The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Nowell, &c. Ox and ass him know, Kneeling on their knee: Wondrous joy had I This little BABE to see.

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In the stable, ox and ass before their Maker fall.

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Don't be an ass, Headlong; I'm sober."

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Now that they merely told him that he was a blundering ass, he was conscious solely of a desire to pick her up and shake her.

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"I said it once," shouted his grandfather, his two big fists suddenly clinched and lifted threateningly; "you're a howlin' young ass!

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Till very late that night I heard him walking up and down the deck of the house-boat, his friend shouting to him not to be an ass.

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Would that | | every ass might rebuke thee.

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He compares the industrious dunce to an ass at a music-book, or to a monkey that remains a monkey still for all the gold on its jacket.

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What I want you to let me say is, that the minute I had made a fool of myself the night of the dance, I knew what an ass I had been and I was ready to grovel."

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"She might take the little cart and the ould ass along," said Matthew Wogan, looking at his equipage, which was straying towards them intermittently as the beast grazed the green border of the lane.

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It was won'erful to hear the talk some folks had, and they wid every ould stick they owned an aisy loadin' for Reilly's little ass."

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"For if he isn't a great stupid gomeral and an ass, just get me one.

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In his subsequent reports of the interview, Ody always alleged that he had replied: "Aye, very belike, supposin' it grew on the head of an ass," which was certainly neater.

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"Well," said he, "you are a bloomin' ass.

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"Fancy, my dear fellow, that I revolted against the directions of that ass of a doctor, and I resolved to go out, whether it suited him or not; and, consequently, I told the valet who waited on me to bring me my clothes."

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Then, striking his forehead, "Oh, thou wilt never be aught but an ass, Jean la Fontaine!" he added."

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"I say I shall never be aught but an ass," answered La Fontaine, with a heavy sigh and swimming eyes.

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"Double ass that you are!" thought D'Artagnan; "if I had any interest or motive in demolishing your credit, I could do it in ten minutes.

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Molly had called her donkey Balaam, partly owing to a misapprehension of Scripture narrative, and partly owing to the assurance of Charles, when in sudden misgiving she had consulted him on the point, that Balaam _had_ been an ass.

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He was admitted to that beatitude in company with Abraham's ram, Balaam's ass, the foal upon which Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, and Mohammed's mare upon which he ascended to heaven.

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British soldiers with donkey heads marched past Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales; the venerable Queen Victoria is pictured plucking the tail feathers from an ostrich which she holds across her knees; the three generals, Methuen, Buller, and Gatacre, take off their faces to discover the heads of an ass, a sheep, and a cow; Chamberlain is depicted as the instigator of the war, with his pockets and hands full of African shares; a parade of the stock-exchange volunteers depicts them as all Jews, with the Prince of Wales as a Jew reviewing them; the Prince of Wales is pictured surrounded by vulgar women, who ask, "Say, Fatty, you are not going to South Africa?" to which the Prince replies, "No, I must stay here to take care of the widows and orphans!"

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An ass is reading mass at an altar.

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No, not dead yet.... Dr. Frank is trying ... don't stand there like an ass, man.

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That braying ass did us plenty of harm.

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Where is that ass, Coniston?

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T here was once an ass whose master had made him carry sacks to the mill for many a long year, but whose strength began at last to fail, so that each day as it came found him less capable of work.

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And when his time was up, his master said to him, "As you have behaved yourself so well, I will give you an ass of a remarkable kind: he will draw no cart, and carry no sack."

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And when he had been looking about him about the world a long time, he thought he would go and find out his father, who would perhaps forget his anger and receive him kindly because of his gold ass.

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After that the guest paid his reckoning and went to bed; but the landlord slipped down to the stable in the middle of the night, led the gold-ass away, and tied up another ass in his place.

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"Nothing but an ass," answered the son.

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"Yes," answered the son, "but this is no common ass.

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"Now, pay attention," said he, and cried, "Bricklebrit!" but no gold pieces came, and that showed that the animal was not more scientific than any other ass.

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"Yes," said he, "you may talk of your self-spreading table, gold-supplying ass, and so forth; very good things, I do not deny, but they are nothing in comparison with the treasure that I have acquired and carry with me in that sack!"

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He put it on the back of an ass and followed on foot.

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Apuleius, describing his initiation, says, "I approached to the confines 36 Golden Ass, Eng.

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Thus the imagination broods over and explores the shows and secrets, presageful warnings and alluring 38 Golden Ass, Taylor's trans., p. 283.

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of Golden Ass, p. 283.

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Such a monstrous assassination of the souls of the human race with the jaw bone of an ass may be legitimately avoided in either of two ways.

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And Hilarion took with him an ox and an ass to load with charcoal and drive down to Bethlehem to his master.

