The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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"Hold on, old man," said he; "Allen isn't going to be ass enough to own up to it.

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He was only ass enough to take the man's name who is the living image of him.

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"Then you're cursed badly mistaken," said the Celebrity, going back to his corner; "I'm tired of being made an ass of for you and your party."

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"An ass!" exclaimed my client, in proper indignation.

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"Yes, an ass," said the Celebrity.

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And in the night that ass of a state senator nearly gave me pneumonia by getting me out in the air to tell me they had hid you in a cave.

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Now the galoot knew old Bell was looking over the fence So he says, 'All right,' and he gives Jim the first shot--Jim fetched down the big pear, got his teeth in it, and strolled off to the house, kind of pitiful of the galoot for a, half-witted ass.

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An ass.

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A he, or jack ass: called donkey, perhaps, from the Spanish or don-like gravity of that animal, intitled also the king of Spain's trumpeter.

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A he or jack ass: so called by a lady that affected to be extremely polite and modest, who would not say Jack because it was vulgar, nor ass because it was indecent.

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JUST-ASS.

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An Ass.

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An ass when braying.

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The king of Spain's trumpeter; a braying ass.

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Sometimes the women and children who are unable to travel, or fatigued, are by turns carried in panniers by an ass, or two, or by some poor jades procured for that purpose.

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"Don't be an ass, Scott," said Mr. Dwyer, who was too excited to be polite or politic.

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Anybody but a blithering Spanish ass would have known it at the start.

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He'd eye the mob more keenly than the shows, And find less food for sport in these than those; While the poor authors--he'd suppose their play Addressed to a deaf ass that can but bray.

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I'm afraid I didn't play my part--rather made an ass of myself; I wouldn't swallow the thing, and--and Lady Astrupp--" He paused, measuring Blessington with a glance.

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Let us keep Emile's hands from money lest he should become an ass, let him take the work but not the wages.

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Awaiting the widow in her library one day, his attention was attracted by an engraving representing Schiller at Carlsbad seated upon an ass.

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"A man like that," he exclaimed, "riding upon an ass!

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Later on it occurred to him that Balaam too was mounted on an ass, and he derived a measure of consolation from the thought that Schiller was a prophet as well.

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"She has told your grace a fancy tale--I have had nothing to do with it; if you made an ass of yourself in the baker's cellar, that was your own fault."

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We all drank, for an ass loaded with refreshments followed us, but the relief afforded was of brief duration.

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I have seen at the resting places carriage loads of women of radiant beauty, and others mounted on a modest ass, such as composes the fortunes of the people of Montmorency.

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If I had been ass enough to make any such offer, he would have jumped at it.

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He had great eyes and a green coat; and reminded Flemming of the innkeeper mentioned in the Golden Ass, who had been changed by magic into a frog, and croaked to his customers from the lees of a wine-cask.

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"Hoffmann says, in one of his note-books, that, on the eleventh of March, at half past eight o'clock, precisely, he was an ass.

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Pentaur did not contradict him, but said with a smile: "Since he left the school bench, where his school-fellows called him the wild ass on account of his unruliness, he has remained always the same.

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The Gods would punish me if I hated Paaker whose father was dear to me; but the spirits of darkness would possess the old heart in my breast if it were devoid of horror for the covetous and sordid devotee, who would fain buy earthly joys of the Gods with gifts of beasts and wine, as men exchange an ass for a robe, in whose soul seethe dark promptings.

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Before the sun had risen the next morning, Nemu got himself ferried over the Nile, with the small white ass which Mena's deceased father had given him many years before.

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"No, my lord," replied Nemu, "on an ass; but a demon entered into the beast, and has struck it with sickness.

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When Nemu, riding on an ass this time, reached home, he found neither his mistress nor Nefert within.

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He had escaped wounded from the battle at Kadesh, and in terrible pain he had succeeded, by the help of an ass which he had purchased from a peasant, in reaching by paths known to hardly any one but himself, the cave where he had previously left his brother.

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Pentaur did not contradict him, but said with a smile: "Since he left the school bench, where his school-fellows called him the wild ass on account of his unruliness, he has remained always the same.

