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"She fell in love with a jackass," he remarked.

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A lovely woman with her arms around a jackass.

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"Shakespeare was probably too gallant to put it the other way, and make Oberon fall in love with a female jackass.

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And then, his fierce outbreak about taking orders from a negro when I was moralizing over the misfortune of marrying a jackass!

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At close of day A solitary jackass came to bray-- A common Thistle's fitting epitaph.

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Then, sir, I ask you, as a naturalist, do you not know it to be a fact in natural history that one jackass always brays as soon as he sees another?'

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If you want to know what you are, you are a set of highly well-intentioned young jackasses."

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Yet a glance round the room, revealing ranks of debased and envious faces--" "Adopting," said Moon explosively, for he was getting restive--"adopting the reverend gentleman's favourite figure of logic, may I say that while tortures would not tear from me a whisper about his intellect, he is a blasted old jackass."

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Over he rolled upon his back and there lay staring with wide eyes, and away scampered the jackass, kicking up his heels and braying so that the leaves of the trees trembled and shook.

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I then recounted the floating rumors concerning the hooded lady, the owl, and Master B.: with others, still more filmy, which had floated about during our occupation, relative to some ridiculous old ghost of the female gender who went up and down, carrying the ghost of a round table; and also to an impalpable Jackass, whom nobody was ever able to catch.

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"All the same," remonstrated Tartarin, "it strikes me that jackasses will not chime in nicely with the effect of our caravan.

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Choose a son-in-law with ambition and means, and you can follow her to Paris and leave that jackass Beauvisage behind you.

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"Blinking jackass!

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But I just missed being a fine jackass.

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The worthy man, led on by false hopes, allowed Adolphe Keller to sound and fathom him, and he stood revealed to the banker's eyes as a royalist jackass on the point of failure.

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You went after the chap's mother, and, like a jackass, as you are, let him loose.

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"Be the old kind jackass you vash!" here roared a voice that made Mr. Eglantine start.

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Where's the girl?' says he, with a voice as loud as the braying of a jackass.

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"I blowed up a jackass yesterday when they thought I couldn't--I'll blow up a bunch of 'em to-day!

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They had to dispense with fire, and consequently with food too, and sleep in their wet clothes, while the laughing jackasses, concealed in the high branches, seemed to ridicule the poor unfortunates.

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How many square pounds of baled hay do you think a jackass could eat if he stopped brayin' long enough to keep still a minute and five eighths?"

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The other kinds are the macaroni, the jackass, and the rookery penguin.

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"I want to buy a Jackass and a second-hand saddle and bridle.

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It is why I come to you this day, an old man whose labour of strength is not worth a shilling a week, and ask of you twelve dollars to buy a jackass and a second-hand saddle and bridle.

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At the last he broke silence: "The twelve dollars, Kanaka Oolea, for the jackass and the second- hand saddle and bridle?"

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These six dollars and a half will buy you the perfectly suitable jackass of the pake" (Chinese) "at Kokako who told me only yesterday that such was the price."

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"Ef you'll notiss," said Dan, with a large parental softness, "she never lets herself out to onst like them mules or any jackass ez I've heerd of, but kinder holds herself in, and, so to speak, takes her bearings--sorter feels round gently with that off foot, takes her distance and her rest, and then with that ar' foot hoverin' round in the air softly, like an angel's wing, and a gentle, dreamy kind o' look in them eyes, she lites out!

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And Vardiello passing by said, "What jackasses you are to quarrel about a red lupin like this!

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Then she turned to run after the fugitives again, but Parsley, seeing her approach, threw the second gall-nut on the ground, and lo, a fierce lion arose, who, lashing the earth with his tail, and shaking his mane and opening wide his jaws a yard apart, was just preparing to make a slaughter of the ogress, when, turning quickly back, she stripped the skin off an ass which was grazing in the middle of a meadow and ran at the lion, who, fancying it a real jackass, was so frightened that he bounded away as fast as he could.