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That trembling ass, Bunning, singing now at the top of his voice, shaking with the fervour of it, let him know that he had brought a murderer to the sacred gathering--again Olva had to concentrate all his mind, his force, his power upon the conquest of his nerves.

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"If you were less of an ass they wouldn't want to come round to your rooms so often."

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"I am an awful ass."

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I used to think it was because people didn't understand me--now I know that it really is because I am an ass."

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Buck up, you old ass!"

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You'd like the governor--and if you don't mind listening to an ass like me--well, I'd take it as an honour if you'd talk to me a bit."

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Bunning was happier--"Oh, but she'll think me such an ass!"

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"Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass."

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He is an honest man, and not an ass._ [_To him enters_ MR. HASTINGS _with papers in his hand._ HASTINGS.

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In the present state of the peerage it is necessary to explain that the_ DUKE, _though an ass, is a gentleman._ DUKE.

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* * * * * Ach Herr, du Schöpfer aller Ding, Wie bist du worden so gering, Dass du da liegst auf dürrem Gras, Davon ein Rind und Esel ass?

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The institution of the _presepio_ is often ascribed to St. Francis of Assisi, who in the year 1224 celebrated Christmas at Greccio |106| with a Bethlehem scene with a real ox and ass.

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Finding all things ready, Francis beheld and rejoiced: the manger had been prepared, the hay was brought, and the ox and ass were led in.

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There at the side of the high altar was a manger with ox and ass, and in the manger was the little Christ in the arms of the Virgin Mother.

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One thinks of the stillness over the fields, of the hinds with their rough talk, "simply chatting in a rustic row," of the keen air, and the great burst of light and song that dazes their simple wits, of their journey to Bethlehem where "the heaven-born Child all meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies," of the ox and ass linking the beasts of the field to the Christmas adoration of mankind.

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At Pillersee in the Lower Innthal two youths combine to form a mimic ass, upon which a third rides, and they are followed by a motley train.

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Before they go to bed the children put out their shoes, with hay, straw, or a carrot in them for the saint's white horse or ass.

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{65} In Lower Austria it is supposed that sluggards can cure themselves of oversleeping by saying a special prayer before they go to bed on St. Thomas's Eve, and in Westphalia in the mid-nineteenth century the same association of the day with slumber was shown by the schoolchildren's custom of calling the child who arrived last at school _Domesesel_ (Thomas ass).

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{14} |234| It may well have been the traditional association of the ox and ass with the Nativity that fixed this superstition to Christmas Eve, but the conception of the talking animals is probably pagan.

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"{20} An ass, it would seem, was actually brought into church, at Beauvais at all events, during the singing of this song on the feast of the Circumcision.

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A girl with a child in her arms rode upon an ass into St. Stephen's church, to represent the Flight into Egypt.

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|388| |389| |390| |391| INDEX Abbots Bromley, horn-dance at, 201 Abruzzi, All Souls' Eve in, 192; "new water" in, 333 "Adam," drama, 127-8 Adam and Eve, their Day, 271 Adam of St. Victor, 33-4 "Adeste, fideles," 63-4 Advent, 90-2; "Advent images," 118; _Klöpfelnächte_, 216-8 Alexandria, pagan rites at, 20 All Saints' Day, and the cult of the dead, 173, 189-90 All Souls' Day, and the cult of the dead, 173, 181, 189-95 Alsace, Christkind in, 230; New Year's "May" in, 269-70 Alsso of Brevnov, 183 Ambrose, St., 31-2 _Amburbale_, 353 Amiens, Feast of Fools at, 305 Anatolius, St., hymn of, 100 Ancestor-worship, 181, 253-4, 290, 341 Andrew, St., his Day, 173, 213-6, 277 Animals, carol of, 69; ox and ass at the Nativity, 155; cult of, 174-8; masks of, 175-6, 199-202; on Christmas Eve, 233-4; specially fed at Christmas, 289; wassailing, 346-7 Ansbach, Martinmas in, 206 Antwerp, soul-cakes at, 194; St. Martin at, 206-7; St. Thomas's Day at, 224 Apples, customs with, 195-6, 207, 278 Ara Coeli, Rome, 115-6 Ardennes, St. Thomas's Day in, 224 Armenian Church, Epiphany in, 22 Artemis and St. Nicholas, 218 Aryan and pre-Aryan customs, 163-4 Aschenklas, 219, 231 Ashes, superstition about, 258 Ass, Prose of the, 304-5 Athens, New Year in, 331 Aubrey, J., 308 Augury, 182, 195-8, 214-5, 225, 237, 321-33 Augustine, St. (of Canterbury), 21, 179 Aurelian, 23 Austria, Christmas poetry in, 45-46; Christmas drama in, 143-6; soul-cakes in, 194; St. Nicholas in, 218-20; St. Lucia's Eve in, 223; St. Thomas's Eve in, 225; Frau Perchta, etc., in, 241-4, 342; Sylvester in, 274.

