The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Festing being one day seated at the window of the Orange Coffee House, then at the corner of the Haymarket, observed a very intelligent-looking boy, who was driving an ass and selling brickdust.

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He can scrape, scratch, shake, diminish, increase, flourish, &c.; and he is so delighted with the sound of his own Viol, that an ass would sooner lend his ears to anything than to him; and as a dog shakes a pig, so does he shake a note _by the ear_, and never lets it go till he makes it squeak.

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Compiled and written by Mrs. Martha Walker Cook, 20, 168, 293, 412 Reconnoissance near Fort Morgan, and Expedition in Lake Pontchartrain and Pearl River, by the Mortar Flotilla of Captain D. D. Porter, U. S. N. By F. H. Gerdes, Ass't U.S. Coast Survey, 269 Reconstruction.

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Mr. Trollope, it is true, takes all imaginable pains to write himself down an ass.

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"It is riling," another said; "but besides that I do not think there is much to complain about him, and his making an ass of himself at other times does not affect us so long as he plays well in the team."

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"Affected ass!"

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"You know very well he is not an ass, and I am not at all sure he is affected.

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I know that I have behaved like an ass, and I should like to be friends now if you will let me."

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I went down one place fifty or sixty feet deep head-foremost, bumping from rock to rock, and it flashed through my mind as I did so what an ass I was to be going through all this when I might be comfortably in bed at home.

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"I see now that I made an awful ass of myself," Edgar said; "but I think you would have done the same if you had been in my place, Rupert, and had heard what I heard."

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Then she ordered one of the servants to saddle an ass, and drive her to the prophet; and when she found him, she told him the piteous story, and how the poor little fellow whom she loved so dearly, and who was such a darling of his father, and such a pet of the old Elisha when he paid them his visits, was lying white and dead upstairs on the bed.

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An ass once had the golden image of the Goddess Isis set on his back, and he was led through the streets of a city in Egypt.

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Then the driver brought down his stick upon his back, and said, "You ass!

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There is many a man who is no less elated by his position, or by some good fortune that falls to him, than this ass.

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And I hope to my God you're better off at the end nor me--me that once talked to earls and barons, and now clucks to a wheen o' hens; me that once had my coach and pair, and now have only an ass with a creel o' turf; and no care of money once on me, and now all I have is my spinning-wheel, and the flax not what it used to be, but getting coarser.

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If she don't read anything she becomes an ass and a bore; but if she do she despises a man because he is not always doing the same thing.

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The Dhobi's donkey is a familiar sight as one meets him on the road still toiling as in the time of Issachar between two bundles of clothes each larger than himself, and he has also become proverbial, '_Dhobi ka gadha neh ghar ka neh ghat ka_,' 'The Dhobi's donkey is always on the move'; and 'The ass has only one master (a washerman), and the washerman has only one steed (an ass).'

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I'm such an ass that, if she were even to hint at that, I'd resent it furiously.

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Did you _ever_ hear of such an ass?

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"Well, you know she couldn't get over it for ever so long, but laughed no end, while I sat utterly amazed at the extent to which I had made an ass of myself.

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Such were my thoughts; but then I suddenly decided that by such thoughts I was only making an ass of myself, and concluded that it was nothing more than her way.

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Was he now gnashing his splendid set of teeth in drear confinement; or was he making a fool of himself, and an ass, by persisting in indulging in sentiment with Louie?

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"I mumbled something or other about 'old friendship'--'stranger in a strange land'--horrid rot--what an ass she must have thought me!--but that's the way it was.

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You're not altogether an ass, are you?

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"Why didn't I?" said he, at length; "simply because I happen to be an unmitigated, uncontrollable, incorrigible, illimitable, and inconceivable ASS!

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His determination to be an ass was so vehement, that remonstrance was out of the question.

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I'm always an ass, and so I felt tickled, no end, at her unfailing kindness to me, and took it all as so much incense, and all that--I was her deity, you know--snuffing up incense--receiving her devotion--feeling half sorry that I couldn't quite reciprocate, and making an infernal fool of myself generally.

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"Now you know I'm such a confounded ass that her very reticence about my other affairs, and her quiet way of taking them, rather piqued me; and several times I threw out hints about them, to see what she would say.

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"Only under the circumstances, being thus challenged, you know, by a very pretty widow, and being an ass, and being conceited, and being dazzled by the surroundings, what did I do but begin to swear that I loved her better than ever?

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She pretended not to believe me--she hinted at my indifference, she spoke about my joy at getting away from her so as to go elsewhere, and said a thousand other things, all of which had the effect of making me more of an ass than ever, and so I rushed headlong to destruction."

