The 15,767 occurrences of ass
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When he came into the studio to talk things over he was as sober as if he were fifty, and hadn't made an ass of himself.
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I'm an ass.
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"I've made an ass of myself," he used to think, sorting out his cards for solitaire and looking furtively at the thin face, with its lines of wistful and faded beauty.
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_"Ass--ass!
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He had given her nothing, hardly even a thought (except the thought that he was an ass), since last May.
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"My dear fellow, don't be a bigger ass than you can help!
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He thought of the loveliness of that past June--and the contrasting and ironic ugliness of the present September.... Now, the little secret house in the purlieus of Mercer's smoke and grime; then, the river, and the rippling tides of grass and clover, and the blue sky--and that ass, lying at the feet of a woman old enough to be his mother!
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This elegiac tone appears particularly in effusions like "Happiness," "The Sigh," "To a Young Ass," "To the Autumnal Moon," "Lines on an Autumnal Evening," "To the Nightingale"; in "Melancholy: A Fragment" and "Elegy; imitated from Akenside," both in the "Sibylline Leaves" (1797); and in numerous "lines," "monodies," "epitaphs," "odes," and "stanzas."
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W. L. Bowles an ass, and he determined to have some fun with him.
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[At that moment] one of the asses bit off a large mouthful of the growing corn, and this Tehutinekht said, "Behold, thy ass is eating my corn!
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Anqet, 85 Anrekh, 64 Anrutef, 47, 81 Ant Fish, 48 Āntchmer, 155 Antef, 137, 138 Antes, 46 Āntet Boat, 218 Anti, 142, 143 Antiu, 106, 109, 141 Āntti Boat, 222 Antuf, 242 Anu (Heliopolis), 15, 20, 24, 36, 37, 43, 45, 48, 61, 214, 217, 218, 220, 222 Anubis, 15, 33, 50, 60, 69, 149 Ape-gods, 49 Apes, 212 spirits of dawn, 218 Apet, 29, 30, 32 Aphroditopolis, 128, 130 Apollinopolis, 78 Apts, 118, 143, 147, 148, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218 Apuur, 236, 239, 240 Aqen, 101 Aqert, 64 Ara, 132 Arabia, 93, 215 Aram Naharayim, 109 Archers (stars), 21 Arm rings, 23 Arniau, 154 Aroeris, 164 Arsu, 110 Arthet, 128, 131, 133 Artheth, 133 Asbatau, 112 Asemt, 142 Ashtoreth, 78 Asi, 108 Asia, 108 Asiatics, 108, 238 Asri, 170 Ass, eater of, 48 Assa, 4, 134, 135, 224 Asten, 2 Astronomy, 1 Aswān, 83, 131 Atef Crown, 54, 111, 115, 215 Atem, 61, 67 Aten, 61, 62 Athettaui, 166 Athi-taui, 117 Aukehek, 144 Aukert, 54 Aunab, 90 Ausares, 68 Avaris, 140, 141, 256 Baba, 53 Badhilu, 185 Baiufrā, 27, 29 Balance; 23, 54 heaven weighed in; 47 keeper of, 50 --of Truth, 247 Bandlets, 16, 23 Baqanau, 112 Barber, 251 Barley, 34, 45 Bata, 196, 197, 204, 205 Baurtet, 134, 135 Beautiful Face, 218, 220 Beer, 203 drinking of, 229 --of Hathor, 73 Bees, 251 Beetle, sacred, 91 Befen, 88 Befent, 89 Behutet, 82 Bekhten, Princess of, 92 ff.
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It was a kick from an ass.
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* * * * * If we must lash one another, let it be with the manly strokes of wit and satire; for I am of the old philosopher's opinion, that if I must suffer from one or the other, I would rather it should be from the paw of a lion, than from the hoof of an ass.--_Addison_.
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At the entrance of this an ass was tethered, and a man of middle age stood in the doorway.
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There is the famous case of Buridans Ass (AD 1358).
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And forthwith they proved as much to the poor ass.
