The 1,637 occurrences of jackass

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She must have mercy on me, of her own free will, or--let her pine and die in that accursed prison; and then a scratch with the trusty old dagger for her father, and another for myself, will save him from any more superstitions, and me from any more philosophic doubts, for a few aeons of ages, till we start again in new lives--he, I suppose, as a jackass, and I as a baboon.

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He's a great jackass.

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"Why the devil didn't you say so, _yesterday?_ Why did you let me--you young jackass!"

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Because he is a prying suspicious jackass of a country doctor!

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Benjamin Wright was reminding himself that in handling a boy, one must be careful not to Say the wrong thing; one must express one's self with reserve and delicacy; one must weigh one's words--boys were such jackasses.

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Other drivers had tried to improve on his vocabulary but even the mules were able to appreciate the futility of such an ambition, and later on, when he came to own two or three railroads, to say nothing of a few mines and a steam yacht, his ability to drive men was even more noteworthy than his power over the jackasses had been.

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They're either jackasses or full of the lust for power like their rulers are, to let themselves be governed by a bunch of warlords like that."

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"Damn jackasses," muttered Hoggenback, as, with his eyes to the ground, he passed Andrews.

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There he addressed himself distractedly but plainly: "Jackass!"

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The trip from St. Joseph to Nevada by stage, the outlaws, murders, sagebrush, jackass rabbits, coyotes, mining camps,--all the varied life of the time--is thrown distinctly on the screen in the pages of _Roughing It_.

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"There's argument and good logic in it," said Paul; "music is music, and it's always noisy, whether it comes from a fiddle or a jackass.

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Give me a cotton-wood, and I will turn you out a canoe that shall carry us all, the jackass excepted, in perhaps the work of a day and a night.

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Not that I mean to say Ellen was not altogether forced to what she did, and therefore she is just as innocent, in this matter, as yonder jackass, who was made to carry her, and greatly against his will, too, as I am ready to swear he would say himself, if he could speak as loud as he can bray."

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"What the devil, old trapper, do you mean to foot it to the settlements, when here is a boat that will float the distance in half the time, that the jackass, the Doctor has given the Pawnee, could trot along the same."

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"And may jackasses dance on your grandmother's grave--" "And may jackasses dance on my grandmother's grave," she solemnly repeated.

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"What did you do that for even if I WAS a jackass?

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if only one of these meddling jackasses would show her some disrespect and give him the opportunity of avenging the affront!

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"I always knew that I was the jackass of the family, Chuck, but I never expected to do it so well.

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Jackass or not, I'm going to see the thing through."

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"Well, hang you for a jackass, sure enough!

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"Bob's a jackass," was Jack's commentary.

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He hissed "Idiot!" and "Imbecile!" and "Jackass!" as many times as there are knives and forks and spoons at a course dinner.

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"Of all the jackasses!"

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"This here is a astrolabe," he said, "jackass quadrant, I call it."

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"Can't quite figger it out," he would mutter, lowering the astrolabe from its aim at the sun--"accordin' to this here jackass-quadrant we orter be dee-creesing our latitude--but the answer comes out different."

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"Too much jackass and too little quadrant," snapped Swank, whose nerves were still like E strings.

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"Hard to say," he answered, "accordin' to compass-plant I'm steerin' a straight course for anywhere, but accordin' to the jackass (he had dropped the word "quadrant" since Swank's thrust) we're spinnin' a web round these seas from where we started to nowhere via where we be."

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I have heard Chinese bands, Calliopes, the braying of jackasses, the love songs of Tom cats, operatic screechers, brass band and violin murderers, broken down hand organs and accordeons, Red River carts during the dry season, the maniacal howling of the bulls and bears of Broad Street, and many other noises of like character, but none of them are at all comparable to the voicings of these Hydah dogs, when thoroughly warmed up to their best efforts by a few hours' practice.

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Pardon, M. Rudolph; that beggar Cabrion stupefies him more and more-- he certainly will make him turn to a jackass, my poor love!

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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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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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or that race Lower than Horses, but with longer ears And less intelligence-- In fact--"EQUI ASINI," Or in vernacular JACKASSES?

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No wonder, therefore, that he called his doctor a "Jackass," who advised him to give up smoking in order to cure dyspepsia.

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He then proceeds to call the author by such elegant names as 'lickspittle,' 'beggarly skittler,' jackass, ninny, haberdasher, 'fifty-fifth rate scribbler of gripe-visited sonnets,' and 'namby-pamby writer in twaddling albums kept by the mustachioed widows or bony matrons of Portland Place.'

