The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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'If I were a theatrical ass,' he thought, 'I suppose I should be taking a horse-whip or a pistol or something!'

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"He's a heavy ass," said Stanley.

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'So that fellow's going to be an ass, too?

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Odd, that he had never noticed before how vacuous this fellow was--with his talk of politics, and racing, of this ass and that ass--subjects hitherto of primary importance!

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Paul is an element--" "Paul," Mr. Treffry growled, "is an ass!"

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'I've been an ass,' he thought; 'a horrible ass.'

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"Why, the old ass with the platitudes!"

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You'll have that old ass--what's his name?--lunching off cutlets and champagne to fortify himself--for a lecture to the wife.

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"I always thought," he said, "that Bethany was an ass."

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I was an ass ever to have spoken to old Hilary.

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A conscientious ass!

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"No, Sir...." "Well, get it, then; and don't be an ass."

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Garton seemed to him an ass just then.

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Was he just a towny college ass like Robert Garton, as far from understanding this girl?

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'You're an ass!' he thought.

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Why I ever made such a sickening ass of myself, I can't think.

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[Contemptuously] Silly ass!

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Blundering young ass!

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[Contemptuously] That ass!

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For when the Apostle says, "he counts it an unholy thing," he means, he makes it of less value than that of a sheep or cow, which were clean according to the law; and therefore must mean, that his blood was of no more worth to him in his account than was the blood of a dog, an ass, or a swine, which always was, as to sacrifices, rejected by the God of heaven, as unholy or unclean.

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Sez I, "You egrejus ass, that air's a wax figger--a representashun of the false 'Postle."

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What sort of sense is thare to King Leer, who goze round cussin his darters, chawin hay and throin straw at folks, and larfin like a silly old koot and makin a ass of hisself ginerally?

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Sez I, "You egrejis ass," gittin up & brushin the dust from my eyes, "I'll sign your papers with this bunch of bones, if you don't be a little more keerful how you make my bread basket a depot in the futur.

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A man who clings to a wretchedly paying business, when he can make himself and others near and dear to him fatter and happier by doing something else, is about as near an ass as possible, and not hanker after green grass and corn in the ear.

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A man is a ass who dispoots it.

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I like a little beer now and then, and when the teetotallers inform us, as they frekently do, that it is vile stuff, and that even the swine shrink from it, I say it only shows that the swine is a ass who don't know what's good; but to pour gin and brandy down one's throat as freely as though it were fresh milk, is the most idiotic way of goin' to the devil that I know of.

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He jined the Church last spring, and the minister said, "You must go home now, Brothern Billins, and erect a family altar in your own house," whereupon the egrejis old ass went home and built a reg'lar pulpit in his sittin room.

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The gnome, however, set off above ground as speedily as possible, and disguising himself as a farmer, bought an ass in the nearest market-town, and brought it back loaded with sacks of turnip, carrot, and radish seed.

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On which side both the truth and integrity of history are to be found, may safely be left to the moral decision of men who do NOT look at History through the exclusive medium of the market, and in listening to the voice of instruction are, at least, enabled to distinguish the bray of an ass from the peal of a trumpet.)

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"I am a first class ass.

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Duff looked over the six feet of bone and sinew and muscle of the young rancher, made as if to answer, paused a moment, changed his mind, and said more quietly: "Don't be an ass, Knight.

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"Good Lord, is he just a plain ass, or what?" inquired young Booth, his eye following Barry down the room.

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"Ass!

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He is an interfering and impertinent ass, in my opinion, but what else he is, I don't know."

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Don't be an ass!"

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"The old ass!" he exclaimed.

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Yet, at the moment, this operation of being written down an ass, was less acutely painful to her than the perception that was simultaneously growing on her of the miserable condition of poor little Lovedy, whose burning hand she held, and whose gasping breath she heard, as the child rested feebly in the chair in which she had been placed.

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In revenge of his death they slew one of their principal Christian captives, and, having tied his body upon an ass, they drove the animal forth into the camp.

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The lama was their only beast of burden, and its strength seems to have been a good deal inferior to that of a common ass.

