The 1,637 occurrences of jackass

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Cocoanut has since estimated them at forty feet a jump, while Billy says sixty--for both boys, it is good to say, are still alive--but then Billy was on the jackass and may have been excited; probably somewhere, say about fifty feet, would be the correct estimate.

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Billy, jackass, and fireworks went down like a plummet, and very soon thereafter Billy and jackass, but no fireworks, came to the surface again, and then swam vigorously toward the shore, for everybody and everything in Hawaii can swim like a duck.

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An hour or two later two boys and a little jackass were all together upon the hill again, the boys excited and jubilant and saying that they'd had a Fourth of July, anyhow, and the jackass in a doubtful and thoughtful mood.

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The jackass seems to be about the same.

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"That li'l' wild-cat of yours lost her head when I jollied her and Morse broke the door down like the jackass he is."

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There were little camels scarcely more than twelve inches high, little taller than cotton-tail rabbits and smaller than the jackass rabbits; horses 15 inches high, scarcely larger than, and very similar in build to, the little English coursing hound known as the whippet; it is not improbable that we shall find the miniature deer; there certainly existed ancestral wolves and foxes of similarly small proportions.

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On a day he went forth, and casting in his net, drew up with great labour a dead jackass; casting again, an earthen pitcher full of sand; casting a third time vexatiously, potsherds and shattered glass; and at the last a jar of yellow copper, leaden-capped, and stamped with the seal-ring of Solomon, the son of David.

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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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It nearly took my breath away To hear the jackass laugh so gay!

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Where the jackass laughs in the old gum tree, And our quart-pot tea we sip; The saddle was our childhood's home, Our heritage the whip.

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Now a trail in Alaska costs money And when Dick tries to get a bill thru Some jackass from Maine reads the figures And "moves the amount cut in two."

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"Why, the jackass, my puppet," answered Tulee.

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"Sit down, you blithering jackass!"

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In no other way can we explain "The Idiot Boy," or pardon the serious absurdity of "Peter Bell" and his grieving jackass.

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Carlyle had a large fund of incisive wit and humor, which often appear in picturesque setting, as when he said to a physician: "A man might as well pour his sorrows into the long hairy ear of a jackass."

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ass, donkey, jackass, mule, hinny; sumpter horse, sumpter mule; burro, cuddy † , ladino [U.S.] ; reindeer; camel, dromedary, llama, elephant; carrier pigeon.

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ass, donkey, jackass, mule, hinny; sumpter horse, sumpter mule; burro, cuddy † , ladino [U.S.] ; reindeer; camel, dromedary, llama, elephant; carrier pigeon.

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jacinth: - jewelry 847a N. jack a dandy: - humorist 844 N. Jack at a pinch: - auxiliary 711 N. jack boot: - clothing 225 N. Jack Cade: - disobedience 742 N. Jack in office: - director 694 N. jack in the green: - humorist 844 N. Jack Ketch: - scourge 975 N. Jack of all trades: - proficient 700 N. jack off: - sexuality 374a V. Jack o'lantern: - luminary 423 N. Jack Pudding: - drama 599 N. Jack Sheppard: - thief 792 N. jack tar: - mariner 269 N. jack: - rotation 312 N. - indication 550 N. - amusement 840 N. jackal: - auxiliary 711 N. - provision 637 N. jackanapes: - blusterer 887 N. jackass: - carrier 271 N. jack-in-office: - blusterer 887 N. jackpot: - amusement 840 N. jack-pudding: - humorist 844 N. - boasting 884 N. jacks: - amusement 840 N. Jackson: - money 800 N. jackstones: - amusement 840 N. Jacobin: - opponent 710 N. Jacquerie: - resistance 719 N. - attack 716 N. jactancy: - boasting 884 N. jactitation: - agitation 315 N. - boasting 884 N. jaculate: - propulsion 284 V. jade: - commonality 876 N. - libertine 962 N. - bad man 949 N. - fatigue 688 V. - carrier 271 N. - deterioration 659 N. jag: - contents 190 N. - notch 257 N. - notch 257 V. jagged: - angularity 244 Adj.

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Blast them, Jack, what they call the public is a monster, like the idol we saw in Owhyhee, with the head of a jackass, the body of a baboon, and the tail of a scorpion!"

