The 1,637 occurrences of jackass
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Down in Southern Arizona where the Gila monster thrives, And the "Mescalero," gifted with a hundred thousand lives, Every hour renounces one of them by drinking liquid flame-- The assassinating wassail that has given him his name; Where the enterprising dealer in Caucasian hair is seen To hold his harvest festival upon his village-green, While the late lamented tenderfoot upon the plain is spread With a sanguinary circle on the summit of his head; Where the cactuses (or cacti) lift their lances in the sun, And incautious jackass-rabbits come to sorrow as they run, Lived a colony of settlers--old Missouri was the State Where they formerly resided at a prehistoric date.
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By the way, Rankin, excellent opportunity, eh, for some of our modern, painstaking, unemployed jackasses to analyze and classify."
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You canOt surely scold me for my response to that jackass on the train.
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Well, Athena, I was sketching that verdant green landscape and a train stop in a small town with all of its myriad figures when this old jackass seated next to his wife said in English, OI would like to go to sleep now.O I said OYou are over there with your wife so sleep there next to her.
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I have one hundred lots at Jackass Inlet, worth at least $100, at the very lowest calculation.
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One evening a jackass, passing between a village and a hill, looked over the latter and saw the faint light of the rising moon.
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So he scrambled painfully up to the crest, and stood outlined against the broad disc of the unconscious luminary, more conspicuously a jackass than ever before.
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"The son of a jackass," shrieked a haughty mare to a mule who had offended her by expressing an opinion, "should cultivate the simple grace of intellectual humility."
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"The consort of a jackass and the mother of mules," retorted he, quietly, "should cultivate the simple thingamy of intellectual whatsitsname."
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This hobby was the purchase of jackasses.
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He had more jackasses than he had hairs on his head, and, as a rule, they were thinner.
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Jo's hobby was the selling of jackasses.
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I was now losing heart, when, to my great joy, I came upon "the White Kangaroo, the Laughing Jackasses, &c.," all of which were to be seen "free gratis and for nothing."
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It is right, however, that I should add that I found some difficulty in distinguishing "the White Kangaroo" from "the Laughing Jackasses," and both from "&c." I now made for Mlle.
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The jackass rabbit sorrows as he lopes; The sage-brush glooms along the mountain slopes; In rising clouds the poignant alkali, Tearless itself, makes everybody cry.
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On a mare's nest, maybe, You'd incubate a little jackass baby.
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Mahomet Stanford pounded his breast, Pixley Pasha he thus addressed: "Dog of mendacity, cheat and slave, May jackasses sing o'er your grandfather's grave!"
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Upon the Reservation wide We give for his inhabiting He goes a-jackass rabbiting To furnish his inside.
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There is a bird called the "laughing jackass."
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The laughing jackass is almost as useful as a clock, and it is called, "the bushman's clock."
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"You jackass!
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On reaching Simla he was found to be familiar with the two local "jokes," planted many years ago by some jackass.
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You had better go and write the autobiography of a jackass.
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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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At close of day A solitary jackass came to bray-- A common Thistle's fitting epitaph.
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Anyhow the rumor spread like a prairie fire, and men came rushing in from Georgetown, Placerville, Last Chance, Kentucky Flat, Michigan Bluff, Hayden Hill, Dutch Flat, Baker Divide, Yankee Jim, Mayflower, Paradise, Yuba, Deadwood, Jackass Gulch and all the other camps whose locators and residents had not been as fortunate financially as they were linguistically.
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ass, n. donkey, jackass.
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jackass, n. donkey; dolt, simpleton, witling, ignoramus, fool.
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And then there's the Burro Mountains, which is half again as high as Baldy, and all the Burro country to Little Jackass.
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"Then the boys over Jackass way and by the Crossing ought to see it for themselves."
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thou that wert once an angel in heaven, art thou reduced to bray like a jackass?"
