The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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When hears the Count Rollánd the lot has fallen Upon himself, as loyal knight he speaks:-- "You, sire step-father, dear and well beloved Must be, since you have named me for the rear; Nor shall Carl'magne, the King of France, lose aught, Nor palfrey, nor fleet steed, if knowledge true I have, nor male nor female mule that man Can ride, nor beast of burden, horse or ass, Unreckoned for with these good swords of ours."

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Something which whispered, "You ass, you wretched ass!

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Unkind acquaintances described him as the most monumental ass that has yet been produced by a painstaking world; personally, I think the picture a trifle harsh.

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"What is doocid funny, you blithering ass?"

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An inane-looking ass raised his whisky-and-soda to his lips with a fatuous cackle.

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You know you hate that ass; you told me so yourself yesterday!"

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Believing as had these latter that, despite the vast and valuable Federal properties in the heart of the city, despite the fact that some of the railways involved were at that very moment under the wing of the Federal courts, despite the laws of the general government affecting the working and management of every one of over a dozen great trunk lines centring in Chicago, Uncle Sam would be ass enough to confide them all to the care of State authorities notoriously dependent upon the masses, and that he would not venture to protect his property, sustain his courts, enforce his laws, demand and command respect and subordination, or even venture upon his own, except at the invitation and permission of a hesitant State government, there had been little short of triumph and exultation in the camp of the American Railway Union until this fatal July morning.

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Allison was in evil humor, as is many a better man when beginning to realize that he has made an ass of himself.

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"Sit down and write her that you have made a consummate ass of yourself.

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It was plain that in Cary's eyes sister Titania had found her Bottom and was enamoured of an ass.

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She's rather an ass.

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One ass calls his stable Cliftonville, although I bet he's never seen Clifton.

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The old Pet may be a beast, but is _not_ an ass.

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"Don't be an ass," said Lalage.

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Some ass sent a copy, marked, to the Prov.

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"I must say for you," she said, "that when you choose to go in for pretending to be an ass you can be more funerally idiotic than any one I ever met.

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"In some ways he's rather an ass," said Lalage, "'and just at first I thought he was inclined to have too good an opinion of himself.

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"Now that Tithers is gone and O'Donoghue, who appears to be rather an ass, professes to have a sore throat----" She winked at me.

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That ass McMeekin insists on poisoning me with barley water, and Titherington's doctor, whoever he is, is most likely doing the same."

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"Silly old ass, isn't he, to lose his temper about that?

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We no longer say _Philip sparrow_, but _Jack ass_, _Jack daw_, _Jenny wren_, _Tom tit_ (see p. 123), and the inclusive _Dicky bird_, are still familiar.

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_ezel_, ass, which, like Ger.

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W. Gillinan_ 225 Study of an Elevation in Indian Ink _Rudyard Kipling_ 226 The V-a-s-e _James Jeffrey Roche_ 227 Miniver Cheevy _Edwin Arlington Robinson_ 229 The Recruit _Robert W. Chambers_ 230 Officer Brady _Robert W. Chambers_ 232 Post-Impressionism _Bert Leston Taylor_ 235 To the Portrait of "A Gentleman" _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 236 Cacoethes Scribendi _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 238 Contentment _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 238 A Boston Lullaby _James Jeffrey Roche_ 240 A Grain of Salt _Wallace Irwin_ 241 Song _Richard Lovelace_ 241 A Philosopher _Sam Walter Foss_ 242 The Meeting of the Clabberhuses _Sam Walter Foss_ 244 The Ideal Husband to His Wife _Sam Walter Foss_ 246 Distichs _John Hay_ 247 The Hen-roost Man _Ruth McEnery Stuart_ 247 If They Meant All They Say _Alice Duer Miller_ 247 The Man _Stephen Crane_ 248 A Thought _James Kenneth Stephen_ 248 The Musical Ass _Tomaso de Yriarte_ 249 The Knife-Grinder _George Canning_ 249 St. Anthony's Sermon to the Fishes _Abraham á Sancta-Clara_ 251 The Battle of Blenheim _Robert Southey_ 252 The Three Black Crows _John Byrom_ 254 To the Terrestrial Globe _W.