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Having, then, to carry this extra amount of fat and flesh on the slender legs and feet of a jackass, you can easily see what the result must be.

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The scene here is very amusing; the variety of wares exposed, and the confusion of noises and tongues, and now and then a jackass swelling the chorus with his most exquisite tones.

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"Oh, I ain't nobody's pet jackass, when it comes to that!"

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For, leaving out of view the pigmies of the former place, whose like we know is never found in Congress, what is there in that Australian bird with the voice of a jackass to excite the feeblest interest in the mind of a man who has listened to the debates on Kansas?

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Richard's father, the Duke of York, while struggling one day with Henry VI., the royal jackass that flourished in 1460, prior to the conquest of the Fool-Killer, had the misfortune, while trying to wrest the throne from Henry, to get himself amputated at the second joint.

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The comical sketch of their rhetoric in "Salmagundi" is literally true:--"Every day have these slangwhangers made furious attacks on each other and upon their respective adherents, discharging their heavy artillery, consisting of large sheets loaded with scoundrel, villain, liar, rascal, numskull, nincompoop, dunderhead, wiseacre, blockhead, jackass."

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Like the jackass in the fable, they assumed the dead lion's skin, and brayed beneath it, thinking they could roar."

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There's Neb, he's as strong as a jackass; Diogenes is another Hercules; and neither you nor I am a kitten.

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we perceive the hideous apparition!--and straightway rushing forward, like two tigers on a jackass, we seize the wigless dotard, and, calling for a blanket, the whole respectable company of forty couples and upwards, come crowding to the spot, and lend a willing hand in rotation, four by four, in tossing Malachi, the last of the lovers, till the breath of life is scarcely left in his vile body.

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Run up the bank--shove the jackass into the ditch.

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A word before you go--Take warning by me--avoid that same serpent, wisdom--Pray to the Saints to make you a blockhead--Never send your boys to school--For Heaven knows, a poor man that will live honest, and die in his bed, ought to have no more scholarship than a parson, and no more brains than your jackass.

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The loud and discordant noise of the _laughing jackass_, (or _settler's clock_, as he is called,) as he takes up his roost on the withered bough of one of our tallest trees, acquaints us that the sun has just dipped behind the hills, and that it is time to trudge homewards; while the plaintive notes of the curlew, and the wild and dismal screechings of the flying squirrel, skimming from branch to branch, whisper us to retire to our bedchambers.

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In the morning, again, the dull monotonous double note of the _whee-whee_, (so named from the sound of its calls,) chiming in at as regular intervals as the tick of a clock, warns us to rub our eyes and con over the tasks of the impending day, as it is but half an hour to dawn; till again the loud laughter of the _jackass_ summons us to turn out, and take a peep at the appearance of the morning, which just begins to glimmer beyond the dusky outline of the eastern hills.

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"You ran a good bluff and you nearly put it over; but I don't want to advertise myself as a jackass, so I shan't have you pinched unless you come back."

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The jackass merely said--quite amiably and unconsciously --that he thought I'd play a good game presently.

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And when we went upstairs to the drawing-room I found myself, to my disgust, side-tracked in a corner of the room with that supreme old jackass of a professor--their uncle, I think, or something of the sort.

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Like the jackass in the fable, they put on the dead lion's skin of his manner, and brayed beneath it, thinking they could roar.

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The good-looking Mr. Chase, writhing under the dread of exposure as an international jackass, welcomed the opportunity to get as far away from civilisation as possible.

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A jackass could have done as much."

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"A jackass may kick at a king," she paraphrased casually.

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Hampstead Ishak Jackass South Hampstead High School (Girls).

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A jackass laughed his joy as he perched on the telegraph wire out in the road.

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The Mormons nicknamed them "jackass cavalry."

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But I'm a ghastly jackass--I didn't get any fun out of it at all--because I really didn't even see her.

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It's because I know what a heavenly brick you are that I could have killed that statistical jackass for bothering you; but I'll forgive him, since you say that it's all right.

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We were placed in a good bed--the state-bed of course--and as we lay, paid our devotions to Urania, and contemplated the beauties of the starry firmament, through an aperture in the roof which would have admitted a jackass.

