The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Now therefore go, and smite Amalec, and utterly destroy all that he hath: spare him not, nor covet anything that is his: but slay both man and woman, child and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

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And Isai took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid of the flock, and sent them by the hand of David, his son, to Saul.

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And Nobe, the city of the priests, he smote with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and ox, and ass, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

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And when she had gotten upon an ass, and was coming down to the foot of the mountain, David and his men came down over against her, and she met them.

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And Abigail arose, and made haste, and got upon an ass, and five damsels went with her, her waiting maids, and she followed the messengers of David, and became his wife.

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And he answering, said: My lord, O king, my servant despised me: for I thy servant spoke to him to saddle me an ass, that I might get on and go with the king: for I thy servant am lame.

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And he said to his sons: Saddle me an ass.

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She called her husband, and said: Send with me, I beseech thee, one of thy servants, and an ass, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.

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And she saddled an ass, and commanded her servant: Drive, and make haste, make no stay in going: And do that which I bid thee.

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And there was a great famine in Samaria: and so long did the siege continue, till the head of an ass was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cabe of pigeons' dung, for five pieces of silver.

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Will the wild ass bray when he hath grass?

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A vain man is lifted up into pride, and thinketh himself born free like a wild ass's colt.

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39:5. Who hath sent out the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his bonds?

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A whip for a horse, and a snaffle for an ass, and a rod for the back of fools.

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The wild ass is the lion's prey in the desert: so also the poor are devoured by the rich.

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Fodder, and a wand, and a burden are for an ass: bread, and correction, and work for a slave.

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And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a rider upon an ass, and a rider upon a camel: and he beheld them diligently with much heed.

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A rider upon an ass, etc...

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A wild ass accustomed to the wilderness in the desire of his heart, snuffed up the wind of his love: none shall turn her away: all that seek her shall not fail: in her monthly filth they shall find her.

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He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, rotten and cast forth without the gates of Jerusalem.

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For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath given gifts to his lovers.

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Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion, shout for joy, O daughter of Jerusalem: BEHOLD THY KING will come to thee, the just and saviour: he is poor, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.

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Matthew Chapter 21 Christ rides into Jerusalem upon an ass.

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Saying to them: Go ye into the village that is over against you: and immediately you shall find an ass tied and a colt with her.

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Tell ye the daughter of Sion: Behold thy king cometh to thee, meek and sitting upon an ass and a colt, the foal of her that is used to the yoke.

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Mark Chapter 11 Christ enters into Jerusalem upon an ass.

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And answering them, he said: Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fall into a pit and will not immediately draw him out, on the sabbath day?

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Christ rides upon an ass and weeps over Jerusalem.

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Saying: Go into the town which is over against you, at your entering into which you shall find the colt of an ass tied, on which no man ever hath sitten: loose him and bring him hither.

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His riding into Jerusalem upon an ass.

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And Jesus found a young ass and sat upon it, as it is written: 12:15.

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Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold thy king cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.

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"It is a pity" he writes to Mr. Ludlow, "that telling people what's right, won't make them do it; but not a new fact, though that ass the world has quite forgotten it; and assures you that dear sweet 'incompris' mankind only wants to be told the way to the millennium to walk willingly into it--which is a lie.

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And I have heard from T---- twice to-day, and he is agreeable, which, if he wasn't, he is an ass, and don't know half a loaf is better than no bread, and you musn't look a gift horse in the mouth, but all is as right as a dog-fox down wind and vi.

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"Locke, my boy, I've made an ass of myself, and got into a rage, and broken a good old resolution of mine, and a promise that I made to my dear little woman--bless her!

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"Hold your tongue, you ass!" said Crossthwaite, as he clapped his hand over his mouth, expecting every moment to find us all three in the Rhadamanthine grasp of a policeman; while I stood laughing, as people will, for mere disgust at the ridiculous, which almost always intermingles with the horrible.

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'You're an old ass,' remarked one of them.