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He profanes our august name by calling every one of his own kind an ass who is ignorant, or dull, or idiotic; and he calls our laughter and our discourse by the term "braying."
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Wolfe is here; and if he cannot fight, write me down an ass!
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That thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk!
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One of its attendant calamities was the prevalent one of that day, the plague; and one of those state libels, which were early suppressed, or never printed, entitled, "Balaam's Ass," has this passage: "In this deluge of new buildings, we shall be all poisoned with breathing in one another's faces; and your Majesty has most truly said, England will shortly be London, and London, England."
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[Footnote A: The MS. is entitled "Balaam's Ass, or a True Discoverie touching the Murmurs and Feared Discontents of the Times, directed to King James."
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It is a pleasure, when it is all over, to have been thoroughly and wholesomely shown up, and to discover that one has been a pompous and priggish ass.
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I'm a bigger ass than--than Mafferton."
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"Mrs. Wick," he informed them, "rode an ass by the name of Michael Angelo, perfectly accustomed to the climate, and, do you believe it, she held her parasol over that animal's head the whole way."
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Thus he proves Marys being with child by the Holy Spirit, and the Angels telling her she shall bring forth a son, and call his name Jesus; and the other circumstances attending his miraculous birth; Jesus birth at Bethlehem; his flight into Egypt; the slaughter of the infants; Jesus Dwelling at Nazareth, and at Capernaum, in the borders of Zabulon, and Naphtali; his casting out devils, and healing the sick; his eating with Publicans and sinners; his speaking in parables that the Jews might not understand him; his sending his disciples to fetch an ass, and a colt; the childrens crying in the Temple; the resurrection of Jesus from the dead; Jesus being betrayed by Judas, and Judas returning back the thirty pieces of Silver, and the Priests buying the Potters Field with them; and his hanging Himself; &c. &c. All these events, and many more, are said to be fulfillments of the Prophecies of the Old Testament, see Mat.
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Behold thy king cometh unto thee, the righteous one, and saved, or preserved [according to the Hebrew] lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass. This has been applied by the evangelists to Jesus, who rode upon an ass into Jerusalem.
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But in the first place, it is to be observed, that there seems to have been a blunder in this transaction; for according to the Hebrew idiom of the passage quoted above, the personage there spoken of, was to ride upon an ass colt; whereas, the apostles, in order to be sure of fulfilling the prophecy, represent Jesus as riding upon an ass, and the colt, too!
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In the next place, a man may ride into Jerusalem upon an ass, without being thus necessarily demonstrated to be the Messiah.
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And unless, as said before, every tittle of the marks given by the prophets to designate their Messiah, be found in Jesus, and in any other claiming to be that Messiah his being born in Bethlehem, and riding upon an ass into Jerusalem, will by no means prove him to be so.
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I know he jolly nearly laid me out the last time I met him with all his talk--No, you don't," continued the Captain, imagining, perhaps, that I was going to rally him on his implied connection of himself with the three-legged animal he had mentioned, "no you don't--it wouldn't be funny; and besides, I'm not donkey enough to stand much of that ass FLICKERS.
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'Only 'tis strange to think how that little church was rebuilt, re-roofed, and made glorious, thanks to some few godly Sussex iron-masters, [234] a Bristow sailor lad, a proud ass called Hal o' the Draft because, d'you see, he was always drawing and drafting; and'-he dragged the words slowly-' and a Scotch pirate.'
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Indeed, but that I am afraid of being suspected of too much Learning, or that I would invalidate the Testimonies of this Author, I should be bold to say, that no Part of the _Brute_ Creation have the Benefit of _Second Sight_: and that they have neither Organs, nor Reason, to discern, or distinguish Phantoms, from material Bodies: and therefore the old _Rabins_ very subtly conjectured, that the _Ass_, which carried _Balaam_, was not a real Ass, but the _Devil in Disguise_, and subject to the _Magical_ Power of the _Prophet_.
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What must he do, to show his annoyance that 'twasn't a boy, but drive a she-ass into church?
