The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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The youth turned to him angrily and replied, 'O packsaddle of an ass, the length of the way it was that hindered me from this and the steepness of the steps and sweat.'

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Presently, in came Abou Nuwas and was about to take his usual seat, when the Khalif cried out to Mesrour the headsman and bade him strip the poet of his clothes and clap an ass's pannel on his back.

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There was a miller, who had an ass to turn his mill; and he was married to a wicked wife, whom he loved; but she hated him and loved a neighbour of hers, who liked her not and held aloof from her.

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A certain simple fellow was once going along, haling his ass after him by the halter, when a couple of sharpers saw him and one said to his fellow, 'I will take that ass from yonder man.'

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Quoth the sharper, 'I am thine ass and my story is a strange one.

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But I took the cudgel and beat her, whereupon she cursed me and God the Most High changed me into an ass and caused me fall into thy hands, where I have remained till now.

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And he answered, 'Thou knowest not what was this ass; but I will tell thee.'

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Go to the market and buy us an ass and do thy business with it.'

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Accordingly, he went to the market and stopping by the ass-stand, saw his own ass for sale.

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I had not stood long, before there came up a black slave, leading an ass with jewelled housings, on which sat a damsel, clad in the richest of clothes, richness can go no farther; and I saw that she was elegantly made, with languorous looks and graceful carriage.

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'Jacob's wolf and the Seven Sleepers' dog and Esdras's ass and Salih's camel and the Prophet's mule.'

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I am not, my dear sir, an ass.

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I repeat, sir, I am not an ass--if I do bray sometimes.

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Say I'm a boorish ass."

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"She'll put you in _Punch_, or revile you in the Dailies; Magazine you; write you down an ass in a novel; blackguard you in choice language from a public platform; or paint a picture of you which will make you wish you had never been born.

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He had even stuck up for her against his own interests with her old ass of a father--and, by Jove!

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Collect a few, and you will soon see clearly the particular kind of ass you are by the mistakes you have made in consequence of having confided in them.

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Now give him this other one kneaded up with ass's dung.

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Why then drivel as if you had fallen from an ass?

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I will no in and fetch the ass, so that the old man may not point his weapons that way again....[35] Stupid old ass, are you weeping because you are going to be sold?

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Does he not resemble a she-ass to the life?

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The shade of an ass.

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As soon as he had stuffed himself with a host of good dishes, he began to leap and spring, to laugh and to let wind like a little ass well blown out with barley.

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"Old fellow," said he, "you resemble one of the scum assuming the airs of a rich man or a stupid ass that has broken loose from its stable."

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[38] The story goes that a traveller who had hired an ass, having placed himself in its shadow to escape the heat of the sun, was sued by the driver, who had pretended that he had let the ass, not but its shadow; hence the Greek proverb, _to quarrel about the shade of an ass_, i.e.

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[76] A jar with two long ears or handles, in this way resembling an ass.

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With you a word is an omen, you call a sneeze an omen, a meeting an omen, an unknown sound an omen, a slave or an ass an omen.

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Come, beat him as I do, and put some life into him; he is as lazy as an ass.

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I, Dionysus, the son of a ... wine-jar,[383] I walk, I tire myself, and I set yonder rascal upon an ass, that he may not have the burden of carrying his load.

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and the other is an ass's leg,[419] rest well assured of that.

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Aye, certainly; you will then be Midases, provided you grow ass's ears.

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[750] An upstart and, through the favour of the people, an admiral in the year 389 B.C., after Thrasybulus; he had enriched himself through some rather equivocal state employments and was insolent, because of his wealth, 'as a well-fed ass.'

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to ass Jest, obscene Jocasta, married by son Jokes, coarse Jurymen, fees of --tricks of Justice, slowness of K _Kimos_, top of voting urn Kite, the, and springtime L Laches, an Athenian general --comic trial of dog and --ref.

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O had thy verse been impotent as dull, Nor spoke the rancorous heart, but lumpish scull; Had mobs distinguish'd, they who howl'd thy fame, The icicle from the pure diamond's flame, 120 From fancy's soul thy gross imbruted sense, From dauntless truth thy shameless insolence, From elegance confusion's monstrous mass, And from the lion's spoils the skulking ass, From rapture's strain the drawling doggrel line, From warbling seraphim the grunting swine; With gluttons, dunces, rakes, thy name had slept, Nor o'er her sullied fame Britannia wept: Nor had the Muse, with honest zeal possess'd, To avenge her country, by thy name disgraced, 130 Raised this bold strain for virtue, truth, mankind, And thy fell shade to infamy resign'd.

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While fools adore, and vassal-bards obey, Let the great monarch ass through Gotham bray!

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Let some soft mummy of a peer, who stains His rank, some sodden lump of ass's brains, To that abandon'd wretch his sanction give; Support his slander, and his wants relieve!

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In the horse and ass it takes a little longer, forty-three to forty-five weeks; in the camel, thirteen months.

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So they saddled him the, ass: and he rode thereon, and went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah?

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And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples, 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 the unto me.

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All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, 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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So they saddled him the, ass: and he rode thereon, and went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah?

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We've been flying about all night--that French ass lost his bearings--and my suit is thin.

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"Don't you be an ass," he said.

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He was the biggest ass in Christendom.

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he is not like an ass hunting for thistles.'

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"I see, sir," he said, "now that I have thought it all over, that you are quite right, and that I have been behaving like an ass, so I shall set to work again and try and make up the lost time.

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And rising up, he saw a beast, like a man down to his thighs, but having legs and feet like an ass; and Antony only crossed himself and said, "I am a servant of Christ.

