The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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And him thought that a man beat Sir Launcelot, and despoiled him, and clothed him in another array, the which was all full of knots, and set him upon an ass, and so he rode till he came to the fairest well that ever he saw; and Sir Launcelot alit and would have drunk of that well.

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And the ass that he rode upon is a beast of humility, for God would not ride upon no steed, nor upon no palfrey; so in ensample that an ass betokeneth meekness, that thou sawest Sir Launcelot ride on in thy sleep.

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CHAPTER VI HOW SIR BORS MET WITH AN HERMIT, AND HOW HE WAS CONFESSED TO HIM, AND OF HIS PENANCE ENJOINED TO HIM When Bors was departed from Camelot he met with a religious man riding on an ass, and Sir Bors saluted him.

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At length, however, the dull-thoughted tribular chieftain became curious to know what lay beyond the narrow horizon of his wilderness, and men bound on the sandal, girded up their loins, grasped staff, and beat paths up and down the valleys, trudging behind an ass or a pack-horse that carried their impedimenta.

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The mentioning of the ass made the noble knight pause awhile; he mused and pondered whether he had ever read of any knight-errant whose squire used to ride upon an ass; but he could not remember any precedent for it: however, he gave him leave at last to bring his ass, hoping to mount him more honorably with the first opportunity, by unhorsing the next discourteous knight he should meet.

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If thou wilt not believe me, Sancho, yet do one thing for my sake; do but take thy ass, and follow those supposed sheep at a distance, and I dare engage thou shalt soon see them resume their former shapes, and appear such as I described them."

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--"I see what I see," replied Sancho, "and the devil of anything I can spy but a fellow on such another gray ass as mine is, with something that glitters o' top of his head."

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As Sancho had well observed, he rode upon a gray ass, which Don Quixote as easily took for a dapple-gray steed, as he took the barber for a knight, and his brass basin for a golden helmet; his distracted brain easily applying every object to his romantic ideas.

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I have come three thousand miles, and am resolved to set my foot on every peak of these mountains and poke my head into every chasm for the sole purpose of demonstrating to the satisfaction of any man one whit less an ass than thyself that the Great Carbuncle is all a humbug."

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But vain to make a conqueror of him, who put off the purple when he came to Mardi; and declining gilded miters, entered the nations meekly on an ass."

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If I add, But it is warm:--that's an _Ass_umption."

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but thou art an ass, with vast ears brushing the tops of palms!

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'In half an hour that ass Twemlow will be here,' he thought, looking at the office dial over the mantelpiece.

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'Because I'm a fool, a meddling ass,' he replied lightly, standing up and stroking his clothes.

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'Ass!' said the conductor of the opera bitterly when Harry Burgess told him that Stanway had suggested Sir Roger de Coverley for an extra, 'I wonder what his wife thinks of him!'

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"Dolt, ass, fool, that I am!" he cried.

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"And I've got a letter from Fanny this morning, to say that he and Lady Selina are to be married in July, and that she's going about making a martyr and a saint of him, talking of the 'persecution' he's had to put up with, and the vulgar fellows who couldn't appreciate him, and generally making an ass of herself.

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"Noon ass?"

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"Sheerah ass?"

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"Kishtee ass?"

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The beautiful South African zebra is here also, grouped near the Asiatic wild ass, and the Zoological Society's hybrids of the zebra, wild ass, and common donkey.

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The seventh case contains one or two remarkable groups, including some sacred animals; statues of Horns and the son of Horus supporting three vases upon goat's horns; various figures of Khons, one standing on a lotus flower; an extraordinary figure of Phtah-Socharis upon two crocodiles; Ta-ur, an erect hippopotamus, with human breasts, and the back covered by a crocodile's tail; Typhon, ass-headed; and the tortoise-headed guardian of the third hall of the Amenti, recovered from the tombs of the kings at Thebes.

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He, who hated vacillation, had been dangling for four-and-twenty hours like a pendulum, or, as he said to himself, like an ass between two bundles of hay.

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STEARNS, Ass't Secretary.

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That silly ass of a _khit_ had cleared off and left us nothing to drink.

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There, you little ass!

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"What in thunder is the matter with the young ass?" he demanded.

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"What a funny little ass you are, Tommy!" he said.

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"You always were an ass, weren't you?" said Monck, getting up.

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"You always were an ass," he commented.

