The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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But yonder Jesus comes riding on an ass, on which a crimson cloak has been laid.

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I left Galilee to keep my promise not to see Jesus; when I heard he was going to ride into Jerusalem in triumph on an ass from Bethany I ran away to Jericho.

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Come, Jesus, thine ass seems willing to amble down this long incline; and dropping the reins over the animal's withers, and leaning back, holding a puppy under each arm, Jesus allowed the large brown ass he was riding to trot; it was not long before he left far behind the heavy weighted white ass, which carried Joseph.

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But the best speed he could make was not sufficient to overtake the nimbly trotting brown ass, and the pursuit might have been continued into Jericho if Jesus had not been suddenly behoven by the silence to stop and wait for Joseph to overtake him, which he did in about ten minutes, whispering: ride not so fast, robbers may be watching for travellers.

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But it has befallen mine ass to tire under my weight, he cried.

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"Don't be an ass!" snapped the Billionaire.

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God, what a fool I was at Longmeadow, to have taken those three drinks, and have been piqued at her beating me--to have let my tongue and temper slip--in short, to have acted like an ass!"

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In _The Devil is an Ass_ he is a little more outspoken.

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Besides, Englishmen knew what the rest of Europe knew, that the discovery of Potosi had put out of business nearly all the Old-World silver mines, and that the Burgundian Ass (as Spanish treasure-mules were called, from Charles's love of Burgundy) had enabled Spain to make conquests, impose her will on her neighbors, and keep paid spies in every foreign court, the English court included.

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"You blundering, God-forsaken ass!" he enunciated.

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Only you didn't make such an ass of yourself as I did.

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He had a confused, ridiculous picture of himself wearing the flaccid, panic stricken face of Mr. Lance, like an ass' head, not holding the wand of Titania.

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"What an ass I have been," he thought, "why didn't I think of that cure myself?" and he asked, "When is it to be?"

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Don't be an ass, SETTEE!

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I went and listen'd at the door, As I had often done before; I found the Juniors in a high rant, They call'd the President a tyrant; And said as how I was a fool, A long ear'd ass, a sottish mule, Without the smallest grain of spunk; So I concluded they were drunk.

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et M.U.D, etc., etc., et ASS.

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[19]Through his holy prophets God foretold that at a time future there would come into the world a mighty man; that he would be born a Jew (Deuteronomy 18:15), specifying the place where he would be born (Micah 5:2); that he would come to his own people and they would not receive him; that he would be despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief (Isaiah 53:1-3); that he would ride into Jerusalem upon an ass, the foal of a like animal, and offer himself as king to the Jews (Zechariah 9:9); that he would be rejected by the Jews (Isaiah 53:3); that he would be betrayed for thirty pieces of silver (Zechariah 11:12); that he would die, but not for himself (Daniel 9:26); that there would be no just cause for his death (Isaiah 53:8,9,11); that nevertheless he would be numbered among the transgressors (Isaiah 53:12); that he would die a violent death, yet not a bone of his body should be broken (Psalm 34:20); that his flesh would not corrupt, and that he would arise from the dead (Psalm 16:10)--all of which and many more similar prophecies were completely fulfilled by Jesus of Nazareth, the great Teacher who lived about and died at Jerusalem.

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Joseph, with his espoused seated upon an ass, journeyed through the hills along the Jordan probably for three days, and late in the evening reached the city of Bethlehem.

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You would meet the poor man riding on an ass, or plodding on foot with his garments well girt; the better provided on a mule; a finer person or an official on a horse; the more luxurious or easy-going either in some form of carriage or borne in a litter very similar to the oriental palanquin.

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From literature, meanwhile, we may fill in their vivacious language, the courteous terms the people apply to each other, such as "you ass, pig, monkey, cuckoo, chump, blockhead, fungus," or, on the other side, "my honey, my heart, my dove, my life, my sparrowkin, my dainty cheese."

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Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely HELP him to lift them up again.--Deut.

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He whose soul burns with indignation against the brutal ruffian who misuses the poor, helpless, suffering horse, or dog, or ass, or bird, or worm, shares for the moment that Divine companion wrath which burns against the oppressors of the weak and defenceless everywhere.

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"The Devil is an Ass."

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In Ben Jonson's "The Devil is an Ass," when Fitzdottrell, doubting Pug's statement as to his infernal character, says, "I looked on your feet afore; you cannot cozen me; your shoes are not cloven, sir, you are whole hoofed;" Pug, with great presence of mind, replies, "Sir, that's a popular error deceives many."

