The 1,637 occurrences of jackass
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But, unfortunately for her, she had dropped her magic wand outside of the cage, as she fell in, and the little demon, seeing this, merely laughed in her face, and running to the wand, picked it up, and ordered her to turn into a jackass, which she immediately did, and began to bray horribly.
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You might as well try reason on the hind leg of a jackass.
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If we start out with this grandiose Galactic Service thing and find only two or three planets Gunthered, we make jackasses of ourselves.
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'That is, when you say camel, you mean jackass?'
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Among the tubes of oil colors left, of course there was the vermilion, that will outlast for a landscape painter all others, I managed to paint a jackass's head for the landlord of the inn where I boarded, with my refuse colors:--after all were gone, there still remained the vermilion.
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Speed thy mind beyond The present passing hour, and wise reflect That like a blanket on the jackass spread, Patience can guard against the chafing wound.
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_(Enters Quezox: Speaks):_ Most honored Francos, I had closed mine ear But Seldonskip like to a jackass brayed And I perforce did catch his words distraught, Which seemed to fling an insult in thy face.
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I sought to give their idol Worcester but His proper place by "damning with faint praise;" And now they prod me as the muleteer Doth goad his jackass when he thoughtless brays.
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"Fool and jackass!" said he, gnashing his teeth, "do you know you have ruined me and your master by this?"
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[_Aloud._] Did you say the good merchant's house was to the left, you jackass?
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_Courtier._ Is there anything you can trace her by, jackass?
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_Courtier._ You jackass!
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_Maitreya._ In summer, you jackass.
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_Maitreya._ [_Comes back to Kumbhīlaka._] The army, you jackass, the _senā_.
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Kumbhīlaka, you jackass, come here.
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[_He strikes him._] _Courtier._ You jackass, you should not strike a monk who wears the yellow robes of renunciation.
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[78] _Courtier._ You jackass, he praises you when he says that you are virtuous, that you are a brick.
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P. 187.7] _Courtier._ You jackass, I am sure he has not long been a monk.
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[_The monk does so, then exit._] _Courtier._ See how beautiful the garden is, you jackass.
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8 _Courtier._ Will you be seated on this stone bench, you jackass?
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[_He returns to Sansthānaka._] Jackass, there is indeed a witch who makes her home in the cart.
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[_Aloud._] Jackass, this is Vasantasenā, come to visit you.
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_Courtier._ Pardon him, jackass!
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Jackass, Vasantasenā is a pledge, committed to your hand.
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[_He does so._] [_Enter the courtier, with Sthāvaraka._] _Courtier._ I have persuaded the servant Sthāvaraka to come back, and now I will look for the jackass.
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[_He approaches Sansthānaka._] Jackass, I have persuaded your servant Sthāvaraka to return.
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"What a blundering jackass I am!
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I'll teach you to call me--" "A howling jackass," put in the Field-Marshal, whose chief vocation it seemed to be to goad on his irate guest.
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"Yes, I'll teach you to call me a howling jackass!" cried Whipcord, turning short round on me, and catching me by the throat.
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I never called you a howling jackass!" cried I, in astonishment and alarm.
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"Of course it wouldn't; it's hardly creditable to our side to have a jackass in it," said Clapperton.
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"What cheer, stuck-up jackass?" howled the Welchers, with an insulting laugh; "why don't you grin?"
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They will all treat you decently if I tell them to; so behave sensibly, and don't be a young jackass, and all will be well."
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"Jackass, I said--don't be a jackass!
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An ass accompanied by a horse uncourteous, Who only had his harness on his back; And the poor jackass staggered 'Neath the load of vegetable and a pack; He begged the horse to help him, If he could-- But not a single bit, The other would.
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It is of no use talking, I only wish the power were in my hands, and if I did not make short work of them, might I be a mere jackass postillion all the remainder of my life."
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good jackass," crossing his ankles on the poor fellow's chest so that he could not be shaken off.
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But most of the Uphill people had the surest confidence in Dame Spurrell and her remedies, some of which were very curious; for Mrs Carbonel found a child who had fits wearing, in a bag, a pinch of black hair from the cross on the back of a jackass; and once, when she objected to a dirty mark on the throat of Susan Pucklechurch, she was told it was left by a rasher of bacon put on to cure a sore throat.
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"I came here as peaceable as any man," Mose went on, "but I don't intend to be ridden out of town by a jackass like you."
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they're a lot of jackasses, that's what they are; they don't know what to do with us," said Ned.
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You're not a pony, I feel sure; you're only a miserable mule, and your father was some long-eared, thick-skinned, thin-tailed, muddle-headed, old jackass.
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He's always primping with a pocket looking-glass, From the top to the bottom he's a bold Jackass.
