The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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* * * * * WHAT THINGS WE SHOULD EXCHANGE FOR OTHER THINGS.--Keep this thought in readiness, when you lose anything external, what you acquire in place of it; and if it be worth more, never say, I have had a loss; neither if you have got a horse in place of an ass, or an ox in place of a sheep, nor a good action in place of a bit of money, nor in place of idle talk such tranquillity as befits a man, nor in place of lewd talk if you have acquired modesty.

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Here is a man who does not listen to reason, who does not know when he is refuted: he is an ass; in another man the sense of shame is become dead: he is good for nothing, he is anything rather than a man.

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This man seeks whom he may meet and kick or bite, so that he is not even a sheep or an ass, but a kind of wild beast.

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A grown man--the silly ass!

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Little ass!

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As he reached it amid roars of execration the time-keeper arose and cried "_Time!_" "You had him, you little ass," said Delorme, as he squeezed a sponge of water on Dam's head.

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He wanted the blood of a certain neighbouring spring-Captain, a hunter of "flappers" and molester of parlour-maids, home on furlough, who made eyes at her at the Hunt Ball and followed her about all Cricket Week and said something to her which, as Dam heard, provoked her coolly to request him "not to be such a priceless ass".

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"Of course I do, you Ass.

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"Why does not the British officer wear his uniform always?" writes the perennial gratuitous ass to the Press, periodically in the Silly Season.... Dam could tell him.

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"Oh, shut up, Bear, and don't be an Ass," implored Trooper Burke (formerly Desmond Villiers FitzGerald) ... "but I admit, all the same, there's lots of worse prog in the Officers' Mess than a crisp crust generously bedaubed with the rich jellified gravy that (occasionally) lurks like rubies beneath the fatty soil of dripping."

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I am not--sound--normal--I may go m...." "Don't be a pure priceless Ass, darling.

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"MY DARLING DAM, "Don't be such a _priceless_ Ass.

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The mule produced from a horse and the ass resembles the horse externally with his ears, main, and tail; but with the nature or manners of an ass: but the Hinnus, or creature produced from a male ass, and a mare, resembles the father externally in stature, ash-colour, and the black cross, but with the nature or manners of a horse.

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He may be an ass, but still I have to look up to him in a physical sense, and the mere act of looking up seems to endow him with a moral advantage.

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You are like Buridan's ass.

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What an ass I am!

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Don't you know, Placido, that I'm getting to be a regular ass?

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What an ass I am!

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"Do you know that you really are an ass?" exclaimed Placido, picking up his book and papers.

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What an ass I am!

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Do you know, I'm getting to be a regular ass!

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What an ass you are!" yelled Placido unreservedly, as he stared with angry eyes and rubbed his hand over his patent-leather shoe.

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ass, donkey, jackass, mule, hinny; sumpter horse, sumpter mule; burro, cuddy † , ladino [U.S.] ; reindeer; camel, dromedary, llama, elephant; carrier pigeon.

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[specific animal sounds] bark [dog, seal]; bow-wow, yelp [dog]; bay, bay at the moon [dog, wolf]; yap, yip, yipe, growl, yarr † , yawl, snarl, howl [dog, wolf]; grunt, gruntle † ; snort [pig, hog, swine, horse]; squeak, [swine, mouse]; neigh, whinny [horse]; bray [donkey, mule, hinny, ass]; mew, mewl [kitten]; meow [cat]; purr [cat]; caterwaul, pule [cats]; baa † , bleat [lamb]; low, moo [cow, cattle]; troat † , croak, peep [frog]; coo [dove, pigeon]; gobble [turkeys]; quack [duck]; honk, gaggle, guggle [goose]; crow, caw, squawk, screech, [crow]; cackle, cluck, clack [hen, rooster, poultry]; chuck, chuckle; hoot, hoo [owl]; chirp, cheep, chirrup, twitter, cuckoo, warble, trill, tweet, pipe, whistle [small birds]; hum [insects, hummingbird]; buzz [flying insects, bugs]; hiss [snakes, geese]; blatter † ; ratatat [woodpecker].

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; chi tace accousente [It] ; the public mind is the creation of the Master- the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writers" [Disraeli]; you bet your sweet ass it is; what are we waiting for;?

