The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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"Do you take me for an ass?

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"Yes, you're an ass, of course!" said Bob, entering into the family humor.

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"But, I say, I did make rather an ass of myself!"

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You are an ass, Eugene, to bring him down!"

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"Pat, you came near being a ---- ass that day.

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I was an opinionated ass, you see."

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"Play the game, and don't be an ass."

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"I object to being called an ass," said Chalmers, in a white rage.

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"But he called me an ass!"

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Ass is a mild term."

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He had the uneasy feeling that he was an arrant ass in thus fooling time away, but had not sufficient self-denial to seize upon a quiet afternoon for a little genuine work.

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"That ass Bourne found the house at last, and then he goes and carefully spots the wrong man.

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"What an awful ass I've been, sir!"

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"'Of future joys,' you ass."

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"Then do it, you ass," said the chairman.

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"I'm an ass," he said to himself; "but, anyhow, I'll look up what the blessed word does mean, and try to do it."

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St. Amory's fags did not spot anything wrong about item one, but the older fellows chuckled a little and said "the manager was a funny ass."

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Where is that ass?"

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"I'll try that left feint on Rogers, the cocky ass!"

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"Oh, don't be an ass, Gus!

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Agreeable to instructions received from you, sir, I prepared----" "Don't be so beastly legal, you ass!"

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"Dunno, quite," said Grim; "but that young ass dropped a cartridge from his pocket the other day."

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Blessed if that usual ass didn't handle the Fifth _v_.

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I've been an ass, but I've collared some awful luck, and I'm not quite the black sheep I seem.

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"We never bargained that old Grim would copy that Fifth Form ass, Todd, and chum up with Lancaster, did we?"

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"Said he was an ass."

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"An ass, a jackass, a howling jackass!" cried Poulett, _crescendo_.

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Toddy was too big an ass even for Cotton," remarked Wilson.

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Grim artistically kept the conversation on Todd, and Gus learned how like an ass each individual of the quintette thought him.

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He had felt the loss of Gus's helping hand terribly, and he had not yet found another ass to "devil" for him in the way of classics or mathematics.

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"You're a funny ass, Cotton.

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"Rather rough in parts, Cotton," said the old man, beaming on the shrinking Jim; "but at least you've not been ploughing Herodotus with the help of your old ass, Bohn."

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"You conceited ass, Grimmy!

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"The sunset, you ass!"

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"You're not quite such an ass as you once were."

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"Yes, but not quite the old ass.

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"So will the contents of these cases, you offspring of an ass," said the old man, "if you divide them."

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This garment will bring me success; for the Pagan who sees a crimson cloak on the shoulders of the Amhara,' (Abyssinian,) 'believing him to be a warrior of distinguished valour, will take, like an ass, to his heels, and be speared without the smallest danger.'"

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How little they knew, and with what carelessness they judged of these matters, appears, I think, pretty plainly from an example of no less weight than that of Tacitus, who, in a grave and professed discourse upon the history of the Jews, states that they worshipped the effigy of an ass.

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The Bourg d'Espaign instantly ran down stairs; for from the windows of the gallery, which looked into the court, he had seen a number of asses laden with billets of wood for the use of the house; and seizing the largest of these asses with his load, threw him over his shoulders and carried him up stairs, pushing through the crowd of knights and squires who were around the chimney, and flung ass and load with his feet upward on the dogs of the hearth, to the delight of the count and the astonishment of all."

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He had found the Archduke a burdensome ass, but no more.

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The Marquess's ass grew frisky, pricked up his ears and brayed.

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'Blessed ass, I have heard you snoring these two hours, snoring and rootling over your jack-knife.

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Then I am doubtless an ass."

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'Fer bein' sech a damned ass,' said he.

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Nobody but an ass could be caught at it, an' that's why I feel so infernal guilty.

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Look here, Mr. Crow, ever' time you see a feller that's proved himself a downright ass, jest take him out an' lynch him.

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"Do you think I'm an ass?"

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III Geoffrey was born with a love of adventure, and his dislike to his present expedition arose not from fear, but from a consciousness that if he did run into a den of thieves he would think himself such an ass to have come.

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He had a genius for the despatch of business: I had none; therefore he concluded I was an ass, and wondered how he came to be pleased with me.

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With the chance of the real thing as remote as a visit from Mars, I could be an ass and a braggart.

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"Yes, and that's what makes me say what I'm saying; he is one of them, though he needn't be if he weren't such a hopelessly sensitive ass.

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His arguments amused them, and his peroration fine, About "standing for old England stoutly all along the line," Would have surely proved impressive, but for some sardonic ass, Who produced an anti-climax with the shouted comment "Gas!"

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'He'll be goin' to see old Snoddles, I guess,' said Milly, looking a little frightened and curious; for Milly, I need not say, was a bumpkin, and stood in awe of this gentleman's good-breeding, though she was as brave as a lion, and would have fought the Philistines at any odds, with the jawbone of an ass.

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He has lived in a stable, among horses and ostlers; he has always seemed to me something like a centaur--that is a centaur composed not of man and horse, but of an ape and an ass.'

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"You see," he added, "that I'm a sort of an ass about business methods.

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"Phil," said his brother-in-law, "if you think anybody can do a profitable business except at other people's expense, you are an ass."

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I called him an ass, and said that he had better have remained away another year than come back and make mischief.

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"Yes," said Brett aloud, "you _are_ an egregious ass, Winter."

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What an ass Winter is, to be sure, whenever a subtle stroke requires an ingenious guard.

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"It is impossible to say what such a mad ass would be up to," commented his cousin.

