The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Instead therefore, of obeying the reins, the animal bore away the car to the vicinity of its dam, viz., the she-ass that had brought it forth.

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Beholding those marks of violence on her child's nose, the she-ass, full of affection for him, said--Do not grieve, O child, for his treatment.

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Hearing these harsh words of the she-ass, Matanga quickly, came down from the car and addressing the she-ass, said,--Tell me, O blessed dame, by what fault is my mother stained?

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"The she-ass said, Begotten thou wert, upon a Brahmana woman excited with desire, by a Sudra following the profession of a barber.

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"Brahmana continued, 'Thus addressed by the she-ass, Matanga retraced his way homewards.

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O father, this she-ass, who seems to be more than a human being, tells me that I have been begotten upon a Brahmani woman by a Sudra.

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He has to live as an ass for five and ten years.

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Freed from the status of a worm, be next takes birth as an ass.

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As an ass he has to live for five years, and then a hog, in which state also he has to remain for as many years.

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He has then to become a beast of prey, and then an ass.

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That son with whom his parents become angry, has, in consequence of his evil thoughts towards them, to take birth as an ass.

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As an ass he has to live for ten months.

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[516] That wretch who himself well armed, slays another while that other is unarmed, from motives of obtaining his victim's wealth or from feelings of hostility, has, after casting off his human body, to take birth as an ass.

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I asked him whether we were likely to fall in with any hares, using the term 'khargosh', or 'ass-eared'.

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I'd make an ass of Hopkins if he were alive.--SHADWELL.

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For a long time to come we shall go on grudging our neighbour his house--there's no doubt about that; but even as his ox and ass have ceased to enter into practical ethics because our average neighbour doesn't possess either, so we hear it is to be with his servant and his maid.

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He was a cockscomb, he was an ass; but he preferred the West of England to Italy.

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I sha'n't be such an ass as to run into the street and say, 'I gave ten cents a yard for those goods, but you must pay me twenty.'

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But he is a dull, ignorant, ungrammatical, and ridiculous old ass for all that, thought Boniface Newt; and the said ass sitting in Boniface Newt's counting-room, and amusing and fatiguing Messrs. Newt & Son with his sez I's, and sez shes, and his mas, and his done its, was quietly making up his mind that the house of Newt & Son had received no accession of capital or strength by the entrance of the elegant Abel into a share of its active management, and that some slight whispers which he had heard remotely affecting the standing of the house must be remembered.

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If they had called him an ass--as they were ladies of the best position--he would have bowed, smiled, and passed on.

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One is, that you can not be too careful of what you say, in regard to its bearing upon the party; and the other is, a general rule that the Public is an ass, but you must never let it know you think so.

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"The Public, then, is an ass and a sheep?" inquired Abel.

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"Yes," said the General, "an ass in capacity, and in preference of a thistle diet; a sheep in gregarious and stupid following.

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"An ass, a sheep, and a cow," said Abel.

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Nevertheless this attempt at making a happy family and ploughing with an ox and ass in the same yoke, has not been an unqualified success.

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that, as _Pliny_ tells us (_non sine pudore_, not without blushing) a poor Man could hardly find a _Thistle_ to dress for his Supper; or what his hungry [117]_Ass_ would not touch, for fear of pricking his Lips.

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or whose ass have I taken?

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Samuel had commanded him to smite the Amalekites, and to spare not men or women, infants or sucklings, oxen or sheep, camel or ass.

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The bull, the cow, the dog, and even the cat have all been praised in prose or verse; but the poor donkey still remains an ass, the butt of ridicule, the symbol of stupidity, the object of abuse.

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"I say, I feel no end of an ass, don't you?" whispered Louis.

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"We all know how damned superior you always are, and as for an emasculated old ass like St. Paul--blasted, white-livered passive resister--" She stared at him and laughed.

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"I say," he whispered, into her hair, "I was an ass over those damn smokes.

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"Oh, that ass who sat in my chair?

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"Well, you can tell the footling ass from me that he's a thumping liar.

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=asno= ass.

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Then he could be making up any face he pleased in the ass's head, and would look like an ass without any difficulty, while his feet would show he was not one.

