The 1,637 occurrences of jackass

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"What, not when you cut up the jackass and sold it for veal cutlets, mother."

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If you like what I have done, and mean to make use of it, I don't want any such ARISTOCRATIC reward as a piece of plate with two griffins sprawling upon it, or a DOG and a JACKASS fighting for a ha'p'worth of GILT GINGERBREAD, or any such Bartholomew-fair nonsense.

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I'm gettin' old and I've a stake in the country, and I daresay I'm gettin' a bit of a prig--anyway I don't want to make a jackass of myself.

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Below us, in the valley, a mob of jackasses were shouting and laughing uproariously, and a magpie was chanting his noble vesper hymn from a lofty tree.

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Here is the sun getting low, and the magpies and jackasses beginning to tune up before roosting.

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Laugh out, old jackass; till you fetch an echo back from the foggy hollow.

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Moreover, it was said and sworn to by the shepherds that the devil himself, with horns and hoofs, and mounted on a jackass, had been seen driving the same lambs.

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"Nothing, except that he is a red-headed jackass that can bray but daren't kick," answered Emlyn viciously.

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Beewee, brown and yellow Iguana, numerically a very powerful totem, has for multiplex totems-- Gai-gai CATFISH Curreequinquin BUTCHER-BIRD Gougourgahgah LAUGHING-JACKASS Deenbi DIVERS Birroo Birroo SAND BUILDERS Deegeenboyah SOLDIER-BIRD Weedah BOWER-BIRD Mooregoo Mooregoo BLACK IBIS Booloon WHITE CRANE Noodulnoodul WHISTLING DUCKS Goborrai STARS Gulghureer PINK LIZARD Goori PINE Talingerh NATIVE FUCHSIA Guiebet NATIVE PASSION FRUIT Boonburr POISON TREE Gungooday STOCKMAN'S WOOD Guddeeboondoo BITTER BARK Boorgoolbean or Mooloowerh A SHRUB WITH CREAMY BLOSSOMS Yarragerh SPRING WIND Muddernwurderh WEST WIND.

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You braying jackass!--you snivelling idiot!

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When Purdy could speak, he blurted out: "Dick, you fathead!--you jackass!--you've mugged the wrong one."

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THE COOKOOBURRAHS AND THE GOOLAHGOOL Googarh, the iguana, was married to Moodai, the opossum and Cookooburrah, the laughing jackass.

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Finding she was getting out of her depth, Cookooburrah the laughing jackass cried out: "Goug gour gah gah.

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Cookooburrah, laughing jackass.

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Goug gour gahgah, laughing-jackass.

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I often feel a perfect jackass beside them.

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Ah, Dalila, Dalila, you have been trying your tricks on me; and I have been as great a gull as my jackass of a lieutenant.

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Though it's a great jackass I am to be mistaking you, even in anger, for the like of them cows on the waterfront is the only women I've met up with since I was growed to a man.

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'Tis that you're needing in your family, I'm telling you-an Irishman and a man of the stokehole-to put guts in it so that you'll not be having grandchildren would be fearful cowards and jackasses the like of yourself!

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Yerra, Mat Burke, 'tis a great jackass you've become and what's got into you at all, at all?

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The ferocious chuckle of a great grey king-fisher--the bird which white people called the laughing jackass--perched on the branch of a gum tree beside the fence, made her shudder, because the bird's soulless cachinnation seemed an echo of Colin's laugh.

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Except for a fiend of a laughing-jackass in a gum tree close by the veranda that drives me mad with his devilish chuckling.

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This bird is nicknamed the "Jackass," and its loud "ha!

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"As for that matter," replied Mr. Trunnion, "I am resolved to hire a sledge or waggon, or such a thing as a jackass; for I'll be d--d if ever I cross the back of a horse again."

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His valet-de-chambre, whom Pallet had consulted as a confederate in his revenge against the lady of pleasure and her gallant, had hired of certain Bohemians, who chanced to lodge at the inn, a jackass adorned with bells, which, when everybody was retired to rest, and the Hebrew supposed to be bedded with his mistress, they led upstairs into a long thoroughfare, from which the chambers were detached on each side.

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and I might as well 'a wasted my time picking a banjo for a dead jackass tu dance by; for you have got no more 'screshun than old Eve had, in confabulating with the old adversary!

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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.

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The laughing jackass, perched upon a bare limb, was awaking the forest echoes with his insane fits of laughter, alternating from a good-humoured chuckle to the frenzied ravings of a despairing maniac.

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A set of jackasses!'

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Some wretched idiot, whose grandfather's grave I hope the jackasses have defiled, as the Turks would say, told me that the best preventive of sea-sickness was to drink as much of the milk punch as I could swallow.

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'Oh, she was never so obstinate as the old jackass.

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No sir smile neighbour shall covet his ox or his wife or his manservant or his maidservant or his jackass.

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There's Welwyn-Baker now--thick-headed old jackass!--what right has _he_ to be sitting in a national assembly?

