The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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11:12 For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

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39:5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free?

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or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

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see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways; 2:24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away?

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22:19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

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8:9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

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9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

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21:1 And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples, 21:2 Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.

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21:4 All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, 21:5 Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.

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And he took him, and healed him, and let him go; 14:5 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 sabbath day?

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12:14 And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written, 12:15 Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.

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'I am sorry you have married an ass.'

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The man's an ass!"

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"You touchy ass!" said Thurnall to himself.

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What an ass the fellow must have been who had that put on his tombstone, not to have found it out many a year before he died!"

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"Because I was a very foolish, meddlesome ass, who fancied that I ought to do my duty once in a way by my neighbours.

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Ass that I was, to take up with a false scent, and throw myself off the true one!

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Only, Thomas Thurnall, if you go for to come for to go for to make such an abominable ass of yourself with that young lady any more, like a miserable school-boy, you will be pleased to make tracks, and vanish out of these parts for ever.

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And now Nitetis was sentenced to be set astride upon an ass and led through the streets of Babylon.

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[161] See Gilford's note on _The Devil is an Ass_, ii.

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Here, too, dwell the wild horse and the wild ass, the deer, the buffalo, and the badger; all, men and brutes alike, wild as the power of untamed and ungovernable passion can make them, and free as the wind that sweeps over their mighty plains.

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No, the wild ass of the prairie is a large powerful, swift creature.

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A general shout in the multitude preceded the appearance of Silenus, who was sustained in his place on an ass by two blackamoors.

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The inhabitants of this valley regret very much the separation of Savoy from France, as during the time that Duchy was annexed to the French Empire, each peasant possessing an ass could earn three franks per diem in transporting merchandise across Mont-Cenis.

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"He must be an unadorned ass," remarked one of the occupants of the window seats, in answer to some previous statement.

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But he _isn't_ an ass.

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He could do nothing but stammer and get red, and think what a ridiculous ass he was making of himself.

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You'll forgive my making such an ass of myself, won't you?"

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This useful faculty of transformation also extended, in some measure, to the persons of others; for Dr. Bulwer gives the following _easy recipe_ for "setting a horse or ass' head" on a man's neck and shoulders:[3]--"Cut off the head of a horse or an ass _(before they be dead, otherwise the virtue or strength thereof will be less effectual,)_ and take an earthen vessel of a fit capacity to contain the same.

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That ass Ellis is a poor creature, and, like the poor, he is always with me.

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He said Mr. Hodgkinson was an ass, and he had been watching us at dinner.

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As for the horse, whatever its admirers may say, it is just a great ass.

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And this thought points the way out of another contradictious puzzle, that which confronts my argument from the ears of an ass.

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There is no answer unless their function is to hear the bray of a fellow-ass.... One may object that that majestic sound is surely of force to impress itself without any aid from an external ear; but that is a vain argument built on the costermonger's moke--dreary exile from its fatherland.

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In those boundless solitudes, with nothing that eye can see or that common ear can hear to remind her that she is not the sole inhabitant of the universe, the wild ass "snuffeth up the wind in her desire," and lifting her windsails to the hot blast, hears, borne across miles of white sand and shimmering mirage, the joyful reverberations of that music which tells of old comrades and boon companions scouring the plain and kicking up their exultant heels.

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If there is an ass, it is a native of Abyssinia, and the Turkeys are Americans.

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A wild ass, though brought up from its birth in a stable, would make a very intractable costermonger's moke.

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* * * * * To see a gardener gather a salad, is no news; But to see an ass singing a ballad, is strange indeed!

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Tomorrow you'll perhaps feel what an unholy ass you've made of yourself."

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And then, in a minute, I called myself an ass; but I could not really shake off the feeling.

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And I just stared into his face, like an ass, without saying a word.

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I believe the old ass thought I was a bit mad; anyway, without another word, he went to the break of the poop.

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And then, I had been an ass to tell him about the ship.

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I might only have been making an ass of myself, in his eyes.

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We passed, on the road to Géz, a caravan of fifteen mules laden with the spoil--ibex, deer, wild sheep, and even a wild ass among the slain.

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And now I will try to read it all through; Thus showing Mamma how good I can be, And how well I remember my A, B, C, D. [Illustration: ASS--BOY--COT--DAME] THE ALPHABET IN RHYME.

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Aa Bb _Aa_ Bb _Bb_ A is for Ass, for Ape, and for Ark, As well as for Ant and for Ann; B is for Boy, for Bat, and for Bark, For Bag, and for Bed, and for Bran.

