The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Ass._ (1914) XLV, 111.

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Why, in the name of all the torments-" I stopped for want of breath, in time to see that the crowd paid no attention, and that, to say the least of it, I had been making an ass of myself.

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Now he met a fair buxom lass in a shady lane, and each gave the other a merry word and passed their way; now he saw a fair lady upon an ambling pad, to whom he doffed his cap, and who bowed sedately in return to the fair youth; now he saw a fat monk on a pannier-laden ass; now a gallant knight, with spear and shield and armor that flashed brightly in the sunlight; now a page clad in crimson; and now a stout burgher from good Nottingham Town, pacing along with serious footsteps; all these sights he saw, but adventure found he none.

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"Thou pratest like an ass," said Robin, "for I could send this shaft clean through thy proud heart before a curtal friar could say grace over a roast goose at Michaelmastide."

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"Robin and I stripped yon ass of his pack main neatly," quoth the landlord.

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Our good Gaffer Swanthold sayeth that gold is an overheavy burden for a two-legged ass to carry; so we would e'en lift some of this load from thee."

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Turn then from wits; and look on Simo's mate, No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate; Or her, that owns her faults, but never mends, Because she's honest, and the best of friends; Or her, whose life the Church and scandal share, Forever in a passion, or a prayer; Or her, who laughs at hell, but (like her Grace) Cries, 'Ah!

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FROM THE GHOST [DR. JOHNSON] Pomposo, insolent and loud, Vain idol of a scribbling crowd, Whose very name inspires an awe, Whose every word is sense and law, For what his greatness hath decreed, Like laws of Persia and of Mede, Sacred through all the realm of wit, Must never of repeal admit; Who, cursing flattery, is the tool Of every fawning, flattering fool; Who wit with jealous eye surveys, And sickens at another's praise; Who, proudly seized of learning's throne, Now damns all learning but his own; Who scorns those common wares to trade in, Reasoning, convincing, and persuading, But makes each sentence current pass With 'puppy,' 'coxcomb,' 'scoundrel,' 'ass,' For 'tis with him a certain rule, The folly's proved when he calls 'fool'; Who, to increase his native strength, Draws words six syllables in length, With which, assisted with a frown By way of club, he knocks us down.

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Semblance, with straw and pannier'd ass, they made Of potters wandering on from door to door: But life of happier sort to me pourtrayed, 1798.

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Flushed with the noble game which met his view, He starts the wild-ass o'er the glistening dew; And, oft exulting, sees his quivering dart, Plunge through the glossy skin, and pierce the heart.

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Now war and vengeance claim, Collected thought and deeds of mighty name; The jointed mail his vigorous body clasps, His sinewy hand the shining javelin grasps; Like a mad elephant he meets the foe, His steed a moving mountain--deeply glow His cheeks with passionate ardour, as he flies Resistless onwards, and with sparkling eyes, Full on the centre drives his daring horse--[37] The yielding Persians fly his furious course; As the wild ass impetuous springs away, When the fierce lion thunders on his prey.

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Sohráb bestrides his prey: Grim as the lion, prowling through the wood, Upon a wild ass springs, and pants for blood.

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His only food was the flesh of the wild ass, and his only covering the skin of the same animal.

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Gíw kept his own secret, saying that he was amusing himself with hunting the wild ass, but took care to ascertain from them the direction in which they were going.

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A wild ass, he said, had come in from the neighboring forest; it had at least the external appearance of a wild ass, but possessed such supernatural strength, that it had rushed among the horses in the royal stables with the ferocity of a lion or a demon, doing extensive injury, and in fact appeared to be an evil spirit!

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Guided by the peasant, he proceeded in the first place towards the spot where the mysterious animal had been seen; but it was not till the fourth day of his search that he fell in with him, and then, being anxious to secure him alive, and send him as a trophy to Kai-khosráu, he threw his kamund; but it was in vain: the wild ass in a moment vanished out of sight!

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The next time the wild ass appeared he pursued him with his drawn sword: but on lifting it up to strike, nothing was to be seen.

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It so happened that Rustem was at this time in progress between Irán and Sístán, hunting for his own pleasure the elk or wild ass, and he accidentally fell in with the refugees, who made an attempt to avoid him, but, unable to effect their purpose, thought proper to oppose him with all their might, and a sharp contest ensued.

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Gushtásp and his wife took refuge in a miserable cell, which they inhabited, and when necessity pressed, he used to cross the river, and bring in an elk or wild ass from the forest, give half of it to the ferryman for his trouble, and keep the remainder for his own board, so that he and the ferryman became great friends by these mutual obligations.

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They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jemshíd gloried and drank deep: And Báhrám, that great Hunter--the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.

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"He had the grace to show me that I was a constitutional ass, with perhaps some slight chance of being reborn.

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Be an ass, like the rest of us.

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Don't be an ass!

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"Be quiet, you little ass!" he scolded.

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Why not send him over--prowling, ye know--fingers the bric-a-brac, bloomin' ass, and breaks a sword-blade.

