The 1,637 occurrences of jackass

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The country is fabulously rich in gold, silver, copper, lead, coal, iron, quicksilver, marble, granite, chalk, plaster of Paris (gypsum), thieves, murderers, desperadoes, ladies, children, lawyers, Christians, Indians, Chinamen, Spaniards, gamblers, sharpens; coyotes (pronounced ki-yo- ties), poets, preachers, and jackass rabbits.

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We simply claim the right to deny the truth of every statement made by him in yesterday's paper, to annul all apologies he coined as coming from us, and to hold him up to public commiseration as a reptile endowed with no more intellect, no more cultivation, no more Christian principle than animates and adorns the sportive jackass-rabbit of the Sierras.

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Now, it was down in the chain of circumstances that Steve Gillis's brother, James N. Gillis, a gentle-hearted hermit, a pocket-miner of the halcyon Tuolumne district--the Truthful James of Bret Harte--happened to be in San Francisco at this time, and invited Clemens to return with him to the far seclusion of his cabin on Jackass Hill.

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A number of the stories used in Mark Twain's books were first told by Jim Gillis, standing with his hands crossed behind him, back to the fire, in the cabin on jackass Hill.

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Jackass Hill was not altogether a solitude; here and there were neighbors.

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With Jim Gillis and Dick Stoker he left Angel's and walked across the mountains to Jackass Hill in the snow-storm--"the first I ever saw in California," he says in his notes.

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Only a few years ago (it was April, 1907), in his cabin on jackass Hill, with Joseph Goodman and the writer of this history present, Steve Gillis made his "death-bed" confession as is here set down: "Mark's lecture was given in Piper's Opera House, October 30, 1866.

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Why did you let me go on making a jackass of myself when you could have saved me?"

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Joe Goodman, still full of vigor (in 1912), journeyed with me to the green and dreamy solitudes of Jackass Hill to see Steve and Jim Gillis, and that was an unforgetable Sunday when Steve Gillis, an invalid, but with the fire still in his eyes and speech, sat up on his couch in his little cabin in that Arcadian stillness and told old tales and adventures.

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The inhabitants used to go to Satan to build bridges for them, promising him the soul of the first one that crossed the bridge; then, when Satan had the bridge done, they would send over a rooster or a jackass--a cheap jackass; that was for Satan, and of course they could fool him that way every time.

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DANCING MASTER: The devil take the jackass!

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Some wretched idiot, whose grandfather's grave I hope the jackasses have defiled, as the Turks would say, told me that the best preventive of sea-sickness was to drink as much of the milk punch as I could swallow.

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So, then, you jackass, you're to love.'

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So, then, you jackass, you're to love.'

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He was represented as a cross between a baboon and a jackass, who would be a natural curiosity for Barnum.

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He was represented as a cross between a baboon and a jackass, who would be a natural curiosity for Barnum.

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"Jackass!" he exclaimed, as he rejoined me.

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I'd have understood when I heard about your sellin' Colton the land, and I wouldn't have made a jackass of myself by treatin' you as I done.

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Wal, stranger, I don't know what they're going to do with me, but wherever they do put me, I hope it will be out of the reach of a jackass.

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I've heard of a great jackass, and I dreampt of a jackass, but I don't believe there is any such insect.

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They can work at any business they please; they can sell brand new goods if they want to; they can keep drug-stores; they can practice medicine among Christians; they can even shake hands with Christians if they choose; they can associate with them, just the same as one human being does with another human being; they don't have to stay shut up in one corner of the towns; they can live in any part of a town they like best; it is said they even have the privilege of buying land and houses, and owning them themselves, though I doubt that, myself; they never have had to run races naked through the public streets, against jackasses, to please the people in carnival time; there they never have been driven by the soldiers into a church every Sunday for hundreds of years to hear themselves and their religion especially and particularly cursed; at this very day, in that curious country, a Jew is allowed to vote, hold office, yea, get up on a rostrum in the public street and express his opinion of the government if the government don't suit him!

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Naked boys of nine years and the fancy-dressed children of luxury; shreds and tatters, and brilliant uniforms; jackass-carts and state-carriages; beggars, Princes and Bishops, jostle each other in every street.

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We add what dignity we can to a stately ruin with our green umbrellas and jackasses, but it is little.

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We were desperate-would take horses, jackasses, cameleopards, kangaroos-any thing.

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Yesterday we met a woman riding on a little jackass, and she had a little child in her arms-honestly, I thought the child had goggles on as we approached, and I wondered how its mother could afford so much style.

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They had with them the pigmy jackasses one sees all over Syria and remembers in all pictures of the "Flight into Egypt," where Mary and the Young Child are riding and Joseph is walking alongside, towering high above the little donkey's shoulders.

