The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Ashe's natural impulse was to say that if so the French cousin must be an ass.

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ho; and falls to calling me names, dizzard, ass, lunatic, moper, Bedlamite, Pseudo-Democritus.

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"Ye muckle ass!" cried Stewart, "it's James they want; James has got to hang--Alan too, if they could catch him--but James whatever!

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I was no such ass but what I understood how poor a figure I had made, and that the girls would be yawning their jaws off as soon as my stiff back was turned.

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"Ye muckle ass!" said he.

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There was, indeed, only one thing in the nature of a prospect, where there stood out over a brae the two sails of a windmill, like an ass's ears, but with the ass quite hidden.

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Just tell it to her plainly--tell her ye're a muckle ass at the off-set; and then, if I were you, and ye could do it naitural, I would just mint to her I was in some kind of a danger; a' weemenfolk likes that."

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A tame ass attacked and kicked to death the finest and largest lion that he kept; and one day, as he stripped to play at tennis, the young man with whom he played, when it was time to dress again, saw a man sitting on the king's throne, wearing his diadem and royal robe.

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Some writers say that Antipater was advised by Aristotle to poison Alexander, and inform us that one Hagnothemis declared that he had been told as much by Antipater; and that the poison was as cold as ice, and was gathered like dew, from a certain rock near the city of Nonakris, and preserved in the hoof of an ass: for no other vessel could contain it, because it is so exceedingly cold and piercing.

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And some one would say, 'Well, what does he mean, you ass?' and he'd start gassing some rot till some one said, 'Good lord, fancy sticking up for a master!'

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They made of it, indeed, a popular school joke, "Oh, go and write a little every day and boil yourself, you ass!"

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"Ass!" laughed a voice above them; and Sabre, who had almost forgotten there was another horse when he had abruptly wakened and dismounted, looked up at it.

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The boy who had commanded his presence jolted him in the back with his knee and said, using the school argot for to cheer or shout, "Swipe up, you ghastly young ass!

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Travellers in Thessaly in Apuleius' _Golden Ass_, like the fugitives in Shelley's _Zastrozzi_ and _St.

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There are incidents in _The Golden Ass_ as "horrid" as any of those devised by the writers of Gothic romance.

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It would, indeed, be no easy task to fashion scenes more terrifying than the mutilation of Socrates in _The Golden Ass_, by the witch, who tears out his heart and stops the wound with a sponge which falls out when he stoops to drink at a river, or than the strange apparition of a ragged, old woman who vanishes after leading the way to the room, where the baker's corpse hangs behind the door.

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_Golden Ass_, Apuleius', 13, 14, 15.

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But I'm playing straight across the board, Mark, as my custom is, and I know you are too sane and ambitious a lad to let false pride or self-assurance resent my calling you an ass over this thing."

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I know I've been an ass for that matter--knew it long ago," confessed Brendon.

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But what's going to be harder is to find out why you've been an ass.

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You've no right to be an ass.

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"I was an ass to even imagine that you could care for me, but you see I'm coming on so well that I shall soon put out my sign, and I felt that you might be such a help to me; that is, if you could care for me a little bit."

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Oh, I daresay I'm a stupid ass!--" Lady Tatham laughed softly.

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"But as for that young ass, Tatham--ask him to come and see you."

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Mostly, the father makes an ass of himself in the way of business or speculation; or he dies too soon; or his sons possess none of their father's ability; or they take to drink.

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Sir Charles Dilke tells us that in 1887, when a friend of his was going to France, he asked him to ascertain for him if General Boulanger were a soldier, a mountebank, or an ass; and the answer brought back to him was, "He is a little of them all."

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They ought to know, he argued, that the least little thing would make him break down like an ass and behave as no man should, and yet they were doing everything.... Oh, if only Tom were here!

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"The Donkey ... um--um--never seen--um--um--any of the nobler animals so sublime as this quiet head of the domestic ass"--(_here BOB digs PODBURY in the ribs, behind Miss P.'s back_)--"chiefly owing to the grand motion in the nostril, and writhing in the ears."

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You may if you like call an ass an ox, but you will never make anyone believe that your ox is an ass."

