The 1,637 occurrences of jackass

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With the exception of a few warm countries, where this animal grows to a large size, and is highly valued, the Jackass or Donkey is everywhere considered a stupid beast, a lazy beast, an obstinate beast, and very often a vicious beast.

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To liken any one to a Jackass is to use very strong language.

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And yet if some of these fleet and spirited animals should be captured, and they and their descendants for several generations should be exposed to all sorts of privations and hardships; worked hard as soon as their spirits were broken, fed on mean food and very little of it; beaten, kicked, and abused; exposed to cold climates, to which their nature does not suit them, and treated in every way as our Jackasses are generally treated, they would soon become as slow, poky, and dull as any Donkey you ever saw.

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If we have nothing else, it is very well to have a good ancestry, and no nobleman in Europe is proportionately as well descended as the Jackass.

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"Whut did ye hit me fer, ye long-legged minin' jackass?"

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"I made you a fair offer, shipmate, and you rejected it like a long-shore jackass as you are.

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"Why, it was all about horseracing, pugilism, and cock fighting, you jackass!"

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Everybody on whom his insolent glance fell, who had any sort of business to do, did it wrong, and was a 'precious disciple,' or a 'goose,' or a 'born jackass,' and excited his scoffing chuckle.

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"Joe," said Hattie, "don't you get awful tired of being a jackass?

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That's where I first met Jeff, and he saved me from making a jackass out of myself.

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That jackass of a Major Domo told me this was the place.

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"Most jackasses are," I returned, savagely.

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"And I would right now," he muttered to himself, "only I suppose that anything I said would sound like the braying of a jackass!"

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It was a rough camp, and as wild a situation as one could find, and it was a rough-looking lot of men that night who occupied it, in the depth of a black pine forest with the glaring light of a huge fire illuminating the recesses of the overhanging trees and dense underwood, increasing the darkness beyond, with the ominous cry of the mawpawk and laughing jackass only breaking the dead stillness.

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Chairley maniged to sam hissen together, an' findin' at he worn't killed, he went to mak friends ageean wi' Testy; an' if ivver ther wor two disconsolate lukkin' jackasses i' this world, it wor them two.

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And your holy men fined one fellow a hundred pounds for calling their justices a pack of jackasses----" "Sentence is to be pronounced to-morrow after communion," said Rebecca.

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He was struck with the size of the jackass in the picture of Ober-Ammergau, and asked if they grew so large in that country.

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The Major bellowed, "You damned jackass!

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We can also, perhaps, understand how the conflicts between the parish priests and monks led them sometimes to caricature each other in the grotesque heads of corbels and gargoyles; nor does it surprise us that Luther, indignant and rude, should portray the Pope to the public under the form of a jackass.

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But you two thought you were being smart--" "Shut up and sit down, you old jackass!" one of Joyner's people shouted at him.

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I've been on the 'unt for the 'Daura' iver since I was twenty, an' I've arskt ivery 'yerber I've ivir met for the 'Secta Croa,' an' all I've 'ad sed to me is 'Go 'long wi' ye for a loony jackass!

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But jackass or no, I'm of a mind to think there _is_ such things as both the 'Daura' an' the 'Secta Croa,' if I on'y knew the English of 'em.

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"You tarnation jackass!" sighed Gibney.

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"In addition to makin' a three-ply jackass o' me!"

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In addition to the small arms, Lopez had at present in a warehouse three machine guns and four 3 inch breech-loading pieces of field artillery (the kind of guns generally designated as a "jackass battery," for the reason that they can be taken down and transported over rough country on mules)--together with a supply of ammunition for same.

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We'll get out them two little jackass guns and fight a naval battle, and if I don't sink that Mexican gunboat, and save the _Maggie_, feed me to the sharks, for I won't be worthy of the blood that's in me.

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For my part I have galloped over my ten parishes these four days, until this moment that I am just alighted, or rather, that my poor jackass-skeleton of a horse has let me down; for the miserable devil has been on his knees half a score of times within the last twenty miles, telling me in his own way, 'Behold, am not I thy faithful jade of a horse, on which thou hast ridden these many years!'

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No man maltreats his wild brother so much as the so-called 'civilised' negro: he never addresses his congener except by 'You jackass!' and tells him ten times a day that he considers such trash like the dirt beneath his feet.

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Then, jumping upon the taffrail of his craft, as we came abreast the shoal, he yelled, like a Comanche, to my pilot to: "Port the helm!" and what does my mutton-headed jackass do but port hard over!