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But the old woman, who was every moment in dread lest the lion should pursue her, had not taken off the ass's skin, and when Parsley now threw down the third gall-nut there sprang up a wolf, who, without giving the ogress time to play any new trick, gobbled her up just as she was in the shape of a jackass.

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And when, at the trumpeting of the birds, the Sun whipped on the Night, who sat mounted on the jackass of the Shades, they returned to the field, where at the usual signal they fell to plying their heels.

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But as soon as Saltariello saw this, he popped the ring into his mouth, and in four skips he was off to find Minecco Aniello, who, with even greater joy than a man at the gallows feels when a pardon arrives, instantly turned the magicians into two jackasses; and, turning his mantle over one of them, he bestrode him like a noble count, then he loaded the other with cheese and bacon, and set off toward Deep-Hole, where, having given presents to the King and his councillors, he thanked them for all the good fortune he had received by their assistance, praying Heaven that no mouse-trap might ever lay hold of them, that no cat might ever harm them, and that no arsenic might ever poison them.

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a jackass--the son of ill-luck--had eaten up all the bran that was strewn upon the ground; so they lost their way, and wandered about forlorn in the wood for several days, feeding on acorns and chestnuts which they found fallen on the ground.

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The Prince, hearing this, set off running as fast as a dog with a kettle at its tail; and he went on and on, until he met another old woman, who was sitting upon a wheel, with a basket full of little pies and sweetmeats on her arm, and feeding a number of jackasses, which thereupon began leaping about on the bank of a river and kicking at some poor swans.

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"You mean that jackass rabbit?" he said, abstractedly.

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In Burgundy the Doctor says, "I saw a peasant ploughing the ground with a jackass, a lean cow, and a he-goat yoked together."

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When the South-Sea Company were voting dividends of fifty per cent, when a hundred pounds of their stock were selling for eleven hundred pounds, when Threadneedle Street was daily crowded with the coaches of dukes and prelates, when divines and philosophers turned gamblers, when a thousand kindred bubbles were daily blown into existence, the periwig-company, and the Spanish-jackass-company, and the quicksilver-fixation- company, Walpole's calm good sense preserved him from the general infatuation.

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I, who never get up in the morning without making three low bows to his jackass!"

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Where's the girl?' says he, with a voice as loud as the braying of a jackass.

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"Give him rope, and possibly he'll have a week at being a howling hyaena, or a laughing jackass, or something of that sort that will lead to a disturbance," thought Mr. Clodd, "in which case, of course, you would have your remedy."

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Some folks would call it a 'jackass.'

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Peter Tounley pressed Coke to the wall saying: " You damned young jackass, be quiet."

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Bid the down-country jackass ask him."

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Here and there lonely wading-birds were stalking about; one of these, the Curiaca (Ibis melanopis), flew up with a low cackling noise, and was soon joined by a unicorn bird (Palamedea cornuta), which I startled up from amidst the bushes, whose harsh screams, resembling the bray of a jackass, but shriller, disturbed unpleasantly the solitude of the place.

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*Howe describes him as often declaring that he had talked with Jesus Christ, angels, and the devil, and saying that "Christ was the handsomest man he ever saw, and the devil looked like a jackass, with very short, smooth hair similar to that of a mouse.

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A Canadian ex-Methodist prayed so long at family worship at Father Johnson's that Joseph told him flatly "not to bray so much like a jackass."

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He don't go to his own father for advice; he goes to the town jackass instead, the critter that spends his time whittlin' out young-one's playthings.

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he called me ten times a donkey, and piled a lot of jackasses on top of that!

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But to-night I feel as if life were a horribly heavy burden which I, an overladen jackass, must carry for many a weary day.

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"Water all over the Bar; the mud so deep ye couldn't get to Angel's for a sack o' flour, and we had to grub on pine nuts and jackass-rabbits.

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Oh, you long-eared jackass-rabbit!"

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It was found always in thickets, away from water, and seemed to feed on snails and insects picked up from the ground after the manner of the great Laughing Jackass of Australia.

