The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Forth He came as light through glass: He came to save us all, In the stable ox and ass before their Maker fall.

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_Nowell, etc._ Ox and ass Him know, Kneeling on their knee: Wondrous joy had I This little Babe to see.

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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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Why do you sit down, wild ass?

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The whole structure was there to endure, if not for ever, at least until some ass of a fellow came along and kicked it down to spite an old religion, because he had found a new one...

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The second famous "Act" (for such was their title) was known under the name of "The Riding on the Foal of an Ass," and took place (beginning with the end of the sixteenth century) in Moscow and other towns, generally on Palm Sunday.

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"I've been a bit of an ass about it all, I think," he concluded with an air of thoughtful inquiry.

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Up to now nothing was really agreed upon except that he himself had been an ass.

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I agreed with what you said--that you'd been--an ass.

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"The whole thing makes me look rather an ass, I think," said he.

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The sniffling Whig-mayor Patience Ward To this damn'd lie paid such regard, That he his godly masons sent, T' engrave it round the Monument: They did so; but let such things pass- His men were fools, himself an ass."

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"Don't be a young ass," said Dick.

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"Hang it, you young ass," said one boy, whom the child, even in his flutter and misery, recognised as the boy who had accosted them at the door of Westover's that morning, "can't you answer without blubbering like that?

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"Young ass!" said Swinstead; "ran well too."

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I wonder if I'm an ass to accept the whipping-in so easily?

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What an ass he had been going to make of himself, and what a time he would have had if he hadn't found out the trick in time!

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"You'll think me such an ass," said he, appealingly.

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"I do think you an ass already," said the senior, "so, out with it."

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"He'd something to make up for, though, after making such an ass of himself in the second round.

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His two hearers laugh till the boy blushes crimson, and wishes he had not made such an ass of himself.

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"Can't come, you ass!

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who are you calling an ass?" said he, starting up.

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"By Jove!--you young ass!

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But there was that young ass Heathcote, and Coote too, who were certain to do as he did; and the fag of making up his mind for three people was not fair to a fellow.

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Sometimes his bad memory, and the quick transitions of allegiance through which he was called upon to pass, made him forget his _role_, and condole with Dick on Heathcote's piety, or with Heathcote on Dick's poverty of spirit; and sometimes, when, in the company of the one, he happened to meet the other, he quite lost his head and made an ass of himself to both.

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"Young ass!" said Dick, "the grub's all you think about.

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"I may have said once I thought Coote was rather an ass, but that was all."

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"I was an ass to let him make a cad of me," said Heathcote.

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"Don't, Dicky;" said I; "I--I--" "You're almost as big an ass as you look," said Dicky, "and that's saying something.

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"What do you take me for, you young ass?

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How this letter made me long to be at Low Heath, and how it made me realise what an ass I had been to go in for that crib!

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You can't help being an ass, but don't swagger or brag about it.

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Whatever made every one so anxious to assume that I was an ass?

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Tempest told me last term there was a young ass coming up who'd been at a girls' school, and had got an exhibition or something.

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It's all your fault, you ass, for being such a muff and letting Jarman catch you.

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"And all we say is that you're about as big an ass as you look, and that's saving a good deal," chimed in the Philosophers.

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"Look at that ass Sarah, trying to look virtuous," said Trimble.

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You've done me about the worst turn a fellow could, and if you weren't a conceited young ass it would be some use thrashing you.

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"Don't be a young ass.

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'Yes,' said Crofter--silly ass, how could he tell?

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"I say," said I, "I was afraid you believed what Crofter said, and thought--" "You were an ass, Tommy--you always were--I ought to have remembered it.

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Call me an ass if there be not a shaven crown under that hat of his."

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He looked a little hurt at this, I thought, and said: "Can an ass call the horse its master when a man claimeth both?

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"I suppose I made an awful ass of myself.

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"So I'm an ass, eh?"

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No one could have made a more complete ass of himself.

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"I'm a clumsy ass!" says he.

