The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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THE HORSE AND THE ASS A Horse, proud of his fine harness, met an Ass on the high-road.

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[10] When Palais Royal vice subsides,[11] (Who plays there's a complete ass--) When footpaths grow on highway sides[12]-- Then!

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So many, that he who, unwarned by their sad experience, plays at them, is--is he not?--"complete ass."

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The day arrives, and a whole troop of temporary soldiers assemble in the town at 10 P.M. with their borrowed instruments and dresses, and _a real Guy_,--not a _paper one_,--but a _living one_--a regular painted old fellow, I assure you, with a pair of boots like the Ogre's seven leagued, seated on an ass, with the mob continually bawling out, "there's a _par_ o'ye!"

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[A Woodcutter enters with a laden ass.]

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Silly ass!

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He sputtered wrathfully again: "Silly ass!

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But who was the crazy ass who started it by singing the 'Marseillaise'?"

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If I had not listened to equally childish political maneuvers in the States, and seen them succeed for the reason that people who want something want also to be fooled into getting it by special arguments, it would have seemed incredible that a man, who had recently boasted of statesmanship, should dare to make such a public ass of himself.

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"Don't be an ass," said Grim.

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That exquisite writer, Horae Subsecivae Brown, quotes, (without comment,) as a motto to one of his volumes, an anecdote from Pierce Egan, which I reproduce here:-- "A lady, resident in Devonshire, going into one of her parlors, discovered a young ass, who had found its way into the room, and carefully closed the door upon himself.

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Heaven it was which came to pass Within those magic walls of glass (Though William, like a silly ass, Had lost my bag of bull's-eyes).

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* * * * * THE ANDALUSIAN ASS.

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He's such a conceited ass that he may think I only discovered him just at the last."

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"It is your own fault, fellow; you might have done well if you would; but you are an ass, and could not keep a friend when you had him; and so you may die in a ditch, and go to the devil, my dear."

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"My deerest deere, dear sur,"--this was the letter,--"i kim him more nor a wic agon, butt i cuddunt right yu afore ass i av bin with muther an asnt seed father till 2 day.

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if thiss be troo i am candied enuff to tell you ass i caunt wate so long my deerast deer, o yu ave brock mi art!

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wy did yu sai al ass yu sad iff yu cud unt mary nor none of the scolards at hocksfoot Kolidge.

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father sais as ther iss sum misstake praps yu did unt no ass mother is not marid 2 father butt is marrid to the catchmun and father is marad to a veri gud ladi ass gove me a gud edocasion.

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mister tomas sais ass he can mari me in a munth and father sais i hot tu take im.

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iff so be as yu caun't du it beefor i thinc i shal take im ass father sais there is sum mistake, mi deerest deere mi art is brock butt i thinc i shall take im iff so bee as I dant ear frum yu.

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If you find no more books in a man's room, save some four or five, including the red-book and the general almanac, you may set down the individual as a man of genius, or an ass;--there is no medium.

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The lady inquired how this _charming_ business was performed; and not long after had, in walking through the streets, many times the pleasure of witnessing the process, which is simply this:--An ass is brought before the door of a house, into whose mouth a piece of bread is introduced; and the child being passed three times over and under the animal's body, the charm is completed; and of its efficacy in preventing the spread of a very distressing, and sometimes fatal disorder, the lower class of Irish are _certain_.

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Ass.

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'E said Dr. Funk was a bloomin' ass for inventin' a drink that spoiled good Pernoud with water.

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"He is a d--d ass!" said Cornet Horsephiz, who was very ugly; "a horrid puppy!" said Lieutenant St. Squintem, who was still uglier; "if he does not ride better he will disgrace the regiment," said Captain Rivalhate, who was very good-looking; "if he does not ride better, we will cut him!" said Colonel Everdrill, who was a wonderful martinet; "I say, Mr. Bumpemwell (to the riding-master,) make that youngster ride less like a miller's sack."

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Mr. _Oakley_.--A good fellow is something perfectly different from the preceding,--or Mr. Oakley is an ass.

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Like some thousands of others, I've made an ass of myself here, Loring."

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I'm not such an ass as to believe that she cared greatly."

