The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.

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or whose ass have I taken?

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09:015:003 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

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09:016:020 And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.

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09:025:042 And Abigail hasted, and arose and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.

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10:019:026 And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.

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12:004:024 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee.

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12:006:025 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

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18:006:005 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass?

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18:011:012 For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

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18:039:005 Who hath sent out the wild ass free?

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or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

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see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways; 24:002:024 A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away?

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24:022:019 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

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28:008:009 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

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38:009:009 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

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40:021:001 And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples, 40:021:002 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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40:021:004 All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, 40:021:005 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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And he took him, and healed him, and let him go; 42:014:005 And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?

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43:012:014 And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written, 43:012:015 Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.

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or whose ass have I taken?

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Observe, too, the simple manners of these times, when 'ox and ass' were the wealth.

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Was there only one ass available in Jerusalem?

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Dogs lick the hand that feeds them; ox and ass in their dull way recognise something almost like obligation arising from benefits and care.

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The most salient instance is in Jesus' entrance into Jerusalem riding on an ass, which was but a finger-post to guide men's thoughts to His fulfilling the ideal of the Messianic King.

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And Jesus, when He had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written, Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.

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His choice of an ass on which to ride into Jerusalem was, and would be seen by many to be, a plain appropriation to Himself of a very distinct Messianic prophecy, and must have raised the heat of the crowd by many degrees.

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What more striking way could He have chosen of declaring that all the turbulent passions and eagerness for a foot-to-foot conflict with Rome which were boiling in their breasts were alien to His purposes and to the true Messianic ideal, than that choosing of the meek, slow-pacing ass to bear Him?

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This strange type of monarch is throned on an ass.

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An old play is entitled, 'The Devil is an Ass,' but he is not such an ass as to fight against himself.

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'The devil is an ass.'

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O daughter of Zion; thy King cometh unto thee riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.'

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Remember, He came once on 'a colt, the foal of an ass, meek, and having salvation.'

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I hope you are wiser than to fancy that Zechariah's prophecy of the peaceful monarch who was to come to Zion, meek and victorious, and riding upon a 'colt the foal of an ass,' was fulfilled by the outward fact of Christ being mounted on this colt 'whereon never man sat.'

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The literal fulfilment was a kind of finger-post for inattentive onlookers, which might induce them to look more closely, and so see that He was indeed the King Messiah, because of more important correspondences with prophecy than His once riding on an ass.

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He needs nothing, and yet He needed that ass which was tethered at 'the place where two ways met,' in order to ride into Jerusalem upon it.

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Then he kissed and embraced her, renewing his vows-- Can the lion help pursuing the wild ass?-- And said: "O sweet and graceful silver-bosomed maiden, It may not be, that, both of noble lineage, We should do aught unbecoming our birth; For from Saum Nariman I received an admonition.

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A certain ass had his quarters in a shed, in front of which was a small yard.

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The owner of the premises one morning, in taking a turn round his garden, observed the footprints of an ass on the walks and beds.

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Mr. Ancrum was a meddler and he an ass.

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a hundred years since Voltaire, and mankind still went on believing in all these follies and fables, in the ten plagues, in Balaam's ass, in the walls of Jericho, in miraculous births, and Magi, and prophetic stars!--in everything that the mockery of the eighteenth century had slain a thousand times over.

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That the Magi and Balaam's ass are true!

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Then suddenly David said, pushing him to the door: 'You're a great ass, John--get out, and good night to you.'

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Hobbes says of the scholastic philosophy that it went on one brazen leg and one of an ass.

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I should tell you I was the biggest kind of ass.

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But one of these prayers is something like this: "Muingwa pash lolomai, Master of the Clouds, we eat no stolen bread; our young men ride not the stolen ass; our food is not stolen from the gardens of our neighbors.

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What's more, P2P nets kick all kinds of ass.

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"I'm working my fucking _ass_ off.

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But I never yet heard of a gentleman who wanted to look an utter ass when he was there."

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Ass.

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It's a hymn, if you're not an ass!

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"Do you understand, you ass, that I'm in love, that I've bought a dress-coat, look, the garb of love, fifteen roubles; a captain's love calls for the niceties of style.... Open the door!" he roared savagely all of a sudden, and he began furiously banging with his fists again.

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"That's all very well, but there's no need to be an ass.

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He was a perfect ass and dragged out his article for a whole hour.

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"Why are you an ass?"

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"I am not an ass."

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If you are an ass and go off to-morrow to inform the police, that would be rather a disadvantage to us; what do you think about it?

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commanded like a slave, and set to work like an ass!

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The soul seems to me like a little ass, which feeds and thrives, because it accepts the food which is given it, and eats it without reflection.

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"I hate sporting, which you and the Colonel love, and I want to shoot nothing alive, not a turkey, nor a titmouse, nor an ox, nor an ass, nor anything that has ears.

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Suppose thou art making an ass of thyself, young Harry Warrington, of Virginia!

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Were he to attempt to go and fight six tigers, you might write that Lion down an Ass.