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The Sarkee has presented Yusuf with a horse, blind with one eye, and not much bigger than a jackass, in return for the present Yusuf made to him.

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"Why should _you_ wish _me_ good evening, you stupid jackass!

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Git out, I say, you knock-kneed jackasses!"

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"I would suggest," said the School-Master, dryly, "that a little rampant jackass would make a good crest for your cakes."

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"I do not know but that a jackass rampant would be about as comprehensive of my virtues as anything I might select.

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The jackass is a combination of all the best qualities.

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Has no vices, never pretends to be anything but a jackass, and most respectfully declines to be ridden by Tom, Dick, and Harry.

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We consider that to call a man an ass is a reproach, but in the East in bewailing a lost friend they frequently exclaim, "Alas, my jackass!" for they do not associate the animal with stupidity, but with patience and usefulness.

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"I'm a jackass," he said fervently.

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The little jackass ought to ha' held his tongue.

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Laughing jackass _guguburra_.

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Laughing jackass _guginyal_.

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I read an article in a scientific paper from the pen of a jackass who showed a Corliss engine card, and then blackguarded the railroad mechanics of America for being satisfied with the link because it was handy.

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"Well, course I saw her home, and tried my best to be interesting, but if a fellow ever in his natural life becomes a double-barreled jackass, it's just immediately after he falls in love.

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"Hold your horses, sonny, what's the difference between you and a jackass?" he said.

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There is but the germ of "The Playboy of the Western World" in the story told Synge in Inishmaan of the hiding there from the police of the man that killed his father, but there is old Mourteen's comparison of an unmarried man to "an old jackass straying in the rocks," which later we find transferred to Michael James Flaherty almost as Synge heard it--"an old braying jackass straying upon the rocks."

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Money flowed freely, as did bootleg jackass brandy.

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His face showed the effects of a sleepless night, but he was already refortified with jackass brandy for the ordeals of the day, and was in nowise stupid.

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He was evidently a self-starter, having brought his own, and, all alone at Ghost Falcott's bar, he was pouring raw jackass brandy down a throat that seemed urgently in need of it.

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Got any jackass?

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'The old jackass.

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I don't want you to bubble like that jackass did."

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To reach this camp they had to charter jackasses.

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If anyone happens to fall out with his jackass, let me recommend him, instead of beating it, to slay and eat it.

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They don't pay no attention to what a gent in black clothes and a choker tells 'em; but suppose Chantay Seeche Red--rippin', roarin' Red Saunders, that fears the face of no man, nor the hoof of no jackass--lays his hand on a boy's shoulder, and says, "Son, I wouldn't twist it just like that."

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At last he said bitterly: "I seem to have every jackass in London in my service.

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I believe I employ every incompetent jackass in London," said the duke bitterly.

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[Illustration] THE MIRROR Br'er Donkey, drinkin' at de brook, Surveys hisself wid offish look, An' 'low: "You Jackass makes too free!

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We watched the party start one early morning, the clergyman all smiles, the ladies in a flutter, all three mounted on hired chargers of the most dejected type, old Câsim from the school attending them upon a jackass.

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They went in coaches and carriages, on horses and jackasses, riding and walking, crawling and creeping.

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They went in coaches and carriages, on horses and jackasses, riding and walking, and crawling and creeping.

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From that periodical we learn that Cooper was "a passable scribbler of passable novels," a "bilious braggart," a "liar," a "full jackass," "a man of consummate and inbred vulgarity," "a bore of the first magnitude in society," who went about fishing for (p. 175) introductions.

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Somebody called the fellow who wanted to break into our shaft for the needful evidence a much-emphasized jackass, and pointed to the wagon-tracks leading straight to our shack.

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But, my dear, it was as good as the theayter to see the six young Kings an' the ould King, a-lookin' at aitch other as stupid as a jackass, all as wan as the castle 'ad 'a' fallen on thim.

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'I'd betther thrust me arriants to a four-legged jackass as to wan wid two.

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Colonel Markham says of it that it is something in appearance between a jackass and a thar , with long stout legs, and a strong neck.

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He said the sergeant was an incompetent jackass.--Wasn't them the words he used, doctor?"

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A robbery in Jackass Ravine was traced to that gang.

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It's her jackass of a father that's up there!" cried Mr. Filer, with his hand on the latch of the door, which the policeman had allowed him to approach.