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Shouldn't I be a jackass if I scorned to make money by what, for me, was good work, and preferred to starve whilst I turned out pretentious stuff that was worth nothing from my point of view?"

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"And you, very much like the braying jackass in the field there."

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He returned after a short ramble with a variety of game, among which were a crow, a kite, and a laughing jackass (alcedo gigantea,) a species of king's-fisher, a singular bird, found in every part of Australia.

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He returned after a short ramble with a variety of game, among which were a crow, a kite, and a laughing jackass (alcedo gigantea,) a species of king's-fisher, a singular bird, found in every part of Australia.

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There he lived, like a philosopher of old, with the most sternly plain and scanty materials for comfort--a mat, a table, and a chair; but surrounded by beautiful artistic figures and intricate mathematical diagrams traced on his floor and wall, reams of essays and poems where he had tried to work out his thought; fragments of machines, the toys of his constructive brain, among which the travellers found him sitting like a masculine version of Albert Durer's Melancholia, his laughing jackass adding tones of mockery to the scene, perched on the bough, looking down, as his master below took to pieces some squatter's crazy clock.

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They made the prairie echo with their bugle-blasts, or, as Crockett irreverently, but perhaps more correctly says, "The old squaws, at the head of the troop, were braying like young jackasses the whole way."

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Listen to what I'm telling you: a man who is not married is no better than an old jackass.

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He goes into his sister's house, and into his brother's house; he eats a bit in this place and a bit in another place, but he has no home for himself like an old jackass straying on the rocks.'

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'Some of the people used to say it was only an old jackass that was on the path before me, but I never heard tell of an old jackass would run away from a man and he saying the De Profundis.'

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Round the Vizier, her father, she drew a like circle; and she took an unguent, and traced with it characters on the two circles, and letters of strange form, arrowy, lance-like, like leaning sheaves, and crouching baboons, and kicking jackasses, and cocks a-crow, and lutes slack-strung; and she knelt and mumbled over and over words of magic, like the drone of a bee to hear, and as a roll of water, nothing distinguishable.

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Round the Vizier, her father, she drew a like circle; and she took an unguent, and traced with it characters on the two circles, and letters of strange form, arrowy, lance-like, like leaning sheaves, and crouching baboons, and kicking jackasses, and cocks a-crow, and lutes slack-strung; and she knelt and mumbled over and over words of magic, like the drone of a bee to hear, and as a roll of water, nothing distinguishable.

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The blue-flocked peasant swinging behind his oxen of a morning, the gaily-kerchiefed fruit-woman, the jackass-driver, even the doctor of those regions, have done more for their fellows.

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The blue-flocked peasant swinging behind his oxen of a morning, the gaily-kerchiefed fruit-woman, the jackass-driver, even the doctor of those regions, have done more for their fellows.

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"Send him to Jericho to ride wild jackasses.

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"Send him to Jericho to ride wild jackasses.

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Everard apostrophized his absent nephew: 'You jackass!'

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Everard apostrophized his absent nephew: 'You jackass!'

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Worth fifty Colonel Jackasses!

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Worth fifty Colonel Jackasses!

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'And how could the jackass expect to keep his luck!

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the golden jackass, tethered and goaded!

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'And how could the jackass expect to keep his luck!

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the golden jackass, tethered and goaded!

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Logic like yours, my boy, would have you go on picking at the Gordian Knot till it became a jackasses' race between you and the rope which was to fall to pieces last.--There 's my old girl at the stall, poor soul!

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The fellow was a perfect riddle, hard to read as the zebra lines on the skin of a wild jackass-- if Providence intended any meaning when she traced them!

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Logic like yours, my boy, would have you go on picking at the Gordian Knot till it became a jackasses' race between you and the rope which was to fall to pieces last.--There 's my old girl at the stall, poor soul!

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The fellow was a perfect riddle, hard to read as the zebra lines on the skin of a wild jackass--if Providence intended any meaning when she traced them!

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Round the Vizier, her father, she drew a like circle; and she took an unguent, and traced with it characters on the two circles, and letters of strange form, arrowy, lance-like, like leaning sheaves, and crouching baboons, and kicking jackasses, and cocks a-crow, and lutes slack-strung; and she knelt and mumbled over and over words of magic, like the drone of a bee to hear, and as a roll of water, nothing distinguishable.

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The blue-flocked peasant swinging behind his oxen of a morning, the gaily-kerchiefed fruit-woman, the jackass-driver, even the doctor of those regions, have done more for their fellows.

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"Send him to Jericho to ride wild jackasses.

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Everard apostrophized his absent nephew: 'You jackass!'

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Worth fifty Colonel Jackasses!

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'And how could the jackass expect to keep his luck!

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the golden jackass, tethered and goaded!

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Logic like yours, my boy, would have you go on picking at the Gordian Knot till it became a jackasses' race between you and the rope which was to fall to pieces last.--There 's my old girl at the stall, poor soul!

