The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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"What an ass!

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What a damned ass!" groaned Andrews indignantly.

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In this particular business the Government is an ass, the public is an ass, the women, if you like, are asses.

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If so, the Christian--in his opinion--would be a human ass.

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19 If antique times admired Silenus old, Who oft appear'd set on his lazy ass, How would they wonder, if they had behold Such sights, as from the myrtle high did pass!

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2 I would be great, but that the sun doth still Level his rays against the rising hill; I would be high, but see the proudest oak Most subject to the rending thunder-stroke; I would be rich, but see men too unkind Dig in the bowels of the richest mind; I would be wise, but that I often see The fox suspected while the ass goes free; I would be fair, but see the fair and proud, Like the bright sun, oft setting in a cloud; I would be poor, but know the humble grass Still trampled on by each unworthy ass; Rich, hated; wise, suspected; scorn'd, if poor; Great, fear'd; fair, tempted; high, still envied more.

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Now such as the beast was, even such was the rider, With a head like a nutmeg, and legs like a spider; A voice like a cricket, a look like a rat, The brains of a goose, and the heart of a cat: Even such was my guide and his beast; let them pass, The one for a horse, and the other an ass.

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5 The harmless, young, and happy ass, (Seen long before[1] this came to pass,) Is in these joys a high partaker, Ordained and made to bear his Maker.

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8 Then, like the palm, though wronged I'll bear, I will be still a child, still meek As the poor ass which the proud jeer, And only my dear Jesus seek.

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He was not merely, as many are, disgusted with the selfish and malignant elements which are mingled in man's nature and character, and disposed to trace them to any cause save a Divine will, but he believed man to be, as a whole, the work and child of the devil; and he told the imaginary creator and creature to their face, what he thought the truth,--'The devil is an ass.'

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Let Sir Tom[1] that rampant ass, Stuff his guts with flax and grass; But, before the priest he fleeces, Tear the Bible all to pieces: At the parsons, Tom, halloo, boy, Worthy offspring of a shoe-boy, Footman, traitor, vile seducer, Perjured rebel, bribed accuser, Lay thy privilege aside, Sprung from Papist regicide; Fall a-working like a mole, Raise the dirt about your hole.

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45 Act simply, as occasion asks; Put mellow wine in seasoned casks; Till not with ass and bull: Remember thy baptismal bond; Keep from commixtures foul and fond, Nor work thy flax with wool.

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Nor rest we here, but, at our magic call, Monkeys shall climb our trees, and lizards crawl; Huge dogs of Tibet bark in yonder grove, Here parrots prate, there cats make cruel love; In some fair island will we turn to grass (With the queen's leave) her elephant and ass.

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19 If antique times admired Silenus old, Who oft appear'd set on his lazy ass, How would they wonder, if they had behold Such sights, as from the myrtle high did pass!

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5 The harmless, young, and happy ass, (Seen long before[1] this came to pass,) Is in these joys a high partaker, Ordained and made to bear his Maker.

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8 Then, like the palm, though wronged I'll bear, I will be still a child, still meek As the poor ass which the proud jeer, And only my dear Jesus seek.

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45 Act simply, as occasion asks; Put mellow wine in seasoned casks; Till not with ass and bull: Remember thy baptismal bond; Keep from commixtures foul and fond, Nor work thy flax with wool.

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Ass that he had been!

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The silly ass of a constable took it up and squinted through it as solemn as a judge, and then he just handed it to my cousin, and 'What have you to say to this, Sir David?' says he.

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That silly old ass, David, was still mooning about in the garden, thinking of her, I suppose, which was very lucky for me."

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"You're an ass.... Now take a young chap from a city, with a good appearance, more or less a gentleman, who doesn't talk like a yap or walk like a yap or dress like a yap or act like a yap, and throw him into such a town long enough for the girls to get acquainted with him.

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It was at this point that Roland rose to the occasion like the noble ass he is.