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I fell back, convinced that he was right and that I had had a narrow escape from making an ass of myself.

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"Look after your hounds, you blind ass!

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Were the world a waste, A thistle-waste, ass-nibbled, goldfinch-pecked, And all the men and women merely asses, I still could lay this hand upon this heart, And cry, 'Not yet alone!

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"Miserable ass!" thought Tom, "if he don't see innocence in that man's countenance, he wouldn't see it in his own child's."

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"You abominable ass!

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He was a dupe, an ass!

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I do have an adequate ass, she said to herself, soaping it.

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_The Sixth Species were made up of the Ingredients which compose an Ass, or a Beast of Burden.

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Thus_ Aristotle's _Soul of old that was, May now be damn'd to animate an Ass; Or in this very House, for ought we know, Is doing painful Penance in some Beau.

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We are apt to smile at Homers comparing Ajax to an Ass in his Iliad.

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When she went to the famous Ass-Race (which I must confess was but an odd Diversion to be encouraged by People of Rank and Figure) it was not, like other Ladies, to hear those poor Animals bray, nor to see Fellows run naked, or to hear Country Squires in bob Wigs and white Girdles make love at the side of a Coach, and cry, Madam, this is dainty Weather.

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Ever since the Decease of [Cully [1]]- Mully-Puff [2] of agreeable and noisy Memory, I cannot say I have observed any thing sold in Carts, or carried by Horse or Ass, or in fine, in any moving Market, which is not perished or putrified; witness the Wheel-barrows of rotten Raisins, Almonds, Figs, and Currants, which you see vended by a Merchant dressed in a second-hand Suit of a Foot Soldier.

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With a new Epilogue, spoken by Mr. Penkethman, riding on an Ass.

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There was the manger full of hay, there were a live ox and a live ass.

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Besides, as those wild myths were associated with sacred rites, the inveterate conservatism of religion, which insisted on stone knives in sacrifices long after bronze and iron came in, was likely enough to maintain the divine importance of those fables, just as the historicity of Balaam's ass and Jonah's whale is in some churches piously upheld still.

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It was called the 'Flight into Egypt,' and represented Joseph and Mary and the infant on an ass, and all composed of shrubs and flowers.

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Like Balaam's ass.

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"I know I was an ass just now.

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"You'll think I'm mad, or an ass, to talk like this; but the fact is, I must have the money."

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The few productions of the kind which appeared during the decline of literature in the early Christian centuries, as the "Golden Ass" of Apuleius and the "Æthiopica" of Heliodorus, were freaks of Nature, an odd growth rather than a distinct species, and are also to be contrasted rather than compared with the later novel.

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"Because I'm like you, Johnny--an ass," I replied, and left him wondering why, if he was an ass and I was an ass, one ass should marry Donna Antonia, and not both or neither.

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He might have known Johnny was an ass.

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[Illustration: The Wild Ass is beautiful.]

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[ILLUMINATED BIBLE] Gutenberg's xerox machine changed all that, changed a book into something that could be simply run off a press in a few minutes' time, on substrate more suitable to ass-wiping than exaltation in a place of honor in the cathedral.

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Peruse leaders for a week, and in the week following, with as much certainty as if you saw the animals emerging from the Ark, you will be able to say, "Here comes the laboured Ox, here the Wild Ass prances, here trips the Antelope with fairy footfall, here the Dromedary froths beneath his hump; there soars the Crested Screamer, there bolts the circuitous Hare, there old Behemoth wallows in the ooze, and there the swivel-eyed Chameleon clings along the fence."

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One such glimpse we are given in that book of _The Golden Ass_, now issued by the Clarendon Press, in Mr. H.E.

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The region where the Lucius of the book wandered, either as man, or after his own curiosity into mysterious things had converted him into an ass (whereas he had wished to become a beautiful bird)--the region recalls some wild picture of Salvator Rosa's.

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When one is troublesome, they propose to sew her up in the paunch of the yet living ass, and expose her to the mid-day sun.

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Yet Apuleius counted the sorrows of the ill-used ass, and, speaking of the same flour mill, he describes the old mules and pack-horses labouring there, with drooping heads, their necks swollen with gangrenes and putrid sores, their nostrils panting with the harsh cough that continually racked them, their chests ulcerated by the ceaseless rubbing of their hempen harness, their hoofs swollen to an enormous size as the result of their long journeys round the mill, their ribs laid bare even to the bone by their endless floggings, and all their hides rough with the scab of neglect and decay.