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Fool -- N. fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling † , dizzard † , donkey, ass; ninny, ninnyhammer † ; chowderhead † , chucklehead † ; dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby † , hoddy-doddy † , noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy † , owl; goose, goosecap † ; imbecile; gaby † ; radoteur † , nincompoop, badaud † , zany; trifler, babbler; pretty fellow; natural, niais † .

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circumvent, overreach; outreach, out wit, out maneuver; steal a march upon, give the go-by, to leave in the lurch decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap † , ensnare; nick, springe † ; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay † , spread the toils, lime; trapan † , trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle † , nousel † ; blind a trail; enmesh, immesh † ; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate † , hocus, escamoter † , practice on one's credulity; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up [Slang] , sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of † , make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over &c. (influence) 615 ; gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble &c. 544 .

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, humbug; adventurer; Cagliostro, Fernam Mendez Pinto; ass in lion's skin &c. (bungler) 701 ; actor &c. (stage player) 599 .

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waverer, ass between two bundles of hay; shuttlecock, butterfly; wimp; doughface [U.S.] .

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land lubber; fresh water sailor, fair weather sailor; horse marine; fish out of water, ass in lion's skin, jackdaw in peacock's feathers; quack &c. (deceiver) 548 ; lord of misrule.

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sneak, crawl, crouch, cower, sponge, truckle to, grovel, fawn, lick the feet of, kiss the hem of one's garment, kiss one's ass [Vulg.]

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ass, donkey, jackass, mule, hinny; sumpter horse, sumpter mule; burro, cuddy † , ladino [U.S.] ; reindeer; camel, dromedary, llama, elephant; carrier pigeon.

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; chi tace accousente [It] ; the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writers [Disraeli]; you bet your sweet ass it is; what are we waiting for?

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circumvent, overreach; outreach, out wit, out maneuver; steal a march upon, give the go-by, to leave in the lurch decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap † , ensnare; nick, springe † ; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay † , spread the toils, lime; trapan † , trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle † , nousel † ; blind a trail; enmesh, immesh † ; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate † , hocus, escamoter † , practice on one's credulity; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up [Slang] , sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of † , make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over &c (influence) 615; gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble &c 544. cog, cog the dice, load the dice, stack the deck; live by one's wits, play at hide and seek; obtain money under false pretenses &c (steal) 791; conjure, juggle, practice chicanery; deacon [U.S.] .

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, humbug; adventurer; Cagliostro, Fernam Mendez Pinto; ass in lion's skin &c (bungler) 701; actor &c (stage player) 599. quack, charlatan, mountebank, saltimbanco † , saltimbanque † , empiric, quacksalver, medicaster † , Rosicrucian, gypsy; man of straw.

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waverer, ass between two bundles of hay; shuttlecock, butterfly; wimp; doughface [U.S.] .

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land lubber; fresh water sailor, fair weather sailor; horse marine; fish out of water, ass in lion's skin, jackdaw in peacock's feathers; quack &c (deceiver) 548; lord of misrule.

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V. cringe, bow, stoop, kneel, bend the knee; fall on one's knees, prostrate oneself; worship &c 990. sneak, crawl, crouch, cower, sponge, truckle to, grovel, fawn, lick the feet of, kiss the hem of one's garment, kiss one's ass [Vulg.]

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asportation: - transference 270 N. ass in lion's skin: - deceiver 548 N. - bungler 701 N. ass: - fool 501 N. - carrier 271 N. assafoetida: - fetor 401 N. assagai: - arms 727 N. assail: - attack 716 V. - painfulness 830 V. - detraction 934 V. assailant: - combatant 726 N. - attack 716 N. - opponent 710 N. Assama: - heaven 981 N. assassin: - destroyer 165 N. - killing 361 N. assassinate: - killing 361 V. assassination: - killing 361 N. assault and battery: - attack 716 N. assault rifle: - arms 727 N. assault: - attack 716 N. - attack 716 V. assay: - experiment 463 N. - experiment 463 V. - measurement 466 V. assayist: - experiment 463 N. assegai: - arms 727 N. assemblage: - assemblage 72 N. - convergence 290 N. - junction 43 N. - council 696 N. assemble: - assemblage 72 V. - council 696 V. assembled: - assemblage 72 Adj.