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I'm such a perfect and finished ass, that I really believe I meant what I said, and at that time I really wanted her to marry me.

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The widow was affected by my vehemence, as a matter of course--she stammered--she hesitated, and of course, being an ass, I was only made more vehement by all that sort of thing, you know.

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And does not Sacchetti record that the great man took the trouble to quarrel with an ass-driver and a blacksmith because they recited his verses badly?

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Yet the time is coming when every one, morally and mentally at least, will be allowed no other than a pewter pot to drink out of, under pain of being 'writ down an ass'--or worse.

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Do wash the outside, says Society; and it would be a churl or an ass indeed who would refuse so small a request.

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A venerable ass, so like an old whity-brown hair trunk as to his body, and Nick Bottom's mask as to his head, that he was a constant source of mirth to the ladies.

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"Wer nie sein Brod mit Thränen ass,"' replied Amanda, polite even at the last gasp.

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Now I can see that Voltaire and his followers were quite in the right in warring on terrible and immediate abuses which oppressed mankind; but I had learned from Spinoza to believe that every form of faith was good in its way or according to its mission or time, and that it was silly to ridicule Christianity because the tale of Balaam's ass was incredible.

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What an ass a man can be!

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He continues to work, scourges himself, follows the lectures for many years, but still knows nothing but "ya," and remains an ass.

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In the open air of the public place, at a time when manners were less polished, many such interjections interrupted the performance; many insulting apostrophes were addressed to Eve when she listened to the serpent; and the serpent spoke (in the Norman drama of "Adam") a language easy to understand, the language of everyday life: "_Diabolus._--I saw Adam; he is an ass."

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Ass, feast of the, 452.

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After having been in what is called "a towering rage," there often comes to a man the feeling expressed in the words, "I have made a great ass of myself."

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That he looks like an ass while doing this goes without saying, but still he is a valuable addition to the cast.

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Why, EMILE DE LAVELEYE is an ass.

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"Nay, he's no such ass," interposed Hopkins hastily.

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The devil goeth about like a roaring lion"-- "Sometimes methinks he seemeth more like an ass," murmured Priscilla in Mary's ear, setting her off into convulsions of repressed laughter, while her naughty tormentor looked demurely up the bank to the angular figure defined against the evening sky and said,-- "We are beholden to you for the admonition, Master Allerton, and it must be a marvelous comfort to you that Mary and Remember Allerton weep so much oftener than they laugh."

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CHAPTER XXX THE VICTORY OF SIR BORS OVER HIMSELF When Sir Bors was departed from Vagon, he met with a religious man riding on an ass, and Sir Bors saluted him.

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But the tavern-keeper barred their way, calling them a vile slave and a worthless she-ass.

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Upon which they surrounded them, and having bound them they tied them to the tail of an ass and proceeded on their way.

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I will guide thee to the feet of a little child who is about to be born in a stable between an ass and an ox.

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"I don't mind you making an ass of yourself, but lushing around all that coin the way you're doing--it's wicked; it makes me sick.

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He embraced her once more when she made this acknowledgment, and murmured: "What an ass he was!

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He retorted: "If you could have seen what an ass he made of me that time, you would not at this moment be holding his hand.

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The Sheikh's ass is the only animal of the beast-of-burden sort in the whole caravan, besides the camels.

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The merchants were much amused at the quarrel, and thought me an ass to quarrel about _a slave_, (for such they esteemed Said) having a ride[18].

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He abused the Sultan of Constantinople and called him an ass for spending his money like a fool, and this license before all the people!

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who, mounting upon an ass, will scour the earth in three days, and kill and destroy all the Mussulmans, this Dajal being the Messiah of the Jews, who will all flock to his standard; and that then will appear Jesus, _the Son of Mary_[46], from the top of the mountains of the moon, after Dajal has reigned forty years, and slay this monster Messiah of the Jews.

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Our people fell in with the skeleton of a Touarick ass, and amused themselves with setting it up upon its legs, as if in the pillory.

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"Oh, he's an ass," replied Bel-Kasem.

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I cut several, and amused and satirized myself by writing in my journal with one quill, "James Richardson has much to learn;" with another quill, "Richardson, James, must take care of his health," &c., "Yâkob Richardson was an egregious ass to come into The Desert," &c., &c. These quills are very firm, if not fine and flexible, and it is a good substitute in The Desert for "the grey goose quill."

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Then the road, paved as it was with Roman work, rose before us on a steep slope, to a plain which was succeeded by the "Robbers' Valley," (Wadi el Hharamiyeh,) in which we met two peasants driving an ass, and inquired of them "Is the plain of the Jordan safe?"