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There stood an ass and an ox which breathed over the Holy Child quite openly.

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Cold winds that pass Vex, or is't the little ass?

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"{35} [80] Though the ox and ass are not mentioned by St. Luke, it is an easy transition to them from the idea of the manger.

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_Sachem_, Ass't.

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"I'm an ass to expect anything from coming here," he thought, as he saw the entrance gates of the palace park blazing with green lights in a trellis of verdure.

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A bad young baronet, unmarried, intellectual, with a craving for human sympathy, on the Hire System'--" "Don't be an ass, Jimmy," said I.

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Vivisection?--Farrell's an ass.

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"Come in, you ass, and say what you want.

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He's been doing it freely--doing it since ten o'clock--two crowded hours of glorious life... 'stonishing, Otty, what a variegated ass a man can make of himself nowadays in two short hours, with the help of a taxi and if he wastes no time.

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There would seem to be some conspiracy..." "Yes, you interfering ass.

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What must that ass Farrell do but hold out his hand effusively?

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"Jimmy," I said humbly, "I've been an ass."

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"Please don't be an ass, Jack," I pleaded.

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you funny ass!--' he began.

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Before it had died out in the lonely, dripping wilderness, he was flailing right and left with a huge pine knot in either hand, amazing and invincible as Sampson with his jawbone of an ass.

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Are you ass enough to believe that the contractors went outside their specifications to dispose of the spoils banks to my company?

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Trust the public to guess, Mr. Shelby, that you're neither an art critic nor an ass.

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There are wisely framed injunctions that you must not leave your job, And a peaceable assemblage is declared to be a mob, And Congress passed a measure framed by some consummate ass, So they are clubbing men and women just for walking on the grass.

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"'I don't see (wiping the sweat from his brow) the joke, you confounded ass.'

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Now from Westport to Ballinrobe we had met nobody but a very few people going into town either riding on an ass or driving one laden with a pair of panniers or "cleaves" of turf, for which some fourpence or fivepence would be paid.

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Of beasts he has none, except dogs of some breed unknown either to dog-fanciers or naturalists, and an ass--the unfortunate creature who is made to drink the dregs of any sorrow falling upon Western Ireland.

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Few people hereabouts own an ass, much less a horse or a cow, and boats are few in proportion to the population.

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She looked at me as she spoke, looked me straight in the eyes, and I think it was then that I began to realise what an ass I had been making of myself.

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The music made Betty lonesome and she threw up her head and let out such a loud, mule-like bray that it frightened the kneeling priest and he jumped up as if shot for he thought he had heard Balaam's ass bray; but when he turned and saw standing behind him a live burro and a goat, his astonishment knew no bounds and he stood gazing at them with open mouth, while the choir boys laughed and giggled and thought it a good joke.

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It was getting late, and a crowd was collecting, so I checked him by waving my left hand before my face and bawling at him with all my voice: "_Putung_, you stupid ass, _putung_ (I don't understand)!

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Enough for Him whom cherubim Worship night and day, A breastful of milk And a mangerful of hay; Enough for Him whom angels Fall down before, The ox and ass and camel Which adore.

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"Don't be an ass," he said sourly.

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A famous martyrologist calls Gardiner, on account of this opinion, "an insensible ass, and one that had no feeling of God's spirit in the matter of justification.

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Petitions to the council were signed and presented by persons of the highest quality: the women took part, and, as was usual, with violence: the clergy every where loudly declaimed against Popery and the liturgy, which they represented as the same: the pulpits resounded with vehement invectives against Antichrist: and the populace, who first opposed the service, was often compared to Balaam's ass, an animal in itself stupid and senseless, but whose mouth had been opened by the Lord, to the admiration of the whole world.

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As he bore a resemblance to the common pictures of Christ, he allowed his beard to grow in a like form: he raised a person from the dead:[**] he was ministered unto by women:[***] he entered Bristol mounted on a horse, (I suppose, from the difficulty in that place of finding an ass:) his disciples spread their garments before him, and cried, "Hosanna to the highest; holy, holy is the Lord God of Sabaoth."

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An old time screw with beam attachment presses on the stone cover, and as an ass, hitched to the end of the beam, tramps wearily round and round the screw presses the stone tight on the olives, squeezing the oil into cemented grooves at the bottom of the bowl through which it flows into casks.

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"As large as an ass, my master."

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It's a wonder he imagined them so small as an ass, for it is their national characteristic to exaggerate."

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"That is all very well," replied a citizen, who was discussing some fiery compound at a table near me, "but we, unfortunately, have only an ass to carry us over, and he will be swept away down the stream with us on his back."

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At Voisins to-day the bill of fare was ass, horse, and English wolf from the Zoological Garden.

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I tried it, and not being a Scotchman, found it horrible, and fell back upon the patient ass.

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