The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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The editor might have saved himself being writ down an ass by the public if he had withheld his nonsense.

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At length a remittance of sixty pounds was received, and they forthwith settled to buy an ass to carry the necessary portmanteau and Mary when unable to walk; and so they started on their journey in 1814, across a country recently devastated by the invading armies of Europe.

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"And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt.

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"And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the Lord, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them."

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The following incident has been quoted in this connection: One day Kanghi made an official, who had grown very wealthy, lead him, riding on an ass, round his gardens.

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In the horse and ass it takes a little longer, forty-three to forty-five weeks; in the camel, thirteen months.

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The chief trouble with the dogs was due to the fatuous conduct of the penguins, the latter showing a devouring curiosity in the proceedings and a total disregard for their own safety, with the result that a number of them were killed in spite of innumerable efforts to teach the penguins to keep out of reach, they only squawked and ducked as much as to say, 'What's it got to do with you, you silly ass?

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Like an ass I mixed a spoonful of curry powder with my melted pemmican--it [Page 416] gave me violent indigestion.

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"Either you are all asses, or I am an ass," he would declare seriously and even angrily.

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And all his friends as seriously declared: "You are an ass.

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After all you are right, Mueller, and I am an ass!"

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Don't you know that that idiot will have it all over the Street by nine o'clock to-morrow, unless he is ass enough to get scared, get out a warrant, and clap you into the Tombs before breakfast?

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It has hands like a woman, feet like a woman, the body of a woman; but its head is the head of an ass, and its hair is fur."'

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When did I ever give birth to an ass?'

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And Dschemila took the mirror and looked into it, and combed her hair with the comb, and she had no longer an ass's head, but the face of a beautiful maiden.

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"Keep your head inside, you young ass!"

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'Funny ass,' said Bristow, resuming his work.

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'Tell the old ass I've popped off.'

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'Silly ass, why did he hit at that one?

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Starving thirty hours on a bare rock, without even fresh water, being half naked and drenched with wet, having traversed an almost trackless country over dreadful rocks and mountains, laid me up at a village for a few days, but I have since crossed the island on an ass, going for six hours a day, which proves I am pretty well, now, at least.... My locket, and the valuable snuff-box Lord Sligo gave me, and two pelisses, are all I have saved--all the travelling-equipage for Smyrna is gone; the servants naked and unarmed; but the great loss of all is the medicine-chest, which saved the lives of so many travellers in Greece.'

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In case she preferred riding, her mare and her favourite black ass were led in front of the litter.

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On July 30, 1838, the masons arrived, and the entrance-gate was walled up with a kind of stone screen, leaving, however, a side-opening just large enough for an ass or cow to enter, so that this much-talked-of act of self-immurement was more an appearance than a reality.

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mun be playing his pranks with Gilbert too, as sure as I'm a living soul--I'se wager a teaster, the foul fiend has left the seaman, and got into Gilbert, that he has--when a has passed through an ass and a horse, I'se marvel what beast a will get into next."

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The waiters were so distracted by a variety of calls, that they stood motionless, in the state of the schoolman's ass between two bundles of hay, incapable of determining where they should first offer their attendance.

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The knight, in order to meditate on this unexpected adventure, sat down by his old friend, and entered into a reverie, which lasted about a quarter of an hour, and might have continued longer had it not been interrupted by the voice of Crabshaw, who bawled aloud, "Look to it, my masters--as you brew you must drink--this shall be a dear day's work to some of you; for my part, I say nothing--the braying ass eats little grass--one barber shaves not so close, but another finds a few stubble-- you wanted to catch a capon, and you've stole a cat--he that takes up his lodgings in a stable, must be contented to lie upon litter."

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Or, perhaps, of that class, who, in the sapience of taste, are disgusted with those very flavours in the productions of their own country which have yielded infinite delectation to their faculties, when imported from another clime; and d--n an author in despite of all precedent and prescription;--who extol the writings of Petronius Arbiter, read with rapture the amorous sallies of Ovid's pen, and chuckle over the story of Lucian's ass; yet, if a modern author presumes to relate the progress of a simple intrigue, are shocked at the indecency and immorality of the scene;--who delight in following Guzman d'Alfarache, through all the mazes of squalid beggary; who with pleasure accompany Don Quixote and his squire, in the lowest paths of fortune; who are diverted with the adventures of Scarron's ragged troop of strollers, and highly entertained with the servile situations of Gil Blas; yet, when a character in humble life occasionally occurs in a performance of our own growth, exclaim, with an air of disgust, "Was ever anything so mean!

