The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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The bottom of the ship of Noe, And also the leg of the horse of Troy: The piece of the tongue of Balaam's ass, The chawbone[603] of the ox that at Christ's birth was, The eye-tooth of the dog that went on pilgrimage With young Tobias, these worms soon may suage!

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And tell Sarudine that he is an ass!"

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But the time came when I felt that I had been an ass to allow myself to be so treated; and I made up my mind to claim you, and to stand no denial of my rights.

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Your doctor is an ass.

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Tertullian relates that a certain Jew "carried about in public a caricature of us with this label, _An ass of a priest_.

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This figure had an ass's ears, and was dressed in a toga with a book; having a hoof on one of his feet.

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It should also be noted that the head of the figure in this famous graffito, is more like that of a jackal than that of an ass; and appears to have been a representation of the Egyptian god Anubis, who is so often to be seen upon relics of the past as a figure with a jackal's head, with human arms extended, and with human legs and feet, as in this drawing.

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A patient ass, to bear him in his flight, A dog, to guard him from the robber's stealth, A lamp, by which to read the law at night,-- Was all the pilgrim's store of worldly wealth.

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O, could'st thou speak, That I might hear thee call great Caesar, ass Unpolicied!"

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The characteristic high temper of Mary Fitton breaking out again--"ass unpolicied"--and then the end: "Peace, peace!

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'Intolerable ass!'

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What an extraordinary thing manipulation was, Crane mused, as he listened; also how considerable of an ass the public was in its theoretical wisdom.

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An _Ass's Foal_ had lost its Dam Within the spacious Park; And simple as the playful Lamb Had follow'd in the dark.

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I have not a scrap of news for you, except that an ass and a calf walked over my flower-beds, and that I did not kill either of them.

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I have been working as hard as an ass to get the pleasure of writing to you, and have not been able to accomplish it.

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He did not venture to approach her, but when she got into a cab, took a Hansom and followed her to the entrance of the square, where he got down, his heart beating with exultant hope that "the rascal ass of a nobleman" had been dismissed.

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If an author was to be selected to be bound up with anything done by Bracciolini at this date, and he had been consulted in the matter, there was none more likely for him to have chosen than Apuleius, for his thoughts were now running altogether upon that writer, of whose "Golden Ass" he gave a Latin translation; and the particular part of Apuleius bound up with Tacitus only begins at the 10th chapter, that is, with only what he writes "De Asino Aureo."

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Ejusdem est traductio Diodori Siculi historiographi ad Nicolaum Quintum Pontificem Maximum libri sex" (L. c.) Another translation of his was "The Golden Ass" of Apuleius in ten books; and he edited, (but without notes), the "Astronomicon" of Manilius, --whom, by the way, he misstyles "Manlius."

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Tacitus is infinitely more offensive, and, certainly, most untruthful, when he says that the Jews "kept for worship in their holy of holies the image of an ass, as the animal by whose guidance they had slaked their thirst and brought their wanderings to a happy sequel": "effigiem animalis, quo monstrante errorem sitimque depulerant, penetrali sacravere."

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Oswego was garrisoned by less than 300 men, [Footnote: General order of Gen. Jacob Brown, by R. Jones, Ass.

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When he got home, he left the two asses that were laden with gold for his wife to unload; and having told her what had happened, he led the other ass to his sister-in-law's.

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Don't get scared by the computer jargon; ASCII (pronounced ASS-key) is just a name for the set of unaccented letters, numbers and other symbols on a standard U.S. keyboard.

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Were I humble enough to treat them as my equals by being natural with them, they would then call me a conceited ass and a cad.

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E GLANVILLE (R.), Earl of Chester, goes to siege of Damietta GOLDEN ASS, mentioned GOMERA, DESCRIBED, THE TAKING OF GOURGES, his voyage to Florida GOWBIN, meaning of word GRACIOSA, mentioned, taken GRAND CANARY, DESCRIBED --Derivation of the name --Original inhabitants --Principal of the Canary Isles --Its produce --Its position --Visited by the Dutch fleet --taken GREENLAND, visited by Davis GRIPHONES GROIN (The) GUANCHES GUIA, a city of Grand Canary GUIDALES, their manners HAKLUYT (R.), in possession of Thorne's account of the Canaries HAREBORNE (William), mentioned HARIOT (Thomas), mentioned HARLAC, Chief Justice of France, mentioned HARMAN (Captain) HAWKINS (Sir John) HELIOPOLIS, a city of Egypt HENRY II, his vow HENRY III, of Castille, mentioned HERODOTUS, quoted HESPERA, an island HEYWOOD (T.), quoted HICKMAN (A.

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"Bally ass!" he apostrophized himself.

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"Silly ass, old George, though," he added as the Belknap-Jacksons approached.

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Call him a Knight, That, with an ass's, not a horse's head, Skips every way, from levity or from fear.

