The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Ass._ I was on'y wondering if you'd been applying our Rosicrucian Stimulant, Sir, that's all.

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Ass._ Hee-hee!

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Ass._ (_to the Bald Customer, with withering deference_).

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Ass._ (_to his subject_).

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Ass._ (_demurely_).

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Ass._ No, Sir, you've an uncommon thick 'ed--of _'air_, I mean, of course!

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Ass._ { _(together, to_ {Shall I put anything on _The S.A._ {_their respective_ { your 'ed, Sir?

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Ass._ Think your 'air's as you like it now, Sir?

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Ass._ Pretty proud of his 'air, that party, eh?

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These were:--The well that followed Israel in the wilderness, the manna, the rainbow, the letters of the alphabet, the stylus, the tables of the law, the grave of Moses, the cave in which Moses and Elijah stood, the opening of the mouth of Balaam's ass, the opening of the earth to swallow the wicked (Korah and his clique).

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The woman drank and was transformed into an ass, which he mounted and rode to the market-place.

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15), "I have not taken one ass from them."

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or whose ass have I taken?"

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It is said that he hired every horse, mule, camel, and ass he could find in all Israel to carry the oil, and that on nearing his city the people turned out to meet him and compliment him for the service he had done them.

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20), "And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass."

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9), "Poor, and riding upon an ass."

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Then Adam replied, "This is an ox, this is an ass," and so on.

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For one form of uncleanness the soul will be invested with the body of a Gentile, who will (eventually) become a proselyte; for another, the soul will pass into the body of a mule; for others, it transmigrates into an ass, a woman of Ashdod, a bat, a rabbit or a hare, a she-mule or a camel.

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Ishmael transmigrated first into the she-ass of Balaam, and subsequently into the ass of Rabbi Pinchas ben Yair.

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Supposing an ass, or a dog, or a cat, had first met him upon his return, would he have sacrificed it for a burnt-offering?

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Rabbi Akiba was once traveling through the country, and he had with him an ass, a rooster, and a lamp.

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If thy friends agree in calling thee an ass, go and get a halter around thee.

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54 and ), of the verses asserting that "every act, either mental, verbal or corporeal, bears good or evil fruit (Karma)," that "the various transmigrations of men (not souls) through the highest, middle and lowest stages, are produced by their actions," and again that "a Brahman-killer enters the body of a dog, bear, ass, camel, goat, sheep, bird, &c.," bears no reference to the human Ego, but only to the atoms of his body, his lower triad and his fluidic emanations.

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FRANK E. JENKINS, Ass't Secretary.

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By the time he had had his bath and his breakfast it had got itself within the limits of what could be expressed in the statement: "I've been a jolly ass."

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He was not a jolly ass because he had remained true to Olivia Guion, but because of the extravagant methods of his faithfulness.

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"She's taking me for a jolly ass," he said to himself, and reddened hotly.

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Do you think I can't tell loyalty when I see it, and am such an ass as not to prize it above all things?

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He declared one of them to be an unmitigated ass to throw whom overboard would be to insult the Atlantic.

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"I'm such a silly ass in such things."

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The household fire was made in a hollow of the earthen floor, usually to one side of the room, and the smoke escaped through a hole in the ceiling; branches of trees, charcoal, and dried cakes of ass or cow dung were used for fuel.

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An ass, a lion, a crocodile, and an ape are represented in the act of giving a vocal and instrumental concert; a lion and a gazelle play at draughts; the Pharaoh of all the rats, in a chariot drawn by dogs, gallops to the assault of a fortress garrisoned by cats; a cat of fashion, with a flower on her head, has come to blows with a goose, {172} and the hapless fowl, powerless in so unequal a contest, topples over with terror.

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Ass, in drawings, 171 , 175 .

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He was revived by the food, and had strength enough to make up two loads of turf, which he sold, and bought an ass, which he killed, and tried to cook and eat.

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Ass and horse flesh were anxiously sought for, even when the animals died of disease or starvation.

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A fortnight earlier a most circumstantial account of the eating of ass flesh is given by a commercial gentleman in a letter addressed to the Premier, Lord John Russell, and dated "Ballina, Christmas-eve."