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He therefore began to tempt his senses; but he, enraged with himself, and beating his breast with his fist, as if he could drive out thoughts by blows, "I will force thee, mine ass," said he, "not to kick; and feed thee with straw, not barley.

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But he was thinking of nothing but the desert, till one day he determined to set out, and taking an ass (for he was so shrunk with fasting that he could hardly walk), he tried to go his way.

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'Though I mayn't care a rap about him personally, I prefer that a man on my own front bench shouldn't make a public ass of himself if he can help it--not for his sake, of course, but for mine!'

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What on earth has that philandering ass been about?

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But the man's an ass.

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Don't you take him for an ass, sir.

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"You wild ass of the prairies," said Battle, "I saw you last night behind them pa'ms!

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"Ass!"

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Anisty was fumbling in his fob-pocket and inwardly cursing himself for having been such an ass as to overlook Maitland's timepiece.

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If they had sent any one but that stupid ass, Hickey, to nab me, I'd be in the cooler now.

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"This silly ass, Maitland," he observed, "isn't really as superfluous as he seems.

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"Lower your voice, you ass!" the burglar responded sternly.

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Imprimis, he was a conceited ass.

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M. Tarnier, speaking before the Academy of Medicine on the artificial nourishment of the new born, reports that the milk of cows and goats, pure or diluted in different ways, that of condensed milk and Biedert's cream, have always given disastrous results at the Maternite in Paris, but that the mortality of the new born was considerably reduced from the day when ass's milk was introduced as food.

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Ass's milk was given pure for six weeks or two months; then cow's milk diluted with one-half water until six months old, followed by pure cow's milk.

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By the aid of ass's milk he saved a number of the little syphilitics.

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Thirty-eight were suckled by an ass, of which 28 lived and 10 died; a mortality of 26.3 per cent.

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Certainly these figures prove eloquently enough what chemical analysis shows, that ass's milk, being better borne by the infant's stomach, ought to have a composition resembling that of woman's milk.

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For his lordship was not such a rough ass as _Dom.

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But the young lord pointed with his sword to his people, who now came riding out of the coppice, about eighteen strong, armed with sabres, pikes, and muskets, and said, "There is my authority, and I would let you feel it on your back if I did not know that you were but a stupid ass.

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"In truth we have fared badly enough, master; we have been working like beasts of burden, without having food that would suffice for an ass.

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No; not even an ass.

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No; not even an ass.

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She led a great grey ass betwixt two panniers, wherein she laded her marketings.

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A woman took me out of a basket and set me on the back of an ass, and I looked about, and I was in a grassy lawn of the woods; and I saw a squirrel run up a tree-trunk before me, and wind round the tree and hide him; and then I stretched out my hands and cried out to him; and then came the woman unto me, and gave me wood-strawberries to eat out of her hand.

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Years before the Rector had made a great mistake; he had, as the plain-spoken East Burgen doctor put it, made an ass of himself on the matter of a childish illness, thereby imperilling Dora's half-fledged little life.

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One of the St. Jago asses fell down convulsed when the load was put upon him; and a Mandingo ass, No.

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The main body of the coffle still kept going on, and at half past twelve reached Bee Creek; from whence we sent back an ass and two Negroes to bring up the two fatigued soldiers.

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June 2d.--Bought some corn and two ass loads of rice; presented Mansa Kussan with some amber, coral, and scarlet, with which he appeared to be perfectly satisfied, and sent a bullock in return; he even prayed for my safety, and told me that he would do his utmost to get us forwards.

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Bought an ass for twenty bars of amber.

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Purchased three ass loads, and on the 6th purchased two ass loads more, making in all 750lb.

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Purchased corn for the asses, and a large bullock for the people; likewise one ass.

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Very happy to get so well over the palaver; for he insisted long on having the customs, or four bottles of gunpowder for each ass, which would have distressed us very much; and we could have made but a feeble resistance, being so very sickly.

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Lost one ass, and 80lbs.

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Four canoes sufficient to carry only an ass load and an half at a time, were provided for this purpose.

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The night being clear, observed the emersion of Jupiter's second satellite; it emerged H. M. S. By watch - - - - 11 25 55 Time by Nautical Almanack 11 24 40 Equation - - - 0 1 53 -------- Mean time at Greenwich 11 26 33 11 26 33 -------- Watch too slow 0 0 38 June 28th.--Purchased an ass for four minkallis of gold, and a horse for 45 bars.

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I determined to wait three days, to see how Isaaco's wounds looked, and in the mean time sent two of his people away to Serracorra with an ass and three strings of No.

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All horses loaded; mine fell down under his load, and I was forced to sit by him till an ass was sent from the halting place.

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We likewise had a very good ass stolen during the night.

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July 19th.--Having purchased an ass in lieu of the one stolen, we left Nummaboo, which is a walled village, and proceeded onwards.

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Shortly after this, came to an ass lying on the road unable to proceed with its load.

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My horse being loaded, and myself, as usual, walking on foot and driving an ass, I could give them no assistance.

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Found myself very sick and faint, having to drive my horse loaded with rice, and an ass with the pit saws.

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Some people arrived from the East, who informed us that a stream on the road, which is usually dry, was so much swelled by the rain that no ass could cross it.

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August 1st.--Early this morning purchased an ass for a pistol, a baft, and a Mandingo cloth.

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CHAPTER V. August 6th.--Having hired two more ass drivers at one bar and their victuals per day, we left Koolihori early in the morning, and travelled with considerable dispatch till three o'clock; at which time we reached Ganifarra, a small beggarly village.

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There is a very good canoe here, which can carry over four ass loads at once.

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