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[43] -- ASS.

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DEVONSHIRE ASS., 1883.

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[89] -- Piette: ASS.

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[102] -- On the subject of tatooing an excellent work may be consulted by Dr Magitot ("Ass.

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Ass., Minneapolis, 1883.

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[166] -- ASS.

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[198] -- American Ass., Detroit, 1875, Nashville, 1877; "Ancient Men of the Great Lakes" "Additional Facts Concerning Artificial Perforation of the Cranium in Ancient Mounds in Michigan."

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[204] -- ASS.

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[207] -- ASS.

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Riviere: ASS.

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[238] -- Pomerol: "Murailles Vitrifiees de Chateauneuf," ASS.

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[307] -- ASS.

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The roy, haughty and proud of his independence, placed the presenter of the draft on an ass's back, and, parading him through all the quarters of Beejanuggur, sent him back with every mark of contempt and derision.

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for every Englishman who can read, unless he be an Ass, is a reader the more for you.

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But who is it that rides beside him on the splendidly-caparisoned ass--who is the man in the long green caftan, trimmed with fur, the green turban on his head adorned with its glittering crescent?

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"What a thundering ass I was to try it on at West Lynne!" was the enraged comment of the sufferer.

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Apollo would not suffer such a depraved pair of ears any longer to wear the human form, but caused them to increase in length, grow hairy, within and without, and to become movable, on their roots; in short, to be on the perfect pattern of those of an ass.

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He yoked an ass and an ox together to the plough and began to sow salt.

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SET: Represented by a symbolic animal, with a muzzle and ears like a jackal, the body of an ass, and an upright tail, like the tail of a lion.

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Tavy: don't you be a selfish ass.

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[patting him on the back] Bear it like a man, Tavy, even if you feel it like an ass.

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This ass, when he was not lying about me, was maundering about some woman whom he saw once in the street.

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There are limits to what a mule or an ass will stand; but Man will suffer himself to be degraded until his vileness becomes so loathsome to his oppressors that they themselves are forced to reform it.

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Ass!

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With the common ass, as the legs of the wild progenitor are almost always striped, we may feel assured that the occasional appearance of such stripes in the domestic animal is a case of simple reversion.

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But now let us turn to the result of crossing the horse and ass.

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Many years ago I saw in the Zoological Gardens a curious triple hybrid, from a bay mare, by a hybrid from a male ass and female zebra.

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As the zebra has such a conspicuously striped body and legs, it might have been expected that the hybrids from this animal and the common ass would have had their legs in some degree striped; but it appears from the figures given in Dr. Gray's 'Knowsley Gleanings' and still more plainly from that given by Geoffroy and F. Cuvier, 34 that the legs are much more conspicuously striped than the rest of the body; and this fact is intelligible only on the belief that the ass aids in giving, through the power of reversion, this character to its hybrid offspring.

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The Equus indicus 36 is characterised by a spinal stripe, without shoulder or leg stripes; but traces of these latter stripes may occasionally be seen even in the adult 37 and Colonel S. Poole, who has had ample opportunities for observation, informs me that in the foal, when first born, the head and legs are often striped, but the shoulder-stripe is not so distinct as in the domestic ass; all these stripes, excepting that along the spine, soon disappear.

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Now a hybrid, raised at Knowsley 38 from a female of this species by a male domestic ass, had all four legs transversely and conspicuously striped, had three short stripes on each shoulder and had even some zebra-like stripes on its face!

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On the other hand, mules from the horse and ass are certainly not in the least wild, though notorious for obstinacy and vice.

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-When purely-bred animals or plants reassume long-lost characters,-when the common ass, for instance, is born with striped legs, when a pure race of black or white pigeons throws a slaty-blue bird, or when a cultivated heartsease with large and rounded flowers produces a seedling with small and elongated flowers,-we are quite unable to assign any proximate cause.

