The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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I now gave up all thoughts of being able to carry him forwards till the cool of the evening; and having turned the horses and ass to feed, I sat down to watch the pulsations of my dying friend.

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They were not so red as the lion I formerly saw in Barnbarra, [Footnote: Park's Travels, p. 208] but of a dusky colour, like the colour of an ass.

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Only one of the soldiers able to drive an ass.

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In case it should escape my memory, I take this opportunity of observing, that the standard law of Africa runs thus: If an ass should break a single stem of corn, the proprietor of the corn has a right to seize the ass; and if the owner of the ass will not satisfy him for the damage he thinks he has sustained, he can _retain_ the ass.

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He cannot _sell_ or _work_ him, but he can _kill_ him; and as the Bambarrans esteem ass-flesh as a great luxury, this part of the law is often put in force.

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_Ivory_, the very largest teeth, each ---- 10,000 The medium size ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 7,000 The smaller ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 3 or 4000 _Indigo leaves_ beat and dried in lumps larger than ones fist, each ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 40 A prime slave, (male) ---- ---- ---- ---- 40,000 A ditto, (female) ---- ---- ---- from 80 to 100,000 A girl ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 40,000 A horse from two to ten prime male slaves A cow (fat) ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 15,000 An ass ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 17,000 A sheep ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 3 to 5,000 A fowl ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 250 to 300 As much _excellent fat beef_ as will be sufficient for seven men one day ---- ---- ---- ---- 620 As much _good beer_ as the same number can drink in one day ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 300 October 16th.--Modibinne and Jower arrived, and told me that they had brought a canoe from Mansong.

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He gave me, by the Governor's desire, one horse, one ass, and twenty bars of beads.

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He came and presented me with an ass loaded with kouskous to help me in my travels.

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I bought there an ass.

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I received one ass from Mouline: I gave to Amadibinne one musket and five yards of white cotton; to Yamme half a bottle of powder; to my sister ten dollars and one muslin pagne; to the Chief one bottle of powder and twenty flints.

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If he reads my little book when his liver is out of order, or in winter fogs and colds--he will call me an ass, and I must bear it.

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"You have chosen an ass!" he said, in humility or in irony.

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It begins with a section of 260 kilometres, which will transport valuable goods now injured by ass and camel-carriage.

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no!--do you hear that, Favoretta?" cried Herbert joyfully: "Grace used to say I was as obstinate as a mule, and she used to call me an ass, too: but even poor asses are not obstinate when they are well treated.

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"I am not an ass," said Herbert, laughing, as he finished this sentence," but I think Mad.

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021:001 When they were come near Jerusalem and had arrived at Bethphage and the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of the disciples on in front, 021:002 saying to them, "Go to the village you see facing you, and as you enter it you will find a she-ass tied up and a foal with her.

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021:004 This took place in order that the Prophet's prediction might be fulfilled: 021:005 "Tell the Daughter of Zion, 'See, thy King is coming to thee, gentle, and yet mounted on an ass, even on a colt the foal of a beast of burden.'"

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021:006 So the disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them: 021:007 they brought the she-ass and the foal, and threw their outer garments on them.

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011:002 "Go," He said, "to the village facing you, and immediately on entering it you will find an ass's foal tied up which no one has ever yet ridden: untie him and bring him here.

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011:004 So they went and found a young ass tied up at the front door of a house.

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On entering it you will find an ass's foal tied up which no one has ever yet ridden: untie it, and bring it here.

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012:014 And Jesus, having procured a young ass, sat upon it, just as the Scripture says, 012:015 "Fear not, Daughter of Zion!

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See, thy King is coming riding on an ass's colt."

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Mud-coloured ass, wilt thou let thy child slip to the devil while thou standest gaping at a horse-race?"

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ZOOLOGY--Scripture Animals; The Hart; The Roebuck; Fallow-Deer; Wild Goat; Pygarg; Wild Ox; Chamois; Unicorn; Wild Ass; Wild Goats of the Rock; Saphan, or Coney; Mouse; Porcupine; Jerboa; Mole; Bat.

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ZOOLOGY--Scripture Animals; The Hart; The Roebuck; Fallow-Deer; Wild Goat; Pygarg; Wild Ox; Chamois; Unicorn; Wild Ass; Wild Goats of the Rock; Saphan, or Coney; Mouse; Porcupine; Jerboa; Mole; Bat.

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[195] The wild _ass_, or para, celebrated by the same ancient author, is generally understood to be the onager, an animal, which is to this day highly prized in Persia and the deserts of Tartary, as being fitter for the saddle than the finest breed of horses.

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It has nothing of the dulness or stupidity of the common ass; is extremely beautiful; and, when properly trained, is docile and tractable in no common degree.

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It was this more valuable kind of ass that Saul was in search of when he was chosen by the prophet to discharge the duties of royalty.

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"Who hath sent out the wild ass free?

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or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

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If Inspiration should her aid refuse To him who takes a Pixy for a muse, [38] 260 Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass The bard who soars to elegize an ass: So well the subject suits his noble mind, [xvii] He brays, the Laureate of the long-eared kind.