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Then, in a burst of candor, "Wish that unspeakable ass felt as seedy as I do--heat-stroke--drop dead--that sort of thing."

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Who always came out aboard to tell me what an old ass I was?

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And Moses took his wife, and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and returned into the land of Egypt, to say to Pharaoh, 'Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my firstborn, Let my son go that he may serve me, and if thou let not my firstborn go, then I will slay thy firstborn.'

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A poor man, eighty years old, carrying all that he had in the world upon an ass's back, going down to the great Pharaoh, the greatest king of the old world, the great conqueror, the Child of the Sun (as his name means), one of the greatest Pharaohs who ever sat on the throne of Egypt; in the midst of all his princes and priests, and armies with which he had conquered the nations far and wide; and his great cities, temples, and palaces, on which men may see at this day (so we are told) the face of that very Pharaoh painted again and again, as fresh, in that rainless air, as on the day when the paint was laid on; with the features of a man terrible, proud, and cruel, puffed up by power till he thought himself, and till his people thought him a god on earth.

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No; the Lord was a God of love even when he sent his sore plagues on Egypt, and therefore we may believe what the Bible tells us, that that same Lord showed, as on this day, a still greater proof of his love, when, as on this day, he entered into Jerusalem, meek and lowly, sitting on an ass, and going, as he well knew, to certain death.

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Can this be he who rode into Jerusalem, as on this day, meek and lowly, upon an ass's colt; who on the night that he was betrayed washed his disciples' feet, even the feet of Judas who betrayed him?

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He had yet to hold one minute of private conversation with Eve de Montalais, he had of her no sign to warrant his thinking her anything but utterly indifferent to him; and yet.... No; he wasn't ass enough to dream that he was in love with the woman; to the contrary, he was wise enough, knew himself well enough, to know that he could be, easily, and would be, given half a chance to lose his head.

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Aware that with such women man's vanity misleads him woefully, and aware that she was equally awake to this masculine weakness, he wondered, afraid even to guess, telling himself he were an ass to believe, a fool to deny.... Then suddenly he saw her lashes sweep up to unveil eyes at once mirthful and admonitory; her hungry mouth murmured incongruously an edged warning.

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"You see," Monk expounded--solemn ass that he was beneath his thin veneer of pretentiousness--"when we know how the British Government kicked you out of its Secret Service as soon as it had no further use for you, we can understand and sympathise with your natural reaction to such treatment at the hands of Society."

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"Don't be an ass!"

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"Don't you hear that bell, you ass?

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I would be an ass indeed if I thought you would fail to find it.

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Thou art, and ever was, A means to mend an ass; Thou makest some to sleep, And many mo to weep, And some be glad and merry, With heigh down derry, derry.

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What an ass are you; here's a stir indeed, here's message, arrant, banishment, and I cannot tell what.

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Why, what a swearing keeps this drunken ass?

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[394], out, you fat ass!

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Owl, ye ass!

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Ass!

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Away, ye ass!

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An ass goes a four legs; I go of two, Christ cross.

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If they do so, faith, westward[454] then with Skink But what an ass am I to be thus fond!

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Be silent, ass.

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God's mother, ass and fool for speaking truth!

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Fool, ass, for speaking truth!

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Porter, what, porter, where's this drowsy ass?

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A shame confound thee for thy treachery, Inconstant dotard, timorous old ass, That shakes with cowardice, not with years.

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Will ye tell tales, ye ass, will ye?

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We have all seen photographs of the imperial figure, draped in an amazing burnous of his own designing (above which the Prussian _Pickelhaube_ rises supreme), as he moved from point to point in this portentous visit: we may also have seen Caran d'Ache's celebrated cartoon (a subject of diplomatic correspondence) representing this same imperial figure, in its Oriental toggery, riding into Jerusalem on an ass.

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This petty Nero actually branded a boy, who had offended him, with a red hot iron; and nearly starved forty of us, with exacting contributions, to the one half of our bread, to pamper a young ass, which, incredible as it may seem, with the connivance of the nurse's daughter (a young flame of his) he had contrived to smuggle in, and keep upon the leads of the _ward_, as they called our dormitories.

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An over-loaded ass is his client for ever.

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_A young ass_.

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In September, 1825, was an essay entitled "The Sorrows of ** ***" (an ass), which might, both from style and sympathy, be almost Lamb's; but was, I think, by another hand.

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The ocean, however, and all its indescribable charm, no longer surrounded us; we began to feel that our walk on the quarter-deck was very like the exercise of an ass in a mill; that our books had lost half their pages, and that the other half were known by rote; that our beef was very salt, and our biscuits very hard; in short, that having studied the good ship, Edward, from stem to stern till we knew the name of every sail, and the use of every pulley, we had had enough of her, and as we laid down, head to head, in our tiny beds for the last time, I exclaimed with no small pleasure, "Tomorrow to fresh fields and pastures new."

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A mule pays forty, and an ass five dollars.

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"Sidi," he said, "this Christian is a frightened fool--and a _baheen_ (ass)--I had the greatest trouble to get him here--he was frightened out of himself--and now Allah!

