass.

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Applause finds a very ready answer in my heart, and I think it mortifying enough that in the fine arts we should have to exhibit ourselves before fools, and submit our compositions to the vulgar taste of an ass.

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Deuce take the saddled ass!

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Next morning, we proceeded towards the Spanish headquarters, provided with horses through the kindness of the captain of the outpost, and preceded by a guide on an ass.

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"Come, weather me now, see how she trips it along--poo, I was an ass to quail, wan't I, Paul?"

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Balaam's ass was a joke to this fellow."

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You never can go into a party nowadays, that you don't meet with some shallow, prosing, pestilent ass of a fellow, who thinks that empty sound is conversation; and not unfrequently there is a spice of malignity in the blockhead's composition; but a creature of this calibre you can wither, for it is not worth crushing, by withholding the sunshine of your countenance from it, or by leaving it to drivel on, until the utter contempt of the whole company claps to change the figure--a wet night--cap as an extinguisher on it, and its small stinking flame flickers and goes out of itself.

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They seem perfectly intelligent; six days a week they yoke his stout oxen before a great American plow, turn his soil, scatter his fertilizer, after the harvest help him sort out the best grain for the next sowing, and so forth; but the seventh day of the week they hitch their wives beside an ass, and tickle the soil with their iron-pointed stick.

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But when questioned, he averred stoutly that he and "Jinny" [Footnote: Jinny: the she-ass that had been procured as a nurse.]

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In that rare atmosphere of the Sierra foot-hills,--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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There the stable of the ox and ass received, the Master of Heaven and earth, when His people considered Him not, and shut their doors when, "Unto us a Child was born, unto us a Son was given."

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Herod Antipas came to Jerusalem to observe the feast, Pilate to keep the peace among the Jews; and Jerusalem saw her King coming, meek, and riding on an ass, and amid the Hosannas of the children, weeping at the vengeance that He foresaw for the favoured city where He had been despised and rejected, and where He was Himself about to become the true Passover, which should purchase everlasting Redemption.

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Students of geometry, who have pushed their researches into that fascinating science so far as the fifth proposition of the first book, commonly called the _Pons Asinorum_ (though now that so many ladies read Euclid, it ought, in common justice to them, to be at least sometimes called the _Pons Asinarum_), will agree that though it may be more difficult to prove that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal, and that if the equal sides be produced, the angles on the other side of the base shall be equal, than it was to describe an equilateral triangle on a given finite straight line; yet no one but an ass would say that the fifth proposition was one whit less intelligible than the first.

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It used to be thought a sufficient explanation to say either that the man was an ass or that it was all those Ritualists.

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But gradually it became apparent that the pervert was not always an ass, and that the Ritualists had nothing whatever to do with it.

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Next, Mademoiselle Aimee, about 16, mounted astride upon an ass, with her younger sister, about 7, behind her, also astride.

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"Don't beat about the bush, Vera, you may say I am an ass."

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Then he wondered if the clergyman had thought him much of an ass, and then whether the individual lurking behind the lace curtains of the front room next door was a man or a woman.

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Silly ass!

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"Ass that I am, of course they are.

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Sultan stopped and sniffed, and then turned his head round as if to tell me, what I already felt was the truth, that I had been an ass for not leaving it to him.

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I want you and your father to come and prove he's an ass.

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Maclachlan had paid not the slightest attention to me and, while ready enough to deal with him, I paid none to him, and began to think him somewhat of an ass to be standing in the market-place of Derby airing his passions.

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What distinction he had was given him by gorgeous clothing and the attendance of a pompous ass in a flaming livery.

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"Jorkins, you great ass," cried he to the first servant, "what do you mean by keeping his honour waiting?"

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"Don't be an ass, Sankey.

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I shall not be satisfied till the Harkaways and the Harveys are destroyed root and branch-till the other accursed detective, Nabley, his American friend Jefferson, the negroes, the wooden-legged ass Mole, till every one of the party is swept away out of my path.

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"What an ass I was to come here," muttered Hunston; "to drive myself into a corner."

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It was as follows: 'Why is John Tyler like an ass?'

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This editor copied the conundrum and could not resist the temptation to answer it, which he did thus: 'Because he _is_ an ass!'

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A remarkable way of making 'thine ox and thine ass' keep the Sabbath!

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There is an old play which has for its title, _The Devil as an Ass._ He is not such an ass as that, to build up with one hand and cast down with the other.

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Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto Me.

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Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.

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Certainly that calm figure, sitting on the slow-pacing ass, with the noisy multitude pressing round Him, is strangely unlike Him, who hid Himself among the hills when they sought to make Him a King.

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A strange King this, indeed, who has not even an ass of His own, and for followers, peasants with palm branches instead of swords!

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What would a Roman soldier or one of Herod's men have thought of that rustic procession of a pauper prince on an ass, and a hundred or two of weaponless, penniless men?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,008   ~   ~   ~

A NEW KIND OF KING 'All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass.'--MATT.

