The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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But oh, John Chatterton, ye're an ass--a reg'lar donkey, as a body may say, to get into tiffs of passion, and send back a beautiful girl's letters, because some land-louping vagabond on the top of a coach told you some report or other about a Mr Smith"-- "_Captain_ Smith," said Chatterton, biting his lips; "he's a well known man; he was an ensign in this very regiment, succeeded to a large fortune, and retired: he's a very old man."

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"Then this Chatterton is an ass.

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"Perhaps the culprit had better be his own advocate--he will find the court very favourably disposed; and as the judge is herself at the Waterloo hotel"-- "Marion here!" exclaimed Chatterton; "good heavens, what an atrocious ass I have been!"

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"God meant no man to be a self-conscious ass," said Peter more mildly.

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"An ass," replied Maginnis, pumping seltzer into a tall glass, "could see that you have something on your mind."

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"No, ass."

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"Doubtless I am a stupid ass and all that," said Peter, staring, "but with the _Gazette_ publishing it about the countryside that you are a yellow dog of the worst nature, I don't grasp how you expect Miss Carstairs to come on this yacht and lunch with you."

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Nobody in the world could have foreseen--" "Every ass in the United States," said Maginnis, his ponderous foot on the ladder, "could have foreseen it but me.

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Every ass took that up.

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I suppose I am an ass, and perhaps it's only moral _katzenjammer_ on account of this past week.

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Ass.

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I want you to do ass I say, and I will also give your crew double wages.

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One moment I thought him clever, the next an utter ass; now I found him frank, open, a good companion, eager to please,--and then a droop of his blond eyelashes, a lazy, impertinent drawl of his voice, a hint of half-bored condescension in his manner, convinced me that he was shy and affected.

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That Press Ass has been at his blunders again.

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I sent the foregoing scientific deductions to the "Resident Physician," and the bearer told me afterwards that the venerable Esculapian only observed,-"Well, the writer of that must have been a most egregious ass.

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I'm accustomed to being called an ass, and always like to be recognized by my kindred.

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Not so very much of an ass, is he?

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Ottley was all right.... Rather an ass ... rather ridiculous; apparently in every way but one.

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Bob Acres was not much for valor and he made an ass of himself when he went to fight a duel, yet one could have sat agreeably at mutton with him.

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"You are a great ass, Diggy, to go giving us a start like that," said Jack, as they paused for a moment to take breath before returning to the house.

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"You great ass, Diggy!

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"Because, you prize ass," retorted Diggory, with pardonable asperity, "they didn't want it read."

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And if I ever throw four sixes, it is when I am tackling some unsuspecting old ass of a watering place echo.

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A live ass is better than a dead lion; and so the Republican Party, who consider themselves very much alive, went to look after their daily thistles and left their dead lion in charge of a policeman.

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I've been an ass and an idiot, but I'm done with living a lie.

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"I believe I'm an ass, and Nig is a gentleman and a scholar.

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I must confess, I am unus'd to this kind of Dialogue; and I am an Ass, if I know what to say to such a Creature.

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Take notice I am affronted in your Lodgings--for you, _Bellmour_--You take me for an Ass--therefore meet me to morrow Morning about five, with your Sword in your Hand, behind _Southampton_ House.

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Ay, Sir, one she makes a very Ass of.

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When for a drunken Sot, that had kind hours, And taking their own freedoms, left you yours; 'Twas your delib'rate choice your days to pass With a damn'd, sober, self-admiring Ass, Who thinks good usage for the Sex unfit, And slights ye out of Sparkishness and Wit.

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The ringing of Bells is an Ass to't.

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thou'rt an Ass, we are but even with the brisk Rogues, for they take away our Fame, cuckold us, and take away our Wives: so, so, my Cap, _Francis_.

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thou'rt an Ass, _Francis_--but no more--come, come, let's to bed-- _Let_.

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A Fop, a Fool, a beaten Ass--a Blockhead.

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I'll enter the House with Fire and Sword, d'ye see, not that I care this--but I'll not be fob'd off--what, do they take me for a Fool--an Ass?

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Under favour, you're an Ass, Brother; this is the discreetest way of doing it, I take it.

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I say, _Cato_ was an Ass, Sir, for obliging any young Rogue of 'em all.

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what's the matter you look so like an Ass, what have you lost?

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Thou never-to-be-reclaim'd Ass, shall I never Bring thee to apprehend as thou ought'st?

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Beat thee till thou confess thou art an Ass, And on thy knees confess it to _Isillia_, Who after that shall scorn thee.

