The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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"'Idiot and Ass!" said the other five members.

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"'Idiot and Ass, gentlemen,' I remonstrated, looking around me, 'are strong expressions to apply to a young man of good appearance and address.'

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Scott made a most amazing ass of himself yesterday.

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Think when He was born, they laid Him in a crib before an ox and an ass, other cradle had He none.

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Sure, he'd drink the cross off an ass's back, so he would!"

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In his modesty he now regarded that he had made an awful ass of himself the day before.

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"Don't try to be an ass, Carter," said one.

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"Oh, I'se warrant Cunning Johnny would get the better of an ass like Gourlay.

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In you go to the meeting that oald ass of a Provost has convened, and don't show your face in Templandmuir till you have had it out with Gourlay!"

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"Oh, he's an ass!" said Gourlay.

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Man, it's easy to bamboozle an ass like Gourlay!

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It must be a terrible thing when a man has a splurging ass for his son, that never got a prize!"

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MacCandlish tells me you're a stupid ass, but have some little gift of words.

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"Ay, man, dominie, he's an infernal ass, is he noat?" they cried, and pressed for his judgment.

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Hoochan-doe's a yelling ass, and he threatened Bauldy--oh, he would do this, and he would do that, and he would do the other thing.

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Let him punish all or none, for they had all been kicking up a row--why, big Cunningham had been braying like an ass only a minute before.

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"You've made a mess of the thing and an ass of yourself, Billy," was Gordon's comprehensive if not consolatory summary of the matter, "and as Canker has been rapped for one thing or another by camp, division and brigade commanders, one _after_ another, he feels that he's got to prove that he isn't the only fool in the business.

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"Good Lawd, youngster--you--you aren't quite such an ass as to suppose a court is going to regard any schoolboy obligation as paramount to that which your oath of office demands.

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Do you suppose I could have been--been such an ass if _she_ would have had me?

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"I'm afraid I was a bit of an ass at one time," Mr. Walkingshaw confessed.

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2 [21:1]And when they approached Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, [21:2]and said to them, Go into the village opposite to you, and you will immediately find an ass tied, and a colt with her; untie them, and lead them to me: [21:3]and if any one asks you why, say that the Lord has need of them, and he will immediately send them.

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[21:4] But all this was done that the words spoken by the prophet might be fulfilled, who says; [21:5]Tell the daughter of Zion, Behold, your king comes to you, meek, seated on an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.

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[12:14]And Jesus finding a young ass sat on it, as it is written; [12:15]Fear not, Daughter of Zion; behold, your King comes sitting on the colt of an ass.

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The Tories gently blamed the new King's parsimony: the Whigs sneered at his want of natural affection; and the fiery Covenanters of Scotland exultingly proclaimed that the curse denounced of old against wicked princes had been signally fulfilled, and that the departed tyrant had been buried with the burial of an ass.

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He tells us that the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of London had a boxing match in the Abbey; that the champion rode up the Hall on an ass, which turned restive and kicked over the royal table with all the plate; and that the banquet ended in a fight between the peers armed with stools and benches, and the cooks armed with spits.

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It has more than once happened to me to see minds, graceful and majestic as the Titania of Shakspeare, bewitched by the charms of an ass's head, bestowing on it the fondest caresses, and crowning it with the sweetest flowers.

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Now it was here, he felt he was making an ass of himself, and that Little was grinning at him for his clumsy behavior.