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Then he emptied his mind as an overladen ass spills its panniers.

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Andalusian Ass, The, 136.

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He'd pinch BALAAM'S ass."

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Solomon being told that her legs were covered with hair "like those of an ass," had the presence-chamber floored with glass laid over running water filled with fish.

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Claud Bernard of Dijon, the philanthropist (1588-1641), is called _Poor Bernard._ Pierre Joseph Bernard, the French poet (1710-1755), is called _Le gentil Bernard._ _Bernard_, an ass; in Italian _Bernardo_.

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In the beast-epic called _Reynard the Fox_, the _sheep_ is called "Bernard," and the _ass_ is "Bernard l'archipêtre" (1498).

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BOLTON ASS.

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In order to punish Titan'ia, the fairy-king made her dote on Bottom, on whom Puck had placed an ass's head.--Shakespeare, _Midsummer Night's Dream_.

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BU´RIDAN'S ASS.

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A man of indecision is so called from the hypothetical ass of Buridan, the Greek sophist.

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Buridan maintained that "if an ass could be placed between two hay-stacks in such a way that its choice was evenly balanced between them, it would starve to death, for there would be no motive why he should choose the one and reject the other."

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CUPID AND PSYCHE [_Si.ky_] an episode in _The Golden Ass_ of Apuleius.

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This "downright ass" (act i. I) aspires to the hand of the heiress Arabella.--T.

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died of laughter at seeing an ass eating the figs provided for his own dessert.--Valerius Maximus.

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you are an ass;" Dogberry tells the town clerk to write him down "an ass."

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"Masters," he says to the officials, "remember I am an ass."

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"Oh, that I had been writ down an ass!"

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_Sancho's Ass_.

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9) that Gines de Passamonte "stole Sancho's ass."

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The licentiate tells Don Quixote that some critics found fault with him for defective memory, and instanced it in this; "We are told that Sancho's ass is stolen, but the author has forgotten to mention who the thief was."

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The child's parents ..." "I don't mean _that_, you ass.

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Young Lady Giddygad, came down From spending half a year in town, With cranium full of balls and plays, Routs, fêtes, and fashionable ways, Caus'd in her country-town, so quiet, Unus'd to modish din and riot, No small confusion and amaze, "Quite a sensation," is the phrase, Like that, which puss, or pug, may feel When rous'd from slumber by your heel, Or drowsy ass, at rider's knock, Or----should you term him block; Quoi qu'il en soit, first, gossips gape, Then envy, scandalize, and ape!

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To think that I have to do with a man so stupid--such an idiot, such an ass!"

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"Ah, _nigaud_ (ass), you are too foolish to live!

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Of course, such a consummate ass as you have proved yourself would not think of searching the restaurant or the immediate neighbourhood, or of making inquiries as to whether he had been seen, or as to which way he had gone?"

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He descends from a horse and seats himself on an ass.

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One should not feel hurt at the kick of an ass.

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What does an ass know about almonds?

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But a man who stands aside, like Ossep, and waits till his turn comes is an ass.

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Pray, keep me a place; let the poker, tongs, or shovel represent me:--But you have Dutch tiles, which are infinitely better; so let Moses, or Aaron, or Balaam's ass be my representative.

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"Oh, shut up, Dudley, don't be such an ass, as if I could have done anything else!"

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I should like to tell him not to write like an ass, when he knows he ought to tell us everything."

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This would form a good enough excuse for a Sporus, "a white curd of ass' milk," but not for a strong man like Dryden.

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For wit and fool are consequence of Whig and Tory; and every man is a knave or an ass to the contrary side.

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The man[83] who laugh'd but once, to see an ass Mumbling make the cross-grain'd thistles pass, Might laugh again to see a jury chaw The prickles of unpalatable law.