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Of piteous ruin, which ourselves have made; In Plenty's sunshine Fortune's minions bask, Nor think of Poverty, except "en masque," [100] When for the night some lately titled ass Appears the beggar which his grandsire was, The curtain dropped, the gay Burletta o'er, The audience take their turn upon the floor: Now round the room the circling dow'gers sweep, 660 Now in loose waltz the thin-clad daughters leap; The first in lengthened line majestic swim, The last display the free unfettered limb!

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who in Granta's honours would surpass, Must mount her Pegasus, a full-grown ass; 970 A foal well worthy of her ancient Dam, Whose Helicon [149] is duller than her Cam.

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"The poet considereth times past, and their poesy--makes a sudden transition to times present--is incensed against book-makers--revileth Walter Scott for cupidity and ballad-mongering, with notable remarks on Master Southey--complaineth that Master Southey had inflicted three poems, epic and otherwise, on the public--inveigheth against William Wordsworth, but laudeth Mister Coleridge and his elegy on a young ass--is disposed to vituperate Mr. Lewis--and greatly rebuketh Thomas Little (the late) and Lord Strangford--recommendeth Mr. Hayley to turn his attention to prose--and exhorteth the Moravians to glorify Mr. Grahame--sympathiseth with the Rev.

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e.' Devonshire Fairies; p. 42, we have "Lines to a Young Lady;" and, p. 52, "Lines to a Young Ass."

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Cottle) to an unfortunate poetess, whose productions, which the poor woman by no means thought vainly of, he attacked so roughly and bitterly, that I could hardly regret assailing him, even were it unjust, which it is not--for verily he is an ass."

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If that's so--" "Don't be an ass," his uncle advised him lightly, moving away.

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He affected the society of newspaper men, some of whom pronounced him a good fellow until they discovered that he was an ass; and he never refused an invitation to have a drink.

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'What an ass I am!' he cried, 'to be taken in like this!

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POILLON, _Captain and Ass't.

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WEBER, _Captain and Acting Ass't.

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Colonel SAMUEL THOMAS, _Ass't.

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BUREAU REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND ABANDONED LANDS, _Office Ass't.

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THOMAS W. CONWAY, Ass't.

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ass!

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"Julien," he said, "I feel like the biggest ass unhung, but I am here with my playthings to be watchdog.

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If the matter had been hoof of horse, cow, or ass, he would not have been silent: he knew hoofs better than Richard knew books.

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'Bless my soul, what an ass I was not to see through it at once!

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I then joined a few Felahs of Ezra, of one of whom I hired an ass, though I had nothing to load it with but my small saddle-bag; but I knew this to be the best method of recommending myself to the protection of my fellow travellers; as the owner of the ass necessarily becomes the companion and protector of him who hires it.

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I can--and must--in spite of Fate: The Wheel of War shall turn about again, And dash the Current of his Victories.-- This is the Tent I've pitched, at distance from the Armies, To meet the Queen and Cardinal; Charm'd with the Magick of Dissimulation, I know by this h'as furl'd his Ensigns up, And is become a tame and coward Ass.

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What, they wou'd have me train my Nephew up, a hopeful Youth, to keep a Merchant's Book, or send him to chop Logick in an University, and have him returned an arrant learned Ass, to simper, and look demure, and start at Oaths and Wenches, whilst I fell his Woods, and grant Leases: And lastly, to make good what I have cozen'd him of, force him to marry Mrs. Crump, the ill-favour'd Daughter of some Right Worshipful.--A Pox of all of such Guardians!

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why then you're an Ass, Sir--But is this Lady young and handsom?

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Do you take me for such an Ass, to suspect I shall love my own Wife?

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Yes, and a Beauty there too, lately, for his repose, who has made him sigh and look so like an Ass ever since he came to _Rome_.

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Patience is a flatterer, Sir,--and an Ass, Sir; and I'll have none on't--hah, what art thou?

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Pox on't, that one cannot love a Woman like a Man, but one must love like an Ass.

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For they but couple with their Kind, but you Promiscuously shuffle your Brutes together, The Fop of business with the lazy Gown-men --the learned Ass with the illiterate Wit--the empty Coxcomb with the Politician, as dull and insignificant as he; from the gay Fool made more a Beast by Fortune to all the loath'd infirmities of Age.

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Yes, I did rouze at last, and wak'd my Wrongs; But like an Ass, a patient Fool of Honour, I gave him friendly notice I wou'd kill him; And fought like Prizers, not as angry Rivals.

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"The cove's older an' bigger an' pluckier than me," he said to himself; "but he's an ass.

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"Soul of an ass!" cried Marway, "are you going to keep my foot there till it freezes to the block?

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How hast thou grown so poor and small, That there thou liest on withered grass-- The supper of the ox and ass?

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He authorized an enthusiast, _Peter the Hermit_, of Amiens, to travel on an ass through Italy and Southern France, and to stir up the people to the great undertaking of delivering the Holy Sepulcher.

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He travelled on foot, or mounted on an ass, sought every village and hamlet, to sow the seed of the Word of God, and where he could not go himself, he sent his disciples.

