The 15,767 occurrences of ass
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It is an easy matter when one's belly is full to declaim against fasting, _Qui satur est pleno laudat jejunia ventre_; "Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass, or loweth the ox when he hath fodder?"
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It is an ordinary thing in these days to see a base impudent ass, illiterate, unworthy, insufficient, to be preferred before his betters, because he can put himself forward, because he looks big, can bustle in the world, hath a fair outside, can temporise, collogue, insinuate, or hath good store of friends and money, whereas a more discreet, modest, and better-deserving man shall lie hid or have a repulse.
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Like a bad actor (so [3971]Plutarch compares such men in a tragedy, _diadema fert, at vox non auditur_: Thou wouldst play a king's part, but actest a clown, speakest like an ass.
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If an ass kick me, saith Socrates, shall I strike him again?
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[4006]An ass overwhelmed a thistlewarp's nest, the little bird pecked his galled back in revenge; and the humble-bee in the fable flung down the eagle's eggs out of Jupiter's lap.
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And as that lusty courser in Aesop, that contemned the poor ass, came by and by after with his bowels burst, a pack on his back, and was derided of the same ass: _contemnentur ab iis quos ipsi prius contempsere, et irridebuntur ab iis quos ipsi prius irrisere_, they shall be contemned and laughed to scorn of those whom they have formerly derided.
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A ring made of the hoof of an ass's right fore foot carried about, &c. I say with [4345]Renodeus, they are not altogether to be rejected.
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Wherefore did that royal virgin in [4844]Apuleius, when she fled from the thieves' den, in a desert, make such an apostrophe to her ass on whom she rode; (for what knew she to the contrary, but that he was an ass?)
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[4845]She would comb him, dress him, feed him, and trick him every day herself, and he should work no more, toil no more, but rest and play, &c. And besides she would have a dainty picture drawn, in perpetual remembrance, a virgin riding upon an ass's back with this motto, _Asino vectore regia virgo fugiens captivitatem_; why said she all this?
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but that she perceived the poor ass to be taken with her beauty, for he did often _obliquo collo pedes puellae decoros basiare_, kiss her feet as she rode, _et ad delicatulas voculas tentabat adhinnire_, offer to give consent as much as in him was to her delicate speeches, and besides he had some feeling, as she conceived of her misery.
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"[5386] The major part of lovers are carried headlong like so many brute beasts, reason counsels one way, thy friends, fortunes, shame, disgrace, danger, and an ocean of cares that will certainly follow; yet this furious lust precipitates, counterpoiseth, weighs down on the other; though it be their utter undoing, perpetual infamy, loss, yet they will do it, and become at last _insensati_, void of sense; degenerate into dogs, hogs, asses, brutes; as Jupiter into a bull, Apuleius an ass, Lycaon a wolf, Tereus a lapwing, [5387]Calisto a bear, Elpenor and Grillus info swine by Circe.
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but a very ass, insomuch that his father being ashamed of him, sent him to a farmhouse he had in the country, to be brought up.
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They begin to be contemned themselves of others, as he was of his shadow, and take up with a poor curate, or an old serving-man at last, that might have had their choice of right good matches in their youth; like that generous mare, in [5854]Plutarch, which would admit of none but great horses, but when her tail was cut off and mane shorn close, and she now saw herself so deformed in the water, when she came to drink, _ab asino conscendi se passa_, she was contented at last to be covered by an ass.
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[6093] _Quam sese ore ferens, quam forti pectore et armis_, how bravely did he discourse, ride, sing, and dance, &c., and then she begins to loathe her husband, _repugnans osculatur_, to hate him and his filthy beard, his goatish complexion, as Doris said of Polyphemus, [6094]_totus qui saniem, totus ut hircus olet_, he is a rammy fulsome fellow, a goblin-faced fellow, he smells, he stinks, _Et caepas simul alliumque ructat_ [6095]--_si quando ad thalamum_, &c., how like a dizzard, a fool, an ass, he looks, how like a clown he behaves himself!