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There _will_ be war with France, at last, my liege; Sir Thomas Stafford, a bull-headed ass, Sailing from France, with thirty Englishmen, Hath taken Scarboro' Castle, north of York; Proclaims himself protector, and affirms The Queen has forfeited her right to reign By marriage with an alien--other things As idle; a weak Wyatt!

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217), describes Johnson as one 'Who makes each sentence current pass, With _puppy, coxcomb, scoundrel, ass_.'

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Johnson says:--'A quibble is intended between _as_ the conditional particle, and _ass_ the beast of burthen.'

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Can He not make living and thirst-quenching water flow forth from the jaw-bone of an ass?

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With the jaw-bone of an ass in that of Samson?

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Blessed Francis suffered this jest to pass, merely frowning slightly, but his modest silence only unchained the tongue of another scoffer who presumed to say that an ass had been given to them instead of a horse.

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Was it not upon an ass?"

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Again, in his eleventh Conference, he says: "If Balaam was well instructed by an ass, we may with greater reason believe that God, Who gave you this Superior, will enable him to teach you according to His will, though it may not be according to your own."

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"What an ass I was!

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It was gratified, and by a more poetical phenomenon than the braying of the dappled ass or the neigh of Rosinante.

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Sometimes even a stupid ass was their guide.

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"I didn't think I could have been such an ass," he muttered sheepishly.

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"I said that, you ass, about camping out.

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You are, at this moment, making about the biggest ass of yourself there is in Canada."

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If you take to shooting everybody who is an ass, general, you won't have any ammunition left with which to conquer Canada."

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"I said that, you ass, about camping out.

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You are, at this moment, making about the biggest ass of yourself there is in Canada."

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If you take to shooting everybody who is an ass, general, you won't have any ammunition left with which to conquer Canada."

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What an ass man is, with all his learning!

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This statement was fat with brave audacity, but lean in the matter of discretion; so Pete leaned down with one last friendly whisper of appeal: "W'y, you chowder-headed ass, he'll make yer look like a moth-et flannel shirt!

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According to tradition, either in order to show the freedom of indifference, or that animals are mere machines, Buridan declared that an ass with two baskets full of corn placed one on each side of him and at equal distance from him, would never decide from which he should feed and would die of starvation.

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Conceited ass!"

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Midas had the ears of an ass, for every one to see!

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Year after year they grew again, ever gossipping among themselves; and to this day, with every wind that sets them nodding together, they murmur, laughing, "_Midas has the ears of an ass: Oh, hush, hush!_" PROMETHEUS.

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Then the grasshoppers drew near and the swans sailed close to the river banks, and the country-men gathered about to hear wonderful tales of the slaying of the monster Python, and of a king with ass's ears, and of a lovely maiden, Daphne, who grew into a laurel-tree.

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"Any ass could understand that."

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"Half of your precious charities--the societies that you and Joan Ferriby, and, if you will allow me to say so, that ass Ferriby, are mixed up in--are not fraudulent, but they are pretty near it.

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"'Cos he is an ass?" suggested White, as a plausible alternative.

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"Even that ass Thompson, by striking while the iron was hot."

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[6] I am ashamed to tell you that I pleased very much, and this was introduced as a Madness; but sure it was not humane Madness, for a Mule or an [ass [7]] may have been as dry as ever I was in my Life.

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If we must Lash one another, let it be with the manly Strokes of Wit and Satyr; for I am of the old Philosopher's Opinion, That if I must suffer from one or the other, I would rather it should be from the Paw of a Lion, than the Hoof of an Ass.

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It would be endless to make Collections of this Nature; _Homer_ illustrates one of his Heroes encompassed with the Enemy by an Ass in a Field of Corn that has his Sides belaboured by all the Boys of the Village without stirring a Foot for it: and another of them tossing to and fro in his Bed and burning with Resentment, to a Piece of Flesh broiled on the Coals.

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I have looked over all the Olympic Games, and do not find any thing in them like an Ass-Race, or a Match at Grinning.

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Some ludicrous Schoolmen have put the Case, that if an Ass were placed between two Bundles of Hay, which affected his Senses equally on each Side, and tempted him in the very same Degree, whether it would be possible for him to Eat of either.

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It is generally observed, That in Countries of the greatest Plenty there is the poorest Living; like the Schoolmen's Ass, in one of my Speculations, the People almost starve between two Meals.

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A cynic is just a posing ass proud of his attitude.

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Doña M---- had crushed her foot against her neighbour's ass.

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Those who are not fortunate enough to possess any wheeled conveyance, come out on horse, ass, or mule; single, double, or treble, if necessary; and many hundreds, with visions of silver before their eyes, and a few _clacos_ (pence), hid under their rags, trudge out on foot.

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A _burro_ being an _ass_, I was rather startled at the proposition, and assured her that I should infinitely prefer waiting a little longer before resorting to so desperate a measure.

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He did not alter "moveless" to "moping" in "The Young Ass."

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Don't you think your verses on a Young Ass too trivial a companion for the Religious Musings?

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"The Young Ass," early versions, ended thus:-- Soothe to rest The tumult of some Scoundrel Monarch's breast.

