The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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My deepest shame, in this unutterably shameful hour, is that I chose such a cowardly ass to besot myself with.--There, the subject sickens me, and I am going.

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Was I ever such an ass?

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The present ungulates may be summed up in this way: Odd-toed: _(Perissodactyla)_-- Horse, Ass, Rhinoceros, Tapir.

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"Shoot, you ass, shoot!" screamed Scott.

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My heart's only murmuring now, but it may start shouting soon, and a silly ass I shall look walking about in the street with a heart yelling 'Beatrice' at the top of its voice."

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"I dare say," said Peter, "that it's all this rough time in South Africa that's made me feel what a fool I used to make of myself, when I was a discontented ass of a boy; that, or being ill, or something, used to--make one think a bit.

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I've been--hopeful, ever since she refused that ass of an Avonwick, in spite of Lady Tintern.

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Much as she desired to marry her grand-niece to Lord Avonwick, she was not blind to the young man's personal disadvantages, which were undeniable; and which Peter had rudely summed up in a word by alluding to his rival as an ass.

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He, like a fop and an ass, must be making himself a public laughingstock, and have no thank for his labour; where other Magisterii, whose invention is far more exquisite, are content to sit still and do nothing.

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Thus, we may see, the longer we live the more we shall learn: I ne'er thought honesty an ass till this day.

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Solstitium is an ass, perdy, this play is a gallimaufry.

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_Enter_ BACCHUS _riding upon an ass trapped in ivy, himself dressed in vine leaves, and a garland of grapes on his head; his companions having all jacks in their hands, and ivy garlands on their heads; they come singing.

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What an ass is this!

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A weatherbeaten, bankrupt ass it is That scatters and consumeth all he hath: Each one do pluck from him without control.

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What an old ass was that.

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[118] Folly Erasmus sets a flourish on: For baldness a bald ass I have forgot Patch'd up a pamphletary periwig.

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Nothing can kill an ass but cold: cold entertainment, discouraging scoffs, authorised disgraces, may kill a whole litter of young asses of them here at once, that hath travelled thus far in impudence, only in hope to sit a-sunning in your smiles.

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O, my lord thinks me an ass.

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The Golden Ass and Cupid and Psyche, by Thomas Dekker, John Day, and Henry Chettle, April 1600.

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Art thou a man, and canst be such a beast, Ass-like to bear the burthen of thy wrongs?

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O God, have mercy on thee, silly ass!

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Postilion, stay, thou drugg'st on like an ass.

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Let me yet have some room for mine ass.

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Look forth and see: a lubber, fat, great and tall, Upon a tired ass, bare, short and small.

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Well, since che see there is none other boot, Chill now take pains to go the rest afoot; For Brock mine ass is saddle-pinch'd vull sore, And so am I even here--chill say no more.

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By the body of an ox, behold here this ass, Will be my familiar, wheresoever I pass.

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ay, and so highly, that if you do this feat for me, you hire me to you as one hireth an ox or an ass: to use, to ride, to spur, or anything; yours to demand, miserable Grim!

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A. HAMMERTON Editor of Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia MCMX Table of Contents ABOUT, EDMOND King of the Mountains AINSWORTH, HARRISON Tower of London ANDERSEN, HANS Improvisatore APULEIUS The Golden Ass ARABIAN NIGHTS AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE AUERBACH, BERTHOLD On the Height AUSTEN, JANE Sense and Sensibility Pride and Prejudice Northanger Abbey Mansfield Park Emma Persuasion BALZAC, HONORÉ DE Eugénie Grandet Old Goriot Magic Skin Quest of the Absolute BECKFORD, WILLIAM History of the Caliph Vathek BEHN, APHRA Oroonoko BERGERAC, CYRANO DE Voyage to the Moon BJÖRNSON, BJÖRNSTJERNE Arne In God's Way BLACK, WILLIAM Daughter of Heth BLACKMORE, R.D.

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"She's a partner in Barley's Bank, you fool, you ass!"

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Finally, in the midst of night, she led me out of the robbers' den and took me across a rocky path to a dumb peasant with an ass, which I was made to mount.

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* * * * * APULEIUS The Golden Ass Apuleius was born about 125 A.D., at Madaura, in Africa.

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His good fame was darkened by the success of an amusing romance, "The Golden Ass," which he wrote, by way of recreation, at Rome.

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It was an age of wild superstition and foolish credulity; and his readers confused the author of "The Golden Ass" with the hero of it.

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_III.--Lucius Becomes an Ass_ In the middle of the night I heard a knock at my door.

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Every hair on me changed into a bristle; my hands turned into hoofed forefeet; a tail grew out of my backbone; my face lengthened; and I found, to my horror, that I had become an ass.

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My own horse and an ass belonging to Milo conceived a strange dislike to me.

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What an ass I was!

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In order to avoid being whipped for his carelessness, the slave resolved to let the priests dine off a haunch of their own ass.

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It was a poor gardener who needed an ass to cart his stuff to market.

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He, too, wanted an ass to carry his heavy kit.

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Though I was changed into an ass, L could not relish hay and grass and food of that sort, and I derived scarcely any nourishment from it.

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In a short time I became famous throughout Greece as the "Golden Ass," and I was bought by the town for use in the public show.

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"A wild ass's skin engraved with Sanscrit characters.

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Ass!