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There was a donkey there--a solitary ass--the first of his kind I ever beheld in the province.

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I can imagine the astonishment they must have felt on hearing the first bray of an ass; they could not have appeared more startled at a lion's roar.

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He was tired, certainly, and had felt ever since the shock of three days back a certain "warning" sensation that hovered over him rather like hot air, suggesting that sudden agonizing pain...but so long as the pain did not come...He had thought, half derisively, of seeing old Puddifoot, even of having himself overhauled--but Puddifoot was an ass.

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("What an ass the man is!" thought Ronder.

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He would ask old Puddifoot to look at him, although the man _was_ an ass.

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8 The irony of the Register is chiefly reserved for the Dedication to the Public , designed for the reader at leisure; though here Walpole is indicated broadly enough, first in the figure of an ass hung out on a signpost, and again as "Old Nick," for "who but the devil could act such a part."

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leaves the waggon; and another observes that the asses "appear to me to be the worst fed Asses I ever beheld ... that long sided Ass they call Vinegar , which the Drivers call upon so often to gee up , and pull lustily , I never saw an Ass with a worse Mane, or a more shagged Coat; and that grave Ass yoked to him, which they name Ralph , and who pulls and brays like the Devil, Sir, he does not seem to have eat since the hard Frost .

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The longsided ass, Vinegar, with the worst of manes and the most shagged coat, short even of provender, recalls the picture, drawn twelve months previously, of the great hungry tatter'd Bard; and the inference seems fair enough that for Fielding politics were no lucrative trade.

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The drivers threaten to drive over the coach, when one of the asses protests that the waggon is leaving the service of the country, and going aside on its own ends, and that "the Honesty of even an Ass would start" at being used for some purposes.

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[14] After the Hermaphrodite has admitted that he has become 'a good dull mule,' [15] he avows that he is now a very strange beast, an ass, an actor,a hermaphrodite, and a fool; and that he more especially relishes this latter condition of his, for in all other forms, as Jonson makes him confess, he has 'proved most distressed.'

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After having been changed into whom, she became a philosopher, Crates the cynick, as itself doth relate it: [22] Since kings, knights and beggars, knaves, lords, and fools get it, Besides ox and ass, camel, mule, goat, and brock, [23] In all which it has spoke, as in the cobbler's cock.

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Into a very strange beast, by some writers called an ass; By others, a precise, pure, _illuminate brother_, Of those devour flesh, and sometimes one another; And will drop you forth a libel, or a sanctified lie, Betwixt every spoonful of a Nativity [30] pie.

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Hawkins eyed me coldly for a minute, admonished me not to be an ass, and went on untying the launch.

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The thing was a burlesque, but a conservative paper took issue with me, called me an atheist, a plagiarist, a drunkard and an ass.

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When I hear talk nowadays about the dues of the common people, my propensity to laugh is so great that I am apprehensive that my end may be like that of the Greek philosopher in Diogenes Laertius, who died of laughter because he saw an ass eating figs.

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Persons who imagine that it is of no consequence whether Milan is a seaport or not, who believe that Nietzsche is a drivelling ass, and who make bold to tell us that Dickens is a cheap author--in one word, young gentlemen lawyers who are partisans of Maura, are the people who provide copy for our press.

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Olivier went on: "I was an ass last night.

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"Don't be an ass, brother John.

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"He has made an ass of himself, no doubt, Dick; but I fancy a good many fellows do that at one time or other of their lives, though not, I grant, always in the same way."

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The Horse-family includes the patient Ass, and the beautifully marked Zebra of South Africa.

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In London an ass was inoculated with it and died in twelve minutes.

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A she-ass received the wourali poison in the shoulder, and died apparently in ten minutes.

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He wrote much on philosophy; but his most important work is a romance known as "Metamorphoses, or the Golden Ass," containing his philosophical and mystic doctrines.

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In this book, the object of which is to encourage the belief in mysticism, the writer describes the transformation of a young man into an ass, who is allowed to take his primitive human form only through a knowledge of the mysteries of Isis.

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Firenzuola (1493-1547) occupies a high rank among the Italian novelists; his "Golden Ass," from Apuleius, and his "Discourses of Animals" are distinguished for their originality and purity of style.

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People have called me a silly ass, but I was never in the same class with Bobbie.

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When it came to being a silly ass, he was a plus-four man, while my handicap was about six.

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Poor dear old Freddie has made an ass of himself and killed the whole show."

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"Ass!"

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One was a tall, broad-shouldered, goodly wight In garb of motley like a jester dight, Fool's cap on head with ass's ears a-swing, While, with each stride, his bells did gaily ring; But, 'neath his cock's-comb showed a face so marred With cheek, with brow and lip so strangely scarred As might scare tender maid or timid child Unless, by chance, they saw him when he smiled, For then his eyes, so deeply blue and bright, Did hold in them such joyous, kindly light, That sorrow was from heavy hearts beguiled-- This jester seemed less ugly when he smiled.

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