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So I says to myself: 'Bill, you ol' jackass, you got to reform, that's all there are to it.

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The proverb says that a Polperro jackass is surprised at nothing, and this one, which had been browsing on the edge of the ditch, merely gazed.

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The jackass drew back a little.

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If Jowter Puckey pastured his jackass here, why here then (it was reasonable to surmise) he also pastured the old mare, Pleasant: and if Pleasant browsed anywhere within earshot, why the chances were she would remember and respond to her former master's call.

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He had his two fingers in his mouth to repeat the call when, happening to glance at the jackass, he perceived the beast's ears go up and its head slew round towards the ridge.

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Neither Gunner Sobey nor the mare--nor, for that matter, the jackass--had ever read the eighteenth book of Homer's Iliad; and this must be their excuse for letting pass the encounter with less eloquence than I, its narrator, might have made a fortune by reporting.

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For a while the jackass trotted beside them; but coming to the gate and dismounting to open it, Gunner Sobey turned him back.

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"I have been expecting to hear you say you'd settled with the jackass that gave you that licking that day.

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We walked along together and he said something about Miss Merriam, and I was jackass enough to say that I hoped--not _thought_, Ethel Blue, but _hoped_; do you see the difference?"

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So´-wi Jackass rabbit.

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Forgetting the number before he was three steps from the hotel, he inquired of a man who was driving a she-jackass to be milked, where the bath was.

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Longer words he would not try to pronounce, but called them, each and all, "jackass" as fast as he came to them.

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I acquired some of this learning in Jackass Gulch, California, more than forty years ago.

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Jackass Gulch had once been a rich and thriving surface-mining camp.

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Last winter, here in New York, I saw Hoppe and Schaefer and Sutton and the three or four other billiard champions of world-wide fame contend against each other, and certainly the art and science displayed were a wonder to see; yet I saw nothing there in the way of science and art that was more wonderful than shots which I had seen Texas Tom make on the wavy surface of that poor old wreck in the perishing saloon at Jackass Gulch forty years before.

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With practice, that champion [Pg 334] could score nineteen or twenty on the Jackass Gulch table; but to start with, Texas Tom would show him miracles that would astonish him; also it might have another handsome result: it might persuade the great experts to discard their own trifling game and bring the Jackass Gulch outfit here and exhibit their skill in a game worth a hundred of the discarded one, for profound and breathless interest, and for displays of almost superhuman skill.

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Notwithstanding his numerous and curious occupations, I should not omit to add that his Lordship, nevertheless, found time to lead by the nose a most meek and milk-white jackass that immediately followed him, and which, in spite of the remarkable length of its ears, seemed the object of great veneration.

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Then Messiani jumped up from the piano stool, seized the astonished boy about the waist and raised him high off his feet, at the same time yelling at the top of his voice: "What a little jackass!

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"I only wish as I could think so, for all our sakes, Mr. Fairlegh; but facts is like jackasses, precious stubborn things.

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"If the dome gives them a perfect cover, why let me make a jackass of myself, Mother?" he asked numbly.

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"Son of a dog," growled the old Turk, as he rubbed his pet corn in agony; "may your mother's grave be defiled, and the jackass bray over your father's bones."

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Wild wallabies were plentiful round about, and the "laughing jackass" first made himself known to me.

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Bottom is to play the big blower in the improvised drama and the Jackass among the fairies.

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"Don't think I am a confounded jackass.

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If they were taken in flat boats, carried over the mountains on mules, and lifted across the rivers in slings, they could then be carried over the desert on jackasses.

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A few days afterward appeared a fearful wood-cut, the head of a jackass, with his tongue hanging down several inches, and under it, these words, in Italian: 'The only tongue yet learnt in less than thirty-six lessons!'

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In modern times Lavater, it will be recalled, based his study of human physiognomy in part upon the resemblance of the nose, eyes, mouth, and ears, and general shape of the head to the features of such animals as the lion, jackass, dog, and swine.

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Some of her companions, howsoever, chancing to come by, took her out to the back of the house to have a game at the pallall; and, in the interim, Donald Bogie, the tinkler from Yetholm, came and left his little jackass in the byre, while he was selling about his crockery of cups and saucers, and brown plates, on the old one, through the town, in two creels.

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One said it was a bull-calf, an' another he said "Nay; It's just a painted jackass, that has never larnt to bray."

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So´-wi Jackass rabbit.

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