The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Happening one day, however, to stray into the fields, he espied an ass browsing on thistles; and in this there appears to have been something so eminently ridiculous in those days that the man who never laughed before could not help laughing at it outright.

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His days were as monotonous as those of the blinded ass set to turn the wine-press.

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He was used to have had a little weekly journal sent to him by the post; which came at rare intervals on an ass's back to Ruscino, the ass and his rider, with a meal sack half filled by the meagre correspondence of the district, making the rounds of that part of the province with an irregularity which seemed as natural to the sufferers by it as to the postman himself.

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Who steeps the calf's fat loin in greasy sauce Will hardly loathe the praise that bastes an ass.

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He does not leap up because he wishes to share my walk, but to follow his own way, as lonely as the wild ass of Scripture.

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My own beast of burden supports the authority of Scripture by being a very wild ass.

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The vine, ivy, laurel, asphodel, the dolphin, lynx, tiger, and ass were all sacred to Bacchus.

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3, and "The Devil is an Ass," by Ben Jonson, Act I., Sc.

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Formica (Rosa) then spoke (in the satirical Venetian dialect) these exact words, which Mr. Disraeli translates as follows:--"I will not, however, that we should make a Comedy like certain persons who cut clothes, and put them on this man's back, and on that man's back; for at last the time comes which shows how much faster went the cut of the shears than the pen of the poet; nor will we have entering on the scene, couriers, brandy sellers, and goatherds, and there stare shy and blockish, which I think worthy the senseless invention of an ass."

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And no sound came up out of it except the cackle of geese, and then the bawl of an old ass in the bog.

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The Ox, that ploughs the Field and brings home the Harvest, the Horse, the Mule, and even the stupid Ass, that carry their Owners, or their Goods and Merchandize, are more to be regarded than the Hound, the Lap-Dog, and various other Animals that seem to have been created only for our Pleasure and Amusement: And the Reason of this is very evident, Mankind may be very happy, and States and Kingdoms may remain in a flourishing Condition, tho there were no such diverting Creatures in the World: And from the same Consideration, Men, tho of a lower Station, who are not only beneficial, but necessary to the Well-being of Human Societies, are of far greater Importance, and therefore deserve more Esteem than those, who only are subservient to our Recreation; for the World may still subsist, and continue in very comfortable Circumstances without one, but not without the other: And 'tis easy to name some learned and powerful Communities, the Envy and Terror of their Neighbours, who tho they abound in Men of good Sense and diligent Application to Business, yet have few Wits and Jesters among them to make them merry.

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An ass, by some means unknown to the writer, having managed to get into a lion's skin, ran around the neighborhood frightening the beasts into fits.

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An ass, having seen a monkey doing tricks on a roof, to the edification of the villagers, became envious, and essayed to emulate his more agile rival.

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An ass felt it his duty to destroy superstition, so he went up to the brass idol in the market-place and gave it a vigorous kick.

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"Except that I am an ass."

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An old man and his little boy were once driving an ass to the market-place.

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An owl shall build her nest upon the walls of Gloucester, And in her nest shall be brought forth an ass.

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Stumpy's an awful ass, you know,--always has been.

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He's an awful ass, as I said before, one of the few supreme fools who never think of themselves.

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I never was that sort of ass.

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Stumpy, you know, is just the sort of chivalrous ass that a child like Dinah can appreciate.

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I was an unmitigated ass to link you up with it.

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Do you take me for a dolt, an ass?

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"But he did not intend to affront your honor--only to aid the family in France--" "I ask you again, do I resemble an ass that you should put such a burden of lies upon me?

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There is a slumber here that softlier falls Than forty-winks where dull, dull Bills they pass; Oft have I drowsed within those dreary walls, Where brays the pertinacious party ass.

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Then she began arguing that the future of Europe lies in the hands of the French, and the Russians, swore at women... Like you, I listened, fascinated, ass that I was... She kept singing the praises of my beauty, patted me on the arm near the shoulder, to see how strong I was, and... and as you see, I've only just got away from her!

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There's a chemist here with a sour face and the jawbone of an ass!

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I liked her very much... Tell me, doctor, can she possibly love that jawbone of an ass?

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Merrily, merrily push round the glass, And merrily troll the glee, For he who won't drink till he wink is an ass, So neighbor I drink to thee.

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Sometimes the whistle of a solitary muleteer, lagging with his lazy animal along the road that winds through the centre of the valley; sometimes the faint piping of a shepherd's reed from the side of the mountain, or sometimes the bell of an ass slowly pacing along, followed by a monk with bare feet and bare shining head, and carrying provisions to the convent.

