The 15,767 occurrences of ass

View the definition of "ass" on The Online Slang Dictionary

Offensiveness score: 54.87% out of 78 votes
Cast your vote: (coming soon)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 Page 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158

~   ~   ~   Sentence 247   ~   ~   ~

But this time, Fate, on grim jokes bent, A wild ass to the village sent.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 249   ~   ~   ~

Now if an ass I needs must be, The desert's joys and pains for me.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 244   ~   ~   ~

I hope I didn't make too much of an ass of myself before the others, going off like a girl in that way.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,196   ~   ~   ~

I seem to have acted as a pretty considerable ass all round," said the young man, with a rueful smile.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 462   ~   ~   ~

Who made the wild ass like the desert free, Scorning the rein, and from the city's bound Turning triumphant to the wilderness?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 211   ~   ~   ~

_Former President, American Medical Ass'n_] Dr. Reed is one of America's most distinguished medical men--he writes authoritatively about the ills to which human kind is heir, also of the psychology of health and sickness.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 398   ~   ~   ~

M. _Beauty Expert_ 40 "JUST KIDS" _Safety Club_ 61 K KATZ, PHILIP _Art Editor_ 5 KERKHOFF, JOHNSTON _Ass't City Editor_ 4 KILGALLEN, JAS.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 420   ~   ~   ~

_I.N.S., New York_ 13 WEBSTER, R. _Brooklyn Editor_ 17 WEIL, IRVING _Music Critic_ 26 WHITEHEAD, W.C. _Auction Bridge Expert_ 36 WILEY, R.H. _News Editor_ 4 WILLIAMS, W. ALBERT _Ass't City Editor_ 4 "WRIGHT, WM."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 677   ~   ~   ~

I felt an egregious ass, I knew I was nervous as a bird, I could not think of anything to say--I, Nicholas Thormonde, accustomed to any old thing!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 831   ~   ~   ~

"Yes I did--" I answered--"forgive me for being an awful ass--I--I--love music tremendously, you see--" She stood still for a moment--I was balancing myself by the table, my crutch had fallen.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 845   ~   ~   ~

Again I said--"I am awfully sorry I am such an ass."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 393   ~   ~   ~

The man was an 'ass,' and a 'magpie,' and appeared to like nothing better than to hear his own voice.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,036   ~   ~   ~

It offends greatly against naturalness, for however one may believe in the story of Balaam's ass, or delight in Æsop's talking brutes or Greece's talking statues, one cannot restrain a feeling of skepticism when a dog or a coin is put forward, given human attributes, and made to view the world through man's eyes.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 112   ~   ~   ~

"Ass!" said Derek.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 119   ~   ~   ~

"If I were an ass like Algy Martyn," said Derek, "I wouldn't go about advertising the fact that I'd been born.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,578   ~   ~   ~

I have eaten rose-leaves and am no more a golden ass, so to speak.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,532   ~   ~   ~

"A silly ass at the club named Jimmy Monroe told me to take a flutter in some rotten thing called Amalgamated Dyes.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,898   ~   ~   ~

He wondered whether he had made a frightful ass of himself, spraying bank-notes all over the place like that to comparative strangers.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,813   ~   ~   ~

"Well.... Well, look here, it makes me seem a fearful ass and all that, but I'd better tell you.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,817   ~   ~   ~

Well, like an ass, I sent round to Derek to bail us out, and that's how he heard of the thing.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,544   ~   ~   ~

"You silly ass!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 9,207   ~   ~   ~

Good old Ronny told me what you were, and, like a silly ass, I wasted a lot of time trying to make him believe you weren't that sort of chap at all.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 90   ~   ~   ~

The woman takes umbrage at her admirer's suggestions that the glass on which he writes is "the Emblem" of her mind in being "brittle, slipp'ry, [and] pois'nous," and writes in retort: I must confess, kind Sir, that though this Glass, Can't prove me brittle, it proves you an Ass.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 358   ~   ~   ~

_On A Window at Canbury-House._ The Breast of ev'ry _British_ Fair, Like this bright, brittle, slippery Glass, A Diamond makes Impression there, Though on the Finger of an Ass.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 374   ~   ~   ~

_Her Answer underneath._ I must confess, kind Sir, that though this Glass, Can't prove me brittle, it proves you an Ass.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 362   ~   ~   ~

It is _not_ encouraging, after casting one's nets during a prolonged spell of rough weather, and confidently anticipating a good draught of fish, to perceive that, instead of fish, there is nothing in one's net save such unsought spoil as the carcase of an Egyptian ass, a basket-full of gravel and slime of no substantial utility, or quantities of stones and mud, fit for nothing but for use as missiles among quarrelsome boys.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 221   ~   ~   ~