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2 he says, "Should we have read concerning the Greeks or Romans of old, that they traded with a view to make slaves of their own species, when they certainly knew that this would involve in schemes of blood and murder, of destroying, or enslaving each other; that they even fomented wars, and engaged whole nations and tribes in open hostilities, for their own private advantage; that they had no detestation of the violence and cruelty, but only feared the ill success of their inhuman enterprises; that they carried men like themselves, their brethren, and the off-spring of the same common parent, to be sold like beasts of prey, or beasts of burden, and put them to the same reproachful trial, of their soundness, strength, and capacity for greater bodily service; that quite forgetting and renouncing the original dignity of human nature, communicated to all, they treated them with more severity, and ruder discipline, than even the _ox_ or the _ass_, who are _void of understanding_--should we not, if this had been the case, have naturally been led to despise all their _pretended refinements of morality_; and to have concluded, that as they were not nations destitute of politeness, they must have been _entire strangers to virtue and benevolence_?

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"'You hairy old ass!

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(III) HIS PARTNER AT BRIDGE The man is a complete ass.

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I couldn't help saying to him, at the end of the evening, in a tone of such evident satire that anyone but an ass would have recognised it, that I had seldom had as keen an evening at cards.

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I had hardly started to talk about the rate of exchange on the German mark in relation to the fall of sterling bills--a thing that you would think a whole table full of people would be glad to listen to--when first thing I knew the whole lot of them had ceased paying any attention and were listening to an insufferable ass of an Englishman--I forget his name.

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All through dinner that ass talked --he and that silly young actor they're always asking there that is perpetually doing imitations of the vaudeville people.

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Also, he had the ears of an ass.

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When he borrowed an ass to make his triumphal entrance into Jerusalem; though he could say in truth, "every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills;"--(Ps.

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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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Silks, ivories, porcelains and bronzes peer from the shop windows at hesitant purchasers like the articles of virtu flung before the bewildered gaze of readers by Balzac in his Wild Ass's Skin.

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"The fellow's an ass," I decided.

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'Shut up, you ass!' snapped Ken.

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'No, you ass--mines.

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Professor Camper is an ass, of course; but when are we to expect any thing better from the illustrissimi of the land of sour-krout?

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"And don't be an ass!"

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"Don't be an ass, Jack!

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"He had some reason, but he's such a tactless ass.

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"Well, don't be an ass about it!

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"A bit of an ass, aren't you, Robin?" he said instead.

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I say, don't be an ass, Green, whatever else you are!

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You're the biggest ass that ever trod this earth.

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In Russia, its use was punishable with amputation of the nose; in Berne, it ranked next to adultery among offences; Sandys, the traveller, saw a Turk led through the streets of Constantinople mounted backward on an ass with a tobacco-pipe thrust through his nose.

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In Italy, a wax figure representing the Virgin, inclosed in a beautifully carved wooden case, is placed on the back of an ass, and exhibited through the country during Advent.

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Yes, seven times more than the inspired ass.

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I will venture to say that, if Jesus Christ was now to pass through the most pious countries in Christendom, with a train of women such as used to follow Him, fondling about Him, combing His hair, anointing Him with precious ointments, washing His feet with tears, and wiping them with the hair of their heads,--that, unmarried or even married, He would be mobbed, tarred and feathered, and ridden, not on an ass, but on a rail.

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The echo answers with the last syllable "Esel!" which is the German for _ass_.

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If his pale cheek and lack-lustre eye could speak but for a moment, like Balaam's ass, what painful truths would they discover!

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The two servants are grouped below in conversation, one on each side of the browsing ass.

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_Bottom_ must be a "feature" in the procession, and there was no ass's head!

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As it is too late to manufacture, not but that my property-man is the cleverest in the world (except the property-man of Covent-garden), can _you_, lend me an ass's head, and believe me, my dear Charles, Yours ever truly, ROBERT WILLIAM ELLISTON."

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I have spoken to Bartley, and he agrees with me (indeed, he always does), that I cannot lend you an ass's head--he is an authority on such a subject--without risking a reprimand from the Lord High Chancellor.

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We will not pledge ourselves that the letters are _verbatim_ from the originals; but the loan of the Surrey music and coats to Covent-garden, with the refusal of Covent-garden's ass's head to the Surrey, is "true as holy writ."

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In short, who seems to be a blend Of Balaam's Ass, the bore's godsend, And _Mrs. Gamp's_ elusive friend?

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And to think of her as the wife of that blithering little ass--that nincompoop of a Karl Brabetz!

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