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But just as our Lord would have fulfilled the prophecy about the King coming 'meek, and having salvation,' though He had never ridden on a literal ass into the literal Jerusalem, so our Lord would have 'fulfilled' the shadow of the Passover with the substance of His own sacrifice if there had never been this insignificant correspondence, in outward things, between the two.

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I could no longer be satisfied with writing an article about anything so simple and straight-ahead as the "Crimes of Futurity," that any ass might arrive at, ay, simply deduct from history.

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"Yes," explains her son, "he catched me by the throat; I couldn't breaths for ever so long," and turning upon the little man who is the cause of the quarrel, and who is standing grinning maliciously at him, he gets perfectly furious, and yells, "Go to hell, Chaldean ass that you are!

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Ass.

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Well, one day--it was in Egypt--I was carrying on a bit, when a pious sort of ass I knew at home, who was standing by, said--'I wonder what your mother'd think if she heard you now, Harry Joy.'

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"Ass!" snapped Kit.

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ass!" was the only retort he could think of.

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Well, one day--it was in Egypt--I was carrying on a bit, when a pious sort of ass I knew at home, who was standing by, said--'I wonder what your mother'd think if she heard you now, Harry Joy.'

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"Ass!" snapped Kit.

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ass!" was the only retort he could think of.

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"Then a war-ship's crew rescued me; and I broke down completely, and acted like a silly ass.

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_Anno Domini_ Eighteen-Seven, Father Dominguez (now in heaven,-- _Obiit_, Eighteen twenty-seven) Found the spring, and found it, too, By his mule's miraculous cast of a shoe; For his beast--a descendant of Balaam's ass-- Stopped on the instant, and would not pass.

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"Are you _never_ going to get over that, you ass?"

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Why, you poor ass, if you haven't noticed how I've been playing godmother to you all the way through this house-party--" "I have.

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"Oh, you _perfect_ ass!"

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Oh, Oliver, you ass, I _will_ be pretty and polite about your saving my life."

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"Call him a weakling and a fool and an ass, if you will, but does that explain everything?

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"Call him a weakling and a fool and an ass, if you will, but does that explain everything?

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Whose ox or whose ass has he unjustly taken?

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I know that you wished it, and that I have been a mere ass;[18] but it is time for me to be loved by myself, since I can get no love from them."

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Perhaps "own brother to an ass" would be a more proper rendering.

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That silly old ass Jenkins"--Jenkins was the head gardener--"is giving his family a treat, instead of coming down on me.

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Do tell me if I'm making an ass of myself.

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Am I making an ass of myself?"

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"He's an old ass," said Evadne.

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I've been much more of a father to her than that damned old ass Mountshire"--Evadne, again; though for once in her life she had exercised restraint--"and I hate to see her unhappy.

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* * * * * _(A month later)_ My Dear Madam,-- Herewith the end of the romance I have inflicted on your obliging attention, and I am now to tell you your comments were fully justified and I have writ myself down an ass and invoked as fine a lampoon as Pope could write in gall and vinegar.

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And the soundness of this will appear upon particular inspection: for horse, dog, and man have different Pleasures; as Heraclitus says, an ass would sooner have hay than gold; in other words, provender is pleasanter to asses than gold.

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"What has happened," he said, balancing a handful of wet clay in one hand and looking laughingly up at her, where she stood on the model-stand, "is that a pretty girl strolled in here one day and held up a mirror to a solemn ass who was stalking theatrically through life.

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That solemn ass is very grateful for the glimpse he had of himself.

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You will often hear a complacent ass of a husband and father say to an author: 'My wife and daughters know your books, but I can't find time for anything but the papers nowadays.

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In club surroundings he always struck me as an ineffable young ass, loud and talkative and perpetually breaking the silence rules.

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Yes, I remember Kernin and Morse had a slight discussion about it-oh, perfectly amicable-as to whether Morse had fumbled with the net or whether Kernin-the whole argument was perfectly friendly-had made an ass of himself by not "striking" soon enough.

