The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Baggs grasped Chase by the shoulder, shook him and exclaimed, when it was too late: "You blooming ass, do you know what you've done?"

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"The whole world will call me a bungling, stupid ass for not knowing who he was," said Chase, with a wretched smile.

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If it comes to that, what sort of an ass do they think I'd be to come away out here to pass away?

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Silly ass!

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"I'm going to 'nform L-Lord Deppingham that he's 'nsufferable ass an'--an' I don't care who knows it."

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"Saunders is an ass and Britt would be one if Browne could only admit it, as I do.

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"It's annoying, however, to go about feeling all the time that one is likely to pass away because some stupid ass of an assassin makes a blunder in giving--" The sharp rattle of firearms in the distance brought a sudden stop to his lugubrious reflections.

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If you want my candid opinion, Saunders, I think you're a silly ass!"

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Fools, which each man meets in his dish each day, Are yet the great regalios of a play; In which to poets you but just appear, To prize that highest, which cost them so dear: Fops in the town more easily will pass; One story makes a statutable ass: But such in plays must be much thicker sown, Like yolks of eggs, a dozen beat to one.

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Those nauseous harlequins in farce may pass; But there goes more to a substantial ass: Something of man must be exposed to view, That, gallants, they may more resemble you.

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We know not by what name we should arraign him, For no one category can contain him; A pedant, canting preacher, and a quack, Are load enough to break one ass's back: 50 At last, grown wanton, he presumed to write, Traduced two kings, their kindness to requite; One made the doctor, and one dubb'd the knight.

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Midas the king, as in his book appears, By Phoebus was endow'd with ass's ears, Which under his long locks he well conceal'd, (As monarchs' vices must not be reveal'd) 160 For fear the people have them in the wind, Who long ago were neither dumb nor blind: Nor apt to think from Heaven their title springs, Since Jove and Mars left off begetting kings.

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Beneath his locks the king, my husband wears A goodly royal pair of ass's ears: Now I have eased my bosom of the pain, Till the next longing fit return again.

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Members of our party rush to head them off, only to be met with evasions--the penguins squawk and duck as much as to say, 'What's it got to do with you, you silly ass?

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Like an ass I mixed a small spoonful of curry powder with my melted pemmican--it gave me violent indigestion.

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Silly ass business--this runnin' around in the sun."

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"It's rather curious, Hermia, if I'm the silly sentimental ass you've been picturing me, that you'd care to trust yourself to what you are pleased to call my shrinking susceptibilities."

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After all, she was only an ass!

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Clarissa objects, and is so much of an ass that she can't hold her tongue about it."

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You think I made an ass of myself about that affair in the wood.

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'Ass!' cried Topham, in his mind.

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Yes, I was ass enough to tell that girl the whole story of my life.

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He's such a soft little ass,--confound Thorne!

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--"I have often," says his biographer, heard him say, he believed he should not have escaped alive if a leading man among that rabble had not cried out, "Let him go and hang himself," which he was wont to compare to the words of the angel uttered by Balaam's ass.

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In a cottage his banquets were given, He lived upon four meals a-day, sir, On which diet he seems to have thriven: And an ass was his charger they say, sir, A dog was his life-guard, we're told, And many a peregrination Thus attended, he must have been bold, He made step and step through the nation.

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If I listened to your partiality, I'd be making a fearful ass of myself most of the time."

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He, rough in dress and manners and regarding "dudishness" as unfailing proof of weak-mindedness, had set down the fashionable Arthur, with his Harvard accent and his ignorance of affairs, as an unmitigated ass.

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13.--"The genitive case, in my opinion," says Dr. Ash, "might be much more properly formed by adding _s_, or when the pronunciation requires it, _es_, without an Apostrophe: as, _men, mens; Ox, Oxes; Horse, Horses; Ass, Asses._"--_Ash's Gram._, p. 23.

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"To write _Ox's, Ass's, Fox's_, and at the same time pronounce it _Oxes, Asses, Foxes_, is such a departure from the original formation, at least in writing, and such an inconsistent use of the Apostrophe, as cannot be equalled perhaps in any other language."

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

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Does not the Bible speak correctly of "_an ass's head_," sold at a great price?--_2 Kings_, vi, 25.

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He had some sort of recollection of his _father's_ being an ass"--_Collectanea Græca Minora, Notæ_, p. 7.

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--"But my chief affliction consisted in _this, that I was_ singled out," &c. The story of the mule is, "_He seemed to recollect on a sudden that his father was an ass_."

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"And Samson said, With the jaw-bone of an ass, _heaps_ upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass, have I slain a thousand men."

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"There was a hunting match agreed upon _betwixt_ a lion, an ass, and a fox."--_L'Estrange_.

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"An ass will with his long ears fray The flies that tickle him away; But man delights to have _his ears Blown maggots in by_ flatterers."

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The relative _which_ is of all the genders, as every body ought to know, who has ever heard of the _horse which_ Alexander rode, of the _ass which_ spoke to Balaam, or of any of the _animals_ and _things_ which Noah had with him in the ark.

