The 1,637 occurrences of jackass

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The Deacon had declared that I should not only suffer for the crime of attending a prayer meeting without his permission, and for running away, but for the awful crime of stealing a jackass, which was death by the law when committed by a negro.

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But I well knew that I was regarded as property, and so was the ass; and I thought if one piece of property took off another, there could be no law violated in the act; no more sin committed in this than if one jackass had rode off another.

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Every where throughout this wild region lay the antlers and heads of moose and elk; but, with the exception of an occasional large jackass-rabbit, nothing living moved through the silent hills.

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But when I began telling him with convulsive laughter, of the revenge I had taken on the mate ... and also how I had thrown all the keys overboard, Hoppner, instead of joining in with my laughter, struck at me, not at all playfully, "What kind of damn jackass have I joined up with, anyhow," he exclaimed.

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"Why, then, I'm heartily sorry ... and it was rough of me ... and will you tell the professor for me that I sincerely apologise for having hurt his feelings ... tell him I have so many jackasses attending my lectures all over the country, who rise and say foolish and insincere things, just to stand in well with the communities they live in--that sometimes it angers me, their hypocrisy--and then I blaze forth pretty strong and lay them flat!"

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"Yes; we printed his first article, you know ... just as we gave you your start.... "Baxter is the most remarkable combination of genius and jackass I have ever run into.

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I'm so sorry for Penton ... for both of them.... "Penton _is_ such a jackass, Johnnie," she gulped, "and God knows, as I do, he's such an honest, good man ... helping poor people all over the country ... really fighting the fight of the down-trodden and the oppressed."

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When the fiery liquor arrived in his stomachical regions he realized with perfect clarity that it was without doubt some newly invented substitute for whisky; perhaps that jackass-brandy which he had heard of.

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CHAPTER XXII They started awake at dawn to the discordant laughter of a jackass in the gum tree above their heads.

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The next thing he met with was a poor jackass feeding very quietly in a ditch.

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At length, while he was in this disagreeable situation, he happened to come up to the same jackass he had seen in the morning, and, making a sudden spring, jumped upon his back, hoping by this means to escape.

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"You're a d----d jackass," I said, storming down at where he sat from my indignant five feet eight.

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"A jackass," I repeated firmly, still holding the neck of the brandy bottle.

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A d----d jackass!

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A jackass, I am.

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"It should never be a qualification of the voter, because it would lead us up to this dilemma: if I have a jackass I can vote.

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If the jackass dies I can not vote.

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Therefore, my vote would represent the jackass and not me."

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My gorry, they hired jackasses like me an' Mike here t' dig fer all they wanted t' know about.

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A jackass like me an' Mike, here, we're the fellers thot went on a lookin' fer gold an' givin' no thought to the trees that stood above.

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Of course the green's cropt very close, and does famous for bowling when the little village boys play at cricket; Only some horse, or pig, or cow, or great jackass, is sure to come and stand right before the wicket.

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DISCRIMINATIVE On a road in Belgium a German officer met a boy leading a jackass and addressed him in heavy jovial fashion as follows: "That's a fine jackass you have, my son.

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I think too highly of my jackass."

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I replied, "Yes, he is an old jackass."

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Judge Field says you are an old jackass."

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Schmoff would eat a horse if he had not a bullock, and a piece of jackass if he had not a horse."

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Hear some of the names of the places where they dig:--"Jackass Flat,"--"Sheep's-Head Gully,"--"Murderer's Bar," etc.

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Let them carry their ill-gotten wealth where they will, I am thinking it will still be "Jackass Flat," if not "Murderer's Bar," where they live.

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Here is the sun getting low, and the magpies and jackasses beginning to tune up before roosting.

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It was the laughing jackass.

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Like a young jackass as I was, I still retained her hand, throwing as much persuasion as I possibly could in my eyes.

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Now then behold your friend mounted upon a jackass in the streets of Alexandria, a boy behind holding by his tail and whipping him up, Charles (who had been lost sight of in the crowd) upon another, and my guide upon a third, and off we go among a crowd of Jews and Greeks, Turks and Arabs, and veiled women and yelling donkey-boys to see the city.

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Lord Deilmacare, a good-natured jackass--a fellow who would eat a jacketful of carrion, if placed before him, with as much _gout_ as if it were venison.

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I rather think they are some of our own species;" and as he ceased speaking the tremendous braying of a jackass came upon their ears.

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You have a portion of good sense about you, but in a thousand things you're a jackass, Harry."

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D'you hear, you gaping jackass?

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No doubt he was the "gaping jackass" whom Mr. Vetch had so addressed in his fury.

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Jackass!"

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"Either get orders from him, or go home and leave me in holy peace, you band of braying jackasses, you mob of blobber-lipped Barbary apes, you pack of doltish, droiling, doddered joltheads!

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They only looked coldly at the pens filled with cattle for sale; long-horned, mouse-colored oxen were there; groups of patient donkeys, or the rough-maned, shaggy-fetlocked, bright-eyed small horses of the Campagna; countless pigs, many goats; while above all, the loud-singing jackasses were performing at the top of their lungs.