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When one of his little pragmatical foes was invidiously snarling at his fame, at Sir Joshua Reynolds's table, the Reverend Dr. Parr exclaimed, with his usual bold animation, 'Ay, now that the old lion is dead, every ass thinks he may kick at him.'

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There is another illustration in which an ass is represented bearing a coronet.

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"I have been an ass, West; but circumstances warranted me in suspecting you, and even Joseph Wegg did not know that the Almaquo stock had been transferred to you.

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'I am a brute and an ass!--And yet I do not like to tell you so.

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For if I am an ass, what are you?'

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It's so foolish, you see, Lancelot--so foolish--like an ass that eats thistles!...

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Don't jump like that, you old ass; let me finish.

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Begin from first, where he encradled was In simple cratch, wrapt in a wad of hay, _a rack or crib._ Between the toilful ox and humble ass; And in what rags, and in what base array The glory of our heavenly riches lay, When him the silly[61] shepherds came to see, Whom greatest princes sought on lowest knee.

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It is applied to the ox and ass in the next stanza, and is often an epithet of shepherds.

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Produced by Ted Garvin and PG Distributed Proofreaders AT LOVE'S COST By CHARLES GARVICE AT LOVE'S COST CHAPTER 1 "Until this moment I have never fully realised how great an ass a man can be.

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"Don't be an ass," retorted Stafford, rather absently.

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"Mr. Howard is too often an ass," remarked Stafford, with a smile.

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"He has loved her all the time; and I am a purblind ass not to have seen it!" he said to himself, with cynical self-contempt, as he climbed up to his rooms.

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Then Moses took his wife and his sons and set them upon an ass and returned in to Egypt, bearing the rod of God in his hand.

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Samuel came on a time to Saul and said God commanded him to fight against Amalek and that he should slay and destroy man, woman, and child, ox, cow, camel and ass and sheep, and spare nothing.

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Then she took an ass and rode after, and when she came to the foot of the hill, David and his men descended; to whom she ran, and David said: I have for naught saved all the beasts of this Nabal in desert, and there perished nothing of his that pertained to him, and he hath yielded evil for good.

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And she arose and took with her five maidens which went afoot by her, and she rode upon an ass, and followed the messengers, and was made wife to David.

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He added, "And yet they were clever men,--Louis Philippe, Guizot, Thiers--" Louis Bonaparte, taking his cigarette from his lips, interrupted, "If such are clever men, I would rather be an ass--" "A hyena in an ass's skin," says History.

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If cow's milk disagree with an infant--and this is sometimes unfortunately the case, even from its birth ass's milk,--diluted with one third its quantity of water, may be given as a substitute.

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The diet was immediately changed for ass's milk, and in less than twelve hours the sickness and purging ceased; the flatulence was relieved; the motions, from being green, watery, and passed with great violence and pain, became of a healthy consistence and colour, and the screaming ceased.

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The evident conclusion from this is, that the breast-milk of a healthy woman is incomparably the most suitable diet for the infant; but that, if she be not of a healthy constitution, it may be destructive to the child; and that where this cannot be obtained, and cow's milk is found to disagree, ass's milk may sometimes be resorted to with the happiest results.

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[FN#8] [FN#8] An infant will generally consume a quart, or a little more, of ass's milk in the four and twenty hours; and as this quantity is nearly as much as the animal will give, it is best to purchase an ass for the express purpose.

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--, ass's; for infant's food, 37.

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quotes from Pierius another strange cure for a scorpion's bite, "to sit upon an ass with one's face towards his tail, for so the pain leaveth the man and passeth into the beast."

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You are presumptuous and something of an ass, sir.

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He was here of choice, because he was a wild ass of the desert and his ears heard only the call of adventure.

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I began to stammer again like a young ass of a schoolboy.

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what a preposterous ass I was!

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The Haunting Spectre of the Might Have Been,--What a preposterous ass!--what a monumental idiot I was!"

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"Posterous ass, isn't a very pretty word, Uncle Porges,--or continental idiot!" said a voice behind him, and turning, he beheld Small Porges somewhat stained, and bespattered with ink, who shook a reproving head at him.

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"Und he iss ass big ass chew zay he iss?" asked the shark.

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Colocotroni spoke of his compeer Mavrocordato in the very language of Agamemnon, when he said that he had declared to him, unless he desisted from his intrigues, he would mount him on an ass and whip him out of the Morea; and that he had only been restrained from doing so by the representation of his friends, who thought it would injure their common cause.

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Wagon-loads of flowers, lowing milk- white oxen, white goats--even a white horse, a white ass--oil and wine in painted cards, whose solid wooden wheels screamed on their axles like demons in agony-threaded the streets to the temples, lest the gods forget convenience and send the floods too soon.

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I pulled out my mallow, {147b} therefore, and prayed most devoutly that I might escape the present evil; and a little time afterwards, as one of the strangers was helping us to something, I perceived, instead of a woman's foot, the hoof of an ass.

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[Greek], asini-eruras, ass-legged.

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