The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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"It lies," observes the Bastard, "It lies as sightly on the back of him (_Austria_) As great Alcides' (_robe_) shows upon an ass:-- But, ass, I'll take that burden from your back," &c. Were it not that _doth_ is the usual word in this play, I might be tempted to read _does_.

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Suppose an ass to stand facing the observer; a boy astride him, with a big drum placed before him.

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is 1 _bacellus cum armamentis_, one ass (or pack-horse) with its furniture.

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B. visited Valle Crucis Abbey on the back of Mr. Williams' ass, and is well satisfied.

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of Longman's _Traveller's Library_, and is a fit companion to the _Confessions of a Working Man_, by the same author, Emile Souvestre, published in the same series a few months since.--_Apuleius: Metamorphoses, or Golden Ass, and other Works._ A new translation, to which are added a metrical version of Cupid and Psyche, and Mrs. Tighe's Psyche, is the new volume of Bohn's _Classical Library_.--_Handbook to the Library of the British Museum, &c._, by Richard Sims.

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With such a face as that, she would have been treated, without form of trial, to a ride on an ass, dressed in a _san-benito_ and a sulphur shirt.

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Tom, you dunderhead--what do you mean by making an ass of yourself this way?

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'Don't be an ass,' I answered.

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Who is there that will set up a golden ass that we may fall down and worship?

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You are an ignoramus, an unlearned man, ignorant of all good rules; an ass, in plain English.

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Devil take the ignorant ass!

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Cyril Smith, a young clergyman, "an honest man and not an ass."

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The stage directions tell us that "in the present state of the peerage it is necessary to explain that the Duke, though an ass, is a gentleman."

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"Ah!" he said, "I'm a man, but that's an ass."

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"I am one," replied he, "and am ready to rub down _an ass_."

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(M152) Meanwhile, it happened that there was a grievous famine in Samaria, so that an ass's head sold for eighty pieces of silver.

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He appears as a great warrior, leading captives, and storming cities, and also in the chase, piercing the lion, and pursuing the wild ass.

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"Now, don't you make yourself a consumed ass," he said.

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S. ELIZABETH'S LEPER VOX CLAMANTIS FLORA'S BIT RED BREAST OUR HEARTS FOR YOU THE BURDENED ASS WINNERS OR LOSERS?

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THE BURDENED ASS (AN ALLEGORY) One day, as I travelled the highway alone, I heard, on in front, a most dolorous groan; And there, round the corner, a weary old ass Was nuzzling the hedge for a mouthful of grass.

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It is really too much for an old ass's back."

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(A strangely ingenuous old ass, you perceive, Whom any shrewd rascal could easily deceive.)

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But there,--I'm perhaps wrong again, Such matters are outside an old ass's ken.

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Much surprised,--the old ass, thus set free from his load, Picked out a soft spot in the nice dusty road, And laid him down on it and rolled in high glee, And, as he kicked this way and that, said to me,-- "Say, Man, I have never enjoyed such a roll Since the day I was born, a silly young foal.

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Seems to me, if I'd had half the sense of an ass, I'd have long since got rid of that troublesome mass.

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this world doth pass Most merrily, I'll be sworn; For many an honest Indian ass Goes for an Unicorn.

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* * * * * The _lively device_ upon Mrs. Clarke's seal, which tickled the fancy of the _gallant_ Colonel Mac Mahon, was a _worn out Jack Ass_, mounted by a Cupid, prodding the sides of the animal with an arrow, and the following motto, _Tels sont mes sujets_--"Such are my subjects."

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In folly, it causes him to resemble a calf--in stupidity, an ass--in roaring, a mad bull--in quarrelling and fighting, a dog--in cruelty, a tiger--in fetor, a skunk--in filthiness, a hog--and in obscenity, a he-goat.

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If you would wish to blunt your senses, be a Drunkard; and you will soon be more stupid than an ass.