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Freed from its tether, the ace-- I might better say "ass"--how it kicks me!

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I shall have to roll in the dirt again, like a beaten ass.

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16 As some one has well said: On mountain-tops no lotuses are grown; The horse's yoke no ass will ever bear; Rice never springs from seeds of barley sown; A courtezan is not an honest fair.

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A courtezan, an elephant, a scribe, a mendicant friar, a swindler, and an ass--where these dwell, not even rogues are born.

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It came to pass, I ran away Like any ass, and had my day.

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"Young ass!

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"Who wants your watch, young ass?--a miserable, second-hand, tin ticker; I'd be ashamed to be seen with it.

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Come along, don't be an ass; and bring young mooney-face; I dare say by this time he knows what's what as well as you or me, Tom; eh, Jack?"

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"And do you remember what an ass you used to make of yourself over that precious silver watch of yours?"

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"Of course not," I cried, feeling very miserable; "of course I'm an ass, but I'd sooner be back at Stonebridge House than here."

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What's the use of making an ass of yourself?"

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Conceited ass that I was!

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Ass that I had been!

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"Why you old ass, that's not Peace and Plenty, it's a Storm at Sea."

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"Don't be an ass, Doubleday!"

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But that's no reason why you should make a regular all-round ass of yourself in the way you're doing."

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"What do you mean, you young ass?

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Do you take me for a silly ass!

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Cut along, and don't go making such an ass of yourself again.

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"Stupid ass!" growled D'Arcy.

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"Shut up, you ass!"

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D'Arcy's nearly as big an ass as you are yourself, to trust you."

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"Did he tell you you were an ass?"

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Good old--" "No, you young ass; it's bad grammar to say _me_ and D'Arcy were in it."

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"How do I know where every ass in the place is?

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"What a fearful ass I was," said Percy when he had gone, "not to make him write my impot!

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When the owner returned, he wished devoutly he had never been ass enough to confide the task to a couple of raw Goths like these.

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Then, turning to Fisher minor, he whispered, "you howling young ass, you've done it!

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"You must think yourself uncommonly important if you suppose we're going to trouble about an ass like you," said Dangle.

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That ass, Fisher major, he's bound to--" Here there came a modest tap at the door, and Fisher minor peeped in, apologetically.

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"It was ridiculous, when you come to think of it," soliloquised Clapperton, "that a blundering ass like Fisher major should have brought the School into such a precious mess."

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"But not good to drink, you ass!" argued Wally.

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I couldn't make the young ass understand that I had no water in the carriage.

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The young ass didn't know what I meant.

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Hop it, you ass?

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Any ass would know what that meant; you would yourselves.

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"Don't be an ass, Brandram.

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"Oh, Richmond's an ass," said Reg, full of his new idea; "he knows nothing about it.

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Durfy, you're a born ass!

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"I was sure of a first, but that young ass Wace fouled me," puts in Telson.

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I should like to know how a fellow is to work behind a sanctimonious ass like him?"

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"What a howling young ass he must be to put it all down!"

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I am small in the world Parson is a conceited ass.'"

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"'Parson is a conceited ass--'" "I say, you needn't go over it twice," expostulated the injured youth.

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"'A conceited ass,'" continued Telson, his voice wavering with suppressed laughter.

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"Don't be an ass, Parson," said Telson.

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He'd like to know what that young ass Curtis was grinning at?

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"It's all that young ass Morrison's doing," growled Tedbury.

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"What an ass I am!

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I heard the runnel with delight; I looked round me for something beautiful and unexpected; but the still black pine trees, the hollow glade, the munching ass, remained unchanged in figure.

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I don't want to get chummed again with that young ass Simson.

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"What an ass you are, Dig!" expostulated Arthur; "you'll get us in no end of a mess."

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I don't care twopence about that young ass Herapath; but if the house is to go on as it was last term, and we are to be interfered with by Bickers and nobody to stand up for us, we may as well shut up at once, and let him appoint new prefects."

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