The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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"No matter," said the worthy N.C.O., "Barefoot is an ass, and never notices anything."

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I feel never quite sure of your urbane and smiling coteries; I fear they indulge a man's vanities in silence, suffer him to encroach, encourage him on to be an ass, and send him forth again, not merely contemned for the moment, but radically more contemptible than when he entered.

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Your protestant is a hypocritical ass!"

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"Ass, ass!

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Impossible ass!" he muttered a dozen times that day.

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"She probably told everything to the priest, and he has explained to her satisfaction wherein I am a fool,--a malicious, blaspheming, dangerous villain, and a stupendous ass.

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Do I look like a one-eyed ass?"

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"You stupid young ass!" the priest may say to himself, apostrophising the boy; "why don't you remain as you are for the present?

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Don't you be an ass.

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I think you are making an ass of yourself, Mr. Moss."

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"Don't you think your father is making an ass of himself,-just a little, you know?"

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She did think that her father was making an ass of himself, but she did not like to be told of it.

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She felt that this would not become the case, if love's old reality were to tell her often that her father was an ass.

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Lord Castlewell's father was, she thought, making an ass of himself.

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In fact, her ideas on the matter ran as follows: My future husband is not entitled to call my father an ass because he is a lord, seeing that my father is a Member of Parliament.

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Nor is he entitled to call him so because he is an ass, because the same thing is true of his own father.

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The lord had called her father an ass.

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Mr. O'Mahony had undoubtedly made himself an ass again on this second, third, and perhaps tenth occasion.

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She knew that her father had made an ass of himself.

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But the more she was sure of it, the more resolved she became that Lord Castlewell should not call her father an ass.

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But if an elderly gentleman is desirous that his future wife shall think of no Frank Jones, he had better not begin by calling the father of that young lady a ridiculous ass.

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"If you think that father is an ass, you had better say so outright, and let there be an end of it."

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He said you made an ass of yourself in the House of Commons.

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I don't care twopence whether he thinks me an ass or not."

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"She says that you called me an ass.

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Well, I am to you, and you're an ass to me.

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She wants you to promise that you won't call me an ass any more.

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Though he had been very glib with his tongue in calling O'Mahony an ass, he did not at all like the compliment as paid back to him by his father-in-law.

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All the world was certain that Mr. O'Mahony was an ass.

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He was treated with the greatest respect at Covent Garden, and nobody ever suspected him of being an ass.

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And now she had been guilty of the gross indecency of sending a message to him by her own father,-the very man whom he called an ass.

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And the man in return only laughed and called him an ass.

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Would it be possible then to make the world understand that he had deserted her, not on account of her illness, but because she had not liked to hear her father called an ass.

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He was sure that there was a meaning in the words intended to signify that he, Lord Castlewell, was and must be an ass at all times.

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Then he asked himself whether he was an ass because he did not quite understand O'Mahony's argument.

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As to his being an ass,-O'Mahony being an ass,-he was sure that there was no doubt about that.

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And now, among them all, this O'Mahony was the biggest ass.

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I told him I didn't mind being called an ass, but that you were so absurd as to dislike it.

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He has been very kind, and you mustn't tell him that he's an ass any more.

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"Only their love," said Frank; upon which Rachel looked as though she thought that Frank Jones was certainly an ass.

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They asked seriously whether "angels had stomachs," and "if a starving ass were placed exactly midway between two stacks of hay would he ever move?"

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"You fascinating little ass," Tommy murmured, "did you ever hear of love?"

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Indeed, now that the thing had disappeared, I felt like an ass; and, resuming my seat, attempted to make the best of it.

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Personally, I felt like a howling ass to be staked out and exhibited as somebody's jilted Romeo, but this was a welcome compromise; thrice welcome, since Hardwick's next words showed that he had forgotten, or dismissed, the prelude to my burst of confidence about "a man in the restaurant," for arising he said: "Well, we've kept you longer than we should.

