The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Exeunt CLOTEN and FIRST LORD That such a crafty devil as is his mother Should yield the world this ass!

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Why, what an ass am I!

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Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull ass will not mend his pace with beating; and when you are ask'd this question next, say 'a grave-maker.'

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This might be the pate of a Politician, which this ass now o'erreaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?

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There is no honesty in such dealing; unless a woman should be made an ass and a beast, to bear every knave's wrong.

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Come, you virtuous ass, you bashful fool, must you be blushing?

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By Cheshu, he is an ass, as in the world: I will verify as much in his beard; he has no more directions in the true disciplines of the wars, look you, of the Roman disciplines, than is a puppy-dog.

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If the enemy is an ass, and a fool, and a prating coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should also, look you, be an ass, and a fool, and a prating coxcomb?

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I will tell you, ass my friend, Captain Gower: the rascally, scald, beggarly, lousy, pragging knave, Pistol- which you and yourself and all the world know to be no petter than a fellow, look you now, of no merits- he is come to me, and prings me pread and salt yesterday, look you, and bid me eat my leek; it was in a place where I could not breed no contendon with him; but I will be so bold as to wear it in my cap till I see him once again, and then I will tell him a little piece of my desires.

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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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Octavius, I have seen more days than you, And though we lay these honors on this man 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 the way; And having brought our treasure where we will, 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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When thou clovest thy crown i' th' middle and gav'st away both parts, thou bor'st thine ass on thy back o'er the dirt.

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May not an ass know when the cart draws the horse?

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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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If thou art rich, thou'rt poor; For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And Death unloads thee.

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To Lucio] You, sirrah, that knew me for a fool, a coward, One all of luxury, an ass, a madman!

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By this hat, then, he in the red face had it; for though I cannot remember what I did when you made me drunk, yet I am not altogether an ass.

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Page is an ass, a secure ass; he will trust his wife; he will not be jealous; I will rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman with my aqua-vitae bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling gelding, than my wife with herself.

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I do begin to perceive that I am made an ass.

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

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You see an ass-head of your own, do you?

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I see their knavery: this is to make an ass of me; to fright me, if they could.

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The shallowest thickskin of that barren sort, Who Pyramus presented, in their sport Forsook his scene and ent'red in a brake; When I did him at this advantage take, An ass's nole I fixed on his head.

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I led them on in this distracted fear, And left sweet Pyramus translated there; When in that moment, so it came to pass, Titania wak'd, and straightway lov'd an ass.

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I must to the barber's, mounsieur; for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face; and I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me I must scratch.

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Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.

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Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.

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With the help of a surgeon he might yet recover and yet prove an ass.

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you are an ass, you are an ass.

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O that he were here to write me down an ass!

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But, masters, remember that I am an ass.

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Though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.

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O that I had been writ down an ass!

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And, masters, do not forget to specify, when time and place shall serve, that I am an ass.

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Moreover, sir, which indeed is not under white and black, this plaintiff here, the offender, did call me ass.

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You shall mark Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave, That doting on his own obsequious bondage Wears out his time, much like his master's ass, For nought but provender, and when he's old, cashier'd.

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Which thing to do, If this poor trash of Venice, whom I trace For his quick hunting, stand the putting on, I'll have our Michael Cassio on the hip, Abuse him to the Moor in the rank garb (For I fear Cassio with my nightcap too), Make the Moor thank me, love me, and reward me For making him egregiously an ass And practicing upon his peace and quiet Even to madness.

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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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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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What a thrice-double ass Was I to take this drunkard for a god, And worship this dull fool!

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I will fly, like a dog, the heels o' th' ass.

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

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You scurvy valiant ass!

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Would the fountain of your mind were clear again, that I might water an ass at it.

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To an ass, were nothing: he is both ass and ox.

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To an ox, were nothing: he is both ox and ass.

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I would fain see them meet, that that same young Troyan ass that loves the whore there might send that Greekish whoremasterly villain with the sleeve back to the dissembling luxurious drab of a sleeve-less errand.

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Why, I think so; I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry.

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Welcome, ass.

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The devil a Puritan that he is, or anything constantly but a time-pleaser; an affection'd ass that cons state without book and utters it by great swarths; the best persuaded of himself, so cramm'd, as he thinks, with excellencies that it is his grounds of faith that all that look on him love him; and on that vice in him will my revenge find notable cause to work.

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And your horse now would make him an ass.

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Ass, I doubt not.

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will you make an ass o' me?