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Old raw-hide shoes are hell on corns While tramping through the sands, And driving jackass by the tail,-- Damn the overland!
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"No, Nic; that was our laughing jackass."
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You needn't begin makin' a noise like a laughin' jackass.
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Nic found the next day that in their tiny world of the Bluff there were others sufficiently interested in the convict's fate to have been making inquiries about the proceedings instituted by Mr Dillon; for on going round the place in the fresh early morning to see how the live stock was getting on, the first person he met was old Sam, who saluted him with one of his ugly smiles, and a chuckle like that of a laughing jackass-- of course the bird.
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Nic Braydon's lateness consisted in his being fast asleep when the piping crow began to run up and down its scales to announce that the stars were paling faster, when the laughing jackasses chuckled at the loud crowing of the cocks; and he was dreaming about Mayne being brought up to the station by mounted police when the sun had been visible an hour.
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Do you see, Bostock, there's an old friend of ours, the great laughing jackass?"
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He's a deal like him, but our old laughing jackasses down south haven't got all that bright blue in their jackets.
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He proceeded to blow into it, but failed to produce anything more huntsman-like than a kind of bray such as might be uttered by a jackass suffering from a sore-throat.
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"What a jackass you are to torture yourself like that, to try and take me in, middy!"
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"Well, then, now we wish you to go, feeling that it is best for you, and you turn restive as that jackass we hired for you to ride down in Essex."
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"Be quiet, jackass," cried Distin; and Macey began to lower himself, in much dread, under the table.
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"Him one jackass!" observed our guide, Toby.
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"Jackass!
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It was, as Toby told us, a laughing-jackass, or a gigantic kingfisher.
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As he stooped down, ducks and fowls rushed forward to obtain the food he held in his hand, the pigs came grunting up, and several long-legged birds-- storks I believe they were--stood by waiting for their share, numerous parrots and parroquets were perched on the railings, as tame as the barn-door fowls, while a laughing-jackass looked on complacently from an overhanging bough, every now and then uttering its strange notes.
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I was very thankful when at length day broke, and we were saluted by the merry call of the laughing-jackass.
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Among the boughs we saw numbers of white cockatoos, parrots, laughing-jackasses, and many other birds, who received us, as we prepared to camp for our noon-day meal, with a loud chorus of varied cries.
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The laughing-jackass uttered his cheerful notes, and parrots and other birds began to chirp and screech and chatter.
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Directly afterwards a chorus of cachinnations from a couple of laughing-jackasses, gave me notice that the morning would soon commence.
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I was awakened just before dawn by the "settler's clock," as the laughing-jackass is frequently called; and lifting my head, by the light of the still burning embers of our fire saw the dominie rubbing his eyes, but no one else was moving.
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Roger Riddle continues his story--Goes to sea as a man-o'-war's-man-- His voyages--The Mediterranean--Toulon--Chasing the enemy--Caught in a trap--A hard fight for it--Escape of the frigate--Corsica--Martello Bay--The tower and its gallant defenders--Its capture--Origin of its name--San Fiorenzo--Convention redoubt--What British tars can do-- Capture of the "Minerve"--The taking of Bastia--Nelson loses an eye--"Jackass" frigates--Toulon again--More fighting--The advantage of being small--Prepare to repel boarders--The colours nailed to the mast--The chase--Never despise your enemy--Teneriffe--Attack on Santa Cruz--Nelson loses his arm--Abandonment of the enterprise--What people call glory--The Hellespont--The captain steers his own ship--The island of Cerigotto--Breakers ahead--The ship strikes--The value of discipline--Their condition on the rock--The ship goes to pieces-- Their chances of escape--The gale--A brave captain--A false hope--The effects of drinking sea-water--Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink--Reduced to extremities--They lose their brave captain and first lieutenant--They construct a raft--Cowardice of the Greek fishermen--The rescue of the survivors--Fresh adventures--The Dardanelles--Fire!--An awful spectacle--Destruction of the ship-- Reason to be thankful--A father's love--How they took a Spanish sloop-o'-war--The ruse and how it succeeded--Between two fires--Good and bad captains--Roger quits the navy--Becomes mate of a merchantman and retires on his laurels--His marriage and settlement--Our picnic breaks up.
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These small craft used to be called 'Jackass' frigates, but the 'Dido' showed that she was not a 'Jackass' at all events.
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He was right: there was the hideous, unearthly cry of the laughing-jackass, called often the bushman's clock; the screaming cry of thousands of parrots flying here and there through the forest; there was the cackle of the wattle-bird, the clear notes of the magpie, and the confused chattering of thousands of leather-heads; while many other birds added their notes to the discordant chorus, and speedily banished sleep from the eyes of their hearers.
