The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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And she saddled an ass, and commanded her servant: Drive, and make haste, make no stay in going: And do that which I bid thee.

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And there was a great famine in Samaria: and so long did the siege continue, till the head of an ass was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cabe of pigeons' dung, for five pieces of silver.

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Will the wild ass bray when he hath grass?

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A vain man is lifted up into pride, and thinketh himself born free like a wild ass's colt.

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39:5. Who hath sent out the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his bonds?

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A whip for a horse, and a snaffle for an ass, and a rod for the back of fools.

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The wild ass is the lion's prey in the desert: so also the poor are devoured by the rich.

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Fodder, and a wand, and a burden are for an ass: bread, and correction, and work for a slave.

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And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a rider upon an ass, and a rider upon a camel: and he beheld them diligently with much heed.

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A rider upon an ass, etc...These two riders are the kings of the Persians and Medes.

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A wild ass accustomed to the wilderness in the desire of his heart, snuffed up the wind of his love: none shall turn her away: all that seek her shall not fail: in her monthly filth they shall find her.

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He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, rotten and cast forth without the gates of Jerusalem.

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For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath given gifts to his lovers.

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Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion, shout for joy, O daughter of Jerusalem: BEHOLD THY KING will come to thee, the just and saviour: he is poor, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.

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Besides these, there was a fine selection of the classics--Plato, Aristotle, including the Politica and Ethica, Aeschines' orations, Terence, Varro's De Originae linguae Latinae, Cicero's letters, Verrine and other orations, and "opera viginti duo Tullii in magno volumine," Livy, Ovid, Seneca's tragedies, Quintilian, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Attacae, the Golden Ass of Apulelus, and Suetonius.

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NORA You wouldn't find your way, stranger, for there's a small path only, and it running up between two sluigs where an ass and cart would be drowned.

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The Frenchman is an Ass!"

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'The greatest ass in the medical profession (he informed me) has just been made a baronet; and his admiring friends have decided that he is to be painted at full length, with his bandy legs hidden under a gown, and his great globular eyes staring at the spectator--I'll get you the job.'

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Though he loved good English as he loved good wine, he was never so happy as when (in imagination) he was tying the legs of a Regicide under the belly of an ass.

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Once upon a time, says rumour, he found himself face to face with Oliver Cromwell, whom he dragged from his coach, set ignominiously upon an ass, and so turned adrift with his feet tied under the beast's belly.

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SOCRATES: You are a dear golden ass if you suppose me to mean that Lysias has altogether missed the mark, and that I can make a speech from which all his arguments are to be excluded.

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SOCRATES: There is something more ridiculous coming:-Suppose, further, that in sober earnest I, having persuaded you of this, went and composed a speech in honour of an ass, whom I entitled a horse beginning: 'A noble animal and a most useful possession, especially in war, and you may get on his back and fight, and he will carry baggage or anything.'

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SOCRATES: And when the orator instead of putting an ass in the place of a horse, puts good for evil, being himself as ignorant of their true nature as the city on which he imposes is ignorant; and having studied the notions of the multitude, falsely persuades them not about 'the shadow of an ass,' which he confounds with a horse, but about good which he confounds with evil,-what will be the harvest which rhetoric will be likely to gather after the sowing of that seed?

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"And it's for this that--stop, my friend, let me tell you, you are an ass!

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"See here," said he to Guespin, "I took you for a young man of sense, and you are only an ass.

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Then, with sudden reaction, apostrophizing himself instead of his wife, "Poor ass!

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But she is certainly a great ass."

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"Come," she said good-humoredly, "don't be an old ass, Jane.

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"It is very hard to be called an ass in one's own house."

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"What an ass you are, Brandon!" he said.

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I am the only man, not quite an ass, of your acquaintance.

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Of all varieties of man, the minor poet realized her conception of the human ass most completely, and Erskine, though a very nice fellow indeed, thoroughly good and gentlemanly, in her opinion, was yet a minor poet, and therefore a pronounced ass.

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Trefusis, on the contrary, was the last man of her acquaintance whom she would have thought of as a very nice fellow or a virtuous gentleman; but he was not an ass, although he was obstinate in his Socialistic fads.

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At length entering into some animal of a nature congenial to her former life of sensuality or violence, she takes the form of an ass, a wolf or a kite.

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And if one of your own possessions, an ox or an ass, for example, took the liberty of putting himself out of the way when you had given no intimation of your wish that he should die, would you not be angry with him, and would you not punish him if you could?

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So think I (quoth another) for the outragious poyson of madness hath killed him, but being thus in divers opinions of a poore Ass, they looked through a crevis, and espied me standing still, sober and quiet in the middle of the chamber; then they opened the doores, and came towards me, to prove whether I were gentle or no.

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Across the pathway of the procession is an ass, whose bridle is held by a reverent looking man and upon whose back is a fair young mother with her infant child.

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"I gave you a shilling, you ass!"

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When they did not he would grunt and mutter, "What an ass!"

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"To be able to imagine that anyone who lives in the Trebassofs' home could have such a thought needs an ass's head, surely."

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"If only I had such a husband or a son, instead of you lumps that God has tied to me like clogs to the heels of a she-ass, I should be happy."

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He paused a moment, and then added with a sort of fresh curiosity, "Is it because you are such an ass?"