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While on earth, the victim of intemperance is as stupid as an ass, as ferocious as a tiger, as savage as a bear, as poisonous as the asp, as filthy as the swine, as fetid as a goat, and as malignant as a fiend.

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Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net _HORÆ SUBSECIVÆ._ "_A lady, resident in Devonshire, going into one of her parlors, discovered a young ass, who had found his way into the room, and carefully closed the door upon himself.

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The book is at first sight one farrago of oddities and offences-coarse foreign paper-bad printing-italics broad-cast over every page-the words run into each other in a way we are glad to say is as yet quite original, making such extraordinary monsters of words as these-beingsriddle-sunbeammotes-gooddeed-midjune- summerair-selffavor-seraphechoes-puredeedprompter-barkskeel, &c. Now we like Anglo-Saxon and the polygamous German,[49] but we like better the well of English undefiled-a well, by the by, much oftener spoken of than drawn from; but to fashion such words as these words are, is as monstrous as for a painter to _compose_ an animal not out of the elements, but out of the entire bodies of several, of an ass, for instance, a cock and a crocodile, so as to produce an outrageous individual, with whom even a duck-billed Platypus would think twice before he fraternized-ornithorynchous and paradoxical though he be, poor fellow.

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The story is the well-known one of Psyche and Cupid, told at such length, and with so much beauty and pathos and picturesqueness by Apuleius, in his "Golden Ass."

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Ambrose Wild sage Arse-smart Water pepper Ass-ear Comfrey Ass's foot Coltsfoot Aaron's board Spirea Bairn-wort Daisy Ball-weed Centaury Ban-wort Violet Base-rocket Burdock Beard-tree Hazel Bedlam Cowslip Oxlip Beggar's buttons Burdock Beggar's needle Shepherd's needle Bell-bloom Daffodil Benewithe Woodbine Biddy's eyes Pansy Bird's eye Germander Speedwell Blaver Corn blue-bottle Bleed wort Wild red poppy Bleeding heart Wallflower Blood wort Blood-veined dock Blow-ball Dandelion Bobbin and Joan Cuckoo-pint Bog violet Butter wort Brain berry Blackberry Bride wort Meadow sweet Bulls and Cows Cuckoo-pint Bunny mouth Snapdragon Butter and eggs Daffodil Calf's snout Scarlet Pimpernel Candlegrass Goose grass, cleavers Carnadine Carnation Catstail Horsetail Catch weed Cleavers Cheese rennet Yellow bedstraw Choke weed Corn convolvulus Ditto Dodder Christmas rose Hellebore Call me near Sweet William Corn bind Corn convolvulus Cow's Langwort Mullein Crow flower Crow's foot / Wild Ranunculus Crow's toe Crow's foot / Wild Ranunculus Cuckoo's meat Wood sorrel Cuckoo spice Wood sorrel Culver wort Columbine Death's herb Deadly nightshade Dick-a-silver Periwinkle Dog-fennel Corn chamomile Dead men's fingers Early purple orchis Eggs and bacon Bird's foot trefoil Ears wort Mouse ear Lug wort Mouse ear Five fingers Oxlip Flea dock Butter bur Flybane Catch fly Fuller's thistle Teasel Gander gorse Rag wort Gnat flower Fly orchis Goose tongue Sneeze wort Gracy-day Daffodil Hairiff Cleavers Hare's eye Wild Campion Headache Corn poppy Hell weed Corn convolvulus Hen gorse Rest harrow Holy Ghost's root Angelica Horse daisy Ox-eye-daisy Horse thyme Wild thyme Humblock Hemlock (Humelock, 13th Century) John that goes to bed at noon Pimpernel Kettle case Purple orchis Ketlock Cherlock King's finger Smaller purple orchis Lad-love-lass Southern wood Lady's cushion Thrift Lily royal Penny royal Love in idleness Pansy Louse wort Marsh red rattle Lad's love Southern wood Maiden's love Southern wood Medwort Meadow sweet Muckweed Goose foot Maiden hair Quake grass Nap at noon Purple goat's beard Navel wort Cotyledon umbelicus Neck weed Hemp Ox tongue Bug loss Penny weed Yellow rattle Pick-pocket Shepherd's purse Pincushion Sweet Scabious Pixy stool Toad stool Poor man's pepper Stone crop Poverty weed Purple cow-wheat Pudding grass Penny royal Red shanks Water pepper Rattle penny Yellow rattle Rust burn Rest harrow Sallow Willow Shepherd's rod Teasel Shoes and Stockings Lady's slipper Stike-pile Stork's bill Toad pipes Horsetail Turk's cap Monk's hood Wall pepper Sedum acre Water grass Water cress Withywind Convolvulus Wood sour Wood sorrel Yellow bottle Corn marygold APPENDIX II.

