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With some surprise, Miss Damer, in looking over the themes, read the following fable: "One bleak, cold winter morning, an ass and her foals were loitering upon the edge of a wild common; not a tree was to be seen, and scarcely a bit of herbage for their breakfast to be found.

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"Stop it, you _silly_ ass!" cried the Rat, from the bottom of the boat.

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Indeed, I have been a complete ass, and I know it.

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"O _stop_ being an ass, Toad!" cried the Mole despairingly.

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If there's nothing really the matter, the doctor will tell him he's an old ass, and cheer him up; and that will be something gained.

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The air of the narrow cell took a rosy tinge; he began to think of his friends, and how they would surely be able to do something; of lawyers, and how they would have enjoyed his case, and what an ass he had been not to get in a few; and lastly, he thought of his own great cleverness and resource, and all that he was capable of if he only gave his great mind to it; and the cure was almost complete.

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"O, my!" he gasped, as he panted along, "what an _ass_ I am!

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What a _conceited_ and heedless ass!

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When at last Toad had talked himself to a standstill, there was silence for a while; and then the Rat said, "Now, Toady, I don't want to give you pain, after all you've been through already; but, seriously, don't you see what an awful ass you've been making of yourself?

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Yes, I've been a conceited old ass, I can quite see that; but now I'm going to be a good Toad, and not do it any more.

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I'm a stupid ass, I am!

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"Oh, you silly ass, Mole!" cried Toad, "You've been and spoilt everything!"

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Show me the man who did not like Oxford, and I will show you either a sulky misanthrope or an affected ass.

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----"Three cat-calls be the bribe Of him whose chatt'ring shames the monkey tribe: And his this drum, whose hoarse heroic base Drowns the loud clarion of the braying ass."

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A proof that the animals have only dim notions of things is that a thirsty ass coming to the river will fly from his own shadow in the water, though he needs the latter for preserving his life, whereas he will not hesitate to approach a lion, who will devour him.

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Horse is different from ass in quality.

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145, 9), and, "Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together" (Deut.

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He felt a bit of an ass.

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I feel an ass to think I could ever have doubted it."

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If not I will transform you into an ass, and heavy loads shall be piled on your back, and men shall ride you.

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Truly, he was an ass; and a very ugly one, too!

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In the same way can be carried on the congress of a dog, the congress of a goat, the congress of a deer, the forcible mounting of an ass, the congress of a cat, the jump of a tiger, the pressing of an elephant, the rubbing of a boar, and the mounting of a horse.

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You won't throw me over and make me look and feel an ass, will you, if you should happen to meet someone you think you like better than me?

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She has played jokes on me more than once before and made me feel rather an ass."

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He slid the decanter across the table invitingly, and Tony helped himself to a drink, still imagining that Don Carlos was jesting, and deciding that Myra had again made him feel "rather an ass."

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Doubtless from your point of view I'm a visionary ass.

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"I--realize I'm an ass, Darley," he began, hesitantly, "and that this sort of thing is melodramatically cheap."

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It's--Pardon an ass and go to bed, old man."

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I'm not an absolute ass.

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Not that I've been ass enough to say anything after the first time.

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An idealist was a blind ass--look at Perry!

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_Smarra_--which made a great impression on its contemporaries and had a strong influence on the Romantic movement generally--is a fantasia of nightmare based on the beginning of _The Golden Ass_, with, again, a sort of prologue and epilogue of modern love.

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A Tory critic who cannot admire Shelley or Swinburne, Dickens or Thackeray, because of their politics, is merely an ass, an animal unfortunately to be found in the stables or paddocks of every party.

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A weaker genius would have attached to the skin of that terrible wild ass--gloomier, but more formidable than even the beast in Job[168]--some attendant evil spirit, genie, or "person" of some sort.

