The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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"It's that coruscating young ass, you know, Hedrick--in Cummings' office--trying to study law and literature at the same time, and tampering with 'The Monster that Annually,' don't you know?--where we found the two young students scuffling round the office, and smelling of peppermint?--Hedrick, you know, and Sweeney.

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The duchess put out her hand, grasped the case delicately, shut it--and flung it to the other side of the stable, hard by where an old ass was placidly eating a bundle of hay.

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"I suppose you also were a young ass once," said I with a rueful smile.

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He is an ass," ejaculated Chauvenet.

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I wonder the lively fancy of Hogarth never sketched the _dull_ historian, in the figure of an ass, plodding to market under his panniers, laden with the fruits of antiquity, and old time driving up the _rear_, with his scythe converted into an hedge-stake.

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Clubs and tumults supported the spirit of contention till 1745, when, as our last act of animosity, we crowned an ass with turnips, in derision of one of the worthiest families that ever eat them.

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Well, I did; but I don't see how you can blame the fellow who filled the shell if some silly ass hits it on the nose-cap with a hammer.

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The Lyceum performance was a superb pantomime, with one overpowering figure drifting through it and in some sort directing it, the red-plumed devil Mephistopheles, who, in Sir Henry Irving's impersonation of him, becomes a kind of weary spirit, a melancholy image of unhappy pride, holding himself up to the laughter of inferior beings, with the old acknowledgment that "the devil is an ass."

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"I'll bet ten to one you have been making an ass of yourself."

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He was an antediluvian, he was a case of arrested mental development, he was an ichthyosaurus, he was a new kind of idiot, he was a monumental fool, he was the mammoth ass reported to have been seen by a mediæval traveller in the desert, that was forty cubits high, and whose braying was like the blast of ten thousand trumpets.

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Why, you poor, weak-minded, cowardly pet of a blinded old man--you conceited ass--you selfish an' spoiled boy!...

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Though under the necessity of making frequent journeys to Salamanca, he kept no mule, but contented himself with an ass, borrowed from the neighbouring miller.

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"You little ass!" said Saltash in a voice that somehow reassured.

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"Little ass!" said Saltash, barely preventing himself from tumbling over him headlong.

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"Little ass!" said Saltash again.

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"Go to sleep, you little ass!" commanded Saltash.

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"Aren't you rather an ass, boy?

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"Oh, Jake says I'm an ass, but he's quite decent about you, Charlie,--rather fond of you in fact.

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He's not that sort of ass.

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"Oh, don't be an ass!" protested Bunny.

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Jake, tell him not to be an ass!"

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Don't be an ass about it!

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"Don't be an ass!" said Toby tersely.

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Oh, don't be an ass, Jake, will you?"

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"I always said you were a little ass, didn't I, Toby?" he said.

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"Oh, don't be an ass!" protested Bunny.

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"Marry her while you can get her and don't be an ass about it!

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"Don't be an ass now!"

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I'm sorry about Bunny, but, if he hadn't been an ass, it wouldn't have happened.

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And then suddenly, with an amazing change to tenderness that leapt the void and enchained her where she stood:--"Toby--Toby, you little ass--don't you know I've loved you from the moment _The Night Moth_ struck?"

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"What an ass I am!" he burst out, and added sheepishly: "West Shore!"

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"I always thought he was a beastly young ass," said Edward Dixon, "but I didn't think he'd chuck away his chances like that.

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But he had deliberately chosen, as Edward Dixon had said, to chuck his chances away for the sake of literature; piety and a sense of the main chance had alike pointed the way to a delicate course of wheedling, to a little harmless practicing on Miss Spurry's infirmities, to frequent compliances of a soothing nature, and the "young ass" had been blind to the direction of one and the other.

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In the amphitheatre he sometimes witnessed strange entertainments in which such tales as _Daphnis and Chloe_ and _The Golden Ass_ were performed before him.

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"Good Jack, honest Jack," replied his companion, "I am no such ass."

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_The Fifth Comfort,_ &c. But the least pitied is your Aged Ass, Who tho full Sixty, wou'd for Forty pass: And that he may be sure a Crop to have, And carry _Horns_ fresh budding to his Grave, On one of Twenty, blooming as a Rose, His dry and wither'd Carkass he bestows: She jilts, intrigues, and plays upon him still, Keeps her Gallants, and Rambles at her Will; Do's nothing but her Pride and Pleasure mind, And throws his Gold like Chaff before the Wind; Until at length she beggars the old Slave, And brings his Gray-Hairs with Sorrow to the Grave.

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He had scornfully called Balaam's ass the first great critic, and the inference was plain until a writer in _Vanity Fair_ called his attention to the fact that the ass was right.