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And though he will not _omnibus dormire_, be an ass, as he is an ox, yet to wink at it as many do is not amiss at some times, in some cases, to some parties, if it be for his commodity, or some great man's sake, his landlord, patron, benefactor, (as Calbas the Roman saith [6211]Plutarch did by Maecenas, and Phayllus of Argos did by King Philip, when he promised him an office on that condition he might lie with his wife) and so let it pass: [6212] "pol me haud poenitet, Scilicet boni dimidium dividere cum Jove," "it never troubles me" (saith Amphitrio) "to be cornuted by Jupiter," let it not molest thee then; be friends with her; [6213] "Tu cum Alcmena uxore antiquam in gratiam Redi"------ "Receive Alcmena to your grace again;" let it, I say, make no breach of love between you.
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[6416]One while by bulls, pardons, indulgencies, and their doctrines of good works, that they be meritorious, hope of heaven, by that means they have so fleeced the commonalty, and spurred on this free superstitious horse, that he runs himself blind, and is an ass to carry burdens.
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It had even on one occasion been decided in the Court of Common Pleas that an action of trover could be maintained for a negro, "because negroes are heathens;" though Chief-justice Holt scouted the idea of being bound by a precedent which would put "a human being on the same footing as an ox or an ass," and declared that "in England there was no such thing as a slave."
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"You're a fearful ass, Jerrold.
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"And that old ass Rawly says I'll be better this term without Jerrold.
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Jerrold, inconceivable ass, didn't want her.
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You don't see these things unless you're on the lookout for them, and you're not on the lookout unless you're a conceited ass.
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"For a few seconds, I stood there, feeling an awful ass.
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Afterward, when I had done so, however, and handled it a little, this feeling passed away and my Reason (and also, I expect, the daylight) made me feel that I had been a little bit of an ass.
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it settles the stomach when nothing is seen But an ass on a common, or goose on a green.
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They confused them with the whole degraded mass of Egyptian and Oriental impostors and brute-worshippers; they disdained them as seditious, turbulent, obstinate, and avaricious; they regarded them as mainly composed of the very meanest slaves out of the gross and abject multitude; their proselytism they considered as the clandestine initiation into some strange and revolting mystery, which involved as its direct teachings contempt of the gods, and the negation of all patriotism and all family affection; they firmly believed that they worshipped the head of an ass; they thought it natural that none but the vilest slaves and the silliest woman should adopt so misanthropic and degraded a superstition; they characterized their customs as "absurd, sordid, foul, and depraved," and their nation as "prone to superstition, opposed to religion."
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Only by His aid can you be beaten like an ass, and yet love those who beat you, preserving an unshaken unanimity in the midst of circumstances which to other men would cause trouble, and grief, and disappointment, and despair.
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My looks terrifie them, you Coxcombly Ass you!
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There's a Rogue too, A young dissembling slave; well, get you in, I'le have a bout with that boy; 'tis high time Now to be valiant; I confess my youth Was never prone that way: what, made an Ass?
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do but take his weapons from him, And he's an Ass, and I am a very fool, Both with him, and without him, as you use me.
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A _omits_] what, made an Ass.
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My friends are fairly surprised that you should set me down so unequivocally for an ass, as you have done, Page 1358.
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As I say to her, ass _in praesenti_ rarely makes a wise man _in futuro_.
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"Ass _in praesenti_."
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He told Fannia that, as he was coming to her house, an ass had come out to drink at a neighbouring fountain, and, fixing its eyes steadily on him, had brayed aloud and frisked vivaciously, whence he augured that he would find safety by sea.
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Aquillius was also given up by the Mytileneans and made to ride in chains on an ass, calling out who he was wherever he went.
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Having thus disposed of Turpin, the poet suddenly addresses his readers, saying,-- 'But turn we back now to that _lady free_ Whom late we left riding upon an ass Led by a _carle and fool_ which by her side did pass.'
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Again she is: "riding upon an ass Led by a carle and fool which by her side did pass."
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Mr. "Chéri" walked out with his head in the air, like an ass in a sacred procession, accompanied by Perrotin to the very threshold, and when the friends were once more alone, Clerambault would have liked to resume the conversation, but he could not conceal that he was a little chilled by what had passed.
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I had been so well off, and never thought of it, ass that I was!
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Detective's an ass.
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"I acted like an ass," said Mr. Woods, tragically.
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But if you'll forgive me for having been an ass I'll forgive you for throwing me over for Teddy Anstruther, and at the wedding I'll dance through any number of pairs of patent-leathers you choose to mention."
