The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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I say such a one was a very ass.

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I dare not trust these secrets to the earth, E'er since she brought forth reeds, whose babbling noise Told all the world of Midas' ass's ears.

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Fetch an ass to keep you company.

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make an ass of me?

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But who their tailors pay, Borrow, and keep their day, We'll hold him like this glass, A brainless, empty ass, And not a mate for us_.

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An ass, an ass, an ass.

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Like the saint's ass, you are a clever devil, aren't you?

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When they drew nigh unto Ierusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto mount Olivet, then sent Iesus two of his disciples, saying to them: Go into the town that lieth over against you, and anon ye shall find an ass bound, and her colt with her, loose them and bring them unto me.

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All this was done, to fulfil that which was spoken by the prophet, saying: Tell ye the daughter of Sion: behold thy king cometh unto thee meek, sitting upon an ass and a colt, the foal of an ass used to the yoke.

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He took the man and healed him, and let him go: And answered them saying: which of you shall have an ass, or an ox, fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the saboth day?

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Iesus got a young ass and sat thereon, according to that which was written: fear not daughter of Sion: behold thy king cometh sitting on an asse's colt.

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Bertie._ To this I received an answer during the after-luncheon sleep: _What on earth is there to be perplexed about, ass?

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"Wake up, Bertie, you old ass!" she cried, in a voice that hit me between the eyebrows and went out at the back of my head.

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Listen, ass.

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I made the most colossal ass of myself."

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"And I confidently anticipate that you will make an equally colossal ass of yourself on the thirty-first of this month.

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"What an ass I made of myself!"

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Don't be an ass, Jeeves."

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Tuppy, when not making an ass of himself, is a soundish sort of egg.

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She told him he was an ass and a fool and an idiot, and didn't know what he was talking about."

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I mean this frightful disposition of his to stick straws in his hair and talk like a perfect ass.

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"Old Testament, ass.

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"Don't be an ass."

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"I'm not an ass.... Am I an ass, Jeeves?"

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I don't think I have ever known anybody else who was such a dashed silly ass that he couldn't even get to a fancy-dress ball.

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"Tuppy, my dear old ass," I cried, "this is pure banana oil!

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What an ass you must have thought me out there in the garden.

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"Of course you should, you silly ass," said Gussie genially.

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I suppose it wasn't often that the boys of Market Snodsbury Grammar School came across a man public-spirited enough to call their head master a silly ass, and they showed their appreciation in no uncertain manner.

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"Ass!

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I remember when I won that Scripture-knowledge prize, having to go into the facts about Balaam's ass.

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She and Balaam's ass were, so to speak, sisters under the skin.

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"Hallo, Bertie, you old ass," was her very matey greeting.

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And I, ass that I was, took it out and saved your life.

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"Don't be an ass.

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"The chauffeur, ass.

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"Don't be an ass, Jeeves.

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"Sit down and don't be an ass, Dredlinton," he laughed.

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They left their respective abodes for here in a secrecy which they themselves encouraged, for Rees imagined that your husband had urgent need of him, and Phipps was ass enough to believe that your summons meant what he wished it to mean.

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In the morning the cradle was bound on an ass, and behold Tonton following the column with the baggage, in the convoy of the rear guard, under the indulgent eye of Michel.

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"What an ass I was to come out!" he said angrily to himself.

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Ever since then I have felt like a conceited ass, who tried to make himself out more clever than he really was."

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I think Spiller's an ass."

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_I_ think Spiller's an ass."

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"Silly ass, Dunster," he groaned, "slamming about like that."

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"You needn't be a funny ass, man," said Dunster, pained; "heaps of people tell me I ought to have it waxed."

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Dunster did say he thought it was something important, only like an ass I thought it would do if I came over at lockup."

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Mr. Downing had read all the Holmes stories with great attention, and had thought many times what an incompetent ass Doctor Watson was; but, now that he had started to handle his own first case, he was compelled to admit that there was a good deal to be said in extenuation of Watson's inability to unravel tangles.

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"I was an ass ever to try it.

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"Don't be an ass, Adair.

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It came upon Mike with painful clearness that he had been making an ass of himself.

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"If your trouble is," said Psmith, "that you fear that you may be in unworthy company--" "Don't be an ass."

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Smith told me you couldn't have done, and I saw that I was an ass to think you could have.

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"The man's an absolute driveling ass," said Mike warmly.

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"That ass Downing.

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"The silly ass wanted me to confess that I'd done it.

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He caught their manners, looks, and airs; An ass in every thing, but ears!

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Sudden the god a lion stands; He shakes his mane, he spurns the sands; Now a fierce lynx, with fiery glare, A wolf, an ass, a fox, a bear.

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I no man call an ape or ass: Tis his own conscience holds the glass; Thus void of all offence I write; Who claims the fable, knows his right.

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An ass hath more intrinsic good.

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By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated.'

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_140 Had you with judgment weighed the case, Their genius thus had fixed their place: The swan had learnt the sailor's art; The cock had played the soldier's part; The spider in the weaver's trade With credit had a fortune made; But for the fool, in every class The blockhead had appeared an ass.'