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kinsman: - consanguinity 11 N. kiosk: - abode 189 N. - temple 1000 N. kip: - support 215 N. kirk: - temple 1000 N. kirtle: - clothing 225 N. kismet: - necessity 601 N. kiss hands: - courtesy 894 V. kiss in the ring: - amusement 840 N. kiss one's ass: - servility 886 V. kiss the ass of: - flattery 933 V. kiss the book: - affirmation 535 V. kiss the rod: - submission 725 V. kiss: - endearment 902 V. - endearment 902 N. - courtesy 894 V. - courtesy 894 N. kit: - class 75 N. - receptacle 191 N. - musical instruments 417 N. kitcat: - painting 556 N. kitchen garden: - agriculture 371 N. kitchen Kaffir: - neologism 563 N. kitchen maid: - servant 746 N. kitchen: - receptacle 191 N. - workshop 691 N. kitchener: - furnace 386 N. kite: - ship 273 N. - money 800 N. kith and kin: - consanguinity 11 N. kithless: - unity 87 Adj.

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: - courage 861 V. make a man of: - goodness 648 V. make a merit of: - boasting 884 V. make a mess of: - unskillfulness 699 V. - failure 732 V. make a motion: - supposition 514 V. - offer 763 V. make a mouth: - dislike 867 V. make a noise in the world: - repute 873 V. make a noise: - sound 402 V. - repute 873 V. make a note of: - memory 505 V. make a note: - record 551 V. make a pass at: - attack 716 V. make a petition: - request 765 V. make a place for: - location 184 V. make a plunge: - plunge 310 V. make a point of: - contention 720 V. - compulsion 744 V. - conditions 770 V. - probity 939 V. - dueness 924 V. - resolution 604 V. make a prayer: - request 765 V. make a present: - giving 784 V. make a pretext of: - Pretext 617 V. make a puppet of: - authority 737 V. make a purchase: - purchase 795 V. make a push: - activity 682 V. make a report: - description 594 V. make a request: - request 765 V. make a requisition: - request 765 V. - command 741 V. - requirement 630 V. make a return: - record 551 V. make a riot: - resistance 719 V. - violence 173 V. make a row: - violence 173 V. make a rush at: - attack 716 V. make a sacrifice: - disinterestedness 942 V. make a set at: - attack 716 V. make a shift with: - use 677 V. - substitution 147 V. make a show of: - falsehood 544 V. make a show: - ostentation 882 V. make a sign: - indication 550 V. make a slip: - failure 732 V. make a sorry face: - disrepute 874 V. make a speech: - speech 582 V. make a splash: - repute 873 V. - ostentation 882 V. make a splurge: - ostentation 882 V. make a stand: - resistance 719 V. - opposition 708 V. make a start: - beginning 66 V. make a stir about: - importance 642 V. make a stir: - activity 682 V. make a thrust at: - attack 716 V. make a toil of a pleasure: - activity 682 V. make a trial of: - experiment 463 V. make a wry face: - lamentation 839 V. - disapprobation 932 V. - physical pain 378 V. - discontent 832 V. - dislike 867 V. make a wry mouth at: - disapprobation 932 V. make absolute: - evidence 467 V. - judgment 480 V. make accounts square: - accounts 811 V. make acquaintance with: - friendship 888 V. - sociality 892 V. - information 527 V. make advances: - offer 763 V. - progression 282 V. - sociality 892 V. make after: - pursuit 622 V. make alike: - similarity 17 V. make all snug: - preparation 673 V. make all square: - restoration 660 V. make allowance for: - qualification 469 V. - vindication 937 N. make allowance: - discount 813 V. make allowances for: - forgiveness 918 V. make allusion to: - information 527 V. make amends: - atonement 952 V. - reward 973 V. make an abstract: - compendium 596 V. make an affidavit: - affirmation 535 V. make an April fool of: - deception 545 V. - disrespect 929 V. - ridicule 856 V. make an ass of: - deception 545 V. make an assertion: - affirmation 535 V. make an attempt: - essay 675 V. make an end of: - end 67 V. make an engagement: - promise 768 V. make an entry of: - record 551 V. make an example of: - punishment 972 V. make an experiment: - experiment 463 V. make an impression: - physical energy 171 V. - thought 451 V. make an offer: - endearment 902 V. make an order: - command 741 V. make application: - request 765 V. make away from: - avoidance 623 V. make away with oneself: - killing 361 V. make away with: - killing 361 V. - destruction 162 V. - disuse 678 V. - relinquishment 782 V. make believe: - falsehood 544 V. make bold to ask: - request 765 V. make bold with: - discourtesy 895 V. make bold: - insolence 885 V. - courage 861 V. make both ends meet: - wealth 803 V. - economy 817 V. make bricks without straw: - impossibility 471 V. make capital out of: - Pretext 617 V. - acquisition 775 V. - improvement 658 V. make captive: - restraint 751 V. make certain of: - discovery 480a V. make choice of: - choice 609 V. make clean sweep of: - destruction 162 V. make common cause with: - cooperation 709 V. make common cause: - concurrence 178 V. make compensation: - payment 807 V. - compensation 30 V. make corrections: - improvement 658 V. make due provision for: - provision 637 V. make faces: - disrespect 929 V. - dislike 867 V. - ugliness 846 V. - distortion 243 V. make fast: - junction 43 V. make for: - direction 278 V. make forced marches: - velocity 274 V. make free of: - freedom 748 V. make free with: - freedom 748 V. - discourtesy 895 V. - taking 789 V. - sociality 892 V. make free: - insolence 885 V. make friends with: - friendship 888 V. make fun of: - ridicule 856 V. - wit 842 V. make game of: - ridicule 856 V. - disrespect 929 V. make game: - deception 545 V. make good one's escape: - escape 671 V. make good one's promise: - observance 772 V. make good one's word: - observance 772 V. make good use of: - improvement 658 V. make good: - observance 772 V. - atonement 952 V. - vindication 937 N. - completeness 52 V. - completion 729 V. - restoration 660 V. - provision 637 V. - dueness 924 V. - stability 150 V. - compensation 30 V. - evidence 467 V. - demonstration 478 V. make hash of: - unskillfulness 699 V. make haste: - haste 684 V. - activity 682 V. - velocity 274 V. - earliness 132 V. make head against: - success 731 V. - resistance 719 V. - opposition 708 V. make head: - progression 282 V. make headway: - progression 282 V. make holiday: - amusement 840 V. make hot: - calefaction 384 V. make improvements: - improvement 658 V. make inquiry: - inquiry 461 V. make interest for: - aid 707 V. make interest: - request 765 V. make investments: - preparation 673 V. make it a condition: - conditions 770 V. make it look easy: - facility 705 V. make it one's business: - business 625 V. make it: - pacification 723 V. make its appearance: - visibility 446 V. make known: - information 527 V. - publication 531 V. make light of: - facility 705 V. - unimportance 643 V. - inexcitability 826 V. - contempt 930 V. - underestimation 483 V. make little of: - underestimation 483 V. make loose: - incoherence 47 V. make love: - endearment 902 V. - sexuality 374a V. make manifest: - manifestation 525 V. make matters up: - pacification 723 V. - atonement 952 V. make merry with: - wit 842 V. - ridicule 856 V. make merry: - rejoicing 838 V. - amusement 840 V. make mincemeat of: - destruction 162 V. make mischief: - badness 649 V. make money by: - acquisition 775 V. make money: - wealth 803 V. - acquisition 775 V. make mouths: - disrespect 929 V. make much ado about: - importance 642 V. make much ado of: - importance 642 V. make much of: - overestimation 482 V. - love 897 V. - friendship 888 V. - approbation 931 V. - endearment 902 V. - importance 642 V. make no account of: - underestimation 483 V. make no bones of: - willingness 602 V. - facility 705 V. make no doubt: - belief 484 V. make no mystery: - manifestation 525 V. make no scruple of: - willingness 602 V. make no secret of: - manifestation 525 V. make no sign: - taciturnity 585 V. - concealment 528 V. - latency, implication 526 V. make note of: - attention 457 V. make nothing of: - underestimation 483 V. - expectance 871 V. - facility 705 V. - failure 732 V. make oath: - affirmation 535 V. make of: - endearment 902 V. make off with: - stealing 791 V. make off: - escape 671 V. - avoidance 623 V. make one at: - presence 186 V. make one drunk: - drunkenness 959 V. make one laugh: - ridiculousness 853 V. make one of: - presence 186 V. make one shudder: - painfulness 830 V. make one sick: - painfulness 830 V. make one sing small: - humility 879 V. make one stare: - wonder 870 V. make one tremble: - fear 860 V. make one's appearance: - arrival 292 V. make one's blood boil: - excitation 824 V. - resentment 900 V. make one's blood run cold: - dislike 867 V. - fear 860 V. make one's bow: - courtesy 894 V. make one's choice: - choice 609 V. make one's debut: - beginning 66 V. make