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And now to softer strains they struck the lyre, They sung the beetle or the mole, The dying kid, or ass's foal, By cruel man permitted to expire.

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"He's clever," Dan said, "but he's an awful ass."

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"You mean he's an awful ass, but he's clever."

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For neither he that having weak eyes should take a mule for an ass, nor he that should admire an insipid poem as excellent would be presently thought mad; but he that not only errs in his senses but is deceived also in his judgment, and that too more than ordinary and upon all occasions-- he, I must confess, would be thought to come very near to it.

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As if anyone hearing an ass bray should take it for excellent music, or a beggar conceive himself a king.

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At these, if ever they fall athwart them, they prick up--as whether there was any instant of time in the generation of the Second Person; whether there be more than one filiation in Christ; whether it be a possible proposition that God the Father hates the Son; or whether it was possible that Christ could have taken upon Him the likeness of a woman, or of the devil, or of an ass, or of a stone, or of a gourd; and then how that gourd should have preached, wrought miracles, or been hung on the cross; and what Peter had consecrated if he had administered the Sacrament at what time the body of Christ hung upon the cross; or whether at the same time he might be said to be man; whether after the Resurrection there will be any eating and drinking, since we are so much afraid of hunger and thirst in this world.

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so void of wit and so little to the purpose that it may be truly called an ass's playing on the harp.

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Again, if a man sue for honors or church preferments, an ass or wild ox shall sooner get them than a wise man.

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Especially when a no small professor, whose name I wittingly conceal lest those choughs should chatter at me that Greek proverb I have so often mentioned, "an ass at a harp," discoursing magisterially and theologically on this text, "I speak as a fool, I am more," drew a new thesis; and, which without the height of logic he could never have done, made this new subdivision--for I'll give you his own words, not only in form but matter also--"I speak like a fool," that is, if you look upon me as a fool for comparing myself with those false apostles, I shall seem yet a greater fool by esteeming myself before them; though the same person a little after, as forgetting himself, runs off to another matter.

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And therefore he chose rather to ride upon an ass when, if he had pleased, he might have bestrode the lion without danger.

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And he entertained a gloomy suspicion that he would be inclined to name another ass, who proposed as he did to beard this Pack in its den with nothing more than his wits and an automatic pistol to protect ten thousand-francs, the jewels of Madame Omber, the Huysman plans, and (possibly) his life.

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Better still, the Errant--no!--the Arrant Ass!"

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You've made an ass of yourself, following me to Paris; sadly though you bungled that job in London, I gave you credit for more wit than to poke your head into the lion's mouth here.

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'Put in place of them "the stupidest ass in London"!'

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'John, I am a fool--an ass--a gibbering idiot.'

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Get out, you blazing ass!

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You are the greatest ass I ever encountered."

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Sentimental ass you're growing!"

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Contemptible ass!

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Take, for an instance of this, the reconciling power by which, in the mysterious midnight of the summer-wood, he brings together in one harmony the graceful passions of childish elves, and the fierce passions of men and women, with the ludicrous reflection of those passions in the little convex mirror of the artisan's drama; while the mischievous Puck revels in things that fall out preposterously, and the Elf-Queen is in love with ass-headed Bottom, from the hollows of whose long hairy ears--strange bouquet-holders--bloom and breathe the musk-roses, the characteristic odour-founts of the play; and the philosophy of the unbelieving Theseus, with the candour of Hippolyta, lifts the whole into relation with the realities of human life.

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Christopher Sly, from the ale-house door, if caught while the Merry Duke had possession of him, must be chronicled for a peer of the realm; Bully Bottom, if the period of his translations fell in with the census-taking, must be numbered among the cadgers' "mokes"; nay, if Dogberry himself had encountered the officials at the moment of his pathetic lamentation, he were irrevocably written down "an ass."

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The case is of one Judas, Simon's son, Iscariot called--a Jew--and one of those Who followed Christus, held by some a god, But deemed by others to have preached and taught A superstition vile, of which one point Was worship of an ass; but this is false!

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And in every faculty this thing is put in ure, And is so universal that I need no one to name, And, as I fear, is like evermore to endure; For it is in all faculties a common sport and game, The weaker to say as the stronger biddeth, or to have blame, As a cunning sophist woll by argument bring to pass, That the rude shall confess, and grant himself an ass.

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Kept it still, and you had not been a very ass.

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[280] Nay, I thought ever it would come to such a pass, Since he sold his heritage like a very ass.

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2: "O this woodcock, what an ass it is!"--_Halliwell_.

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Came near being a messy ass!"

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As his Highness did not answer well, Schiller exclaimed: 'Oh, you are an ass!'

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The inhabitants of Busiris and Lycopolis never use trumpets, because their sounds resemble the braying of an ass.

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The cakes which are offered at the festivals during Paoni and Paopi are stamped with the figure of a fettered ass.

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The vignette shows us the deceased in the act of spearing a monster serpent which has fastened its jaws in the back of an ass.

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