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You never, perhaps, heard of a certain Philip, king of Macedon; but I will tell you what he once said, as well as I can remember it: 'Lead an ass with a pannier of gold; send the ass through the gates of a city, and all the sentinels will run away.'

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Then, when he had emptied his glass, he drew himself nearer to the fire, warmed his hands, mused a moment, and turned round to his confidant:-- "Dykeman," said he, "though you're an ass and a coward, and you don't deserve that I should be so condescending, I will relieve your fears at once.

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"What an ass, what an utter ass I am!"

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"I guess I am an ass, all right--taking all that trouble for you, my friend.

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Don't know as I ever met such a rippin', Ay Number One, all-round, entertynin' ass, afore!"

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I don't mind telling you, Cap'n, that you're an ass."

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"The heretic John Castell," he answered, "will be seated on an ass, clad in a _zamarra_ of sheepskin painted with fiends and a likeness of his own head burning--very well done, for I, who can draw, had a hand in it.

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"Why will he be seated on an ass?" asked Peter savagely.

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Now the hearts of Peter and Margaret leaped within them, for at the end of this hideous troop rode a man mounted on an ass, clothed in a _zamarra_ and _coroza_, but with a noose about his neck.

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Equipped according to the eastern mode of travelling, the Shunammite mounted an ass, and ordered the man appointed to attend her and goad on the animal, to make all possible haste to mount Carmel.

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It is sometimes called the wild ass.

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It is not uncommon to see a man on a journey, mounted idly on an ass; whilst his wife is pacing many a weary step on foot behind him; and moreover, perhaps, carrying a supply of provisions or culinary utensils.

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Proceeding northward, he spent three weeks with his mother, then in her eighty-fourth year and at last growing feeble; a quiet time only disturbed by indignation at "one ass whom I heard the bray of in some Glasgow newspaper," comparing "our grand hater of shams" to Father Gavazzi.

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"Not more than may be drawn by the point of a needle," said the preacher, scornfully.--"Ye tailors of Woodstock!--for what is a glover but a tailor working on kidskin?--I forsake you, in scorn of your faint hearts and feeble hands, and will seek me elsewhere a flock which will not fly from their shepherd at the braying of the first wild ass which cometh from out the great desert."

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Here we have one head Upon two bodies,--your two-headed bullock Is but an ass to such a prodigy.

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"Hark ye hither," said Bletson, pulling him aside, "sawest thou ever ass equal to Desborough?--the fellow is as big as an ox, and as timorous as a sheep.

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Certainly I was an ass to suspect your masters of subsisting, save at honest men's expense."

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"So please your idiocy, thou art an ass," said Cromwell; but, instantly recollecting that the corporal had been one of the adjutators or tribunes of the common soldiers, and was therefore to be treated with suitable respect, he said, "Nevertheless, if it be the device of Satan, please it the Lord we will resist him, and the foul slave shall fly from us.--Pearson," he said, resuming his soldierlike brevity, "take four file, and see what is yonder--No--the knaves may shrink from thee.

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Mr. Baxter was," he was about to say "an ass," but checked himself, and only filled up the sentence with "a good man, I dare say, but over scrupulous."

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He's only a young man about town--the sort of good-looking ass that your sex admires.'

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'On the whole, since you wish it so much, I will permit you to go out with her this once--for the last time, of course--so that you can find out if she really is engaged to be married to that young ass.

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What possible gratification can it be for a man like me--a man of the world--to paint my face and put on a ridiculous dress and make a general ass of myself, just to help Mitchell's rotten performance to go off all right!'

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The fact is, Mitchell's a conceited ass.

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Had he been behaving like a pompous ass?

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In less than three Greenwich chronometer seconds Panke will make an enormous ass of himself, and I shall have to put things straight, unless you who are a man of tact and discernment----" "Carry on."

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He can't drive you like an ass.

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It was said that the deity worshiped at Jerusalem was the head of an ass, to which human sacrifices were offered, and that the Jews took an oath to do no service for any Gentile.