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This belief was held, amongst others, by the erudite King James,[1] and is pleasantly satirized by sturdy old Ben Jonson in "The Devil is an Ass," where Satan (the greater devil, who only appears in the first scene just to set the storm a-brewing) says to Pug (Puck, the lesser devil, who does all the mischief; or would have done it, had not man, in those latter times, got to be rather beyond the devils in evil than otherwise), not without a touch of regret at the waning of his power-- "You must get a body ready-made, Pug, I can create you none;" and consequently Pug is advised to assume the body of a handsome cutpurse that morning hung at Tyburn.

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[1] The whole affair was investigated by Dr. Harsnet, who had already acquired fame as an iconoclast in these matters, as will presently be seen; but it would have little more than an antiquarian interest now, were it not for the fact that Ben Jonson made it the subject of his satire in one of his most humorous plays, "The Devil is an Ass."

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If I had not been an ass, I _should_ have foreseen."

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Now look on thy food and the drink, they are not yet corrupted; and look on thine ass: and this have we done that we might make thee a sign unto men.

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And look on the bones of thine ass, how we raise them, and afterwards clothe them with flesh.

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There, on the vast plains, immense geometrical figures were to be traced by means of luminous reflectors; amongst others, the square of the hypothenuse, vulgarly called the 'Ass's Bridge.'

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Science flooded them; it penetrated into their eyes and ears; it was impossible to be an ass--in astronomy.

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"No," said he to Barbicane, "but some useful animals, ox or cow, ass or horse, would look well in the landscape and be of great use."

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"But at least," said Michel Ardan, "we might have brought an ass, nothing but a little ass, the courageous and patient animal old Silenus loved to exhibit.

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One or two well-defined cases of shirking were infectious, and you heard this refrain again and again: "As long as the others are dodging, I should be an ass not to do it, too."

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Anything's better than staying on here after the stupendous ass I've made of myself!

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_Your nephew, TOM LESLEIGH, is an ass._ My wife is slowly recovering from influenza.

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To which the husbands would easily reply that, in such cases as Mrs. Sarratt's, the law indeed might be 'an ass,' but there were ways round it.

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I am passing along the road like a laden ass of which the children make mock and which lowers the head.

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They have told me this, and also that my mother and I and a little lamb to which a ewe had given birth on that same day were carried home on an ass.

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There was an ass among the wooden animals.

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I wanted to pray, and to say to it: "Little ass, you are my brother.

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Little ass, the goad pricks you.

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* * * * * Poor gray sisters of the brook that I find on the plain, you are tarnished stones, on you falls the shower of rain that the sparrow may drink, you are struck by the foot of the she-ass, you are the guardians that form the inclosures of miserable gardens, it is you who are the concave threshold and the stone at the edge of the well worn smooth by the chain of the bucket, you are servants, poor things become shiny like the blades of implements of husbandry, you are heated in the hearth of the poor to warm the feet of old women, you are hollowed out for mean needs and become the humble table for the dog and the sow, you are pierced so that the singing harvest may be ground beneath the millstone, you are cut, you are taken, you are tossed aside, on you the wanderer will sleep, Oh, you under whom I shall sleep.... You have not guarded your independence like your alpine companions.

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Like the "Golden Ass" of Apuleius it has a philosophical justification for its mythological audacity.

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This fellow by his apparel Some men would judge a politician; But call his wit in question, you shall find it Merely an ass in 's foot-cloth.

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Will you be an ass, Despite your Aristotle?

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what an ignorant ass or flattering knave might be counted, that should write sonnets to her eyes, or call her brow the snow of Ida, or ivory of Corinth; or compare her hair to the blackbird's bill, when 'tis liker the blackbird's feather?

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You are a dull ass; 'tis threatened they have been very public.

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Justinian is represented as a monstrous tyrant, at once cunning and stupid, "like an ass," in the the words of the historian, and as the wickedest man that ever lived.

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The wretched man was always forced to stand upright at this manger, and there to eat and sleep, and do all his other needs; there was no difference between him and an ass, save that he did not bray.

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But the Emperor cared not at all for what was going on, although he daily beheld what took place in the hippodrome, for he was exceedingly stupid, very much like a dull-witted ass, which follows whoever holds its bridle, shaking its ears the while.

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"Do you remember how we used to pile it up on that obtuse ass Sanders, and then roast him?" asked Carrados, ignoring the half-smothered exclamation with which the other man had recalled himself.

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Thus there may have been an ass sitting, in a hundred cases where I had seen smoke, and there might have been a hundred cases where there was neither ass nor smoke, but it cannot be asserted from it that there is any relation of concomitance, __ [Footnote 1: See _Antarvyâptisamarthana,_ by Ratnâkaras'ânti in the _Six Buddhist Nyâya Tracts, Bibliotheca Indica_, 1910.]