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Solomon John thought that they might make an ass's head if they could get a pattern, or could see the real animal and form an idea of the shape.

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Agamemnon, however, in going with a friend to a costumer's in Boston, found an ass's head already made.

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Mr. Peterkin, in his white toga, with a green wreath upon his head, came forward to address her in a noble manner, while she was terrified by the appearance of Agamemnon's ass's head, half hidden among the leaves.

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Of all the rides since the birth of time, Told in story or sung in rhyme,-- On Apuleius's Golden Ass, Or one-eyed Calendar's horse of brass, Witch astride of a human back, Islam's prophet on Al-Borak,-- The strangest ride that ever was sped Was Ireson's, out from Marblehead!

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HOW DON QUIXOTE WON A HELMET; HOW HE FOUGHT WITH TWO ARMIES; AND HOW SANCHO'S ASS WAS STOLEN V. HOW DON QUIXOTE SAW DULCINEA VI.

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Don Quixote rode "Rozinante;" Sancho Panza was mounted on an ass.

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That his squire should ride an ass at first troubled the Knight not a little, for in none of his books could he remember to have read of any squire being so mounted.

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IV HOW DON QUIXOTE WON A HELMET; HOW HE FOUGHT WITH TWO ARMIES; AND HOW SANCHO'S ASS WAS STOLEN Many were the adventures that now befell Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.

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"Not a thing can I see," answered Sancho, "but a fellow on just such another ass as mine, with something that glitters on top of his head."

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Here's a chance of a good ass.

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Gently, in the moonlight, he led the tired ass away, and Sancho, undisturbed, snored on.

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And with many tears he searched high and low, but no ass was then to be found, nor for many months afterwards.

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But had Don Quixote known that this same Master Peter was the very man who stole Sancho Panza's ass, perhaps he might have paid him in another way.

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Titania was still sleeping, and Oberon seeing a clown near her, who had lost his way in the wood, and was likewise asleep: "This fellow," said he, "shall be my Titania's true love;" and clapping an ass's head over the clown's, it seemed to fit him as well as if it had grown upon his own shoulders.

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Come, sit with me," said she to the clown, "and let me play with your amiable hairy cheeks, my beautiful ass!

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"I had rather have a handful of dried pease," said the clown, who with his ass's head had got an ass's appetite.

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When the fairy king saw the clown sleeping in the arms of his queen, he advanced within her sight, and reproached her with having lavished her favors upon an ass.

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"Well, as the saying is, many an ass has entered Jerusalem."

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You'll excuse me, cavalier, but I am not always nor altogether an ass--and I say to you that half a dozen such knights would rejuvenate Christendom.

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V.i.87 (313,1) which this ass now o'er-reaches] In the quarto, for over-offices is, over-reaches , which agrees better with the sentence: it is a strong exaggeration to remark that an ass can over-reach him who would once have tried to circumvent .-I believe both the words were Shakespeare's.

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A quibble is intended between as the conditional particle, and ass the beast of burthen.

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If you don't mind my saying so, you're making a prodigious ass of yourself and of Jerry.

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A red sublimate of AsS^{2} is first formed and then a black sublimate of metallic arsenic.

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Decrepitates and gives an orange colored sublimate of AsS^{2}.

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Gives a slight white sublimate of SbO^{3} and more or less AsS^{3}.

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AsS^{2}.

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AsS^{3}.

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Fuses and at a low red heat affords a small sublimate of AsS^{3}.

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Both girls were quiet, and this made my task harder, and perhaps in my anxiety to ward off questions and appear happy for their own sakes I made an ass of myself with my silly talk and familiarity.

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What I mean is, that Mrs. Ross is a bit of a lion-hunter, and she may take a fancy to make a lion of you--" "That is better than to make an ass of me, as you suggested."

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Suffering gives him a certain sort of dignity: but how is one to retain patience with the blindness of this insufferable ass?

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How a fellow can be such an ass as to blow his brains out when his wife runs away from him beats my comprehension altogether.

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"And wass you saying there will be anything so beautiful about Greenock ass you will find at Tobbermorry?"