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He deals also, in a digression, with calumnies derived from Posidonius and Melon about the worship of an ass in the sanctuary at Jerusalem.

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Now, the Greek word for a stone was Onos, which likewise meant an ass, and it was probably on the strength of this blunder that prejudice for centuries accused Jews and Christians of worshiping an ass' head.

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Josephus brings proof of the emptiness of the charge, and retorts that Apion had himself the heart of an ass; and then, describing the ritual of the Temple, insists that there was no secret mystery about it.

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"The silly old ass!" exclaimed the professor.

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I see now that you're a damned sentimental ass."

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As I murmured "Yes," and "No," and "Indeed--Really!" to the officer, who had kindly worked on our behalf, I was saying to myself, "My _dear_ Duffer, what an ass you were not to think of that!"

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In an appendix to the 'Dunciad' Pope collected some of the epithets with which his enemies had pelted him, "an ape," "an ass," "a frog," "a coward," "a fool," "a little abject thing."

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Some neither can for Wits nor Critics pass, As heavy mules are neither horse nor ass.

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let the secret pass, That secret to each fool, that he's an Ass: 80 The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie?)

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that thing of silk, _Sporus_, that mere white curd of Ass's milk?

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'69 Midas': an old legend tells us that Midas was presented with a pair of ass's ears by an angry god whose music he had slighted.

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'304 ass's milk': Hervey was obliged by bad health to keep a strict diet, and a cup of ass's milk was his daily drink.

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"Ass!" he muttered.

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I merely thought him a pretentious young ass who didn't know his place," said Mr. Carrington.

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"Club the creature, or keep her in a cage if you want fidelity through fear, but don't expect it if you allow her to remain at large and neglected, and don't be such an ass as to imagine that your friends won't act just as you yourself would act were she some one's else wife.

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He is a painter, and a man of genius; but the greatest ass existing!'

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'A living ass!'

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'And, begging his pardon, wise as in a certain sense I allow you this Locke was, in the instance you have cited, he was an ass.

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Yet I am an ass.

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"McLane's an ass.

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Tarapatapoum is not the only fairy who has idealized a hulking clown with an ass's head into a Prince Charming; the spectacle, alas!

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"Say rather an ass, shaved and painted to resemble a zebra," muttered John.

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"He's a pious ass--a chickenbrain."

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Then her eyes blurred a little, and she murmured three words half aloud to the death-bound fire: "Good-by, you ass!" she said.

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What an ass I am!

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Think what an ass she'd be not to realize it before she married him.

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"I know, Anthony, but you _are_ such an ass!"

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A nice little scheme you had put up together with that scribbling ass David Steel.

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"Ass!" he said.

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Who will not drink a glass For to toast a pretty lass, Is no more than fool and ass; So let him drown, let him drown!"

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Loyalty is the only virtue she insists on, loyalty in regard to her servant's experience of beauty; he may be immoral in every other way and she not desert him; but let him turn Balaam and declare beauty absent where he feels its presence--though in doing this he hopes to advance virtue or knowledge, she needs no better than an ass to rebuke him.

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The greedy ass drank his portion with ease, and indeed drank far beyond his limit.

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An ass laden with money may do anything, as Cornelius Tacitus writeth of us Germans; we have taught them to take money; there is neither fidelity nor truth on earth.

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A little would cause me to kill thee, thou ass-colt.

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What an ass art thou: couldst thou not all this time perceive, That I never sleep but when I am not awake, And I eat and I eat till my belly would ache?

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Now, sirrah, there was a little dappard[105] ass with her, that went before: When I saw him, I came in sneaking more and more.

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You are an ass.

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You be de ass-head, me can tell dat's true.

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Come, give me my lady's gown, thou ass-headed elf.

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The silly ass cannot feed on harder forage than Usury: she upon thistles, and I upon a brown crust of a month old.

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