The 15,767 occurrences of ass
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And at your side some wise old priest reclines And weaves a tale of dead and glorious days When MAMUN reigned; expounds the heavenly signs Whose movements fix the span of mortal days; Touches on Afreets and the ways of Djinns; Through his embroidered tale real heroes pass, RUSTUM the bold and BAHRAM the wild ass, Who never dreamed of using poisoned gas Or spread barbed wire before the foeman's shins.
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A boy, armed with a spear, walks at the side of the women; and two children, seated in a kind of pannier placed on the back of an ass, ride on in front.
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Another ass, carrying a spear, a shield, and a pannier, precedes the man who plays on the lyre.
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Apuleius, 125-about 200 A.D. ("Metamorphoses," or "Golden Ass").
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of verbs of, 207. adr- = arr-, 9, 2. ads- = ass-, 9, 2. ad sensum, constr., 235, B, 2, c; 254, 4. adulēscēns, spelling, 9, 2. adulter, decl., 23, 2. adultus, force, 114, 2.
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Gertrude H. Denio, Treas., Women's Indian Ass'n, _for Hospital, Fort Yates, N.D._ ...50.00 Brewer.
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Students' Ass'n.
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Grouchy for a fool and Blücher for a blundering ass.
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"Have I been making an ass of myself, Arthur?"
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_A bird._ ~Kám-ass~, or ~Lá-kam-ass~, _n._ Nootka.
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~Coyote~, _tal'-a-pus._ ~Crab apple~, _pow'-itsh._ ~Cranberry~, _so'-le-mie._ ~Crazy~, _pel'-ton._ ~Cream colored~, _le clem._ ~Crooked~, _ki'-wa._ ~Cross~, _la clo-a'._ ~Crow~, _káh-kah._ ~Cry, to~, _cly._ ~Cup~, _oos'-kan._ ~Curly~, _hunl'-kih._ ~Cut, to~, _tl'ko'-pe._ ~D.~ ~Dance, to~, _tanse._ ~Dark, darkness~, _po'-lak-lie._ ~Day~, _sun._ ~Dead~, _mem'-a-loost,_ ~Deaf~, _ik-poo'-ie kwil-lan._ ~Dear~, _hy'-as máh-kook._ ~Deep~, _klip._ ~Deer~, _mow'-itsh._ ~Demon~, _skoo'-kum._ ~Devil~, _di-aub'; yaub; le-jaub'._ ~Different~, _hul-o'-i-ma._ ~Difficult~, _kull._ ~Dig, to~, _mam'-ook il'-la-hie._ ~Dime~, _bit,_ or _mit._ ~Do, to~, _mam'-ook._ ~Doctor~, _doc'-tin._ ~Dog~, _kam'-ooks._ ~Dollar~, _dol'-la,_ or _táh-la._ ~Door~, _la po'te._ ~Down stream~, _mi'-mie._ ~Drink, to~, _muck'-a-muck._ ~Drive, to~, _kish'-kish._ ~Drunk~, _páht-lum._ ~Dry~, _de-ly'._ ~Duck~ (Mallard), _kwéh-kweh; háht-haht._ ~Dust~, _po'-lal-lie._ ~E.