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Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse Of a prose which knows no reason And an unmelodious verse: When the world shall cease to wonder At the genius of an Ass, And a boy's eccentric blunder Shall not bring success to pass: When mankind shall be delivered From the clash of magazines, And the inkstand shall be shivered Into countless smithereens: When there stands a muzzled stripling, Mute, beside a muzzled bore: When the Rudyards cease from Kipling And the Haggards Ride no more?

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Her head's like the island folks tell on, Which nothing but monkeys can dwell on; Her heart's like a lemon--so nice She carves for each lover a slice; In truth she's to me, Like the wind, like the sea, Whose raging will hearken to no man; Like a mill, like a pill, Like a flail, like a whale, Like an ass, like a glass Whose image is constant to no man; Like a shower, like a flower, Like a fly, like a pie, Like a pea, like a flea, Like a thief, like--in brief, She's like nothing on earth--but a woman!

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In short, to distinguish is folly; 'Twixt the pair I am come to the pass Of Macheath, between Lucy and Polly,-- Or Buridan's ass.

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Although no moral clings To Di's blue eyes, and sandal strings, We've had our quarrels!-- I think that Smith is thought an ass; I know that when they walk in grass She wears _balmorals_.

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_James Kenneth Stephen._ THE MUSICAL ASS The fable which I now present, Occurred to me by accident: And whether bad or excellent, Is merely so by accident.

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A stupid ass this morning went Into a field by accident: And cropped his food, and was content, Until he spied by accident A flute, which some oblivious gent Had left behind by accident; When, sniffling it with eager scent, He breathed on it by accident, And made the hollow instrument Emit a sound by accident.

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sets all matters right, So calm and composing from morning to night; Oh, it settles the spirits when nothing is seen But an ass on a common, a goose on a green!

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You think that if merit's exalted 'Tis excellent sport to decry it, And trail its good name in the gutter; And that cynics, white-gloved and cravatted, Are the cream and quintessence of all things, Ass of a public!

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Proputty, proputty, proputty--Sam, thou's an ass for thy paaïns: Theer's moor sense i' one o' 'is legs nor in all thy braaïns.

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Thou'll not marry for munny--thou's sweet upo' parson's lass-- Noä--thou'll marry for luvv--an' we boäth of us thinks tha an ass.

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Ay, an' thy muther says thou wants to marry the lass, Cooms of a gentleman burn; an' we boäth on us thinks tha an ass.

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Woä then, proputty, wiltha?--an ass as near as mays nowt-- Woä then, wiltha?

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Get out, you blazing ass!

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For, while he spake, a braying ass did sing most loud and clear; Whereat his horse did snort, as he had heard a lion roar, And galloped off with all his might, as he had done before.

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Now, I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent To say another is an ass--at least, to all intent; Nor should the individual who happens to be meant Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent.

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E. Farrow._ SKIPPER IRESON'S RIDE Of all the rides since the birth of time, Told in story or sung in rhyme,-- On Apuleius's Golden Ass, Or one-eyed Calendar's horse of brass, Witch astride of a human back, Islam's prophet on Al-Borak,-- The strangest ride that ever was sped Was Ireson's, out from Marblehead!