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It may be that one might never have observed smoke without an antecedent ass, or an ass without the smoke following it, but even that is not enough.

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Thus if I say this ass is a horse because it has horns it is fallacious, for neither the horse nor the ass has horns.

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A certain mantra "I take up the rein" (_imâm ag@rbhnâ@m ras'anâ@m_) which could be used in a number of cases should not however be used at the time of holding the reins of an ass.

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If it means invariable antecedence, then even an ass which is invariably present as an antecedent to the smoke rising from the washerman's house, must be regarded as the cause of the smoke [Footnote ref 1].

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It was one of my sailors, who had come to a determination to make an honest woman of Poll and an ass of himself at one and the same time.

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who said it was an ass."

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Its temples were ruined, the sacred Apis slain, and an ass set up in mockery in its place.

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Again let the king my lord inquire whether I have taken a man, or an ox, or an ass from him or his jurisdiction.

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If ears are what you want, Charles Crocker's there-- Betwixt the greatest ears, the greatest ass."

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Thus the poor ass whose appetite has ne'er Known than the thistle any sweeter fare Thinks all the world eats thistles.

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A glory that is kindled by the papers Is transient as the phosphorescent vapors That shine in graveyards and are seen, indeed, But while the bodies that supply the gas Are turning into weeds to feed an ass.

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One can but wonder sometimes how it feels To _be_ an ass--a beast we beat condignly Because, like yours, his life is in his heels And he is prone to use them unbenignly.

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Nay, every editorial ass, To prove they never come to pass Will damn his soul eternally, Although in his own journal he May read the printed shame.

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With leisurely alacrity approached The herald god, to whom his mind he broached: "In San Francisco two belligerent Powers, Such as contended round great Ilion's towers, Fight for a stable, though in either class There's not a horse, and but a single ass.

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His heart was dark, his mind was dark-- "Ignorant ass!" the people said.

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Not ignorant but skilled, alas, In all the secrets of his trade: He knew more ways to be an ass Than any ass that ever brayed.

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Some of the titles were cant words, quite untranslatable, as _Kladderadatsch_ (the Berlin _Punch_, still existing), the _Klitsch-Klatsch_, and the _Pumpernickel_ (a kind of black bread); the three last were--_The Prussians Have Come_, the _General Wash_, and the _Political Ass_.

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Mikhalovsky, who is now taking great care of himself, drinks some waters, takes green pills and goes to bed at nine, became enraged and refused, but Misha said he was an ass, and simply had to dress and go to the headquarters.

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He has not been looked for, as any ass knows where he is.

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Am I not an old ass?

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"This ass is propagating,--don't you see, comrades?"

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Denry reflected: "Ass!

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"He seems to be an ass," said Denry.

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"The man's an ass!"

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It was precisely as if he had said: "Do you think that anybody but a born ass would _not_ be a teetotaller, in my position?"

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"For heaven's sake, don't be an infernal ass.

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He had the constitution of a she-ass, and the calm, terrific appetite of an elephant; but he maintained that night duty in January was too much for him.

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The man who puts a clock on and then goes gabbling all over the house about what he has done is an ass; in fact, to call him an ass is to flatter him."

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What an ass you are!"

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The town laughed, of course, and spoke of him alternately as a rash fool, a hypocrite, and a mere pompous ass.

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[Footnote 1: The first Frenchmen visiting North America, and seeing the caribou without their horns, thought they were a kind of wild ass.

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Of course any man would be an intensified ass who should attempt to reach the diction of the 'Paradise Lost', or aspire to the tremendous style of Shakespeare.

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My character Carries more dulness, in the guise of wit, Than would suffice to break an ass's back.

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Why, so an ass might say.

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Thus, by the covetousness of this woman, who was the grey mare, and the folly of the master, who, in anything but Greek and Latin, was an ass, my good principles were nearly eradicated from my bosom, and in their place were sown seeds which very shortly produced an abundant harvest.

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Most English boys have ridden upon an ass.

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No horse or ass, untrained to the mountains, could have kept foot a moment where we penetrated, and even as it was one could not help the natural thrill.

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The President--'The President's an ass; _he_ is not worth thinking of.'

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What can be done with one foolish as a she-ass?_ Before this, whatever had come into my head, good or bad, I had always committed it to writing.

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The introduction of the talisman, the wild ass's skin that accomplishes all the wishes of its owner, but on condition that it is to shrink away in proportion to the intensity of those wishes, and that when it disappears the owner's life is to end, gave to the story a weird interest not altogether, perhaps, in keeping with its realistic setting, and certainly forcing a disastrous comparison with the three great poems named.

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