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A poor Arab peasant, driving an ass laden with a wooden box, was groaning with pain, and implored us for a draught of water, but I fear that our people had neglected to bring any with them, as they expected to be so soon in Safed.

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The region there is lonely and silent, with some petty half-depopulated villages in sight, but all far away; sometimes a couple or so of peasants may be met upon the road driving an ass loaded with charcoal or broken old roots of the evergreen oak.

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'And they held their peace and he took him and healed him,' and asked them 'which of them having an ox or an ass fall into the pit, would not straitway pull him out on the Sabbath day; and they could not answer him again.'

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Slaves were not then nor since regarded by their owners as "_persons_" merely "held to service or labor," but they were held as personal chattels, owing no duty to their masters distinguishable from that owing by an ox, a horse, or an ass.

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Thither the peasants flocked on Christmas Eve, with lanterns and torches, making the forest ring with their carols; and there in the church they found a stable with straw, and an ox and an ass tethered to the manger; and St. Francis spoke to the folk about Bethlehem and the Shepherds in the field, and the birth of the divine Babe, so that all who heard him wept happy tears of compassion and thankfulness.

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Thou hast deceived thyself: thou art no better than any brainless ass that plods through life.'

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* * * * * BURIDAN'S ASS.

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From starving moke you'll get no progress steady; The well-fed ass responds to "Gee-up, Neddy!"

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Poor ass!

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But oh, poor ass, aching from head to tail, Pray, what the better is _your_ state thereafter?

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BURIDAN'S Ass was surely your twin brother.

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Shall it be as first we met at the table of Lucullus, whereto he was seduced by the false pretence that he would there meet with one who entertained novel and anarchical opinions regarding the Golden Ass of Apuleius?

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Even when he condescended to use the spelling common to the rest of the nation, he could pick out little causes of quarrel with the way of putting it in type--as, for instance, in using the word Ass, which came naturally to him, he would not follow the practice of his day in the use of the long and short ([s]s), but inverted the arrangement thus, s[s].

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The public is an ass.

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SINGLETARY (Reading) It says here in Judges 18:18 dat Samson slewed three thousand [Note: corrected missing space] Philistines wid de jawbone of an ass.

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SIMMS (on his feet) Yeah, but dis wasn't no ass.

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A ass is uh mule's daddy and he's biggern uh ass, too.

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"It was the excitement of all that talk--that ass of a poet."

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"I should be sorely tempted," he mused, picking up a novel and selecting a comfortable angle in the Morris, "I should be sorely tempted to call any other man a silly ass.

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You are not such an ass as all that."

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"If it isn't, the man who would stoop to such tommyrot and tack the name of his club to it must be an ass."

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"I'm a romantic ass!"

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"Jack, I _am_ an ass!" penitently.

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"You--_ass_!"

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So with her husband she rode away upon a sure-footed ass, down the hills to the great festival at Shiloh, through rocky passes and across foaming streams; and her face was sad, for the little child of three sitting in her lap she would not bring back again.

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Then one day he left Ramah early in the morning, riding on an ass, with a young man behind him driving a cow; for he gave out that he was going to offer a sacrifice to God.

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Now no one ever came before the king without a gift in his hand, so Jesse sent with David an ass laden with a sack of wheat, a kid, and a skin of wine, as a present to King Saul.

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Calling her husband up from the fields, the Shunammite woman asked him to send a servant to her with an ass, that she might ride to Elisha at Carmel and return again.

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But a wig-maker who has invented a new spring for a toupée, or a new dye for the hair, and thereby really done mankind a service, could no more get into the first circles with us than he could go to heaven, like Mahomet, on the back of an ass.

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"I was a blind ass not to see it earlier.

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Any one of those epithets which are applied to a fool is suited to myself, such as dolt, post, ass,[91] lump of lead; to him not one can {apply}; his stupidity surpasses them all.

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[Footnote 91: _Dolt, post, ass_)--Ver.

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What, ass!

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Out with it!" and one or two of his intimates added imploringly, "Don't be an ass, Kilshaw."

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"He means you're an ass, and you are.

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He is now dead and no truth can hurt his feelings any more, but I think he was about as ignorant and self-satisfied an ass as I can remember to have encountered anywhere.

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It does not fall to the lot of every self-sufficient ass who finds himself returned to Parliament and who imagines that he can at once make a figure in that assembly to learn his place in so abrupt a fashion, but there is no gathering in the world in which a man so inevitably finds his proper level.

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