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Inconspicuous for his thrift or "forehandedness," it was nevertheless a common circumstance with him to have hundreds of pounds, in pay and prize-money, to his credit at his bankers, the Navy Pay-Office; and though during a voyage he earned his money as hardly as a horse, and was as poor as a church mouse, yet the moment he stepped ashore he made it fly by the handful and squandered it, as the saying went, like an ass.

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Stuyvesant Milsom, who thought Archibald a bit of an ass, was always ready to sit and listen to his mother on the subject, it being, however, an understood thing that at the conclusion of the seance she yielded one or two saffron-coloured bills towards his racing debts.

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"You ass with four ears and a tenfold bray!

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Now show your courage or you shall be sewn up alive in an ass's hide and baited to death with dogs.

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Mine, too--and tell the duke had he not employed an ass for his messenger he would have learned that two thousand soldiers are concealed within these palace walls.

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Now show your courage or you shall be sewn up alive in an ass's hide and baited to death with dogs.

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Mine, too--and tell the duke had he not employed an ass for his messenger he would have learned that two thousand soldiers are concealed within these palace walls.

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Balaam's ass spoke once for every Christian; every animal spoke once for the Indian.

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He passed the winter at about 52° north latitude, in that expanse of water which has ever since been appropriately known ass Hudson's Bay.

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Made an ass of!

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A friend describing him as a great ass, 'Not even a _great_ ass,' said Demonax.

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Of his lieutenants, one was short, thick-set, paunchy, and flat-nosed, with great upright ears; he trembled perpetually, leant upon a narthex-wand, rode mostly upon an ass, wore saffron to his superior's purple, and was a very suitable general of division for him.

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When the two armies came to sight of one another, the Indians drew up their elephants in front and advanced their phalanx; on the other side, Dionysus held the centre, Silenus led his right, and Pan his left wing; his colonels and captains were the satyrs, and the word for the day _evoe._ Straightway tambourines clattered, cymbals sounded to battle, a satyr blew the war-note on his horn, Silenus's ass sent forth a martial bray, and the maenads leapt shrill-voiced on the foe, girt with serpents and baring now the steel of their thyrsus-heads.

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"In Rome, you ass!

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I don't want to discourage you, but, long ago as it is, you can't have forgotten what an ass you made of yourself at that house-supper at school.

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But it seems that the silly ass took it into his head to propose to Billie just before dinner-- apparently he's loved her for years in a silent, self-effacing way--and of course she told him that she was engaged to me, and the thing upset him to such an extent that he says the idea of sitting down at a piano and helping me give an imitation of Frank Tinney revolts him.

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I take it that after my departure you made the most colossal ass of yourself, but why let that worry you?

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This young ass, Eggshaw ... what time did you dock this morning?"

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"Ass!" said Derek.

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"If I were an ass like Algy Martyn," said Derek, "I wouldn't go about advertising the fact that I'd been born.

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I have eaten rose-leaves and am no more a golden ass, so to speak!

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"A silly ass at the club named Jimmy Monroe told me to take a flutter in some rotten thing called Amalgamated Dyes.

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He wondered whether he had made a frightful ass of himself, spraying bank-notes all over the place like that to comparative strangers.

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"Well... Well, look here, it makes me seem a fearful ass and all that, but I'd better tell you.

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Well, like an ass, I sent round to Derek to bail us out, and that's how he heard of the thing.

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"You silly ass!"

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Good old Ronny told me what you were, and, like a silly ass, I wasted a lot of time trying to make him believe you weren't that sort of chap at all.

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But Georgie, she would continue to make such a dreadful ass of herself, and think it was my fault.

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"Oh, Georgie, she is an ass," she said.

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* * * * * "What did the little ass say to you?"

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"Thou ass!" the Prince continued.

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"Oh, don't be an utter ass; you know I mean Virginia."