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Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me.

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Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass; so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, and by my friends I am abused; so that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then, the worse for my friends, and the better for my foes.

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Will you help- an ass-head and a coxcomb and a knave, a thin fac'd knave, a gull?

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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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While the Bureau crowd are off having their favorite shoes polished--(wing-tips)--and making derisive fun of the Service's favorite shoes--("pansy-ass tassels")--the tassel-toting Secret Service has a crew of ready-and-able hacker-trackers installed in the capital of every state in the Union.

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Cops know ways to get from point A to point Z without thumbing through every letter in some smart-ass bad-guy's alphabet.

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Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.

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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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Decidedly, I am nothing but an ass!"

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"Ass!" replied the detective, shrugging his shoulders and turning on his heel.

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A jay can cry, a jay can laugh, a jay can feel shame, a jay can reason and plan and discuss, a jay likes gossip and scandal, a jay has got a sense of humor, a jay knows when he is an ass just as well as you do-maybe better.

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I measured the ground which this ass traversed, and arrived at the conclusion that what he had accomplished inside of twenty minutes would constitute some such job as this-relatively speaking-for a man; to wit: to strap two eight-hundred-pound horses together, carry them eighteen hundred feet, mainly over (not around) boulders averaging six feet high, and in the course of the journey climb up and jump from the top of one precipice like Niagara, and three steeples, each a hundred and twenty feet high; and then put the horses down, in an exposed place, without anybody to watch them, and go off to indulge in some other idiotic miracle for vanity's sake.

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Mr. Ruskin would have said: This person is an ass.

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I think you are the very last possibility in the way of an ass."

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The foreign words and phrases which they use have their exact equivalents in a nobler language-English; yet they think they 'adorn their page' when they say STRASSE for street, and BAHNHOF for railway-station, and so on-flaunting these fluttering rags of poverty in the reader's face and imagining he will be ass enough to take them for the sign of untold riches held in reserve.

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Every time a poor devil has been set upon his feet I have detected your hand in it-incorrigible ass!"

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I own myself an ass, and I await your orders."

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"No more an ass than I, sir," returned the captain.

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Sir 13:19 As the wild ass is the lion's prey in the wilderness: so the rich eat up the poor.

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But a moment afterwards, seeing that instead of a fish he only had in his nets the carcase of an ass, he was much disappointed.

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If I chose, I could kill you also; but I will be merciful, and content myself with changing you into a dog, an ass, a lion, or a bird--whichever you prefer."

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I have killed the sick man whom they brought me; and if the sacred Ass of Esdras does not come to my aid I am lost!

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Instinctively his brain dragged forth to the surface those epithets which the doctor had hurled in bitter contempt at her--"mad ass, a mere bundle of egotism, ignorance, and red-headed lewdness."

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He was mounted on an ass.

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What an ass that doctor is!

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The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the spider on the fly.

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Don't make a public ass of yourself."

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Among these may be mentioned Richard Brinsley Twain, alias Guy Fawkes; John Wentworth Twain, alias Sixteen-String Jack; William Hogarth Twain, alias Jack Sheppard; Ananias Twain, alias Baron Munchausen; John George Twain, alias Captain Kydd; and then there are George Francis Twain, Tom Pepper, Nebuchadnezzar, and Baalam's Ass-they all belong to our family, but to a branch of it somewhat distinctly removed from the honorable direct line-in fact, a collateral branch, whose members chiefly differ from the ancient stock in that, in order to acquire the notoriety we have always yearned and hungered for, they have got into a low way of going to jail instead of getting hanged.

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I used to think that your writings were pretty good, but after reading the criticism in THE GALAXY from the LONDON REVIEW, have discovered what an ass I must have been.

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"Hirst escorts Miss Warrington; Pepper advances alone on a white ass; provisions equally distributed--or shall we hire a mule?

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But Susan, who had been brought up to understand that the horse is the noblest of God's creatures, could not agree, and Venning thought Hirst an unspeakable ass, but was too polite not to continue the conversation.

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"What an ass I was not to bring my Kodak!"

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'What I see,' answered Sancho, 'is nothing but a man on a gray ass like my own, who carries something shiny on his head.'

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"My dear Rosy, you don't expect me to talk much to such a conceited ass as that, I hope," said Lydgate, brusquely.

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One of the strongest NATURAL proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ASS FOR A LION.

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And what really frosts everyone's ass is that she is just as recalcitrant when she argues on behalf of someone else.

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