The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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with the jaw-bone of an ass!'

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"Because they've killed the captain and taken over the command themselves, you ass!

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Ours is a conceited ass.

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"Oh, get out of the way, you ass!" she said, pushing him aside.

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"Because they've killed the captain and taken over the command themselves, you ass!

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Ours is a conceited ass.

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"Oh, get out of the way, you ass!" she said, pushing him aside.

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"_Now_ I've made an ass of myself!" thought Staniford.

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"Yes," said the latter, submitting; "but the difficulty about a thing of this sort is that you don't know whether you haven't been an ass.

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A man can do no more than offer himself, and if he does less, after he's tried everything to show that he's in love with a woman, and to make her in love with him, he's a scamp to refrain from a bad motive, and an ass to refrain from a good one.

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Whereupon Coifi, who as a priest has hitherto been obliged to ride upon an ass with wagging ears, calls loudly for a horse, a prancing horse, a stallion, and cavorts off, a crowd running at his heels, to hurl a spear into the shrine where he lately worshiped.

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Don't be an ass.

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Silly old ass!

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Silly ass!

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I have already told you that he was a silly ass.

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They say Heaven tempers the wind to the shorn lamb; but it tempers it too, sometimes, to the hobbled ass; and so it has done by me.

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"You never thought I'd go making such a silly ass of myself with little Romola?

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"Now, Mr. Edestone," he said, "we have had a deuced good time together, and to tell the truth I am sorry to turn you over because I do not believe these old fellows on the General Staff will understand you as I do, but don't be an ass, I beg of you, and stand up against these wise old chaps.

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I am not such a conceited ass as to imagine anything of the sort.

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Merton found a book and read until past twelve, and then came to the conclusion that the author was an ass.

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I suppose you are put out about the money--" "Don't be an ass, Dresser.

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Wealth hasn't made me a solemn ass, fenced in and unapproachable.

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Really I feel sorry for you--to have such a clever scheme messed by such an ass."

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"If the part that may be glamour should by chance rub clean away, there ought to be something to make one feel he wasn't wholly an ass."

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I had been making an ass of myself, and that evening I got the first instalment of my sound and just punishment.

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Repeat ad infinitum, for the law is for the laughter of the strong, and the public is an eager ass.

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I assure you, when I see him again, I'll be as friendly as ever--only a bit less of a trusting ass, I fancy.

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"What an ass I've been making of myself!" said I to myself.

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And I could see myself as I really had been during those months of social struggling--an ass, braying and gamboling in a lion's skin--to impress the ladies!

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I set out for "home" half a dozen times at least, that afternoon, before I pulled myself together, called myself an ass, and, with a pause at Delmonico's for a drink, which I ordered and then rejected, finally pushed myself in at the door.

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And the unilluminate, Whose brows are brass, Who weep on every Sabbath day For Jesus riding on an ass, Scarce know the ass is they, Now ridden by his effigy, The publican with Jesus' painted mask, Along a way where fumes of odorless gas First spur then fell them from the task.

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"The desert-dust hath dimmed it, the flying wild-ass knows, The scared white leopard winds it across the taintless snows.

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Pray teach me how to write two A's without producing something like an _Ass_.

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Pray teach me how to write two A's without producing something like an _Ass_.

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"-Like an ass, Johnny Guthrie," said his commander; "thy long nose smelling the dinner, thy long ears hearing the music, and thy short discretion not enabling thee to decide which of them thou didst prefer.-Hark!

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His bauble, made of ebony, was crested as usual with a fool's head, with ass's ears formed of silver; but so small, and so minutely carved, that, till very closely examined, it might have passed for an official baton of a more solemn character.

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my Lord King," said Charles, "this is ever the way our counsellors serve us.-If they have got hold of aught which they consider as important for our ear, they look as grave upon the matter and are as proud of their burden as an ass of a new pack saddle.-Some one bid Crevecoeur come to us directly!-He comes from the frontiers of Liege, and we, at least" (he laid some emphasis on the pronoun), "have no secrets in that quarter which we would shun to have proclaimed before the assembled world."

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For know that my friend Charles of Burgundy and I have not taken away our kinsman Louis's crown, which he was ass enough to put into our power, but have only filed and clipt it a little, and, though reduced to the size of a spangle, it is still pure gold.

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"I am not ass enough to expect that I shall escape without some ransom-but let it be a reasonable one-reason I am ever Willing to listen to at Paris or at Plessis, equally as at Peronne."

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"Be hushed, Ludovic," said Crawford; "ye are an ass, my friend, and ken not the blessing Heaven has sent you in this braw callant.-And now tell me, Quentin, my man, hath the King any advice of this brave, Christian, and manly resolution of yours, for, poor man, he had need, in his strait, to ken what he has to reckon upon.

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"As soon as Duryodhana was born, he began to cry and bray like an ass.

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The family of Mainwaring (pronounced Mannering), of Bromborough, had an ass's head for a crest.