"I winder what I'll do wi' this bairn?" said the lassie; an' Sandy, in the middle o' argeyin' wi' anither ass o' a man that the Arbroath cricketers cud lick the best club i' the country, says, rale impident like to the lassie, "Shuve't in ablo the seat."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 644   ~   ~   ~

Syne he cowshined doon a bittie, an' says, wi' a bit snicker o' a lauch, "I maun hae you tried wi' the pond's ass anowerim."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 647   ~   ~   ~

"It's ca'ed the pond's ass anowerim.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 649   ~   ~   ~

If you canna get ower't, you're set down for an ass."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 878   ~   ~   ~

He's aye the same when he gets amon' young lassies, the auld ass 'at he is.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,014   ~   ~   ~

Saunders, in my opinion, is juist a haiverin' auld ass.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,452   ~   ~   ~

I feel'd within mysel', that if I'd only haen the chance--see 'at that reed herrin's no' burnin'--I michta been a dreel sergint or a general----" "A general haiverin' ass," I strak in.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,504   ~   ~   ~

"Are your shure?" began the auld ass again; an' me stanin' near frozen to death wi' cauld, an' cudna get oot o' the bit.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,103   ~   ~   ~

Hence he believed that he could derive the dog, the jackal, the wolf, and the fox from a single one of these four species; yet he remarks, _per contra_, in 1753: "Although we cannot demonstrate that the production of a species by modification is a thing impossible to nature, the number of contrary probabilities is so enormous that, even philosophically, we can scarcely doubt it; for if any species has been produced by the modification of another, if the species of ass has been derived from that of the horse, this could have been done only successively and by gradual steps: there would have been between the horse and ass a great number of intermediate animals, the first of which would gradually differ from the nature of the horse, and the last would gradually approach that of the ass; and why do we not see to-day the representatives, the descendants of those intermediate species?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,106   ~   ~   ~

"If we once admit that the ass belongs to the horse family, and that it only differs from it because it has been modified (_dégénéré_), we may likewise say that the monkey is of the same family as man, that it is a modified man, that man and the monkey have had a common origin like the horse and ass, that each family has had but a single source, and even that all the animals have come from a single animal, which in the succession of ages has produced, while perfecting and modifying itself, all the races of other animals" (tome iv., p. 382).

~   ~   ~   Sentence 276   ~   ~   ~

_At the same Place._ Three Bottles of _Burgundy_, and a brisk Lass, With a thousand of _Grigs_, should it e'er come to pass, Would make me behave my self just like an Ass.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 369   ~   ~   ~

_At the same Place._ A Hog, a Monkey, and an Ass, } Were here last Night to drink a Glass, } When all at length it came to pass, } That the Hog and the Monkey, Grew so drunkey, That both were ready to kiss the A - - se of _Tom.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,920   ~   ~   ~

"Well, if I did, I must be a confounded ass.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 281   ~   ~   ~

Joseph Hume was his especial target, and was dished up week after week with a decidedly original Latin garnish: '_Ex humili potens_--From a surgeon to a member of Parliament;' '_Humili modi loqui_--To talk Scotch like Hume;' '_Nequis humasse velit_--Let no one call Hume an ass,' etc., etc.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,217   ~   ~   ~

There was no smile however in his voice, but the previous solemnity, as he continued:-- "And yet if Balaam's ass could see the angel of the Lord, with his drawn-sword, standing in the way, and barring his further progress in wrongdoing, why might not this horse--who is much more intelligent than an ass--have seen a similar vision?"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,094   ~   ~   ~

The little well-meaning Ass!..."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,597   ~   ~   ~

one has necessities, one has no money, one is a prince, chance places power in one's hands, one makes use of it, one authorizes lotteries, one exhibits ingots of gold in the Passage Jouffroy; everybody opens his pocket, one takes all one can out of it, one shares what one gets with one's friends, with the devoted comrades to whom one owes gratitude; and because there comes a moment when public indiscretion meddles in the matter, when that infamous liberty of the press seeks to fathom the mystery, and justice fancies that it is its business, one must needs leave the Éysée, lay down the power, and take one's seat, like an ass, between two gendarmes on the prisoners' bench in the sixth chamber!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,864   ~   ~   ~

For it comes to this: either the seven million five hundred thousand votes have no sense, or it is evident that it would be better to have your leg amputated by an ass who has taken the oath, than by a refractory Dupuytren.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 773   ~   ~   ~

20 A Brāhman woman having connection with a Sūdra was to be devoured by dogs, but one having connection with a Kshatriya or Vaishya was merely to have her head shaved and be carried round on an ass.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,364   ~   ~   ~

So strong was the feeling against the pipes and so necessary did a public example seem to be, that a respectable lady, whose delinquency had well-nigh escaped the vigilant eye of the Muhtasib, was seized and placed on an ass, with a green pipe suspended from her neck, and paraded through the public streets-a terrible warning to all of her sex who might be inclined to indulge in forbidden luxuries.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,675   ~   ~   ~

Gadha .-(An ass.)