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He could not lay himself bare to any one as a sentimental ass; he must arrange things as soon as possible to return South; he would, just before starting, tell Lynda and Brace of his attachment for Nella-Rose.

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But he lies, and is an ass, and not worth a man's thinking about.

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[262] J.B. corroborated my doubts by his raven-like croaking and criticising; but the good fellow writes me this morning that he is written down an ass, and that the approbation is unanimous.

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If a drunkard or an ass breaks in with anything out of joint, if you can parry it with a jest, good and well-if not, do not exert your serious authority, unless it is something very bad.

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There is a clergyman's letter about the Scottish pronunciation, to which I had written an answer some weeks since (the person is an ass, by the by).

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A tinker (drunk I suppose) entered the stream opposite to Faldonside with an ass bearing his children.

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Well, having written myself down an ass, I will daub it no farther, but e'en trifle till the humour of work comes.

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July 13.-Now "what a thing it is to be an ass!"

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One of his compositions, named "Cappriccio Stravagante," requires the instrument to imitate the braying of an ass, and other sounds belonging to the animal kingdom, as well as the twanging of guitars and the fife and drum of the soldier.

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Paganini advanced to the footlights exclaiming, "This for the men who hissed," and gave a vivid imitation of the braying of an ass.

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"Well, Dick, Providence makes use of strange instruments--the jawbone of an ass has a certain Scriptural prestige.

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PEEL.--(_Rises and goes to the door, which he double locks; returns to his seat, and takes from his waistcoat pocket a small piece of ass's skin._) I have jotted down a few names.

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* * * * * MR. JOSEPH MUGGINS begs to inform his old crony, PUNCH, that the report of Sir John Pullon, "as to the possibility of elevating an ass to the head of the poll by bribery and corruption" is perfectly correct, provided there is no abatement in the price.

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ASS.

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Wrote Paget to Pollen, With face bright as brass, "T'other day in the Town Hall You mention'd an ass: "Now, for family reasons, I'd like much to know, If on me you intended That name to bestow?"

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For instance, it would be vulgarly ridiculous to call a "cat" by its right name; and when one says "cat," a dogmatic naturalist is justified in thinking one means a lion or tiger, both these belonging to the _cat_egory of "cats;" hence, a "cat" is denominated, for shortness, _felis Ægyptiacus;_ an ass is turned into a horse, by being an _equus_; a woman into a man, for with him she is equally _homo_.

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Some person was relating to the Earl of Coventry the strange fact that the Earl of Devon's harriers last week gave chase, in his demesne, to an unhappy donkey, whom they tore to pieces before they could be called off; upon which his lordship asked for a piece of chalk and a slate, and composed the following _jeu d'esprit_ on the circumstance:-- I'm truly shocked that Devon's hounds The gentle ass has slain; For _me_ to shun his lordship's grounds, It seems a warning plain.

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Let SOLOMON himself return to the earth, and hold forth at a political meeting; SOLOMON himself would be hooted, laughed at, voted an ass, a nincompoop, if SOLOMON spoke from the platform with a hole in his breeches!

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We have seen the calculation very beautifully illuminated on ass's skin, and at this moment deposited in the college of Heligoland.

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We no more thought of dedicating a whole page to one Sir PETER LAURIE, than the zoological Mr. CROSS would think of devoting an acre of his gardens to one ass, simply because it happened to be the largest known specimen of the species.

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He had endeavoured to be much more ass--(_loud cheers_)--iduous than ever.

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"Deliver me from the devil," cried the Squire, "is it possible that a magistrate, or what d'ye call him, green as a fig, should appear no better than an ass in your worship's eyes?

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"Then I tell thee," said the master, "he is as certainly a _he_ ass as I am Don Quixote and thou Sancho Panza, at least so he seems to me."

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The ox and ass in homage low Obedient to their Maker bow: Bows too the unlearn'd heartless crowd Whose minds the sensual feast doth cloud.

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81 The legend of the ox and ass adoring our Lord arose from an allegorical interpretation of Isa.

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See an interesting article by Mr. Austin West (_Ox and Ass Legend of the Nativity_.

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It is interesting to note that with St. Francis and the Franciscans the ox and the ass are merely animals: the allegorical interpretation of Origen had vanished from Christendom: and in its place we find St. Francis (see _Life of St. Francis_ by St. Bonaventura, "Temple Classics" edition, p. 111) making a _presepio_ at Greccio, to which a living ox and ass are brought, in order that a visible representation of the manger-scene might kindle the devotion of the Brethren and the assembled townsfolk.

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"THAT'S THAT ASS, BOUNDERSON, ISN'T IT?

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FIRST ASS.

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SECOND ASS.

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They say that at the time when the soul leaves the body it passes in the case of a good man into the body of a newborn child, and in the case of a bad man into the body of a dog or an ass.

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Herbert Spencer was "the most unending ass in Christendom."

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As he himself says, "I don't mind dying for Jesus Christ, but not for making a silly ass of myself."

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Æsop might well have described their relative happiness in a fable about the wild ass and the mule.

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The episode of Bottom's "translation," or transformation into an ass, may have been suggested to Shakespeare by a passage in Reginald Scot's _Discovery of Witchcraft_ (1584)--a book with which he must have been acquainted, as we shall see in discussing the fairy-section of the play.

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Chief among these is the story[21] of an English sailor abroad, who got into the power of a witch and was transformed by her into an ass, so that when he attempted to rejoin his crew, he was beaten from the gangway with contempt.

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Scot mentions further the famous story of the _Golden Ass_ of Apuleius[22]; a legend of the reappearance of one of the Popes, a hundred years after his death, with an ass's head; and gives a charm to put an ass's head on a man.

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