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Two hours from Tabor to Nazareth-and as it was an uncommonly narrow, crooked trail, we necessarily met all the camel trains and jackass caravans between Jericho and Jacksonville in that particular place and nowhere else.

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"The Thoroughbrace is Broke"-Mails Delivered Properly-Sleeping Under Difficulties-A Jackass Rabbit Meditating, and on Business-A Modern Gulliver-Sage-brush-Overcoats as an Article of Diet-Sad Fate of a Camel-Warning to Experimenters CHAPTER IV.

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As the sun was going down, we saw the first specimen of an animal known familiarly over two thousand miles of mountain and desert-from Kansas clear to the Pacific Ocean-as the "jackass rabbit."

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He is just like any other rabbit, except that he is from one third to twice as large, has longer legs in proportion to his size, and has the most preposterous ears that ever were mounted on any creature but a jackass.

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Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.

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The cayote lives chiefly in the most desolate and forbidding desert, along with the lizard, the jackass-rabbit and the raven, and gets an uncertain and precarious living, and earns it.

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First we left the dogs behind; then we passed a jackass rabbit; then we overtook a cayote, and were gaining on an antelope when the rotten girth let go and threw me about thirty yards off to the left, and as the saddle went down over the horse's rump he gave it a lift with his heels that sent it more than four hundred yards up in the air, I wish I may die in a minute if he didn't.

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"Well, yes, if a body may call it that; though it's a pretty strong term for 'dobies and jackass rabbits, boiled beans and slap-jacks, depression, withered hopes, poverty in all its varieties-" "Louise out there?"

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In the midst of the pathetic silence that was now brooding over the place and moving some few hearts there toward compassion, he began to whimper, then he put his handkerchief to his eyes and buried his face in the neck of the bashfulest young fellow in the company, a navy-yard blacksmith, shrieked "Oh, pappy, how could you!" and began to bawl like a teething baby, if one may imagine a baby with the energy and the devastating voice of a jackass.

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You say 'flahsk' and 'bahsket,' and 'jackahss'; we say 'flask,' 'basket,' 'jackass'-sounding the 'a' as it is in 'tallow,' 'fallow,' and so on.

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With Jim Gillis, brother of a printer of whom he was fond, and who had been the indirect cause of his troubles, he went up into Calaveras County, to a cabin on jackass Hill.

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The rain continued and they returned to jackass Hill without visiting their claim again.

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The country is fabulously rich in gold, silver, copper, lead, coal, iron, quick silver, marble, granite, chalk, plaster of Paris, (gypsum,) thieves, murderers, desperadoes, ladies, children, lawyers, Christians, Indians, Chinamen, Spaniards, gamblers, sharpers, coyotes (pronounced Ki-yo-ties,) poets, preachers, and jackass rabbits.

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To James Gillis, in his cabin on Jackass Hill, Tuolumne Co., California: ELMIRA, N.Y. Jan. 26, '70.

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He never left Jackass Hill.

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I would like to know the name of that immortal jackass.

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Really, when a man can prove that he is not a jackass, I think he is in the way to prove that he is no legitimate member of the race.

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We add what dignity we can to a stately ruin with our green umbrellas and jackasses, but it is little.

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We were desperate--would take horses, jackasses, cameleopards, kangaroos--any thing.

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Yesterday we met a woman riding on a little jackass, and she had a little child in her arms --honestly, I thought the child had goggles on as we approached, and I wondered how its mother could afford so much style.

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Two hours from Tabor to Nazareth--and as it was an uncommonly narrow, crooked trail, we necessarily met all the camel trains and jackass caravans between Jericho and Jacksonville in that particular place and nowhere else.

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I have heard people talk, too, of a laughing jackass (not the Australian bird of that name), but no one has ever seen it.

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"But for a compound, double-opposed, self-adjusting jackass, I'm your choice.

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What an adjectival, hyphenated jackass!

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"Well how do you know a blanked son of a she jackass when you see him?"

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This was maddening, and I came near bursting out and saying he had no more appreciation of wit than a jackass-in fact, I had it right on my tongue, but did not say it, knowing there was no hurry and I could say it just as well some other time over the telephone.

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"Young jackass!"

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When, in the broad glare of the noonday sun, a speckled jackass boldly and maliciously kicks over a peanut-stand, do we "reason" with him?

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The humble costymonger, who traverses the busy streets with a cart containin all kinds of vegetables, such as carrots, turnips, etc, and drawn by a spirited jackass--he can go to the Mooseum and reap benefits therefrom as well as the lord of high degree.

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Down about Melones, and Sonora, and Angel's Camp it goes, and through Table Mountain, and under Jackass Hill.

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"Next is a jackass fight, an' then, the race!"

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See the champion fighting jackass of the state vanquish the biggest grizzly in the Sierra mountains.