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I don't know what fiends possessed me to be such an unmitigated ass!

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Therefore, after I thought the silence had become sufficiently impressive, I yielded to an impulse that many men find irresistible--I made an egregious ass of myself.

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Now, when a fellow has made a blatant ass of himself, I hold that the quickest road to salvation is "own up and shut up."

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The rest of us lunched in moody silence, except Monsieur who grew loquacious to the point of making himself an ass.

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I have been a silly ass, I suppose, and now it's all over."

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Beside the entrance of this cave an ass was tethered, and a man of middle age stood in the doorway.

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Yet fate may stop the mouth of either man or ass, and in the dumb struggle for voice, if fate turns the screws of destiny upon duty, there is tragedy.

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A lad may be an ass; doubtless he is.

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Now if a lad is an ass--and he is--how should a poor jack be supposed to know of the wisdom of the serpent?

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They did not realize how he was groping and stumbling, nor could they know what a load he carried--this ass of a lad coming toward the gate of the Garden.

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And so the ass, laden with this relay of life from the source of life, that every young, blind ass brings into the world, floundered in the flood.

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"And, well say, Henry, I says, 'No, madam, it is an ass that rises in me betimes.'

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As we slowly ascend through the sub-tropical region of fig and vine, of olive and carouba, we question our guide, who in spite of his bright eyes and well-knit frame seems about as intelligent a companion as the poor ass left behind in the stall, where he is enjoying, let us hope, an unexpected holiday.

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The stranger's own entrance into Capri was less dignified, for either he had to toil painfully in the blazing sun up that steep picturesque flight of steps and reach the plateau above, perspiring and probably out of temper; or else he was compelled to bestride a miserable ass which a bare-footed damsel steered upward by means of the quadruped's tail.

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[Illustration] Contents PAGE THE TALKING THRUSH 1 THE RABBIT AND THE MONKEY 8 THE SPARROW'S REVENGE 16 THE JUDGMENT OF THE JACKAL 21 HOW THE MOUSE GOT INTO HIS HOLE 25 KING SOLOMON AND THE OWL 30 THE CAMEL'S NECK 33 THE QUAIL AND THE FOWLER 36 THE KING OF THE KITES 39 THE JACKAL AND THE CAMEL 43 THE WISE OLD SHEPHERD 47 BEWARE OF BAD COMPANY 53 THE FOOLISH WOLF 55 REFLECTED GLORY 58 THE CAT AND THE SPARROWS 61 THE FOOLISH FISH 65 THE CLEVER GOAT 72 A CROW IS A CROW FOR EVER 76 THE GRATEFUL GOAT 81 THE CUNNING JACKAL; OR, THE BITER BIT 85 THE FARMER'S ASS 89 THE PARROT JUDGE 93 THE FROG AND THE SNAKE 97 LITTLE MISS MOUSE AND HER FRIENDS 101 THE JACKAL THAT LOST HIS TAIL 105 THE WILY TORTOISE 110 THE KING OF THE MICE 112 THE VALIANT BLACKBIRD 117 THE GOAT AND THE HOG 123 THE PARROT AND THE PARSON 127 THE LION AND THE HARE 130 THE MONKEY'S BARGAINS 132 THE MONKEY'S REBUKE 139 THE BULL AND THE BULLFINCH 145 THE SWAN AND THE CROW 150 PRIDE SHALL HAVE A FALL 156 THE KID AND THE TIGER 160 THE STAG, THE CROW, AND THE JACKAL 166 THE MONKEY AND THE CROWS 170 THE SWAN AND THE PADDY-BIRD 173 WHAT IS A MAN?