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He named himself after this city, because he had there pursued his studies in Arabic; from which he inferred that he must possess more profound accomplishments than Mirza-Schaffy, whom he told me he considered a "_Fschekj_," an ass among the bearers of wisdom.

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On ev'rything he spies His bitter bane he passes; For naught escapes his eyes, Except that he an ass is.

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And often finds; for in our scribbling times No fool can lack a fool to praise his rhymes; The flattest work has here within the court Met with some zealous ass for its support; And in all times a forward scribbling fop Has found some greater fool to cry him up.

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_Antonio_--It is an affair of Egypt, brother, and I shall not acquaint you with it; peradventure it relates to a horse or an ass, or peradventure it relates to a mule or a _macho_; it does not relate to yourself, therefore I advise you not to inquire about it--_Dosta_.

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It was I who united Upper and Lower Phoride but that Almighty ass of hypocrisy and immorality, took hold of my people's hearts."

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"That, Zoro, is a man that ancients called 'an ass-hole'!" he said to the crow.

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"Banal, hypocritical ass!"

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"I'm an old ass," he declared.

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"Don't be an ass, Andrew," The Laird commanded and threw the proffered resignation into the waste basket.

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He longed to throttle Mr. Daney, who he now regarded as the most unsympathetic, prosaic, dull-witted old ass imaginable.

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The Fates sing of thee that thou shalt many times be thought an ass and a dull ox, and shalt with a god-like indifference believe it.

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Fate's prophecy is fulfilled; you call the man an ox and an ass.

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"Don't be an ass," begged the other.

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I shall make piles of money, and have three ass-assistants.

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"I was an ass.

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A giddy, hysterical ass.

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"Did you see that ass Murphy stand on his head to drink his tea?

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"I'm a silly ass.

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It's my belief the silly ass was jealous."

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"I am not the superficial ass you take me for."

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"Silly ass!" commented Bertie.

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"I've been making an ass of myself.

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"You silly ass!" he cried.

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"You're an obstinate ass!" answered Neil.

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Sydney, you're an ass, if you only knew it."

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The next he could not conceive any man should be such a witless ass as to stake his happiness on the steadiness of so manifest a weathercock as a woman's favour.

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"He must be an ass.

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Apuleius' Golden Ass, translation of, 464.

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But I'm afraid--' 'That now I've made such an ass of myself you'll have to go?'

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Oft o'er the mead, at pleasing distance, pass [a] Browsing the hedge by fits the pannier'd ass; The idling shepherd-boy, with rude delight, Whistling his dog to mark the pebble's flight; And in her kerchief blue the cottage-maid, With brimming pitcher from the shadowy glade.

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Ass.

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Balaam's ass saw the obstructing angel before Balaam did.

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Later on I took great pleasure with another boy in feeling the teats of a she-ass, and, by myself, the penis of a donkey, as I had seen the French grooms do; but I took no interest in my own penis.

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But whatever ass I made of myself she forgave me anything, and was fonder of me every time we met, while I, although I did not know it for a long time, was less fond of her.

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He that takes another man's ox or ass is doubtless a transgressor; but he that puts himself out of the occasion of that temptation by keeping of his own seems to be a right honest and well-meaning man."

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We can see S. Peter with the keys, kings, queens, and minstrels; we find also a head with two faces, a monkey riding backwards on a goat, a human figure with head and hoofs of an ass, a donkey playing a harp, a winged dragon, a dancing lion, an eagle, and other curious devices.

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Footnote 7: The ass stands for Ra, the sun-god, and the eater of the ass is darkness or some eclipse, represented as one of the foes of Ra, in the vignette figured as a serpent on the back of an ass.

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For no soil can suit With every fruit, Even so, Sir, it is with religion; The best church by far Is what grows where you are, Were it Mahomet's ass or his pigeon.

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Besides, it plainly now appears Our Midas, too, has ass's ears: Where every fool his mouth applies, And whispers in a thousand lies; Such gross delusions could not pass Thro' any ears but of an ass.

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And Midas now neglected stands, With ass's ears, and dirty hands.

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If my coin will not pass, I must die like an ass; And so I conclude my petition.

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ON THE SAME THE JUDGE SPEAKS I'm not the grandson of that ass Quin;[1] Nor can you prove it, Mr. Pasquin.

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The Bear, the Tiger, beasts of flight, And all that could but scratch and bite, Nay e'en the Cat, of wicked nature, That kills in sport her fellow-creature, Went scot-free; but his gravity, An ass of stupid memory, Confess'd, as he went to a fair, His back half broke with wooden-ware, Chancing unluckily to pass By a church-yard full of good grass, Finding they'd open left the gate, He ventured in, stoop'd down and ate Hold, says Judge Wolf, such are the crimes Have brought upon us these sad times, 'Twas sacrilege, and this vile ass Shall die for eating holy grass.

