The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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The other he dismissed as a pompous ass.

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That "look" would cause Thompson to swear earnestly under his breath for the rest of the day, whilst on Gladys Norman it had several distinct effects, the biting of her lower lips, the snubbing of Thompson, the merciless banging of her typewriter, and a self-administered rebuke of "Gladys Norman, you're a silly little ass," being the most noticeable.

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"You see, Sage," Freynes had remarked, "I'm sure the boy is straight and incapable of such conduct; but it's impossible to talk to that ass Murdy.

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"Ah mon jest ass mother first," said Emily.

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"Did you ass yer own mother if you might?" she wanted to know.

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"And see the particular kind of fatuous ass I am set down clearly in my own handwriting!" he said to himself.

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I'm an ass."

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"You ass!" he cried.

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After him came Cannagosta, being white and grey mixed, exceeding curled and hairy; he had a head like the head of an ass, and a tail like a cat, and claws like an ox, lacking nothing of an ell broad.

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If I should carry it home it would stink and infect my house; besides, it is too hard a piece of work to set it on again: wherefore, what an ass was Faustus to lay so great a pawn for so small a sum of money!

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It seemed to each one of them that they had no heads; and so they went forth unto certain of their neighbours, at which sight the people were most wonderfully afraid; and as the use of Germany is, that wheresoever a mask entereth the good man of the house must feast him, so as these maskers were set to their banquet, they seemed again in their former shape with heads, insomuch that they were all known whom they were; and having sat and well eat and drank, Dr. Faustus made that every one had an ass's head on, with great long ears, so they fell to dancing and to drive away the time until it was midnight, and then every one departed home; and as soon as they were out of the house, each one was in his natural shape, and so they ended and went to sleep.

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Now Faustus had this quality, he seldom rid, but commonly walked afoot to ease himself when he list; and as he came near unto the town of Brunswick there overtook him a clown with four horses and an empty waggon, to whom Dr. Faustus (jestingly, to try him) said: "I pray thee, good fellow, let me ride a little to ease my weary legs;" which the buzzardly ass denied, saying that his horse was weary; and he would not let him get up.

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He spends much of his time in watching such omens; even an ass's bray carries a significance to him.

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Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work, but the seventh is the Sabbath of the Lord, thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work; thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy maid-servant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates, that thy man-servant and maid-servant may rest as well as thou; and remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord, thy God, brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm; THEREFORE, THE LORD, THY GOD, COMMANDED THEE TO KEEP THE SABBATH DAY.

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AN ass, having put on a lion's skin, roamed about in the forest, and amused himself by frightening all the animals he met with in his wanderings.

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In truth, from the grave as well as from the sublime, there often seems to be "but a step;" and in reading over this gentleman's suggestions about _susceptibles_ and _non-susceptibles_, one may fancy himself, instead of being in the land of thinking people, to be in the land of Egypt, where, as we are informed (Madden, 1825), the sage matrons discuss the point, whether a cat be not a better vehicle for contagion than a dog:--a horse may be trusted, they say, but as to an ass, he is the most incorrigible of contagion smugglers;--of fresh bread we never need be afraid, but the susceptibility of butcher's meat is quite an established thing:--or we might fancy ourselves transported to regions of romance, where it is matter of profound deliberation, whether an egg shall be broken at the large or the small end.

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Silly little ass!

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"Mabane is an ass!"

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I'm awfully sorry--" "Don't be an ass," Arthur interrupted energetically.

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He'd never have dared to behave like that to me; but Milly's such an ass."

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But I'm a bit of an ass that way myself.

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But when I found you had, as I thought, put Wimp on the wrong scent, when I felt sure that by arresting Mortlake he was going to make a greater ass of himself than even nature had been able to do, then I forgave you.

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'John Rallywood,' he grunted, as he turned away, 'is after all not so great an ass as he thinks himself.'

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| | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * THEY SHALL NOT PASS THEY SHALL NOT PASS BY FRANK H. SIMONDS AUTHOR OF "THE GREAT WAR" [Illustration] GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1916 _Copyright, 1916, by_ DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY _All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian_ COPYRIGHT, 1916, THE TRIBUNE ASS'N.

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The fables of the removal of the chapel of Loretto, the wandering Jew, the visions of Stockius and Sims, and St. Anthony's obliging an ass to adore the sacrament as related by Mosheim, are astonishing lying wonders and ridiculous inventions.