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"I fancy you will admit that this is the only ass on record who ever did 'see the Angel of the Lord,' and that we are past the age of miracles."

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Ass._] Now, if the original deed had been thus defective, the covenanting party thereto is too good a lawyer, not to have set it aside."

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Shortly after, a beautiful lady, garbed in white but enveloped in a black mantle, rides up to court on a snow-white ass, leading a woolly lamb.

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Of course the hero selected the shorter route, and on the first day slew a wild ass, which he roasted for supper before lying down to rest.

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"Ass that I am!" cried Moore.

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"Sam," said he, "you thought I was a mad ass to write a letter a few months ago.

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That _ass_ PODBURY!

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He's proved an ass, whose days _don't_ pass In drinking, drinking, drinking!

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Auld HOMER is a humbug, ANACREON is an ass; Sumphs scrape enoo o' baith o' them, The "Little-go" to pass, The Little-go to pass-- It affects them "harmfullee."

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What an ass I am!

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While I was passing a day or two at his house, the vampires sucked his son a boy of about ten or eleven years old, some of his fowls and his jack-ass.

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The poor ass was doomed to be a prey to these sanguinary imps of night: he looked like misery steeped in vinegar.

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Mr. Walcott told me that it was with the greatest difficulty he could keep a few fowls, on account of the smaller vampire; and that the larger kind were killing his poor ass by inches.

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The king, willing to cover him with shame, pronounced only one part of his name, and called him _ovos_, ass, instead of Chronos.

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If you think to retain, and preserve as friends, the relations which nature gives you, without taking any pains; wretch that you are, you lose your labor equally, as if any one should train an ass to be obedient to the rein, and run in the Campus [Martius].

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I hang down my ears like an ass of surly disposition, when a heavier load than ordinary is put upon his back.

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Your disregarded adviser shall then laugh [at you]: as he, who in a passion pushed his refractory ass over the precipice.

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For who would save [an ass] against his will?

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He would view the people more attentively than the sports themselves, as affording him more strange sights than the actor: and for the writers, he would think they told their story to a deaf ass.

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Was there not mirrored here, he asked himself, some far-off shadow of One Who rode on the colt of an ass amid the sneers of the great and the enthusiasm of children?...

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"Effeminate, ass!" corrected Richard, shortly.

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Lady Isabel, confronted with these problems, fell back on the manuals of her own youth, with their artless pronouncements on the Righteous, the Wicked, their qualifications, their prospects; and, since the manuals had an indisputable _flair_ for the subjects most likely to seize the attention of the young, Lady Isabel was generally able to divert her offspring's attention from the Errors of Rome, with digested narratives of "Adamaneve" (pronounced as one word) and the Serpent, Balaam's Ass, Jonah's Whale, and similar non-controversial matters.

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There isn't one but has as many lies told as'd sicken an ass!

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Silly old ass, what did she know about it?

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These are lusts after what is man's own, because the wife, man-servant, maid-servant, ox, and ass, are within his home, and the things within a man's home mean in the spiritual internal sense the things that are his own, that is, the wife means affection for spiritual truth and good, "man-servant and maid-servant," affection for rational truth and good serving the spiritual, and "ox and ass" affection for natural good and truth.

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What, I warrant you, Mr. Ass, you must be fed with Plumb Cakes, must you?

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The _Jews_ could lift up an Ass upon the Sabbath that was fallen into a Pit, and yet calumniated our Saviour for preserving a Man upon that Day.

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Whose only Care is that his Gardens be With Flow'rs and Fruits furnish'd most pleasantly, But disregards his Mind with Art to grace, Bestows his Pains and Care much like an Ass._ _Hi._ You han't bit your Nails for nothing.

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_Au._ I am not an _Apuleius_ turned inside out, that you should suspect that an Ass lies hid under the Form of a Man.

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_Mag._ But, I suppose, you can't deny but Panniers will look better upon an Ox, than a Mitre upon an Ass or a Sow.

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And in my Opinion, it was his Wisdom so to do, rather than to be the common Laughing-stock, and Table-Talk, and run the Risk of the Confiscation of his Goods besides; for the Imposter was in no Danger; he knew no more of the Matter than an Ass, and cheating is a small Fault in these Sort of Cattle.

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_Eu._ What if it should pass into the Body of an Ass, as it happened to _Apuleius_?

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_Fa._ Then I think it would bray as an Ass does.

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_Fa._ Indeed I have heard he was a very famous Philosopher, and I am afraid that the College of Sages would prefer a Bill of Heresy against me, if I should say any Thing against him; but else all that he has said concerning the Soul of a Man, is as applicable to the Soul of an Ass or an Ox.