one's escape: - escape 671 V. make one's exit: - departure 293 V. make one's flesh creep: - fear 860 V. make one's fortune: - success 731 V. - prosperity 734 V. make one's mind easy: - inexcitability 826 V. make one's mouth water: - desire 865 V. make one's peace with: - content 831 V. make one's pile: - prosperity 734 V. make one's teeth chatter: - fear 860 V. - refrigeration 385 V. make one's voice heard: - influence 175 V. make one's way: - success 731 V. - journey 266 V. - prosperity 734 V. - passage 302 V. - progression 282 V. make one's will: - death 360 V. make one's windows shake: - loudness 404 V. make oneself at home with: - sociality 892 V. make oneself easy about: - belief 484 V. make oneself easy: - inexcitability 826 V. make oneself master of: - learning 539 V. make oneself scarce: - absence 187 V. - avoidance 623 V. make out a case: - evidence 467 V. - demonstration 478 V. - dueness 924 V. make out: - knowledge 490 V. - interpretation 522 V. - discovery 480a V. - intelligibility 518 V. - vision 441 V. - demonstration 478 V. make over much: - exaggeration 549 V. make over: - transfer 783 V. - giving 784 V. make payment: - payment 807 V. make peace: - peace 721 V. - pacification 723 V. make preparations: - preparation 673 V. make prisoner: - restraint 751 V. make productive: - productiveness 168 V. - production 161 V. make profit: - acquisition 775 V. - success 731 V. make progress: - success 731 V. - activity 682 V. - progression 282 V. make provision for: - preparation 673 V. make provision: - provision 637 V. make public: - disclosure 529 V. - publication 531 V. make rapid strides: - progression 282 V. - velocity 274 V. make ready: - preparation 673 V. make repayment: - payment 807 V. make room for: - opening 260 V. make room: - respect 928 V. make round: - circularity 247 V. make sad work of: - unskillfulness 699 V. make safe: - safety 664 V. - preservation 670 V. make sail: - navigation 267 V. make short work of: - destruction 162 V. - punishment 972 V. - success 731 V. - completion 729 V. - haste 684 V. - activity 682 V. - resolution 604 V. make sick: - dislike 867 V. make some noise: - repute 873 V. make soundings: - depth 208 V. make strides: - progression 282 V. make sure against: - preparation 673 V. make sure of: - inquiry 461 V. - taking 789 V. - belief 484 V. make sure: - preparation 673 V. - stability 150 V. - certainty 474 V. make suspicion: - unbelief doubt 485 V. make terms: - compact 769 V. - conditions 770 V. make the amiable: - courtesy 894 V. make the best of it: - hope 858 V. make the best of: - overestimation 482 V. - inexcitability 826 V. - compromise 774 V. - submission 725 V. - use 677 V. make the blood curdle: - painfulness 830 V. make the blood run cold: - painfulness 830 V. make the ears tingle: - resentment 900 V. make the flesh creep: - painfulness 830 V. make the heart bleed: - painfulness 830 V. make the land: - approach 286 V. - arrival 292 V. make the most of: - skill 698 V. - overestimation 482 V. - use 677 V. - improvement 658 V. make the pot boil: - acquisition 775 V. make the round of: - circuition 311 V. make the skin crawl: - cold 383 V. make the worst of: - overestimation 482 V. make things pleasant: - flattery 933 V. - pleasurableness 829 V. - cunning 702 V. - motive 615 V. - deception 545 V. make time: - diuturnity 110 V. make too much of: - overestimation 482 V. make towards: - direction 278 V. make unhappy: - painfulness 830 V. make up a quarrel: - pacification 723 V. - forgiveness 918 V. make up a sum: - expenditure 809 V. make up accounts: - accounts 811 V. make up for: - compensation 30 V. make up leeway: - progression 282 V. make up one's mind: - choice 609 V. - resolution 604 V. - belief 484 V. - judgment 480 V. make up to: - allocution 586 V. - approach 286 V. make up: - composition 54 V. - completeness 52 V. make use of: - borrowing 788 V. - use 677 V. make vain efforts: - failure 732 V. make verses: - poetry 597 V. make way for: - facility 705 V. - opening 260 V. - avoidance 623 V. - deviation 279 V. - substitution 147 V. - courtesy 894 V. make way: - progression 282 V. - passage 302 V. make whole: - restoration 660 V. make: - composition 54 V. - completion 729 V. - arrival 292 V. - form 240 N. - production 161 V. - conversion 144 V. - component 56 V. - compulsion 744 V. make-believe: - deception 545 Adj.