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There must have been an atmosphere of poetry in the Lake District affecting both visitors and natives, for in a small valley, half a mile from a lonely chapel, stood the only inn, bearing the strange sign of "The Mortal Man" on which some native poet, but not Wordsworth, had written: O Mortal Man, who liv'st on bread, What is't that makes thy nose so red?-- Thou silly ass, that looks so pale.

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In our time walking was the only means of crossing the pass, but now visitors are conveyed up this hill in coaches, but as the gradient is so steep in some parts, they are invariably asked to walk, so as to relieve the horses a little, a fact which found expression in the Visitors' Book at the "Travellers' Rest" in the following lines: He surely is an arrant ass Who pays to ride up Kirkstone Pass, For he will find, in spite of talking, He'll have to walk and pay for walking.

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And he dat will not go to de mass, Lilli burlero, bullen a-la-- Shall be turn out and look like an ass: Lilli burlero, bullen a-la.

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Dare was an old Prophecy found in a bog, Lilli burlero, bullen a-la-- "Ireland shall be rul'd by an ass and a dog": Lilli burlero, bullen a-la.

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And now dis Prophecy is come to pass, Lilli burlero, bullen a-la-- For Talbot's de dog, and James is de ass: Lilli burlero, bullen a-la.

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The carved stone pulpit, of the same date as the screen, had at one time been divided into Gothic panels, on which were shields designed to represent the twelve sons of Israel: Judah was represented by a lion couchant, Zebulon by a ship under sail, Issachar as a laden ass resting, and Dan as a serpent coiled with head erect, and so on according to the description given of each of the sons in the forty-ninth chapter of Genesis.

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He was a post against which every needy fellow came and rubbed himself; a tap, from which every thirsty soul could drink; a flitch, at which every hungry dog had a pull; an ass, on which every needy rogue must have his ride; a mill, that ground everybody's corn but his own; in short, a "good-hearted fellow," who couldn't for the life of him say "No."

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"If thou art rich, thou art poor; For, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey And death unloads thee."--_Shakespeare_.

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Charms are devoutly believed in; a ring made from a shilling, offered at the communion, is an undoubted cure for fits; hair plucked from the crop on an ass's shoulder, and woven into a chain, to be put round a child's neck, is powerful for the same purpose; and the hand of a corpse applied to the neck is believed to disperse a wen.

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As soon as I was set free, I ran to him, and gambolled all round him, without venturing to lay my paws on him; for I bethought me of that ass in Æsop's Fables, who was ass enough to think of fondling his master in the same manner as his favourite lap-dog, and was well basted for his pains.

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It was reported that she turned men into brutes, and that she made an ass of a sacristan, and used him really and truly in that form for six years.

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I wish it was as easy as it was for the golden ass of Apuleius, who had only to eat a rose for his restoration; but yours depends upon the actions of others, and not upon your own efforts.

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Now, what an enormous absurdity it would be to believe that Camacha could change human beings into brutes, or that the sacristan served her for years under the form of an ass.

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A gipsy, for instance, related one day in my presence how he had swindled a countryman as you shall hear: The gipsy had an ass with a docked tail, and he fitted a false tail to the stump so well that it seemed quite natural.

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Having pocketed the money, he told the countryman that if he wanted another ass, own brother to the one he had bought, and every bit as good, he might have it a bargain.

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The bargain was soon made; the purchaser went into his house to fetch the money to pay for the second ass, and there he discovered the loss of the first.

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The gipsy brought forward as witness the man who had received the alcabala [63] on the first transaction, and who swore that he had sold the countryman an ass with a very bushy tail, quite different from the second one; and an alguazil, who was present, took the gipsy's part so strongly that the countryman was forced to pay for the ass twice over.

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The comedy was such that to me, who am but an ass in such matters, it seemed as though Satan himself had composed it for the utter ruin and perdition of the poet; and I actually shivered with vexation to see the solitude in which his audience had left him.

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Accordingly they struck their tents, and departed, offering Andrew an ass to ride; but he chose rather to travel on foot, and serve as attendant to Preciosa, who rode triumphantly another ass, rejoicing in her gallant esquire; whilst he was equally delighted at finding himself close to her whom he had made the mistress of his freedom.

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He was a smart fellow, and with the help of a famous ass of mine he used to keep all the tanks overflowing, and make a lake of the house.