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,676   ~   ~   ~

A sept of the Uika clan of Gonds in Betūl, so named because their priest rode on an ass in crossing a river.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,677   ~   ~   ~

Gadhao .-(From gadha , an ass.)

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,680   ~   ~   ~

From gadha , an ass.)

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,199   ~   ~   ~

Life everywhere is the most manageable matter, simple as a question in the Rule-of-Three: multiply your second and third term together, divide the product by the first, and your quotient will be the answer,--which you are but an ass if you cannot come at.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 534   ~   ~   ~

But whoso chanceth on the piece wherein the money lies Is counted king amongst them all, and is with shouts and cries Exalted to the heavens up, who, taking chalk in hand, Doth make a cross on every beam and rafters as they stand: Great force and power have these against all injuries and harms, Of cursed devils, sprites and bugs, of conjurings and charms, So much this king can do, so much the crosses bring to pass, Made by some servant, maid or child, or by some foolish ass!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 612   ~   ~   ~

_Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell,_ _Born is the King of Israel._ Between an ox-stall and an ass This Child truly there born he was; For want of clothing they did him lay All in the manger among the hay.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,889   ~   ~   ~

Now, strictly speaking, in order to hallucinate honestly, your opium-writer ought to have had some practical knowledge of opium-eating: then could he descant with the authority of experience--yea, though he write himself thereby down an ass--on its effects upon mind and body; then could he tell of luxuries and torments in true Frenchified detail; then could he expound its pains and pleasures with all the eloquence of personal conviction.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,418   ~   ~   ~

"Don't think I'm such a blundering ass.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 659   ~   ~   ~

Within a few months I shall burn this book, and confess that I should be written down an ass, or turn to it to prove myself a prophet.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,306   ~   ~   ~

"Don't be more of an ass than you can help.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 445   ~   ~   ~

"That is, unless you can suggest some way of making him see what an ass he is.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,207   ~   ~   ~

What an ass I was!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,883   ~   ~   ~

Ass!--said Cotherstone, not without a certain amount of malicious delight: they should none of them have reason to say such things of him.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,391   ~   ~   ~

"Here I am tied to Wellington and these hated classes and lectures, when I hoped to be in Paris acting courier for Molly instead of this disgusting foreigner, who won't know how to appreciate her----But what an ass I am!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,878   ~   ~   ~

And he, Kent, had only that morning called his brother Paul "a conceited ass" because Paul had on a cravat to match his socks; and he had been equally unreasonable with a misguided waiter who brought him macaroni when he ordered spaghetti.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,884   ~   ~   ~

"He is an awfully good fellow, though he has made an abject ass of himself."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,921   ~   ~   ~

"Don't be a silly ass, Steve.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,964   ~   ~   ~

"It wasn't anything, you ass.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,017   ~   ~   ~

"You were a silly ass to talk to him, Steve.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,050   ~   ~   ~

Well, many an ass has strayed across the uneasy paddock of the Atlantic, to nibble your carrot, dear lady.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,055   ~   ~   ~

Nevertheless, and in spite of all this, up trots this here little ass and makes you a nice present of this pretty book.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,099   ~   ~   ~

And each little ass and poodle begins to beg and to jump, and there's a rare game round about Liberty, zap, zap, zapperty-zap!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 275   ~   ~   ~

Titania was still sleeping, and Oberon seeing a clown near her, who had lost his way in the wood, and was likewise asleep: "This fellow," said he, "shall be my Titania's true love;" and clapping an ass's head over the clown's, it seemed to fit him as well as if it had grown upon his own shoulders.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 287   ~   ~   ~

Come, sit with me," said she to the clown, "and let me play with your amiable hairy cheeks, my beautiful ass!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 301   ~   ~   ~

"I had rather have a handful of dried pease," said the clown, who with his ass's head had got an ass's appetite.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 306   ~   ~   ~

When the fairy king saw the clown sleeping in the arms of his queen, he advanced within her sight, and reproached her with having lavished her favours upon an ass.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,216   ~   ~   ~