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Another species of wild ass, the true E. hemionus or Kiang, which ordinarily has no shoulder-stripes, is said occasionally to have them; and these, as with the horse and ass, are sometimes double: see Mr. Blyth in the paper just quoted and in 'Indian Sporting Review,' 1856, p. 320: and Col. Hamilton Smith in 'Nat.

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I cannot doubt, from the observations of Colin and others, that the ass is prepotent over the horse; the prepotency in this instance running more strongly through the male than through the female ass; so that the mule resembles the ass more closely than does the hinny.

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The tail of the hinny is much more like that of the horse than is the tail of the mule, and this is generally accounted for by the males of both species transmitting with greater power this part of their structure; but a compound hybrid which I saw in the Zoological Gardens, from a mare by a hybrid ass-zebra, closely resembled its mother in its tail.

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The stripes are believed to occur most frequently and to be plainest on the legs of the domestic ass during early youth, 46 as likewise occurs with the horse.

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In one light-grey ass the shoulder-stripe was only six inches in length, and as thin as a piece of string; and in another animal of the same colour there was only a dusky shade representing a stripe.

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Finally, we see that the presence of shoulder, leg, and spinal stripes in the horse,- their occasional absence in the ass,-the occurrence of double and triple shoulder-stripes in both animals, and the similar manner in which these stripes terminate downwards,-are all cases of analogous variation in the horse and ass.

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It was ordered, according to Moses, that "Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind;" but mules were purchased 32 so that at this early period other nations must have crossed the horse and ass.

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According to Varro, the wild ass was formerly caught and crossed with the tame animal to improve the breed, in the same manner as at the present day the natives of Java sometimes drive their cattle into the forests to cross with the wild Banteng ( Bos sondaicus ).

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, they are carefully bred, as much as 200 l. having been paid for a stallion ass, and they have been immensely improved.

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Now that we know that the wild parent of the ass commonly has striped legs, we may feel confident that the occasional appearance of stripes on the legs of the domestic ass is due to reversion; but this will not account for the lower end of the shoulder-stripe being sometimes angularly bent or slightly forked.

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Thus with the common ass we see signs of its original desert life in its strong dislike to cross the smallest stream of water, and in its pleasure in rolling in the dust.

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ANALOGOUS variation, 5 , 22 ; -in horses, 5 ; -in the horse and ass, 2 ; -in fowls, 7 .

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Asinus tæniopus, the original of the domestic ass, 2 .

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ASS, early domestication of the, 2 ; -breeds of, 2 ; -small size of, in India, 2 ; -stripes of, 2 (2); -dislike of, to cross water, 6 ; -reversion in, 13 (3); -hybrid of the, with mare and zebra, 13 ; -prepotency of the, over the horse, 14 ; -crossed with wild ass, 20 ; -variation and selection of the, 21 .

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BECHSTEIN, on the burrowing of wolves, 1 ; -Spitz Dog, 1 ; -origin of the Newfoundland dog, 1 ; -crossing of domestic and wild swine, 3 ; -on the Jacobin pigeon, 5 , 6 ; -notice of swallow-pigeons, 5 ; -on a fork-tailed pigeon, 5 ; -variations in the colour of the croup in pigeons, 6 ; -on the German dovecot pigeon, 6 ; -fertility of mongrel-pigeons, 6 ; -on hybrid turtle-doves, 6 ; -on crossing the pigeon with Columba œnas, C. palumbus, Turtur risoria, and T. vulgaris, 6 ; -development of spurs in the silk hen, 7 ; -on Polish fowls, 7 (2); -on crested birds, 7 ; -on the canary-bird, 8 , 12 , 18 ; -German superstition about the turkey, 8 ; -occurrence of horns in hornless breeds of sheep, 13 ; -hybrids of the horse and ass, 14 ; -crosses of tailless fowls, 15 ; -difficulty of pairing dove-cot and fancy pigeons, 16 ; -fertility of tame ferrets and rabbits, 16 ; -fertility of wild sow, 16 ; -difficulty of breeding caged birds, 18 ; -comparative fertility of Psittacus erithacus in captivity, 18 ; -on changes of plumage in captivity, 18 ; -liability of light-coloured cattle to the attacks of flies, 21 ; -want of exercise a cause of variability, 22 ; -effect of privation of light upon the plumage of birds, 23 ; -on a sub-variety of the monk-pigeon, 26 .