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"The unconquerable battling jackass who has whipped two bulls down at Sonora, and caused a mountain lion to turn tail.

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"Say, I can see twenty jackasses eatin', down to the boardin' house at Blue Tent any day, an' I don't have to pay no dollar, neither.

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There's no other jackass to keep you here any longer."

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Ze jackass, he is ke-e-ll five!

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The hit of the evening was when an Australian behind the stage gave an unexpected imitation of a laughing-jackass.

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O infernal jackass!

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It made Mavering think of Dante, of the Inferno, to which he passed naturally from his self-denunciation for having been an infernal jackass.

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"That no-account jackass of a Big Junko ain't worth as much per thousand feet as good white pine."

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That old jackass, Blunt, too!--he ought to be ashamed of himself, at his age!"

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He rejoiced thereat and, donning his clothes, went to the net, when he found in it a dead jackass which had torn the meshes.

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"By Allah," cried I, "O thou with tongue long as the tail of a jackass, thou persistest in pestering me with thy prate and thou becomest more longsome in thy long speeches, when all I want of thee is to shave my head and wend thy way!"

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So he rose forthright and locking the door, took the damsel in his arms and pressed her to his bosom and they embraced, whereupon the young man's yard swelled and rose on end, as it were that of a jackass, and he rode upon her breast and futtered her, whilst she sobbed and sighed and writhed and wriggled under him.

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An' she looked so full of joy thet when he says to me, 'Excoose us, friend Carmichael,' I sat there like a locoed jackass an' let them go.

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Jim Gillis was, in fact, the Truthful James of Bret Harte, and his cabin on jackass Hill had been the retreat of Harte and many another literary wayfarer who had wandered there for rest and refreshment and peace.

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A number of the tales later used by Mark Twain were first told by Jim Gillis in the cabin on Jackass Hill.

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Borrow replied:- "Pray present my best respects to the Canon of St Paul's and tell him from me that he is a burro, which meaneth Jackass, and that I wish he would mind his own business, which he might easily do by attending a little more to the accommodation of the public in his ugly Cathedral."

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Then presently young Fizzlechip, who had been teller in Mullins's Bank and that everybody had thought a worthless jackass before, came back from the Cobalt country with a fortune, and loafed round in the Mariposa House in English khaki and a horizontal hat, drunk all the time, and everybody holding him up as an example of what it was possible to do if you tried.

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It was one of those regular poets with a solemn jackass face, and lank parted hair and eyes like puddles of molasses.

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The Conservatives called him the old jackass and the old army mule and the old booze fighter and the old grafter and the old scoundrel.

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You could see from his quiet low collar and white tie that his electorate were a Godfearing, religious people, while the horseshoe pin that he wore showed that his electorate were not without sporting instincts and knew a horse from a jackass.

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If then in old Europe, we had a bird in hand, what silly fools we were to venture across two oceans, and try to catch two jackasses in the bush of Australia!

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The first witness against me was such a rum sort of old colonial bird of the jackass tribe, and made such a fool of himself for Her Majesty's dear sake, about the monster meeting, where as it appeared, he had volunteered as reporter of the Camp; that now God has given him his reward.

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Spare not, young chip, or else, the jackasses in the Australian bush will breed as numerous as the locusts in the African desert.

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Answer properly, you jumping jackass.

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On one occasion, as we were travelling when moving camp, I shot a jackass rabbit from the saddle, with my .577 rifle.

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We never had an opportunity of eating this splendid specimen; on inquiring, the cook had thrown it away, "because at this season jackass rabbits fed upon sage shoots, and the flesh tasted of sage!

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"Worse 'n a lot of d--d jackasses," Dad was heard to say.

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He caught many things with it--willie-wagtails, laughing-jackasses, fowls, and mostly the dog.

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We planted him on his own selection beneath a gum-tree, where for years and years a family of jackasses nightly roosted, Dad remarking: "As there MIGHT be a chance of his hearin', it'll be company for the poor old cove."

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A row of jackasses on a tree near by laughed merrily.

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Another jackass pretends to have kept a table of the through trains on the Sumsic division, and says they've averaged forty-five minutes late at Edmundton.

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Another jackass pretends to have kept a table of the through trains on the Sumsic division, and says they've averaged forty-five minutes late at Edmundton.

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That fellow Melas is a jackass, who only scented the roast meat which he was going to have for supper, but not General Desaix, who arrived with his troops in time to snatch victory from our grasp, and to inflict a most terrible defeat upon our triumphant army.

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This bird is commonly called the jackass penguin, from its habit, while on shore, of throwing its head backwards, and making a loud strange noise, very like the braying of an ass; but while at sea, and undisturbed, its note is very deep and solemn, and is often heard in the night-time.

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These little things have twice the sense of overgrown dogs as big and as stupid as jackasses.'

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