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Whether it was for this reason, or that fate ordained it so, it happened that as he was riding down a steep and narrow lane, he ran against another water-carrier's ass, which was coming, laden, up-hill; and, as his own was fresh and lively and in good condition, the poor, half-starved, jaded brute that was toiling up hill, was knocked down, the pitchers were broken, and the water spilled.

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The driver of the fallen ass, enraged by this disaster, immediately flew upon the offender, and pommelled him soundly before poor Lope well knew where he was.

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The alguazil took him out of their hands, delivered him and his ass into those of his followers, had the wounded man laid like a sack upon his own ass, and marched them all off to prison attended by such a crowd that they could hardly make way through the streets.

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His intention was to buy an ass, and to do business as a water carrier on his own account as long as they remained in Toledo.

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I'll tell you what you shall do; only stay this night in the inn, and to-morrow you shall buy yourself an ass, find a lodging, and so secure yourself from the importunities of Argüello, whilst I remain exposed to those of the Gallegan, and to the fire of my Costanza's eyes."

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"I have already told you, friend," replied Tomas, "that you may do as you please-either go on your pilgrimage, or buy an ass and turn water-carrier as you proposed."

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They then went to sleep till daylight, when they rose; Tomas Pedro went to give out oats, and Lope set off to the cattle-market to buy an ass.

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Whilst these things were happening in the posada, Asturiano was going about the market in search of an ass.

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But though the pace was good enough, Lope was not satisfied with the size, for he wanted an ass big and strong enough to carry himself and the water vessels, whether they were full or empty.

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The bystanders congratulated him on his purchase, and on his entrance into the business, assuring him that he had bought an exceedingly lucky ass, for the man who had sold him had, in less than a year, without over-working himself, made enough to buy two suits of clothes, over and above his own keep, and that of the ass, and the sixteen ducats, with which he intended to return to his native place, where a marriage had been arranged with a half kinswoman of his.

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Carriazo has three sons, who, without inheriting their father's tastes, or caring to know whether or not there are any such things as tunny fisheries in the world, are all pursuing their studies at Salamanca; whilst their father never sees a water-carrier's ass but he thinks of the one he drove in Toledo, and is not without apprehension that, when he least expects it, his ears shall be saluted with some squib having for its burden, "Give us the tail, Asturiano!

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Then, the tenfold pain To feel a gilded butterfly's disdain!-- A kicking ass, without an ass's sense, Whose only virtue is, pounds, shillings, pence; And now, while ills on ills beset him round, The scorn of such the hopeless Edmund found.

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"That kiss divine, I trow, is mine," Cried doughty Hudibras; "I am the man," cried Gallachan, "And sure thou art ane ass."

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CUDDIE, _s._ an ass.

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In this place we saw an animal that resembled an ass, but it had a cloven hoof, as we discovered afterwards by tracking it, and was as swift as a deer.

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'_London, December 30th_.--Best friends here hope you won't go making further ass of yourself.--M'NEILL.'

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"But, after all, he is not an ass of the parish; he is a vagrant, and he ought to be pounded.

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"He who scrubs the head of an ass wastes his soap."

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Here you shall meet one, bare-footed, with a Cross on his Shoulder, a Burden rather fit for somewhat with four Feet, and which his poor Two are ready to sink under, yet the vain Wretch bears and sweats, and sweats and bears, in hope of finding Merit in an Ass's Labour.

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He was a Person of himself far from one of the least Proportion, and mounted on a poor little Ass, with all his warlike Accoutrements upon it, you will allow must make a Figure almost as odd as one of the old _Centaurs_.

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Nevertheless, a Curb Bridle of the largest Size cover'd his little Head, and a long red Cloak, hanging down to the Ground, cover'd Jackboots, Ass, Master and all.

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You gradually advance to every one, from Bottom to Top, by a winding Ascent; which to do would otherwise be Impossible, by reason of the Steepness; but though there is a winding Ascent to every Cell, as I have said, I would yet set at defiance the most observant, if a Stranger, to find it feasible to visit them in order, if not precaution'd to follow the poor _Borigo_, or old Ass, that with Paniers hanging on each Side of him, mounts regularly, and daily, up to every particular Cell.

