The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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See here -have you been training with that ass again-that radical, if you prefer the term, though the words are synonymous-Lord Tanzy, of Tollmache?"

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Perfect ass; they say she's got diamonds in every hotel in the country."

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Any Ass but a detective know that.

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In truth, you are always consistent, always yourself, always an ass.

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Ass!

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But I am not an ass; I am only the saddle of an ass.

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The iron-souled truth-monger would plainly manifest, or even utter the fact, that he didn't want to see those people-and he would be an ass, and inflict a totally unnecessary pain.

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His first act was to proclaim the sacredness and inviolability of the ass; his second was to add this particular ass to his cabinet and make him chief minister of the crown; his third was to have all the statues and effigies of nightingales throughout his kingdom destroyed, and replaced by statues and effigies of the sacred donkey; and, his fourth was to announce that when the little peasant maid should reach her fifteenth year he would make her his queen and he kept his word.

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This explains why the moldering image of the ass adorns all these old crumbling walls and arches; and it explains why, during many centuries, an ass was always the chief minister in that royal cabinet, just as is still the case in most cabinets to this day; and it also explains why, in that little kingdom, during many centuries, all great poems, all great speeches, all great books, all public solemnities, and all royal proclamations, always began with these stirring words: "Waw... he!

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It grieved me to do it, for after associating with her so much I had come to kind of like her after a fashion, notwithstanding she was such an ass and said such stupid irritating things and was so nauseatingly sentimental.

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"What an ass you are!" he said.

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There was nothing in that hole but an ass.

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It was a handsome ass, and friendly, but just an ass, and nothing more."

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This last summer, when I was on my way back to Vienna from the Appetite-Cure in the mountains, I fell over a cliff in the twilight, and broke some arms and legs and one thing or another, and by good luck was found by some peasants who had lost an ass, and they carried me to the nearest habitation, which was one of those large, low, thatch-roofed farm-houses, with apartments in the garret for the family, and a cunning little porch under the deep gable decorated with boxes of bright colored flowers and cats; on the ground floor a large and light sitting-room, separated from the milch-cattle apartment by a partition; and in the front yard rose stately and fine the wealth and pride of the house, the manure-pile.

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That ass, Blossom, of the Higginsville Thunderbolt and Battle Cry of Freedom, is down here again sponging at the Van Buren.

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Now, according to this view of the case, Jones married a spinster, who was a widow at the same time and another man's wife at the same time, and yet who had no husband and never had one, and never had any intention of getting married, and therefore, of course, never had been married; and by the same reasoning you are a bachelor, because you have never been any one's husband; and a married man, because you have a wife living; and to all intents and purposes a widower, because you have been deprived of that wife; and a consummate ass for going off to Benicia in the first place, while things were so mixed.

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What did that driveling ass of a Schuyler stand in the wake of a runaway horse for, with his shouting and gesticulating, if he wanted to stop him?

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Think how you would feel if you had made such an ass of yourself."

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What does that Arkansas ass know about it?

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He even said I was an ass.

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The Secretary of the Treasury said: "This is the meddlesome ass that came to recommend me to put poetry and conundrums in my report, as if it were an almanac."

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"Before anybody could get off an opinion in the case the innocent old ass at the piano struck up: "Come rise up, William Ri-i-ley, And go along with me!

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Fine words and dainty-wrought phrases from the ladies now, one or two of them being, in other days, pupils of that poor ass, Lille, himself; and I marked how that Jonson and Shaxpur did fidget to discharge some venom of sarcasm, yet dared they not in the presence, the queene's grace being ye very flower of ye Euphuists herself.

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And I am proud to say I am the most conceited ass in the Territory.

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I cannot conceive of a man being such a hopeless ass (after serving as a legislative reporter, too) as to imagine that I or any other literary man in his senses would consent to chew over old stuff that had already been in print.

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MY DEAR OLD JOE,-I knew you would be likely to graduate into an ass if I came away; and so you have-if you have stopped smoking.