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_Unknown._ SIMILES As wet as a fish--as dry as a bone; As live as a bird--as dead as a stone; As plump as a partridge--as poor as a rat; As strong as a horse--as weak as a cat; As hard as a flint--as soft as a mole; As white as a lily--as black as a coal; As plain as a pike-staff--as rough as a bear; As light as a drum--as free as the air; As heavy as lead--as light as a feather; As steady as time--uncertain as weather; As hot as an oven--as cold as a frog; As gay as a lark--as sick as a dog; As slow as the tortoise--as swift as the wind; As true as the Gospel--as false as mankind; As thin as a herring--as fat as a pig; As proud as a peacock--as blithe as a grig; As savage as tigers--as mild as a dove; As stiff as a poker--as limp as a glove; As blind as a bat--as deaf as a post; As cool as a cucumber--as warm as a toast; As flat as a flounder--as round as a ball; As blunt as a hammer--as sharp as an awl; As red as a ferret--as safe as the stocks; As bold as a thief--as sly as a fox; As straight as an arrow--as crook'd as a bow; As yellow as saffron--as black as a sloe; As brittle as glass--as tough as gristle; As neat as my nail--as clean as a whistle; As good as a feast--as had as a witch; As light as is day--as dark as is pitch; As brisk as a bee--as dull as an ass; As full as a tick--as solid as brass.

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If they were not, I have no doubt But some reforming ass Would recommend to take them down And light the world with gas.

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Samuel| On Butler's Monument 370 |Witcher, Frances M.| K. K.--Can't Calculate 353 Widow Bedott to Elder Sniffles 195 |White, Harriet R.| Uffia 877 |Whittier, John Greenleaf| Skipper Ireson's Ride 688 |Wilcox, Ella Wheeler| Pin, A 132 |Wildgoose, Oscuro| More Impressions 509 |Wilkie, A. C.| Old Song By New Singers, An 506 |Willis, N. P.| Declaration, The 446 |Willson, Arabella| Appeal for Are to the Sextant of the Old Brick Meetinouse, A 66 |Wolcot, John| Actor, The 287 Pilgrims and the Peas, The 621 Razor Seller, The 297 To a Fly 734 |Yates, Edmund| All-Saints 280 |Ybarra, Thomas R.| Lay of Ancient Rome 753 Little Swirl of Vers Libre, A 380 Ode to Work in Springtime 47 |Yriarte, Tomaso de| Musical Ass, The 249 INDEX OF FIRST LINES |page| A brace of sinners, for no good 621 A brow austere, a circumspective eye 280 A captain bold from Halifax who dwelt in country quarters 702 A cat I sing, of famous memory 833 A country curate visiting his flock 287 A district school, not far away 128 A fellow in a market town 297 A fellow near Kentuck's clime 494 A fig for St. Denis of France 101 A friend of mine was married to a scold 264 A hindoo died--a happy thing to do 281 A knight and a lady once met in a grove 270 A little peach in the orchard grew 931 A little saint best fits a little shrine 806 A lively young turtle lived down by the banks 923 A lovely young lady I mourn in my rhymes 366 A maiden once, of certain age 169 A man of words and not of deeds 790 A man said to the universe 248 A man sat on a rock and sought 83 A Persian penman named Aziz 810 A Poet's Cat, sedate and grave 910 A quiet home had Parson Gray 741 A rollicking Mastodon lived in Spain 853 A Russian sailed over the blue Black Sea 374 A shabby fellow chanced one day to meet 287 A soldier and a sailor 179 A soldier of the Russians 90 A speech, both pithy and concise 61 A street there is in Paris famous 714 A supercilious nabob of the East 260 A tailor, a man of an upright dealing 322 A traveller wended the wilds among 576 A well there is in the west country 584 A whale of great porosity 916 A woman is like to--but stay 118 A xylographer started to cross the sea 759 A young man once was sitting 394 Across the sands of Syria 888 Ah!