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It is because of this hard-won ease of style that readers of English will never grow weary of that epistolary autobiography in which he recounts his maniacal fear that his food has been poisoned; his open-eyed wonder at balloons; the story of his mouse; the cure of the distention of his stomach by Lady Hesketh's gingerbread; the pulling out of a tooth at the dinner-table unperceived by the other guests; his desire to thrash Dr. Johnson till his pension jingled in his pocket; and the mildly fascinated tastes to which he confesses in such a paragraph as: I know no beast in England whose voice I do not account musical save and except always the braying of an ass.

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One remembers that Carlyle dismissed Herbert Spencer as a "never-ending ass."

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"Yes, as I was saying, sir, there was none of the gentlemen I hef effer seen in Tarbert will keep at the pentin so long ass you; and many of them will be stronger ass you, and will be more accustomed to it whatever.

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Later, Carlyon had sought him out, had shaken hands with him, called him an impetuous young ass, and had enjoined him to stick to himself during the expedition in which Derrick was thus recklessly determined to take part.

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"Sit down, Dick," he said patiently, "and stop being an ass!

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They would thus supplement their allowance of the readymade article, and by the same token snap their fingers at that "ass" _in excelsis_--Martial Law.

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Anybody who called a star a star was called an ass.

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"Oh yes, she's happy enough, though Crowborough's rather an ass."

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"Ah, even the biggest ass among them holds his tongue about that!" he said, exultantly.

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The hogs find food in profusion, and commonly stuff themselves to such a degree that they lose all desire for roving about: so that dog, master, and ass, lead a comparatively easy life, and are left to the quiet enjoyment of nature.

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The hard Mouth fops, a single Life applau'd, And hates a Woman, that woun't be a Baw'd: Nothing he values like a single Life, For tho he loves a Whore, he hates a Wife, Calls the poor Husband, Monkey, Ass or Dog, And Laughs because he wears the Wedlock Clogg, Yet freely they'l or'e tops of Houses Strolling, And venture Bones each Night a Caterwouling Expose himself to Falls, or Guns or Traps, } And twenty other unforeseen Mishaps, } All in his hot persuite of Whores and Claps.}

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He talks of moderation or'e a Glass } But mentions none of that when with his Lass, } He's Knave in Grain; a Blockhead and an Ass.}

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Therefore, _Melissa_, wisely Guard your Heart; What _Nature_ won't defend, defend by _Art_: Shun, I advise you, most Devoutly shun, Those _Servile Apes_ that swarm about the Town; _Pert, Noisie Coxcombs, Self-admiring Beaux_, Known by their _want_ of _Wit_, and _Gawdy Cloaths_: Of all the Creatures Nature does provide, To stock the World from _Ignorance_ to _Pride_; Of all that from her various Bosom spring, A _Beau_ I think the oddest kind of thing; A selfish Compound, singular, and Vain, Half _Ass_, half _Puppet_, and the least of _Man_; One that seems just for Nature's Pastime made, A _Gawdy_ Carcass, with an _Empty Head_; Whose only _Knowledge_ lies in _modish Dress_, And seldom looks much further than his Glass.

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Then he crept down to the farm wall, and round the corner of it to that outer cart-shed, where he had bound up his bleeding hand on the night when Halsey--silly ass!--had seen the ghost.

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Then that ass, Sam Ogilvy--oh, it's just oversmoking I guess, or--I don't know what."

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"Certainly," said Annan, "you're the sort of cheerful ass we need in our business.

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"Sam's such an ass," said his brother, "and it isn't all snobbery on my part."

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There is no greater ass than a wise one.

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Some say I'm an ass, others a bally idiot, others merely refer to me as imbecile.

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As for alighting on the heads of kings and emperors, you know very well that whether you pitch on the head of an emperor or of an ass (and it is as often on the one as the other), you are shaken off from both with impatience.

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The Discontented Ass In the depth of winter a poor Ass once prayed heartily for the spring, that he might exchange a cold lodging and a heartless truss of straw for a little warm weather and a mouthful of fresh grass.

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The Ass and His Master A Diligent Ass, already loaded beyond his strength by a severe Master whom he had long served, and who kept him on very short commons, happened one day in his old age to be oppressed with a more than ordinary burden of earthenware.

