The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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So that Usury and an ass are two of the profitablest beasts that a man can keep; yet th'one hath sharper teeth than th'other.

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Thus, like an ass attired in costly robes, Or like a ring thrust in a foul sow's snout, So do these robes and sceptre fit mine age.

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Most people smiled when Bruce's name was mentioned, and it was usual for his intimates to clap him on the back and call him a silly ass, which proves he was not unpopular.

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'Don't be a silly little ass,' Archie murmured to his sister.

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"Provided Mr. Rendall isn't an utter ass, we ought to have these fellows sitting!"

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_Myself (feeling rather an ass, but outwardly gay):_ "I meant no reflection on your cellar, Miss Rendall.

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"I wonder if the doctor ever had such a blinkin' ass in his house before!" said the amiable gentleman to himself as he shut his bed-room door behind him.

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"What an ass I am to embark on an adventure like this.

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But the German ass wore the blinders that science had made--and saw no angel.

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I am drawn by conviction like a Man, not by a halter like an Ass."

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I've said it a thousand times and any man not a complete ass knows that you can't run a government without a strong head.

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This happened almost daily during the whole of our journey, though only once a serious result followed, when a driver was badly wounded and an ass was tossed and gored.

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I tell you this is a printed list, A burning candle and an ass.

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"You are an ass!" my cousin declared.

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When I spoke of organized corps of waiters and clerks here, 300,000 of them, in commission, all of whom had had military training and possessed rifles, he practically called me an ass."

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Ass!

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"The only thing that has happened, Miss Handyside, so far as we have discovered, is that some ass has been setting off fireworks against the garage door," said Alan.

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"Now--dang me for a ass!" exclaimed Mr. Shrig, and, snatching off the fur cap, he dashed it to the ground, stooped, picked it up, and crammed it back upon his head,--all in a moment.

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Now as he rode thus at a hand-pace, puzzling over these cryptic words, he was presently aroused by a voice, somewhat harsh and discordant, singing at no great distance; and the words of the song were these: "Push about the brisk bowl, 't will enliven the heart While thus we sit down on the grass; The lover who talks of his sufferings and smart Deserves to be reckoned an ass, an ass, Deserves to be reckoned an ass."

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Why did he not provide them with a servant, an ass laden with provisions, and a tent to shelter them from the elements, or better still, some abiding, resting place.

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20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

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So Moses took his wife and his sons and set them on an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt.

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30 And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day?

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32 And the angel of the Lord said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times?

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Satan spoke to Eve by a subtle male serpent, but the Lord chose to speak to Balaam by a she ass, for He does not use enticing words of man's wisdom, but works by instruments and means that men despise."

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The appeal of the meek, long suffering ass, to her master, to remember her faithfulness and companionship from his youth up, is quite pathetic and reminds one of woman's appeals and petitions to her law-givers for the last half century.

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Whether he took the same ass on the next journey does not appear.

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41 And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.

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24 And she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive; slack not thy riding, except I bid thee.

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"I am one of the family of Balaam's ass," says the animal.

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He shows his goodness in hating the wise and loving fools; he is generous, for he will give a beggar a crust of dry bread, and make him pay for it; he knows medicine, for he can tell that if a man is buried, he either has been sick, or has had an accident; he knows astronomy, for he can tell that it is day when the sun shines, and night when the stars appear; he knows arithmetic, for he can tell that one and one make two; he knows mensuration, for he can tell how many handbreadths his belly measures; he knows music, for he can tell the difference between the barking of a dog and the braying of an ass."

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He landed at Gaeta in Italy, where he restored to human form the son of his host, whom a witch had turned into an ass.

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Knowing your want of confidence in the party called, so truly and briefly, the " Press Ass, " who sends over accounts of horse-races, etc., with an occasional item of news, I have wires connecting this office with Paris, Madrid, Rome, and other places of consequence.

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Let me tell you of my experience, for one day, with the "Press Ass" of the Cable.

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"I'm not quite such an ass as that!"

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If Hyde took the whole lot, do you think he would ever have been such a consummate ass as to wait until next morning to pawn that ring in Edgware Road?

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"Then what made the silly ass quit?"

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There she was, up to her pretty eyebrows in some dark, bad business; and it was not for him to play the gratuitous ass, rush in unasked, and seek to extricate her....

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"I am an ass," he enunciated with the humility of conviction.

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But this ass_ ..." "_Bringing a woman here, putting all our necks into a halter_ ..." Immediately opposite the foot of the stairway, on the first storey, a door opened.

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As adopted by the National Croquet Ass'n.

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Murray has had a letter from his brother bibliopole of Edinburgh, who says, "he is lucky in having such a _poet_"--something as if one was a packhorse, or "ass, or any thing that is his;" or, like Mrs. Packwood, [1] who replied to some inquiry after the Odes on Razors,--"Laws, sir, we keeps a poet."

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If that ass Crawshay had not got on board, I am convinced that there would never have been a breath of suspicion."

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"What a clumsy ass I am, Katharine!

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Rather nervy of the old ass to come up here for the party; he hardly knows us."

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"The knight must have borrowed the dwarf's ass," said Edmund, laughing, and putting his lance in rest.

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But as we say in Bengal, 'thee favour of kings iss ass a sword of two edges.'

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But there's something you haven't told me--I'm not ass enough to have missed that and no doubt that influences you."

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"Get up," he said; "get up and stand over there by the wall and don't be a silly ass."

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"As for me," continued Amber, "I suspect I'm the most hopeless ass in the three Presidencies, if that's any comfort to you, Salig Singh.

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"Steady, you ass!" breathed the secret-agent in his ear.

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He murmured aside, "Give him a dig in the ribs and say, 'You silly ass, _I_ can fix you up all right!'