And in such wild sayings, and scraps of songs, of which he had plenty, this pleasant honest fool poured out his heart even in the presence of Goneril herself, in many a bitter taunt and jest which cut to the quick: such as comparing the king to the hedge-sparrow, who feeds the young of the cuckoo till they grow old enough, and then has its head bit off for its pains; and saying, that an ass may know when the cart draws the horse (meaning that Lear's daughters, that ought to go behind, now ranked before their father); and that Lear was no longer Lear, but the shadow of Lear: for which free speeches he was once or twice threatened to be whipped.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,483   ~   ~   ~

This accounts for the saying, "If you hear a cock crow, pray for mercy, for it has seen an angel; but if you hear an ass bray, take refuge with God, for it has seen a devil."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 815   ~   ~   ~

You're an ass!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,697   ~   ~   ~

For killing a man, a cow, a buffalo, an ass, a horse, a squirrel, a cat or a monkey a man must purify himself by bathing in the Ganges at Allahabad or Benares and giving a feast to the caste.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,206   ~   ~   ~

To kill an ass or a monkey is a sin only less heinous.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,616   ~   ~   ~

Its application to the caste, the most abject and despised in the Hindu community, is perhaps partly ironical; but all the low castes have honorific titles, which are used as a method of address either from ordinary politeness or by those requiring some service, on the principle, as the Hindus say, that you may call an ass your uncle if you want him to do something for you.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,918   ~   ~   ~

They will not touch an ass, a cat or a dog, and consider it sinful to kill animals which bark or bray.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 898   ~   ~   ~

Thus what with Fleas and with the seuerall prates Of th' officer, and his _Ass_-sociats We arose to goe, but Fortune bade us stay: The Constable had stolne our oares away, And borne them thence a quarter of a mile Quite through a Lane beyond a gate and stile; And hid them there to hinder my depart, For which I wish'd him hang'd with all my heart.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,081   ~   ~   ~

What ranting politician, What prating lawyer, what ambitious clerk, But is an ass that gallops for a hat?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,613   ~   ~   ~

The Latin name for the wild ass, _Equus kiang_, indicates his close relationship to the horse, and "kiang" is what he is called by the people of Tibet.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,614   ~   ~   ~

The wild ass is as large as an average mule, with well-developed ears, and a sharp sense of hearing; his tail is tufted at the end, and he is reddish-brown in colour, except on the legs and belly, where he is white.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,615   ~   ~   ~

When he scents danger he snorts loudly, throws up his head, cocks his ears, and expands his nostrils; he is more like a fine ass than a horse, but when you see him wild and free on the salt plains of Tibet, the difference between him and an ass seems even greater than between an ass and a horse.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,032   ~   ~   ~

A few days later a Suaheli came and said that the lion had seized an ass, and was engaged in his meal not far away.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 550   ~   ~   ~

"In Rome, you ass!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,753   ~   ~   ~

I don't want to discourage you, but, long ago as it is, you can't have forgotten what an ass you made of yourself at that house-supper at school.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,813   ~   ~   ~

But it seems that the silly ass took it into his head to propose to Billie just before dinner--apparently he's loved her for years in a silent, self-effacing way--and of course she told him that she was engaged to me, and the thing upset him to such an extent that he says the idea of sitting down at a piano and helping me give an imitation of Frank Tinney revolts him.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,219   ~   ~   ~

I take it that after my departure you made the most colossal ass of yourself, but why let that worry you?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,955   ~   ~   ~

The next morning, Fougas, laden down like a miller's ass with bon-bons, presented himself at M. Langevin's.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,607   ~   ~   ~

Ass, thou hast no sense!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,798   ~   ~   ~

Yet has he many a motte and holds himself to be handsome-- Why wi' the baker's ass is he not bound to the mill?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,802   ~   ~   ~

This object swives girls enow, and fancies himself a handsome fellow, and is not condemned to the mill as an ass?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,083   ~   ~   ~

He is described as a youth of a plump figure, and naked, with a ruddy face, and an effeminate air; he is crowned with ivy and vine leaves, and bears in his hand a thyrsus, or javelin with an iron head, encircled with ivy and vine leaves: his chariot is sometimes drawn by lions, at others by tigers, leopards, or panthers; and surrounded by a band of Satyrs, Bacchæ, and Nymphs, in frantic postures; whilst old Silēnus, his preceptor, follows on an ass, which crouches with the weight of his burden.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,370   ~   ~   ~

He however distinguished himself greatly in the war with the giants, by appearing in the conflict on an ass, whose braying threw them into confusion; for which reason, or because, when Bacchus engaged the Indians, their elephants were put to flight by the braying of the ass, it was raised to the skies, and there made a constellation.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 Page 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158