The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Ass'n.

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Ladies Freedmen's Ass'n, Bbl., Val., 51, _for Atlanta, U._ RHODE ISLAND, $1,020.21.

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And--I'm tellin' ye're a muckle ass and no the sensible man I've thought ye if ye do not say aye."

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"What sort of a fish was that, ye muckle ass?" he roared.

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"I never thought you could--you've proved every manager in London an ass to-night!"

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Valerius Maximus says, that he died with laughing at a little incident: seeing an ass eating his figs, he ordered his servant to drive her away; the man made no great haste, and the ass eat them all: "Well done," says Philemon, "now give her some wine."

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Soon after the Revolution he asked our representative in Spain to ascertain whether it would be possible "to procure permission to extract a Jack ass of the best breed."

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The General's cattle at that time were all in poor condition: except his mules (bred from American mares), which were very fine, and the Spanish ass sent to him as a present by the king of Spain.

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In his hero, Cervantes has given us the picture of a great and benevolent philosopher, and in his Sancho, a complete personification of the world, selfish and cunning, and yet overawed by the genius that he cannot comprehend: alive to all the material interests of existence, yet sighing after the ideal; securing his four young foals of the she-ass, yet indulging in dreams of empire.'

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I am sorry I made such an ass of myself.

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Something within me said "Ass!" as I did so.

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This mule, by-the-bye, is one of the five favoured beasts which the Mohammedans believe destined to immortality; the others are (1) Abraham's Ram, (2) Balaam's Ass, (3) the one upon which Christ rode on Palm Sunday, and (4) the dog which guarded the seven sleepers.

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She didn't want to fall in love with that young ass, Rickards.

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I'm five years settled here, and I come to be as well known as the begging ass, and there is as much thought about me.

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It seems I've made an ass of myself, but I'll try to make up for it.

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"Janter is a warmint and Major Boston, begging his pardon for the language, is an ass, sir.

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The miraculous circumstance of Balaam's _Ass_ being empowered to behold that startling apparition which his rider's eyes were holden so that he could not see, may have originated the superstition that animals behold spirits when they are invisible to man.

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now comparing himself to the superannuated lion in the fable, kicked in the jaws, and laid sprawling, by the spurning heel of an ignoble ass!

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It is enjoined upon every living creature able to mount a horse, a mule, or any quadruped whatever, to visit Gavarnie; in default of other beasts, he should, putting aside all shame, bestride an ass.

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Then to himself he said, "Ass, ass, ass!"

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"If I am this sort of an ass, let me be it in the superlative degree," he may be conceived saying bitterly to himself.

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If you had said that on this point you disagreed with him, his manner probably would have implied that he thought you a bit of an ass.

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I might be intelligent enough to run; I might be ass enough to fight.

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"It's the company he keeps," he said--"a lot of fast men--fast enough to be talked about, fashionable enough to be tolerated--Jack Casson is one of them, and that little ass, Arthur Wye.

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"You see, I've become the sort of an ass who is storing up information and solving vast and intricate problems in order to be kind to my superiors when, struck with panic at their own tardily discovered incapacity, they rush to me in a body to ask me how to do it.

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My lord is a most excellent and--' 'Pure ass!' said Soane with irritation.

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3, 18 Dey, B., 112 _Dharma_, 18, 23 Dhenuka, ass demon, 34 Dhritarashtra, blind son of Kuru, father of Kauravas, 20, 21, 51, 66 Dice, contest by, 21 Dickinson, Eric, 103 Draupadi, daughter of King of Panchal, common wife of the five Pandavas, 20-23, 64, 67 Drumalika, demon, 26 Duryodhana, leading Kaurava and son of Dhritarashtra, 23, 51, 66, 67 Dwarka, Krishna's capital in Western India, 21, 22, 54-59, 61-64, 66-70, 94, 108, pls.

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And Abigail, hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife."

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His most celebrated book, entitled "Metamorphoses, or the Golden Ass," was written, Bishop Warburton thinks, for the express purpose of recommending the ancient Mysteries.

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Then the Raja asked them whether they had any witnesses, and they said that there was no one of their own village present at the time, but that a strange woman was grazing an ass on the banks of the tank, who must have seen all that happened.