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Though he cringed to his deanship in very low strains, To others he boasted of knocking out brains, And slitting of noses, and cropping of ears, While his own ass's zags were more fit for the shears.

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Let Sir Tom,[4] that rampant ass, Stuff his guts with flax and grass; But before the priest he fleeces, Tear the Bible all to pieces: At the parsons, Tom, halloo, boy, Worthy offspring of a shoeboy, Footman, traitor, vile seducer, Perjured rebel, bribed accuser, Lay thy privilege aside, From Papist sprung, and regicide; Fall a-working like a mole, Raise the dirt about thy hole.

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Whereby you now confess yourself to be a goose or an ass: But that's as much as to say, that my master should die before ye; Well, well, that's as God pleases; and I don't believe that's a true story: And so say I told you so, and you may go tell my master; what care I?

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Sez I, "You egrejus ass that air's a wax figger--a representashun of the false 'Postle."

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Thus, we have him pictured to us as he appeared at a dinner, "whereto he was seduced by the false pretence that he would there meet with one who entertained novel and anarchical views regarding the 'Golden Ass' of Apuleius.

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By the by, you haven't sent me Stickleback's jack-ass as you promised.

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"I have no hesitation," replied the critic, "with a perfect recollection of Canova's Venus, and even Moggs's Pandean Piper, which I reviewed in last number of the _Universal_, in declaring that Stickleback's work (it is a female, not a jack-ass) is the noblest effort of the English chisel; there is life about it--a power--a feeling--a sentiment--it is overwhelming!

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Stickleback's fame is secured by a stupendous ass, at once so simple and so grand."

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But Mr Whalley, who was a rival Mæcenas, put in a word for himself, "Mr Bristles," he said, "this must be a uncomming statty of a she-ass.

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I oncet was recommended to drink a she-ass's milk myself, and liked it uncomming.

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"It's a pity she's an ass," suggested Mr Pitskiver.

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"That femininity, as Miss Hendy calls it, should be brought so prominently forward in the person of an ass."

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"An ass?--I don't understand!

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"Why, what the mischief is all this?" exclaimed the bewildered Mr Pitskiver; "this isn't the jeanie-ass you promised me a sight of.

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I owe no man a cent, have no expensive habits or tastes, envy no man his wealth or power, [have] no complications or indirect liabilities, and would account myself a fool, a madman, an ass, to embark anew, at sixty-five years of age, in a career that may, at any moment, [become] tempest-tossed by the perfidy, the defalcation, the dishonesty, or neglect of any one of a hundred thousand subordinates utterly unknown to the President of the United States, not to say the eternal worriment by a vast host of impecunious friends and old military subordinates.

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As the Lord sent upon us an ass in the shape of a preacher, and a rainstorm, to lessen our vote in New York, I am disposed to feel resigned to the dispensation of defeat, which flowed directly from these agencies.

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Also a mad ass to be baited.

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[Illustration] There was an Old Man of Madras, Who rode on a cream-colored Ass; But the length of its ears so promoted his fears, That it killed that Old Man of Madras.

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[Illustration] The Absolutely Abstemious Ass, who resided in a Barrel, and only lived on Soda Water and Pickled Cucumbers.

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[Illustration] There was an Old Man of Madras, Who rode on a cream-colored Ass; But the length of its ears so promoted his fears, That it killed that Old Man of Madras.

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[Illustration] The Absolutely Abstemious Ass, who resided in a Barrel, and only lived on Soda Water and Pickled Cucumbers.

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Most formidable among these was Mirza-Jussuf (Joseph), the wise man of Bagdad, who called one day on Bodenstedt and boldly informed him that the revered Mirza-Schaffy was an Ischekj ("an ass") among the bearers of wisdom--that he could not write properly, and could not sing at all.

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Second century, A.D. _The Golden Ass, Metamorphoses of Apuleius_.

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Nor by such bonds alone-- But more I leave to say, Fitly revering the Wild Ass's bray, Also his hoof, Of which, go where you will, the marks remain Where the religious walls have hid the bright reproof.

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"And he shall have it: take him out; give him one hundred blows of the bastinado; put him on an ass with his face turned towards the tail; and let the officer who conducts him through the town proclaim, 'Such is the punishment awarded by the pacha to him who presumes to say that his highness knows, when in fact, he knows nothing.'"

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