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Questions that carry foregone conclusions on the face of them write the questioner down an ass, which I also acknowledge.

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(3) From letters received from Major St. George Burton (to whom I have the pleasure of dedicating this work), Lady Bancroft, Mr. D. MacRitchie, Mr. E. S. Mostyn Pryce (representative of Miss Stisted), Gunley Hall, Staffordshire, M. Charles Carrington, of Paris, who sent me various notes, including an account of Burton's unfinished translation of Apuleius's Golden Ass, the MS. of which is in his possession, the Very Rev.

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The Golden Ass Chapter XXXVII Death of Sir Richard Burton, 20th October 1890 172.

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Everybody got into good humour when he began: "Oh take these purple robes away, Give back my cloak of camel's hair," and they laughed till they fell on their backs when he came to the line where the desert beauty calls her Royal husband a "fatted ass."

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On the third day, mounted on an ass, he made for Muna and took part in the ceremony called Stoning the Devil.

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The Golden Ass and other works left unfinished.

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The Golden Ass.

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Another work that Burton left unfinished was a translation of The Golden Ass of Apuleius--a work known to Englishmen chiefly by Bohn's edition,[FN#626] and the renderings of the episode of Cupid and Psyche by Adlington and Walter Pater (in Marius the Epicurean).

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The Golden Ass, and other Works.

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Let us suppose, if the prosperity of nations were laid on the one hand, and their ruin on the other, and he were desired to choose; that he would stand like the schoolman's ass, irresolute and undetermined, between equal motives; or rather, like the same ass between two pieces of wood or marble, without any inclination or propensity to either side.

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Meeting the victim of Mademoiselle's temper in the passage, I said to her: "But why didn't you say you hadn't done it, ass!"

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He knew of course that the sunset vapours on the marsh were unhealthy: everybody on the farm had a touch of the ague, and it was a saying in the village that no one lived at Pontesordo who could buy an ass to carry him away; but that Donna Laura, in skirting the place on a clear morning of frost, should show such fear of infection, gave a sinister emphasis to the ill-repute of the region.

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One man having written a seditious book, called Balaam's Ass, against the king, for which he was condemned to death, was accused at his execution of having professed atheism.

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In the trenches of the First World War, cheese was given the name 'chokem ass' because the soldiers eating this as a part of their daily ration developed severe constipation.

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Pretty good that, don't you think; Tommy is a perfect ass in every respect."

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And idly considering Tommy's perfection as an ass, he turned and gazed down into the ravine where Courtney had built some attractive little waterfalls and cave paths.

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Tommy alone they found, but he knew so little and was so upset by what they told him that they were sorry he, too, had not attended a week-end party; and they left him gasping like a sea-lion, with his toupee down over his ear, and saying between gasps over and over again with perfectly vacant eyes: "Eugene's an ass!

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Perfect ass, don't you know!"

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Speech in brief and sense in mass-Slippery for the jenny-ass!

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"-even such a virtuous and sincere ass would learn in a short time to have recourse to the FURCA of Horace, NATURAM EXPELLERE: with what results?

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W'isky was just weigh-in' me out one w'en 'e saw the spider fastened on my finger; then 'e knew he'd made a jack ass of 'imself.

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Has that callow ass, Moon, with his eternal tales about his week in Paris, any right to---" "No," interrupted Marcia emphatically.

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He was such an ASS when he'd been drinking.

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Has that callow ass, Moon, with his eternal tales about his week in Paris, any right to---" "No," interrupted Marcia emphatically.

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He was such an ASS when he'd been drinking.

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They sold the grain at inordinate prices, so that the amount of grain a single ass could carry brought eight of their besants, which they called "purpled," approximately 120 sous.

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This was easy to do for him who made himself audible to Cain and Hagar, and made an angel visible to an ass.

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It's damned good of you--but it's my one pride left--the pride of both of us--the missus and me--that we've never borrowed money--" "But it isn't borrowed, you silly ass," cried Paul cheerfully.

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"Ass!" comes the chorus.

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"Ass!" says Poilpot, "if you know how to light it you know how to relight it, seeing that if you light it, it's because it's gone out, and you might say that you're relighting it when you're lighting it."

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"I did not see it."--"Ass!

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Who's the complete ass that's making a light?

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Don't be an ass, J.

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Come, this chap knows what he's writing about--not like that Middleton ass, with his 'Dianas' and 'Amazing Marriages.'"

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He was a brute, he cried, a senseless, selfish ass, who had no right to such a wife, who was not worth a single one of the tears that by now were trembling on Laura's lashes.

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Three months after, she happened to encounter him on the same spot, when he accosted her, without any previous salutation, "You were telling me about a donkey, Miss ---, a donkey of your brother's--Braham, I think you called him--yes, Braham; a strange name for an ass!

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"I never could stand that ass Parker!"

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Martie wondered why she liked to hear Rodney Parker called an ass.

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Not long ago in a desolate glen in the south of the county I met two policemen driving an ass-cart with a coffin on it, and a little further on I stopped an old man and asked him what had happened.

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Then I was a veterinary surgeon, curing side-slip, splay-foot, spavin, splints, glanders, and the various ailments of the horse and ass.

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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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'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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She answered, 'The shape of an Ass that will carry two on its back, thou Perversity!'