~ ~Eagle~, _chak'-chak._ ~Ear~, _kwo-lann'._ ~Early~, _ten'-as sun._ ~Earn, to~, _to'-lo_ ~Earth~, _il'-la-hie._ ~Eat, to~, _muck'-a-muck._ ~Egg~, _le sap'; le zep'._ ~Eight~, _sto'-te-kin._ ~Elk~, _moo'-lock._ ~Enclosure~, _kul-lágh._ ~English~, _king chautsh._ ~Englishman~, _king chautsh._ ~Enough~, _hi-yu'; ko-pet'._ ~Entreiils~, _ki-yágh._ ~Evening~, _ten'-as po'-lak-lie._ ~Every~, _kon'-a-way._ ~Exchange~, _húy-huy._ ~Eyes~, _se-áh-host._ ~F.~ ~Face~, _se-áh-host._ ~Faded~, _spo'-oh._ ~Falsehood~, _klim-in'-a-whit._ ~Far~, _si-áh._ ~Fast~ (quick), _hy-ak'._ ~Fast~ (tight), _kwutl._ ~Fasten, to~, _kow._ ~Fat~, _glease._ ~Father~, _pa'-pa._ ~Fathom~, _it'-lan._ ~Fear~, _kwass._ ~Fell, to~ (as a tree), _mam'-ook whim._ ~Fence~, _kul-lágh._ ~Fetch, to~, _mam'-ook cháh-ko._ ~Fever~, _waum sick._ ~Few~, _ten'-as._ ~Fight, to~, _mam'-ook sol'-leks._ ~Fight, with fists~, _mam'-ook puk'-puk._ ~Figured~ (as calico), _tzum._ ~File~, _la leem._ ~Fill, to~, _mam'-ook pahtl._ ~Find, to~, _klap._ ~Fingers~, _le doo._ ~Fire~, _pi'-ah; o-la-pits'-ki._ ~First~, _e'-lip,_ or _el'-ip._ ~Fish~, _pish._ ~Fish-hook~, _ik'-kik._ ~Five~, _kwin'-num._ ~Flea~, _so'-pen e'-na-poo; cho'-tub._ ~Flesh~, _itl'-wil-lie._ ~Flint~, _kil-it'-sut._ ~Flour~, _sap'-o-lill._ ~Fly, to~, _ka-wak'._ ~Fog~, _smoke._ ~Food~, _muck'-a-muck._ ~Fool~, _pel'-ton._ ~Foolish~, _pel'-ton._ ~Foot~, _le-pee'._ ~Forever~, _kwáh-ne-sum._ ~Forget, to~, _máh-lie._ ~Fork~, _la poo-shet'._ ~Formerly~, _áhn-kut-te,_ or _áhn-kot-tie._ ~Four~, _lak'-it, _or _lok'-it._ ~Fowl~, _la pool._ ~French~, Frenchman, _pa-si'-ooks._ ~Friend~, _sikhs,_ or _shikhs._ ~Frog~, _shwáh-kuk._ ~Fry~, to, _mam'-ook la po-el'._ ~Frying-pan~, _la po-el'._ ~Full~, _pahtl._ ~Fundament~, _o'-poots._ ~G.~ ~Gallop, to~, _kwa-lal'-kwa-lal'._ ~Gather, to~, _ho'-ku-melh._ ~Get, to~, _is'-kum._ ~Get out~, _mahsh._ ~Get up~, _get-up',-or ket-op'._ ~Ghost~, _skoo'-kum._ ~Gift~, _cul'-tus pot'-latch._ ~Give, to~, _pot'-latch._ ~Glad~, _kwann._ ~Go, to~, _klat'-a-wa._ ~God~, _ságh-a-lie ty-ee'._ ~Gold~, _pil chik'-a-min._ ~Good~, _klose,_ or _kloshe._ ~Good-bye~, _kla-how'-ya._ ~Goods~, _ik'-tah._ ~Goose~, _whuy'-whuy; kal-ak-a-láh-ma._ ~Grandfather~, _chope._ ~Grandmother~, _chitsh._ ~Grease~, _la-kles'; glease._ ~Green~, _pe-chugh'._ ~Grey; a grey horse~, _le gley._ ~Grizzly bear~, _si-am'._ ~Ground~, _il'-la-hie._ ~Gun; musket~, _suk'-wa-lal._ ~H.