The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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"Of a man turned into an ass, and returned again into a man, by one of Bodin's witches: S. Augustine's opinion thereof."

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Whither the devil will this ass?"

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The ass, or young man--I cannot tell by which name I should term him--being many times repelled, and understanding their words that called him ass, considering that he could speak never a word and yet could understand everybody, he thought that he was bewitched by the woman at whose house he was.

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And therefore, when by no means he could get into the boat, but was driven to tarry and see her departure, being also beaten from place to place as an ass, he remembered the witch's words, and the words of his own fellows that called him ass, and returned to the witch's house; in whose service he remained by the space of three years, doing nothing with his hands all that while, but carried such burthens as she laid on his back; having only this comfort, that, although he were reputed an ass among strangers and beasts, yet that both this witch and all other witches knew him to be a man.

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[To set an horse's or an ass's head on a man's neck and shoulders.]

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But at the conclusion of this, cut off the head of a horse or an ass (before they be dead, otherwise the virtue or strength thereof will be the less effectual), and make an earthen vessel of fit capacity to contain the same, and let it be filled with the oil and fat thereof, cover it close, and daub it over with loam; let it boil over a soft fire three days continually, that the flesh boiled may run into oil, so as the bare bones may be seen; beat the hair into powder, and mingle the same with the oil; and anoint the heads of the standers by, and they shall seem to have horses' or asses' heads.

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They talked only of congruity or reason, and argument resounded from the lips of all, and to give its common name to an ass, or a man, or any of nature's works, was like a crime, or was much too inelegant or crude, and abhorrent to a philosopher....

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On board _Kit_ disports himself as a fatuous ass, of the kind that hyphenated Americans (in plays) would naturally assume to be the staple of a British Cabinet.

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Not that _Goring_ really was such an ass; but it was _Kit's_ plan to be so guileless as to induce the enemy agents to think they had a sitter.

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I told him he was a silly ass, but he seemed to think he had done something praiseworthy.

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Afraid I behaved like a selfish ass.

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"Oh, stop being a silly ass, Noel!" he said.

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The latter consisted of "Deductions, Absent, Late Fines, Keys, Mdse., Stamps, Beneficial Ass., and Sub.

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Still he had nothing against the fellow except that he was a "dude" and something of an ass, whose outlook on life was so different from Petro's that friendship was impossible.

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But just at that moment I seemed to hear a horrid little laugh coming out of the bottle, and a voice chuckled at my ear: 'You ass, do you call that original?'

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How they seemed to nudge each other and twinkle among themselves at the poor ass down there, who actually took himself and his doings so seriously as to flourish, even on a little brass knocker.

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Don't be a sloppy ass," I said, feeling that I had been fairly trapped into deserting a fellow-victim, and backing our common tyrant.

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It seems, as I recall it, a fine sentence, but at that moment, when I wanted to be a wild ass among men, it was a _lie_.

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"Now don't be an ass, Bicky," said Stanley, who deemed that a Court of Inquiry over which he presided was much too weighty an affair to be approached with levity; "it's no joking matter.

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"You're all right," he decided, "except that you're an ass.

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Take your medical man's word for it--you're an ass.

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Put him beside the other ass for company."

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"Silly ass, Osborne," roared Cover-point, quite gratuitously, for no one had addressed him for the last twenty minutes.

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The last thing that I heard was the batsman's voice shouting: "I'm not an ass.

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Why have I got that ass, Freedham, on the brain?"

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"Ray, you old ass," he began.

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I tried to drag my arm away, but he held it too tight, and proceeded to make the remarkable statement: "You old ass!

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"Well, then, don't be an unseemly ass.

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He enjoined me not to be an ass, and I rebuked him severely for speaking to his doctor like that, and, going out of the dug-out, broke off all communication with one so rude.

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The description of the wild ass, in Job, is worked up into no small sublimity, merely by insisting on his freedom, and his setting mankind at defiance; otherwise the description of such an animal could have had nothing noble in it.

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_Who hath loosed_ (says he) _the bands of the wild ass?

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Bull baiting and sometimes ass baiting.

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It is true that some ass in the saloon had already calculated for my benefit that there were "three thousand _souls_ on board!"

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A bold Boston doctor, by stride superhuman, Makes only a step from a snake to a woman; Or, inspect your best friends by Granville's good glass, And the difference's as small 'twixt a man and an ass.

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"And is it not the same with that strange figure dwelling in companionship with a sow spinning--though it is not in fact a sow, but a hog--and an ass playing on a hurdy-gurdy on the storm-beaten wall of the old tower?"

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These two animals, whose careless herd he seems to be, represent in their merry guise the old popular sayings: _Ne sus Minerveum_, and _Asinus ad lyram_, which may be freely rendered by "Every man to his trade," and "Never force a talent;" for we should but be as inept as a pig trying to be wise or an ass trying to strike the lyre.