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With the exception of such books as "The Wild Ass's Skin" and the "Alkahest" and "Seraphita," the bulk of his work has a sort of continuous interest which one would expect in a single tremendous prose epic dealing with the France of his age.

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"I wouldn't have made an ass of myself if you had been," said Norah, shaking back her curls and mopping her eyes defiantly.

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" He adds, "Mr. Davis would say that 'Pip' was a 'diakka,' and to-morrow he will communicate as George Washington, Theodore Parker, or Balaam's ass.

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'At mathematics, on the other hand, he was a perfect ass.

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'My dear old Dick, don't be such an ass.

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'Don't make such an ass of yourself,' cried Alec, shortly.

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Nobody looked at it, except the old Ass which drew the milk-maid's cart.

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This Ass used to stretch out his neck towards the Thistle, and say, "You are beautiful; I should like to eat you!"

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The old Ass of the milk-cart stood at the edge of the field-road, and glanced across at the blooming thistle bush; but his halter was too short, and he could not reach it.

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But I had also guessed where he lived, by the dirt on him, and was ass enough to carry him home to the squalid, half-French, half-Indian village the Caraquet people called Skunk's Misery.

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"Why, here's some more," I exclaimed like an ass, glaring at the envelope's inside back.

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"I don't mean about those two boys, for I bet they're no more dead than I am, and it would be just like them to lie low and set up a smothered strike among the men as soon as you were ass enough to be taken in by some stray bones!

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Of course I have Thompson's cards; I can't help it if you think I'm an ass.

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"No," I said furiously and then saw I was an ass, "I mean, not now!"

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"You ass, Collins, with Macartney ignorant of the real way in on us, and he and his gang digging open Thompson's tunnel against the daylight, with you and me and Dunn in the dark on that shelf in Thompson's stope we came in here by, we'd have the drop on the lot.

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That old ass Thompson gave me that, when I scooped him up on the road.

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A preposterous ass named Perkins--at least, Mr. Leary mentally indexed Perkins as a preposterous ass--had brought Miss Hollister to the party, but thereafter in the scheme of things Perkins did not count.

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This had the desired effect, and although it meant "_stuben_ arrest" for several fellows, the officer soon realised what an ass he was making of himself and became almost normal, with the result that things went smoothly for a while.

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"Don't be an ass!" entreated Peter.

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The only guides they will listen to are frauds obvious enough to make an ass lay back his ears.

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And so much is it a recognised trade that they have their properties, as it were: one old man whose legs had been shot away, trotted through the narrow streets of Seville on a diminutive ass, driving it into the shop-doors to demand his mite.

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A distressing ass, weeping, blubbering.

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Insufferable ass!

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"'You are an inconsistent ass,' I say.

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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 straightway pull him out on the Sabbath day; and they could not answer him again.'

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If he goes and plays the fool, it may spoil his career--the young ass!

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Why write it down, to show what an ass you've been?

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No, tell her a fine Story of Love and Liking, gaze on her, kiss her Hands, and sigh, commend her Face and Shape, swear she's the Miracle of the Age for Wit, cry up her Learning, vow you were an Ass not to be sensible of her Perfections all this while; what a Coxcomb, to doat upon the Daughter when such Charms were so visible in the Mother?