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"If I have lied may Chando punish me and if I have spoken the truth may this ass become a man;" so saying she laid her hand on the back of the animal and it at once resumed its human shape.

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Ass.

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The insufferable ass may own the land on the opposite side, but confound his impertinence, I own it on this side."

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What odds if Lord Bazelhurst happened to be a middle-aged, addle-pated ass?

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He's like an ass, that's all.

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Stupid ass I am.

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"By Jove, you're a ripping clever ass, after all, Barminster--a regular Sherlock Holmes.

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One day there came amongst the crusaders thus assembled a peasant driving an ass, laden with those long and strong reeds known by the name of canes.

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Assuredly, fair brother, we should prize more highly the poor man of wisdom than the profligate ass;" and he maintained in the office him whom he had put there.

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'We found him there,' he relates, 'laid upon an ass; the said sir baron took him by the hair of the head for to lift up his face, which he had turned towards the ground, and asked me if I recognized him.

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Meanwhile," continues the Duke of Aumale, "the accounts of those present removed all doubt; and the corpse, thus thrown across an ass, with arms and legs dangling, was carried to Jarnac, where the Duke of Anjou lodged on the evening of the battle.

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I am not a Huguenot, but no more am I an ass.

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On the 6th of August, there was found written with charcoal, on the gate of St. Anthony, the following eight lines:-- "Some folks, for Holy League bear more Than the prodigal son in the Bible bore; For he, together with his swine, On bean, and root, and husk would dine; Whilst they, unable to procure Such dainty morsels, must endure Between their skinny lips to pass Offal and tripe of horse or ass."

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Henry replied,-- "My friend, you are an ass to employ so much delay and import so many difficulties and manoeuvres into a business the conclusion of which is of so great importance to me for the establishment of my authority and the relief of my people.

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Ass!

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Is it the sense of this meeting that united we fall upon this infamous coalition with the jaw bone of an ass and get their money; dishonestly if we can, and if not, then by main strength and awkwardness?

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But for all he seems such a silly, supercilious ass, he's a good old chap at heart, a 'weal' lion in an ass-skin.

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For which he paid full dear; For while he spake, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear; Whereat his horse did snort, as he Had heard a lion roar, And galloped off with all his might, As he had done before.

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No, we will say it in every way, and with Balaam's ass go into the field.

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Narrow is my path and full of trouble; like Balaam's ass, I must throw myself on the ground and cry: "See, here I am; I am ready to die for the truth."

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Open your eyes as Balaam opened his eyes when the angel said to him: "Had it not been for thine ass, I would have slain thee."

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And I am glad of it, for Magnus was a conceited little ass.

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He wasn't wholly the real thing, a conceited young ass, if you choose, but on the other hand he wasn't by any means a bad sort.

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It is obvious that any juryman who allows his mind to be influenced by the mere fact that one of the witnesses for the defense is a pretty woman--even if she recalls to him his wife or sweet-heart--is a poor weakling, a silly ass.

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Who "shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit"?

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Very respectfully yours, JOHN BARNACLE, _10th Ass't Sub-Secretary._ The money having been forwarded, I received in due time the copies.

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And is not this same play a part of his "Midsummer Night's Dream," which beggarly play he did sell for £10, and hath not Nicholas Bottom first and always been an ass therein?

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Sometimes you see a couple of dragoons leading in triumph an old woman and an ass, who follow with lingering steps their military conductors; and the very ass seems to sympathize with his mistress on the disaster of selling her corn at a reduced price, and for paper, when she had hoped to hoard it till a counter-revolution should bring back gold and silver.

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While a municipal officer was very gravely reading the constitution, an ass forced his way across the square, and placed himself near the spot where the ceremony was performing: a boy, who was under our window, on observing it, cried out, "Why don't they give him the _accolade fraternelle!

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I saw an ass at the _Corps de Garde_ this morning laden with violins and music, and a female prisoner seldom arrives without her complement of bandboxes.--Embarrassed, stifled as we are by our numbers, it does not prevent a daily importation of lap-dogs, who form as consequential a part of the community in a prison, as in the most superb hotel.

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It is called in derision here a "_donkey_," but an ass, in a more generous time, when one of his race and size bore upon his back into the Holy City the world's Saviour and Re-Creator.