~ ~Hair~, _yak'-so._ ~Half~, _sit'-kum._ ~Hammer~, _le máh-to._ ~Hand~, _le máh._ ~Hand~ (game of), _it'-lo-kum._ ~Handkerchief~, _hak'-at-shum._ ~Hard~, _kull._ ~Hare~, _kwit'-shad-ie._ ~Harrow, to~, _mam'-ook comb il'-la-hie._ ~Hat~, _se-áh-po; se-áh-pult._ ~Haul~, _haul._ ~Hazel-nuts~, _tuk'-wil-la._ ~He, his~, _yáh-ka._ ~Head~, _la tet._ ~Heart~, _tum'-tum._ ~Heaven~, _ságh-il-lie il'-la-hie._ ~Heavy~, _till._ ~Help, to~, _mam'-ook e-lann'._ ~Here~, _yuk'-wa._ ~Hermaphrodite~, _bur'-dash._ ~Hide, to~, _ip'-soot._ ~High~, _ságh-a-lie._ ~Hit, to~, _kwul'h._ ~Hoe~, _la pe-osh'._ ~Hog~, _co'-sho._ ~Hole~, _kla-whap'._ ~Holiday~, _sunday._ ~Horn~, _stone._ ~Horse~, _kiu'-a-tan._ ~House~, _house._ ~How~, _káh-ta._ ~How are you~, _kla-how'-ya._ ~How many~, _kun'-sih; kun'-juk._ ~Hundred~, _tuk-a-mo'-nuk._ ~Hungry~, _o'-lo._ ~Hurry~, _howh; hy-ak'._ ~I.~ ~I~, _ni-ka._ ~If~, _spose._ ~In~, _ko'-pa._ ~Indian~, _si'-wash._ ~In shore~, _máht-wil-lie._ ~Iron~, _chik'-a-min._ ~It~, _yáh-ka._ ~J.~ ~Jealous~, _sick tum'-tum._ ~Jump, to~, _so'-pe-na._ ~K.~ ~Kam-ass root~, _la'-ka-mass._ ~Kettle~, _ket-ling._ ~Kick, to~, _chuk'-kin._ ~Kiss, to kiss~, _be'-be._ ~Knife~, _o'-pit-sah._ ~Knock, to~, _ko'-ko._ ~Knotty~, _hunl'-kih._ ~Know, to~, _kum'-tuks._ ~L.~ ~Lame~, _klook te-áh-wit._ ~Lamprey eel~, _skwak'-wal,_ ~Language~, _la lang._ ~Large~, _hy-as'._ ~Lately~, _chee._ ~Laughter~, _hee'-hee._ ~Lazy~, _lazy._ ~Leap, to~, _so'-pe-na._ ~Leaf~, _tup'-so,_ or _tip'-so._ ~Lean, to~, _lagh._ ~Leave, to~, _mahsh._ ~Leave off, to~, _ko-pet'._ ~Leg~, _te-áh-wit._ ~Leggings~, _mi-tass'._ ~Lend, to~, _a-yáh-whul_ ~Lick, to~, _klak'-wun._ ~Lie, to~, _klim-in'-a-whit._ ~Like~, _káh-kwa._ ~Like, to~, _tik-égh._ ~Little~, _ten'-as._ ~Long~, _youtl'-kut._ ~Long ago~, _áhn-kut-te,_ or _áhn-kot-tie._ ~Look, to~, _nan'-itsh._ ~Look here!~ _nah._ ~Look out!~ _klose nan'-itsh._ ~Looking-glass~, _she-lok'-um._ ~Loose~, _stoh._ ~Lose the way, to~, _tso'-lo; tsee-pie' way-hut._ ~Louse~, _e'-na-poo,_ or _in'-a-poo._ ~Love, to~, _tik-égh._ ~M.