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CUVIER, on the gestation of the wolf, 1 ; -the odour of the jackal, an obstacle to domestication, 1 ; -differences of the skull in dogs, 1 ; -external characters of dogs, 1 ; -elongation of the intestines in domestic pigs, 3 , 24 ; -fertility of the hook-billed duck, 8 ; -hybrid of ass and zebra, 13 ; -breeding of animals in the Jardin des Plantes, 18 ; -sterility of predaceous birds in captivity, 18 ; -facility of hybridisation in confinement, 18 .

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FLOURENS, crossing of wolf and dog, 1 ; -prepotency of the jackal over the dog, 14 ; -hybrids of the horse and ass, 14 ; -breeding of monkeys in Europe, 18 .

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HARTMAN, on the wild ass, 2 .

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HORSES, in Swiss lake-dwellings, 2 ; -different breeds of, in Malay Archipelago, 2 ; -anomalies in osteology and dentition of, 2 ; -mutual fertility of different breeds, 2 ; -feral, 2 ; -habit of scraping away snow, 2 ; -mode of production of breeds of, 2 ; -inheritance and diversity of colour in, 2 ; -dark stripes in, 2 ; -dun-coloured, origin of, 2 ; -colours of feral, 3 (2); -effect of fecundation by a quagga on the subsequent progeny of, 11 ; -inheritance of peculiarities in, 12 (2); -polydactylism in, 12 ; -inheritance of colour in, 12 ; -inheritance of exostoses in legs of, 12 ; -reversion in, 13 (2); -hybrids of, with ass and zebra, 13 ; -prepotency of transmission in the sexes of, 14 ; -segregation of, in Paraguay, 16 ; -wild species of, breeding in captivity, 18 ; -curly, in Paraguay, 20 , 25 ; -selection of, for trifling characters, 20 ; -unconscious selection of, 20 (2); -natural selection in Circassia, 21 ; -alteration of coat of, in coal-mines, 23 ; -degeneration of, in the Falkland Islands, 23 ; -diseases of, caused by shoeing, 24 ; -feeding on meat, 24 ; -white and white-spotted, poisoned by mildewed vetches, 25 ; -analogous variations in the colour of, 26 ; -teeth developed on palate of, 27 ; -of Bronze period in Denmark, 28 .

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HYBRIDS, of hare and rabbit, 6 ; -of various species of Gallus, 7 ; -of almond, peach, and nectarine, 10 ; -naturally produced, of species of Cytisus, 11 ; -from twin-seed of Fuchsia coccinea and fulgens, 11 ; -reversion of, 11 (2), 13 (2); -from mare, ass, and zebra, 13 ; -of tame animals, wildness of, 13 (2); -female instincts of sterile male, 13 ; -transmission and blending of characters in, 15 ; -breed better with parent species than with each other, 17 ; -self-impotence in, 17 ; -readily produced in captivity, 18 .

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VARIATION, laws of, 24 ; -continuity of, 21 ; -possible limitation of, 21 , 28 (2); -in domestic cats, 1 ; -origin of breeds of cattle by, 3 ; -in osteological characters of rabbits, 4 ; -of important organs, 10 ; -analogous or parallel, 9 ; -in horses, 2 ; -in the horse and ass, 2 ; -in fowls, 7 ; -in geese, 8 ; -exemplified in the production of fleshy stems in cabbages, etc., 9 ; -in the peach, nectarine, and apricot, 10 (2); -individual, in wheat, 9 .

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VARRO, on domestic ducks, 8 ; -on feral fowls, 13 ; -crossing of the wild and domestic ass, 20 .

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You have already shown that a man may be absolutely honest and yet practical; a reformer by instinct and a wise politician; brave, bold, and uncompromising, and yet not a wild ass of the desert.

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"And as necessarily," continued Dr. Seignebos, "the court, having appointed a first ass, will associate with me a second ass.

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