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COLLIER & SON COPYRIGHT, 1900 BY THE COLONIAL PRESS CONTENTS THE BOOK OF GOOD COUNSELS Translator's Preface Introduction THE WINNING OF FRIENDS The Story of the Jackal, Deer, and Crow The Story of the Vulture, the Cat, and the Birds The Story of the Dead Game and the Jackal The Prince and the Wife of the Merchant's Son The Story of the Old Jackal and the Elephant THE PARTING OF FRIENDS The Story of the Lion, the Jackals, and the Bull The Story of the Monkey and the Wedge The Story of the Washerman's Jackass The Story of the Cat who Served the Lion The Story of the Terrible Bell The Story of the Prince and the Procuress The Story of the Black Snake and the Golden Chain The Story of the Lion and the Old Hare The Story of the Wagtail and the Sea WAR The Battle of the Swans and Peacocks The Story of the Weaver-Birds and the Monkeys The Story of the Old Hare and the Elephants The Story of the Heron and the Crow The Story of the Appeased Wheelwright The Story of the Dyed Jackal The Story of the Faithful Rajpoot PEACE The Treaty Between the Peacocks and the Swans The Story of the Tortoise and the Geese The Story of Fate and the Three Fishes The Story of the Unabashed Wife The Story of the Herons and the Mongoose The Story of the Recluse and the Mouse The Story of the Crane and the Crab The Story of the Brahman and the Pans The Duel of the Giants The Story of the Brahman and the Goat The Story of the Camel, the Lion, and His Court The Story of the Frogs and the Old Serpent NALA AND DAMAYANTI Introduction NALA AND DAMAYANTI.-- Part I Part II SELECTIONS FROM THE RÁMÁYANA Introduction Invocation BOOK I.-- CANTO I.--Nárad [_Cantos II., III., IV., and V. are omitted_] VI.--The King VII.--The Ministers VIII.--Sumantra's Speech IX.--Rishyaśring X.--Rishyaśring Invited XI.--The Sacrifice Decreed XII.--The Sacrifice Begun XIII.--The Sacrifice Finished XIV.--Rávan Doomed XV.--The Nectar XVI.--The Vánars XVII.--Rishyaśring's Return XVIII.--Rishyaśring's Departure XIX.--The Birth of the Princes XX.--Viśvámitra's Visit XXI.--Viśvámitra's Speech XXII.--Daśaratha's Speech XXIII.--Vaśishtha's Speech XXIV.--The Spells XXV.--The Hermitage of Love XXVI.--The Forest of Tádaká XXVII.--The Birth of Tádaká XXVIII.--The Death of Tádaká XXIX.--The Celestial Arms XXX.--The Mysterious Powers XXXI.--The Perfect Hermitage XXXII.--Viśvámitra's Sacrifice XXXIII.--The Sone XXXIV.--Brahmadatta XXXV.--Viśvámitra's Lineage XXXVI.--The Birth of Gangá [_Cantos XXXVII.
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Damanaka asked how that happened, and Karataka related:-- THE STORY OF THE WASHERMAN'S JACKASS "There was a certain Washerman at Benares, whose name was Carpúrapataka, and he had an Ass and a Dog in his courtyard; the first tethered, and the last roaming loose.
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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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You wanted to be certain you hadn't reared a jackass instead of a man, so you gave me a hundred thousand dollars and stood by to see what I'd do with it--didn't you, old Scotty?"
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Not easily again shall a Corn-Law argue ten years for itself; and still talk and argue, when impartial persons have to say with a sigh that, for so long back, they have heard no 'argument' advanced for it but such as might make the angels and almost the very jackasses weep!-- Wholly a blessed time: when jargon might abate, and here and there some genuine speech begin.
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Of course I was not for an instant deceived by all this: I knew that under it all lay a particularly forbidding and inhospitable expanse of sagebrush and cactus, peopled with nothing more nearly akin to me than prairie dogs, ground owls and jackass rabbits--that with these exceptions the desert was as desolate as the environment of Ozymandias' "vast and trunkless legs of stone."
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I'm a headlong, blundering jackass!"
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"He can never be such a confounded jackass!" said Mr Sidsby, without giving a local habitation or a name to the personal pronoun _he_.