~ ~Magic~, _ta-máh-no-us._ ~Make, to~, _mam'-ook._ ~Man~, _man._ ~Many~, _hy-iu'._ ~Marry, to~, _mal-i-éh._ ~Mass~ (Ceremony of), _la messe._ ~Mast~, _ship stick._ ~Mat~, _klis'-kwiss._ ~Mattock~, _la pe-osh'._ ~Measure, to~, _tah'-nim._ ~Meat~, _itl'-wil-lie._ ~Medicine~, _la mes'-tin._ ~Mend, to~, _mam'-ook tip'-shin._ ~Menstruate, to~, _mahsh pil'-pil._ ~Metal, metallic~, _chik'-a-min._ ~Middle, the~, _kat'-suk,_ or _kot'-suk._ ~Midnight~, _sit'-kum po'-lak-lie._ ~Milk~, _to-toosh'._ ~Mill~, _moo'-la._ ~Mind, the~, _tum'-tum._ ~Miss, to~, _tsee'-pie._ ~Mistake, to~, _tsee'-pie._ ~Moccasins~, _skin-shoes._ ~Molasses~, _mel-ass'._ ~Money~, _chik'-a-min._ ~Month~, _moon._ ~Moon~, _moon._ ~More~, _weght._ ~Mosquito~, _mel'-a-kwa._ ~Mother~, _mama; na'-ah._ ~Mountain~, _la mon'-ti._ ~Mouse~, _hool'-hool._ ~Mouth~, _la boos._ ~Much~, _hy-iu'._ ~Mule~, _le mel._ ~Musical Instrument~, _tin'-tin._ ~Musket~, _musket._ ~Mussels~, _to'-luks._ ~My, mine~, _ni'-ka._ ~N.~ ~Nails~, _le cloo._ ~Name~, _nem; yah-hul._ ~Near~, _wake si-áh._ ~Neck~, _le cou._ ~Needle~, _keep'-wot._ ~New~, _chee._ ~Night~, _po'-lak-lie._ ~Nine~, _kwaist,_ or _kweest._ ~No, not~, _wake._ ~Noise~, _la tlah._ ~None~, _ha'-lo._ ~Nonsense~, _cul'-tus wau'-wau._ ~Noon~, _sit-kum sun._ ~Nose~, _nose._ ~Notwithstanding~, _kégh-tchie._ ~Now~, _al'-ta._ ~Numerals--~ 1, _ikt._ 2, _mokst._ 3, _klone._ 4, _lakit._ 5, _kwinnum._ 6, _taghum._ 7, _sinnamokst._ 8, _stotekin._ 9, _kwaist._ 10, _tahtlelum._ 11, _tahtlelum pe ikt_ 20, _mokst tahtlelum._ 100, _ikt takarnonuk._ ~Nuts~, _tuk'-wil-la._ ~O.~ ~Oak~, _kull stick._ ~Oar~, _la lahm; la lum._ ~Oats~, _la wen._ ~Off~, _klak._ ~Off shore~, _máht-lin-nie_ ~Oil~, _glease._ ~Old~, _o'-le-man._ ~Old man~, _o'-le-man._ ~Old woman~, _lam'-mi-eh._ ~One~, _ikt._ ~One-eyed~, _ikt se-áh-host._ ~Open~, _háh-lakl._ ~Opposite to~, _in'-a-ti._ ~Or~, _pe._ ~Order, to~, _mahsh tum'-tum._ ~Other~, _hul-o'-i-ma._ ~Otter~ (land), _ne-mam'-ooks._ ~Our~, _ne-si'-ka._ ~Out doors~, _klágh-a-nie._ ~Ox~, _moos'-moos._ ~Oyster~, _chet'-lo,_ or _jet'-lo; klógh-klogh._ ~P.~ ~Paddle, a~, _is'-ick._ ~Paddle, to~, _mam'-ook is'-ick._ ~Paint~, _pent._ ~Paint, to~, _mam'-ook pent._ ~Paper~, _péh-pah._ ~Peas~, _le pwau._ ~People~, _til'-i-kum._ ~Perhaps~, _klo-nas'._ ~Petticoat~, _kal-a-kwah'-tie._ ~Piebald~, _le kye._ ~Pin~, _kwek'-wi-ens._ ~Pipe~, _la peep._ ~Pitch~, _la gome._ ~Plate~, _la si-et'._ ~Pleased~, _youtl._ ~Plough~, _le shal-loo'._ ~Plough, to~, _klugh il'-la-hie._ ~Pole~, _la pehsh._ ~Poor~, _kla-how'-yum; ha'-lo ik'-ta._ ~Pork~, _co'-sho._ ~Posteriors~, _o'-poots._ ~Potato~, _wap'-pa-too._ ~Pour, to~, _wagh._ ~Powder~, _po'-lal-lie._ ~Prairie wolf~, _tal'-a-pus._ ~Presently~, _al'-kie; win'-a-pie_ ~Pretty~, _to'ke-tie._ ~Priest~, _le plet._ ~Proud~, _youtl; kwetl'h._ ~Provided that~, _spose._ ~Pull~, _haul._ ~Q.