The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Is it necessary to quote as an extraordinary fact that an ass's head was bought for a high price?

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you're an ass!

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you're an ass!" to the scarcely articulate agony of Hero when she sinks to the earth at her lover's sudden accusation, "O Heavens!

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The prophet who added the noble interpretation in Deuteronomy 5:14, 15, declares that it was not only that old and young, master and slave, might rest, but also that even the toiling ox and ass and the resident alien might have the relaxation which their tired bodies required.

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Saying which, he held up the book, and displayed a head, sketched, it is true, with admirable spirit and cleverness, but--the head of an ass, with a thistle in its mouth!

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This jogged their memories, and the class cried in chorus: "The jawbone of an ass."

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"Hallo, old ass," I said to him through the bars, and in the little space they gave him he wriggled his body with delight.

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Oh, I am an ass.

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And why should I label one who was speaking so eloquently for himself; who said from the tip of his little black nose to the end of his stumpy black tail, "I'm a silly old ass, but there's nothing wrong in me, and they're sending me away!"

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Visiting, S.-school, cottage services, ass.

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The explanation, we believe, is, that "ass." is the abbreviated form of "assisting."

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The Rector had better have the unabbreviated assistant in choir, particularly if he be already short of choristers; unless the Rector should be also Vicar of Bray, in which case the "ass." could be transferred from Lichfield to the more appropriate living.

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I believe the Grand Duke (_gran ciuco_--great ass--as his irreverent Tuscans nicknamed him) was a good and kindly man, and under the circumstances, and to the extent of his abilities, not a bad ruler.

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Among the rest of these stood Balaam's ass-- A speaking likeness (if you will, a braying)-- And Abraham's sacrifice, and there, alas!

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Both parties thus reviled and cursed away, And none who heard could tell the why or whether, Till Balaam's ass at last began to bray And soon outbawled both gods and saints together.

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Still, it is by no means certain that this fortress would have resisted an ass laden with gold, any more than did that of which Philip of Macedon spoke.

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You remember, perhaps, Madame, that in Pausanias we are told that by the braying of an ass an equally dangerous plot was once discovered, and you also know from Livy, or from Becker's _History of the World_, that geese once saved the Capitol, and you must certainly know from Sallust that by the chattering of a loquacious _putaine_, the Lady Fulvia, the terrible conspiracy of Catiline came to light.

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I did enough, however, to show I was not an ass.

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"Well, John," said the gentleman, humouring the quiet vanity of the beadle, "what inference could ye draw frae this text, 'A wild ass snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure?'"

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Don't be such a silly ass!

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"It's that ass Bertie," answered Nap, without stirring so much as an eyelid.

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I should always have done as much; besides, I was crippled everywhere, not merely by want of power as a priest, but by having made myself such a shallow, thoughtless ass.

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"Why, that old ass, down to hunt up poor Rosamond; I don't believe he thinks there's any one in the world but his daughter.

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what an ass I am!

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"I was an ass in town last summer.

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The world of fools has such a store, That he who would not see an ass, Must bide at home, and bolt his door, And break his looking glass.

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And so, like the proverbial ass, we are lured on by a wisp of hay.

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That, at least, is the point that has been reached by this ass who is now addressing you.

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They were the convoys of merchandise dispatched from the ports to the value of 737,814,276 rubles ass.

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He would fain have discovered the reason of my skittishness; but as I could not tell it him, I was obliged to assure him it would be lost time to inquire further into my flights, since 'true no meaning puzzles more than wit', and therefore, begging the favour of him to 'set me down an _ass_', I suddenly retreated.

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I am very happy here, because I loves oranges, and talks bad Latin to the monks, who understand it, as it is like their own,--and I goes into society (with my pocket pistols), and I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got bites from the mosquitoes.

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With these two phrases, and a third,'_Avra bouro_', which signifieth 'Get an ass', I am universally understood to be a person of degree and a master of languages.

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"Only an ass in a lion's skin, my dear Daisy," said Grange modestly.

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Forgive me for making an ass of myself.

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"You funny old ass!" he murmured affectionately.

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"He's breaking his heart for you, like a silly ass," said Nick.

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But she was such an ass about the thunder that I sent her away.

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"What a criminal ass I am!"

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"Well, Jim's an ass, and I shall tell him so.

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Tom Verity shook himself, took off his hat, smoothed his hair, settled his tie, hitched up the waist of his trousers, stamping to get them into place, laughed a little, calling himself every sort of silly ass, and then swung away down the side of the long ridge in pursuit of Damaris.

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Did not Dr. Stewart-Walker, moreover, hold out hopes that, by following his advice, the General's strength might be renewed, if not precisely like that of the eagle, yet in the more modest likeness of some good, biddable, burden-bearing animal--the patient ass, if one might so put it without too obvious irony?