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About three months after this transaction, his niece Aurelia, with her mother, having been to visit a lady in the chariot, the horses being young, and not used to the traces, were startled at the braying of a jackass on the common, and, taking fright, ran away with the carriage, like lightning.

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"The fellor has got no more stuff in his pate," continued this polite stranger, "than a jackass, to think I could not find my way hither thof I could not jabber your French lingo.

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"The fellor has got no more stuff in his pate," continued this polite stranger, "than a jackass, to think I could not find my way hither thof I could not jabber your French lingo.

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The jackass is going to think for us all!

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The jackass is going to think for us all!

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A big rope from the capstan at the summit is made fast as soon as the tails of the jackasses (laden with three cwt.

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"Because then I'd be such a perfect jackass that I could win medals at a show.

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Mark Twain revelled in the delightful company of the original of Bret Harte's "Truthful James," and he enjoyed the mining methods of Jackass Hill, like the true Bohemian that he was.

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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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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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Why, the fellow has not two ideas above a jackass!--so talk out."

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"Two ideas above a jackass!--two ideas above a jackass, eh?" he said, and slowly repeated, as with flashing eyes he nodded significantly in the direction his master had taken.

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Here, however, he manifested no disposition to go to bed, but sitting down upon the side of his miserable pallet, he remained motionless and silent for fifteen or twenty minutes, when he began to soliloquize: "Jackass!--sleepy devil!--not wit enough to see what they are at in six weeks, eh?

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and now, to crown all, in clearing off the table, you must go, with your load of meats and half-filled gravy dishes, through the parlor, where you had no business to go, and there, like a blundering jackass, as you are, you must fall down and ruin the best carpet in the house!

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Kinder seems to me," he continued to his groaning prisoner--"kinder seems to me I heard somebody say,'tother night, that Bart Burt wasn't above a jackass.

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Wonder if I aint above a jackass now?

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"There was our differ about who was the jackass, and sich like, that night, you know, which I kinder thought I might as well settle; and then, again, there was your good-by, yesterday; but may be I've done enough to make that square, too.

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Far beyond that, it is the symbol, the solid expression, of life itself to the owner, his family, and circle of connections, more so than even the ship to the sailor, as the sailor, no matter how he may love his ship, longs for port, and the joys of the shore, but the barrow folk are always at sea on land, Such care has to be taken of the miserable pony or the shamefaced jackass; he has to be groomed, and fed, and looked to in his shed, and this occupies three or four of the family at least, lads and strapping young girls, night and morning.

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"Hot air doesn't affect you much, you transparent jackass!"

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all you jackasses, come and trample on it and trample it into mud, or go on till you are tired.'"

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His laughter struck me--humour controlling his wrath and in a sense ABOVE it, as if the final word were by no means hatred or contempt, even for the jackass."

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"You're allers findin' excuses for blacklegs an' scabs, Mitchell," said Barcoo-Rot, who took Mitchell seriously (and who would have taken a laughing jackass seriously).

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You--why--what--who--oh, you jackass!

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that is the idea; for Juliet's a dear sweet mere child of a girl, you know, and she doesn't bray like a jackass."

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I said, "Don't do nothing of the kind; it's one of the most jackass ideas I ever struck;" but he never paid no attention to me; went right on.

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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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The familiar laughing-jackass is to be found everywhere, but his peculiar note differs somewhat in different parts; a blackfellow from the south says that the laugh of the northern bird makes him feel sick, whilst the northern native says the same of the southern kingfisher.

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"I'm a jackass!" he cried.

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'If on this jackass I must wait, What will become of kings and nations?

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Take a jackass, for instance: a jackass has that kind of strength, and puts it to a useful purpose, and is valuable to this world because he is a jackass; but a nobleman is not valuable because he is a jackass.

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She lost; and her opponent, being apparently as sporting as herself, dared her to win it back by riding through Bretton Park and village astride on a jackass with her face to the tail The idea of the haughty and pompous lady undertaking such a penance must have seemed actually incredible, but Madame Beaumont was not readily daunted.

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Down dropped my ears on hearing this, Just like a vicious jackass's, That's loaded heavier than he likes; But off anew my torment strikes.

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We nailed two sticks for handles on a box and Charley and I spent days carrying this box full of dirt up a very steep spot--"just like two jackasses," Father exclaimed in fun.