~ ~Quarter~, _ten'-as sit'-kum._ ~Quarter~ (of a dollar), _kwah-ta._ ~Quick~, _hy-ak'._ ~Quills~, _te-péh._ ~R.~ ~Rabbit~, _kwit'-shad-ie._ ~Rain~, _snass._ ~Rattle~, _shugh._ ~Rattlesnake~, _shugho'-pools._ ~Razor fish~, _o'-na._ ~Reach~, _ko._ ~Red~, _pil._ ~Relate, to~, _yi'-em._ ~Return, to~, _kel'-i-pi._ ~Ribbon~, _le lo'-ba._ ~Rice~, _lice._ ~Rifle~, _cal'-li-peen._ ~Ring, a~, _kwéo-kwéo._ ~Ripe~, _pi'-ah._ ~River~, _chuck._ ~Road~, _way'-hut._ ~Roan colored~, _san'-de-lie._ ~Roast~, _mam'-ook la pel-lah'._ ~Rock~, _stone._ ~Rope~, _lope._ ~Rotten~, _poo'-lie._ ~Round~, _lo'-lo._ ~Rudder~, _boat o'-poots._ ~Rum~, _lum._ ~S.~ ~Sack~, _le sak._ ~Saddle~, _la sell._ ~Saddle housings~, _le pish'-e-mo._ ~Sail~, _sail._ ~Sailor~, _ship'-man._ ~Salmon~, _salmon._ ~Salt~, _salt._ ~Sand~, _po'-lal-lie._ ~Sash~, _la san-jel'._ ~Saw~, _la gwin; la scie._ ~Say, to~, _wau'-wau._ ~Scissors~, _le see'-zo._ ~Sea~, _salt-chuck._ ~Seal~, _ol'-hi-yu si'-wash co'-sho._ ~See, to~, _nan'-itsh._ ~Sell, to~, _máh-kook._ ~Seven~, _sin'-a-moxt._ ~Sew, to~, _mam'-ook tip'-shin._ ~Shake, to~, _to-to; hul'-lel._ ~Shame~, _shem._ ~Sharp~, _yáh-kis-ilt'h._ ~Sharpen, to~, _mam'-ook tsish._ ~She, her~, _yah-ka._ ~Sheep~, _le moo'-to._ ~Shell money~ (the small size), _coop-coop;_ (the large), _hy-kwa._ ~Shingle~, _le-báh-do._ ~Shining~, _to-wágh._ ~Ship~, _ship._ ~Shirt~, _shut._ ~Shoes~, _shoes._ ~Shoot, to~, _mam'-ook poo._ ~Short~, _yútes-kut._ ~Shot~, _shot; ten'-as le bal._ ~Shot pouch~, _ka-li-tan le-sac'; tsole'-pat._ ~Shout, to~, _hy'-as wau'-wau._ ~Shovel~, _la pell._ ~Shut, to~, _ik-poo'-ie._ ~Sick~, _sick._ ~Sift, to~, _to-to._ ~Silk~, _la sway._ ~Silver~, _t'kope chik'-a-min._ ~Similar~, _káh-kwa._ ~Since~, _kim-ta._ ~Sing, to~, _shan'-tie._ ~Sister~, _káhp-ho,_ if older than the speaker; _ats,_ if younger.
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Thus I muse as I watch with a reverent eye The New Generation sweep steadily by, And judge him an ass or a born Silly Billy Who'd barter the New for the Old Piccadilly.
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Truly, it seemeth to me that I might style myself an ass, without impropriety."