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She--oh, she'd only think you a precious cheeky ass, she would, and she'd be quite right.
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You _are_ an ass, Billy Woods!
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"No, we aren't an ass," he addressed his reflection in the mirror, as he carefully knotted his tie.
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In consequence, he very cordially detested the people who could--especially that grimacing ass, Kennaston.
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--and so," Mr. Woods was stating, "I've been an even greater ass than usual, and I hope you'll be very, very happy."
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Then, "By Jove!" said he, grimly, "I've been so busy making an ass of myself I'd forgotten all about more--more important things."
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"I've been an ass," said he, rather tragically.
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"Oh, not an unusual ass, Kathleen--just the sort men are always making of themselves.
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And I quarreled with her--I, conceited young ass that I was, actually presumed to dictate to the dearest, sweetest, most lovable woman on earth, and tell her what she must do and what she mustn't.
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Oh, I _was_ an ass!
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"And I thought I was an ass last night!
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And in the name of Heaven, what does she see to admire in that putty-faced, grimacing ass, any way!
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"You see," he added, whimsically, "I was sufficiently a conceited ass to fancy you cared a little for me.
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And if we are quite candid we must concede that we very unfeignedly envy and admire the rich; we must grant that money confers a certain distinction on a man, be he the veriest ass that ever heehawed a platitude, and that we cannot but treat him accordingly, you and I.
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"Peggy," he babbled--"ah, forgive me if I'm a presumptuous ass--but was it because you knew I couldn't ask you to marry me so long as you had the money?"
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"Don't be an ass, Monte," said one.
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Weights of 1 Chariot with its team of horses[6] 100 silver 6 Harnesses 300 " 1 Ass from Phoenicia 30 " 6 Harnesses, 1 Ass from Phoenicia 50 " Weights of 1 Mule 15 silver 1 Cow (pregnant) 30 " 30 Measures of corn, 60 Measures of 12 epha[7] 137 " 1 Hemicorion, 10 Shovels of 4 epha 16 " 2 Dogs, good 12 " 9 Greyhounds from the East 18 " 1 Hunting dog 1 " 1 Shepherd dog 1 " 1 Dog (bloodhound[8]) 6 " Total 616[9] (weights of) silver.
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Eliza Haywood sustained the largest share of anathema, for not only was she vilified in the poem, but "Haywood's Novels" and the offensive "Court of Carimania" occupied a conspicuous position in the cargo of books carried by the "ass laden with authors" which formed the well-known vignette to the quarto edition of 1729.
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Again, of the Leucrocotta: "A most destructive beast about the size of an ass, with legs of a deer, the neck, tail and breast of a lion, a badger's head, cloven hoof, mouth slit to the ears, and, in place of teeth, a solid line of bone."
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[Sidenote:--9--] Thus was Marcellinus convicted of a baldhead's peeping, [Footnote: The phrase [Greek: phalakrou parakupseos] has a humorous ring to it, and I am inclined to believe, especially considering the situation, that Dio had in his mind while writing this the familiar proverb [Greek: honou parakupseos], a famous response given by a careless ass-driver, whose animal being several rods in advance of its lagging master had stuck its head into an open doorway and thereby scattered the nucleus of a promising aviary.
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The fellow was haled to court to answer to a charge of contributory negligence and when some bystander asked him for what misdeed he had been brought to that place, he rejoined with a great air of injured innocence: "For an ass's peeping!"]
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Anne comes from Skye, and often tells me about water-horses and such-like odd denizens of that far island; and I find her soft Highland speech, with its "ass" for "as" and "ch" for "j," very diverting; but this time I wasn't amused.
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49:14 Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: 49:15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
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4:20 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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13:13 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.
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21:33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein; 21:34 The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
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22:4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
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22:9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.
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22:10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it: 22:11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.
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23:12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
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34:20 But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck.
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16:15 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.
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22:30 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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22:32 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times?
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5:13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: 5:14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
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22:4 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.
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22:10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
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28:31 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.
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6:21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
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6:3 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them; 6:4 And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.
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10:4 And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
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12:14 And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
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15:15 And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
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15:16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
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Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.
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or whose ass have I taken?
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15:3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
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16:20 And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.
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25:42 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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19:26 And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.
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4:24 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee.
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6:25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
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6:5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass?
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