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Come, now a tear or two to second that, And I am soft again, a very Ass.

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Nahum Tate has a farce, borrowed from _Eastward Hoe_ and _The Devil's an Ass_, entitled _Cuckold's Haven; or, An Alderman no Conjuror_ (1685).

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She would look pensive just to make an ass of you!

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And before the coming of Clarice had Pauline Romeyne, whom time has converted into Polly Ashmeade, reigned in the land--" "Don't be an ass!" the colonel pleaded; and then observed, inconsequently: "I can't somehow quite realize Aline is dead.

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"I was an ass to ask you in.

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"You're a blooming ass, Neddy, but have it your own way.

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Boglin owned the land and I used his money, so I gave up to him; but I'm through with the _honer'ble_ ass now.

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"Sure we'd better get a bite to ate while we may, as th' ass said when he passed th' market car, for who knows what'll happen if we stop to ask by your lave?"

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Thou art a fool, a dog, a fatuous ass, a slave, a nincompoop, a cowardly boy, and as such--mark me again!--now do I spit at thee!"

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Looking about, Beltane saw the singer, a comely fellow whose long legs bestrode a plump ass; a lusty man he was, clad in shirt of mail and with a feather of green brooched to his escalloped hood; a long-bow hung at his back together with a quiver of arrows, while at his thigh swung a heavy, broad-bladed sword.

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A right blithesome morn, methinks, what with my song, and the birds' song, and this poor ass's bells--aye, and the flowers a-peep from the bank yonder.

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God give ye joy of it, tall brother, as he doth me and this goodly ass betwixt my knees, patient beast."

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Now leaning on his quarter-staff Beltane smiled and said: "How came ye by that same ass, master bowman?"

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Now, as ye see, though this ass be sleek and fat as an abbot, she is something small.

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"Peace be unto thee, my son!" quoth he, breathing short and loud, "an evil day for a fat man who hath been most basely bereft of a goodly ass --holy Saint Dunstan, how I gasp!" and putting back the cowl from his tonsured crown, he puffed out his cheeks and mopped his face.

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"Hearkee now, good youth, hath there passed thee by ever a ribald in an escalloped hood--an unhallowed, long-legged, scurvy archer knave astride a fair white ass, my son?"

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Here be four saints with as many curses, and all for one small ass!"

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The friar puffed out his cheeks and sighed: "'Twas a goodly ass, my son, a fair and gentle beast and of an easy gait, and I am one that loveth not to trip it in the dust.

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"My lord," quoth he, eyes a-dance, "yonder cometh a pompous prior that was, not very long since, nought but massy monk that did upon a time (though by dint of some small persuasion) bestow on me a goodly ass.

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I rode a white ass, I mind me, and my lord walked beside me very fair and soft-spoken, whereupon I called him--Sir Dove!

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What ass had told you that Lord Nick is a common sort?"

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_Sentences_: With the jawbone of an ass Samson ____ a thousand of his enemies.

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"Mr. John Vanbrugen Denslow, you are an ass!"

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Am I an ass because I know nothing of pictures?

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It is scarcely admissible that the Berbers had read the "Golden Ass" of Apuleius, but it is probable that he was born at Madaure, in Algeria, and retained an episode of a popular Berber tale which he had heard in his childhood, and placed in his story.

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You will bring your axe very well sharpened and when I say to you, 'What is that which I see with you now?' you must answer, 'It is an ass which I have taken with me to carry barley.'

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I will say to you, 'I am looking for the lion, and not for an ass,' Then he will ask you, 'Who is speaking to you?'

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He proceeded and met next an ass attacked by a swarm of flies.

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"I saw an ass attacked by a swarm of flies."

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"My father is an ass, and my mother is a mare."

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It was just what I didn't want, but, under the circumstances, I could do no less than look as if he had granted us the greatest favor possible, and at the same moment it would have done me solid good had I been able to kick the sergeant with sufficient vigor to convince him that he had made an ass of himself.

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Sir, let me tell you plainly you're an ass- Just look at those ten acres gone to grass!

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What an ass the fellow must be!"

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You are not really such an ass as to imagine that your virtue has anything to do with the virtue of this bell?"

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The material power, which is that of receiving from any candidate any sum of money which, the said ass of a candidate may be willing to pay for a vote.

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My belle hath gone and saved a starving ass; And this shall make, when put in jingling rhyme, The Belle of Rye all famous for all time."

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"One small bit of my brain is evidently a hereditary bequest from a good-natured ass!" he communed.

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I'm a weak-minded ass in such matters."