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S. Gilbert_ 376 Millennuim, The _Robert Browning_ 60 Minguillo's Kiss _Unknown_ 122 Miniver Cheevy _Edward Arlington Robinson_ 229 Misadventures at Margate _Richard Harris Barham_ (_Thomas Ingoldsby_) 558 Mis' Smith _Albert Bigelow Paine_ 119 Modern Hiawatha, The _Unknown_ 482 Modest Wit, A _Selleck Osborn_ 260 "Mona Lisa" _John Kendrick Bangs_ 95 Money _Jehan du Pontalais_ 323 More Impressions _Oscuro Wildgoose_ 509 More Walks _Richard Harris Barham_ (_Thomas Ingoldsby_) 950 Mr. Finney's Turnip _Unknown_ 847 Mrs. Smith _Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 155 Musical Ass, The _Tomaso de Yriarte_ 249 My Angeline _Harry B. Smith_ 158 My Aunt's Spectre _Mortimer Collins_ 600 My Dream _Unknown_ 853 My Feet _Gelett Burgess_ 855 My Foe _Unknown_ 529 My Love and My Heart _Henry S. Leigh_ 204 My Madeline _Walter Parke_ 773 My Mistress's Boots _Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 153 N Naughty Darkey Boy, The _Unknown_ 927 Nemesis _J.

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He never could have imagined that a baiting like this, over a matter with which he had nothing to do, could have made him feel such a fool, and such an ass.

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"I just want to tell you," said the Beauty, leaning a little forward, "that you are a silly old ass.

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"I want to tell you--you are an old ass."

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"I want to tell you--you are an old ass."

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Ass!

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Blunders said he had called you an ass and that you were.

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I'm not one of those who think the Law is an ass, no, there's a great deal of common sense in the Law of England.

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Who'd be such an ass?"

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She was glad that she was riding a humble ass.

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Mike's dotty on Akhnaton--his religion's all right, but as a king he was an ass."

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Miss Mackenzie attempted some slight manœuvre to induce Mr Rubb to go direct to Miss Todd's house; but he was not such an ass as that; he knew his advantage, and kept it, insisting on his privilege of coming there, to Miss Mackenzie's room, and escorting her.

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She did not declare to herself that she would have nothing more to do with him, because he was an ass; but she almost did come to this conclusion, lest he should make her appear to be an ass also.

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Among animals, the mule, which is the produce of the male ass and the mare, is essentially a modified ass having the general configuration of its sire, but the rounded trunk and larger size of its dam.

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On the other hand, the hinny, which is the offspring of the stallion and the she-ass, is essentially a modified horse, having the general configuration of the horse, but being a much smaller animal than its sire, and therefore approaching the dam in size as well as in the comparative narrowness of its trunk.

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Brotteaux chose the speech of the patron saint of France in the first canto of the _Pucelle_: "Je suis Denis et saint de mon métier, J'aime la Gaule,..."[2] The _citoyen_ Blaise, though a far less well-read man, replied without hesitation with Richemond's ripost: "Monsieur le Saint, ce n'était pas la peine D'abandonner le céleste domaine...."[3] At that time everybody was reading and re-reading with delight the masterpiece of the French Ariosto; the most serious of men smiled over the loves of Jeanne and Dunois, the adventures of Agnès and Monrose and the exploits of the winged ass.

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Balaam's ass was nothing to it."

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They tell me you have even carried enough honey with you to sweeten the sour Messer Angelo; for he has pronounced you less of an ass than might have been expected, considering there is such a good understanding between you and the Secretary."

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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

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Suddenly a man in foreign garments, wonderfully real and distinct to look at, stood outside the window, with an axe stuck in his belt, and leading by the bridle an ass laden with wood.

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The brisk fire of questioning to which he was exposed elicited from him that he was thinking of an animal, a live animal, rather a disagreeable animal, a savage animal, an animal that growled and grunted sometimes, and talked sometimes and lived in London, and walked about the streets, and wasn't made a show of, and wasn't led by anybody, and didn't live in a menagerie, and was never killed in a market, and was not a horse, or an ass, or a cow, or a bull, or a tiger, or a dog, or a pig, or a cat, or a bear.

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The Story of Cupid and Psyche.= From "The Golden Ass," ADLINGTON'S Translation.

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"He saw a cross fellow beating an ass Laden with pots, pans, dishes, and glass; Tom took out his pipe and played a tune, And the jackass's load was lightened full soon."

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Poor Thady is such an ass.

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What an ass he is!