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"Poor John," from being so long "Jack among his familiars," has been most scurvily treated, being employed to form sundry very derogatory compounds, such as, Jackass, Jackpudding, Jack-a-dandy, Jackanapes, Jack-a-lent, Jack o' oaks (knave of clubs), Jack-o' th' Lantern, &c. &c. Might not "Jack" have been derived from John, somewhat after the following fashion:--Johan--Joan--Jan--Janchen or Jankin.
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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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And I promise you that, at this moment, if there be pillows sleepless yonder in the camp for the sake of the costly fragile toys called womankind, those jackasses of lovelorn lads have cause to regret the sojourn of Queen Margaret in Belgium, only as having brought forth from their castles in the Ardennes or the froggeries of the Low Country, the indigenous divinities that I would were at this moment at the bottom of their muddy moats, or of the Sambre flowing under yonder window!"
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Having discovered in me a jackass incapable of the Fat-shan pronunciation of Sam-shue, he retires on his dignity from further interest in my affairs.
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I just tell yer what it is about that school--it's a-goin' to go on, spite uv any jackasses that wants it broke up; an' any gentleman that's insulted ken git satisfaction by--" "Who wants it broke up, you old fool?" demanded Toledo, a man who had been named after the city from which he had come, and who had been from the first one of the fiercest opponents of the school.
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J was a Jackass who said He had such a bad cold in his head, If it wasn't for leaving The rest of us grieving, He'd really rather be dead.
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When the King of Spain, knowing he was a farmer, thoughtfully sent him a present of a jackass, Washington proposed naming the animal in honor of the donor; and in writing to friends about the present, draws invidious comparisons between the gift and the giver.
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"And 'the fancied cow' should go tumbling down the knoll like a rolling jackass, and smash that grand horn to bits!" lamented Dol, who now sat serenely on his bough, with a firm clasp of the hemlock trunk, and a reckless enjoyment of the situation which far surpassed his companion's.
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"What awfully selfish jackasses we were, to skip off with our own rifles, and never think of yours, or that you couldn't save it, carrying that poor fellow!
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But he's a marciful man, Old Nathan, and the horse thar, old White Dobbin, war foundered and good for nothing ever since the boys made a race with him against Sammy Parker's jackass."
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I hear the words--"idiot"--"jackass of a pupil"--"regular sell"--and; but no, perhaps I had better not repeat all that I _did_ hear.
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I never saw a prettier, on any sands, on any jackasses, on any Bank Holiday!
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"For an independent thinker," he said, "you are rather a pusillanimous jackass.
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One said it was a bull-calf, an' another he said "Nay; It's just a painted jackass, that has never larnt to bray."
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''Taint the stummick that I do vally,' he said, ''tis the cussed ongratefulness o' the jackass.'"
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A "PAR" in the _Daily News_ last Thursday told how the Antipodæans had presented Miss NELLIE FARREN with "a Laughing Jackass."
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For it is a biped and not a quadruped; not that as a biped "the Laughing Jackass" is by any means a _lusus naturæ_.
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If hissing heard anywhere, up starts the Laughing Jackass and down he comes on the snake, and there's an end of the hissing.
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Theatrical Managers would do well to cultivate the Laughing Jackasses, and keep a supply always on the premises.
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On the contrary, he speaks with much scorn of all euphuism and delicacy of expression and, preferring the affectation of nature to the affectation of art, he thinks nothing of calling other people 'Laura Bridgmans,' 'Jackasses' and the like.
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Literature, one's sole craft and staff of life, lies broken in abeyance; what room for music amid the braying of innumerable jackasses, the howling of innumerable hyænas whetting the tooth to eat them up?
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The most polished and profound speech conceivable is answered when a jackass mounts the platform and brays out something about the gallant boys in gray.
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"Jackass!"
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"Jackass!
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Here are "The Wolf,"--"Brer Wolf"--and the simple-minded Jackass, both are going to confession to Father Fox--"Brer Fox."
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While they were yet in the road, there came along a very large countryman, mounted on a very small jackass; he was sitting side-saddle fashion, one leg crossed over the other, the lower leg nearly touching the ground; one hand held a pipe to his mouth, while the other held an olive branch, by no means an emblem of peace to the jackass, who twitched one long ear and then the other, in expectation of a momentary visit from it on either side of his head.