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There is a Well in the Middle of the Garden, and over that a Wheel with many Pitchers, or Buckets, one under another, which Wheel being turned round by an Ass, the Pitchers scoop up the Water on one Side, and throw it out on the other into a Trough, that by little Channels conveys it, as the Gardiner directs, into every part of the Garden.

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We hasten'd to the Window, out of which we beheld the _Clerico, Murtough Brennan_, pitifully mounted on the Back of a very poor Ass (for they would neither let, nor lend him a Mule through all the Town) his Legs almost rested on the Ground, for he was lusty, as his Ass was little; and a Fellow with a large Cudgel march'd a-foot, driving his Ass along.

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Fool, Said I?--a madman, ape, dolt, idiot, ass, An honourable ass to give the land His weak sire left him, to our Basil--Ha!

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life here is as cheap as the grass on an empty common, where there is no democracy of goose to hiss at the kingly shadow of a single ass in God's sunshine.

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Will no man be a surety for a poor preacher of the Lord at the sign of Balaam's Ass?

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As _Manon_, the querulous termagant that _Tony_ had taken for mistress, Miss HILDA MOORE was not very kindly served by her part--so rudimentary that its highest flight was achieved when, with a Parthian shot, she referred to _Tony_ as a geni-ass.

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Whoever was it dared cast Mr. MCKINNEL for the part of a weak kindly old ass of a baronet, without any ruggedness or violence in his composition?

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This joke must pass; For time-beat, ass!

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It is but an awkward tale of wonder where a demon is worsted by a trick which could hardly have cheated a common horse-jockey; but by such legends our ancestors were amused and interested, till their belief respecting the demons of the Holy Land seems to have been not very far different from that expressed in the title of Ben Jonson's play, "The Devil is an Ass."

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In the mean time, Mr Gore landed in a small sandy cove near some houses, and was met by eight or ten of the natives, who, as well in their dress as their persons, very much resembled the Malays; They were without arms, except the knives which it is their custom to wear in their girdles, and one of them had a jack-ass with him: They courteously invited him ashore, and conversed with him by signs, but very little of the meaning of either party could be understood by the other.

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_Nick._ Of Humane Species, Madam, your Ladiship shall examine it, but the Ladies turn it into what shape they please, an _Ape_, an _Ass_, a _Lizard_, a _Squirrel_, a _Spaniel_; most People say 'tis a _Man_, but the Merchant that brought it from the _Cyprian Groves_, calls it a _Desponding Lover_.

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Instead of being, like _Lucius_ and the _Golden Ass_, a tissue of stories essentially unconnected and little more than framed by the main tale, it is, though it may have a few episodes, an example of at least romantic unity throughout, with definite hero and definite heroine, the prominence and importance of the latter being specially noteworthy.

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One may look back to the _Odyssey_ itself without finding anything so good, except the adventures of the Golden Ass which had all the story-work of two mightiest literatures behind them.

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INDEX _Adam Bede_ Adams, W. Addison _Adeline Mowbray_ Aelfric _Agathos_ Ainsworth, H. _Alton Locke_ _Amadis_ _Amelia_ _Amis and Amillion_ Amory, Thomas _Anabasis, The_ Anglo-Saxon, Romance in _Anna_ _Anna St. Ives_ _Apollonius of Tyre_ Apuleius Arblay, Madame d', _see_ Burney, F. _Arcadia, The_ _Aretina_ _Arthour and Merlin_ Arthurian Legend, the; its romantic concentration _Ask Mamma_ _Ass, The Golden_ _Atlantis, The New_ Austen, Miss _Badman, Mr_.

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At that first meeting with Cajetan Luther still prostrated himself humbly at the feet of the prince of the Church; after the second he allowed himself to express the view that the cardinal was as fit for his office as an ass to play the harp.

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What an ass I am.

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But between the two there is this difference: that whereas the big caravan in the desert has but one leader--a little ass--the Conference in Paris is led by two delegates who are the great Ones of the earth."

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She believed that Joseph was a sinner but not a willing one: and Jack Bendish, a little astray among these feminine subtleties, assented after his fashion--"Hyde's rather an ass in some ways," he said simply, "but he's an all-round sportsman."

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"You silly ass, I warned you!-- I should rather like to see this Moore play.

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