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Go now, and wait outside the city in the shape of an Ass, with this saddle on thy back.'

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there was the Genie by a well under a palm, and he standing in the shape of an Ass, saddled.

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Surely, the Ass went at such a pace as never Ass went before in this world, resting not by the rivulets, nor under the palms, nor beside the date-boughs; it was as if the Ass scurried without motion of his legs, so swiftly went he.

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Then said she, 'Dismount, and be wary of moving to the front or to the rear of this Ass, and measure thy distance from the lash of his tail.'

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Then said she, 'To-morrow, at noon, we shall reach near the summit of the mountain and the Well of Paravid, if my power last over this Ass; and from that time thou wilt be on the high road to greatness, so fail not to remember what I have done for thee, and be not guilty of ingratitude when thy hand is the stronger.'

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Then she and Shibli Bagarag mounted him again, and she said to him, 'It is well thou wert more vigilant than I, and that the sun rose not on this Ass while I slept, or my enchantment would have thawed on him, and he would have 'scaped us.'

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or the jealousy of this Ass will be aroused, and of a surety he'll spill us.'

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Then they said, 'O Sultan of asses, ruler of monkeys, better that than thyself an ass and an ape!

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So he touched the lips of an animal with the waters of Paravid, and the animal prated volubly in our language of the kick this ass had given him, and the jibe of that monkey, and of his desire of litigation with such and such a beast for pasture; and the others when they spake had the same complaints to make.

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She answered, 'The shape of an Ass that will carry two on its back, thou Perversity!'

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Go now, and wait outside the city in the shape of an Ass, with this saddle on thy back.'

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there was the Genie by a well under a palm, and he standing in the shape of an Ass, saddled.

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Surely, the Ass went at such a pace as never Ass went before in this world, resting not by the rivulets, nor under the palms, nor beside the date-boughs; it was as if the Ass scurried without motion of his legs, so swiftly went he.

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Then said she, 'Dismount, and be wary of moving to the front or to the rear of this Ass, and measure thy distance from the lash of his tail.'

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Then said she, 'To-morrow, at noon, we shall reach near the summit of the mountain and the Well of Paravid, if my power last over this Ass; and from that time thou wilt be on the high road to greatness, so fail not to remember what I have done for thee, and be not guilty of ingratitude when thy hand is the stronger.'

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Then she and Shibli Bagarag mounted him again, and she said to him, 'It is well thou wert more vigilant than I, and that the sun rose not on this Ass while I slept, or my enchantment would have thawed on him, and he would have 'scaped us.'

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or the jealousy of this Ass will be aroused, and of a surety he'll spill us.'

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Then they said, 'O Sultan of asses, ruler of monkeys, better that than thyself an ass and an ape!

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So he touched the lips of an animal with the waters of Paravid, and the animal prated volubly in our language of the kick this ass had given him, and the jibe of that monkey, and of his desire of litigation with such and such a beast for pasture; and the others when they spake had the same complaints to make.

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And I'm a Ass!

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Hang that confounded old ass of a Benson!

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He's a boy, this young ass!

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"You're an ass, Brayder," the nobleman exclaimed.

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And I'm a Ass!

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Hang that confounded old ass of a Benson!

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He's a boy, this young ass!

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"You're an ass, Brayder," the nobleman exclaimed.

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It's an ass that trusts a fair woman at all, or has anything to do with the confounded set.

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"Ass!" muttered Edward, seeing by the light of his perception, that he was too thoroughly forgiven.

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"And now, farewell, my worthy ass!

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I know what loving a woman is; and a man in my position might be ass enough to--all sorts of things.

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It's an ass that trusts a fair woman at all, or has anything to do with the confounded set.

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"Ass!" muttered Edward, seeing by the light of his perception, that he was too thoroughly forgiven.

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"And now, farewell, my worthy ass!

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I know what loving a woman is; and a man in my position might be ass enough to--all sorts of things.

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The chairman grasped it: 'You're a hot-headed young fool, sir: you're an ill-tempered ferocious young ass.

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I could do that too, and it would not break me; so don't be a proud young ass, or I 'll throw my money to the geese.

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I dare say the Company will go to the dogs--every ass will follow a Duke.

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You ass, Ferdinand!

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The chairman grasped it: 'You're a hot-headed young fool, sir: you're an ill-tempered ferocious young ass.

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I could do that too, and it would not break me; so don't be a proud young ass, or I 'll throw my money to the geese.

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I dare say the Company will go to the dogs--every ass will follow a Duke.

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You ass, Ferdinand!

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Besides, my good Pericles, none but an ass would quarrel with you.

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"Do you think I can't deal with your women as well as your men, you ass?" said Weisspriess, enraged by the scandal of the scene.

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Besides, my good Pericles, none but an ass would quarrel with you.

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"Do you think I can't deal with your women as well as your men, you ass?" said Weisspriess, enraged by the scandal of the scene.

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I know he is, but there 's an ass mounted on the good fellow.

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I know he is, but there 's an ass mounted on the good fellow.

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blind ass!

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blind ass!

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For personal and patriotic motives, I would have cheered her and been like a wild ass combed and groomed and tamed by the adorable creature.

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For personal and patriotic motives, I would have cheered her and been like a wild ass combed and groomed and tamed by the adorable creature.

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