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One John Ryland, A.M., of Northampton, published a 'Preceptor, or General Repository of useful information, very necessary for the various ages and departments of life,' in which 'pride and lust, a corrupt pride of heart, and a furious filthy lust of body,' are announced as the Atheist's 'springs of action,' 'desire to act the beast without control, and live like a devil without a check of conscience,' his only 'reasons for opposing the existence of God,' in which he is told 'a world of creatures are up in arms against him to kill him as they would a venomous mad dog,' in which, among other hard names, he is called 'absurd fool,' 'beast,' 'dirty monster,' 'brute,' 'gloomy dark animal,' 'enemy of mankind,' 'wolf to civil society,' 'butcher and murderer of the human race,' in which, moreover, he is _cursed_ in the following hearty terms;--'Let the glorious mass of fire burn him, let the moon light him to the gallows, let the stars in their courses fight against the Atheist, let the force of the comets dash him to pieces, let the roar of thunders strike him deaf, let red lightnings blast his guilty soul, let the sea lift up her mighty waves to bury him, let the lion tear him to pieces, let dogs devour him, let the air poison him, let the next crumb of bread choke him, nay, let the dull ass spurn him to death.'
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Be a consistent ass until the last man is out and the umpire crawls into his cyclone cellar.
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On the wall of a passage adjoining the kitchen is a singular painting, supposed to be emblematical of a "trusty servant", compounded of a man, a hog, a deer, and an ass.
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For we can create nothing new, we can only combine or separate the ideas, which we have already received by our perceptions: thus if I wish to represent a monster, I call to my mind the ideas of every thing disagreeable and horrible, and combine the nastiness and gluttony of a hog, the stupidity and obstinacy of an ass, with the fur and awkwardness of a bear, and call the new combination Caliban.
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Yet we receive no terrible or sublime ideas from the lowing of a cow, or the braying of an ass.
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Might not the transfusion of blood, suppose of four ounces daily from a strong man, or other healthful animal, as a sheep or an ass, be used in the early state of nervous or putrid fevers with great prospect of success?
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Ass between two hay-cocks.
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This recalls to our minds the story of the hungry ass between two hay-stacks, where the two desires are supposed so exactly to counteract each other, that he goes to neither of the stacks, but perishes by want.
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Chrysippus is recorded to have died laughing, when an ass was invited to sup with him.
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if an embryon of the male ass was only expanded, no resemblance to the mare could exist in the mule.
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As this production of mules is a constant effect from the conjunction of different species of animals, those between the horse and the female ass always resembling the horse more than the ass; and those, on the contrary, between the male ass and the mare, always resembling the ass more than the mare; it cannot be ascribed to the imagination of the male animal which cannot be supposed to operate so uniformly; but to the form of the first nutritive particles, and to their peculiar stimulus exciting the living filament to select and combine them with itself.
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'The question is,' he murmured angrily, 'am I or am I not an ass?...
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'Ass!' he murmured, suddenly lowering his voice.
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'I've got to explain to you something that a man can't explain without looking an ass.
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It will be writing itself down an ass.
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I'll be one m-a-ass of bruises!"
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=caballería= _f_ knighthood, chivalry; cavalry; beast (horse, ass, or mule).
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[Footnote 3: An allusion to Gen. 34, with a play on the words _Bem-hamor,_ "the son of an ass."]
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'If he were only an ass,' Chalks urged, 'one might feel disposed to spare him.
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'Come, I mustn't let her think me quite an ass.'
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"The perfect deluded ass!" he thought, "and may the dear chap ever remain so!"
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That little girl you're with--you're taking her out and spending your money on her and making an ass of yourself, and she don't care tuppence for you.
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Don't be an ass, dear!"
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"Don't be an ass," he said.
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She had previously done her best to make an ass of me, while you were dressing for dinner--!
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Chick, what an ass I've been; what fools we old chaps are, all of us!
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why, it's an ass!"
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Is my onagra an ass?"
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He told himself that he was an ass-but still he went on being an ass.
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He told himself again that he was an ass; and then tried to console himself by thinking that such an occasion as this seldom happened once to any man-could hardly happen more than once to any man.
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You are not such an ass as to suppose that a man in suggesting to himself a continuance of pleasure suggests to himself also the evils which are supposed to accompany such pleasure.
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And he felt that he had been an ass, a fool, a conceited ass, thinking that he could produce good, when his interference could be efficacious only for evil.
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"The synod made an ass of itself; as synods always do.
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Saul had made himself an ass on one occasion, and there had been an end of it.
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As a curate, Saul was invaluable, and therefore the fact of his having made himself an ass had been forgiven him.