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There's something come into my thought That must and shall be sung high and aloof, Safe from the wolf's black jaw and the dull ass's hoof.

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A pedant,--canting preacher,--and a quack, Are load enough to break an ass's back.

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She disdained the little feminine arts of her age: _Nor will in fading silks compose Faintly the inimitable rose, Fill up an ill-drawn bird, or paint on glass The Sovereign's blurr'd and indistinguished face, The threatening angel and the speaking ass_.

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Byron mocked aloud, and, worse than all, the young men from whom so much had been expected, _les jeunes feroces_, leaped on the poor uncomplaining Ass like so many hunting-leopards.

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In the first part, a very wicked potter or itinerant seller of pots, Peter Bell, being lost in the woodland, comes to the borders of a river, and thinks to steal an ass which he finds pensively hanging its head over the water; Peter Bell presently discovers that the dead body of the master of the ass is floating in the river just below.

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Holding a hawthorn branch in hand, All bright with berries ripe and red; Into the cavern's mouth he peeps-- Thence back into the moonlight creeps; What seeks the boy?--the silent dead!_ It is when he wishes to describe how Peter Bell became aware of the dead body floating under the nose of the patient ass that Wordsworth loses himself in uncouth similes.

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_Don Quixote._ Sir,--Have the following contradictions in Cervantes' account of Sancho's ass "Dapple" ever been noticed or accounted for?

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Dom Manuel went to the door of the enclosure then to the windows, sweeping away the gilded tonthecs and the shining spaks, and removing from the copper nails the horseshoes that had been cast by Mohammed's mare and Hrimfaxi and Balaam's ass and Pegasus.

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Biver, Professor Biver, was an indiscriminating ass, he felt assured, and so too was Weeks, the demonstrator.

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Lagune was an undeniable ass, and conceivably psychic research was an incentive to trickery.

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"I suppose that ass, Lagune ...

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'Don't you think you are making an ass of yourself about this woman?' he said.

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He thought but little of the intercourse which his son acknowledged with the woman, but was of opinion that his son 'had been an ass' in writing those words.

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For example, there is a proverb in German: "_Quand le cheval est sellé il faut le monter_;" in French there is a proverb: "_Quand le vin est tiré il faut le boire._" Well, a translator who would translate _quand le cheval_, etc., by _quand le vin_, etc., is an ass, and does not know his business.

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You provincial ass!

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How much better it would have been if you were a dunce like me or your father--but a dunce at least who knows how to get a woman if he has to, without making a public ass of himself!"

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And so we have again and again the old story of La Fontaine's ass, who puts his nose to the flute, and, finding that he elicits some sound, exclaims, "Moi, aussi, je joue de la flute;"--a fable which we commend, at parting, to the consideration of any feminine reader who is in danger of adding to the number of "silly novels by lady novelists."

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"Because he happened to be minus a collar and had a red skin--I was an ass; an egregious, blundering ass."

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I'm an ass, an ass!"

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I do not say that it would give one pleasure to be called an ass."

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At times I feel inclined to think that I was not worthy of her; at others, that I made an ass of myself over a girl like dozens of others.

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"I'm all 'tensh'n, 's Balaam said to th'ass.

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An individual, notoriously slack and incompetent, ten years his junior, had been promoted over his head, because he was somebody's cousin and the kind of fatuous ass that only labours industriously in drawing-rooms and at functions, recuperating by slacking idly in offices and at duties--a paltry but paying game much practised by a very small class in India.

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What a milk-and-water young ass he had been, hanging about round good, silly, little Mrs. Dearman, denying himself champagne at dinner-parties, earning opprobrium as a teetotaller, going to bed early like a bread-and-butter flapper, and generally losing all the joys of Life!

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Behold thy king will come to thee; Vindicated and victorious is he, Humble, and riding upon an ass.

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Upon the foal of an ass.

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"For my part," said my wife, "I only contribute good news; I have found a cow, an ass, two goats, six sheep, and a sow with young.

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For the cow and ass it was necessary to have an empty cask on each side, well bound in strong sailcloth, fastened by leather thongs over the back and under each animal.

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My wife promised to relate the history of the discovery after supper, and set about preparing her ham and omelet, while Fritz and I proceeded in unloading our cargo, assisted by the useful ass.

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The cow and ass could carry our stores."

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I then harnessed my cow and ass to the end of my rope, and drove them forcibly from the shore.

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My wife and her eldest son led the way, followed by the heavily-laden cow and ass; the third division consisted of the goats, driven by Jack, the little monkey seated on the back of its nurse, and grimacing, to our great amusement; next came Ernest, with the sheep; and I followed, superintending the whole.

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But these people generally have strong camels to bear their burdens, instead of a poor ass and cow.

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While my wife was employed making harness for the cow and ass, I went with my sons to the shore, to look for wood fit for our use next day.

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My wife, after milking the cow and goats, harnessed the cow and ass, and set out to search for drift-wood for our use.

