The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Look here, Larry: don't be an ass.

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You schoopid ass, what d'ye mean?

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Tom: with the best intentions you're making an ass of yourself.

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But since the word offends you, let me soften it, and compare you simply to an ass.

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An ass!

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We have had enough of that, and more than enough of cleverly proving that everybody who is not an Irishman is an ass.

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"What an uncommon ass he must be!" said I.

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"Yes; and I called him an ass!

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What an ass Tregear was to say anything to you about it."

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"I don't think he was an ass at all.

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An eldest son may, I fancy, be a greater ass than his younger brother."

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I've made an ass of myself."

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"We thought him an ass at Eton."

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"Tifto, you are making an ass of yourself," said Silverbridge.

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"Making an ass of myself!" exclaimed the Major.

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Why should I be turned out because he had made an ass of himself!"

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"Who said he made an ass of himself?"

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They won't make her give it up by bringing such a young ass as that down here.

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"Because he made an ass of himself; asking me whether I could shoot."

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What an ass must he have been to risk such a sum on the well-being and safety of an animal who might any day pick up a nail in his foot?

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It is a terrible nuisance, and he has been an ass.

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Dear Gerald , What an ass you have been!

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Other animal forms assumed by the corn-spirit are the fox, stag, roe, sheep, bear, ass, mouse, quail, stork, swan, and kite.

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Grave writers of antiquity recommended that, if a man be stung by a scorpion, he should sit upon an ass with his face to the tail, or whisper in the animal's ear, "A scorpion has stung me"; in either case, they thought, the pain would be transferred from the man to the ass.

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"What an ass!" he thought.

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"I know that ass," commented Addison, when he read this in the Transcript.

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What is to be done with such a rag-bag, moralistic ass as this?

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He had a smart though somewhat effeminate manner, and Cowperwood at once wrote him down as an ass.

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(Implying that Swindon must be an ass not to know it.)

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A man who made love as though he were preaching a sermon, or a man who preached a sermon as though he were teasing schoolboys, or a man who described a death as though he were describing a practical joke, must necessarily be either an ass or a lunatic."

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Then he laughed, called himself a conceited ass and went over to examine a rather virile sketch of a muscular, deep-chested young man in rowing costume which occupied an inconspicuous place among many well-chosen pictures.

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"I can sympathize with the feller's being gone on the girl," he said to himself, undisturbed by Regina's frequent bursts of loud laughter at young Barclay's quiet but persistent banter, "but dammit, why make a conspicuous ass of himself?

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What a conceited ass at college, buying deference and friends.

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TWAIN'S LETTERS V4 1886-1900 by Albert Bigelow Paine[mt4lt10.txt] #3196 And I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55 Argument against suicide Conversationally being yelled at Dead people who go through the motions of life Die in the promptest kind of a way and no fooling around Heroic endurance that resembles contentment Honest men must be pretty scarce I wonder how they can lie so.

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SKIPPER IRESON'S RIDE Of all the rides since the birth of time, Told in story or sung in rhyme,-- On Apuleius's Golden Ass, Or one-eyed Calendar's horse of brass, Witch astride of a human back, Islam's prophet on Al-Borak,-- The strangest ride that ever was sped Was Ireson's, out from Marblehead!

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Apuleius's Golden Ass.

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Apuleius was a Latin satirical writer whose greatest work was a romance or novel called "The Golden Ass."

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The hero is by chance changed into an ass,, and has all sorts of adventures until he is finally freed from the magic by eating roses in the hands of a priest of Isis.

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They were at once signalled to return to Stornoway, Seaforth waving them back with the jawbone of a sheep, which he was in the act of picking for his dinner, and in this way, it is said, was fulfilled one of the prophecies of the Brahan Seer, by which it was predicted "That next time the men of Lewis should go forth to battle, they would be turned back by a weapon smaller than the jawbone of an ass."

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But this is almost a boyish idea, this idea that the true poet is the slave of the passions, and that the poet who dominates them has none, and is but a staid domestic animal, an ass browsing the common, as somebody has written about Wordsworth.

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On his road homewards from Naples to the little village of Resina, where his father lived, he overtook Francisco, who was leading his father's ass.

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"I was not thinking of the ass, boy; I was not thinking of any ass, but of you, when I said, 'Well filled panniers, truly!'

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When I am found out for what I am, or when the worst comes to the worst, I can drive a stupid ass, with his panniers filled with rubbish, as well as you do now, HONEST FRANCISCO."

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What an ass I must have been making of myself!