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The leoncerote, offspring of the male hyena and the lioness, having the body of an ass, the legs of a deer, the breast of a wild beast, a camel's head, and armed with terrible fangs; the tharanda, which, according to Hugh of Saint Victor, has the shape of the ox, the profile of the stag, the fur of the bear, and which changes colour like the cameleon; finally, the sea-monk, the most puzzling of all, since Vincent of Beauvais describes it as having its body covered with scales, and it is furnished, in lieu of arms, with fins all over claws, besides having a monk's shaven head ending in the snout of a carp.

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The poor ass is no better treated by Hugh of Saint Victor, who accuses it of stupidity, by Saint Gregory the Great, who taxes it with laziness, and Peter of Capua, who speaks of its lust.

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It must, however; be observed that Saint Melito compares it with Christ for its humility, and that the exegetists explain the ass's foal ridden by Christ on Palm Sunday as an image of the Gentiles, as they interpret the she-ass that threw Him to mean the Jews.

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Pride is embodied in the bull, the peacock, the lion, the eagle, the horse, the swan, and the wild ass--according to Vincent de Beauvais.

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Avarice by the wolf, and, says Saint Theobald, by the spider; for lust, we have the he-goat, the boar, the toad, the ass, and the fly, which, Saint Gregory the Great tells, typifies the turbulent cravings of the senses; for envy, the sparrow-hawk, the owl, and screech-owl; for greediness, the hog and the dog; for anger, the lion and wild boar, and, according to Adamantius, the leopard; for sloth, the vulture, the snail, the she-ass, and, Raban Maur says, the mule.

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Literary societies know but little of this club, for literary societies despise the affairs of the real worker--they are interested in the bladdery essay written by the fashionable ass.

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This similitude I hope has pleas'd him; if it does not, _Esop_'s Ass stands ready Sadled at the door.

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Needless the haughty steeds marble-sculptured, or triumphal arches, or chariots and four, Needless the flags and the caparisons, the moving pyramids and towers, and cars that thunder and roar,-- 'Tis but an ass whereon sits Christ; For to make an end of the nightmare built by the pedants and the pharisees, To get home to reality across the gulf of mendacities, The first she-ass he saw sufficed!

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"I shall enjoy watching Spencer make all kinds of an ass of him.

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"My dear fellow, don't be an ass!"

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"I'll confide to you that he is an egotistical and insufferable old ass," he whispered.

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As they crossed a meadow, they spied an Ass, one of the gravest and most solemn that ever was seen.

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Since the creation of the world, no ass had ever had such long ears.

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With the utmost ease it is able to leap over the back of an ass, and was very near worrying one to death, having fastened on it, so that the creature was not able to disengage himself without assistance; it has been also known to run down both deer and sheep.

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He tacked that on in the tone of one who deplores the inevitable; and went on quickly, "You needn't infer that I've made an ass of myself or that I'm going to.

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"Don't be an ass," Frank snubbed him.

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=Wealth.= If thou art rich, thou art poor; For, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, Thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee.

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Tell him, with my luv, to mix a spoonful o' pepper, an' two o' salt, an' wan o' mustard, an' a glass o' whisky in a taycup, with a sprinklin' o' ginger; fill it up with goat's milk, or ass's, av ye can't git goat's; hait it in a pan, an' drink it as hot as he can--hotter, if possible.

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"He's a stupid ass," thought Ruby to himself, and then, turning to Minnie, directed her attention to a curious natural arch on the cliffs, and sought to forget all the rest of the world.

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The Chinese have a proverb which runs, "Whip an ass and let a horse see it."

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An ass easily drove a stag from his pasture-ground by taking a man on his back; but the man remained in the saddle.

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Una muger abogado Un médico " " " " " médico Un comadrón " " " " comadre (midwife) The following nouns of persons and animals have two different forms to represent the two sexes-- El buey (ox) La vaca (cow) El caballo (stallion) La yegua (mare) El carnero (ram) La oveja (ewe) El fraile (friar) La soror (sister) El hombre (man) La muger (woman) El macho cabrío or cabrón (he-goat) La cabra (she-goat) El marido (husband) La muger (the wife) El padre (father) La madre (mother) El padrastro (step-father) La madrastra (step-mother) El padrino (god-father) La madrina (god-mother) El toro (bull) La vaca (cow) El yerno (son-in-law) La nuera (daughter-in-law) Many names of animals are either common, as-- El ánade, la ánade (the duck) El liebre, la liebre (the hare) El tigre, la tigre (the tiger, tigress) Or they change _o_ of the masculine into _a_ or add _a_, to form the feminine, as-- Un ganso (a gander) Una gansa (a goose) Un león (the lion) Una leona (a lioness) Un mulo (a mule) Una mula (a she-mule) Un pollino (an ass) Una pollina (a she-ass) Most are epicene as already stated (p. 246).