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Consequently, he visited a few traps on his way back which he had set for "jackass-rabbits" and wildcats,--the latter a vindictive reprisal for aggression upon an orphan brood of mountain quail which he had taken under his protection.

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I'm Buck's ammernition jackass," he explained.

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Help me in, yu two-laigged jackass."

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"Yu jackass," he whispered, "don't yu know better'n to make a gun-play when we needs them all?"

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On the contrary, she often contrived to waylay him in his walks, sing him a gipsy song, give him a ride upon her jackass, and thrust into his pocket a piece of gingerbread or red-cheeked apple.

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"Ef I was to ask you," continued Johnson, without heeding the reply, but with a growing anxiety of eye and a nervous twitching of his lips,--"ef I was to ask you, fur instance, ef that was a jackass rabbit thet jest passed,--eh?--you'd say it was or was not, ez the case may be.

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"No," said Tommy, quietly, "it WAS a jackass rabbit."

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"It ain't the square thing," said Johnson, after a pause, with a laugh that was neither mirthful nor musical, and frightened away a lizard that had been regarding the pair with breathless suspense,--"it ain't the square thing for jackass rabbits to wear hats, Tommy,--is it, eh?"

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For yer a borned poet,--ef ye are as shy as a jackass rabbit.

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and a thorn-tree with pool beside it, but a pool in which a thorn and a jackass are reflected?

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Reasoning similarly, a man to master the art of braying in a fashion comprehensible to the jackass of average intellect should make a jackass of himself, cultivate his ears, and learn to kick, so as properly to punctuate his sentences after the manner of most conversational beasts of that kind."

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"Then you believe that jackasses talk, too, do you?" asked Doctor Darwin.

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Sometimes to view his kingdoms,--rode forth this monarch good, And then a prancing jackass--he royally bestrode.

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He was represented as a cross between a baboon and a jackass, who would be a natural curiosity for Barnum.

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That this complacent editorial jackass, browsing among the dock and thistles which he has served up in this volume, should make no allusion to California's greatest bard, is rather a confession of his idiocy than a slur upon the genius of our esteemed contributor."

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he called me ten times a donkey, and piled a lot of jackasses on top of THAT!

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Mr. Perkins (with dignity).--It IS good at this house; but-- The Mulligan.--Bht hwhat, ye goggling, bow-windowed jackass?

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"Confounded impostor," says one; "Impudent jackass," says another; "Miserable puppy," cries a third; "I'd like to wring his neck," says Bruff, scowling over his shoulder at him.

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All in a fine mud palace,--each day he took four meals, And for a guard of honor,--a dog ran at his heels, Sometimes, to view his kingdoms,--rode forth this monarch good, And then a prancing jackass--he royally bestrode.

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In trying to make themselves into bulls, the frogs make themselves into jackasses, as might be expected.

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All in a fine mud palace,--each day he took four meals, And for a guard of honor,--a dog ran at his heels, Sometimes, to view his kingdoms,--rode forth this monarch good, And then a prancing jackass--he royally bestrode.

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Do you fancy I was going to the expense of giving a dinner to that jackass yonder, that you should profit by it?

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Would you bleave it, that now, in the nineteenth sentry, when they say there's schoolmasters abroad, these stewpid French jackasses are so extonishingly ignorant as to call a CABBIDGE a SHOO!

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Where's the girl?' says he, with a voice as loud as the braying of a jackass.

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A man was once ready to call me out in Paris because I said that we had beaten the French in Spain; and here before me is a French paper, with a London correspondent discoursing about Louis Buonaparte and his jackass expedition to Boulogne.

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"It's mighty rough, jest ez a feller reckons he's got quit of her and her jackass bo', to hev her prancin' back inter school agin, and rigged out like ez if she'd been to a fire in a milliner's shop."