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"You hide as much as anybody; but you can't do it, you see, you're such an ass!

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"Don't be an ass," said his mentor.

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By the time she wrote this tale, her taste and judgment had revolted against the exaggerated idealisms of her early girlhood, and she went to the extreme of reality, closely depicting characters as they had shown themselves to her in actual life: if there they were strong even to coarseness,--as was the case with some that she had met with in flesh and blood existence,--she "wrote them down an ass;" if the scenery of such life as she saw was for the most part wild and grotesque, instead of pleasant or picturesque, she described it line for line.

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If the doctor of oxen and asses has treated an ox or an ass for a grave wound and has cured it, the owner of the ox or the ass shall give to the doctor as his pay one-sixth of a shekel of silver.

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If he has treated an ox or an ass for a severe wound and has caused its death, he shall pay one-fourth of its price to the owner of the ox or the ass.

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Simpatica, I should think, as that ass Whelpdale would say.

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'Walker's a fool and Quarmby's an ass,' remarked her father.

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She knows that I shouldn't have been such an ass as to talk of marriage without the prospect of something to live upon.'

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"Some hot-headed ass fired that," he said to himself, contemptuously.

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And the beasts of the earth and the birds looked down, In a wild solemnity, On a stranger sight than a sylph or elf, On one man laughing at himself Under the greenwood tree-- The giant laughter of Christian men That roars through a thousand tales, Where greed is an ape and pride is an ass, And Jack's away with his master's lass, And the miser is banged with all his brass, The farmer with all his flails; Tales that tumble and tales that trick, Yet end not all in scorning-- Of kings and clowns in a merry plight, And the clock gone wrong and the world gone right, That the mummers sing upon Christmas night And Christmas Day in the morning.

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At the end it was sheer blackmail; but it's something that the old ass didn't get it out of the taxpayers.

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"I'd no notion the law was such an ass.

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But here again the sad plight arises that no one perceives or heeds this, and all live on as though God gave us children for our pleasure or amusement, and servants that we should employ them like a cow or ass, only for work, or as though we were only to gratify our wantonness with our subjects, ignoring them, as though it were no concern of ours what they learn or how they live; and no one is willing to see that this is the command of the Supreme Majesty, who will most strictly call us to account and punish us for it; nor that there is so great need to be so seriously concerned about the young.

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Then followed some wild details as to the murder of my other wives by a Zulu wizard called "Road Mender, or Sick Ass" (i.e., Opener of Roads, or Zikali), and so on.

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His lordship the Bishop, a sometime Vicar-General, fluctuates between the two powers, who pay him the respect due to religion, but at times they bring home to him the moral appended by the worthy Lafontaine to the fable of the /Ass laden with Relics/.

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"We ought not to have gone with this fool and ass!

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He's a fool and an ass, and that's all...." "We human beings do murder each other," said the medical student.

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I'm an ass, damn my soul!"

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Ass!"

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Ass!

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His Anita Flagg he had created out of the things he had read of her in impertinent Sunday supplements and from the impression he had been given of her by the little ass, Holworthy.

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So he sat, completely wretched, feeling that he was in a false position; that if he were it was his own fault; that he had acted like an ass and a brute.

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"My son is not an ass!" is what Hallowell senior is said to have said to Doctor Black.

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"You ass!" muttered the tall German.

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It was a silly ass thing to do," protested the purser.

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Then that ass, Wagstaffe, who ought to be working with me steadily, sees his chance to be pleasantly witty.

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I know.... My wife's G.P.-an exasperating sort of ass.

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He's a frightful ass.

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He was walking up and down the terrace of the garden meditating on these matters, when, leaning over a wall and looking down into the street, he saw a fagot-maker-just such a fagot-maker as he himself had one time been-driving an ass-just such an ass as he had one time driven.

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"No one," said Edgar severely, "would be such an ass as to imagine we are carrying buried treasure in a suit-case.

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"You ass!"

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"Don't be an ass!" begged Jackson.

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If thou art chang'd to aught, 'tis to an ass.

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'Tis so, I am an ass; else it could never be But I should know her as well as she knows me.

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I think thou art an ass.

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I should kick, being kick'd; and being at that pass, You would keep from my heels, and beware of an ass.

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If thou hadst been Dromio to-day in my place, Thou wouldst have chang'd thy face for a name, or thy name for an ass.

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I am an ass, I am a woman's man, and besides myself.

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Thou art sensible in nothing but blows, and so is an ass.

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I am an ass indeed; you may prove it by my long 'ears.

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[Aside] Now, what a thing it is to be an ass!

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O this woodcock, what an ass it is!

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Preposterous ass, that never read so far To know the cause why music was ordain'd!

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Away, away, mad ass!

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Away, ass!

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What an ass art thou!

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Why, thou whoreson ass, thou mistak'st me.

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[Aside] That such an ass should owe them.

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A message well sympathiz'd- a horse to be ambassador for an ass.

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Therefore, as he is an ass, let him go.

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It lies as sightly on the back of him As great Alcides' shows upon an ass; But, ass, I'll take that burden from your back, Or lay on that shall make your shoulders crack.

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I was not made a horse; And yet I bear a burden like an ass, Spurr'd, gall'd, and tir'd, by jauncing Bolingbroke.

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Re-enter PUCK, and BOTTOM with an ass's head BOTTOM.

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