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Indeed, I have often yielded to it so far as to wish that once more the poor creature might be honored of God with His gift to Balaam's ass, and be able to speak, bolt outright, an indignant remonstrance, in human speech, against such treatment.

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What rites obscene--their idol-god, an Ass!'

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Therefore I look on it as my duty to king George, and to the liberties of my country, more dear than life to me, of which I have now been 40 years a constant assertor, &c. I look upon it as my duty I say to do,--Reader observe what,--To pull the lion's skin from this little ass, which popular error has thrown round him, and shew that this little author, who has been lately so much in vogue, has neither sense in his thoughts, nor English in his expressions.

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For a moment, however, these shouts were changed into laughter, and that was when the papal procession approached, headed by an ass led by the halter, in accordance with an ancient custom of Rome.

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In the wonderful story of the _Peau de Chagrin_, the hero becomes possessed of a magical wild ass' skin, which yields him the means of gratifying all his wishes.

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[6] I am ashamed to tell you that I pleased very much, and this was introduced as a Madness; but sure it was not humane Madness, for a Mule or an [ass [7]] may have been as dry as ever I was in my Life.

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If we must Lash one another, let it be with the manly Strokes of Wit and Satyr; for I am of the old Philosopher's Opinion, That if I must suffer from one or the other, I would rather it should be from the Paw of a Lion, than the Hoof of an Ass.

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It would be endless to make Collections of this Nature; _Homer_ illustrates one of his Heroes encompassed with the Enemy by an Ass in a Field of Corn that has his Sides belaboured by all the Boys of the Village without stirring a Foot for it: and another of them tossing to and fro in his Bed and burning with Resentment, to a Piece of Flesh broiled on the Coals.

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I have looked over all the Olympic Games, and do not find any thing in them like an Ass-Race, or a Match at Grinning.

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Some ludicrous Schoolmen have put the Case, that if an Ass were placed between two Bundles of Hay, which affected his Senses equally on each Side, and tempted him in the very same Degree, whether it would be possible for him to Eat of either.

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It is generally observed, That in Countries of the greatest Plenty there is the poorest Living; like the Schoolmen's Ass, in one of my Speculations, the People almost starve between two Meals.

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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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In what a beautiful Light has the Holy Scripture represented _Abdon_, one of the Judges of _Israel_, who had forty Sons and thirty Grandsons, that rode on Threescore and Ten Ass-Colts, according to the Magnificence of the Eastern Countries?

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'If you will send us down the Half-dozen well-turned Periods, that produced such dismal Effects in your Muscles, we will deposite them near an old Manuscript of _Tully's_ Orations, among the Archives of the University; for we all agree with you, that there is not a more remarkable Accident recorded in History, since that which happened to the Son of _Croesus_, nay, I believe you might have gone higher, and have added _Balaam's_ Ass.

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1) Aspasia, an excellent woman 128 Ass, schoolman's case of the, applied 191, 196, 201 Assizes, county, described 122 Association of honest men proposed 126 Assurance, modest 75, 166, 185, 373 Astræa, D'Urfe's 37 (Fn.

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_1 Ush._ Prethee begone thou and thy honest Neighbours, Thou lookst like an Ass, why, whither would you fish face?

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_Cel._ An Ass, Sir, you bray as like one, And by my troth, me thinks as ye stand now, Considering who to kick next, you appear to me Just with that kind of gravity, and wisdom; Your place may bear the name of Gentleman, But if ever any of that butter stick to your bread-- _2 Ush._ You must be modester.

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[_Exit._ _Tim._ Blest be thy wife, thou wert an arrant ass else.

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look there I am an Ass, I can do nothing.

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Thou art an ass.

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it takes, believe it; How like an Ass he looks?

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Shame on't, it does not, Sir, it shews not handsomely; If I were thus; you would swear I were an Ass straight; A wooden ass; whine for a Wench?

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The presence of Joseph--the ruined shed or manger--the ox and ass,--these express the _event_.

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In their "Nativities," the ox and ass are not, indeed, omitted; they must be present by religious and prescriptive usage; but they are to be made picturesque, as if they were in the stable by right, and as if it were only a stable, not a temple hallowed to a diviner significance.

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In some of the old German pictures, while the Hebrew ox is quietly chewing the cud, the Gentile ass "lifts up his voice" and brays with open mouth, as if in triumph.

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