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You have described a callow fool, a self-sufficient ass, a mere human tumble-bug.... imagining that he is remodeling the world and is entirely capable of doing it right.

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I wish that old ass of a private secretary hadn't taken me for George Francis Train.

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The title which he first chose for it, "Balaam's Ass," was properly in keeping with the general scheme.

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My wife won't have "Balaam's Ass"; therefore I call the piece "Cap'n Simon Wheeler, The Amateur Detective."

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If, when you shall have finished, the reader shall say, "The man is an ass, but I really don't know whether he knows it or not," your work will be a triumph.

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Paragraph from some indignant Englishman in the Pall Mall Gazette who pays me the vast compliment of gravely rebuking some imaginary ass who has set me up in the neighborhood of Rabelais; 3.

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And I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.

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B--- is an ass, and disgruntled, but I don't care for that.

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Many an ass in America, is getting a deal of benefit out of X-Science's new exploitation of an age-old healing principle-faith, combined with the patient's imagination-let it boom along!

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This ass with the unpronounceable name was probably more insane than usual this week or two back, and may get back upon his bearings by and by, but he was over the sanity-border when he shot the President.

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He was not an ignorant ass-no, not he: he was not a collection of decayed human turnips, like your "Plagiarism Court;" and so when I said, "I know now where I stole it, but whom did you steal it from," he said, "I don't remember; I only know I stole it from somebody, because I have never originated anything altogether myself, nor met anybody who had."

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When I tell you that he thinks the Epiphany (January 6, Twelfth Night) is December 25th-Christmas Day-you begin to see what an egregious ass he is.

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Patriarchal Customs--Magnificent Baalbec--Description of the Ruins --Scribbling Smiths and Joneses--Pilgrim Fidelity to the Letter of the Law --The Revered Fountain of Baalam's Ass CHAPTER XLIV.

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I will explain that the Oracle is an innocent old ass who eats for four and looks wiser than the whole Academy of France would have any right to look, and never uses a one-syllable word when he can think of a longer one, and never by any possible chance knows the meaning of any long word he uses or ever gets it in the right place; yet he will serenely venture an opinion on the most abstruse subject and back it up complacently with quotations from authors who never existed, and finally when cornered will slide to the other side of the question, say he has been there all the time, and come back at you with your own spoken arguments, only with the big words all tangled, and play them in your very teeth as original with himself.

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A self-complacent ass, ready to be flattered out of your senses by every petticoat that chooses to take the trouble to do it!"

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Now, therefore, send the Christian dog on all fours, and barefoot, into the holy place to mend the clock, and let him go as an ass!"

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He did not mention that he was a lineal descendant of Balaam's ass, but everybody knew that without his telling it.

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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become, until he goes abroad.

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I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass.

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I shall always delight to meet an ass after my own heart when I shall have finished my travels.

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Not much use as far as the other world is concerned, but much, very much use, as concerns this; because there, if a man be rich, he is very greatly honored, and can become a legislator, a governor, a general, a senator, no matter how ignorant an ass he is--just as in our beloved Italy the nobles hold all the great places, even though sometimes they are born noble idiots.

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It was getting late, and we had no time to fool away on every ass that wanted to drivel Greek platitudes to us.

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Not content with doubling the legitimate stages, they switched off the main road and went away out of the way to visit an absurd fountain called Figia, because Baalam's ass had drank there once.

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So we journeyed on, through the terrible hills and deserts and the roasting sun, and then far into the night, seeking the honored pool of Baalam's ass, the patron saint of all pilgrims like us.

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Beautiful stream in a chasm, lined thick with pomegranate, fig, olive and quince orchards, and nooned an hour at the celebrated Baalam's Ass Fountain of Figia, second in size in Syria, and the coldest water out of Siberia--guide-books do not say Baalam's ass ever drank there--somebody been imposing on the pilgrims, may be.

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Over it is a very ancient ruin, with no known history --supposed to have been for the worship of the deity of the fountain or Baalam's ass or somebody.