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It is argued that, under the Thirty-nine [206] Articles, it is permissible to accept as parable or poetry or legend such stories as that of an ass speaking with a mans voice, of waters standing in a solid heap, of witches and a variety of apparitions, and to judge for ourselves of such questions as the personality of Satan or the primeval institution of the Sabbath.

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Brougham, and Mackintosh, and that ass, M. A. Taylor, spoke in reprobation of it.

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Sir THOMAS OVERBURY A Good Woman A Very Woman Her Next Part A Dissembler A Courtier A Golden Ass A Flatterer An Ignorant Glory-Hunter A Timist An Amorist An Affected Traveller A Wise Man A Noble Spirit An Old Man A Country Gentleman A Fine Gentleman An Elder Brother A Braggadocio Welshman A Pedant A Serving-Man An Host An Ostler The True Character of a Dunce A Good Wife A Melancholy Man A Sailor A Soldier A Tailor A Puritan A Mere Common Lawyer A Mere Scholar A Tinker An Apparitor An Almanac-Maker A Hypocrite A Chambermaid A Precisian An Inns of Court Man A Mere Fellow of a House A Worthy Commander in the Wars A Vainglorious Coward in Command A Pirate An Ordinary Fence A Puny Clerk A Footman A Noble and Retired Housekeeper An Intruder into Favour A Fair and Happy Milkmaid An Arrant Horse-Courser A Roaring Boy A Drunken Dutchman resident in England A Phantastique: An Improvident Young Gallant A Button-Maker of Amsterdam A Distaster of the Time A Mere Fellow of a House A Mere Pettifogger An Ingrosser of Corn A Devilish Usurer A Waterman A Reverend Judge A Virtuous Widow An Ordinary Widow A Quack-Salver A Canting Rogue A French Cook A Sexton A Jesuit An Excellent Actor A Franklin A Rhymer A Covetous Man The Proud Man A Prison A Prisoner A Creditor A Sergeant His Yeoman A Common Cruel Jailer What a Character is The Character of a Happy Life An Essay on Valour JOSEPH HALL HIS SATIRES-- A Domestic Chaplain The Witless Gallant HIS CHARACTERS OF VIRTUES AND VICES I.

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A GOLDEN ASS Is a young thing, whose father went to the devil; he is followed like a salt bitch, and limbed by him that gets up first; his disposition is cut, and knaves rend him like tenter-hooks; he is as blind as his mother, and swallows flatterers for friends.

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A mere scholar is an intelligible ass, or a silly fellow in black that speaks sentences more familiarly than sense.

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He has taken pains to be an ass, though not to be a scholar, and is at length discovered and laughed at.

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He is in nature a dog, in wit an ass, in passion a bedlam, and in action a devil.

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When he was a captain he made all the furniture of his horse, from the bit to the crupper, in beaten poetry, every verse being fitted to the proportion of the thing, with a moral allusion of the sense to the thing; as the bridle of moderation, the saddle of content, and the crupper of constancy; so that the same thing was both epigram and emblem, even as a mule is both horse and ass.

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For he that writes but one sonnet upon any of the public persons shall be sure to have his reader at every third word cry out, "What an ass is this to call Spanish paper and ceruse lilies and roses, or claps influences; to say the Graces are her waiting-women, when they are known to be no better than her bawds; that day breaks from her eyes when she looks asquint; or that her breath perfumes the Arabian winds when she puffs tobacco!"

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He that wants teeth may as well venture upon a piece of tough horny brawn as such a line, for he will look like an ass eating thistles.

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He inverts the moral of that fable of him that caressed his dog for fawning and leaping up upon him and beat his ass for doing the same thing, for it is all one to him whether he be applauded by an ass or a wiser creature, so he be but applauded.