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He declared that he would take no notice of the message, that he was not such an ass to be duped by it.

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He told himself savagely, as he put on his shabby clothing, that, having sought for peace and now found it, he was an ass for resenting it.

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To hear names that he had read with awe, and mispronounced, most of his life, roll off Max's tongue--"Old Steinmetz" and "that ass of a Heydenreich"; to hear the medical and surgical gossip of the Continent, new drugs, new technique, the small heart-burnings of the clinics, student scandal--had brought into his drab days a touch of color.

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He had been an ass: Le Moyne was right.

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Tewfik, a white Egyptian ass, bought in Cairo by Lord Wolseley.

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A ridiculous ass, this singer, under his triumphal arch, with his stuffed Cupids and the great fat winged kitchenmaid crowning him with laurels.

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Then should he have a free gift of my bauble," responded the jester, shaking on high that badge, surmounted with the golden head of an ass, and jingling with bells.

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"That did I," returned Randall, "as I rode by on mine ass.

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They parted at the great west door of the Abbey, where, by way of vindicating his own character for buffoonery, Randall exclaimed, "Where be mine ass?" and not seeing the animal, immediately declared, "There he is!" and at the same time sprang upon the back and shoulders of a gaping and astonished clown who was gazing at the rear of the procession.

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"I cry you mercy," quoth the jester; "'twas mine own ass I sought, and if I have fallen on thine, I will but ride him to York House and then restore him.

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Perronel, well accustomed to horse, ass, or foot, undertook to ride behind the child, as she called Jasper, who- -as a born Londoner--knew nothing of horses, though both the other prentices did.

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"Ass!

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The Press Ass made this charge somebody or other with "making tight the Colonel's relations."

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I was an ass to like you so; But where we wish to like, we do.

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"Well, what would _you_ do if your father made an unholy ass of himself in public?"

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Note the violent efforts of the two slaves to wheedle the cunning ass-dealer (449 ff.).

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Note the violent efforts of the two slaves to wheedle the cunning ass-dealer (449 ff.).

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If that old ass continues to plague me, I'll kick him straight out of this room some day.

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At the end of WEHRHAHN'S oratorical effort he can restrain himself no longer and breaks out in a loud, deceptively exact imitation of an ass's bray._] I!

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If that old ass continues to plague me, I'll kick him straight out of this room some day.

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At the end of WEHRHAHN'S oratorical effort he can restrain himself no longer and breaks out in a loud, deceptively exact imitation of an ass's bray._] I!

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The damned mutton head.--It's a blessing the ridiculous ass went!

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_KAeFERSTEIN and KEGEL make an effort to assume ogre-like expressions._ HASSENREUTER Get out your note-book, most excellent Spitta, and record your opinion, please, that Manager Hassenreuter is an ass, that Schiller is an ass, Goethe an ass, Aristotle, too, of course--[_he begins suddenly to laugh like mad_]--and, ha, ha, ha!

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[_He looks straight at HASSENREUTER._ HASSENREUTER You two want to make an ass of me.

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The damned mutton head.--It's a blessing the ridiculous ass went!

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_KÄFERSTEIN and KEGEL make an effort to assume ogre-like expressions._ HASSENREUTER Get out your note-book, most excellent Spitta, and record your opinion, please, that Manager Hassenreuter is an ass, that Schiller is an ass, Goethe an ass, Aristotle, too, of course--[_he begins suddenly to laugh like mad_]--and, ha, ha, ha!

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[_He looks straight at HASSENREUTER._ HASSENREUTER You two want to make an ass of me.

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In the background rises what is apparently intended for the temple of a formal garden; and behind this again, a winged ass capers skittishly upon the summit of Mount Helicon.

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In the background rises what is apparently intended for the temple of a formal garden; and behind this again, a winged ass capers skittishly upon the summit of Mount Helicon.

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"I think, really the fellow who gave me that system is an ass," he said, lighting a cigarette when the play was done.

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I didn't know you had such ready capabilities for being an ass."

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If a chap's not born with the gift he's an ass to think he can acquire it.

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I made an ass of myself--a regular fool right from the factory."

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"But we'd have been so nicely set up, even without the title, and now Bines, the clumsy ass, has come this infernal cropper, and knocked everything on the head.

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Even thus did Midas laboriously conceal the deformity of his head; but his barber, who saw him without disguise, whispered his secret in the earth, and when the winds arose, the voices of a thousand reeds proclaimed to the world, 'King Midas hath ass's ears.'"

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I met poor Dominick--what an ass that chap is--but he did not know me till I introduced myself, so I must be a good deal changed.

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I had never been quite such an ass before; but I do assure you I was now in an extremely unpleasant state.

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Loving looks the large-eyed cow, Loving stares the long-eared ass At Heaven's glory in the grass!

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Child, with added human birth Come to bring the child of earth Glad repentance, tearful mirth, And a seat beside the hearth At the Father's knee-- Make us peaceful as thy cow; Make us patient as thine ass; Make us quiet as thou art now; Make us strong as thou wilt be.

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He mind't him o' Balaäm's ass, Wi' a differ we micht ken: The Lord he opened the ass's mou, The minister opened's ain!

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"Don't be an ass, woman!" answered the Moor.

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Another accomplishment, at which not a few of the fast fellows excel, is that of imitating upon a key-bugle various animals, in an especial manner the braying of an ass: when the fast fellows drive down to the Trafalgar at Greenwich, the Toy at Hampton Court, or the Swan at Henley upon Thames, the bugle-player mounts aloft, the rest of the fast fellows keeping a lookout for donkeys; when one is seen, a hideous imitative bray is set up by the man of music, and his quadrupedal brother, attracted by the congenial sound, rushes to the roadside--mutual recognition, with much merriment, is the result.

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