The 1,637 occurrences of jackass

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I could not put him in the stable; our old black groom George was as absolute in that domain as Barbara was within doors, and would have thought his stable, his horses, and himself disgraced, by the introduction of a jackass.

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I am not an entirely dishevelled jackass!"

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It's a young jackass, limping off with a kedgeree pot of rice out of the cuddy."

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You bray through your nose like a jackass.

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(aloud) Do you think that I would waste my talents in singing trash that any jackass could bray?

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"Alice is with me; we have talked the thing all through.... No, I may be a jackass, but I can't see it any different.

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"That--that jackass of an engineer!"

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Where's the girl?' says he with a voice as loud as the braying of a jackass.

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"Not a dry eye in the house," he says, "except some of the jackasses who had occasioned the oratory....

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Want me to make a blame jackass of myself raisin' the whole place about a potato-peel or a bacon-rind!"

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Some people cannot distinguish between being firm and being a big blue jackass.

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It is a matter of profound national sorrow that this was not the first American jackass presented to his Tallness, the Prince.

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"I have reason to believe that that jackass of a ghost is on duty to-night."

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And that jackass that made the salad at the picnic yesterday, is he the brother of the woman with the guitar, or who?

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III Taken to task by thick and thin Democratic partisans for my criticism of the only two Democratic Presidents we have had since the War of Sections, Cleveland and Wilson, I have answered by asserting the right and duty of the journalist to talk out in meeting, flatly repudiating the claims as well as the obligations of the organ grinder they had sought to put upon me, and closing with the knife grinder's retort-- _Things have come to a hell of a pass When a man can't wallop his own jackass_.

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I who never get up in the morning without making three low bows to his jackass!"

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A few species, so nearly related that we can scarcely tell whether they are species or varieties, as the jackass and the mare, may have offspring, but the offspring are sterile.

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The immoveable oyster, the bee alive with divine intelligence, and the sterile progeny of the jackass, are enough to upset the whole theory of evolution.

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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 that muff of a president was just like a jackass, that was all!

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in such a brassy age I could not move a thistle; The very sparrows in the hedge Scarce answer to my whistle; Or at the most, when three-parts-sick With strumming and with scraping, A jackass heehaws from the rick, The passive oxen gaping.

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Where's the girl?' says he, with a voice as loud as the braying of a jackass.

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Theer's one o' t' Ten Commandments says yo maun't cuvvet your neebor's ox nor his jackass, but it doesn't say nowt about his tarrier dogs, an' happen thot's t' reason why Mrs. DeSussa cuvveted Rip, tho' she went to church reg'lar along wi' her husband who was so mich darker 'at if he hedn't such a good coaat tiv his back yo' might ha' called him a black man and nut tell a lee nawther.

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'By Allah,' exclaimed I, 'O thou whose tongue is as long as a jackass's tail, thou persistest in pestering me with talk and pelting me with words, when all I want of thee is to shave my head and take thyself off!'

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Now there was no stouter champion in the land of the Greeks than this accursed Luca, nor any doughtier at bowshot or smiting with swords or thrusting with spears in the mellay; but he was foul of favour, for his face was as the face of a jackass, his shape that of an ape and his look as the look of a malignant serpent, and the being near unto him was more grievous than parting from the beloved.

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So I fell in love with her; but, two days after, the same man passed, singing the following verse: The jackass with Umm Amri departed; but, alas, Umm Amri!

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Has it not been sweet good fortune to love Maggie Tulliver, Margot of Savoy, Dora Spenlow (undeclared because she was an honest wife--even though of a most conceited and commonplace jackass, totally undeserving of her); Agnes Wicklow (a passion quickly cured when she took Dora's pitiful leavings), and poor ill-fated Marie Antoinette?

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But, let the impregnable Jackass think--what would become of the noble rhythm and the majestic roll of sound?

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It is said that the friends of the former circulated a cartoon representing the five justices together as five jackasses, and another in which the justice whom they were trying to run off the field was caricatured in the act of setting aside a verdict in favor of a child injured by a railway accident.

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Occasionally came the clear whistle of a lyre bird or the peal of a laughing jackass.

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Anyhow, I have my mates, not only old Turpentine, my snake, but others--wallabies that have come to recognise me as harmless, for I never hunt anywhere near home, the laughing jackasses, two of them, that come and guffaw to me every morning, the pheasants that I watch capering and strutting on the logs hidden in the scrub.