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The only wild animals common in the country of the Utahs are the hare, or "jackass-rabbit," the wild-cat, the wolf, and the grizzly bear.

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That jackass of a telegraph operator is responsible for it all.

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We can well believe that the cry, "General Washington's jackass is coming!" was always sufficient to attract a gaping crowd.

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"Compound," a jackass, 140.

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Florida Blanca, helps Washington obtain a jackass, 137, 138.

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Jackasses: Washington's, 137 et seq., 148; stud fees of in 1798, 287.

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"Knight of Malta," a jackass, his history, 140, 141.

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Lafayette, Marquis de: visits Washington, 27; Washington's letter to regarding "Royal Gift," 138; sends Washington a jackass and two jennets, 140; last visit to Washington, 240; sends Washington some hounds, 259.

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"Royal Gift," a jackass, his history, 138-141.

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The chemist, the grocer, the baker, the banker, the wine merchant, the lawyer, the doctor, the clerk, the mechanic, the merchant, the editor, the printer, the stockbroker, the colliery owner, the ironmaster, the clergyman, and the Methodist preacher, the very cabmen and railway porters, policemen, and no doubt the crossing-sweepers--to use an expressive Americanism, all the whole "jing-bang"--could teach the ignorant jackass of a farmer.

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"What a jackass you are!" said Berkley irritably; "here's a dollar to get some pie.

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The commerce of such a town must have been mainly carried on by means of mules and jackasses, as one reads of in the trade of the Bible."

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'Tis well you know there's no more music in the Delahunty family than there would be in an old cow or a mangy jackass that you'd find grazin' by the roadside.

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Sateday, de marnin' break, Soon, soon market-people wake; An' de light shine from de moon While dem boy, wid pantaloon Roll up ober dem knee-pan, 'Tep across de buccra lan' To de pastur whe' de harse Feed along wid de jackass, An' de mule cant' in de track Wid him tail up in him back, All de ketchin' to defy, No ca' how dem boy might try.

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"Since this imported French jackass has made this charge, of course you'll have to look into it.

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At Melbourne, in a long verandah giving on a grass plot, where laughing-jackasses laugh very horribly, sit wool-kings, premiers, and breeders of horses after their kind.

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All books and no business makes Jack a jack-in-the-box, with springs and wheels in his head; all play and no work makes Jack a jackass, with bosh in his skull.

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"If you have no ass foal to have brought up by a mare and you wish a breeding jackass, you should buy the largest and handsomest you can find; the best breed, as the ancients said, was that of Arcadia, but nowadays we who know maintain that the breed of Reate is best: where breeding jacks have brought thirty and even forty thousand sesterces ($1,800-$2,000).

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"Since it appears that I do not know what a villa is," replied Appius, smiling, "I wish you would be good enough to instruct me, so that I may not make a fool of myself, as I am planning to buy from M. Seius his villa at Ostia: for if a mere house is not a villa unless it is equipped with a jackass costing forty thousand sesterces ($2,000), like that you showed me at your place, I fear that I would be making a mistake in buying Seius' house on the shore at Ostia in the belief that it is a villa.

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"Do you consider," said Merula, "that your house on the bank of Velinus, which neither painter nor architect has ever seen, is any less a villa than the one you have in Rosea so elegantly decorated with the work of an architect and which you share with your famous jackass?"

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Axius' jackass thus cost $2,000, while Seius' income from his villa was $2,500 per annum, that of Varro's aunt from her aviary was $3,000, and that of Axius from his farm $1,500.

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"It is agreeably and skilfully done, that dead jackass," writes Thackeray; "like M. de Soubise's cook on the campaign, Sterne dresses it, and serves it up quite tender, and with a very piquante sauce.

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And as these two jolly jackasses rode past at my right side I could see the thumb of long Boris curving towards the ribs of his companion, and the shoulders of both shaking as they chuckled.

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For had they been a thousand times jackasses and rotten pudding-heads (as they were), at least they knew the way and something of the unchristian people among whom we were going.

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And as to the identity of that jackass, there needs no further particularity.

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You are a jackass from the country where ears less'n three foot long are curiosities.