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Just as we were drifting in that suffocating stillness past a great cannon that stood just within a raised portcullis, with nothing between me and it but the moat, a most uncommon jackass in there split the world with his bray, and I fell out of the saddle.

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The English warders on the battlements laughed a coarse laugh, forgetting that every one must begin, and that there had been a time when they themselves would have fared no better when shot by a jackass.

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The naturalist said that the oddest bird in Australasia was the, Laughing Jackass, and the biggest the now extinct Great Moa.

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The Botanical Gardens-Contributions from all Countries-The Zoological Gardens of Adelaide-The Laughing Jackass-The Dingo-A Misnamed Province-Telegraphing from Melbourne to San Francisco-A Mania for Holidays-The Temperature-The Death Rate-Celebration of the Reading of the Proclamation of 1836-Some old Settlers at the Commemoration-Their Staying Powers-The Intelligence of the Aboriginal-The Antiquity of the Boomerang CHAPTER IX.

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In the Zoological Gardens of Adelaide I saw the only laughing jackass that ever showed any disposition to be courteous to me.

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He is not confined, but loafs all over the house and grounds, like the laughing jackass.

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Then he muttered something about my being a jackass, and walked away and pointed me out to people, and did everything he could to turn public sentiment against me.

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"This purchasing business," said Kelley in 1867, "commenced with buying jackasses; the prospects are that many will be SOLD."

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"If it is the devil who has offended thee with his words," she said, "resent the insult with words likewise, jackass that thou art, but if I have offended thee myself, learn, stupid booby, that thou must respect me, and be off at once."

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"If it is the devil who has offended thee with his words," she said, "resent the insult with words likewise, jackass that thou art, but if I have offended thee myself, learn, stupid booby, that thou must respect me, and be off at once."

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The country is fabulously rich in gold, silver, copper, lead, coal, iron, quicksilver, marble, granite, chalk, plaster of Paris (gypsum), thieves, murderers, desperadoes, ladies, children, lawyers, Christians, Indians, Chinamen, Spaniards, gamblers, sharpens; coyotes (pronounced ki-yo- ties), poets, preachers, and jackass rabbits.

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We simply claim the right to deny the truth of every statement made by him in yesterday's paper, to annul all apologies he coined as coming from us, and to hold him up to public commiseration as a reptile endowed with no more intellect, no more cultivation, no more Christian principle than animates and adorns the sportive jackass-rabbit of the Sierras.

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Now, it was down in the chain of circumstances that Steve Gillis's brother, James N. Gillis, a gentle-hearted hermit, a pocket-miner of the halcyon Tuolumne district--the Truthful James of Bret Harte--happened to be in San Francisco at this time, and invited Clemens to return with him to the far seclusion of his cabin on Jackass Hill.

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A number of the stories used in Mark Twain's books were first told by Jim Gillis, standing with his hands crossed behind him, back to the fire, in the cabin on jackass Hill.

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Jackass Hill was not altogether a solitude; here and there were neighbors.

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With Jim Gillis and Dick Stoker he left Angel's and walked across the mountains to Jackass Hill in the snow-storm--"the first I ever saw in California," he says in his notes.

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Only a few years ago (it was April, 1907), in his cabin on jackass Hill, with Joseph Goodman and the writer of this history present, Steve Gillis made his "death-bed" confession as is here set down: "Mark's lecture was given in Piper's Opera House, October 30, 1866.

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Why did you let me go on making a jackass of myself when you could have saved me?"

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Joe Goodman, still full of vigor (in 1912), journeyed with me to the green and dreamy solitudes of Jackass Hill to see Steve and Jim Gillis, and that was an unforgetable Sunday when Steve Gillis, an invalid, but with the fire still in his eyes and speech, sat up on his couch in his little cabin in that Arcadian stillness and told old tales and adventures.

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The inhabitants used to go to Satan to build bridges for them, promising him the soul of the first one that crossed the bridge; then, when Satan had the bridge done, they would send over a rooster or a jackass--a cheap jackass; that was for Satan, and of course they could fool him that way every time.

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