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Here's that ass Doyle coming at us again."

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de fust t'ing dey gwine ass you when you come at Gran' Point'--'Is Mistoo Wallis biggin to grind?'

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I can tell you the best time of every celebrated trotter in this country; the quickest trip a steamer ever made between Queenstown and New York, New York and Queenstown, New Orleans and New York; the greatest speed ever made on a railroad or by a yacht, pedestrian, carrier-pigeon, or defaulting cashier; the rate of postage to every foreign country; the excess of women over men in every State of the Union so afflicted--or blessed, according to how you look at it; the number of volumes in each of the world's ten largest libraries; the salary of every officer of the United-States Government; the average duration of life in a man, elephant, lion, horse, anaconda, tortoise, camel, rabbit, ass, etcetera-etcetera; the age of every crowned head in Europe; each State's legal and commercial rate of interest; and how long it takes a healthy boy to digest apples, baked beans, cabbage, dates, eggs, fish, green corn, h, i, j, k, l-m-n-o-p, quinces, rice, shrimps, tripe, veal, yams, and any thing you can cook commencing with z.

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Mr. Tarbox had a right to his opinion and taste, if taste it could be called, and Claude was helpless to resent it, even in words; but for hours afterward he execrated his offender's stupidity, little guessing that Mr. Tarbox, in a neighboring chamber, alone and in his night-robe, was bending, smiting his thigh in silent merriment, and whispering to himself: "He thinks I'm an ass!

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He thinks I'm an ass!

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An' he ass me is I want to wuck fo' him, an' I see he needin' he'p, an' so I tu'n in an' he'p him.

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"Why you don't ass ag'in?" responded the younger man, reaching over to the meat-dish and rubbing his bread in the last of the gravy.

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The fellow's an ass!" was Father Warner's decision.

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"What an ass he must be, never to guess the truth!"

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"Well, if ever I did see a lame, wall-eyed, broken-kneed old pack-ass, he was called Abraham the son of Ursel!"

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Here is a piece of the hoof of the holy ass on which our Lord rode.

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"What an absolute ass he is!

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Stuart pressed her hand, and said gently: "I'm awfully sorry if I've made such an ass of myself that you have received this impression."

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There was in especial a famous 'lion comique'--the Great Dunse, or the Jolly Ass, or some such creature--about whom Mr. Tom was much exercised; and Frank King professed himself quite interested in hearing about this person.

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Jack Hanbury can only be described in the words of the American poet: he is a commodious ass.'

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I don't see why we should pay, simply because Jack Hanbury went and made an ass of himself.'

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The most searching "Supplementary" rarely receives any recognition save a stony glare through his inseparable eye-glass, as who should say, "How can So-and-so be such an ass as to expect an answer to his silly question?"

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He, who called himself brother Ass, was a charming and poor creature, so modest, and so ignorant, that he was turned away wherever he went.

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That offense against French fundamental principles invariably put him to sleep--whether the bore who button-holed him was a savant of the Sorbonne or just an ordinary ass.

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An Ass in The Lion's skin arrayed Made everybody fear.

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A Miller and Son once set out for the fair, To sell a fine ass they had brought up with care; And the way that they started made everyone stare.

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"Can you guess who the greatest Ass is of those three?"

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I'm an Ass!

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To which it responds, "Esel," which, in English, means an ass.

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And I go and dine with them, and he tells me how jolly comfortable she makes him, and what an ass I am not to marry; and she presses on me a second helping of _poulet Maryland_, and I smoke one of Reardon's cigars, and at half-past ten I get into my overcoat, and walk back alone to my rooms...."

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Have we got a cavalier with such trouble and shall we turn him into a beast of burden, a--how do you say it?--a baggage ass?

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The good Hannah became a baggage animal, but she was not an ass.

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"You don't mean to say," he said, "that you were such a d----d ass as to send Madame sham stones?"

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"Silly ass," said Gorman.

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The poor man will look an awful ass, and feel it.

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