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de (Delphine Gay, 1805-1855), 312 _note_ Gissing, 30 Gladstone, Mr., 434 _Glu, La_, 554 _Goddam!_, 45 _note_ Godwin, 182 Goethe, 24, 25, 154 _Golden Ass, The_, 88 Goncourts, the--Edmond (1822-1896), 169, 206, 362, 399, 411, 423 ---- Jules (1830-1870), 452, 460-466, 487 _Grand Cyrus, Le_, 111 _Grande Bretèche, La_, 162, 163, 173 _Grande Marnière, La_, 535 _sq._ _Grangette_, 383 Gray, 567 Gregory, Mr. George, 70 _note_ Guérin, Eugénie de, 283 Guizot, 345 _Gustave ou Le Mauvais Sujet_, 44-48 _Guy Mannering_, 152 _note_ _Guzla, La_, 250 "Gyp", 437, 554 Halsbury, Lord, 434 Hamilton, A., v, xix, 134, 209 _Hamlet_, 15, 26, 157, 235 _Han d'Islande_, 97-100 Harrisse, M. H., xviii Haydon, 233 _note_ Hazlitt, 135 _note_, 210 _Headless Horseman, The_, 397 Hearn, Mr. L., 210 _note_, 222 Heine, 19 _note_, 411, 497 Hélisenne de Crenne, 178 _note_, 487 Henley, Mr., 319 _note_, 324, 328 _note_, 330 _note_ _Hereward the Wake_, 391 _Hernani_, 105 _note_ _Herodias_, 408 Herodotus, 121 Herrick, 210 _Histoire des Treize_, 166, 167 _Histoire du Lieutenant Valentin_, 456 _Histoire d'une Puce Enragée_, 270, 277 _Histoire sans Nom, Une_, 455 Hitchcock, Miss Elsie, xii _Hiver à Majorque, Un_, 177 _note_ and _sq._ Hoffmann, 81 and 82 _note_, 230 Homer, 27, 32, 33 _note_, 268 _note_, 340 _note_ _Honneur d'Artiste_, 420 _sq._ Hook, Theodore, 44 _note_, 56, 353 Horace, 404, 425 _Horla, Le_ (and other terror-stories of Maupassant's), 503 _note_, 508, 509 Houghton, Lord, 255 _note_ Hugo, Victor Marie (1802-1885), vi, x, 19, 40, 96-133, 147 _note_, 167, 173, 182, 188, 208, 227, 256 _note_, 262, 266, 277, 343, 348, 351, 356, 386, 450, 459 _note_, 467, 472, 497, 556, 557, 564, 569 Hunt, Leigh, 43 Huysmans, Joris Karl (1848-1907), 452, 453 _note_, 485, 515, 516, 556 _Hypatia_, 31 _Hyperion_ (Keats's), 169 _Idées et Sensations_, 461 _Ilka_, 387-388 _Il Viccolo di Madama Lucrezia_, 243-244 _Indiana_, 177 _note_ and _sq._ _Inès de las Sierras_, 81 _sq._, 246, 339 Irving, Washington, 317 _Isabel de Bavière_, 328 _It is Never too Late to Mend_, 102 _Ivanhoe_, 124 _note_, 353 _Jack_, 423 _sq._ Jacob, P. L., 231 _note_ _Jacquerie, La_, 249, 250 _Jacques le Fataliste_, 236, 526 _note_ James, G. P. R., 201, 321, 351 ---- Mr. H., 399, 493 _note_ Janin, Jules Gabriel (1804-1874), 73, 231 _note_, 369, 370 _note_, 453 _Japhet in Search of a Father_, 61 _note_ _Jean_, 51-54 _Jean Sbogar_, 95 _note_ Jeffrey, 566 _Jérôme Paturot_, 306-312, 499 _Jésus Christ en Flandre_, 162 _Jettatura_, 226 _Jeune-France, Les_, 227 _sq._, 243, 307, 441 Johnson, Dr., xix, 17, 65, 370, 383 _note_, 513 _Jonathan Wild_, 403 Jonson, Ben, 121, 409 _note_ _Journal des Goncourt, Le_, 461, 462, 465 _Juif Errant, Le_, 296 _Julia de Trécoeur_, 381 _note_, 418 _sq._ _Julie_, 225 Juvenal, 404 Karr, Alphonse (1808-1890), 281, 316, 317, 326 Keats, 184, 233 _note_ _Kenilworth_, 124 _note_, 353 Ker, Professor, xii, 15 _note_ Kingsley, Charles, 31, 111, 123, 351, 520 Kipling, Mr., 3, 70 _note_, 489 Kock, Paul de (Charles P., 1794-1871), vi, x, 9, 40-63, 69, 74 _note_, 80, 95 _note_, 158, 188, 302, 305, 308, 349, 357, 569 _L'Abbé Aubain_, 242 _L'Abbé Tigrane_, 279, 519 _sq._ _L'Abbesse de Castro_, 140 Laclos, 6, 231, 302, 359, 360, 426, 487 Lacordaire, 283 _L'Affaire Lerouge_, 439, 440 _La Femme de Feu_, 516 _La Femme, le Mari et l'Amant_, 54-56 _La Fille aux Trois Jupons_, 60 La Fontaine, 227 _note_ La Harpe, 38 _Là-Haut_, 547 _sq._ _Lalla Rookh_, 31 Lamartine, 25, 283 Lamb, Charles, 82, 256, 341, 348 _note_ Lamennais, 34, 188, 205, 283, 467 La Mettrie, 190 _Lamiel_, 147, 148 Landor, 258 _L'Âne Mort et la Femme Guillotinée_, 370 _note_, 153 Lang, Mr. A., 210 _note_, 256, 292, 324, 437 _La Religieuse_, 516 La Rochefoucauld, 426 _L'Artiste et le Soldat_, 72 _Last Days of Pompeii, The_, 31 Latouche, Henri de (really Hyacinthe Joseph Alexandre Thabaud de L. (1785-1851)), 154 and _note_ _L'Attaque du Moulin_, 473, 485 _Launfal_, xiii _Laure Ruthwen_, 95 _note_ _L'Eau Courante_, 551 Le Breton, M., 168 Leconte de Lisle, 262 _note_, 488 _note_ _L'Écueil_, 294 _L'Éducation Sentimentale_, 403 _sq._, 558 Leech, 499 _Légende des Siècles, La_, 110 _Légende du Mont Saint-Michel_, 502 _Lélia_, 179 _sq._, 577 Lemaître, M. Jules, 15 _note_ Le Moyne, le Père, 262 note _L'Enfant de sa Femme_, 462 _L'Ensorcelée_, 450 _sq._ Leopardi, 273 _L'Épave_, 501 Lesage, 301, 346, 362, 471 "Les Quatre Évangiles," Zola's, 474, 477-480 "Les Trois Villes," Zola's, 474, 477 _Lettres de Mon Moulin_, 423 _sq._ _L'Évangéliste_, 411, 426 Lewis, "Monk," 251 _L'Homme aux Trois Culottes_, 60 _L'Homme Qui Rit_, 122-127, 131, 348, 472 _L'Hôtellerie Sanglante_, 303 _Liaisons Dangereuses, Les_, 143 and _note_, 487 _Liber Amoris_, 135 _note_ _Life in London_, 44 _L'Immortel_, 424 _sq._ _Lion Amoureux, Le_, 300 _note_ _Lionne, La_, 300 _note_ _L'Irréparable_, 554 Locker, Mr., 488 Lockhart, 30 _Loge à Camille, Une_, 384 _Lokis_, 245-246 Lokman, 83-86 _Lolotte et Fanfan_, 40, 70 Longfellow, 527 _note_ "Loti, Pierre," 554 _Louis Lambert_, 166, 174 _Louves de Machecoul, Les_, 328 _L'Ouvreuse de Loges_, 75-77 Lucian, 256, 404 _Lucifer_, 524 _sq._ Lucretius, 26, 546 _Lucrezia Floriani_, 177 _note_ and _sq._ _Ludovica_, 72-75, 77 _Lui et Elle_, 177 _note_ Macfarlane, Ch., 342 Mackenzie, 14 Maclise, 47 _note_ _Madame Bovary_, 169, 400 _sq._, 558 _Madame de Chamblay_, 328 _Madame Eugénio_, 456 _Madame Gervaisais_, 461 _sq._ _Madame Putiphar_, 322 _Madelon_, 434 _sq._ _Mademoiselle Annette_, 551 _Mademoiselle de Clermont_, 68 _Mademoiselle de Kérouare_, 291 _Mademoiselle de La Seiglière_, 290 _Mademoiselle de Maupin_, 235, 236 _Mademoiselle Giraud ma Femme_, 516 _Mademoiselle La Quintinie_, 179 _sq._, 416, 557 Magnin, 283 _Maison de Penarvan, La_, 291 _Maison du Chat-qui-Pelote, La_, 160 _note_ _Maison Tellier, La_, 503 _note_ Maistre, X. de, 384 _note_ _Maître Cornélius_, 162 _Maître de Forges, Le_, 534 _sq._ _Maître Pierre_, 436 _Man of Feeling, The_, 14 Manning, Cardinal, 520 _note_ _Manon Lescaut_, 225, 346, 369, 372, 393, 394, 400, 426 _Manuscrit de M. Larsonnier, Le_, 554 note Maquet, A., 321, 326-327 _Mare au Diable, La_, 179 _sq._ _Margot_, 253 _Mariage dans le Monde, Un_, 418 _Marianna_, 290 Marie de France, xiii Marivaux, 46, 209, 346, 362, 471, 567 Marlowe, 301 _Marmion_, 566 _Marmontel_, 6, 69, 416 _Marquis de Pierrerue, Le_, 522 _sq._ _Marquis de Villemer, Le_, 179 _sq._ Marryat, 64, 297, 381 Martial, 227 note, 404 Martineau, Miss, 505 _note_ Martyrs, Les, 20 _sq._, 79, 562 _Master Humphrey's Clock_, 457 _Mateo Falcone_, 240 _Mathilde_, 297 _note_ Maturin, 166 _note_, 170, 301 Maupassant, Guy de (1850-1893), vi, viii _note_, ix, 156 _note_, 163, 170, 226, 237, 386, 413, 417, 449, 464, 465, 467, 484-515, 548, 558, 560, 569 _Mauprat_, 200 Mayne-Reid, Captain, 397 Méry, Joseph (1798-1866), 281, 312-318 Méryon, 256 _Melmoth Réconcilié_, 166 _Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe_, 20 _sq._, 347 _Mémoires du Diable, Les_, 300, 302 _Ménage de Garçon, Un_, 165 _Ménage du Pasteur Naudié, Le_, 550 _sq._ Mendès, Catulle (?-?