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Before the sun had risen the next morning, Nemu got himself ferried over the Nile, with the small white ass which Mena's deceased father had given him many years before.

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"No, my lord," replied Nemu, "on an ass; but a demon entered into the beast, and has struck it with sickness.

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When Nemu, riding on an ass this time, reached home, he found neither his mistress nor Nefert within.

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Bartja thanked his generous brother with undisguised warmth, but Cambyses remained cold as ice, uttered a few farewell words, and then, riding off in pursuit of a wild ass, turned his back upon him.

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If the physician cures the mistress of the house, a female ass shall be his fee, etc., etc."

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"'Nitetis, the adulterous daughter of the King of Egypt, shall be punished for her hideous crimes according to the extreme rigor of the law, thus: She shall be set astride upon an ass and led through the streets of Babylon; and all men shall see that Cambyses knows how to punish a king's daughter, as severely as his magistrates would punish the meanest beggar.

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But old Hib is not quite so stupid as to let himself be caught in that way, though some people, who ought to know better, do fancy he can be bribed and is no better than the son of an ass.

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He had met the Achaemenidae in so frank and winning a manner, had excited so many hopes by the hints he had thrown out of an expected and important war, and had aroused so much merriment by well-told jests, such as the Persians had never heard before, that there were very few who did not welcome his appearance gladly, and when--in company with the king--he separated from the rest in chase of a wild ass, they openly confessed to one another, that they had never before seen so perfect a man.

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Bartja thanked his generous brother with undisguised warmth, but Cambyses remained cold as ice, uttered a few farewell words, and then, riding off in pursuit of a wild ass, turned his back upon him.

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If the physician cures the mistress of the house, a female ass shall be his fee, etc., etc."

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But old Hib is not quite so stupid as to let himself be caught in that way, though some people, who ought to know better, do fancy he can be bribed and is no better than the son of an ass.

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I have not one which would not disgrace the veriest ass--not a single one."

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Here in this hole there is hardly a stall for an ass, and nothing but sour wine and mouldy beer.

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I have not one which would not disgrace the veriest ass--not a single one."

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Here in this hole there is hardly a stall for an ass, and nothing but sour wine and mouldy beer.

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The latter, whose weakness prevented journeying, had been left behind, and directly after the departure of the Hebrews he and his wife had been carried on an ass to the little but near the harbor, which generous Nun, his master, had bestowed on the faithful slave.

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Here Eliab interrupted her to say that they owed this and many more valuable things to the goodness of Nun, Hosea's father, who had given them, besides their little hut, wine, meal for bread, a milch cow, and also an ass, so that he could often ride out into the fresh air.

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The pylons and obelisks before the temples, which appeared to quiver in the heated air, marked the direction he was to pursue, and he soon reached the broad road which led to the market-place--a panting merchant whose ass was bearing skins of wine to the troops, told him the way.

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Taking from her robe the gold rings she had ready for this purpose, she went to the man who was riding at its head on an ass and who led the mournful procession.

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As soon as the convicts had thrown themselves on the ground the rattle of wheels, the neighing of fiery steeds, shouts of command, and sometimes the disagreeable braying of an ass were heard.

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The captain was obliged to have the hapless man placed on an ass and chain another prisoner to Joshua.

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She sat cowering on an ass, in the dull torpor of insanity, and though the passing of the convicts made a startling interruption to the silence of the wilderness, and her hearing had remained keen, she paid no heed, but continued to stare indifferently into vacancy.

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Hoary Eliab had soon died, and the grandmother and Hogla--the former on the old man's ass--had followed the Hebrews amid unspeakable difficulties.

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Taking from her robe the gold rings she had ready for this purpose, she went to the man who was riding at its head on an ass and who led the mournful procession.

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As soon as the convicts had thrown themselves on the ground the rattle of wheels, the neighing of fiery steeds, shouts of command, and sometimes the disagreeable braying of an ass were heard.

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The captain was obliged to have the hapless man placed on an ass and chain another prisoner to Joshua.