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Who without grief Can view that pampered steed, his master's joy, His minion, and his daily care, well clothed, Well fed with every nicer cate; no cost, No labour spared; who, when the flying chase Broke from the copse, without a rival led The numerous train: now a sad spectacle Of pride brought low, and humbled insolence, _130 Drove like a panniered ass, and scourged along.

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That thing of silk; Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?

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The Devil is an Ass, a Comedy, acted in the year 1616.

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For the plot see Apuleius's Golden Ass.

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The revenues of this man are thirty toman of tagars of rice, each toman being 10,000 tagars, and one tagar is the burthen of an ass.

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[Footnote 13: To rime with _was_, Horatio naturally expected _ass_ to follow as the end of the last line: in the wanton humour of his excitement, Hamlet disappointed him.]

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In Aberdeenshire the sound of the _s_ varies with the intent of the word: '_az_ he said'; '_ass_ strong _az_ a horse.']

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As we had all seen the paper's hiding-place I found it a little difficult to be impressed by the elaborate efforts, unconscionably long drawn out, of the departed spirit to disclose the matter to _Helen_ and _Hugh_; while the masterly inactivity of _Stephen_, who was trying to find his document by pure reason (mere looking for it would not occur to his Napoleonic brain), confirmed the opinion I had earlier formed of that solemn ass.

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But in those too it is not sufficient: for if history lie not, women have conceived by drills; and what real species, by that measure, such a production will be in nature will be a new question: and we have reason to think this is not impossible, since mules and jumarts, the one from the mixture of an ass and a mare, the other from the mixture of a bull and a mare, are so frequent in the world.

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And if Balaam's ass had all his life discoursed as rationally as he did once with his master, I doubt yet whether any one would have thought him worthy the name man, or allowed him to be of the same species with himself.

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It would possibly be thought a bold paradox, if not a very dangerous falsehood, if I should say that some CHANGELINGS, who have lived forty years together, without any appearance of reason, are something between a man and a beast: which prejudice is founded upon nothing else but a false supposition, that these two names, man and beast, stand for distinct species so set out by real essences, that there can come no other species between them: whereas if we will abstract from those names, and the supposition of such specific essences made by nature, wherein all things of the same denominations did exactly and equally partake; if we would not fancy that there were a certain number of these essences, wherein all things, as in moulds, were cast and formed; we should find that the idea of the shape, motion, and life of a man without reason, is as much a distinct idea, and makes as much a distinct sort of things from man and beast, as the idea of the shape of an ass with reason would be different from either that of man or beast, and be a species of an animal between, or distinct from both.

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Johnson's Eastward Hoe or the Devil is an Ass.

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+A-squint+, _adv._ obliquely, out at the corner of the eyes, S. +Ass-+; see +As-+.

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We bade him hold his peace for a mad ass, but he would not.

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These prose translations consist of Apuleius's _Golden Ass_, Herodotus (the Duke's order), the _Golden Ass_ of Lucian, Xenophon's _Cyropædia_ (not printed), Emilius Probus (also not printed, and supposed to be Cornelius Nepos), and Riccobaldo's credulous _Historia Universalis_, with additions.

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She had not gone far when she met an old man who seemed to be a hermit, but was in reality a magician, coming along upon an ass.

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The Wild Ass of Mongolia.

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The _Kyang_, or WILD ASS of Mongolia.

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You would have me believe that if I put an ass into the furnace it will come forth a horse."

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[Illustration: Wild Ass of Mongolia.]

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NOTE 3.--The Wild Ass of Mongolia is the _Dshiggetai_ of Pallas (_Asinus hemionus_ of Gray), and identical with the Tibetan _Kyang_ of Moorcroft and Trans-Himalayan sportsmen.

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[The wild ass (Tibetan _Kyang_, Mongol _Holu_ or _Hulan_) is called by the Chinese _yeh ma_, "wild horse," though "every one admits that it is an ass, and should be called _yeh lo-tzu_."

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Dr. Sven Hedin says the _habitat_ of the _Kulan_ is the heights of Tibet as well as the valley of the Tarim; it looks like a mule with the mane and tail of an ass, but shorter ears, longer than those of a horse; he gives a picture of it.--H.

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Étym._)--H. C.] In the commercial lists of our Indian north-west frontier we find as synonymous _Saghri_ or _Kímukht_, "Horse or Ass-hide."

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At the next inn they came upon Don Quixote, who was lying prone on Sancho's ass, groaning in pain, vowed that here was a worthy castle.

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And when he was dressed he went down to Dapple's stall, and embraced his faithful ass with tears in his eyes.

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Ass.

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And the excellent ass Dayson, always facetiously cheerful, and without a grain of humour, remarked: "Copiousness with the H2O, Miss Lessways, is the father of smudged epistles.

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Stupid ass!

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For the future, relying on these opinions, walk about upright, free; not trusting to the size of your body, as an athlete, for a man ought not to be invincible in the way that an ass is.

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If you tell me that you can kick violently, I also will say to you, that you are proud of that which is the act of an ass.

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