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So we made a family tour of it, taking the cart, with the cow and ass, to contain our provision, and a large sailcloth, to make a tent.

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The buffalo, harnessed to the cart, by the side of his nurse, the cow, took the place of our lost ass, and began his apprenticeship as a beast of draught.

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I knew it at once to be the onagra, or wild ass, a most important capture, if we could make it; though all naturalists have declared it impossible to tame this elegant creature, yet I determined to make the attempt.

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We had just finished, when we heard the sound of wheels crossing the bridge, and the cart appeared, drawn by the cow and ass, led by Ernest.

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Jack rode before on his buffalo, blowing through his hand to imitate a horn, and whipping the lazy cow and ass.

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The cow and ass are only for mamma.

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Though her leg and foot were better, she still walked feebly, and she begged us to harness the cow and ass to the cart, and to lead them as gently as possible.

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Jack wept as he filled them at his fountain, which he perhaps might never see again, any more than his dear Valiant, whom I set at liberty, as well as the cow, ass, buffalo, and the beautiful onagra.

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The burro, Croesus--so named by the novelist because, as the famous writer explained, "that ancient multi-millionaire, you know, really was an ass"--was to be entrusted with all the available worldly possessions of the little party.

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Thou hast thy chance, O illustrious ass, to recompense the world, this day, for the many evils wrought by thy odious ancestor and by all his long-eared kin.

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A devil without his tail, or an ass without his long ears!"

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The wisest homely woman can't make a man of sense of a fool, but the veryest fool of a beauty shall make an ass of a statesman; so that, in short, I can't see a woman of spirit has any business in this world but to dress--and make the men like her.

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In the horse family, for instance, the species are not fertile inter se; whereas among the oxen, species seemingly at least as widely separated as the horse, ass, and zebra species such as the domestic ox, bison, yak, and gaur breed freely together and their offspring are fertile; the lion and tiger also breed together, and produce offspring which will breed with either parent stock; and tame dogs in different quarters of the world, although all of them fertile inter se, are in many cases obviously blood kin to the neighboring wild, wolf-like or jackal-like creatures which are specifically, and possibly even generically, distinct from one another.

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_Mrs. Broderick:_ That is a very nice thought now, to be sending the motor cars after him to overturn and to crush him the same as an ass-car in their path.

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_Miss Joyce:_ Sure that was Tannian's own dog, that had a bit of meat snapped from Quirke's ass-car.

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"If I believed it, you don't think I could be such an ass as to tell it; and if I didn't believe it, I'd hardly take the trouble."

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One might as sensibly deny a future to Ecclesiastes, _The Golden Ass, Gulliver's Travels_, and the works of Rabelais as to predict oblivion for such a thesaurus of ironic wit and fine fantasy, mellow wisdom and strange beauty as _Jurgen_.

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"Between a heifer and an ass Enixa est puerpera; In ragged woollen clad He was Qui régnât super aethera, And patiently may we then pass That sing, and heartily sing we, 'Gloria Tibi, Domine!'"

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A gay earl Yardsley makes, anyhow; and as for Barlow, he looks like an ass in that yellow- chrysanthemum wig.

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Man 1-3250 1-3260 Monkey 1-3382 1-3412 Opossum 1-3145 1-3557 Guinea pig 1-3223 1-3538 Kangaroo 1-3410 1-3440 Muskrat 1-3282 1-3550 Dog 1-3561 1-3532 Rabbit 1-3653 1-3607 Rat 1-3652 1-3754 Mouse 1-3743 1-3814 Pig 1-4268 1-4230 Ox 1-4219 1-4267 Horse 1-4243 1-4600 Cat 1-4372 1-4404 Elk 1-4384 1-3938 Buffalo 1-4351 1-4586 Wolf (prairie) 1-3422 1-3600 Bear (black) 1-3656 1-3693 Hyena 1-3644 1-3735 Squirrel (red) 1-4140 1-4000 Raccoon 1-4084 1-3950 Elephant 1-2738 1-2745 Leopard 1-4390 1-4319 Hippopotamus 1-3560 1-3429 Rhinoceros 1-3649 1-3765 Tapir 1-4175 1-4000 Lion 1-4143 1-4322 Ocelot 1-3885 1-4220 Mule 1-3760 Ass 1-3620 1-4000 Ground squirrel 1-4200 Bat 1-3966 1-4173 Sheep 1-4912 1-5300 Ibex 1-6445 Goat 1-6189 1-6366 Sloth 1-2865 Platypus (duck-billed) 1-3000 Whale 1-3099 Capybara 1-3164 1-3190 Seal 1-3281 Woodchuck 1-3484 Muskdeer 1-12325 Beaver 1-3325 Porcupine 1-3369 Llama, Long diam.

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Ass'n, 30 _for Woman's Work_, 10 _for Mountain Work_ ...40.00 Westboro.

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Ladies' Freedmen's Ass'n, 1 Bbl., val.

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Ass'n.

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