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All were in a quiver of expectation; and knowing that, Jesus Christ originates this scene by His act of sending the two disciples into the village over against them, to 'bring the ass, and the colt the foal of an ass.'

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Immediately upon that vision of the meek King throned on the colt the foal of an ass, follows this: 'And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horses from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and He shall speak peace unto the heathen.'

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That is the Christ who came into Jerusalem on the colt the foal of an ass.

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He had no love for that stream, nor for the ambitious town on its banks, but ever since he woke that morning he had felt a growing conviction that he had been a great ass to leave them.

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He did not know where to turn; the whole room must have seen what an incredible ass he had made of himself, but Mrs. Bowen looked as if she had not seen.

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What an ass I was!"

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"What's the matter with the grub, you scion of the wild-ass family?" demanded Barney, exploding like a fulminate.

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You don't believe, then, that Balaam's ass could talk?

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In ten minutes I have become so much of a courtier that I know how to be silent when an ass is talking.

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But my guardian angel said to me, 'You are an ass!

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"He said he called a spade a spade, and Herr Schmidt an ass."

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He was really angry with Griff that morning for mischievously maintaining that it was a greater breach of the commandment to work an ass than a horse.

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Lucy by no means thought that the Greystocks were asses, and was very strongly of opinion that one of them was as far removed from being an ass as any human being she had ever known.

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There ain't no useful animal as I kens the name and nature of as he can't have in Ayrshire,-for paying for it, my leddie;-horse, pownie, or ass, just whichever you please, my leddie.

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"What an ass you are, Billy.

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"What an ass you are, Mr. 'Oward.

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"He is an insolent ass,-as I have told him once, and shall have to tell him again."

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"He is such a lumpy man," said Lizzie;-"such an ass; such a load of Government waste-paper."

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"I am an ass, my friend, a great ass, to write in this silly strain to you, but you must not be very angry, though I own now to a feeling of _having half insulted your kind serious ways by talking nonsense to them on paper_."

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Gladstone and Dizzy seem to cap one another in folly and in pretence, and I do not know which has made the greatest ass of himself.

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So Joseph used to speak of himself as _l'asinelio--_the little ass; and a pathetic scene was witnessed on his death-bed when he was heard to mutter: "_L'asinelio_ begins to climb the mountain; _l'asinelio_ is half-way up; _l'asinelio_ has reached the summit; _l'asinelio_ can go no further, and is about to leave his skin behind."

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Pliny and Virgil and the Druids and Balaam's Ass are invoked as foretelling Her birth; the Old Testament--that venerable sufferer, as Huxley called it--is twisted into dire convulsions for the same purpose; much evidence is also drawn from Hebrew observances and from the Church Fathers.

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You are not fool and ass enough to give credence to these tales."

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Children, with drums Strapped round them by the fond paternal ass; Peripatetics with a blade of grass Between their thumbs.

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Oh might these couplets their attention claim That gain their author the Philistine's name (A stubborn race, that, spurning foreign law, Was much belabored with an ass's jaw.)

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Children, with drums Strapped round them by the fond paternal ass; Peripatetics with a blade of grass Between their thumbs.

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Oh might these couplets their attention claim That gain their author the Philistine's name (A stubborn race, that, spurning foreign law, Was much belabored with an ass's jaw.)

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"I daresay I have succeeded in making a precious ass of myself," was the mental reflection that occurred to me--one I had not infrequently made, and, what is more, been justified in making on former occasions.

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Some have at first for wits then poets passed Turned critics next and proved plain fools at last Some neither can for wits nor critics pass As heavy mules are neither horse nor ass.

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"I am a great ass," he said, kissing her hands.

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Monipodio He is an ass.

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Whoever got it usually gloated over it in silence till urged wrathfully by the multitude to let them know what had happened; when it would appear that Joe had notched his seventh century, or that Reggie had been run out when he was just getting set, or, as sometimes occurred, that that ass Frank had dropped Fry or Hayward in the slips before he had scored, with the result that the spared expert had made a couple of hundred and was still going strong.

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"I say, Bob," said Mike, "I've made rather an ass of myself."

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I mean, such an ass, sir."

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"You young ass," said Wyatt.

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"Silly ass," said Trevor, slicing bread.

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If you'd been a silly ass, you'd have let your people send him here."

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"It's awfully awkward, you know," continued Burgess gloomily; "that ass of a young brother of yours--Sorry, but he _is_ an ass, though he's your brother----" "Thanks for the 'though,' Billy.

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"It's only that ass Firby-Smith."

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Dash it all, it made him look such an awful _ass_!

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You wouldn't have if only that ass Uncle John hadn't let it out."

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Silly ass!

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Every little helps.... Oh, you silly ass, get _back_!"

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"You ass," said Berridge.

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An ass of a Gaucho had gone into the town and got jolly tight, and coming back, he wanted to ride through our place.

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I think Spiller's an ass."

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