The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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_I_ think Spiller's an ass."

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"Silly ass, Dunster," he groaned, "slamming about like that."

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"You needn't be a funny ass, man," said Dunster, pained; "heaps of people tell me I ought to have it waxed."

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Dunster did say he thought it was something important, only like an ass I thought it would do if I came over at lock-up."

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Mr. Downing had read all the Holmes stories with great attention, and had thought many times what an incompetent ass Doctor Watson was; but, now that he had started to handle his own first case, he was compelled to admit that there was a good deal to be said in extenuation of Watson's inability to unravel tangles.

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"I was an ass ever to try it.

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"Don't be an ass, Adair.

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It came upon Mike with painful clearness that he had been making an ass of himself.

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"If your trouble is," said Psmith, "that you fear that you may be in unworthy company----" "Don't be an ass."

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Smith told me you couldn't have done, and I saw that I was an ass to think you could have.

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"The man's an absolute drivelling ass," said Mike warmly.

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"That ass Downing.

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"The silly ass wanted me to confess that I'd done it.

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"Nothing more simple; I will buy you an ass."

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"Now," said Chicot, "go and get your breakfast, while I go and look for an ass for you."

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CHAPTER XXVIIL HOW BROTHER GORENFLOT TRAVELED UPON AN ASS, NAMED PANURGE, AND LEARNED MANY THINGS HE DID NOT KNOW BEFORE.

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Therefore, he sat Gorenflot down to eggs and bacon, while he went among the peasants to look for an ass.

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He found a pacific creature, four years old, and something between an ass and a horse; gave twenty-two livres for it, and brought it to Gorenflot, who was enchanted at the sight of it, and christened it Panurge.

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It was as much as he could reasonably expect from the combined forces of a monk and an ass.

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Both were enjoying the most prosperous lot that ever fell to a monk and an ass.

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Down the middle of the road a troop of children, some blond, but mostly black, tormented a hapless ass colt; and we hurried away as fast as our guide could persuade our cabman to drive.

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And I never raised a character to the position of hero without recognizing in him, before I had done with him, an egregious ass.

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In short, man instinctively refuses to regard the literal inculcation of the Decalogue as the final word of God to the human race, and much less to the individuals of that race; and when he finds a story-teller proceeding upon the contrary assumption, he is apt to put that story-teller down as either an ass or a humbug.

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"He has a way too of being a hopeless ass.

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But Cashmore's such a fine old ass.

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He wants not to be an ass on the one side and yet not some other kind of brute on the other."

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"I think I've been rather an ass!"

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On the site of the gray-stone grammar school is an "Operative Institute," whose front (not so thick as the skin of a young ass) is gayly tattooed with a ringworm of wind-bricks.

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"Captain Stubbard is an ass.

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The host had watched all this through a crack in the door, and when night came on he put an ass of his own for the precious Neddy of the poor youth.

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At the word the cudgel flew from his hand and battered the old publican on the back, rapped his head, bruised his arms tickled his ribs, till he fell groaning on the floor; still the stick belaboured the prostrate man, nor would Jack call it off till he had got back the stolen ass and table.

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ASS, TABLE AND STICK.

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They describe this monster, as to her form, to be a compound of various species, having the head of a bull, the eyes of a hog, the ears of an elephant, the horns of a stag, the neck of an ostrich, the breast of a lion, the colour of a tiger, the back of a cat, the tail of a ram, the legs of a camel, and the voice of an ass.

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According to the traditions of Mohammed, he is to appear first between Irâk and Syria, or according to others, in the province of Khorasân; they add that he is to ride on an ass, that he will be followed by 70,000 Jews of Ispahân, and continue on earth forty days, of which one will be equal in length to a year, another to a month, another to a week, and the rest will be common days; that he is to lay waste all places, but will not enter Mecca or Medina, which are to be guarded by angels; and that at length he will be slain by Jesus, who is to encounter him at the gate of Lud.

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p. 245, 401, &c. 2 Yet they say the dog of the seven sleepers, and Ezra's ass, which was raised to life, will, by peculiar favour, be admitted into paradise.

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"11 Mohammed, however, to enhance the value of paradise with his Arabians, chose rather to imitate the indecency of the Magians than the modesty of the Christians in this particular, and lest his beatified Moslems should complain that anything was wanting, bestows on them wives, as well as the other comforts of life; judging, it is to be presumed, from his own inclinations, that like Panurgus's ass,1 they would think all the other enjoyments not worth their acceptance if they were to be debarred from this.

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"No," says al Ashári, "but the master's ass will not pass the bridge;"2 i.e., he is posed.

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Now look on thy food and thy drink, they are not yet corrupted; and look on thine ass: and this have we done that we might make thee a sign unto men.