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When I see a man who affects to doubt everything he hears, I never hesitate about writing him down an ass.

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On the latter account, Oedipus must have been an ass.

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[29] And as contemptible a thing as the _jawbone of an ass_ in the hands of one strong man is used to slay a thousand men.

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"Six weeks from door to door: or how I made an ass of myself in India," said Thresk.

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But what an ass am I to think you can be idle enough at London to read romance!

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Would you would ask some one who knew him, whether he be not much more of an ass since his marriage than he was before.

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_L'Amant Absente_ has (in my opinion) a mistress so much beyond any of the rest, that to be in danger of losing her is more than to have lost the others; _L'Amant non Aimé_ was an ass, under favour (notwithstanding the _Princesse Cleobuline's_ letter); his mistress had caprices that would have suited better with our _Amant Jaloux_ than with anybody else; and the _Prince Artibie_ was much to blame that he outlived his _belle Leontine_.

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When it was designed that I should have had Sir Jus., my brother used to tell he was confident that, with all his wisdom, any woman that had wit and discretion might make an ass of him, and govern him as she pleased.

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And now he looks more like an ass than ever he did.

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Ass, Persecution of the, 171.

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Look here, don't be an ass."

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Hamilton's a rich young ass that's been painting England red these last three years."

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"What an ass I've been!"

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The old woman was astonished; and having some gin in her cupboard, revived him by administering a small quantity, and, in the course of half-an-hour, Vanslyperken could tell his story; but all the consolation he received from the old beldame was, "Serve you right too, for being such an ass.

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I'm a thoughtless ass ... that's why I got into the pickle probably.

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She was bound on an ass, appeared resigned to her fate, and turned her sunken eyes upon us with an aspect of indifference.

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Goad-gang, A wild pigeon Wir-gan Bird named by us the Friar Gnoo-roo-me ta-twa-natwa na-twa--Gno-roo me ta-twa na-twa, na-twa, tar-ra wow, tar-ra wow* [* On seeing a shoal of porpoises, they sing while the fish is above water, Note-le-bre la-la, No-te-le-bre la-la, until it goes down, when they sing the words No-tee, No-tee, until it rises again] Go-gan-ne-gine the Laughing jack-Ass Po-book Musquito hawk Wau-gan Crow Jam-mul jam-mul Common hawk Gare-a-way White cockatoo Ca-rate Black ditto Ur-win-ner-ri-wing Curlew INSECTS, REPTILES Mar-rae-gong A spider Mi-a-nong A fly Go-ma-go-ma A beetle Gil-be-nong A grasshopper Bur-roo-die-ra A butterfly Go-na-long Caterpillar Can-nar-ray Centipede Calm Snake Po-boo-nang A black ant * * * * * PECULIARITIES OF LANGUAGE To the men when fishing they apply the word Mah-ni; to the women, Mahn.

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COAST INLAND ENGLISH Ca-ber-ra Co-co Head De-war-ra Ke-war-ra Hair Gnul-lo Nar-ran Forehead Mi Me Eye Go-ray Ben-ne Ear Cad-lian Gang-a Neck Ba-rong Ben-di Belly Moo-nur-ro Boom-boong Navel Boong Bay-ley Buttocks Yen-na-dah Dil-luck Moon Co-ing Con-do-in Sun Go-ra Go-ri-ba Hail Go-gen-ne-gine Go-con-de Laughing jack-ass * * * * * WORDS OF A SONG Mdng-en-ny-wau-yen-go-nah, bar-ri-boo-lah, bar-re-mah.

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They denied the pulpit with filth and draped it with the skin of an ass, and threatened the life of the Prior.

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"Charles Hawermann, Charles Hawermann," said Bräsig, wiping his eyes, and blowing his imposing nose, "you're--you're an ass!

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Yes," he continued, shoving his handkerchief into his pocket with an emphatic poke, and holding his nose even more in the air than usual, "you're every bit as great an ass as you used to be!"

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"You're right enough there, Charles, he is an old Nuss, and Nüssler (slow-coach) is his name; but _he_ never bullies your sister, and although he is such an ass that he can manage nothing himself, he has sense enough to see that your sister is quite able to keep everything straight."

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But if thine ass falls into a pit, and so on--yes, ask her if she will come and help me to stuff a couple of little mattresses.

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I was just about to utter the three _whistles_ we had agreed upon, when that stupid old _ass_ Bräsig came up to me, and talked to me for a _whole hour by the clock_ about the farm.

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Little by little, however, it has grown to be rather risky to assert this fact, for every musical ass now argues that _because_ his works please nobody, therefore he must be a Beethoven.

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What an ass I've made of myself!