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"Don't be a ass, Fred!" said the banjo, aggrieved.

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"Friends," went his formula, nasal and forcibly spasmodic in the best gull-catcher style, "p'raps you will ask why I, a able-bodied man, are asking for ass--ist--ance in your town.

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Then followed an elaborate presentation, in singsong verse, of his own undeserved indigence and the brutality of employers, and so the recitation again:-- "Friends, the least ass--ist--ance would be welcome.

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You sit in your com--for--ta--ble 'ouses, and I ask you to ass--ist a fellow creature, driven to this for no fault of his own--for many can 'elp one where one cannot 'elp many."

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"Don't be an ass!"

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I was a presumtious ass, and born to cast up figgers with a pen behind my ear.'

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As you say, he's a fool, a silly, trusting ass, the sort of man who is child's-play to a girl of sixteen.

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"A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse," says the old saw, and a wink is no doubt as good as a smile to a purblind ass.

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"I know nothing about your affairs of one kind," he burst out angrily, "and I do not wish to know; but I want to tell you that I think you are making an ass of yourself to be hanging around that Wentworth woman, having every one talking about you and laughing at you."

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Bachelor life in Mess or club is too pleasant, sport that a single man can enjoy more readily than a married one too attractive, rupees too few for what Kipling terms "the wild ass of the desert" to be willing to put his head into the halter readily.

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For the entertainment was one of the great features of the Season, the Bachelors' Ball, and the walls were blazoned with the insignia of the Tribe of the Wild Ass.

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A blameless gentleman who was a Carbonaro, was conducted through Naples on the back of an ass, and beaten with a whip, to which nails were attached.

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Through hills man shall ride, And no horse nor ass be at his side.

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THE PERIODS OF GESTATION are the same in the horse and ass or eleven months each, camel 12 months, elephant 2 years, lion 5 months, buffalo 12 months, in the human female 9 months, cow 9 months, sheep 5 months, dog 9 weeks, cat 8 weeks, sow 16 weeks, she wolf from 90 to 95 days.

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AGES OF ANIMALS, ETC.--Elephant 100 years and upward, Rhinoceros 20, Camel 100, Lion 25 to 70, Tigers, Leopards, Jaguars and Hyenas (in confinement) about 25 years, Beaver 50, deer 20, wolf 20, Fox 14 to 16, Llamas 15, Chamois 25, Monkeys and Baboons 16 to 18 years, Hare 8, Squirrel 7, Rabbit 7, Swine 25, Stag under 50, Horse 30, Ass 30, Sheep under 10, Cow 20, Ox 30, Swans, Parrots and Ravens 200, Eagle 100, Geese 80, Hens and Pigeons 10 to 16, Hawks 36 to 40, Cranes 24, Blackbird 10 to 12, Peacock 20, Pelican 40 to 50, Thrush 8 to 10, Wren 2 to 3, Nightingale 15, Blackcap 15, Linnet 14 to 23, Goldfinch 20 to 24, Redbreast 10 to 12, Skylark 10 to 30, Titlark 5 to 6, Chaffinch 20 to 24, Starling 10 to 12, Carp 70 to 150, Pike 30 to 40, Salmon 16, Codfish 14 to 17, Eel 10, Crocodile 100, Tortoise 100 to 200, Whale estimated 1,000, Queen Bees live 4 years, Drones 4 months, Working Bees 6 months.

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Shortly before '98 he was seen on the Curragh by a blacksmith who was crossing it in an ass-cart from Athgarvan to Kildare.

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But let me tell you, sir ...' But here we both burst out laughing-- 'You Golden Ass!'

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What a putrid ass!

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(Cough) "You poisonous and polluted ass."

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I noticed that Reggie couldn't bear to look at him--"you feel first of all as if everybody was looking at you; you feel a silly ass; then you feel as if everybody was looking at the posters; then you know they aren't looking at them.

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But after that he lost his head and made such an ass of himself that I had to get out here and make him go on by himself.

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"Who could possibly have supposed," she said, "that Charlie would be such an ass?"

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"I do wish you would make Wally see what an ass he's making of himself."

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My wife said, in her admirable, judicial way, "How an ass?"

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"I suppose the young ass tried to make love to her.

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He was only being an ass--the war upset him, or something.

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Marius thanked her, and said that he had good hopes, for a favourable omen had occurred to him, which was something of this sort:--When they were leading him along, and he was near the house of Fannia, the doors being opened, an ass ran out to drink from a spring which was flowing hard by: the ass, looking at Marius in the face with a bold and cheerful air, at first stood opposite him, and then making a loud braying, sprang past him frisking with joy.

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However, he is quite ass enough to do nothing!

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