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The jackass was stopped by pulling his left ear--the ears answering for reins--and after giving a light, the man was going on, when Caper, taking a _scudo_ from his pocket, told him that if he would let him make a sketch of himself, wife, and jackass, he would give it to him, telling him also that he would not detain them over an hour.
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The man told his wife that the Signore was to make a _ritratto_, a picture of them all, including the jackass, at which she laughed heartily, showing a splendid set of brilliantly white teeth.
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Having learned from Caper that his first name was Giacomo, she shouted forth a rondinella, making up the words as she went along, and in it gave a ludicrous account of Giacomo, the artist, who took a jackass's portrait, herself and husband holding him, and the baby squalling in harmony.
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"An ass, a jackass, a howling jackass!" cried Poulett, _crescendo_.
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"O thou father of a jackass!" they cried, "thou hast helped the thief to rob thee of thy jewel."
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Presently we saw a jackass laden with vegetables come swimming down the street, carried along by the current.
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Sir John Jackass seconded the Whig's nominee.
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Anne wants me to go to hear the Tyrolese Minstrels, but though no one more esteems that bold and high-spirited people, I cannot but think their yodelling, if this be the word, is a variation, or set of variations, upon the tones of a jackass, so I remain to dribble and scribble at home.
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I went wi' the lad fer a ways, but my jackass harpened to be more or less indispositioned--consider'bly more o' less than less o' more--an' so I made up my mind not ter continny his route.
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* * * * * Lord William Paget has applied to the Lord Chancellor, to inquire whether the word "jackass" is not opprobrious and actionable.
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If it be so, I shall certainly vacate my place in favour of a jackass.
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The _Salisbury Herald_ says, that Sir John Pollen stated, in reference to his defeat at the Andover election, "that from the bribery and corruption resorted to for that purpose, they (the electors) would have returned a jackass to parliament."
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Trumpeter in Ordinary to "all the geese," and himself in particular, On his extraordinary Pegasus, beautifully represented by a Jackass, Idealised with magnificent goose's wings.
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_John Jones_,--for who shall conceive the profanity of man?--may have called one of these magistrates "goose" or "jackass;" and the offence against the justice is a contempt of the parson.
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On several mornings together--for roguery gets up much earlier than industry--Giles and his boys stole regularly into her orchard, followed by their jackasses.
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Meantime the redstreaks were safely lodged in Giles' hovel, under a few bundles of hay, which he had contrived to pull from the farmer's mow the night before, for the use of his jackasses.
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He set off as soon as it was dark, with his sons and their jackasses laden with their stolen goods.
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comes like blatant fish-horn over the silent air, and your dream of the Coliseum ends ignominiously with this nineteenth-century song of a jackass.
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It is a hog-skin, filled with wind, having pipes at one end, and a jackass at the other, and is known in some lands as the bagpipe.
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'By George, Jim, that's a pretty painting: that jackass is fairly alive, and so's the girl with a red boddice.
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(He was sorely tempted to transpose the word into jackass, but he wisely restrained himself.)
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for heaven's sake cut this rope, or I shall strangle to death!--oh, dear, good Mary, save me this time: and I roared out like a jackass, and must too have fainted, for when I came round Doctor Tillotson and his wife and Mary stood over me as I lay on the floor.
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The teachers knew; the girls knew; God knew; everybody but he knew-poor blind, deaf mole, stupid jackass that he was.
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"So Bernstorff is called into consultation, the head of an embassy that has made the German secret service the laughing-stock of the world, an ambassador that has his private papers filched by a common sneak-thief in the underground railway and is fool enough to send home the most valuable documents by a jackass of a military attaché who lets the whole lot be taken from him by a dunderheaded British customs officer at Falmouth!
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PROFESSOR--"So, sir, you said that I was a learned jackass, did you?"
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The satire cannot be considered too broad when we consider the folly and credulity which, at the time of the South Sea mania, led many persons into sinking their whole fortunes in such enterprises as the company "To Fish up Wrecks on the Irish Coast," to "Make Salt-Water Fresh," to "Extract Silver from Lead," and to "Import Jackasses from Spain."
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=animal=, _m._, animal; fool, jackass.