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"Tobermory!" said the other; "There are some trees at Tobermory--oh yes; and the Mish-nish and the shops--" "Yess, and the waterfahl--do not forget the waterfahl, Colin; and there iss better whiskey in Tobbermorry ass you will get in all Greenock, where they will be for mixing it with prandy and other drinks like that; and at Tobbermorry you will hef a Professor come all the way from Edinburgh and from Oban to gif a lecture on the Gaelic; but do you think he would gif a lecture in a town like Greenock?

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And it iss ferry glad I will be, Colin, to see Ardalanish Point again; for I would rather be going through the Doruis Mohr twenty times ass getting petween the panks of this tamned river."

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Christina had to leave the cabin just then; when she returned she said, with some little hesitation, "If I wass mekking so bold, mem, ass to say this to you: Why are you not asking the questions of Sir Keith himself?

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"Amiable ass, Johnson," he volunteered.

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"You, my dear sir, are worse: you're an ass," said Mr. Jelnik, and fetched a sigh of tiredness.

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He is a conceited sort of ass like his father before him, the sort that thinks all clover is his fodder."

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A man back in the crowd let out a laugh as loud as the braying of an ass.

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The man who respects no authority above his own intellect is a conceited ass and would be a tyrant if he had the chance.

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Was she interested in that young ass who was risking his bones over there in the city?

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I've been a selfish, overbearing, good-for-nothing ass ever since I could walk, and if she wasn't a saint she'd have kicked me out long ago.

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"Let alone the number--that fable might be pardoned--but he thought me such an egregious ass as not to know that the war was with the Turks, and not with the Persians at all."

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The doctor was an ass for his dictum; and it is only to be regretted that he did not live to express this impudent opinion in our day.

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At length he said, "Sir, sir, you must have forgotten that an author has said, (he then repeated in Latin,) one ass will deny more in one hour, than a hundred philosophers will prove in a hundred years."

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"Jonathan Hulls, With his paper skulls, Invented a machine To go against wind and stream; But he, being an ass, Couldn't bring it to pass, And so was asham'd to be seen."

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).--In answer to your correspondent, G.P.I., concerning a translation of the _Golden Ass of Apuleius_, I beg you will insert the following particulars.

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Taylor's translation of Apuleius's _Golden Ass_, Lond.

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Once on a time a certain English lass Was seized with symptoms of such deep decline, Cough, hectic flushes, ev'ry evil sign, That, as their wont is at such desperate pass, The Doctors gave her over--to an ass.

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Moreover, he had a Golden Ass, Sometimes at stall, and sometimes at grass, That was worth his own weight in money And a golden hive, on a Golden Bank, Where golden bees, by alchemical prank, Gather'd gold instead of honey.

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That the Golden Ass, or Golden Bull, Was English John, with his pockets full, Then at war by land and water: While beef, and mutton, and other meat, Were almost as dear as money to eat, And farmers reaped Golden Harvests of wheat At the Lord knows what per quarter!

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Like the Steed in the fable so lofty and grand, Who gave the poor Ass to understand That _he_ didn't carry a bag of sand, But a burden of golden treasure.

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Had her horse been fed upon English grass, And shelter'd in Yorkshire spinneys, Had he scour'd the sand with the Desert Ass, Or where the American whinnies-- But a hunter from Erin's turf and gorse, A regular thoroughbred Irish horse, Why, he ran away, as a matter of course, With a girl worth her weight in guineas!

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She could not please the pigs with her whim, And the sheep wouldn't cast their eyes at a limb For which she had been such a martyr: The deer in the park, and the colts at grass, And the cows unheeded let it pass; And the ass on the common was such an ass, That he wouldn't have swopp'd The thistle he cropp'd For her Leg, including the Garter!

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Away he went, and many a score Of riders did the same, On horse and ass--like high and low And Jack pursuing game!

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"What an ass I am!"

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"I'm ass enough to be much obliged," he said.

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"Yes, but I was ass enough to think _you_ cared for _me_."

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What an infernal ass I am!

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"It's up to you, Dolly, to prove me a bigger ass than I have been yet--or the reverse."

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What Notions have we silly Women from these old Philosophers of Virtue, for Virtue is this, and Virtue is that, and Virtue has its own Reward; Virtue, Virtue is an Ass, and a Gallant is worth forty on't.

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