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INDEX A Abdul Hamid, Angell, Norman, Antonines, Age of the, Apuleius, _Golden Ass_ of, Arbuthnot, Dr., Aristotle, definition of happiness, Arnold, Matthew, quoted, Augustine, Saint, Austria, Archduke Johann Salvator of, B Barcelona, Barnett, Canon, quoted, Birdwood, Sir George, quoted, Boer War, Börne, Ludwig, quoted, Bolivar, Booth, Charles, Brailsford, H.N., quoted, Brown, John, Browne, Sir Thomas, quoted, Browning, Robert, Buddhist Nuns, Burke, Edmund, Burns, John, Byron, as catfish, quoted, as rebel, in Greece, on the poor, death, C Cade, Jack, Calvin, Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, Canning, Canterbury, Archbishop of, Carlyle, Thomas, on allurements, burning book, on Mammon, on Peterloo, on landowners, on heroes, on war, on Christ, on invalids, Chamfort, Clarkson, Mr., of the Education Office, Clough, Arthur, Coleridge, Conway, Moncure, Cooper, Thomas, Cowper, William, Cromwell, Curzon, Lord, D Dante, Danton, Darwin, Davids, Mrs. Rhys, Davitt, Michael, Deborah, Delany, E Eliot, George, quoted, Elliot, Ebenezer, Emerson, quoted, Emmet, Robert, F Farrar, Dean, Ferrer, of Barcelona, Finland, France, Anatole, Frazer, _The Golden Bough_, quoted, Free, Richard, Futurists, G Garibaldi, Gaunt, Elizabeth, burnt, George, Henry, Germany, her conquest of England imagined, Gibbon, quoted, Ginnell, Lawrence, M.P., Gladstone, foreign policy, arbitration, Goethe, preface, _Faust_, quoted, science, H Hague, The, Conferences, Hampden, John, Harmodius and Aristogeiton, Hebrews, Epistle to, quoted, Heine, Heinrich, Henley, W.E., quoted, Hobbes, Hobson, J.A., Hugo, Victor, Huxley, Thomas H., I Ibsen, quoted, India, treatment of rebels, our government of, Anglo-Indians, Ireland, Italy, J Jacques, M., of the West Coast, James, Prof. William, Jameson, Sir L. Starr, Joan of Arc, Johnson, Dr., on Hell, Jones, Ebenezer, Jones, Ernest, Judith, K Kant, quoted, Kingsley, Charles, quoted, Kipling, Rudyard, quoted or referred to, Kossuth, L Landor, quoted, Leopardi, quoted, Linton, William James, Lowell, J.R., quoted, Lynch, Dr., M.P., M Macaulay, quoted, in India, MacDonald, J. Ramsay, M.P.

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Ere the perspiration stood on Dick Stanmore's brow, he suspected he had been hasty and unjust; by the time he caught his second wind, and had got fairly into swing, he was in charity with all the world, reflecting, not without toleration and self-excuse, that he had been an ass.

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Once started, I couldn't stop until I'd made a complete ass of myself in the most spectacular style.

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An absolute equilibrium of motives is impossible: the world cannot be divided into two entirely similar parts (this in opposition to "Buridan's ass").

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Sefrou contains a large Israelite colony, and after we had wandered through the steep streets, over gushing waterfalls spanned by "ass-backed" Spanish bridges, and through a thatched _souk_ smelling strong of camels and the desert, the French commissioner (the only European in Sefrou) suggested that it might interest us to visit the _Mellah_.

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The only other being of Cherokee Sal's sex and maternal condition in the settlement, was an ass.

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Stumpy inclined to the belief that it was the latter and good nursing, "Me and that ass," he would say, "has been father and mother to him!

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Under cross-examination admitted that he was fond of detective stories and had tried to write one himself; that he had said at the store that he would like to see that "conceited ass" swing, referring to the prisoner; that he had sent flowers to Jennie Brice at the theater, and had made a few advances to her, without success.

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"But--Mr. Howell--" "Mr. Howell is a young ass," he said with irritation.

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Bitterly he attacked himself as a bungler and an ass.

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It was a silly ass thing to do," protested the purser.

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"She has made an impression on you, Bob," said I, but in so sedulously inoffensive a manner that his self-betrayal was all the greater when he told me quite hotly not to be an ass.

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To know that you are talking like an ass, yet to feel that you cannot help it,--that you must say something, and can think of nothing better to say,--this is a suffering that comes with advanced civilization.

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What an ass he must have looked!

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"If she had not been, I'm sure she would have told you, as I do now ..." He stumbled there, evidently from the sudden blighting sense that he was talking like an actor--or an ass.

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A shallow, solemn ass.

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