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And look on the bones of thine ass, how we raise them, and afterwards clothe them with flesh.

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x The person here meant was Ozair or Ezra, who riding on an ass by the ruins of Jerusalem, after it had been destroyed by the Chaldeans, doubted in his mind by what means God could raise the city and its inhabitants again; whereupon God caused him to die, and he remained in that condition 100 years; at the end of which God restored him to life, and he found a basket of figs and a cruse of wine he had with him not in the least spoiled or corrupted; but his ass was dead, the bones only remaining, and these, while the prophet looked on, were raised and clothed with flesh, becoming an ass again, which being inspired with life, began immediately to bray.2 This apocryphal story may perhaps have taken its rise from Nehemiah's viewing of the ruins of Jerusalem.3 3 Vide Bobov.

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x The two words in the original signify properly the vehement drawing in and expiration of one's breath, which is usual to persons in great pain and anguish; and particularly the reciprocation of the voice of an ass when he brays.

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God replied, Now hast thou obtained thy request, O Moses: and we have heretofore been gracious unto thee, another time; h The commentators say, that Moses having obtained leave of Shoaib, or Jethro, his father-in-law, to visit his mother, departed with his family from Midian towards Egypt; but coming to the valley of Towa, wherein Mount Sinai stands, his wife fell in labour, and was delivered of a son, in a very dark and snowy night; he had also lost his way, and his cattle were scattered from him; when on a sudden he saw a fire by the side of a mountain, which on his nearer approaching he found burning in a green bush.1 i This was a mark of humility and respect: though some fancy there was some uncleanness in the shoes themselves, because they were made of the skin of an ass not dressed.2 j As to drive away wild beasts from my flock, to carry my bottle of water on, to stick up and hang my upper garment on to shade me from the sun; and several other uses enumerated by the commentators.

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Fronting this pavement was placed the royal throne, on which Solomon sat to receive the queen.8 x Some Arab writers tell us Solomon had been informed that Balkîs's legs and feet were covered with hair, like those of an ass, of the truth of which he had hereby an opportunity of being satisfied by ocular demonstration.

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Some relate that the prophet one day riding on an ass, as he passed near Abdallah Ebn Obba, the ass chanced to stale, at which Ebn Obba stopped his nose; and Ebn Rawâha said to him, By GOD, the piss of his ass smells sweeter than thy musk: whereupon a quarrel ensued between their followers, and they came to blows, though they struck one another only with their hands and slippers, or with palm-branches.4 l It is said that this verse was revealed on account of Safiya Bint Hoyai, one of the prophet's wives; who came to her husband and complained that the women said to her, O thou Jewess, the daughter of a Jew and of a Jewess: to which he answered, Canst thou not say, Aaron is my father, and Moses is my uncle, and Mohammed is my husband?5 m These were certain of the tribe of Asad, who came to Medina in a year of scarcity, and having professed Mohammedism, told the prophet that they had brought all their goods and their families, and would not oppose him, as some other tribes had done: and this they said to obtain a part of the alms, and to upbraid him with their having embraced his religion and party.6 n That is, Ye are not sincere believers, but outward professors only of the true religion.

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The likeness of those who were charged with the observance of the law, and then observed it not, is as the likeness of an ass laden with books.n How wretched is the likeness of the people who charge the signs of GOD with falsehood!

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When they shall be thrown thereinto, they shall hear it bray like an ass;y and it shall boil, and almost burst for fury.

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According to the traditions of Mohammed, he is to appear first between IrÃ¢k and Syria, or according to others, in the province of KhorasÃ¢n; they add that he is to ride on an ass, that he will be followed by 70,000 Jews of IspahÃ¢n, and continue on earth forty days, of which one will be equal in length to a year, another to a month, another to a week, and the rest will be common days; that he is to lay waste all places, but will not enter Mecca or Medina, which are to be guarded by angels; and that at length he will be slain by Jesus, who is to encounter him at the gate of Lud.

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Mohammed, however, to enhance the value of paradise with his Arabians, chose rather to imitate the indecency of the Magians than the modesty of the Christians in this particular, and lest his beatified Moslems should complain that anything was wanting, bestows on them wives, as well as the other comforts of life; judging, it is to be presumed, from his own inclinations, that like Panurgus's ass, they would think all the other enjoyments not worth their acceptance if they were to be debarred from this.

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"No," says al Ashari, "but the master's ass will not pass the bridge;" i.e., he is posed.

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Now look on thy food and thy drink, they are not yet corrupted; and look on thine ass: and this have we done that we might make thee a sign unto men.

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And look on the bones of thine ass, how we raise them, and afterwards clothe them with flesh.

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The likeness of those who were charged with the observance of the law, and then observed it not, is as the likeness of an ass laden with books.