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A cheeky jackass on a gum tree bough fairly roared with laughter, and Norah woke up with a violent start.

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"Hallo!" he said, smiling, "did the old jackass wake you?

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The stewards have neglected to serve soup to some negro, who at every meal has edged himself higher up the table, and whose conversation consists of whispering into the ear of a black neighbour, with an occasional guffaw like that of the 'laughing jackass.'

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When you were at Concord it done no harm to make as much noise as a jackass braying whenever you opened that mouth of yours, but it won't do in the forests.

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Thus, on a summer afternoon, a strange boy, sitting bored upon the gate-post of the Reverend Malloch Smith, beheld George Amberson Minafer rapidly approaching on his white pony, and was impelled by bitterness to shout: "Shoot the ole jackass!

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A common lot of jackasses they are.

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Why, he shouted to him that he'd been a stupid jackass all his life, working himself to death for those /bourgeois/, who now wouldn't bring him so much as a glass of water.

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Why, he shouted to him that he'd been a stupid jackass all his life, working himself to death for those _bourgeois_, who now wouldn't bring him so much as a glass of water.

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Why, he shouted to him that he'd been a stupid jackass all his life, working himself to death for those _bourgeois_, who now wouldn't bring him so much as a glass of water.

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I think this vein may be further opened; Peter Pindar hath very prettily apostrophised a fly; Burns hath his mouse and his louse; Coleridge, less successfully, hath made overtures of intimacy to a jackass, therein only following at unresembling distance Sterne and greater Cervantes.

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On this monster's head, were big ears, half way between those of a jackass and an elephant.

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you lucky jackass!"

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You are a jackass!

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"I don't like the streets, in which I cannot walk but in the kennel; I don't like the shops, that contain nothing except what's at the window; I don't like the houses, like prisons which look upon a courtyard; I don't like the _beaux jardins_, which grow no plants save a Cupid in plaster; I don't like the wood fires, which demand as many _petits soins_ as the women, and which warm no part of one but one's eyelids, I don't like the language, with its strong phrases about nothing, and vibrating like a pendulum between 'rapture' and 'desolation;' I don't like the accent, which one cannot get, without speaking through one's nose; I don't like the eternal fuss and jabber about books without nature, and revolutions without fruit; I have no sympathy with tales that turn on a dead jackass, nor with constitutions that give the ballot to the representatives, and withhold the suffrage from the people; neither have I much faith in that enthusiasm for the _beaux arts_, which shows its produce in execrable music, detestable pictures, abominable sculpture, and a droll something that I believe the _French_ call POETRY.

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"Legard is a puppy, and Sir John Merton a jackass.

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"Legard is a puppy, and Sir John Merton a jackass.

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My crew were five negroes, strapping fellows, and as strong as jackasses.

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Captain Conkey was a "jackass" to make a long story short.

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Violence is not in my line, unless I'm absolutely driven to it; and any one less likely to drive any one to violence than that obnoxious and noisy jackass I've never come across.

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And I will lock my door--I won't be interrupted by any jackass servant wanting to feed me pap"--pointing scornfully toward the hall where a tray laden with a teapot and tempting dishes stood on a table near the door.

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Leave the room, you pitiful green jackass, or I'll have you turned out," and he rang the bell.

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"My Lord Duke," brayed the jackass; and then he stopped dead, and looked round the room with an unmeaning stare.

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Grafenberg brayed like a jackass, and Geisenheim chattered like an ape.

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A stupid jackass, who stared with astonishment at the procession, was saluted with a lusty bray, which immediately induced him to swell the ranks; and, as Essper passed the poultry-yard, he so deceitfully informed its inhabitants that they were about to be fed, that broods of ducks and chickens were immediately after him.

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"You're the Purser, I suppose, detected keeping a jackass among the poultry!

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"She's got to quit wasting her time on that conceited jackass," said Mr. Pelz, swallowing off his demi-tasse at a gulp.

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Zipporah like all the women of her time was hustled about, sent forward and back by husbands and fathers, generally transported with their sons and belongings on some long-suffering jackass.

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The property qualification being $250, just the price of a jackass, Ben Franklin facetiously asked "if a man must own a jackass in order to vote, who does the voting, the man or the jackass?"

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He, feeling the need of her wisdom and inspiration, insisted that she accompany him; so, mounted on pure white jackasses, they started for the field of battle.