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You cast iron ass!

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Damn the solemn ass, Howat Penny thought.

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You'll think I am a braying ass, of course."

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I tell you I want to watch the Great Experiment, and if I were not a poor, worthless, ignorant ass I'd be a part of it."

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I was stupid not to have seen it earlier; I've been a dull ass about a lot of things.

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On the way home, after the rehearsal, as he and Beethoven came in sight of the Lobkowitz Platz, Beethoven, with the delinquent third bassoonist still in his mind, could not resist crossing the Platz, and shouting into the great gateway of the palace, "Lobkowitzscher Esel" (ass of a Lobkowitz).

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In "The Devil is an Ass," he describes the demeanour of a gallant occupying a seat upon the stage.

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To recite an epilogue while seated on the back of an ass was a favourite expedient of the comedians of the early Georgian period, while the introduction of comic songs and mimicry--such as the scene of "The Drunken Man," and the song of "The Four-and-Twenty Stock-Jobbers," which Mr. Harper performed on his benefit-night in 1720--was found to be a very attractive measure.

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Early comedians, such as Joe Haines and Pinkethman, now and then entered upon the scene, "seated upon an ass," to deliver "an occasional epilogue," with more mirthful effect.

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In Tom Brown's works, 1730, there is a print of Haines, mounted on an ass, appearing in front of the stage, with a view of the side boxes and pit.

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I asked Dan Anderson bitterly, "now that you've been ass enough to allow this girl to come on down in here?

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"I dislike to make these remarks to an oiled and curled Assyrian ass," he went on, smiling, "but under the circumstances, I do; and it goes."

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Wild goats, sheep, an ass-like animal (_Goomasht_), and a fox which is handsome, of large size, and common.

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Then appears a fair lady, habited in mourning, and riding on an ass, while behind her comes a dwarf, leading a caparisoned war-horse, upon which was the complete armor of a knight.

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The Lady Una, riding upon a lowly ass, shrouded by a veil, covered with a black stole, "as one that inly mourned," and leading "a milk-white lamb," is the Church.

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The ass is the symbol of her Master's lowliness, who made even his triumphant entry into Jerusalem upon "a colt the foal of an ass;" the lamb, the emblem of the innocence and of the helplessness of the "little flock;" the black stole is meant to represent the Church's trials and sorrows in her former history as well as in that naughty age.

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Before the discussion ended it became his painful duty to remind Judson of the fact that he was an ass.

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Silly ass I was, not to have seen it all along.

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Yet into just such a situation He quietly turns the head of His untamed unridden young colt of an ass and rides through the city surrounded by the crowds under the very eyes of these leaders and their hireling legal minions.

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"Quoth bold Robin Hood, 'Thou dost prate like an ass, For, were I to bend my bow, I could send a dart quite through thy proud heart, Before thou couldst strike a blow.'"

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"If I talk like an ass you talk like a coward," replied the stranger.

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There was no escape for the swiftest beast when Rustem was mounted on Raksh, and in a very short time a wild ass was caught with the lasso.

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After this he caught another wild ass, and roasted him for his meal.

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Hear the big journal braying like an ass; Behold the brazen statesmen as they pass; See dapper poets hurrying for their dimes With hasty verses hammered out in rhymes: The Muses whisper--'"Tis the age of brass."

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Better a skillful cobbler at his last Than unlearned poet twangling on the lyre; Who sails on land and gallops on the blast, And mounts the welkin on a braying ass, Clattering a shattered cymbal bright with brass, And slips his girth and tumbles in the mire.

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No ass so obstinate as ignorance.

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The Chamber of Commerce was a set of old women, the Secretary of the Treasury was an ass, and the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means was a person he should be unwilling to take as an office-boy.

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The lion of Sevenoaks in the skin of an ass!

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He probably knows as much about the Bible as a wild ass' colt, and is requested at this time to keep a proper distance.

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"Barker," he said to himself, "is an ass.

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"Write me down an ass, by all means," said Barker calmly; "but please explain what you mean.

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"Barker," he began with emphasis, "you are an ass."

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To them comes the beardless ass, simpering from his first adventure, and generally "afraid he has compromised" the mature woman of the world, whom he has elected to serve, desiring to know what he ought to do about it.

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Either of these young gentlemen could have bought out his Grace; either of them would have joyfully licked his boots; and either of them would have protested, within the sacred precincts of their gorgeous club in New York, that he was a conceited ass of an Englishman.

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You are an ass, Barker, with your complicated calculations, as the Duke has often told you; and now it is a thousand to one that you have ruined yourself with the Countess.

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I admit myself no buccaneer, but a simple ass who for once pricked ears on an honest impulse."

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"Friend in Maine," _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...10.00 Woman's Aid to American Miss'y Ass'n, by Mrs. C.A.

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How did they cross the desert on one poor ass?

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