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Brand, you may think me a fool; you cannot think me a more egregious ass than I now think myself; but I was absolutely certain she was mine; so sure that, when she came, and we were alone together in the house of God, instead of going to her with the anxious haste of suppliant and lover, I called her to me at the chancel step as if I were indeed her husband and had the right to bid her come.

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Perhaps this ass of a fellow, whom he already cordially disliked, came of a lower stratum; or perhaps the rules of her nursing guild forbade a definite engagement, but allowed "an understanding."

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Rob an old fool, and himself a conceited ass.

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"I admit I have been something of an ass, but you are mean, in a sense.

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"If you want the truth, it's because you're something of an obstinate ass.

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The expression "what an ass!" is in Europe supposed to be slightly insulting, but a comparison with the Egyptian variety would be a compliment.

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The public is an ass."

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"Never; but I saw one sit astride on an ass in Germany!"

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Jemmy, what an ass you must be!"

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You drew deeper into your wound a barbed shaft, like--(any wild animal will do, no one of them is such an ass, so you had an equal title to all).

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"If we had not been hard up this while, we should not come with a full relish to meat three times a week, which, unless I am an ass (and I don't see myself in that light)," said Triplet dryly, "will, I apprehend, be, after this day, the primary condition of our future existence."

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The fact is, I am an incapable ass, and no painter!

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You are an ass, Saunders."

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"I never observed it before, but Saunders is an ass!

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I was an ass of the common or garden variety, who first resolved to keep out of a queer business and then, because a girl looked bothered, plunged into it up to my ears.

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Then to Dave, when he got some breath: "Well, you ARE an ass of a fellow.

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Given an ass, an elephant, and an empty wine-bottle or two, and one might have thought Noah's ark had been emptied at our selection.

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They are returning to Cairo, their visit ended, and exchange in a loud voice, from one ass to another, more or less inept impressions in various European languages... And look!

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And bending over the music-book, she read in an undertone: "Wer nie sein Brod mit Thranen ass, Wer nie die kummervollen Nachte Auf seinem Bette einsam sass, Der kennt euch nicht, Ihr himmlischen Machte!"

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Another comedy of less merit is "The Devil is an Ass," acted in 1616.

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This volume published, in a carefully revised text, all the plays thus far mentioned, excepting "The Case is Altered," which Jonson did not acknowledge, "Bartholomew Fair," and "The Devil is an Ass," which was written too late.

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you peremptory ass, An you'll not be quiet, get you hence.

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'Sblood, stay, let's see what he dare do: cut off his ears; you are an ass, touch any man here, and by the Lord I'll run my rapier to the hilts in thee.

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SOUSED ("Devil is an Ass"), fol.

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Another comedy of less merit is "The Devil is an Ass," acted in 1616.

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This volume published, in a carefully revised text, all the plays thus far mentioned, excepting "The Case is Altered," which Jonson did not acknowledge, "Bartholomew Fair," and "The Devil is an Ass," which was written too late.

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How monstrous and detested is't to see A fellow that has neither art nor brain, Sit like an Aristarchus, or start ass, Taking men's lines with a tobacco face, In snuff still spitting, using his wry'd looks, In nature of a vice, to wrest and turn The good aspect of those that shall sit near him, From what they do behold!

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'Slight, an a man should do nothing but what a sort of stale judgments about him this town will approve in him, he were a sweet ass: I'd beg him, i'faith.

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SLICK, sleek, smooth 'SLID, 'SLIGHT, 'SPRECIOUS, irreverent oaths SLIGHT, sleight, cunning, cleverness; trick SLIP, counterfeit coin, bastard SLIPPERY, polished and shining SLOPS, large loose breeches SLOT, print of a stag's foot SLUR, put a slur on; chear (by sliding a die in some way) SMELT, gull, simpleton SNORLE, "perhaps snarl as Puppy is addressed" (Cunningham) SNOTTERIE, filth SNUFF, anger, resentment; "take in -," take offence at SNUFFERS, small open silver dishes for holding snuff, or receptacle for placing snuffers in (Halliwell) SOCK, shoe worn by comic actors SOD, seethe SOGGY, soaked, sodden SOIL, "take -," said of a hunted stag when he takes to the water for safety SOL, sou SOLDADOES, soldiers SOLICIT, rouse, excite to action SOOTH, flattery, cajolery SOOTHE, flatter, humour SOPHISTICATE, adulterate SORT, company, party; rank, degree SORT, suit, fit; select SOUSE, ear SOUSED ("Devil is an Ass"), fol.

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"He answered," said John; "he did not answer courteously--he said, that I was a malapert little ass, and demanded again where this young Montfort's tent was.

