The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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"What an ass I was!

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"You couldn't get a divorce, you ass: you've no case."

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Privately he thought any journalist would be rather an ass to print it, yet he sincerely hoped the editor of the _London Magazine_ would prove himself such an ass.

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He was to blame for accepting, but he would have been a conceited ass if he had thought of the danger of a result like this.

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They that commit the Five Great Sins live many years in hells, and afterwards obtain vile births; the slayer of a priest becomes in turn a dog, a pig, an ass, a camel, a cow, a goat, a sheep, etc, etc.

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Ass.

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Butler, in his _Hudibras_, observes, in an oft-quoted passage, that 'Montaigne, playing with his cat, Complains she thought him but an ass.'

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'Ere, you go along, you silly ass!

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I knew you would--I knew I was an ass to be so--afraid.... And look here, we'll always be pals--the very best of pals.

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And really you must forgive me for being such an ass.

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I am going to-morrow because I am a fantastic, capricious ass.

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And he told me that if I was such a consummate ass as to let a good thing like that slip, I could take my little pittance and go to the deuce as soon as ever I liked; and here I am.

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"You're a silly old ass," burst out Grimbal roughly.

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"Oh, don't be a gloomy ass!

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And yet, in a higher sense, perhaps, it may almost be said, with careful limitations, that, considering certain delicate _nuances_ of filtered thought, as it were, and making meticulous allowance for the personal equation--" "Grisly ass!

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Hyparcha: I can you, For I can call you Coxcomb, Ass, and Puppy.

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Michael Perez: Not I, I am an Ass, Mother.

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Cacafogo: I'll have a fling, 'tis but a thousand Duckets, Which I can cozen up again in ten days, And some few Jewels to justifie my Knavery, Say, I should marry her, she'll get more money Than all my Usury, put my Knavery to it, She appears the most infallible way of Purchase, I you'd wish her a size or two stronger for the encounter, For I am like a Lion where I lay hold, But these Lambs will endure a plaguy load, And never bleat neither, that Sir, time has taught us, I am so vertuous now, I cannot speak to her, The arrant'st shamefac'd Ass, I broil away too.

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Michael Perez: Certain I cannot, Captain, Hark in thine ear, I am the arrantst Puppy, The miserablest Ass, but I must leave ye, I am in haste, in haste, bless you, good Madam, And you prove as good as my Wife.

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Estifania: Go silly Fool, thou mayst be a good Souldier In open field, but for our private service Thou art an Ass, I'll make thee so, or miss else.

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Cacafogo: Prithee be answered, thou shalt crave no leave, I am in my meditations, do not vex me, A beaten thing, but this hour a most bruised thing, That people had compassion on it, looked so, The next Sir Palmerin, here's fine proportion, An Ass, and then an Elephant, sweet Justice, There's no way left to come at her now, no craving, If money could come near, yet I would pay him; I have a mind to make him a huge Cuckold, And money may do much, a thousand Duckets, 'Tis but the letting blood of a rank Heir.

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Once He gave an ass the power to speak, that it might protest against the wrongdoing of its wicked and cruel rider.

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Ass.

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"That's one type of ass, and the second is (dropping his voice) your friend here and his like, if you don't mind my saying so.

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"Silly old ass!

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But Peter did not tumble to that; he felt an ass and very uncomfortable, and he broke into open revolt.

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"I'm highly privileged, I'm sure," he said, and could have kicked himself for a stupid ass.

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Still, he told himself that he was an ass, and the two of them sauntered slowly townwards.

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He told himself he was an ass to think so, but he could not get rid of the sensation.

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He knew he was behaving like an ass, but he could not help it.

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He probably thought he was drunk, then he spotted lights going out, and like an ass he blew his whistle.

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Peter acquiesced, feeling rather more than an ass, but the drinks had gone slightly to his head.

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I told him I had come there neither to be made a horse of by one nor an ass of by another.

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We do not heed the label fair That's stuck upon the glass; It's counterfeit,--an ugly cheat, That takes in many an ass.

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It is not so; to call Pope an ass would be to wrong a faithful and patient quadruped; than which Pope was as much greater in intellect as he was less in all qualities that call for true respect.

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The presence of a cow or two, or an ass or two, more or less, in your parliament will not really insure efficiency of administration.

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_Flannery_: The world and all will be coming to the door to throw up their hats for you, and you making your start, cars and ass cars, jennets and traps.

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The joke will pass, As time, foul ass!

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It was a pity that an interfering ass like their member should have the right to come in and out here, record his vote, and spout his nonsense with the best of them.

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"My desire has ever bin to conduct the service smooth and expeditious, and in strict accordance with the regulations--more particularly as set out in the manual, which I can truly ass-ass-assev'rate that I read more constant and careful than what I do the Bible."

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The Jews worshipped the head of an ass,[73] they hated the Gentiles, and would have no communication with them, they killed Gentile children at the Passover, and their law allowed them to commit any offences against all but their own people, and inculcated a low morality.

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Through the streaming glass they could see the strip of bog; and the half-naked woman, her soaked petticoat clinging about her red legs, piling the wet peat into the baskets thrown across the meagre back of a starveling ass.

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The war correspondent who goes out there not knowing his ground will be a silly ass.

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"I've never done that exactly, you silly ass," said he.

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In short he makes the very silliest ass of himself, and the elfin princess, who of course has come into contact with the Real Beautiful Young Man of the Story Books, won't have anything to do with the Ogre; and if he is more rumbustious than he ought to be, generally finds a way to send him packing.

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On his first meeting with her he had disclaimed the subtler mental qualities, videlicet his similitude of the bumble-bee; now, however, he went further, declaring himself, to a subrident host, to be a chuckle-headed ass, only fit to herd with savages.