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The fellow was a perfect riddle, hard to read as the zebra lines on the skin of a wild jackass--if Providence intended any meaning when she traced them!

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what scene Can beat a Jackass on a green?'

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Wherever Beauty show'd The wonders of her face, This man his Jackass rode, High despot of the place.

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But I couldn't keep it to myself; I should give in to the temptation to call them blockheads and jackasses.'

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'How magnificent it is that so many of the solemn jackasses who brayed against Darwin from ten to twenty years ago should live to be regarded as beneath contempt!

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"Well, the one thing I really wanted to say, Piers--you _must_ let me say it--I, for one, shall take a strong stand about your moral rights in this business here, Of course your claim is every bit as good as ours; only a dunder-headed jackass would see it in any other way.

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from the laughing jackass, who had caught sight of the red streak in the sky--harbinger, like himself, of morn; and the piping crows or whistling magpies modulating and humming and chanting, not like birds, but like practiced musicians with rich baritone voices, and the next moment creaking just for all the world like Punch, or barking like a pug dog.

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The town of Henley has been extremely disturbed with an engagement between the ghosts of Miss Blandy and her father, which continued so violent, that some bold persons, to prevent farther blood-shed, broke in, and found it was two jackasses which had got into the kitchen.

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Tuttletown and the "Sage of Jackass Hill" Tuolumne to Placerville.

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The Bend in the River Is the Precise Spot Where Gold Was First Discovered in California Ben Taylor and His Home, Grass Valley, Showing the Spruce He Planted Nearly Half a Century Ago E. W. Maslin in the Garden of His Alameda Home Angel's Hotel, Angel's Camp, Erected in 1852, as was the Wells Fargo Building Which Faces it Across the Street Main Hoist of the Utica Mine, Angel's Camp, Situated on the Summit of a Hill Overlooking the Town The Stanislaus River, Near Tuttletown, "Running in a Deep and Splendid Canon" Jackass Hill, Tuttletown.

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Tuttletown and the "Sage of Jackass Hill" Following as near as might be the route of the old Argonauts, I avoided trains, and on a warm summer night boarded the Stockton boat.

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Here I stayed several hours, for the interest of the whole trip, so far as Bret Harte was concerned, centered around this once celebrated camp, and Jackass Hill, on which, at one time, lived James W. Gillis, the supposed prototype of "Truthful James."

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The latter, she said, made periodic visits to Tuttletown, and always stayed with "Jim" Gillis--called by Twain, the "Sage of Jackass Hill."

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Jackass Hill is fairly honeycombed with prospect holes, shafts and tunnels.

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Now a curious goat, then an inquisitive jackass, would walk stealthily into the room, remark that it was tenanted, and retreat with dignified demeanour, and the mosquitos sang Io Paeans over our prostrate forms throughout the twenty-four hours.

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Some days after our arrival at Al-Madinah, Shaykh Hamid warned him seriously never again to go such perilous lengths, as the Beni Harb were celebrated for shooting or poniarding the man who ventured to use to them even the mild epithet "O jackass!"

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And every neighbouring cottager Stupidly yawned upon the other: No jackass brayed; no little cur _755 Cocked up his ears;--no man would stir To save a dying mother.

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From the trees the bell-bird, the coach-whip, the tewinga, the laughing-jackass, the rifle-bird and regent, filled the air with sound, if not with music.

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I was pausing again and trying to invest myself with an air of further interest, when another man was introduced to her, quite evidently, from his appearance, a vapid jackass without one tenth of the brain calibre that I have.

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A numerous editorial staff of intelligent jackasses will accompany the caravan.

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His gait is something between those of a mud-turtle and a jackass-rabbit, verging closely on to the latter at periods of supposed personal danger, as before intimated.

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Now, what we wish to secure is a word that shall contain within itself all the essential principles of downright abuse; the mere pronouncing of which in the public street would subject one to the inconvenience of being rent asunder by an infuriated populace-something so atrociously apt and so exquisitely diabolical that any person to whom it should be applied would go right away out and kick himself to death with a jackass.

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If a jackass were to describe the Deity he would represent Him with long ears and a tail.

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He seldom disagreed with any but Democrats, and would have materially reduced the vote of that party had he not been so untimely cut off.--Jackass Gap "Bulletin."

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And every neighbouring cottager Stupidly yawned upon the other: No jackass brayed; no little cur _755 Cocked up his ears;--no man would stir To save a dying mother.

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And every neighbouring cottager Stupidly yawned upon the other: No jackass brayed; no little cur _755 Cocked up his ears;--no man would stir To save a dying mother.

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Of course you're dead right and I've been talking like a jackass.

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Of course, I realize you must think him a perfect jackass, an idiot--" "What!

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"I reckon I'm a plain fool, a jackass; but I don't care.

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Hopalong emerged from his reverie long enough to appeal to his mount: "Bronc, I've been thinking: am I or am I not a jackass?"

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"Get me some water, you jackass!

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