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Since Edward's great sorrow, Henry de Montfort had held less apart from him; and whenever the King was at leisure to snatch a short retirement at one of his hunting lodges, he always sent an intimation to the beggar, who would journey down on a sober ass, and under the care of De Gourdon, now the chief of the hunting staff, would meet the King in some sylvan glade.

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Uptorn by strength Resistless in so bad a cause, but lame To better deeds, he bundles up the spoil-- An ass's burden,--and when laden most And heaviest, light of foot steals fast away.

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For which he paid full dear; For while he spake, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear; Whereat his horse did snort as he Had heard a lion roar, And galloped off with all his might, As he had done before.

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"My duty is a most painful one," said the Pelican; "for" ("whereas," said the Swallow) "the prisoner known" ("named and described," added the Swallow), "as Dot is now before you," ("to be tried, heard, determined and adjudged," gabbled the Swallow) "on a charge of cruelty" ("and feloniously killing and slaying," prompted the Swallow) "to birds and animals," ("the term not applying to horse, mare, gelding, bull, ox, dog, cat, heifer, steer, calf, mule, ass, sheep, lamb, hog, pig, sow, goat, or other domestic animal," interposed in one breath the Swallow, quoting the Cruelty to Animals Act) "she is" ("hereby," put in the Swallow) "brought to trial on" ("divers," whispered the Swallow) "charges" ("hereinafter," said the Swallow) "to be named and described by the" ("aforesaid," interjected the Swallow) "birds and animals," ("hereinbefore mentioned," stated the Swallow) "the said animals being denizens of the Bush" ("and in no wise relating to horse, mare, gelding, bull, ox-" began the Swallow again, when the Cockatoo raised his crest, and screamed out "STOP THAT, I TELL YOU!" and the Pelican continued stating the charge.)

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This bird is commonly called the jackass penguin, from its habit, while on shore, of throwing its head backwards, and making a loud strange noise, very like the braying of an ass; but while at sea, and undisturbed, its note is very deep and solemn, and is often heard in the night-time.

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This bird is commonly called the jackass penguin, from its habit, while on shore, of throwing its head backwards, and making a loud strange noise, very like the braying of an ass; but while at sea, and undisturbed, its note is very deep and solemn, and is often heard in the night-time.

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It is very widely distributed, being sometimes found native, and sometimes combined, as AsS, realgar, As2S8, orpiment, and FeAsS, arsenopyrite.

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"Miss Dawkins is an ass," said her husband.

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"But, O'Brien, how could you be such an ass?" said Mackinnon.

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Had he not made an ass of himself during these last six months?

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Menendez heard Fernando Perez, an ensign, say aloud to his comrades: "This Asturian Corito, who knows no more of war on shore than an ass, has betrayed us all.

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He still declared to himself that he had made no sign, and that he was an oaf, an ass, a coward, in that he had not done so.

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For the place of those graces of the spirit which distinguished the ladies of the past has now been usurped by adornments of the person; and she whose dress is most richly and variously and curiously dight, accounts herself more worthy to be had in honour, forgetting, that, were one but so to array him, an ass would carry a far greater load of finery than any of them, and for all that be not a whit the more deserving of honour.

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The bully did not wait for him to finish his sentence, but, addressing him in a much sterner tone than before, called out:--"I know not why I come not down and give thee play with my cudgel, whilst thou givest me sign of life, ass, tedious driveller that thou must needs be, and drunken sot, thus to disturb our night's rest."

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"And this," he said, "from the learned ass who is not yet convinced that the FEUERZAUBER is music, and who groans like a dredge when the last act of SIEGFRIED is mentioned.

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"Oh, quit it, you double-barrelled ass!" said the American.

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"Don't be an ass, pater."

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"Oh, don't be such an ass!"

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"Oh, don't be such a blooming ass!" and Laura, stung to the quick, retaliated by taunting Pin with the change that had come to pass in her appearance.

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"Mark my words, that child'll be plucked in her 'tests'," observed M. P. "Serve her right, say I, for playing the billy-ass," returned Cupid, and killed a giant mosquito with such a whack that her wrist was stained with its blood.

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The men called an ass a savant; and said of Caffarelli Dufalga, alluding to his wooden leg, 'He laughs at all these troubles; he has one foot to France.'"]

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--"What an ass that Junot is!

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He is an ass; so much the worse for him."

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; and a masked figure, representing Doctor Gall, was seated on an ass, his head turned to the animal's tail, and receiving from the hands of a woman who followed him, and was also seated on an ass, heads covered with wigs made of long grass.

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As part of this impious ceremony, an ass, covered with a Bishop's vestments, having on his head a mitre, and the volumes of Holy Writ tied to his tail, paraded the streets.

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