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"But he is such an ass.
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The unfinished _Golden Ass_ is merely made of paragraphs of the _Discorsi_ twined into rhymes.
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No, This-something Smith ... no, you ass, the naval lieutenant, he flying man: don't you understand!...
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Come mornin' I took a look at things, and there was half my hay not worth a cuss for horse or ass, and thirty feet of fence fit for nowt but firewood.
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I'll stand by you--I'll face the racket--I'd sooner you did anything than--" "Oh, don't be an ass, Jo.
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He should have his drive--she would take him over to New Romney, even though it was written "Neither thou nor thine ox nor thine ass nor the stranger that is within thy gates."
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"My dear Joanna, are you quite an ass?
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"I was an ass," he said to himself, "not to think of that at first."
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And all the time people are passing and turning to stare and listen, you know, so that it's quite rowdy--saying 'Yes--that's Linford--there he is,' quite as if they were on one of those coaches seeing New York; and you feel, by Jove, I give you my word, like the solemn ass who goes up on the stage to help the fellow do his tricks, you know, when he calls for 'some kind gentleman from the audience.'"
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"Worse, Nance--an ass--think of my talking to that dear old soul as I did--taking twenty minutes off to win him from his lifelong faith.
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Such external 'fulfilment' goes but for little with us, who rest Jesus' claims to be our King on more inward and spiritual grounds, but it stands on the same level as other similar fulfilments of prophecy which meet us in the Gospels; such as the royal entry into Jerusalem, 'riding upon an ass,' in which the outward, literal correspondence is but a finger-post, pointing to far deeper and truer realisation of the prophetic ideal in Jesus.
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But it serves, like the literal riding upon an ass, and many other instances in Christ's life, to lead dull apprehensions to perceive more plainly that He is the theme of all prophecy, and that in His life the trivial is significant and nothing is accidental.
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The lesson as to the true nature of the true Kingdom, which was taught of old when the prophet said 'Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, riding on an ass,' and not upon the warhorse of secular force; the lesson which was taught unwittingly, as to the true nature of the true Kingdom, when the scoffers, speaking a deeper truth than they understood, put upon His brow the crown of thorns, and forced into His hand the sceptre of reed, was taught here--the lesson that meekness conquers, and that His kingdom is founded in suffering, and wielded in gentleness.
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There is an old play, the title of which would be coarse if it were not so true, 'The Devil is an Ass.'
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The last seen of lone Hunilla she was passing into Payta town, riding upon a small gray ass; and before her on the ass's shoulders, she eyed the jointed workings of the beast's armorial cross.
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[pg 424] He still bent his efforts upon the locomotive figure for the belfry, but only as a partial type of an ulterior creature, a sort of elephantine Helot, adapted to further, in a degree scarcely to be imagined, the universal conveniences and glories of humanity; supplying nothing less than a supplement to the Six Days' Work; stocking the earth with a new serf, more useful than the ox, swifter than the dolphin, stronger than the lion, more cunning than the ape, for industry an ant, more fiery than serpents, and yet, in patience, another ass.
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To-day you have grown into an unmitigated ass.
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American Hotel--Introduction of Steamboats--Faubourg St. Mary--Canal Street--St. Charles Hotel--Samuel J. Peters--James H. Caldwell--Fathers of the Municipality--Bernard Marigny--An Ass--A.B.
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AMERICAN HOTEL--INTRODUCTION OF STEAMBOATS--FAUBOURG ST. MARY--CANAL STREET--ST. CHARLES HOTEL--SAMUEL J. PETERS--JAMES H. CALDWELL-- FATHERS OF THE MUNICIPALITY--BERNARD MARIGNY--AN ASS--A.B.
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we grieve to see, A man in form, in head an ass."
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You can say dat; but I tell you, sir, I not like to be call ass."
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I won't be called Perceval by you or any other pink-eared cross between Balaam's ass and a laughing hyena."
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"Short of trying a 'prentice hand at assassination--" "Don't be an ass.
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XIII RESPECTABILITY But when it came to viscid second thought, alone in the gloom of an unsympathetic taxicab, P. Sybarite inclined to concede himself more ass than hero.