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As I was riding to my farm at Widdington, one summer's day, with the Reverend William White, the present Rector of Teffont, in Wiltshire, who was on a visit at my house at Chisenbury, we perceived a brute, in the shape of a man, belabouring with a large stick a poor ass, who had sunk down under the weight of his load, a large heavy bag of ruddle.

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Exasperated at the fellow's brutality, I rode up to him, and having seized his bludgeon, as he was brandishing it in the air about to apply it once more to the already lacerated rump of the poor ass, with an effort of strength I wrenched the bludgeon from the inhuman monster's hand, and threw it with great violence sixty or seventy yards over the hedge, into an adjoining corn-field.

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This was the only ass I ever was master of in my life; in fact, I always objected to the keeping of an ass, because I could not bear to see the ill-treatment to which they are generally subject.

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This operation being performed upon the Customhouse ass and his two supporters, I proceeded to address the meeting, for the purpose of winding up the subject upon which I had been dilating, when Squire Goodford spoke to order.

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Now, if, in the conducting of this business, he shall be found to have acted the part of a stupid country jolterhead, or of a head-strong insolent ass, let him be left to the public contempt; but, if he shall be found to have carried the matter through with due respect towards the Prince and his Ministers, and at the same time, with the spirit and resolution of an independent man, let him have the praise that will be his due.

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You are an ass.

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He's the usual airy kind of ass.

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You silly ass, don't you see where you are?

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He saw that he was making an ass of himself.

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I I am a saucy rolling blade, [1] I fear not wet nor dry, I keep a jack ass for my trade, And thro' the streets do cry _Chorus_.

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All I desired to ask Mr. Bixby was the simple question whether he was ass enough to really imagine he was going to find that plantation on a night when all plantations were exactly alike and all the same color.

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He said, 'Well, taking you by-and-large, you do seem to be more different kinds of an ass than any creature I ever saw before.

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It was nothing; I could have done it easy enough, and I said so; but everybody went on just the same, making a wonderful to do over that ass, as if he had done something great.

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I suppose I'll never hear the last of how I was ass enough to heave the lead at the head of 66.'

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-He is Roped In.-His Dull Eyes Lit Up.-Four Aces, you Ass!

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'Four ACES, you ass!' thundered Backus, covering his man with a cocked revolver.

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There wasn't a human being in this town but knew that that boy was a perfect chucklehead; perfect dummy; just a stupid ass, as you may say.

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This ass had been reading the 'Jibbenainosay,' no doubt, and had had his poor romantic head turned by it; but as I had not yet seen the book then, I took his inventions for truth, and did not suspect that he was a plagiarist.

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When Bekker was deposed from his office, his adversaries caused a medal to be struck representing the devil clad in a priestly robe, riding on an ass, and carrying a trophy in his right hand; which was intended to signify that Bekker had been overcome in his attempt to disprove demoniacal possession, and that the devil had conquered in the assembly of divines who pronounced sentence on Bekker's book.

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The same hard fate befell John Williams in 1619, who was hanged, drawn, and quartered, on account of two poems, _Balaam's Ass_ and _Speculum Regis_, the MSS.

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Yet folks say--"Maevius is no ass:"-- But Maevius makes it clear, That he's a monster of an ass, An ass without an ear.

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He should have put on an ass's skin before he went into parliament.

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Fancy my calling you, upon a fitting occasion,--Fool, sot, silly, simpleton, dunce, blockhead, jolterhead, clumsy-pate, dullard, ninny, nincompoop, lackwit, numpskull, ass, owl, loggerhead, coxcomb, monkey, shallow-brain, addle-head, tony, zany, fop, fop-doodle; a maggot-pated, hare-brained, muddle-pated, muddle-headed, Jackan-apes!

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Now there was a holy man in the camp, by name Lesmes, who was a monk of St. Benedict's; and he being mounted upon an ass rode first into the ford, and passed safely through the flood; and all who beheld him held it for a great miracle.

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I saw I had made an ass of myself and attempted to repair the damage.

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Meantime Clifford in a bland whisper was telling Rowden what an ass he was.

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