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We got an order to the officer commanding the nearest post on shore, to provide us with horses; but before reaching it, we had to walk, under a roasting sun, about two miles through miry roads, until we arrived at the barrier, where we found a detachment of artillery, but the commanding officer could only give us one poor broken-winded horse, and a jackass, on which we were to proceed to headquarters on the morrow; and here, under a thatched hut of the most primitive construction, consisting simply of cross sticks and pahn branches, we had to spend the night, the poor fellows being as kind as their own misery would let them.

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You see I have got the magazine scuttle up, and there are the barrels of powder, and here is the candle, so"-- Obed laughed like the beginning of the bray of the jackass before he swings off into his "heehaw, heehaw."

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He was goading on a jackass before him, loaded with a goodly burden apparently; but what it was we could not tell, as the whole was covered by a large sheepskin, with the wool outermost.

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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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The first sentence of his letter was: "Sir,--As John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay were seated in Congress, they saw passing on the street a drove of jackasses.

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The officer in command, who was as civil as the majority of such be-medalled jackasses, suggested that one single day would be quite sufficient for me to see the sights of Levanto; I could then proceed to Pisa or anywhere else outside his priceless "zone of defence."

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"I think you had better call your Moosoo Jacks 'Master Jackass,' or 'Master Jackanapes,' and put your own name on the back of him.

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'You have then the command of this beast Stoobar?' the other fellow asked him, as if I were a jackass.

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"As sure as I am just and wise, modest, learned, and religious, so surely I have read something very like this stuff and nonsense about jackasses and foxes before.

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"Darling jackass!" growled out the senior.

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"You are a liar--a jackass!" he hissed into Rayel's ear.

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Presently Rayel asked: "What is a jackass?"

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"A man who always tells the truth in this world--he is a jackass," I replied.

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Its clamorous call is never to be forgotten, more startling than the laughter of the laughing jackass of Australia.

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He had 777 times made boys kneel on peas, 613 times on a triangular piece of wood, had made 3001 wear the jackass, and 1707 hold the rod up, not to mention various more unusual punishments he had contrived on the spur of the occasion.

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"Yes, Sir: but your cow and the chickens eat so much, and then blind Dobbin has four feeds a day, and Farmer Johnson always puts his horse in our stable, and Mrs. Clutterbuck and the ladies fed the jackass the other day in the hired donkeychaise; besides, the rats and mice are always at it."

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"Yes, Sir: but your cow and the chickens eat so much, and then blind Dobbin has four feeds a day, and Farmer Johnson always puts his horse in our stable, and Mrs. Clutterbuck and the ladies fed the jackass the other day in the hired donkeychaise; besides, the rats and mice are always at it."

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The laughing jackasses laughed their loudest, almost frightening her with their weird cachinnatory chorus; and the laughing hyæna screamed his sepulchral ha-ha-ha's so that he was heard all the way to Primrose Hill.

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She had asked him to be nice to this jackass--very well, he would.

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We had some good days' sport, and no more formidable enterprise against the night-guard was attempted than the noisy approach of a white jackass.

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The first begins, if I may so express myself, _tendinous,_ from the glenoid cavity of the scapula--" "That man is a pedantic jackass," whispered Mr. Hemlock to his friend.

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I spent the better part of another week in a search for some hooker, on board which I might work my passage across the country, for money was as scarce then with old Tom Coffin as it is now, and is likely to be, unless the fisheries get a good luff soon; but it seems that nothing but your horse-flesh, and horned cattle, and jackasses, are privileged to do the pulling and hauling in your shore- hookers; and I was forced to pay a week's wages for a berth, besides keeping a banyan on a mouthful of bread and cheese, from the time we hove up in Boston, till we came to in Plymouth town."

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The city is dependent on the distant hills for wood, and at all hours of the day may be seen jackasses passing laden with wood, which is sold at two bits, twenty-five cents, the load.

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The jackass is the only animal that can be subsisted in this barren neighbourhood without great expense; our horses are all sent to a distance of twelve, fifteen, and thirty miles for grass.

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Here he comes, his pointed button shoes, his razor-edged trousers, his natty tan overcoat with its high waist band and its amazing lapels that stick up over his shoulders like the ears of a jackass, here he comes embroidered and scented and looking like a cross between a soft-shoe dancer and a somnambulist.

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The cause of my first leaving the 'Ancient Dominion,' and emigrating to Kentucky was a jackass!

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