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Rowland Hill and his Horse 261 Holcroft on the Horse 263 Lord Mansfield, his Joke about a Horse 267 Sir John Moore and his Horse at Corunna 268 Neither Horses nor Children can explain their Complaints 269 Horses with Names 270 Rennie the Engineer and the Horse Old Jack 270 Sydney Smith and his Horses 271 Sydney Smith.--He drugs his Domestic Animals 273 Horseback, an Absent Clergyman 273 Judge Story and the Names he gave his Horses 274 Short-tailed and Long-tailed Horses at Livery, difference of Charge 275 ASS AND ZEBRA 276 Coleridge on the Ass 276 Collins and the old Donkey at Odell 276 Gainsborough kept one to Study from 277 Irishman on the Ramsgate Donkeys 278 Douglas Jerrold and the Ass's Foal 278 The Judge and the Barrister 279 Ass that loved Poetry 279 Warren Hastings and the refractory Donkey 279 Northcote, an Angel at an Ass 281 Sydney Smith's Donkey with Jeffrey on his back 281 Sydney Smith on the Sagacity of the Ass 283 Sydney Smith's Deers, how he introduced them into his Grounds to gratify Visitors 284 Asses' Duty Free 284 Thackeray on Egyptian Donkey 285 Zebra, a Frenchman's _double-entendre_ 287 CAMELS 287 Captain William Peel, R.N., on Camel 287 Captain in Royal Navy measures the progress of the Ship of the Desert 289 Lord Metcalfe on a Camel when a Boy 290 RED DEER 291 Earl of Dalhousie and the ferocious Stag 291 The French Count and the Stag 293 FALLOW DEER 294 Venison Fat, Reynolds and the Gourmand 294 Goethe on Stag-trench at Frankfort-on-Maine 294 GIRAFFE 295 "Fancy Two Yards of Sore Throat!"

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She had a bag made, which was always filled with oats, to regale any stray horse or ass; and she has been seen surrounded by four goats, each standing on its hind legs, with its uplifted front feet resting on her, and all eagerly claiming the salt she had prepared for them.

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On one occasion, when asked by a medical friend, who was commenting on his invariably good health, what physician and apothecary he employed, he replied, "My physician has always been a _horse_, and my apothecary an _ass_!

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Besides I am made an ass of.

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ASS AND ZEBRA.

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Coleridge was conscious of this when, in writing his address to a young ass's foal,[239] he exclaimed-- "I hail thee, brother, spite of the fool's scorn."

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The wild ass, as it roams over the plains of Asia, or is seen in the Zoological gardens along with the gracefully-shaped and prettily-striped zebra, must be admired by every one.

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GAINSBOROUGH KEPT AN ASS.

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I have heard also that a plaster cast of an ass, modelled by him, is sold in the shops in London.

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ASS'S FOAL.

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In the course of their walk they stopped to notice the gambols of an ass's foal.

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'"[243] ASS.

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A judge, joking a young barrister, said--"If you and I were turned into a horse and an ass, which would you prefer to be?"

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"I've heard of an ass being made a judge, but a horse never.

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"[244] Ammonianus, the grammarian, had an ass which, as it is said, when he attended the lectures upon poetry, often neglected his food when laid before him, though at the same time he was hungry, so much was the ass taken with the love of poetry.

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It happened once upon a time, when Mr Impey was, with some other boys, on a visit at Daylesford, that Mr Hastings, returning from a ride, saw his young friends striving in vain to manage an ass which they had found grazing in the paddock, and which one after another they chose to mount.

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NORTHCOTE, THE ROYAL ACADEMICIAN, AN ANGEL AT AN ASS.

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When his picture of 'Balaam and the Ass' was exhibited at the Macklin Gallery, Northcote asked Fuseli's opinion of its merits, who instantly said, 'My friend, you are an angel at an ass, but an ass at an angel.'"

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Ass, Sydney Smith on sagacity of, 283.

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Ass and zebra, 276.

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Ass's foal, 278.

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Gainsborough and Fowler the tailor, 2, 3; his wife and their dogs, 100, 101; pigs, countryman on, 252; kept an ass, 277.

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But the silly old ass won't go near her since he lost his foot."

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"Dry up, Pills, you ass," cried the Torpedo Lieutenant, laughing.

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"Silly ass!" from the First Lieutenant.

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Farmer Williams, R. Alan, 1890 8th Ave., Maion JAPAN Deming, Olcott, U. S. Embassy, Tokyo Yoshizaki, Chiaki, International Collaboration of Farmers Ass'n., 17 Ichi Bancho Chiyodaku, Tokyo KANSAS Baker, Fred C., Troy.

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Meantime I am not quite sure that the worthy Parisian is not an ass, and the amiable German another, for thus meekly resigning himself to the tyranny of his accidental situation.