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Provisions reached such a figure that "an ass' head was sold for eighty pieces of silver and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver."

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The Syrian army broke camp and fled, for some cause or other, the famine was relieved from without, and many a shoddy speculator in dove's dung and ass's meat was ruined.

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The guide said it was because this was one of "the very stones of Jerusalem" that Christ mentioned when he was reproved for permitting the people to cry "Hosannah!" when he made his memorable entry into the city upon an ass.

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He had made an egregious ass of himself before the whole ship.

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His tone struck false, for through his mind was booming the horrible question, "Can Nellie have gone out with that ass Crane to dine?"

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"Hang it, I've made an ass of myself.

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I feel so like an ass.

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Maurice, you are an ass!"

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a man always makes an ass of himself on his wedding eve; the crown prince is simply starting in early.

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Maurice indulged in some uncomplimentary remarks, among which was: "I'm an ass!"

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Ass that I was, I never suspected till too late!

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I am an ass, sure enough.

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Ass!

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O, but you are a sorry ass; and how neatly we have clipped your ears!"

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"Don't be an ass!

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"You're not going to make an ass of me; make up your mind to that!"

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"Princes Street, you born ass!" cried Dunn wrathfully.

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But don't violate--" "I'd do it if I thought it would really increase your comfort, though I know I'd feel like an infernal ass.

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"Don't be an ass!

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"It is a great pity," he continued, addressing Cameron in a pleasant conversational tone as they rode down the trail together, "that you should have made an ass of yourself for those brutes.

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"I made an ass of myself, I know quite well."

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An' 'oo may you be, to learn me manners, you bloomin' (h)ignorant Scotch (h)ass.

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"Aw, cut out the tragedy stuff," said Vic, "and don't be an ass.

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"He may be all that, sir, but in a case like this, if you really want my opinion, and I have no wish to be disrespectful, he is a hot-headed ass.

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"Well, Simmons, just as much as you can like an ass."

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"Don't be an ass, Vic.

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The flush slowly darkened as he turned and said deliberately-- 'It's not like you, Connor, to be an ass of that peculiar kind.

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At times I am a coward, and often, as you sometimes kindly inform me, an ass; but I hope I may never become a mule.

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'Why, certainly,' I cried, thankfully enough; 'what an ass I am!'

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Connolly is an infernal ass.

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I bungled the whole thing this morning and frightened Miss Cameron nearly into a fit, for no other reason than that I am all ass.

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"Oh, nothing, Billy, except that I'm an ass, an infernal ass."

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"An ass, eh?

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I am an ass, a jealous ass--might as well own it.

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What an ass!

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"Now look here, Tom," he said angrily, "don't be an ass.

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I This last summer, when I was on my way back to Vienna from the Appetite-Cure in the mountains, I fell over a cliff in the twilight and broke some arms and legs and one thing or another, and by good luck was found by some peasants who had lost an ass, and they carried me to the nearest habitation, which was one of those large, low, thatch-roofed farm-houses, with apartments in the garret for the family, and a cunning little porch under the deep gable decorated with boxes of bright-coloured flowers and cats; on the ground floor a large and light sitting-room, separated from the milch-cattle apartment by a partition; and in the front yard rose stately and fine the wealth and pride of the house, the manure-pile.

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As regards his health-and the rest of the things-the average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass.

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One of the very boys who refused to go out on picket duty that night, and called me an ass for thinking he would expose himself to danger in such a foolhardy way, had become distinguished for intrepidity before he was a year older.

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"Look at that ass!" said Soames; "he must be mad to walk like that in this heat!"

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How on earth a fellow could make such an ass of himself Soames could not conceive; but he had done so, and all the rancour and hidden jealousy that had been burning against him for so long was now focussed in rage at this crowning piece of extravagance.

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He had got that off his mind; she would not let Annette commit herself with that cheerful young ass until....!

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'Posing ass!' thought Soames.

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