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Under him were placed the stewardess (-vilica-) who took charge of the house, kitchen and larder, poultry-yard and dovecot: a number of ploughmen (-bubulci-) and common serfs, an ass-driver, a swineherd, and, where a flock of sheep was kept, a shepherd.

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The aged man was led throughout Asia Minor, sometimes on foot chained to a powerful mounted Bastarnian, sometimes bound on an ass and proclaiming his own name; and, when at length the pitiful spectacle again arrived at the royal quarters in Pergamus, by the king's orders molten gold was poured down his throat--in order to satiate his avarice, which had really occasioned the war-- till he expired in torture.

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Father Mersenne, that learned Roman Catholic, in page one thousand four hundred and thirty-one[1] of his operose Commentary on Genesis, mentions, on the authority of several rabbis, that the quarrel of Cain with Abel was about a young woman; that, by various accounts, Cain had tooled with his teeth, [Abelem fuisse _morsibus_ dilaceratum à Cain;] by many others, with the jaw-bone of an ass; which is the tooling adopted by most painters.

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For a quarter of an hour she was compelled to remain with the insipid young ass Bertie Girdlestone, a man who patronised musical comedy nightly, and afterwards supped regularly at the "Savoy"; then she escaped at last to her room.

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If this is so, the work may be so simple that, once a man has satisfied the very rigid social test to be passed by all aspirants to so distinguished a position, he must simply be a silly ass if he doesn't automatically become a great man, after a walk or two up and down the quay.

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[_To KÓRSHUNOV_] Why has an ass long ears?

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So that all may know that he is an ass.

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He knew every piece of furniture in their houses, and what they gave for it; every foot of land, and what it was worth; every ox, ass and sheep; every man, woman and child in town.

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& Ass.

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& Ass.

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& Ass.

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Postmaster-General............. $ 8,000 Chief Clerk.................... 2,200 3 Ass't Postmaster-Generals.... 4,000 Supt.

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Among these was Hailima, who, according to tradition, has left behind her the narrative of that dreadful journey across the desert with her husband and her child, and with only an ass and a she-camel for transport.

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He penetrated its sacred enclosure and saw the beast Borak, "greater than ass, smaller than mule," and was told to mount.

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_Do you think_, said Socrates, _that if an ass happened to kick me, I should resent it_?

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The sense of this passage--for it should not be lost--is that we should not be surprised if people are pleased with themselves, and fancy that they are in good case; for to a dog the best thing in the world is a dog; to an ox, an ox; to an ass, an ass; and to a sow, a sow.

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And in another place: _Works like this are as a mirror; if an ass looks in, you cannot expect an apostle to look out_.

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It is so deep no man can draw the buckets on a winch, but they must have an ass inside a tread-wheel to hoist them up.

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I feel that the more I am mocked, insulted, flouted, and denied-- AN ASS [_Stretching his neck over the hedge._] Hee-haw!

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There is such a difference between a lion and an ass, and the poor little creature looked so innocent.

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SEMPLE, Ass't Gen'l Pass.

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W. SCOTT, Ass't General Passenger Agent, ) * * * * * PULLMAN'S PALACE CAR COMPANY Now operates this class of service on the Union Pacific and connecting lines.

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I feel never quite sure of your urbane and smiling coteries; I fear they indulge a man's vanities in silence, suffer him to encroach, encourage him on to be an ass, and send him forth again, not merely contemned for the moment, but radically more contemptible than when he entered.

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Some listeners incautious in their epithets would have called Hinze an "ass."

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The hall represents Florence; the judge (with the ears of an ass) the Signoria and the Pope.

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If it be not point blank to his humour, his method, his conceit, [112]_si quid, forsan omissum, quod is animo conceperit, si quae dictio_, &c. If aught be omitted, or added, which he likes, or dislikes, thou art _mancipium paucae lectionis_, an idiot, an ass, _nullus es_, or _plagiarius_, a trifler, a trivant, thou art an idle fellow; or else it is a thing of mere industry, a collection without wit or invention, a very toy.