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The family of Mainwaring (pronounced Mannering), of Bromborough, had an ass's head for a crest.

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There is Samson belaboring the Philistines with the jawbone of an ass.

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There is Samson belaboring the Philistines with the jawbone of an ass.

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The rough title of an old play is _The Devil is an Ass_, and if that is not true about him, it is absolutely true about those who listen to his lies.

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"And I give you my word, I was such an ass that I did open the case and looked all through it.

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I wet my lips with my tongue, and said to myself, 'Don't be an ass.

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Don't be an ass.'

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Cards sometimes wondered whether Peter cared for him at all and whether he wasn't really fonder of that "stupid ass Galleon" who never had a word to say for himself.

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"I did it 'cause Rupert said I couldn't--Rupert's silly ass."

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I've been an ass to bother you with it all and while we've got each other things can't be so bad."

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Young Tony Gale and young Robin Trojan and my young ass of a brother ... don't want you to join that lot, Peter, my boy.

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What an absolute ass!

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I don't suppose there's any girl in London been so wrapped in cotton wool all her life, and that old ass of a father and still more irritating ass of a mother would go on wrapping her still if they had their way.

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Nevertheless, it hurt, although it was only that young ass of a Galleon.

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Reeds in a trice are sprouting and rustling in murmuring breezes: "Midas, o Midas the King--bears the ears of an ass!"

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The doctor's portrait is the likeness of an ass.

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"The proper treatment has as much chance of occurring to the greatest ass in the profession," he answered, "as it has of occurring to me.

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You stupid ass, do you think I cared about what _you_ could find out?

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"I hope that ass won't want me," he said, thinking of his medical colleague, "for at least a week to come."

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One of them didn't know his name, and didn't want to know it; another wasn't certain whether he was a tallow-chandler or a button-maker; a third, who had met with him somewhere, described him as a damned ass; a fourth said, 'Oh, don't be hard on him; he's only a vulgar old Cockney, without an _h_ in his whole composition.'

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What an unspeakable ass!"

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"They are as wicked as the red ass, and as spiteful as monkeys."

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"There was never a situation in state history like this one you have precipitated, sir, and if I have made an ass of myself I was copying current manners."

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"Tell Bessie not to be an ass then; and come to bed."

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"Bessie's such an old ass!" the boy excused himself.

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"I won't be called an ass by Bernard!

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Your mother's running her head at buying the young ass off.

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"Try not to be an ass, my dear fellow.

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I suppose the old ass knows his own business, and one day the collection may be completed by a telegram "Regretting to announce, etc.

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"Balaam's ass has spoken.

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Tintoret in one of his pictures has taken the Samson of Michael Angelo, put an eagle under him, placed thunder and lightning in his right hand instead of the jawbone of an ass, and thus turned him into a Jupiter.

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While they were disputing "Before their eyes did pass, Laden with grapes, a gardener's ass.

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The Ghorawalla in his native state is no more like our domesticated Pandoo than the wild ass of Cutch is like the costermonger's moke.

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But Pericles broke in: "Unless my eyes deceive me, I saw just now a pair of ears projecting from behind the pillar of Hermes, and these ass's ears can only belong to the notorious tanner."

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This Aristophanes is an ass!

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He who believes not in miracles is therefore an ass."

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Pope John XVI came riding backwards on an ass.

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The Hermit rode on an ass at the head of them, and knew not what went on behind him--robbery, drunkenness, and licence.

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Before the altar stood an ass with an open book before it; below the ass stood a priest and read mass.

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You are an ass."

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He is an ass!

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"Then wake it up, you ass!

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The world has nothing to do with how the old ass looked; there is nothing to see in that.

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But what irritated him more than anything else was the fact that the desk nearest to her was occupied by a "young ass" who was always gazing into her eyes and everlastingly consulting the ledger, bending over her shoulders so that he almost touched her with his chin.

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And that was quite natural, for she saw more of the young ass than of her husband.

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"The young ass had accompanied her to the front door."

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"Supposing anybody who knew them had seen her at three o'clock in the morning in the company of the young ass?"

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Presently a glass door was opened and the young ass put in his head: "Are you here, Annie?"

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The young ass called his wife Annie, and was evidently on very familiar terms with her.

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And as to the spiritual, she was spiritually married to the young ass rather than to him, for they exchanged views on the management of the goods department daily and hourly, while she took no interest at all in the cultivation of forests.

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Besides those just mentioned, the goat, sheep, ass, and hog had become man's useful servants.

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As soon as he was born, he screamed and brayed like an ass.

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If you eat no beans on Christmas Eve, you will become an ass.

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In Ireland the following folk-beliefs obtain regarding the ass and the cow:-- "Joseph and Mary fled into Egypt with the infant Jesus, on an ass.

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This same ass returned to Nazareth seven years later with them on its back, travelling in the night, since which time it has been the wisest of all animals; it was made sure-footed for Christ to ride on his triumphal entry into Jerusalem, and it remains the most sure-footed of all beasts.

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Ass.

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Ass.

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