The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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He is an ass, and I am an invalid, and we are likely to make all sorts of mistakes between us.

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He is not quite such an ass as I have hitherto supposed.

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"Ye muckle ass!" cried Stewart, "it's James they want; James has got to hang--Alan, too, if they could catch him--but James whatever!

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I was no such ass but what I understood how poor a figure I had made, and that the girls would be yawning their jaws off as soon as my stiff back was turned.

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"Ye muckle ass!" said he.

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There was, indeed, only one thing in the nature of a prospect, where there stood out over a brae the two sails of a windmill, like an ass's ears, but with the ass quite hidden.

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Just tell it to her plainly--tell her ye're a muckle ass at the off-set; and then, if I were you, and ye could do it naitural, I would just mint to her I was in some kind of a danger; a' weemenfolk likes that."

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The little early sketch written in June 1875, titled _Good Content_, well illustrates this: "Pleasure goes by piping: Hope unfurls his purple flag; and meek Content follows them on a snow-white ass.

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And after him, on his white ass, follows simpering Content.

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She felt a mad inclination to choke this old ass, this headstrong old fool, this obstinate old wretch--to stop that short, rapid breath, which was robbing her of her time and money, by squeezing her throat a little.

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Perhaps some beloved female subscriber has arrayed an ass in the splendour and glory of her imagination; admired his dulness as manly simplicity; worshipped his selfishness as manly superiority; treated his stupidity as majestic gravity, and used him as the brilliant fairy Titania did a certain weaver at Athens.

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And the worthy civilian being haunted by a dim consciousness that the lad thought him an ass, and was inclined to turn him into ridicule, used to be extremely timorous and, of course, doubly pompous and dignified in the presence of Master Georgy.

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XIII Wasted he was as much by fasts as age, And on an ass was mounted, slow and sure; His visage warranted that never sage Had conscience more precise or passing pure.

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LXII This gallops on a horse without a bit; This backs the sluggish ass, or bullock slow; These mounted on the croup of centaur sit: Those perched on eagle, crane, or estridge, go.

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XXXI Here, to appearance, from the forest prest A cruel Beast and hideous to the eye, With teeth of wolf, an ass's head and crest, A carcass with long famine lean and dry, And lion's claws; a fox in all the rest: Which seemed to ravage France and Italy, And Spain and England's desolated strands, Europe and Asia, and in fine all lands.

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LII Here he by chance encountered in mid road Two youths, that wood men were, and drove before An ass along that pathway, with a load Of logs; they, marking well what scanty store Of brain in poor Orlando's head was stowed, Called to the approaching knight, and threatened sore; Bidding him stand aside, or else go back, Nor to their hindrance block the common track.

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For on my father, bent on gain and gear And avarice, of all vice the fountain-head, Manners and merit for as little pass, As the lute's music on the lumpish ass.

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why, if he should be ass enough to persevere, he would be a beggar before he knew whom he was at law with!

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I have no confidence in myself; I feel such an ass.

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CE QUI NE MEURT PAS nearly killed me with laughing, and left me - well, it left me very nearly admiring the old ass.

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I don't think so, however; and when I feel what a weak and fallible vessel I was thrust into this hurly-burly, and with what marvellous kindness the wind has been tempered to my frailties, I think I should be a strange kind of ass to feel anything but gratitude.

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At length, in the borrowed shape of an ass, the regent mistook him for a Modern; by which means he had time and opportunity to escape to the Ancients, just when the spider and the bee were entering into their contest; to which he gave his attention with a world of pleasure, and, when it was ended, swore in the loudest key that in all his life he had never known two cases, so parallel and adapt to each other as that in the window and this upon the shelves.

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The goddess herself had claws like a cat; her head, and ears, and voice resembled those of an ass; her teeth fallen out before, her eyes turned inward, as if she looked only upon herself; her diet was the overflowing of her own gall; her spleen was so large as to stand prominent, like a dug of the first rate; nor wanted excrescences in form of teats, at which a crew of ugly monsters were greedily sucking; and, what is wonderful to conceive, the bulk of spleen increased faster than the sucking could diminish it.

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And Æsop dreamed that as he and the Ancient were lying on the ground, a wild ass broke loose, ran about, trampling and kicking in their faces.

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As a young lion in the Libyan plains, or Araby desert, sent by his aged sire to hunt for prey, or health, or exercise, he scours along, wishing to meet some tiger from the mountains, or a furious boar; if chance a wild ass, with brayings importune, affronts his ear, the generous beast, though loathing to distain his claws with blood so vile, yet, much provoked at the offensive noise, which Echo, foolish nymph, like her ill-judging sex, repeats much louder, and with more delight than Philomela's song, he vindicates the honour of the forest, and hunts the noisy long-eared animal.

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Augustus meeting an ass with a lucky name foretold himself good fortune.

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In truth, against the law ye plough with an ox and an ass together, in committing the cultivation of the Lord's field to learned and unlearned.

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As the silly parrot imitates the words that he has heard, so such men are mere reciters of all, but authors of nothing, imitating Balaam's ass, which, though senseless of itself, yet became eloquent of speech and the teacher of its master though a prophet.

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The child of inconstancy, who ended by wishing to be transformed into an ass, would perhaps never have given up the study of philosophy, if he had met him in friendly guise veiled under the cloak of pleasure; but anon, astonished by Crato's chair and struck dumb by his endless questions, as by a sudden thunderbolt, he saw no refuge but in flight.