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There he splutters about, makes an ass of himself in various ways, and either hammers out some plan for getting at his job by many bitter failures, or subsides into the kind of man who sits in the mess-room with his feet on the stove, reading novels and smoking cigarettes--either learns to swim after a fashion or drowns unlamented.

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The greater number, however, were as unconscious of any covering for use or ornament, as a pig or an ass.

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To himself he groaned through ground teeth: "What an ass I am.

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But I was ass enough to take off my cap to her, and she saw my hair--saw where it wasn't--and that settled it."

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Ass._, 1845, p.

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Ass._, 1843, Dr. Robinson's closing Address.

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Ass._, 1832, p.

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Ass._, 1835, p. 11 (pt.

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Ass.

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Ass._, 1859, p.

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Ass._, vol.

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Ass._, vol.

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Ass._, vol.

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Ass._, 1881, p. 518; 1883, p.

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Ass._, 1892, p.

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Ass._, 1862, p. 16 (pt.

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Ass._, vol.

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Ass._, vol.

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Ass._, vol.

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Ass._, 1873, p. 407.

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Ass._, 1876, ii., p. 1), considered Hopkins's argument valid as regards the comparatively quick solar semi-annual and lunar fortnightly nutations.]

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Ass._, 1868, p.

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Ass._, vol.

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Ass._, 1872, p.

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Ass._, 1876, p.

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Ass._, vol.

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Ass._, 1873, p.

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But men, foolishly overjoyed hereat, laid this present of the gods upon an ass, who, in returning back with it, being extremely thirsty, and coming to a fountain, the serpent who was guardian thereof would not suffer him to drink but upon condition of receiving the burden he carried, whatever it should be.

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The silly ass complied; and thus the perpetual renewal of youth was for a sup of water transferred from men to the race of serpents."

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"Got you, you ass!" snapped he, with a short, crisp, self-satisfied laugh.

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She might have tipped me off before I made such an ass of myself.

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Oh, you seventy-seven kinds of a double-barrelled ass!

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"What an ass!" he said to himself in the soundless words of thought.

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"What an ass never to have suspected it when it is all so clear!"

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A fellow with a name like 'Rupert St. Aubyn' is bound to be a silly ass."

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For, a "silly ass"--albeit an unusually handsome one with his fair, curling hair and his big blonde moustache--he certainly was: a lisping, "ha-ha-ing" "don't-cher-know-ing" silly ass, whom the presence of ladies seemed to cover with confusion and drive into a very panic of shy embarrassment.

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Her absence seemed to make but little impression upon him, however, for, following up a well-defined plan of action, he devoted himself wholly to the Spanish woman, and both amazed her and gratified her vanity by allowing her to learn that a man may be the silliest ass imaginable and yet quite understand how to flirt and to make love to a woman.

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More than that; after he had finished his second cup of tea, and immediately following the sound of some one just beyond the veranda rail whistling the lively, lilting measures of "There's a Girl Wanted There," "the silly ass" seemed to become a thousand times sillier than ever.

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Corporal Grimsby, thou art an ass, and these stairs are the devil's trap!"

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Only--if ye should find by chance, any time, that I'd rather fight with my wits than my fists, ye can lay that to Dan's door; along with the stubbornness of a tinker's ass."

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I feel now as if I'd been caught lifting the crown jewels, instead of giving a hundred-guinea performance for the price of a night's bed and board and coming away as poor as a tinker's ass."

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Patsy accepted them all with a gracious little nod, and, spreading the paper on the improvised desk, she wrote quickly: "If it do come to pass That any man turn ass," Thinking the world is blind And trust forsworn mankind, "Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame": Here shall he find Both trust and peace of mind, An he but leave all foolishness behind.

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Ass.

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And so we have again and again the old story of La Fontaine's ass, who pats his nose to the flute, and, finding that he elicits some sound, exclaims, "Moi, aussie, je joue de la flute"-a fable which we commend, at parting, to the consideration of any feminine reader who is in danger of adding to the number of "silly novels by lady novelists." p. 205 VII.

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He went on muttering, half to himself: "We're of the same breed--pariahs; fortunately, pariahs don't last long,... like the wild creatures who never die natural deaths,... old age is one of the curses they can safely discount,... and so can we, Scarlett, so can we.... For you'll be mauled by a lion or kicked into glory by a horse or an ox or an ass,... and I'll fall off a balloon,... or the camel will give me tetanus, or the elephant will get me in one way or another,... or something...." Again he twisted around to look at me.