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176 THE WOUND AND THE SCAR 182 THE CAT AND THE PARROT 186 NOTES 195 [Illustration] List of Illustrations "A CROW IS A CROW FOR EVER" _Frontispiece_ PAGE TITLE-PAGE v PREFACE: Headpiece vii CONTENTS: Headpiece ix " Tailpiece xi THE TALKING THRUSH: Initial 1 THE RABBIT AND THE MONKEY: Initial 8 Man with Bamboo Pole 9 "Sit in front of that Man" 11 Tailpiece 15 THE SPARROW'S REVENGE: "Up jumped the Boy, and out he ran" 19 THE JUDGMENT OF THE JACKAL: Initial 21 "The Merchant was much dismayed" 22 "And away they went" 23 HOW THE MOUSE GOT INTO HIS HOLE: Initial 25 KING SOLOMON AND THE OWL: Initial 30 Tailpiece 32 THE CAMEL'S NECK: Headpiece 33 THE QUAIL AND THE FOWLER: Headpiece 36 Tailpiece 38 THE KING OF THE KITES: Initial 39 "The Frog turned up his flat nose" 41 THE JACKAL AND THE CAMEL: Tailpiece 46 THE WISE OLD SHEPHERD: Initial 47 The Fifth Shepherd 51 Tailpiece 52 BEWARE OF BAD COMPANY: Initial 53 THE CAT AND THE SPARROWS: Initial 61 "Just at that moment up came a Cat" 63 Tailpiece 64 THE FOOLISH FISH: Initial 65 Tailpiece 71 THE CLEVER GOAT: Tailpiece 75 A CROW IS A CROW FOR EVER: "And took him home to the Palace" 77 Tailpiece 80 THE GRATEFUL GOAT: Initial 81 Tailpiece 84 THE CUNNING JACKAL: Initial 85 THE FARMER'S ASS: "He shaved off every scrap of hair from his head" 89 "It was not easy to get their hair back again" 92 Tailpiece 92 THE PARROT JUDGE: The Parrot in Court 95 Tailpiece 96 THE FROG AND THE SNAKE: Tailpiece 98 "He saw a Frog swimming on the top of the water" 99 LITTLE MISS MOUSE AND HER FRIENDS: Tailpiece 104 THE JACKAL THAT LOST HIS TAIL: "Suddenly cut off the Jackal's tail" 106 Tailpiece 109 THE WILY TORTOISE: Initial 110 Tailpiece 111 THE VALIANT BLACKBIRD: "He sent a Fowler to catch him" 117 Tailpiece 122 THE GOAT AND THE HOG: A Demon 123 Tailpiece 126 THE PARROT AND THE PARSON: Initial 127 Tailpiece 129 THE LION AND THE HARE: Initial 130 Tailpiece 131 THE MONKEY'S BARGAINS: Initial 132 THE MONKEY'S REBUKE: "Oft had this Monkey seen the Milkman pour water into the Milk-cans" 140 "Then after a while he came to a Pond" 141 Tailpiece 144 THE BULL AND THE BULLFINCH: Initial 145 Tailpiece 149 THE SWAN AND THE CROW: Initial 150 "Hm, hm," said the Judge, looking at the Crow 153 Tailpiece 155 PRIDE SHALL HAVE A FALL: Initial 156 Tailpiece 159 THE KID AND THE TIGER: Initial 160 THE STAG, THE CROW, AND THE JACKAL: Initial 166 Tailpiece 169 THE MONKEY AND THE CROWS: "O Monkey, what a fool you must be!"

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The Foolish Wolf A WOLF and an Ass were great friends, and they spent most of their time playing at an original game of their own.

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"Ha, ha, ha," said the Boy, "what a coward that Wolf is, to run away from an Ass."

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The Farmer's Ass THERE was once a Farmer, who had an Ass.

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It was the habit of this Ass to lift up his voice and bray, whenever he heard the church bells a-ringing.

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So this Farmer thought that any Ass that was fond of church bells, must have been a great saint in some former life.

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All his life long, this Ass served the Farmer faithfully, and earned him a great deal of money.

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The King, and the Prime Minister, and the General felt very foolish to have gone into mourning for an Ass.