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Because I wanted to show her that her great love is not wasted on an empty-pated ass."

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"What a little ass you are," said Miles crossly, "to make all that row before the men."

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This might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'erreaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?"

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M's, 4, Miss Sarah Caughey, 1; San Francisco, West, Chinese M., 1.45; San Francisco Branch Ass'n, one year, M. O., 15; Santa Barbara, Chinese M., 6.45, Christmas Gift, 2.50; Santa Cruz, Chinese M. O., 6.10; Santa Cruz, Japanese M.O., 7.25; Ventura, Chinese M. O., 75c.

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Honeoye, Y. L. M. S., 8; C. G., 5.50; Hudson River Ass'n, Annual Meeting, 3.

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WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF N. J. ASS'N, by Mrs. J. H. Denison, Treas., $47.00: Germantown, First, 12.

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Iowa City, Woman's Ass'n, 8.

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Ottumwa, First, Woman's Ass'n, 3.

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New Orleans, Alumni Ass'n, 50; Miss Mary L. Rogers, 1, _for S. A., Straight U._ ----.

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R. P. M., _Ass't to Sec.

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Mohtasim's ears Are long as Barak's--if he heed-- Your prophet's ass; and when he hears, He'll come upon a spotted steed!"

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That man isn't such a silly ass as I thought he was."

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And all the time it makes you feel such a silly ass."

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"Well, you see, he'd been a bit of an ass.

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He was thinking, as Tanqueray had once thought, that Gisborne, R. A., was an ass, and that if he could have her painted he would have her painted as she looked now.

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The doctor swears it's only liver; but he's a silly ass."

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These shepherds sold us milk, and one of them offered to lend my father an ass for a knife which he had seen him take out of his pocket.

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And _I_ mean to say that I'm in your debt for showing me that I've been a vain, credulous ass.

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Thus in Ben Jonson's "The Devil is an Ass"-- "He is my wardrobe-man, my _acater_, Cook, butler, and steward."

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A bird, apt while on shore to throw its head backwards, and make a strange noise, somewhat resembling the braying of an ass.

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P. 15, ACATER, 'Devil of an Ass' amended to _The Devil is an Ass_.

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I'll not allow you to make yourself a miserable ass all for nothing.

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What an ass you are!

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"Aunt, that Mr. M'Gabbery is an ass.

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"You are an ass," said his uncle.

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"Then," said Harcourt, "you are an ass;" and as he spoke he finished the flask.

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Now had George Bertram junior not been an absolute ass, or a mole rather with no eyesight whatever for things above ground, he would have seen from this that he might not only have got back his love, but have made sure of being his uncle's heir into the bargain.

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But George was an ass, as we have said; and a mole, a blind mole; and a mule, a stiff-necked, stubborn mule.

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Why had he deceived that woman, and made an ass of himself?

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"You are a fool, an ass!

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For the traffic over the Nile is great, and for every man, woman, and child, for every horse and every ass, for every bundle of grass, for every cock and for every hen, a din of twenty tongues is put in motion, and a perpetual fury rages, as the fury of a hurricane.

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"Did you ever see such an ass as that Biffin?

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"You are an ass-a fool!"

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And then he cut at the rushes with his walking-stick, as he had done before; and bethought himself that in those days he had been an ass.

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"Ah!" said he; "if I cannot be one too many for such an old fogey as Herr Molk, I'll let out my brains to an ass, and take to grazing on thistles."

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(Sec'y of Ass'n.

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‘Only ’tis strange to think how that little church was re-built, re-roofed, and made glorious, thanks to some few godly Sussex iron-masters, a Bristol sailor lad, a proud ass called Hal o’ the Draft because, d’you see, he was always drawing and drafting; and’—he dragged the words slowly—‘ and a Scotch pirate.’ [pg 210] ‘Pirate?’ said Dan.

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'Toffy _is_ an ass!' said Jane affectionately.

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'Why didn't you come to Bowshott, you ass, if you are ill?' said Peter sternly.

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'You 'll go to bed, you ass!' shouted Peter.

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