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Hoary Eliab had soon died, and the grandmother and Hogla--the former on the old man's ass--had followed the Hebrews amid unspeakable difficulties.

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Take these gold pieces and in the flower-market buy with one of them the most beautiful bunch of flowers you can find, with another you may make merry, and out of the remainder spend a drachma in hiring an ass.

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"Is it true that they worship an ass and a dove?"

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"Is it true that they worship an ass and a dove?"

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The centurion surely cannot have found the sheepskin or all would not be so still here; once since I have been here an ass has brayed, once a camel has groaned, and now already the first cock is crowing; but not a sound have I heard from human lips, not even a snore from the stout senator or his buxom wife Dorothea, and it would be strange indeed if they did not both snore."

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"You know the fable of the ass in the lion's skin, but there are lions who wear the skin of an ass on their shoulders--or of a sheep, it comes to the same thing.

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"You know the fable of the ass in the lion's skin, but there are lions who wear the skin of an ass on their shoulders--or of a sheep, it comes to the same thing.

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He could ride on an ass, and a stout Egyptian nag is not good enough for you."

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Within a few minutes of her sending Sachepris to fetch her a pair of shoes, Medius had hailed her from the shore; he wanted to speak with Karnis, and having come on an ass it was not in vain that the incensed damsel entreated him to take her with him.

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He could ride on an ass, and a stout Egyptian nag is not good enough for you."

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The Egyptian guide who rode on a brisk little ass by his side, looked up frequently and with evident pleasure at the merchant's face--not in itself a handsome one with its hollow cheeks, meagre beard and large aquiline nose--for it was lighted up by a pair of bright eyes, full of attractive thoughtfulness and genuine kindness.

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Did you never read that pretty story by Apuleius--'The Golden Ass' it is called?

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A bright-hued humped ox and an ass were turning the wheel which raised cooling waters from the Nile and poured them into a large tank from which they flowed through narrow rivulets to irrigate the beds.

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The gardener, a short, square man, with a huge hump but a clever face and good features, reflected a minute and then replied: "I wanted to make an ass smell at some roses and I put thistles under his nose."

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Where, now, thousands of Moslems, some on foot, some on richly caparisoned steeds, were passing to and fro, turbaned and robed after the manner of their tribe, with such adornment as they had stolen or adopted from intercourse with splendor-loving nations, and where long trains of camels dragged quarried stones to the building, in former times only an occasional ox-cart with creaking wheels was to be seen, an Egyptian riding an ass or a bare-backed nag, and now and then a few insolent Greek soldiers.

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He had great difficulty in walking and, as he loved to breathe the fresh air at sundown, and sometimes to study the stars at a late hour, he kept an ass of the best and finest breed.

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Robed in snowy-white linen, with new sandals on his feet, freshly shaven, and protected from the sun's rays by a crisply curled, flowing wig, after the manner of his fathers, as well as by an umbrella, he mounted his beautiful white ass in the conviction that he had done his best for his outer man, and set forth, followed by his black slave trotting on foot.

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She had seen him coming on his fine ass; she praised the steed, and then refused to believe that the rider was past eighty.

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He saw an old man in shining white linen robes, riding on a fine white ass through the crowd which reverently made way for him.

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Joanna laid her hand in some tremor on the child's little feet, but Mary called down to her: "Mother--Pulcheria--I am quite sure our old Horapollo's white ass is standing in front of the Curia, and they are putting a garland round the beast's neck--a garland of olive."

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Old as he was, in all his life he had never suffered such an insult; but he did not lay it to the score of those who had shown him the door, but to the already long one of the Syrian girl; as he rode back to his own home on his white ass, he stopped several times to speak to the passers- by.

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But the cries of those who were in danger nevertheless drowned the music of the bands performing on raised platforms and the shouts of applause which rose on all sides to hail Horapollo--who was here, there, everywhere on his white ass as brisk as a lad--or to greet some leading official.

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Old Horapollo, on his white ass, had overtaken her and stopped her on her road.

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Did you never read that pretty story by Apuleius--'The Golden Ass' it is called?

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