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L. _Fan._ _Wittmore_, I have now brought that design to a happy Conclusion, for which I married this formal Ass; I'll tell thee more anon,--we are observ'd.

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Sir _Pat._ Methinks I find an Inclination to swear,--to curse my self and thee, that I cou'd no better discern thee; nay, I'm so chang'd from what I was, that I think I cou'd even approve of Monarchy and Church-Discipline, I'm so truly convinc'd I have been a Beast and an Ass all my Life.

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_Ran._ Pox on't, no; why should I sigh and whine, and make my self an Ass, and him conceited?

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I see now what an ass I was not to wait and let you choose for yourself; these æsthetic things are not in my line.

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She insulted him, called him a blighter, a silly ass, a mass of affectation.

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* * * * * On the whole, to be just, that pompous ass, as he called him, Percy Kellynch, had really behaved very well.

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"Of course I'm a colossal ass, and half the fun is knowing that I am."

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What an ass I am!

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With the burial of an ass shall they bury him, 19 Dragged and flung out- Out from the gates of Jerusalem.

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The northern executioners of the Divine Judgment upon Judah were not the Scythians as he at first expected; and-a smaller matter-Jehoiakim was not _buried with the burial of an ass, dragged and flung out from the gates of Jerusalem_, but _slept with his fathers_.

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(687) Nothing satisfied his contempt for Jehoiakim, but that dying the king should be buried with the burial of an ass.

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"You infernal ass!" hissed the Colonel, and waddled off to dress for dinner.

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If he _must_ be an ass, let him be an original ass--not a cur."

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Don't be an ass, sir!

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Don't even look like an ass, sir!

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I was an ass; I had theories, too.

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"Don't be an ass, Mathers.

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Whether his fun was appreciated I doubt, for he confided to me that Mr. Scatcherd, senior, was a pompous and stuck-up old ass.

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"_Karba-a-ass!_" The Tartar awoke and went to fetch his mates to row over to the other side.

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"Do try to understand, you idiot, and get it into your brainless head, that in addition to physical strength you have a divine spirit; a sacred fire, by which you are distinguished from an ass or a reptile and bringing you nigh to God.

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It was he that had brought her to Court, upon an ass, at Greenwich, when her mule--as all men knew--had stumbled upon the threshold.

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Somebody or other--presumably some ass of a practical joker, he figured, or possibly a person with a grudge against him who had curious methods of taking vengeance--had lured him into taking a hot, dusty, tiresome and entirely useless trip.

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Fur do not de Scriptures say dey's room fur both man an' beast?--de maid servant an' de man servant, de ox an' de ass, dey all may enter in?

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There's not an ass in all the parish But he knows my John.

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For which he paid full dear; 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 gallop'd off with all his might, As he had done before.

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He caught their manners, looks, and airs; An ass in everything but ears!

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"A pretty girl like Eileen need not go wasting her charms on a young ass who doesn't know his own mind."

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'It wull represent Palm Sunday--the entry of our Lord intil the Holy Ceety--_ridin' in on an ass_.'

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There is no more singular example of the proverb, "Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong sweetness," which has been happily applied to Victor Hugo, than the composition, by the rugged author of _Sejanus_ and _Catiline_, of _The Devil is an Ass_ and _Bartholomew Fair_, of such things as "Here lies to each her parents ruth;" or the magnificent song, "Drink to me only with thine eyes;" or the crown and flower of all epitaphs, "Underneath this sable herse.

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_The Devil is an Ass_ comes next in time, and though no single character is the equal of Zeal-of-the-land Busy in _Bartholomew Fair_, the play is even more amusing.

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"Who would curry an ass with an ivory comb?

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"It isn't pleasant to relate how one has been such an addle-pated ass----" "Then, forgive me.--I didn't mean to----" "Nonsense!

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"Some silly ass who has dubbed me 'the Dana Gibson of the trenches'!

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"You are a little ass," she told herself bitterly; "a silly little donkey!

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