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"Just by way of being a natural-born ass."
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So I bolted back here, took a stiff drink, changed from costume to these clothes, and went out to make a besotted ass of myself.
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Ass!...
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Who's payin' _you_ to be a God-forsaken ass?"
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Now the shapes in which they appeared before me were manifold: one was like a beautiful woman, but she had one foot like an ass's hoof; and another like a man without a head, and a flame of fire coming out of his neck; another like a great dog.
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I'm neither a marrying man, a villain, nor an ass."
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And if I stay at home, 'tis only to make an Ass of thee whilst thou'rt abroad; for where thou get'st one Shilling a Broad, I get Five at Home.
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She has Money enough it seems to hire her private Spies to find our meeting out: She serves you right enough: Well, be a Fool, and let her rail on still; And shew thy self a poor kind-hearted Ass!
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"My dear Isaac," he declared, lightly, "you are talking like an ass.
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az _ill_, _off_, _ass_, _back_; so _err_, _inn_, _ebb_, _add_, _odd_, _egg_: really no more, nor capabel ov being more, dhan _il_, _of_, _as_, _bac_; _er_, _in_, _eb_, _ad_, _od_, _eg_.
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From dark allusions to "sceptics" and "infidels," I became aware of the existence of people who trusted in carnal reason; who audaciously doubted that the world was made in six natural days, or that the deluge was universal; perhaps even went so far as to question the literal accuracy of the story of Eve's temptation, or of Balaam's ass; and, from the horror of the tones in which they were mentioned, I should have been justified in drawing the conclusion that these rash men belonged to the criminal classes.
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On the other hand, difficult instances in the Scripture history are such as these: the serpent in Eden, the Ark, Jacob's vision for the multiplication of his cattle, the speaking of Balaam's ass, the axe swimming at Elisha's word, the miracle on the swine, and various instances of prayers or prophecies, in which, as in that of Noah's blessing and curse, words which seem the result of private feeling are expressly or virtually ascribed to a Divine suggestion (p. lvi).
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With all my heart, I can declare my belief that there is just as good reason for believing in the miraculous slaying of the man who fell short of the Athanasian power of affirming contradictories, with respect to the nature of the Godhead, as there is for believing in the stories of the serpent and the ark told in Genesis, the speaking of Balaam's ass in Numbers, or the floating of the axe, at Elisha's order, in the second book of Kings.
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Beyond question, there is as good, or perhaps better, evidence for the miracles worked by our Lady of Lourdes, as there is for the floating of Elisha's axe, or the speaking of Balaam's ass.
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God who made the prophet's ass speak, and thereby instructed the prophet, might instruct His Church by means of heathen Babylon" (Tract 85, p. 83).
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There seems to be no end to the apologetic burden that Balaam's ass may carry.
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"Don't be an ass, Billy--quick, now, tell me the name."
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Ladies' Freedmen Ass'n, _for Freight_, _to Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 3.00 West Boylston.
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Ladies' Freedmen's Ass'n, 2 Bbls., Val.
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It was his fate to be called by them Fool, Ass, and Simple Fellow, and much worse language, bragging that some of their Boys should answer him.
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The fool in the fable who gained an unenviable notoriety by killing the goose which laid golden eggs, Balaam, who, but for angelic interposition, would have slain his faithful ass, were praiseworthy in comparison.
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Well might any one of the Northern victims of this cruel outrage have exclaimed, in the language of Balaam's long-eared servant, "Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto to this day?
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As to the "income" of the office, to which allusion is made, it is very difficult to obtain any of the amounts; but the first year and the last year are herewith appended, as follows:-- Fiscal Year (1801) (1876) First quarter, $1.91 First quarter, $314.15 Second " 2.13 Second " 296.94 Third " 2.93 Third " 305.71 Fourth " 5.29 Fourth " 294.28 For the year, $12.26 For the y'r, $1,211.08 Trusting the foregoing, which is believed to be correct, will be acceptable to you, I am, sir, respectfully, Your ob't serv't, JAMES H. MARR, Acting First Ass't P.M. General.
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