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And having destroyed everybody who cares for you and is good to you, you'll feel a silly ass--such a silly ass that you'll forget to stick it into yourself."

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You see, if this idea hadn't come off, I should have looked such a stupendous ass."

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Jaffery called me, among other things, an amazing ass--he has an Eastern habit of, facile vituperation--and roared about the drawing-room.

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"I'm not such an ass as to fall off a footling balcony.

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I can tackle men right enough, but when it comes to women, I seem to be a bit of an ass.

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They come and tell her about their wives and their girls and what rotten food they've got--'Everybody has got rotten food on board ship, you silly ass!' quoth Liosha.

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Oh, the silly ass!

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7), according to the Septuagint translation, that he "saw two riders, one on an ass and one on a camel," Bahador argues that the rider on the ass is Jesus, who so entered Jerusalem, and that the rider on the camel is Mohammed.

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When Dogberry brought Conrade before Leonato, the only offense he seems to have had a clear idea of, was the one against himself: 'Moreover, sir, this plaintiff here, the offender, did call me ass.

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It would be the most terrible of punishments to run the gauntlet of a company, every one of which you had called an ass; whatever may have been the original offense, this would be the one most remembered in your punishment, I don't think it would be possible to believe any thing good of one who had given you this appellation; on the contrary, the reputed long ears would be worse than the famous 'diabolical trumpet' for collecting and distorting the merest whispers of evil against him who planted them, or discovered them peeping through the assumed lion's skin.

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Means of Transport.--In order to transport the articles belonging to an expedition across a wild and unknown country, we may estimate as follows:-- Beasts of burthen:-- An ass will not usually care more than about (net weight) 65 lbs.

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Weights carried by Cattle.--The net weights that these different animals carry in trying, long-continued journeys--through stages uncertain in length, sometimes leading to good pasture, sometimes to bad--must not be reckoned higher than the following; and an animal draws about 2 1/2 times as much net weight as he carries:--An ass, 65 lbs.

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Sometimes a horse, sometimes an ass, captivates the fancy of a whole drove of mules, but often an animal nowise akin.

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It appears that when an ass wants to bray he elevates his tail, and, if his tail be weighted down, he has not the heart to bray.

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An ass who was being schooled according to the method of this and the preceding paragraph, both at the same time, would be worthy of an artist's sketch.

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"To carry Ivory on pack-animals, the North African traders use nets, slinging two large teeth on each side of an ass.

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Ass; kicking, to check; braying.

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Donkey (see "Ass").

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And to punish King Mida he changed his ears to long hairy ears, like an ass's.

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For my own part, you know, I don't believe that Marcus Aurelius was quite such an ass as Plato.

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_Moral_: This fable teaches what an ass he was.

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But the blusterin' chap as keeps naggin' the boys on To fight and get beat all for nothing's an ass.

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"I heard him proclaim himself an ass.

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"It's about nothing more important than that consummate ass you were with," he answered, laughing as he reached out and took her hand in his with a friendly pressure.

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"Well, I'm not every one," he blurted out angrily, "for I think him a consummate, thickheaded ass."

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"What a consummate, what an unteachable ass I am," he thought as he stared moodily at the passing cabs, "and the odd part of it is that the newest attraction always brings with it a fatal belief in its own permanence.

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The 'ass-head' as a symbolic piece of stage furniture.

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Any horse knows that much, and whether he has an ass for a rider.

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Why-- "An ass that brays is wiser than the man who asks what can't be answered," he said, under his breath.

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We shall ride upon its neck as if it w-w-were an ass!

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"Fool, ass, bat, mole!

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If ever I'm such a silly ass as to marry, which I'm jolly well not going to be, I shall marry a--a dusky maiden.

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If the brigantine happened to put in at an island for water, and the captain's brother-in-law happened--just happened--to be a silly ass and go and marry a dusky maiden, whom he met on the beach--- PIRATE.

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You mean that the whole thing--that Pim--(With conviction) Silly ass!

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I'm very much in love; and for a man very much in love I'm being rather less of a silly ass than usual.

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And," said the Vicar to Lidderdale, when he was giving him an account of the projected visitation, "I believe the pompous ass thought I was ashamed of it."

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But Hacking is a hopeless ass."

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"You'd have been much better than that ass Hacking.

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A pompous ass whose wife ran away from him a little time ago.

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The attendant intimated that Swiss mules preferred heavy loads, and had they the vocal gifts of Balaam's ass, would demand them.

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"It's your fault if I look an ass."

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"And our Lord came meek and lowly, riding upon an ass, and had not where to lay His head," breathed Freda softly.

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And though he once was fond of music (in spite of an idle story about his ears, which were said to resemble those of an ass), the only music for poor Midas, now, was the chink of one coin against another.

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Now it was the shape of a man in a long robe, the fleecy whiteness of which was made out of the fountain's spray; now it was a lion, or a tiger, or a wolf, or an ass, or, as often as anything else, a hog, wallowing in the marble basin as if it were his sty.

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Chancing to cast his eyes at the fountain, he saw that it did not shift its shape, as formerly, nor looked either like a long-robed man, or a lion, a tiger, a wolf, or an ass.

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In _The Boke of Curtosye_ there are directions given not to "foule the _bord-clothe_ wyth the knyfe;" and Ben Jonson, in his comedy of "The Devil is an Ass," alludes to the introduction of forks, and the consequent disuse of napkins: "The laudable use of forks, Brought into custom here as they are in Italy, To th' sparing o' napkins."

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"Why can't you say plainly that you think he's an ass?"

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"He's by no means an ass.

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"Why were you ever such an ass?"

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"I know it makes me look an ass," he said, as they smoked the after-breakfast pipe, "but I suppose that's all in the day's work."

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"I couldn't catch the parson, but if I can't catch Miss Kate, call me an ass!"

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