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When they shall be thrown thereinto, they shall hear it bray like an ass; and it shall boil, and almost burst for fury.

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To be writing letters he would need to be an unspeakable ass.

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Poor Sam and you--to have come to me and to have found me a stupid ass!

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To her eastern address, got from her attorney, he wrote a brief note offering to make over to her or to Colonel Tom his entire winnings from the deal and closed it with the brutal declaration, "At the end I could not be an ass, even for you."

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Yet, in our heart of hearts we are antagonistic to most of the laws, and to the Law as a whole (which we regard as an ass), and to the police magistrates and the judges.

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Uncle Abe, who was dramatic and an ass, slipped the old double-barrelled muzzle-loader from its leathers on the wall and stood it in the far corner and sat down by it.

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(_To_ ANDRÉE) I told you my closet, great ass; that is the place where I keep my dresses.

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"The silly ass," he was able to announce some few minutes later, "has made a bloomer.

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I mean, about making such a most ghastly ass of myself this morning.

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"Scrymgeour is a pompous old ass who thinks he's going to be Prime Minister some day.

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Officious ass!

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Oughtn't to have done it, of course, but somehow, when he started making an ass of me and I knew you were looking on... well, it seemed a good idea to have a dash at doing something on my own.

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I'm not such an ass as to think a girl like you could ever really... er... love a blighter like me, but..." Sally laid her hand on his.

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"Well, it only slipped out unawares," says Clive, laughing; "but at Newcome when they go on about the Newcomes, and that great ass, Barnes Newcome, gives himself his airs, it makes me die of laughing.

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And you will have the kindness to order fresh milk every morning for my little boy--ass's milk--Doctor Goodenough has ordered ass's milk.

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hooray, Clive!' and an ass came pattering down the declivity, with a little pair of white trousers at an immensely wide angle over the donkey's back, and behold there was little Alfred grinning with all his might.

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And the worst was that Barnes being young at that time, and not able to keep his tongue in order, could not help saying not to but of such and such a man, that he was an infernal ass, or a confounded old idiot, and so forth--peevish phrases, which undid in a moment the work of a dozen dinners, countless compliments, and months of grinning good-humour.

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These pass on, and Demas leads the saintly trio by a secret pass over the torrent,--the Mother and Child mounted upon an ass and St. Joseph trudging on behind with his lily-decked staff, looking all as if they were on a short leave of absence from Correggio's picture-frame.

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You feel a perfect ass.

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I was just going to introduce Fred, when Fred, the silly ass, gave a great yell.

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He was behaving like a perfect ass.

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They came back to the table, Minnie with a pink glow on her face that made her younger than ever; Sidney, the insufferable ass, grinning and smirking and pretending to be eighteen.

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The spirit of mutual deference was so strong that it is doubtful how long the contest of modesty might have continued, had not Laban Jones suddenly said: "Ef none on ye dasn't ass what the convenshin has did, I'll ass myself.

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"That's so, wy didn' ye ass Squire that queschin?" said Meshech Little.

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Paul Hubbard, indeed, shook his head and smiled bitterly at this revulsion of hopefulness, but even Laban himself seemed eager to find ground for believing himself to have been, in this instance, an ass.

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It wuz 'Good mornin, Peleg,' ez sweet's sugar, an he didn't hev nothing tew say baout what I wuz a owin him, no; nor he didn't ass me nothin baout wy I hedn't been tew work fer him sence Tewsday."

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"Warn't that the gol-darndest though, baout that Edwards gal agoin tew ass Perez to git the mewsic stopped?

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I wouldn' ass fer more'n a kumpny tew stop a regiment in them places.

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He called himself an ass because he had not brought his camera.

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What an unmitigated ass that cousin of yours must be!

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They had at first confined their remarks to the special evidence of the witness who had last been in the chair; and Undy, with the volubility which was common to him when he was in high spirits, had been denouncing him as an ass who was injuring his own cause by his over obstinacy.

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They shall not wail for him, saying, 'Oh, Lord!' or 'Oh, his glory!' but shall be glad when he is 'buried as an ass is buried, drawn out and cast forth.'"

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They will make me out an ass or a madman.

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An ass covered with gold has more respect than a horse with a pack-saddle.

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How for that ass?

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But how for that ass?

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But how for that ass?

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Am I an ass?

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He is an ass who talks when he might eat.

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"Old ass!" he muttered; "his chop whiskers look like the chops of a Southdown ram--and he's got the wits of one.

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"Ass!" muttered Alderdene, getting up and pattering about the room in his big, shiny pumps.

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He had made a plain ass of himself--that was all,--a garrulous ass.

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Had he been an ass to do so?

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He liked Plank--wished him well; that was all right, too; but a man is an ass who doesn't wish himself well also.

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