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I want to read about Cupid and Psyche from this wonderful 'Golden Ass' of Apuleius--just a simple tale for a wet day--and you and--me!"

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I am very happy here, because I loves oranges, and talks bad Latin to the monks, who understand it, as it is like their own,--and I goes into society (with my pocket-pistols), and I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhoea and bites from the mosquitoes.

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With these two phrases, and a third, 'Avra louro', which signifieth "Get an ass," I am universally understood to be a person of degree and a master of languages.

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Remember that a central rule for comfort in life is this, "Nobody was ever written down an ass, except by himself."

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No plough their sinews strained; on grating road No wain they drove, and yet, the yellow sheaf In every vale for their delight was stowed: For them, in nature's meads, the milky udder flowed, Semblance, with straw and panniered ass, they made Of potters wandering on from door to door: But life of happier sort to me pourtrayed, And other joys my fancy to allure; The bag-pipe dinning on the midnight moor In barn uplighted, and companions boon Well met from far with revelry secure, In depth of forest glade, when jocund June Rolled fast along the sky his warm and genial moon.

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Well, you can bring an ass to the water, but you cannot make him drink.

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But there he stood up in that choir gallery like Balaam's ass in front of her, and she could not get beyond him.

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Inheriting, as I suspect, a little tendency to extravagance; having at least no love of money except for what it would bring; and seeing how easily money might be raised there for need true or false, I gradually learned to think less and less of the burdens grievous to be borne, which a subjection to Mammon will accumulate on the shoulders of the unsuspecting ass.

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I said, ass that I was!

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It was the chance of a lifetime, a unique chance, perhaps his last chance, and it was to be lost for the sake of an ass like Wesson.

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"I should feel such a silly ass."

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Suppose an ass were to be treated in the manner in which men treat themselves.

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Every one knows the story in the Arabian Nights, where the man who knows the speech of beasts laughs at something said by an ox to an ass.

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So again _Assiepet_, substantive 'a dirty little creature, one that is constantly soiled with _ass_ or ashes'.

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Isoult went away again, and returned leading Prosper's horse and shield; she brought an ass for herself to ride on.

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I shall bring him to his knees in a cold sweat, and then I shall say--'Get up, you ass, and learn not to meddle again with a gentleman, and son of a gentleman.'

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If Maulfry had been less summary with him she might have prevented the inevitable; but like all people with brains she thought a simpleton was an ass, and kicks your only speech with such.

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CHAPTER XXI HOW THE NARRATIVE SMACKS AGAIN OF THE SOIL The charcoal-burner's convoy, bearing at once the evidence and the reward of his humanity, a battered lady on one ass and her flayed friend on another, jogged leisurely through the forest glades.

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Mr. Windham would not himself have practised a wanton barbarity on a poor horse or ass, though he scouted any legislative attempt to prevent it among his inferiors.

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Fields with inclosures, and a cabin or two, are to be met with; a solitary tree, generally an ash, will be seen; some rude instrument of husbandry, or an ass-cart, will show that we are emerging from the region of complete destitution and approaching a land of at least struggling civilisation.

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* * * * * Towards a late hour of the afternoon a messenger arrived with an ass-cart and several trunks from O'Shea's Barn, and with the following note:-- 'DEAR NEPHEW GORMAN,--O'Shea's Barn is not an inn, nor are the horses there at public livery.

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The whole spirit of the document was regret that a very well-intentioned gentleman of good connections and irreproachable morals should be an ass!

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'You are, without exception, the most conceited--' 'No, not ass--don't say ass, for I'm nothing of the kind.

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"You always were a bit of an ass, you know, Sep.

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And gold or honour, though it rings, Is but a brittle glass; Experience of changing things Might teach a very ass!

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How hast thou grown so poor and small That there thou liest on withered grass, The supper of the ox and ass!

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Set aside all reference to this holy mystery, and let me ask, I trust without offence, whether by the same logic a mule's dam might not be called [Greek: hippotókos], because the horse and ass were united in one and the same subject.

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These traces were left by deer, the deer we hunters call red deer, and the natives wapitis.” “He is quite right,” added Marbre; “old trappers like us are not to be taken in; besides, don’t you hear that peculiar whistling sound?” The party had now reached the foot of a little hill, and as the snow had almost disappeared from its sides they were able to climb it, and hastened to the summit, the peculiar whistling noticed by Marbre becoming louder, mingled with cries resembling the braying of an ass, and proving that the two hunters were riot mistaken.

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There were divers, easily recognizable, by their disagreeable cry, which resembled the braying of an ass.

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Did not there exist in the island some ruminant of indiginous species which could replace the horse, ass, ox, or cow?

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“Stupid ass that I am!” cried he.

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Another name for the wild ass.

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In a coffeehouse of the _Foire St. Ovide_, in Paris, were placed ten blind beggars, muffled up in grotesque dresses and long pointed caps, with large paste-board spectacles on their nose, without glass: music and lights were set before them; and one of them was characterized as Midas, with the ears of an ass, and the addition of a peacock's tail, spread behind him.

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Then is it not like hair of ass-tails?

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An ox knoweth his lord, an ass his master's duty; But Israel will not know me nor my conditions.

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