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"So," he said, when he was at last alone, "in this enlightened age, when science has stripped the very stars of their secrets, here am I frightened out of my senses by an old piece of wild ass's skin.

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Did you ever come across such an ass"--Dawson contemptuously indicated the pile of sealed envelopes; "he must have soaked himself in American dime novels and cinema crime films.

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If I did not know that he was a first-class man I should set him down as a colossal ass.

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My dear Cary, do not be an ass.

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He is loyal, but a stupid ass with a flapping tongue.

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He made an ass of himself, of course, but not a greater ass than I always make of myself--and I am not far from double his age--whenever Madame gets to work upon me.

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He might not have been so thorough an ass as you thought."

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"The farce was not your fault," said he; "it was entirely due to that French ass Froissart, who has no right to play games of his own without consulting me.

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She has made a nice fool of you and of that ass Froissart.

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But what an ass the fellow must have been to make such a to-do about his beastly carcass?

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Whose ox have I taken, or whose ass have I taken, or whom have I defrauded?

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He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn out of Jerusalem, and cast down from its gates."

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Mr. Abercrombie is a genial, smooth-natured, quiet man--talks easily yet carefully, preaches earnestly yet evenly; there is no froth in either his prayers or sermons; he never gets into fits of uncontrollable passion, never rides the high horse of personal ambition, nor the low ass of religious vulgarity--keeps cool, behaves himself, and looks after his work midly and well.

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The fire of questioning to which he was exposed elicited from him that he was thinking of an animal, a live animal, rather a disagreeable animal, a savage animal, an animal that growled and grunted sometimes, and talked sometimes, and lived in London, and walked about the streets, and wasn't made a show of, and wasn't led by anybody, and didn't live in a menagerie, and was never killed in a market, and was not a horse, or an ass, or a cow, or a bull, or a tiger, or a dog, or a pig, or a cat, or a bear.

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_Here shall_ JOSEPH _come in, leading an ass, on which are seated_ MARY _and the_ CHILD.

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He felt singularly sure he had played the gratuitous ass in this affair, and he didn't in the least desire to see the reflection of a like conviction in the eyes of a pretty young woman with a flair for the ridiculous.

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I can't stand any man who makes an ass of himself, whatever his profession.

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"You're a kind old ass, but I don't want you.

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I told him not to be such a shy ass.

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"But not that ass, Tudor.

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"I'm sorry--beastly sorry--to have made such an ass of myself.

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"Victor, you old ass, what are you blubbing for?

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"How I could have been such an ass I don't know," I finished ruefully.

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The History of the Golden Ass, as also the Loves of Cupid and his Mistress _Psiche_: by _L.

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"I simply treated him as I would any other young ass who forgot himself," Norgate replied indignantly.

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"Busby," Wyatt declared, "is the silliest old ass who ever escaped petticoats by the mere accident of sex.

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"Don't be an ass!"

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I was a d----d silly ass!"

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But before Latona's son had finished his divine singing, the angry Eryfile began to scream: "What an ass!

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What an ass I am!

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Upon my honor, that Miliszewski is an ass.

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Doctor (aside).--A sentimental ass.

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When I first told the story to Mr. Bright, I said d---- their souls; but he said that was all a sham, for everybody knew what d---- stood for, and it was just like showing an ass's face to avoid speaking his name.

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What a circumstance Doth he begin with; what an ass is he, To tell her at the first that she is fair; The only means to make her to be coy!

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O ass!

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_Vitrum_ glass, _spica_ grass, _tu es asinus_, you are an ass.

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you great ass!

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What, you jeering ass!

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But this Belvidere, this methodical ass, hath made me almost forget my time; I'll now to Paul's Churchyard; meet me an hour hence at the sign of the Pegasus in Cheapside, and I'll moist thy temples with a cup of claret, as hard as the world goes.

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O, how it grieves my vexed soul to see Each painted ass in chair of dignity!

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Will, then, this golden ass bestow a vicarage gilded?

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Shall an ass this vicarage compass?

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Ass.

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Ass he.

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She is thy Io, thou her brazen ass, Or she Dame Phantasy, and thou her gull; She thy Pasiphae, and thou her loving bull.

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What, half a mess of good qualities referred to an ass' head?

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Ass colit ass-tra.

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Faith, he were an excellent subject for two or three good wits: he would make a fine ass for an ape to ride upon.

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Ass as I was, to read a piece of Aristotle in Greek yesternight; it hath put me out of my English vein quite.

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To bear[109] too long, argues an ass's kind.

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And you, Master Amoretto, that art the chief carpenter of sonnets, a privileged vicar for the lawless marriage of ink and paper, you that are good for nothing but to commend in a set speech, to colour the quantity of your mistress's stool, and swear it is most sweet civet; it's fine, when that puppet-player Fortune must put such a Birchen-Lane post in so good a suit, such an ass in so good fortune!

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you're a very ass.

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Master Churms, Methinks 'tis strange you should make such a motion: Say, I should yield and grant you love, When most you did expect a sunshine day, My father's will would mar your hop'd-for hay; And when you thought to reap the fruits of love, His hard constraint would blast it in the bloom: For he so doats on Peter Plod-all's pelf, That none but he forsooth must be the man: And I will rather match myself Unto a groom of Pluto's grisly den, Than unto such a silly golden ass.

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What were you talking even now of an ass, and a crown, and an urinal, and a plague?

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