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"Get out of here, old ass, before I cram your lie down your throat.

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"Belin signed the warrant, and sent a young ass of the burgher guard after Mar.

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"He is either an incredible loyalist or an incredible ass!"

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arse, ass.

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Pringle, the 'father of South African verse,' comes first, of course, and his best poem is, undoubtedly, Afar in the Desert : Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side: Away, away, from the dwelling of men By the wild-deer's haunt, by the buffalo's glen: By valleys remote where the oribi plays, Where the gnu, the gazelle and the hartebeest graze, And the kúdú and eland unhunted recline By the skirts of grey forests o'erhung with wild vine, Where the elephant browses at peace in his wood, And the river-horse gambols unscared in the flood, And the mighty rhinoceros wallows at will In the fen where the wild ass is drinking his fill.

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Tilton , " Ass't Surgeon U.S. Army ."

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For some four days the train of rough-bearded men in long seamen's boots toiled to and fro from bay to castle, from castle to bay, with horse and ass, waggon and cart, till men said all the spoil of Brittany and Spain, with all manner of treasures of Moorish lands were stored in the deep caverns under the château.

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PODBURY's _Titania_ is much too enamoured of those ass's ears of his--How the brute will chuckle when he hears of this!

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'Silly ass!' answered Arthur with emphasis.

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If he shoots me he'll get his head cut off, and he won't be such an ass as to risk that!'

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Before them was the Patriarch himself, "without bag or money, or stick or shoes, with but one coat," says Nicetas, "like a true apostle, or rather like a true follower of Jesus Christ, in that he was seated on an ass, with the difference that instead of entering the new Zion in triumph he was leaving it."

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The figure of an ass and its driver, which Augustus had had cast in bronze to commemorate the news brought to him of the victory of Actium, met with the same fate.

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And do you think I'm ass enough to be taken in by a trick?

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It was useless to represent to them that his house was in the most convenient locality in ----, where, indeed, no stranger can walk twenty rods from his hotel without losing himself; that their guide was an ass, or their courier a rogue.

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The interior is a small chamber with vaulted or wagon-roof ceiling, under which a man may stand upright, and at the end next the street is a little stone commemorating the place as Virgil's tomb, which was placed there by the Queen of France in 1840, and said by the custodian (a singularly dull ass) to be an exact copy of the original, whatever the original may have been.

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"If I am not content," cried Count Giovanni, "call me the greatest ass in the world!"

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The group of Hoofed Quadrupeds comprising the Horse, Ass, and Zebra, in which each foot has only a single solid hoof.

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"What an ass I am," he groaned.

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"Hobbs is a dreadful ass," he managed to say.

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Milk cheeses Milks that make cheese around the world: Ass Buffalo Camel Chamois Elephant Goat Human (_see_ Mother's milk) Llama Mare Reindeer Sea cow (Amazonian legend) Sheep Whale (legendary; see Whale Cheese) Yak Zebra Zebu U.S. pure food laws prohibit cheeses made of unusual or strange animal's milk, such as camel, llama and zebra.

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[55] According to an [=A]rya commentator, however, a[s']wamedha is to be translated not "sacrifice of a horse," but destruction of ignorance,--sacrifice of an ass, as one may jestingly say.

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"Ass," I burst out, "will you speak?"

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Behind came a little gray ass, a pitiful burrow, interfering at every step, and lightened of its pack because the merchants knew that it was going to die.

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Morhange made his kneel, uncocked a skin, and made the little ass drink.

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"Did you ever know such an interminable ass?"

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"And to have the editorship," he thought out loud, "I must unlearn everything that I know about writing, and deliberately learn to write like a demagogic ass."

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In short I purpose to learn to write like an ass, of asses, for asses."

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Maybe I'm talking like an ass....

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And Brooke has told me much, the doting old ass.

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If fellows find out he is a decent sort of boy, they soon let him alone; but if he is an ass, especially a conceited ass, he has rather a rough time of it.

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"He is, as you say, rather an ass at present.

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"You are not such a young ass as to get engaged before you have joined three months?"