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His Master, transported with rage, began to beat him most unmercifully, against whom the poor Ass, lifting up his head as he lay on the ground, thus strongly remonstrated: "Unfeeling wretch!

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The Ass and His Shadow A Man, one hot day, hired an Ass, with his Driver, to carry some merchandise across a sandy plain.

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"Nay, friend," said the Driver, "when you hired this Ass of me you said nothing about the shadow.

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The Ass in the Lion's Skin An Ass, finding a Lion's skin, put it on, and ranged about the forest.

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The Old Man, His Son, and the Ass An Old Man and his Little Boy were once driving an Ass before them to the next market-town, where it was to be sold.

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The Ass and His Purchaser A Man wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with his owner that he should try him before he bought him.

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The Playful Ass An Ass climbed up to the roof of a building and, frisking about there, broke in the tiling.

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"My father is an ass, and my mother is a mare."

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Go, and having arrived at the entrance of the black ants, where are a great many ant-heads, when thou seest these many heads of the black ants, take them, and fill thy bags with them; then load thy bags upon thy ass, carry them to market, spread mats there, and sell them."

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Then, he alone not being able to lift the bag, he called people, saying: "Come, be so good as to help me; let us take the sacks and load mine ass;" but not any of the people would do so.

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Then the little red ants came after him, and when they were come to where he was, he said to them, "Please come and help me to load mine ass".

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The little red Ants answered, and said to our Lord, "The reason why we killed this man is this: When he went to market and his ass had thrown off the sacks, those sacks were too heavy for him to take alone, so he called us, and when we came to him, he said to us, 'Please help me to take my large bag and load it upon mine ass, that I may go to market.

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Their Maker chooses but a few With power of pleasing to imbue; Where wisely leave it we, the mass, Unlike a certain fabled Ass, That thought to gain his master's blessing By jumping on him and caressing.

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This time, the King, t' insure success, Took for his aide-de-camp an Ass, A creature of stentorian voice, That felt much honoured by the choice.

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Cried out the much-elated Ass.

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The Donkey, had he dared, With anger would have flared At this retort, though justly made; For who could suffer boasts to pass So ill-befitting to an Ass?

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_Now those to whom the world is new Are wonder-struck at every view; And the marauder finds his match When he is caught who thinks to catch._ The Ass and the Dog Along the road an Ass and Dog One master following, did jog.

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He would not be too delicate, Nor spoil a dinner for a plate, Which, but for that, his favourite dish, Were all that any Ass could wish.

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The Ass Carrying Relics An Ass, with relics for his load, Supposed the worship on the road Meant for himself alone, And took on lofty airs, Receiving as his own The incense and the prayers.

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I no man call or ape or ass; 'Tis his own conscience holds the glass.

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Aesop (Greek) Ass and His Master, The.

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Aesop (Greek) Ass and His Purchaser, The.

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Aesop (Greek) Ass and His Shadow, The.

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Aesop (Greek) Ass and the Dog, The.

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La Fontaine (French) Ass and the Lap-dog, The.

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La Fontaine (French) Ass Carrying Relics, The.

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La Fontaine (French) Ass in the Lion's Skin, The.

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Raju (Indian) Discontented Ass, The.

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Cowper (English) Playful Ass, The.

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"Pompous ass!"

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The company had not yet found its way out of the parlors to any extent, so the major locked the lieutenant's arm in his own, commenced a gentle promenade, and remarked: "Fred, my boy, you're making an ass of yourself."

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"Then do it, ass!

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A man who made love as though he were preaching a sermon, or a man who preached a sermon as though he were teasing schoolboys, or a man who described a death as though he were describing a practical joke, must necessarily be either an ass or a lunatic."

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The following may serve as an example of their talent:--An ass had got loose and broken into a field of corn, much of which it destroyed.

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It's magnificent, but of course he's an ass."

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"If you can't be an ass at twenty," said Frances, "when can you be?"

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Really, there would be nothing else for him to do but to walk out, and he would look an awful ass doing it.

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He wondered if _he_ would look an awful ass doing it.

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But I thought I'd choose a broader life (I must have been an ass).

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The man is an ass.

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Not content with being an ass merely, he is a pompous and a stupid ass.

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If Bert had suggested calling it Put-In Bay or Simpkins' Cove or something like that you'd have said 'Fine!' and secretly thought him a perfect ass!"

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Ass'n: East Granville 6.00 Holyoke.

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