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The Scotsman, though perhaps as big an ass, was not so dead of heart; and I have only bracketed them together because they were fast friends, and disgraced themselves equally by their conduct at the table.

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The nine of hearts was a caricature of the English Copper and Brass Company, with the following epigram :-- The headlong fool that wants to be a swopper Of gold and silver coin for English copper, May, in Change Alley, prove himself an ass, And give rich metal for adulterate brass.

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Brantome, who relates this story, adds, that the victor might have done as he pleased with the body, cut off the head, dragged it out of the camp, or exposed it upon an ass, but that, being a wise and very courteous gentleman, he left it to the relatives of the deceased to be honourably buried, contenting himself with the glory of his triumph, by which he gained no little renown and honour among the ladies of Paris.

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If they hear an ass bray on the left at the commencement of an expedition, and an another soon afterwards on the right, they believe that they shall be supereminently successful, that they shall strangle a multitude of travellers, and find great booty.

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In this case, perhaps - but no, if the peculiarity is shared by two such pleasant persons as you and I (as you and me - the grammatical nut is hard), it must be a very good thing indeed, and Sir John must be an ass.

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Bad dress clothes only prove you are a grisly ass; no dress clothes, even when explained, indicate a want of respect.

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I am in one of the humours when a man wonders how any one can be such an ass as to embrace the profession of letters, and not get apprenticed to a barber or keep a baked-potato stall.

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And I have no idea what I have said, and I have no idea what I ought to have said, and I am a total ass, but my heart is in the right place, and I am, my dear Henry James, yours, R. L. S. Letter: TO MR. MARCEL SCHWOB VAILIMA, UPOLU, SAMOA, JULY 7, 1894.

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It is beautifully said, beautifully and kindly felt; and I should be a churl indeed if I were not grateful, and an ass if I were not proud.

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What an ass!

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I see a mysterious ass," interrupted Almayer, violently.

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Business is business, and I never was an ass.

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He had found the little change indeed, he had brought the little change back; it was the little change that stood there and that, do what he would, he couldn't, while he showed those high front teeth of his, look other than a conscious ass about.

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Again it came quite loud and distinct on the night air,--a prolonged, hideous cry, something like the braying of an ass.

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We are all scattered, and I could find no one but the SOLEMN ASS who brings you this and the money.

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'Incomparable ass!' said Somerset, 'what have you done?

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It will make a boy into a man, And a man into an ass; It will change your gold into silver, And your silver into brass.

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wench, I'll ride oather ass or a mule, Ere I'll kewer i' Grinfilt os black as te dule, Booath clemmink {58} un starvink, un never a fardink, Ecod!

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The story contained in them of a lion who was kicked to death by an ass affected him so painfully that he could no longer endure the sight of the book; and as he dared not destroy it, he buried it between the stuffing and the woodwork of an old dining-room chair, where it stood for lost, at all events for the time being.

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No horse or ass untrained for the mountains could have kept foot a moment where we penetrated, and even as it was, one could not help the natural thrill.

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Cam"ass (?

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colt a young horse, ass, or camel, AS.

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"You coxcombly ass, you!"

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cuddy an ass; for sense 2, see 3d Cuddy .]

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An ass; esp., one driven by a huckster or greengrocer.

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Some will say, our curate is naught, an ass-head, a dodipoll .

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An ass; or (less frequently) a mule.

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A stupid or obstinate fellow; an ass.

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By my troth, though I am plain and dudgeon , I would not be an ass.

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The kiang, a wild horse or wild ass of Thibet ( Asinus hemionus ).

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), n. [D. ezel ass, donkey, hence, easel, or G. esel ; akin to E. ass .

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See Ass .]

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Surpassing; extraordinary; distinguished (in a bad sense); -- formerly used with words importing a good quality, but now joined with words having a bad sense; as, an egregious rascal; an egregious ass; an egregious mistake.

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A genus of mammals, including the horse, ass, etc.

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An ass's nole I fixed on his head.

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-- In foal , With foal , being with young; pregnant; -- said of a mare or she ass.

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To bring forth (a colt); -- said of a mare or a she ass.

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Gal"le*ass (?

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Gal"li*ass (?

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Har"ass (hăr" a s), v. t. [ imp.

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Har"ass , n. 1.

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Har"ass*er (-&etilde;r), n. One who harasses.

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Har"ass*ment (-m e nt), n. The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety.

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; a half ass, a mule.]

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A wild ass found in Thibet; the kiang.

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A hybrid between a stallion and an ass.

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The wild ass of Persia.

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Sluggish Idleness, the nurse of sin, Upon a slothful ass he chose to ride.

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Jack"ass' (?

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), n. [2d jack + ass .]

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The male ass; a donkey.

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They make a noise like the braying of an ass; -- hence the name.

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Jenny ass (Zoöl.)

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, a female ass.

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In size, it is intermediate between the horse and ass.

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Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them unto me.

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He is not that goose and ass that Valla would make him.

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A freak took an ass in the head, and he goes into the woods, masquerading up and down in a lion's skin.

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), n. [So called from L. Midas , a man fabled to have had ass's ears.]

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A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass.

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The simplest form is the babe in a rude cradle, and the heads of an ox and an ass to express the stable in which he was born.

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No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate .

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A wild ass, especially the koulan.

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; an ass + -logy .]

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A bread basket; also, a wicker basket (used commonly in pairs) for carrying fruit or other things on a horse or an ass Hudibras.

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See Asses' bridge , under Ass .

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Pot'ass*am"ide (?

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Pot'ass*ox"yl (?

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