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Once for a whole month I had nothing to eat but some round-shot and bullet moulds, and an old jackass, which was washed up on the beach, after being well pickled by the salt water, but that has nothing to do with my present story.
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There were also twenty or thirty horses, with a few jackasses; and numerous dogs, chiefly of the greyhound and bloodhound breed, which were used for the purpose of killing hares, foxes, and wolves.
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JOURNEY COMMENCED--OUR NIGHT ENCAMPMENT--WITNESS A CORROBORREE, OR SKELETON DANCE--NATIVES VISIT US--A MAGICIAN PLAYS OFF HIS TRICKS-- NATIVE SUPERSTITIONS--JOURNEY RESUMED--CURIOUS TREES--CAMP ALARMED BY A "LAUGHING JACKASS"--HALT FOR THE DAY--EXPEDITION--DISCOVER AN OLD WOMAN TRYING TO AROUSE THE NATIVES TO ATTACK US--PULLINGO APPEARS TO WARN US-- WE RETREAT--A HURRIED MARCH--A LITTER FORMED FOR EDITH--AGAIN ENCAMP--A FUGITIVE--SURPRISED BY THE NATIVES--PROVE TO BE FRIENDS OF PULLINGO--THE MARCH RESUMED.
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Mudge, who followed me, said that he also heard the sounds during the whole of his watch; indeed, the natives must have kept up their festivities, if so they could be called, till the "laughing jackass"--which performs the duty of a cock in Australia, by chattering vociferously just before sunrise--warned them to seek repose.
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We found that our nocturnal visitor was no other than that well-known member of the feathered tribe, the "laughing jackass;" more scientifically denominated the "giant kingfisher."
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Even before the sun was up, our friend the "laughing jackass" woke us with his strange cries.
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We were awakened in the morning by the loud cry of our friend the "laughing jackass."
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General Bratton call him, 'My Little Jackass of de Sharp Shooters'!
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Here Caliban, in the third boat, began playing the fiddle and singing to it-- "Gaffer, Gaffer's son, and his little jackass, Were trotting along the road."
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The chorus of which ditty was "Ee-aw, Ee-aw!" like the braying of a jackass.
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One was Lion, then Tiger, Panther, Bear, Horse, and Jackass (at the time that I named them, the last would have been very appropriate to them all); and as I always called them by their names as I fed them, I soon found, to my great joy, that they knew them well enough.
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Lion and Horse were always side by side, as were Jackass and Bear, and Tiger and Panther.
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Jack had selected the costume of the _devil_, as being the most appropriate, and mounting a jackass, he rode down in his dress to the masquerade.
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"One would hardly expect such a tragical issue to the chase of a wild jackass," observed the Major.
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Now game abounded; turkeys, bears, and deer, were seen almost every minute, and, as we advanced, the traces of mules and jackasses were plainly visible.
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That evening we were in high glee, thinking that we had arrived at one of the recent settlements of western emigration, for, as I have observed, we had seen tracks of jackasses, and these animals are never employed upon any distant journey.
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He carried his silver harp in his hand, and was mounted on a beautiful white jackass with his face towards the tail, that he might behold and be inspired by the charms of the peerless Chaoukeun, the pearl beyond all price.
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So the jackass proved a very good friend, and, to reward him, I hired him every day, and galloped him all over the island.
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The captain allowed me to go, for I told him the whole truth of the matter, and he saw that it was true; so he recommended me to the captain of a jackass frigate, who was in want of midshipmen."
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"What do you mean by a jackass frigate?" inquired I.
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He had fancied himself a jackass, and had brayed for a week, kicking the old nurse in the stomach, so as to double her up like a hedgehog.
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"It's pretty hard lines on that jackass," said Young, "leaving him behind down there.
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Three cheers for th' jackass!
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Some o' the stuff in here's worth havin'--th' gold mugs an' boxes, an' that old gold bow-gun that you're so busted about--but what does th' whole of it amount to, anyway, when you come t' divide it up among four men an' a jackass?
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I guess even th' jackass ud turn up his nose at it if he knowed what a lot more there was that was t' be had just for grabbin' it an' packin' it along.
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"Shut up, you jackass!" he ordered angrily.
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"_Asel!_" Frank flung back at him and passed on, thankful that he at least knew the German term for jackass.
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"It's just about here that I was calling a Heinie a jackass.
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I remembered having laughed myself when I had seen good men struggling with adversity in the person of a jackass, and the recollection filled me with penitence.
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"It must be the ghost of a jackass, then," said Peterkin, "for I never heard anything so like."
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"A feller might as well try to joke with a jackass as with you.
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(He was sorely tempted to transpose the word into jackass, but he wisely restrained himself.)