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"At best, Peters is only a clever ass.

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And Joseph, having a dim consciousness that the lad thought him an ass, and was inclined to turn him into ridicule, used to be of course doubly pompous and dignified in the presence of Master George.

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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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Dr. Goodenough has ordered ass's milk.

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

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Another variation, given by Moor in his "Suffolk Words" (p. 465), is this:-- "Three things by beating better prove: A nut, an ass, a woman; The cudgel from their back remove, And they'll be good for no man."

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Make a wager with a man who does not possess even an ass, and whose father has never been rich enough to buy a horse.

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Then old Philosopher, Wisest man alive, Plays at Lions and Tigers Down along the drive-- Gambolling fiercely Through bushes and grass, Making monstrous mouths, Braying like an ass, Twisting buttercups In his orange hair, Hopping like a kangaroo, Growling like a bear.

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"I can't lift my left hand," said the invalid, flushing, "and Phibbs is a stupid ass."

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Titania was still sleeping, and Oberon seeing a clown near her, who had lost his way in the wood, and was likewise asleep: "This fellow," said he, "shall be my Titania's truelove;" and clapping an ass's head over the clown's, it seemed to fit him as well as if it had grown upon his own shoulders.

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Come, sit with me," said she to the clown, "and let me play with your amiable hairy cheeks, my beautiful ass!

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"I had rather have a handful of dried pease," said the clown, who with his ass's head had got an ass's appetite.

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When the fairy king saw the clown sleeping in the arms of his queen, he advanced within her sight, and reproached her with having lavished her favours upon an ass.

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And in such wild sayings, and scraps of songs, of which he had plenty, this pleasant honest fool poured out his heart even in the presence of Gonerill herself, in many a bitter taunt and jest which cut to the quick; such as comparing the king to the hedge-sparrow, who feeds the young of the cuckoo till they grow old enough, and then has its head bit off for its pains: and saying, that an ass may know when the cart draws the horse (meaning that Lear's daughters, that ought to go behind, now ranked before their father); and that Lear was no longer Lear, but the shadow of Lear: for which free speeches he was once or twice threatened to be whipt.

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Pambo the first of these does pass, And for more state rides on an Ass.

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When a man attempts to handle this delicate weapon, he usually makes, if one may put it thus crudely, an ass of himself.

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VI "_The Golden Ass_ of Apuleius is, so to say, a beginning of modern literature.

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Henley, of _The Golden Ass of Apuleius_, published by David Nutt, London, 1893.

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The germ-idea of Kipling's _Finest Story in the World_ is to be found in Poe's _Tale of the Ragged Mountains_; Apuleius's germ-plot, of the man who was changed by enchantment into an ass, and could only recover his human shape by eating rose-leaves, was taken either from Lucian or from Lucius of Patrae.

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INDEX Aesop beast-fables Apuleius _The Golden Ass_ likeness to Kipling Aristotle _Secretum Secretorum_ Barrett, Charles Raymond _Short-Story Writings_ Beast-fables Boccaccio _Teseide_ _Decameron_ Brown, Dr. John (1810-1882) _Rab and His Friends_ Bunyan, John Cable _Strange True Stories of Louisiana_ Cervantes _Don Quixote_ Chaucer Coleridge _Ancient Mariner_ _Deeds of the Romans, The_ Defoe, Daniel (1661-1731) _Short-Story Essay_ _The Apparition of Mrs. Veal_ Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) _The Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn_ Drelincourt _Book on Death_ Fenton, Geoffrey _Tragical Discourses_ Fuller, Thomas Garnett, Richard _The Poison Maid_ _Gesta Romanorum, The_ Hardy, Thomas (1840) _The Three Strangers_ Harris, Chandler _Uncle Remus_ Harte, Bret (1839-1902) _The Outcasts of Poker Flat_ Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1807-1864) _Dr.

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Milk of the _human subject_ is much thinner than cow's milk; _Ass's milk_ comes the nearest to human milk of any other; _Goat's milk_ is something thicker and richer than cow's milk; _Ewe's milk_ has the appearance of cow's milk, and affords a larger quantity of cream; _Mare's milk_ contains more sugar than that of the ewe; _Camel's milk_ is used only in Africa; _Buffalo's milk_ is employed in India.

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Of all the rides since the birth of time, Told in story or sung in rhyme,-- On Apuleius's Golden Ass, Or one-eyed Calendar's horse of brass, Witch astride of a human hack, Islam's prophet on Al-Borák,-- The strangest ride that ever was sped Was Ireson's out from Marblehead!

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