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Wolf and Ass were friends--Played as described in text--Boy sees Wolf running away from Ass, and says, "What a timid Wolf"--Says the Wolf, "You shall rue it, I'll carry you off to-day"--Boy tells his mother--"Never mind, he won't hurt you"--Hides stone in loin-cloth--Wolf comes for him--Leaves him in his den for the morrow--Goes to play with the Ass--Boy climbs a tree--Wolf finds no Boy--Stands gaping with perplexity--Boy throws stone into his mouth and kills him.

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21.--The Farmer's Ass Told by RÁM SINH, Haidar-Garh, district Barau Banki.

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A Washerman has an Ass that brays on hearing a conch-shell, thinks he must have been a saint in a former life, but something went wrong (kahin chuk gaya) and he became an Ass--Names him Tulsi Das--Ass dies--"He was valuable to me," shaves head, performs obsequies, gives feast to clansmen--Goes to shop of a Banya--"Why are you in mourning?"

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§ 104, gives the same tale about an ass named Sobhan (beautiful): told by Shyam Sundar, village accountant of Dudhi, Mirzápur district, recorded by Ahmad Ullah.

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If a person is on the way to becoming a morbid ass he cannot find it out too soon.

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I told him you were a drunken ass, and Moore an incompetent and dishonest boxer.

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One has a heart ... and yet, Dumont, it can hardly have escaped your penetration that if I were to shift from this hostelry without a farthing and leave my offspring to wallow--literally--among millions, I should play the part of little better than an ass.

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If you will have it, I put it back in that old ass's pocket.

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Most people see at once that he is just a solemn ass.

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It would have been the action of an ass; but it would have shown that I had the blood and the natural affections of a man.

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Because my father had made a bigger ass of himself than I supposed.

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If I were emperor, I'd make the sneaking curs wear a badge, I would; a dog's collar, a fox's tail, or a pair of ass's ears.

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to live the life of an ass, and to die the death of a dog!

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They find the mill-ass which ground for the baker, and bring it out.

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They pushed their way to the head of the procession, being quite worthy of the post of honour, and, seizing the baker's ass, put their goddess on the back of it.

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"Like the man in the play," said Barescythe, "the world should ask somebody to write it down an ass!"

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"For the human race to struggle for hundreds of years, and have some unguessable entity on Mars do all that in one lifetime--and it all go to waste while some blundering ass lands on Mars and passes it by, looking for artifacts."

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What a thundering ass I was to waste a guinea on it!

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And what an ass I should look!

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And it was that egregious old ass of a Jinnee, as Horace thought, with suppressed rage, who had let him in for all this, and who was now far beyond all remonstrance or reproach!

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"You've no conception what an ass I feel, stuck up here like this!"

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Fakrash," he cried, in his indignation, "I've never felt such an absolute ass in my whole life!

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For He, who did in everything surpass Our common world,-the Good, the Truly Great, The Working Man, who shamed with standards high Our obscurantists unregenerate,- Is not, 'twould seem, better than you, or I, Or any other ass: The vision's faded, as a snowflake melts; Fallen is that idol from his high renown: He hath waxed fat, and kicked, and tumbled down, And we must seek ensamples somewhere else!

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The Reader's Corner [Illustration: The Readers' Corner A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories] "Literature" Dear Editor: After comparison with various other magazines which specialize in the publication of Science Fiction, we--The Scientific Fiction Library Ass'n, of 1457 First Ave., New York City--have found that your magazine, Amazing Stories, publishes stories to which the term "literature" may be applied in its real sense.

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I always look at it when I pass, and think what a little ass I used to be.

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Laugh at what a duffer like that, an ass, a fellow that has not two ideas, says."

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You scold me; and you say another, a friend, is an ass----" "He was never any friend of mine," said Jock, with a hot flush of anger.

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He thought he ought to have been consulted, even as an old friend, much more as---- And the young ass was offensive.

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