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affect._ manifestly evinces as much of Socrates, whom though that Oracle of Apollo confirmed to be the wisest man then living, and saved him from plague, whom 2000 years have admired, of whom some will as soon speak evil as of Christ, yet _re vera_, he was an illiterate idiot, as [204]Aristophanes calls him, _irriscor et ambitiosus_, as his master Aristotle terms him, _scurra Atticus_, as Zeno, an [205]enemy to all arts and sciences, as Athaeneus, to philosophers and travellers, an opiniative ass, a caviller, a kind of pedant; for his manners, as Theod.

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He that was a mariner today, is an apothecary tomorrow; a smith one while, a philosopher another, _in his volupiae ludis_; a king now with his crown, robes, sceptre, attendants, by and by drove a loaded ass before him like a carter, &c. If Democritus were alive now, he should see strange alterations, a new company of counterfeit vizards, whifflers, Cumane asses, maskers, mummers, painted puppets, outsides, fantastic shadows, gulls, monsters, giddy-heads, butterflies.

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For when Jupiter and Juno's wedding was solemnised of old, the gods were all invited to the feast, and many noble men besides: Amongst the rest came Crysalus, a Persian prince, bravely attended, rich in golden attires, in gay robes, with a majestical presence, but otherwise an ass.

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How would our Democritus have been affected to see a wicked caitiff or [335]"fool, a very idiot, a funge, a golden ass, a monster of men, to have many good men, wise, men, learned men to attend upon him with all submission, as an appendix to his riches, for that respect alone, because he hath more wealth and money," [336]"to honour him with divine titles, and bombast epithets," to smother him with fumes and eulogies, whom they know to be a dizzard, a fool, a covetous wretch, a beast, &c. "because he is rich?"

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To see _sub exuviis leonis onagrum_, a filthy loathsome carcass, a Gorgon's head puffed up by parasites, assume this unto himself, glorious titles, in worth an infant, a Cuman ass, a painted sepulchre, an Egyptian temple?

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[443]Chrysostom pleads farther yet, that they are more than mad, very beasts, stupefied and void of common sense: "For how" (saith he) "shall I know thee to be a man, when thou kickest like an ass, neighest like a horse after women, ravest in lust like a bull, ravenest like a bear, stingest like a scorpion, rakest like a wolf, as subtle as a fox, as impudent as a dog?

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[653]"For I see no reason" (as [654]he said) "why an epicure or idle drone, a rich glutton, a usurer, should live at ease, and do nothing, live in honour, in all manner of pleasures, and oppress others, when as in the meantime a poor labourer, a smith, a carpenter, an husbandman that hath spent his time in continual labour, as an ass to carry burdens, to do the commonwealth good, and without whom we cannot live, shall be left in his old age to beg or starve, and lead a miserable life worse than a jument."

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[769]_E fungis nati homines_, or else they fetched their pedigree from those that were struck by Samson with the jaw-bone of an ass.

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At this day in China the common people live in a manner altogether on roots and herbs, and to the wealthiest, horse, ass, mule, dogs, cat-flesh, is as delightsome as the rest, so [1447]Mat.

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Yea, many times, such is their misery, they deserve it: [1991]a mere scholar, a mere ass.

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Like an ass, he wears out his time for provender, and can show a stump rod, _togam tritam et laceram_ saith [2006]Haedus, an old torn gown, an ensign of his infelicity, he hath his labour for his pain, a modicum to keep him till he be decrepit, and that is all.

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For example, if it proceed from phlegm, (which is seldom and not so frequently as the rest) [2554]it stirs up dull symptoms, and a kind of stupidity, or impassionate hurt: they are sleepy, saith [2555]Savanarola, dull, slow, cold, blockish, ass-like, _Asininam melancholiam_, [2556] Melancthon calls it, "they are much given to weeping, and delight in waters, ponds, pools, rivers, fishing, fowling," &c. (Arnoldus _breviar.

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[2878]An ass and a mule went laden over a brook, the one with salt, the other with wool: the mule's pack was wet by chance, the salt melted, his burden the lighter, and he thereby much eased: he told the ass, who, thinking to speed as well, wet his pack likewise at the next water, but it was much the heavier, he quite tired.

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A nobleman therefore in some likelihood, as he concludes, is an "atheist, an oppressor, an epicure, a [3646]gull, a dizzard, an illiterate idiot, an outside, a glowworm, a proud fool, an arrant ass," _Ventris et inguinis mancipium_, a slave to his lust and belly, _solaque libidine fortis_.

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