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"'There was an old prophecy found in a bog, Lillibullero, bullen ala; That Ireland should be ruled by an Ass and a Dog, Lillibullero, bullen ala; And now that same prophecy has come to pass-- Lillibullero, bullen ala; For Talbot's the Dog, and James is the Ass, Lillibullero, bullen ala.' "Never mind, I say; hang me, but I'll crop the villain, or crop both, which is better still--steady, Schomberg--curse you."
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There's a fellow, now, he in the tattered jacket and nightcap, who has written a heroic poem, of eighty-six thousand verses, which he entitles 'Balaam's Ass, or the Great Unsaddled.'
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"Nor the song of Beal Derg O'Donnel, sir, nor the 'Fairy River,' nor 'the Life and Adventures of Larry Dorneen's Ass,' plaise your reverence."
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"Whisht, you hathen, that has taken to idolathry bekase Father M'Cabe made an ass of you by a thrick that every one knows.
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"I got one," he replied, "and meetin' Lanty Gorman goin' home wid Square Deaker's ass--King James--or Sheemus a Cocka, as he calls him--that is, 'Jemmy the Cock,' in regard of the great courage he showed at the Boyne--I made him promise to bring him up.
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Nobody, for instance, would look without astonishment at the ease with which he swung a pack, that was weighty enough to load an ass, over his shoulder, or the lightness and agility with which he trotted on under it from morning till night, and this during the very severest heat of summer.
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let him preach and stick to his controversy with Father Tom--from whom he hadn't so much to brag of--but as for you, Fergus, you are, to spake plainly, a thorough ass.
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Think of you or I living to see ourselves rolling about in a rich carriage, with a lump of a mithre, like a pair of ass's ears stuck together, painted on the outride of it, and we waiting, and drinkn' of the best.
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"Now," he proceeded, "there's a document which proves Fethertonge, notwithstanding his knavery, to be an ass; otherwise he would have reduced it to ashes long ago; and, perhaps, after having turned it to his account, he would have done so, were it not that I secured it.
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Bob could crow like a cock, bark like a dog, mew like a cat, neigh like a horse, bray like an ass, or gobble like a turkey-cock.
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"'Under my oxther, you swindling rascal!' replied the dog, giving him a pull by the other side of the collar; 'did ever any honest pair of gintlemen hear the like?--but he only wants to break through the agreement: so let us turn him at once into an ass, and then he'll break no more bargains, nor strive to take in honest men and win their money.
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So the dark fellow drew his two hands over Jack's jaws, and in a twinkling there was a pair of ass's ears growing up out of his head.
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Towards the close of his life, however, he contrived to get an ass and cart, and became egg-merchant, but I believe with his usual success.
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"Pasterns!--oh, you ass you!
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There are ties of affinity and consanguinity existing between this manfacturer of atrocious falsehoods and barefaced calumnies, and a Jack-Ass, which ties cannot be easily dissolved, the affinity or similitude is perceptible to an indifferent observer in the accent, pronunciation, modulation of the voice of the biped animal, and in the braying of the quadruped.
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This Jack-Ass you might also behold perambulating the streets of ------, a second Judas Iscariot--a houseless, homeless, penniless, forlorn fugitive, like Old Nick or Beelzebub, seeking whom he might betray and injure in the public estimation, in rapacity, or in discharging a blunderbuss full of falsehood against the most pure and unimpeachable Member of society!
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"And an ass of yourself," retorted the other: "but you may save yourself the throuble in regard of the last, for your frinds know you to be an ass ever since they remimber you.
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If a man had a sick cow, she was elf-shot; if his child became consumptive, it had been overlooked, or received a blast from the fairies; if the whooping-cough was rife, all the afflicted children were put three times under an ass; or when they happened to have the "mumps," were led, before sunrise to a south-running stream, with a halter hanging about their necks, under an obligation of silence during the ceremony In short, there could not possibly be a more superstitious spot than that which these men of mystery had selected for their residence.