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The cause of it was a poor starved jackass, that had been sheltering himself under the lee of the hedge, and now, as we all but trampled him, heaved himself out of the shadow with a bray of terror.

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"If that were true, Nina--just supposing that were the true state of the case--why, I should be fighting a duel over a woman I don't care twopence about, and with a young jackass whom I could kick across the street!

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Even the Derwent Jackass, the hypocrite with the shining black coat and piercing whistle, joins in the public outcry, and his character is worse than that of the hawk himself, for he has been caught in the act of kidnapping and devouring the unfledged young of his nearest neighbour.

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A solitary eaglehawk sat on the top branch of a dead gum-tree, watching him with evil eyes; a chorus of laughing jackasses cackled after him in derision from a grove of young timber; a magpie, the joy of the morning, and most mirthful of birds, whistled for him sweet notes of hope and good cheer; then a number of carrion crows beheld him, and approached with their long-drawn, ill-omened "croank, croank," the most dismal note ever uttered by any living thing.

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And 'ware o' the breech; she'll kick like a jumping jackass when the shot flies out of her, an'll knock your teeth out afore you can say Jack Robinson-- "Ah!

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Hiram made for the barn door and then said, "heard a gentleman say as how there was only one jackass in Eastborough and he taught the singin' school."

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He walked up close to Quincy and said, "Well, my friend told me that you said there was but one jackass in Eastborough and he sang bass in the quartette."

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When you settle with him for calling you a jackass I'll settle with him for calling me a liar."

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'A talking jackass,' was his only reply, in his most chilling tones.

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"I mean, of course, not absolutely motionless," answered Barbican; "absolute immobility is, as you are well aware, altogether impossible, but motionless with regard to the Earth and the-" "By Mahomet's jackass!" interrupted Ardan hastily, "I must say we're a precious set of imbéciles !"

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What jackasses!

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It was inhabited by a ragged ruffian of the name of E----, whose small domain we sometimes saw undergoing arable processes by the joint labor of his son and heir, a ragged ruffian some sizes smaller than himself, and of a half-starved jackass, harnessed together to the plow he was holding; occasionally the team was composed of the quadruped and a tattered and fierce-looking female biped, a more terrible object than even the man and boy and beast whose labors she shared.

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don't be a bloomin' jackass!'

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"Don't be a triple-plated jackass.

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"Too much tramped up by cowboys and other jackasses," said Curley.

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Old Man Bright girded his loins and packed his jackass.

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"But Fallan's got a good stamp-mill all ready for business, and the ledge----" "Son," said California John, "every once in a while the Lord gets to experimentin' makin' brains for a new species of jackass, and when he runs out of donkeys to put 'em in----" "Meaning me?" demanded Gaynes, his fair skin turning a deep red.

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With closed mouth, drooping ears, and head low, there stood the mustang, as meek and docile as any old jackass.

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We're a lot of sublimated jackasses, sacrificing our country to ideals that are worn at elbow and down at heel.

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In the vicissitudes of life before long the merchant would pass for a reincorporation of his soul, and probably, because of his sins as an oppressor of the poor, come back as a turtle or a jackass; certainly not as a revered cow--he was too unholy.

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Presently he stopped, saying, "Sit you in a line, brave chiefs, facing the great temple of Siva, which is in the mountains of the East, so that the voice of Bhowanee coming out of the silent places and from the mouth of the jackal or the jackass, shall be known to be from the right or the left, for thus will be the interpretation."

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"I'm a blamed double-action jackass, with a peanut for a mind!" exclaimed Porter.

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The haughty aristocrat, with his magnificent plantation, his army of slaves, and his "cattle on a thousand hills," who eagerly contracted the debt, had been transformed into a sour pauper when called upon to honor his note; while the magnificent plantation had been in many instances cut into a thousand bits to make homes for the former slaves, now freemen and citizens, the equals of "my lord," while "his cattle on a thousand hills" had dwindled down to a stubborn jackass and a worn out milch cow.

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There seemed no reason for Whitey's staying any longer, and Chet again went to the stable, and returned leading what is called a jack, "jack" being short for "jackass."

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H'm, that would be rather less useful than a dead jackass--unless one came to the conclusion of making cat's meat of you.

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He's a consequential jackass, and wants taking down a peg or two.'

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Jackass = azenviro.

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The rider was close now and the Texan recognized a self-important young jackass who had found work with one of the smaller outfits.

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A different kind of boat docked there, large utility freighters that brought in everything the Island needed and took away braying, kicking herds of jackasses.

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A large, pot-bellied jackass, who leapt up and brayed loudly at him when he clucked his tongue at it.

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"All right, Art," my jackass lawyer said, giving me a prod.

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Don't you reckon I know what a long-eared jackass I am?"

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"See what you've done, you silly jackass!" he whispered to his assistant, during a momentary pause in the proceedings.

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Our marabout, comparing this place with El-Wady, for which we are now journeying, says, "Edree is like a jackass; El-Wady is like a camel!"