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I've heard Jackasses that could not bray in the same class with that little old gent--come in.

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Well, you are an allotropic modification of the genus jackass, like Hadds says of the Major.'

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We compromised on the reasonable fact that as yet we had shown only a jackass kind of intelligence.

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A unique feature of this stud was the possession of two jackasses, of which the history was curious.

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Lee, quoted, Mather's _Young Man's Companion_, Matrimony, Washington's views on, Medical knowledge of Washington, treatment of last illness, Medicine, Washington's aversion to, MERCER, George, quoted, MIFFLIN, Thomas, Washington's relations with, mentioned, Military Company of Adventurers, ---- science, books on, Washington's knowledge of, Militia, evils of, "Minutes of the Trial," authority of, Mississippi Company, Monmouth, battle of, allusions to, MORRIS, Gouverneur, quoted, friendship with, ----, Robert, ----, Roger, Mount Vernon, boyhood home of Washington, division of estate by will, invitation to visit, history of, name, house at, grounds, additions to land, management of, absence of Washington from, system at, work at, fishery of, distillery at, stud stable of, live stock of, profits of, desire to rent farms of, Washington's superintendence of, Washington's life at, slaves at, overseers of, British visit to, hunting at, shooting at, MOYLAN, S., MUSE, George, relations with Washington, Music, Washington's fondness of, "Nelson," Nepotism, Washington's views on, Newburg, threatened revolt of army at, New England, opposition to Washington, jealousy of, arranges deal, journey in, conduct of troops, officers, New Jersey troops, desertion of, New York, Washington's visit to, borrows money for journey to, head-quarters at, warfare at, _Minutes of the Trial in_, proposed attack on, farewell to army at, presidential house at, Newspapers, Nuts, Washington's fondness for, Oaths, Washington's use of, Office-seekers, Ohio, march to, journey to, _Journal_, Ohio Company, _Old Soldier_, PAINE, Thomas, relations with Washington, Paper money, depreciation of, Pension of Mary Washington, PEYRONEY, Chevalier, Philadelphia, visit to, fever at, proposed attack on, capture of, Presidential house in, Washington's attempted purchase near, PHILIPSE, Mary, PICKERING, Timothy, quoted, Pohick Church, Potomac Canal Company, Presidency, Washington in the, duties of, hospitality of, Privateer, Washington tries to secure share in, Purleigh, Lawrence Washington, rector of, Raffles, Washington's liking for, RAMSAY, W., RANDOLPH, Edmund, Washington's relations with, quoted, ----, John, forges letters, REED, Joseph, sends print to Washington, relations with Washington, quoted, Revolution, Washington's service in, ROBIN, Abbé, quoted, ROBINSON, Beverly, ----, John, ROCHAMBEAU, Count, Ross, James, quoted, "Royal Gift," jackass, Rules of civility, RUSH, Benjamin, anonymous letter of, Washington's relations with, quoted, RUTLEDGE, E., St. Clair's defeat, St. Paul's Church, SARGENT, J.D., opinion of Washington, SCOTT, Charles, quoted, Servants, Washington's, Shad, sales of, Sharpless portrait, Sheep at Mount Vernon, Shooting, Skenesborough, mosquitoes at, Slavery, Washington's views on, Slaves, Washington's, runaway, carried off by British, sickness, laziness, punishment, rations of, thieving by, Small-pox, Washington's attack of, SMITH, Rev.

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W., quoted, Southern tour, Spain, king of, gift of jackass to Washington, SPEARING, Ann, STEARN, Samuel, quoted, STEWART, R., STUART, Gilbert, opinion on Washington's face, quoted, Stuart portrait, Stud stable at Mount Vernon, SULLIVAN, John, quoted, ----, W., quoted, Sunday, Washington's observance of, SWEARINGEN, Thomas, Taverns, Washington's view of, Tea, Washington's fondness for, THACHER, Dr. James, quoted, Theatre, THORNTON, Edward, quoted, TILGHMAN, Tench, Washington's relations with, quoted, Tobacco, Washington's crop of, Trenton, battle of, TRUMBULL, Jonathan, wishes Washington removed, Truro Parish, University, National, Washington's wish for, Valley Forge, VAN BRAAM, J., VARICK, Richard, VERNON, Admiral E., Mount Vernon named after, Virginia, social life of, clubs, British invasion of, convention, land bounties, elections, agricultural system of, deal with New England, Washington's office-holding in, estates, Washington's opinion of, ---- Regiment, drunkenness of, VOLNEY, C., Washington's diplomacy with, WADSWORTH, J., quoted, "Wakefield," Walpole grant, WANSEY, H., quoted, Warm Springs, visit to, WASHINGTON, Augustine, ----, Augustine (Jr.), ----, Bushrod, letter to, ----, Charles, ----, Elizabeth (Betty).