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The color of the jackass indicated the class to which the rider belonged.

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When the appointed day arrived, mounted on three gray jackasses, they departed.

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So, with her five damsels, all mounted on white jackasses, she accompanied the messengers to the king and became his wife.

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One deputy, a certain Guyot-Montpeyroux, who was well known for the outspokenness of his language, horrified the more devoted Imperialists by describing the French forces as an army of lions led by jackasses.

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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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If a person loses a man like that one, how's she goin' to get along with you jackasses afterwards!

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If a person loses a man like that one, how's she goin' to get along with you jackasses afterwards!

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It is the distinctive privilege of man to exert his voice during his repast, and to indulge also in those specially human cachinnations which no lower creature, except that disreputable Australian biped known as the 'laughing jackass,' presumes to imitate; and to these vocal exercises of the feasters respond the endless ring and tinkle of knife and fork on china plate, and the ministering angels in white chokers behind the chairs, those murmured solicitations which hum round and round the ears of the revellers.

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that thy brave arm might rescue me from the watery deep, (you know what a good thing it would be for both of us when it got in the papers,) and that on thy hardy bosom I might be borne-" "Born jackass!" interrupted IDA.

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O'Flynn, poorly disguising his delight in a scrimmage, had been shouting: "Ye'll spoil the Blow-Out, ye meddlin' jackass!

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"I think you are a jackass-fool," Miss Stapylton said, crisply, "and a fortune-hunter, and a sot, and a travesty, and a whole heap of other things I haven't, as yet had time to look up in the dictionary.

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"And afterwards the jackass-fool made matters worse by calling me 'his darling.'

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may the noses of all respectable people be turned upside down and jackasses dance eternally upon their grandmothers' graves!"

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And for all that he so often plays the jackass-fool about women, like Grandma Pendomer, he is a man, Jack--a well-meaning, clean and dunderheaded man!

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"Oh, Rudolph is just a jackass-fool, anyway."

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"He is a jackass.

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In Westchester county a fine of $25 is hereafter to be levied upon each jackass in human form who shoots birds on Sunday.

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I think this vein may be further opened; Peter Pindar hath very prettily apostrophized a fly; Burns hath his mouse and his louse; Coleridge, less successfully, hath made overtures of intimacy to a jackass,--therein only following at unresembling distance Sterne and greater Cervantes.

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We yerd ov a chap at Lytham at wanted a lad to tak care o' six jackasses an' a pony.

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Lower down the slope there were three other lads plaguing a young jackass colt; and further off, on the town edge of the moor, several children from the streets hard by, were wandering about the green hollow, picking daisies, and playing together in the sunshine.

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From a distant part of the moor, the bray of a jackass came faint upon the sleepy wind.

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The country folk of Lancashire say that a weaver dies every time a jackass brays.

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"That MAULBOY is a jackass," said the former.

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Mark her fair votaries, prodigal of grief, With cureless pangs, and woes that mock relief, Droop in soft sorrow o'er a faded flower, O'er a dead jackass pour the pearly shower: But hear, unmoved, of Loire's ensanguined flood Choked up with slain; of Lyons drenched in blood; Of crimes that blot the age, the world, with shame, Foul crimes, but sicklied o'er with freedom's name,-- Altars and thrones subverted, social life Trampled to earth, the husband from the wife, Parent from child, with ruthless fury torn; Of talents, honour, virtue, wit, forlorn In friendless exile; of the wise and good Staining the daily scaffold with their blood.

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He was doing his best on this particular morning, and under his influence, so brightening everything, two little boys and a little jackass were having a good time near a long, low, rakish, but far from piratical-looking house upon the hillside already mentioned.

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One of the boys was white, one of the boys was brown, and the little jackass was gray.

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The name of the jackass was Julius Caesar, but he wore almost no facial resemblance to his namesake.

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The date of the day on which the little boys and the little jackass were out there together was July 3, 1897.

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He could be, on occasions, one of the most animated kicking little jackasses living upon this globe, upon which the moon doesn't shine quite as well as the sun does.

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On the occasion here referred to the little jackass stood apart with head hanging down toward the ground, silent and unmoving, and apparently revolving in his own mind something concerning the geology of the Dog Star.

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That string of thirty-seven and one-half feet of firecrackers was not going to leave the tail of that little jackass except under most extraordinary circumstances.

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