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Then what does that ass do but put me out agin and lock up the jail and put crape on the door, while he went off to the funeral.

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"Perfect ass, of course; but I let him run along, and pretty soon he says, 'I've just bought half a barrel of salt mackerel, which I'm going to put in the Schuylkill.

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"You intolerable ass!" exclaimed the major as the clerks and reporters came rushing in and began to place Partridge on his legs; "it wasn't lightning.

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He would have felt repugnance to having his hut drawn by an ass; he thought too highly of the ass for that.

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An ass with his chart is better off than a wizard with his oracle."

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It begins in an ass; it ends in a lion.

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"You are a stupid ass."

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I care as much for them as for the rough hide of an ass.

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Ursus cut short his speech, interrupting it in a deep bass voice by the shout,- "Triple ass!"

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In general one is obliged to choose between two things-to be learned and grow thin, or to browse and be an ass.

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Fibi and Vinos, being automatons of which Ursus pulled the strings, rattled their instruments, composed of copper and ass's skin-the usual sign of the performance being over and of the departure of the people.

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"Listen to Balaam's ass," added Lord Yarmouth.

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Wherefore was this mode of disposing of the dead bodies called "an ass's sepulture?"

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It is not sufficient to say that the body of a human being was buried like that of a beast, for then the term would be general and not particular; neither can I imagine that Christian writers used the phrase for the purpose of repudiating the accusation preferred against them by Pagans, of worshipping an ass.

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"He was always a silly ass about women," rejoined Langholm's critic, summing up the man.

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Dostoevsky's characters describe the execution of a criminal, the whipping of an ass, the torture of a child.

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The characterizations of Addison as Atticus, and of Lord Hervey as Sporus: Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk-- Sporus, "the bug with gilded wings"--are portraits one may almost call beautiful in their bitter phrasing.

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I employ no scavengers, no one is in attendance on me, furnishing such means of retaliation; and if there were, with an ass's load of them, with a bulk as huge as that which the gentleman himself has produced, I would not touch one of them.

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"I am nothing but an infernal ass to mix myself up in a mad scheme like this," said Edward Henry to his soul, perusing the documents.

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He's a conceited ass.

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"Ass!"

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In spite of oft-repeated warnings--in spite of the fact that I personally explained to each sentry that all he had to remember was that there were only seven different kinds of military passes, each one of different colour and all with dates, stamps and signatures, and that there was no difficulty in recognising its validity if a pass had the right British official stamp and so long as the signature underneath was one of the twenty-four people authorised to sign (a list of which would be kept in every sentry-box and constantly revised), and if the number of the pass, the name of the person, his address, destination, habits, hobbies and past life tallied exactly with the information on his "personal Ausweis," which must be produced except in the case of a licence to proceed by bicycle, which differed, of course, in colour, shape, size and other small details (which would have to be learnt by heart) from the licence to carry foodstuffs--in spite, also, of the fact that all necessary details of the examination of passes were typewritten in not more than three pages of the clearest official language and were posted up in every sentry-box--even then that ass Nijinsky let the whole company down by passing a member of the Intelligence Police through the line on his giving his word of honour that it was all right.

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AFTER ALL, I _AM_ A LION, AND NOT AN ASS."]

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So, to please the honest woman, I looked at her "fine country," and beheld on my side the road (for we were sitting at cross corners) a stunted hedge-row, inclosing a field or two of stubble; and on hers, a sear, dismal heath, whereupon were marshalled, in irregular array, a few miserable, brown furze bushes; amongst which, a meagre, shaggy ass, more miserable still, with his hind legs logged and chained, was endeavouring to pick up a scanty subsistence.

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What a thrice-double ass Was I, to take this drunkard for a god, And worship this dull fool."

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The mental habit of him who imagines that Balaam's ass spoke, in no respect differs from the mental habit of him who imagines that a Madonna of wood or stone winked; and the one, who says that God's Church makes him believe what he believes, and the other, who says that God's Word makes him believe what he believes, are for the philosopher perfectly alike in not really and truly knowing, when they say _God's Church_ and _God's Word_, what it is they say, or whereof they affirm.

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The shield is perforated with holes for eyes and a mouth so as to represent a mask, and it is charged with a crowned thistle; the supporters are an ass's head, plaided and wearing a Scotch bonnet, and a peacock.

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If you want to test your powers of accurate drawing, you may make that lion's mane your pons asinorum, I have never yet met with a student who didn't make an ass in a lion's skin of himself when he tried it.

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Silly old pompous ass!"

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"I was a most frightful ass to leave that letter lying about!" he exclaimed.

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Now, he was out of humour with her because he had played the ass with an ass of an examiner--not because she was directly or indirectly responsible for his doing so; simply because he had done so.

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