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What an ass I was, to be sure, on that voyage!"

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That such exquisite "best" as America possessed in her Colonial houses and gardens and furnishings should ever have been discarded for the atrocities of the period after the Civil War, is comparable to nothing but Titania's Midsummer Night's Dream madness that made her believe an ass's features more beautiful than those of Apollo!

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Sometimes in mediæval times a wooden figure representing our Saviour riding upon an ass was drawn along by the crowds in the procession, and the people scattered their willow branches before the figure as it passed.

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Central peace, mother of strength, That's father of...." This is good fooling, and Naddo is an ass.

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"Possibly--but don't be such an ass as to wish any one any good!"

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"A young ass!"

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One would say it was angry at having got into the wrong box and avenged itself by going into voluntary paralysis when possessed by one who was neither a sharper nor an ass.

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Think of a consumptive spitting blood and suffocating in a room one flight up, behind the 'ass-back' gables of, say the passage des Panoramas, for instance.

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Similarly, Christ's entry into Jerusalem sitting on an ass is a mere parable."]

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He who is sunk in ignorance and stupidity lives like a dull ass.

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"Got you, you ass!" snapped he, with a short, crisp, self-satisfied laugh.

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She might have tipped me off before I made such an ass of myself.

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you seventy-seven kinds of a double-barrelled ass!

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"What an ass!" he said to himself in the soundless words of thought "What an ass never to have suspected it when it is all so dear!"

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"He won't have to be entertained by us if he only comes to see the pater; and we can easily crowd him aside if he tries to thrust himself upon us--a fellow with a name like 'Rupert St. Aubyn' is bound to be a silly ass."

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For, a "silly ass"--albeit an unusually handsome one with his fair, curling hair and his big blonde moustache--he certainly was; a lisping "ha-ha-ing" "don't-cher-knowing" silly ass, whom the presence of ladies seemed to cover with confusion and drive into a very panic of shy embarrassment.

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Her absence seemed to make but little impression upon him, however; for, following up a well-defined plan of action, he devoted himself wholly to the Spanish woman, and both amazed her and gratified her vanity by allowing her to learn that a man may be the silliest ass imaginable and yet quite understand how to flirt and to make love to a woman.

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More than that; after he had finished his second cup of tea, and immediately following the sound of someone just beyond the verandah rail whistling the lively, lilting measures of "There's a Girl Wanted There"--the "silly ass" seemed to become a thousand times sillier than ever; for he forthwith set down his cup, and, turning to Anita, said with an inane sort of giggle, "I say, you know, here's a lark.

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There are those who can read other people's thoughts-- Adolphe being the dupe, it seemed quite natural that we should have called him an ass.

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But ass was nearer at hand in this case, as we had been talking of carriages and triumphal chariots.

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So, when upon a moonshine night, An ass was drinking at a stream, A cloud arose, and stopt the light, By intercepting every beam: The day of judgment will be soon, Cries out a sage among the crowd; An ass has swallow'd up the moon!

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ON BURNING A DULL POEM 1729 An ass's hoof alone can hold That poisonous juice, which kills by cold.

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Methought, when I this poem read, No vessel but an ass's head Such frigid fustian could contain; I mean, the head without the brain.

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SWIFT TO HIMSELF ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY Grave Dean of St. Patrick's, how comes it to pass, That you, who know music no more than an ass, That you who so lately were writing of drapiers, Should lend your cathedral to players and scrapers?

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Didn't you make a show of me before that ass, Tyler, when I was at the very point of my greatest coup?

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I'm no such ass as that.

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"Is it possible that you're such a stupid ass as to hang round here when there's no occasion for it?" roared the engineer, furiously.

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You're a fighting man and a gentleman and--excuse me, but it's true--an awful ass all in one.

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You're such an ass I almost hesitate to play the game with you."

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And you are such an ass that I was going to ask you to promise to keep your promise--up there."

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"Mr. Orme was so kind as to inform me that I was a gentleman, and likewise a very great ass."

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I am only a very stupid ass."

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I have always been a stupid ass.

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Ass._ (_to the Grizzled Customer_).

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