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Here I gave him one of those pats on the shoulder so impressive, and pulled out a double-headed cent, like unto those so much in use in General Jackson's time, when shaving decapitated the deposits he found himself mounted on the back of a brass jackass.

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Marcy added, in a private and confidential note, that he felt inclined to question the policy of inviting certain gentlemen, but as a matter of etiquette it could not be foregone; and then he was anxious to keep peace in the house, I was ordered to bag Buckhanan, and, if against his will, carry him captive; to summon Monsieur Souley, who was an excellent cook, not a bad fighting man, but a diplomatist fit only for the small work of the _carbonari;_ to dispatch Mason, who they said was cultivating his French, with the hope of being up in the language of diplomacy in the course of six years more; to enjoin Mr. Fay, well known in Switzerland for his love of quiet life; to inveigle Mr. Belmont, who at the Hague had taken upon himself the reforming his brother Israelites, and turning to account sundry Dutch bonds; to do as I pleased with Mr. Daniels, who had sustained the character of America by affecting contempt for all the aristocratic snobs about Turin, who would to his annoyance crowd themselves into his opera-box, and make too free with his fair favorite; to be sure and capture Mr. Jackson, through whose courteous and dignified demeanor America was making herself respected at Vienna; to send an escort for Mr. Spence, who had endeared himself to his fellow-countrymen in Constantinople; and to send a jackass for Mister O'Sullivan, who had at Lisbon become celebrated for his misfortunes at bagatelle and chess--to drum them all together for the one grand object.

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Close in the rear of the chair, your humble servant, Smooth, took up his position, riding a female jackass, an animal domesticated by Monsieur Souley, under whose saddle she had borne up until the flesh was nearly off her bones.

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In straggling order did the grotesque train wend its way,--Monsieur Souley mounted on the before-named jackass, which, having so long been accustomed to Monsieur's riding, obstinately refused to be mounted by my friend Buck, who was in consequence seated on boxes '_one, two and three_,' which were placed on a Dutch van, and drawn by two more docile donkeys, bringing up the rear.

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* * * * * Lord William Paget has applied to the Lord Chancellor, to inquire whether the word "jackass" is not opprobrious and actionable.

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If it be so, I shall certainly vacate my place in favour of a jackass.

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The _Salisbury Herald_ says, that Sir John Pollen stated, in reference to his defeat at the Andover election, "that from the bribery and corruption resorted to for that purpose, they (the electors) would have returned a jackass to parliament."

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Trumpeter in Ordinary to "all the geese," and himself in particular, On his extraordinary Pegasus, beautifully represented by a Jackass, Idealised with magnificent goose's wings.

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_John Jones_,--for who shall conceive the profanity of man?--may have called one of these magistrates "goose" or "jackass;" and the offence against the justice is a contempt of the parson.

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You tells me a jackass es obstinate.

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Ef you wants quiet contrariness, a jackass or a hog'll both _sit out_ a bull; an' tho' you may cuss the pair till you sweats like a fuz'-bush on a dewy mornin', 'tes like heavin' bricks into a bott'mless pit.

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I wants you to take the dree jackasses an' go to beach for ore-weed, an' as I likes to gie a good boy like you a vew privileges, you be busy an' carry so many seams [1] as you can, an' I'll gie drappence for ivery seam more'n twenty.'

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"Well, sir, I worked like a Trojan, an' ha'f killed they jackasses; an' I tell 'ee 'twas busy all to carry dree-an'-twenty seam.

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At length this one-sided conversation between a jackanapes and a jackass became too intolerable for Brand, who threw away his cigarette, and descended once more into the hall.

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"Th' world's full o' jackasses brayin' an' they never bray nowt but lies.

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Fool, fool, if you had possessed the wit of a jackass you would have known I hated you!

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"What an old jackass he is!

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97 represents the head of a jackass, the thumbs being the ears, and the separation of the little from the third fingers showing the jaws.

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Our Indians have no special superstition concerning the evil-eye like the Italians, nor have they been long familiar with the jackass so as to make him emblematical of stupidity; therefore signs for these concepts are not cisatlantic, but even in this paper many are shown which are substantially in common between our Indians and Italians.

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After he had reproduced the mewing of a cat, the barking of a dog, the crowing of a cock, etc., he advanced to the footlights and called out, "Questo è per quelli che han fischiato" ("This is for those who hissed"), and imitated in an unmistakable way the braying of the jackass.

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And then he arrives--the jackass--and in a sublime good-humour!

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I never heard the name of the song--whether it was "I'm sitting on the stile, Mary," or "A watcher, pale and weary"--but if it was the latter, I am not surprised that it should have overcome even a jackass.

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That was a lively concert; but it was soon ended by the lady rushing from the room and sending her man John to drive out the musical jackass with a big stick.

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The nearest that the majority of jackasses come to being votaries of music is when their skins are used for covering cases for musical instruments.

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If there is any animal in the whole world that receives worse treatment or is held in less esteem than the ordinary Jackass, I am very sorry for it.

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