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"If you mean to intimate that I have fallen in love you are certainly an astonishing ass!"

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Am I an ass, Scarlett?

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"No; not an ass," I said.

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"Run for your life, you hopeless ass!"

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Six days thou shalt labor and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy man-servant and maid-servant may rest as well as thou.

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[Illustration] The _Ass_, 1. and the _Mule_, 2. carry burthens.

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See thou dost not go amiss on the left hand, 13. in an ass-like sluggishness, 14.

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Aymer, don't be an ass, old fellow--Max won't want anything."

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Alas, that any "sainted Father" should be represented by so degenerate a son--an irreligious son--not a member of any Church--but having the hardihood, in the face of those who know the facts, to disguise himself in the priestly robes of a "sainted Father"--like an ass in a lion's skin, to _bray out_ against better men than himself, or, like a wolf in sheep's clothing, to _steal into the fold_, where that Father was accustomed to minister in holy things, and with soft and honeyed words, and hypocritical teachings, and Satan-like misrepresentations, seek whom he may devour!

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Octavius, I have seen more days than you: And though we lay these honours on this man, 20 To ease ourselves of divers slanderous loads, He shall but bear them as the ass bears gold, To groan and sweat under the business, Either led or driven, as we point [8] the way; And having brought our treasure where we will, 118 25 Then take we down his load and turn him off, Like to the empty ass, to shake his ears And graze in commons.

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So in Genesis , xlix, 14: "Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens."

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The last time I went, there were only two reading-men in spectacles, perfect dummies, and that ass, young Medlicott, who talks about hunting, and I believe never crossed the back of anything higher than a donkey."

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On the other hand, Lætitia, who had been freely spoken of by Sally as "making a great ass of herself about social tommy-rot and people's positions," and who was aware of the justice of the accusation, had been completely jerked out of the region of Grundy by Julius's splendid rendering of Tartini, and had felt disconcerted and ashamed; for Tishy was a thorough musician at heart.

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She felt very thankful that she had been able to do one kindness to a creature like that ass which once stood in the stall beside the "new-born King."

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Now, as they passed the outskirts of a lonely wood, to their surprise they beheld an ass tethered to a tree, and blinking lazily at the passers-by.

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"Be not amazed," quoth Brother Timothy, "that where you left an ass you should find a poor, half-starved Franciscan friar.

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You imagine you have owned an ass, but it was myself, transformed into this shape for the deadly sin of gluttony, and condemned to do penance by feeding on grass and being beaten and starved by your household.

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Take my advice; return to your convent at sunrise to-morrow and there repent, fast and scourge yourself, for you are in great danger of becoming an ass again.

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He soon caught sight of the ass and, coming up, he whispered in its ear: "Alas, good father, I see that my warnings were useless, and that your gluttony has changed you into an ass again."

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[Illustration] "If this ass is Brother Timothy," they cried, "you ought to buy him and feed him on the tenderest grass.

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It would surely be an act of charity to show some kindness to a poor unfortunate who has been transformed into an ass."

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The simple farmer took their advice, bought his own ass and led him homeward over hill and dale and, as they went, he exhorted the animal to behave well and be content.

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And if generalship were needed, what an ass this would be to attempt to lead the men to victory!

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We had supper, of which I ate nothing; liquor, of which I drank nothing; and merry talk, in which I took no part, Sandy jeering at me for a dull ass, I remember, and pretending regret at not having asked the Reverend Slowboy in my place; but his talk was of no moment to me, for my pulse was going like a trip-hammer, my brain reeled with that headiest wine of Nature's brewing, and I wanted to get out under the stars and be alone.

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"But," he stood with his thumbs in the arms of his waistcoat as he spoke, with a conscious smile--"but no fellow would be such a bally ass as to dash to London for a ring under present conditions."

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It states that all ass-drivers are wicked, camel-drivers are honest, sailors are pious, physicians are destined for hell, and butchers are company for Amalek.

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One of them is said to have changed a woman into an ass, and ridden the ass to market, when another sorcerer changed the ass again into a woman.

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Some of the laws of Sodom are also recorded: "Whosoever cut off the ears of another's ass received the ass till his ears grew again."

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The Rabbis also say that when the Messiah comes to fulfil the prophecy of riding upon an ass (Zech.

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