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Can you prove to me, upon a clear foundation, the differ atween black an' white, or prove that Phadrick Murray here, long life to him, is an ass?
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Why my judgment won't be worth a hap'orth, if he makes an ass of me!"
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Why, man, you'll know more nor you ever knew or suspected before, when he proves you to be an ass."
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"In the first place, fadher, you're ungrammatical in one word; instead of sayin' 'prove,' always say probate, or probe; the word is descended, that is, the ancisthor of it, is probo, a deep Greek word--probo, probas, prob-ass, that is to say, I'm to probe Phadrick here to be an ass.
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"But, Dinny, avourneen, you didn't prove Phadrick to be an ass yit.
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Why, man, if you were not a _rara avis_ of somnolency, a man of most frolicsome determinations, you'd be able to see that I've proved Phadrick to be an ass already."
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"Throth, I deny that you did; there wasn't a word about my bein' an ass, in the last discoorse.
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Another reminded him of "how often he proved Phaidrick Murray to be an ass, and showed him how he couldn't make out the differ atween black an' white."
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Faix, if you always argue as bravely wid the Collegians as you did the day you proved me to be an ass you'll soon be at the head of them!"
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Why, now, you'd hardly b'lieve me, when I tell you that he'd prove you to be an ass in three minutes; make it as plain as the sun.
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He would; an' often made an ass o' myself."
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"But in the meantime, Thady, I'll have no dictation from you, as to whether I have one or fifty; or as to whether he'll be an ass or a Newton.
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You wor ever and always an ass, Paddy, except before you wor born, an' thin you wor like Major M'Curragh, worse nor nothin'.
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Accordingly she borrowed a neighbor's ass, drove it home with Phelim, however, on its back, took the interesting youth by the nape of the neck, and, in the name of the Trinity, shoved him three times under it, and three times over it.
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The tenth, she put on him, and with the end of it in her hand, led him like an ass, nine mornings, before sunrise, to a south-running stream, which he was obliged to cross.
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These had all perished: ox, 10 cow, horse, mule, ass, sheep, or goat, not one survived--only the camels.
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Menendez heard an ensign say aloud to his comrades,-- "This Asturian _corito_, who knows no more of war on shore than an ass, has ruined us all.
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Vincent, 2 Boxes; Goodell Young Ladies Ass'n, 1 Bbl; Freedmen's Aid Sewing Circle, Case and Package; _for Sherwood, Tenn._ J.W.
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Ass'n.
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Frank in particular is an awful ass.
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Bah; what a muddled ass I was, in faith!
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"Ass!
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"No man escapes being an ass sometimes, Madame.
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He took two young men with him and an ass laden with wood for the fire; and he went toward the mountain in the north, Isaac, his son, walking by his side.
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But as soon as Samson came among them, he burst the bonds as though they had been light strings; and picked up from the ground the jawbone of an ass, and struck right and left with it as with a sword.
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Afterward he sang a song about it, thus: "With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, With the jawbone of an ass, have I slain a thousand men."
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On the morning after the supper at Bethany, Jesus called two of his disciples, and said to them: "Go into the next village, and at a place where two roads cross; and there you will find an ass tied, and a colt with it.
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"I'm a bally ass."
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An ass, indeed, if ever there was one.
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Stupid ass!
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I never realized till this moment that it is an art all by itself to wear a high hat without feeling and looking like a silly ass."
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(I know; for a long time I, too, believed Thomas the most colossal ass since Dobson.)
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Monumental ass!
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"Tut, tut, Tommy; don't be a bally ass and lose your temper."
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Double-dyed ass!
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Ass!
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Did you ever see such an ass, Crawford?
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"But you are putting your trust in a double-dyed ass."
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Ass.
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Gimme me 'at, Joe, an' get yourn; if I don't knock some on 'em stone cold--call me a perishin' ass!"
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I was quite savage when I found the horses had been taken out of their warm stables: the coachman was an ass, as I told him.'
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Wellesley College, Woman's Christian Ass'n, _for Library Fund, Macon, Ga._ 40.00 Wellesley College.
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