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There was something almost pitiable, he told himself in the complacency with which that self-satisfied ass Morson would come and take her from him.

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"I am a weather-vane, a leaf in the wind, a--an ass.

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"Oh, I say don't be an ass," he implored.

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Do you think if it were anything less than pure madness on your part that I should stand here a moment and talk like this?--but because I am in love with you, Betty, it doesn't follow that I'm an utter ass."

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"Oh, don't be an utter ass; you know I mean Virginia."

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There was something almost pitiable, he told himself in the complacency with which that self-satisfied ass Morson would come and take her from him.

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"I am a weather-vane, a leaf in the wind, a--an ass.

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"Oh, I say don't be an ass," he implored.

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It would be an awful nuisance if young Billy made an ass of himself in any way.

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He loves making an ass of himself.

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"But now," said Jimmy Silver, sinking his voice to a melodramatic whisper, "the villagers have left us to continue their revels on the green, our wicked uncle has gone to London, his sinister retainer, Jasper Murgleshaw, is washing his hands in the scullery sink, and--_we are alone!_" "Don't be an ass," pleaded Kennedy.

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'All right,' says Kay; 'I always thought Kennedy a bit of an ass myself, but if he's studied under Silver he ought to know how to manage a house.

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So that, when Wren lifted up his voice in the junior dayroom, and exhorted the fags to go and make a row in the passage outside Kennedy's study, and--from a safe distance, and having previously ensured a means of rapid escape--to fling boots at his door, Billy damped the popular enthusiasm which had been excited by the proposal by kicking Wren with some violence, and begging him not to be an ass.

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"Don't be an ass," he said.

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I have made an ass of myself.

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"But if you aren't playing----" "You ass.

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"You're a bit of an ass at times, aren't you?" said Milton, kindly.

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"Let go, you ass, you're hurting."

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We'd just got the kettle going when that ass M'Todd plunged against the table and upset the lot over my bags.

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You had to fight for a place at the fire, and when you had got it 'twas not always easy to keep it, and there was no privacy, and the fellows were always bear-fighting, so that it was impossible to read a book quietly for ten consecutive minutes without some ass heaving a cushion at you or turning out the gas.

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"I was ass enough to keep a large pot full of it here, and they used it all, every drop.

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"Don't be an ass, man."

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"Look here, Renford," he said, "if you're trying to green me--" "I'm not, you ass," replied Renford indignantly.

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What a pompous ass Bailey was!

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An eye-witness to the fact, who has since published it in print, told me, that in France, before the revolution, he had repeatedly seen a woman yoked with an ass to the plough; and the brutal ploughman applying his whip indifferently to either.

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The Somali ass is generally speaking a miserable animal.

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Our baggage was again decimated: the greater part was left with Adan, and an ass carried only what was absolutely necessary,--a change of clothes, a book or two, a few biscuits, ammunition, and a little tobacco.

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In the Saharah, according to Richardson, the skull of an ass averts the evil eye from gardens.

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[34] "If you want a brother (in arms)," says the Eastern proverb, "buy a Nubian, if you would be rich, an Abyssinian, and if you require an ass, a Sawahili (negro)."

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[41] In Harar a horse or a mule is never lost, whereas an ass straying from home is rarely seen again.

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A Somali was despatched to the city under orders to load an ass with onions, tobacco, spices, wooden platters, and Karanji [2], which our penniless condition had prevented our purchasing.

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"Don't be an ass," suggested Gethryn; "you'd much better help me to get up."

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Well, I'm not such an ass that I didn't first see madame and get her to confirm his statement.

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He had been a silly ass to imagine all that rubbish about it, and a much sillier ass to leave his safe bedroom and come out to this wild and desolate spot all alone.

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"I have been the biggest ass in the world," he said.

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You are aware that the offspring of the ass and the horse, or rather of the he-ass and the mare, is what is called a mule; and, on the other hand, the offspring of the stallion and the she-ass is what is called a hinny.

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Then, if you look at the hinny,--the result of the union of the stallion and the she-ass, then you find it is the horse that has the predominance; that the head is more like that of the horse, the ears are shorter, the legs coarser, and the type is altogether altered; while the voice, instead of being a bray, is the ordinary neigh of the horse.

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