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The jackass brayed; And all his passionate dream was in that sound Which, to the stables round And other tenements, told of packs that weighed On his brown haunches; also that, alas!

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And while I wept to think how love that preyed On the deep heart not worth a button seemed To her for whom he dreamed; And while the red sun stained the welkin wide, And summer lightnings on the horizon played, Again the jackass brayed.

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I am not very harmonious, perhaps, I never am; and I wander now and then from the tune; but it is good enough for the stalking geese, my only audience, except a ragged jackass, who, moved by my example, lifts his nose and gives vent to a lengthy bray of infinite yearning.

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One of them windows was open--maybe the one he sticked his head out of to call the man names--und I could hear him laughing like he used to do when he was trying to make a jackass of some peoples."

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THE MARKET-MAN'S LICENSE, OR THE FARMER'S APPEAL FROM A JACKASS TO THE MAYOR.

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A Jackass, in the days of old, Dress'd in a lion's skin, Went forth to ape the lion bold, And raised a mighty din: His ass-ship's ears he could not hide; His roaring would not pass; The startled beasts his ears descried, And recognized the ass.

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Champ Clark loves to tell of how in the heat of a debate Congressman Johnson of Indiana called an Illinois representative a jackass.

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I may go out birding with Bob, who is about as lively as an old jackass, or meet the country boobies for a hunt, and be pointed at as the Frenchman, and left to ride alone; or there's mine own chamber, when the maids do not see fit to turn me out with their pails and besoms, as they do at least twice a week--I sit there in my cloak and furs (by the way, I am chidden for an effeminate fop if ever I am seen in them).

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And that moment eight or ten wolves, that in the imperfect flickering light looked as big as jackasses, rushed forward, and instead of endeavouring to pass under the waggons, bounded boldly upon them.

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He drinks glasses, five for the quarter, and twelve for the hour; he is a mahogany-faced old jackass who knew Burns: he ought to have been kicked for having spoken to him.

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No subsequent love passage could rival, in wonder or beauty, that first one; since, compared with Charles Verity, the men who subsequently aspired to her favours--whether in wedlock or out--were, to her taste, at best dull, loutish fellows, at worst no more than human jackasses or human swine.

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99 : Laughing jackass : kowru : unbunya.

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A story was told at the time about a couple of German officers, one of them attached to the embassy, who happening to find themselves face to face with an individual presenting a striking likeness to the kaiser, save for the fact that his moustache was twisted downwards instead of upwards, and his hair brushed in a different way, lost to such an extent their presence of mind that they could not help drawing their heels together and standing at attention; a form of courtesy which received as its only response the muttered exclamation of "Verdammte Esel!" which may be translated: "Accursed jackasses!"

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But nothin' of that sort ever happens in this jackass kind of a land.

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If that jackass on the bench had any sense, he could see that the hat is glued fast.

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I went there eight times, and there was always some jackass of an excuse for crowdin' me out, and I don't know if I'll ever get in agin.

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I wonder if ever, and how soon, I shall get a just estimate of how many jackasses there are in this ridiculous world.

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My correspondent, by the way, estimates the number of these Pyncheon jackasses at about twenty; I am doubtless to by remonstrated with by each individual.

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"The town of Henley has been extremely disturbed with an engagement between the ghosts of Miss Blandy and her father, which continued so violent, that some bold persons, to prevent further bloodshed broke in, and found it was two jackasses which had got into the kitchen."

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The world has forgotten his glory; The wagoner sings on his wain, And Chauncey Depew tells a story, And jackasses laugh in the lane.

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