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If Mrs. Fraser, who was thirty-four, was in love with him, then this woman with the sleepy, farseeing eyes, who was only thirty--what an ass he had been!

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(_Aside._) How could Millicent--Bobby Burke--that purple ass.

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I had been an ass not to think of this before.

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2._ O, that he were here to write me down an ass!

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1._ Egregiously an ass.

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[617-2] Wer nie sein Brod mit Thränen ass, Wer nicht die kummervollen Nächte Auf seinem Bette weinend sass, Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Mächte.

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xv._ There is a fine circumstance connected with the character of a Cynic,--that he must be beaten like an ass, and yet when beaten must love those who beat him, as the father, as the brother of all.

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1._ He shall be buried with the burial of an ass.

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Ass, burial of an, 835. countryman who looked for his, 792. egregiously an, 152. knoweth his master's crib, 832. of Balaam, 813. will carry his load, 792. write me down an, 53.

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Balaam's ass, 813.

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Burial of an ass, 835.

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Crib, ass knoweth his master's, 832.

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Egregiously an ass, 152.

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Load a falling man, a cruelty to, 101. ass will not carry his, 792. life thou art a galling, 448. of infamy, any, 462. of sorrow, wring under the, 53. would sink a navy, a, 99.

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Write a verse or two, 204. about it goddess, 332. and cipher too, 397. and read comes by nature, to, 51. as funny as I can, 636. at any time, a man may, 371. fair, hold it baseness to, 145. finely upon a broomstick, 294. force them to, 211. in rhyme, those that, 213. in water, their virtues we, 100. it before them in a table, 834. look in thy heart and, 34. me down an ass, 53. nothing to, about, 748. pen devise wit, 55. the characters in dust, 494. the vision and make it plain, 836. though an angel should, 520. well hereafter, hope to, 253. with a goose pen, 76. with ease, you, 443.

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Maimonides, in his supposed reply to the Prince, played upon the word _Chamor_, the Hebrew word for _ass_, the name of a Hivite prince mentioned in the Bible: "High rank, I wot, we proudly claim When sprung from noble ancestor; Henceforth my mule a _prince_ I'll name Since once a prince was called _Chamor_."

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[86] Many a change of season will pass over this generation, and leave it unchanged: internally ruptured; rushing into the arms of Christianity, the religion of expediency; without stamina and without principle; one section thrust aside by Europe, and vegetating in filth with longing eyes directed towards the Messiah's ass or other member of the long-eared fraternity; the other occupied with fingering state securities and the pages of a cyclopædia, and constantly oscillating between wealth and bankruptcy, oppression and tolerance.

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An abominable, pragmatical, self-satisfied ass, that's what he is; and are we almost grown-up men to be handed over to be treated just as he pleases?

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What an ass and a cad I am!"

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He is such an Ass."

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The miserable village at the head of the bay showed a few dwellers when they landed on the beach, but little could be learned from them, save directions to a distant cotter who owned an ass and a cart, and always kept information and mountain dew for travelers and the gentry.

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And the hate of a woman can make her take an ass for Apollo."

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He looked with aversion at the smiling, self-complacent ass whose resurrection tangled his plan.

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Man may be an ass on the whole, but nature is even more of an ass, especially when it stands for human nature minus its saving grace of imaginative, will-directed intelligence.

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I was ass enough to try that once," said Preston, "when I was just come, and thought I must do everything; but if anybody wants to insult me, let him just ask me to do it again!"

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"Prithee paint not an ass: there's too many in this world already."

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For I have an auld bone to pyke wi' Sir Jedbury Fargoe, aboot a Regimental patient he slew for me, three years back, wi' his jawbone of a Philistine ass."

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From the moment I took the plunge, the consciousness of what a rotten ass I'd been had been growin' like a snowball.

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Don't swot at it any more; let that ass Grindlay earn his pay for once.... By the Living Tinker!

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Do you suppose I'm such a pachydermatous ass that I can't understand that home is a make-believe to a real woman, when--when there isn't even one chicken to tuck under her wing!

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viii., which represents a little old man sitting on the ground with his knees up to his chin, a huge head, ass's ears, a long beard, and a roguish face, which would agree well with our notion of a Brownie.

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From a passage in Deuteronomy, "Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together," it might be inferred that the custom of yoking two different animals to the plow was common in Egypt; but it was evidently not so, and the Hebrew lawgiver had probably in view a practice adopted by some of the people of Syria, whose country the Israelites were about to occupy.

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A second class, of a partly secular description, only indicate the trades of the deceased, and the remainder represent proper names: thus a lion must be read as a proper name, _Leo_; an ass, _Onager_; a dragon, _Dracontius_.

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Remember that everything was brought to the City on pack horse or pack ass.

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Did you ever see such an infernal ass?

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I don't know exactly what a girl is at eighteen, but I know that a fellow of twenty-five is an ass.

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The Golden Ass of Apulcius is well known; Henry Cornelius Agrippa has employed his wit and learning on an elaborate "Digression in praise of the Asse."

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The former rules of quackery, reduced to the administration of sundry pills or elixirs, must be abandoned in favour of the manipulating and scouring process of the great medical wizard of the day, who relieves by a tap, and cures by a flat-iron; and although it may be difficult to conceive the chain of ideas by which the imagination can connect the bumpings of a stage-coach with the operations we have described, we may exclaim,-- "Your art As well may teach an ass to scour the plain, And bend obedient to the forming rein," as cure dyspepsia; still, we must yield our admiration to the novelty of invention, and to the ingenuity of application of these stomach and bowel working wonders.

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We scrambled up the east side of the range of hills, sometimes by a succession of rocky staircases, sometimes sliding (backwards chiefly) on loose shale: how the donkey contrived to look after its four feet must remain a problem, but the Morocco ass is brought up from birth upon stony ground, with naïve and simple notions upon the subject of paths.

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"Don't be an ass, Fred.

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That individual probably knows as much about the Bible as a wild ass' colt, and is requested at this time to keep a proper distance.

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It is no uncommon thing to see a woman yoked to the plough with an ass, while her husband guides it.

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If an ass, says our Lord, falls into a pit, you will pull him out even on a Sabbath-day; and an innocent soul, nay, thousands of innocent children, fall away from Me and pass over to the army of the apostate angels, and become My and your adversaries, and you do not care.

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"Mrs Rose, I am an ass by nature, and shall find little hardship in braying.

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40 Wherever a fresco peels and drops, Wherever an outline weakens and wanes Till the latest life in the painting stops, Stands One whom each fainter pulse-tick pains; One, wishful each scrap should clutch the brick, 45 Each tinge not wholly escape the plaster, --A lion who dies of an ass's kick, The wronged great soul of an ancient Master.

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ATTENDANTS The mild-eyed Oxen and the gentle Ass, By manger or in pastures that they graze, Lift their slow heads to watch us where we pass, A reminiscent wonder in their gaze.

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When Bottom makes his appearance with an ass's head instead of his own, Peter Quince exclaims, "Bless thee!

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What an ass I am!

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Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk: Silenus with his rosy phiz Upon his stumbling ass.

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Balaam's ass has begun talking to us here—and how he talks!

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How he talks!” Balaam's ass, it appeared, was the valet, Smerdyakov.

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The Controversy But Balaam's ass had suddenly spoken.

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Tell me this, O ass; you may be right before your enemies, but you have renounced your faith all the same in your own heart, and you say yourself that in that very hour you became anathema accursed.

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“Your words are worth a gold piece, O ass, and I'll give it to you to-day.

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The peasants are not very fond of listening to these soup-makers, so far.” “Ah, brother, but a Balaam's ass like that thinks and thinks, and the devil knows where he gets to.” “He's storing up ideas,” said Ivan, smiling.

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Ah, I'm an ass!” burst out Fyodor Pavlovitch, striking himself lightly on the forehead.

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“I'm not such an ass as to go hunting about the town for other people's dogs when I've got a dog of my own!

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But Kolbasnikov is savage with every one now like a green ass.

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The third-class fellows wrote an epigram on it: Astounding news has reached the class, Kolbasnikov has been an ass.

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That's a great pity, for I only give what I can—” “Don't talk philosophy, you ass!” “Philosophy, indeed, when all my right side is numb and I am moaning and groaning.

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He lay there almost a thousand years and then he got up and went on.” “What an ass!” cried Ivan, laughing nervously and still seeming to be pondering something intently.

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"You stupid ass!"

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This animal measured from the tail to the nose five feet two inches, and from the hoof of the fore leg to the top of his horns, when he held his head up, seven feet three inches, and his body was quite as large as that of an ass.

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on them shall the seventh phial be poured out; for verily the Lord is weary of showing mercy to the backsliders from the congregation: they shall all perish--their limbs shall be broken asunder--yea, I will smite the uncircumcised Philistines--yea, I will smite----" "Even as did Sampson of old," interrupted Burrell--"even as Sampson of old smote them--with the jawbone of an ass."

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