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I'd give ten dollars right now to know if I was a jackass or not," he growled.

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"Me an' my outfit," he said, laughing softly and waving his hand towards the newcomers, "started out this morning to round up a bunch of cows, an' we got jackasses instead.

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A laughing jackass perched on the fence at the side of the road heard Mr Villiers' hilarity, and, being of a convivial turn of mind itself, went off into fits of laughter also.

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Trains of wheelbarrows, heavily loaded, squeaked by, and Pekin carts, drawn by from four to six cows, horses, mules, ponies, or jackasses-cows even with their newborn calves tottering along on puny legs outside the traces.

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But even a jackass can jump over blocks.

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Yes, Commissioner [short pause] I should tell that Lieutenant [short interruption] jackass Schmuttermaier to come over to the office immediately.

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And there were some foolish and impatient folk in Congress, so I heard, who cried out at our delay; and one more sinister jackass, who had said that our army would never move until a few generals had been court-martialed and shot.

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I hadn't had time to see this gentleman before he spoke, being some busy explaining the situation to you, but a blind jackass could see he don't favor either Kinney or Struve, You're sure barking up the wrong tree."

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The noisy call of the laughing Jackass (Dacclo gigantea) made me frequently ride back and examine more minutely those spots marked by a darker foliage; but the presence of this bird is no certain indication of water, though he likes the neighbourhood of shady creeks.

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The spell, however, must not be broken by the noisy call of a laughing jackass (Dacelo gigantea); the screams of the white cockatoo; or by the hollow sound of the thirsty emu.

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I usually rise when I hear the merry laugh of the laughing-jackass (Dacelo gigantea), which, from its regularity, has not been unaptly named the settlers' clock; a loud cooee then roused my companions,--Brown to make tea, Mr. Calvert to season the stew with salt and marjoram, and myself and the others to wash, and to prepare our breakfast, which, for the party, consists of two pounds and a-half of meat, stewed over night; and to each a quart pot of tea.

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The fire, which was bright as long as the corroborri songster kept it stirred, gradually gets dull, and smoulders slowly under the large pot in which our meat is simmering; and the bright constellations of heaven pass unheeded over the heads of the dreaming wanderers of the wilderness, until the summons of the laughing jackass recalls them to the business of the coming day.

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The laughing Jackass (Dacelo cervina, GOULD) of this part of the country, is of a different species from that of the eastern coast, is of a smaller size, and speaks a different language; but the noise is by no means so ridiculous as that of Dac.

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Not a breath was stirring; and the notes of the laughing jackass and some few small birds, alone showed that there were other beings enjoying the beauty of this august solitude.

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Dacelo cervina, GOULD, (the small laughing Jackass) was not heard so frequently nor so regularly as its representative of the east coast.

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One is a man carelessly sitting sidewise on his donkey; the meek-eyed jackass suddenly makes a pivot of his hind feet and wheels round, and the rider's legs as suddenly shoot upward.

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Fancy the bitter sense of humiliation that must overcome the proud, haughty spirit of a mouse-colored jackass at being prodded in an open wound with a sharp stick and hearing himself at the same time thus insultingly addressed: "Oh, thou son of a burnt father and murderer of thine own mother, would that I myself had died rather than my father should have lived to see me drive such a brute as thou art." yet this sort of talk is habitually indulged in by the barbarous drivers.

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As we rowed shorewards I observed that Hans, who was seated near to me under the stomach of a jackass, was engaged in sniffing at the sides and bottom of the barge, as a dog might do, and asked him what he was about.

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Hans and Sammy occupied the end posts respectively (except those to which the poor jackasses were bound).

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It would have been better if that she-piss- pot, for that's all she's fit for, had been tossed by the bull, but a fellow has to beat the saddle when he can't beat the jackass.

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One plug had about as much action as a jackass with a pack-saddle; another was club-footed; and a third who had to take the place of one that was killed, was as good as dead, and hamstrung into the bargain.

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And now I'll tell you a hair-raiser myself, though I'm like a jackass on a slippery pavement compared to him.

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It would have been better if that she-piss- pot, for that's all she's fit for, had been tossed by the bull, but a fellow has to beat the saddle when he can't beat the jackass.

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And now I'll tell you a hair-raiser myself, though I'm like a jackass on a slippery pavement compared to him.

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He may be able to help you as soon as X. the accursed (may jackasses sit upon his grandmother's grave, as we say in the East) leaves him alone.

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May your shadow never be less, and may all your enemies, unbelieving dogs who resist the Prophet of Evolution, be defiled by the sitting of jackasses upon their grandmothers' graves!

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[To make amends, fishery business in the west country during a fine summer had] "a good deal of holiday in it," [though a cross journey at the beginning of August from Abergavenny to Totness made him write:--] If ever (except to-morrow, by the way) I travel within measurable distance of a Bank Holiday by the Great Western, may jackasses sit on my grandmother's grave.

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All this week shall I be occupied in hearing one Jackass contradict another Jackass about questions which are of no importance.

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"Jackass!" said Turnbull, heartily, "of course we're not mad.

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A certain Father Emilian, a conceited jackass and a sorry witling, was very sweet on my cousin, and wished to have his jest with her, but she made a jest of him.

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FELIX: Oh, a jackass defying the lightning.

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HARVEY: Well, I think I've got just what you want--"a jackass defying the lightning."

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"I have little doubt that when the jackass wore the lion's skin he thought himself the lion.

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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 a red-cheeked apple.

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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 a red-cheeked apple.

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Another jackass pretends to have kept a table of the through trains on the Sumsic division, and says they've averaged forty-five minutes late at Edmundton.

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There is unsoundness in the kindly, loveable man, whose opinions are preposterous, and whose conversation that of a jackass.

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"What most offends me is, that now every German jackass must have a kick at the dead lion."

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He pronounced the word to rhyme with jackass, but Gungadhura was not in a mood to smile.

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He had called this personal friend of the Kaiser a fool and a jackass, informing him that a real mechanic could put a ball-bearing together while he, the personal friend of the Kaiser, was spitting on his hands.

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They can work at any business they please; they can sell brand new goods if they want to; they can keep drug-stores; they can practice medicine among Christians; they can even shake hands with Christians if they choose; they can associate with them, just the same as one human being does with another human being; they don't have to stay shut up in one corner of the towns; they can live in any part of a town they like best; it is said they even have the privilege of buying land and houses, and owning them themselves, though I doubt that, myself; they never have had to run races naked through the public streets, against jackasses, to please the people in carnival time; there they never have been driven by the soldiers into a church every Sunday for hundreds of years to hear themselves and their religion especially and particularly cursed; at this very day, in that curious country, a Jew is allowed to vote, hold office, yea, get up on a rostrum in the public street and express his opinion of the government if the government don't suit him!

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Naked boys of nine years and the fancy-dressed children of luxury; shreds and tatters, and brilliant uniforms; jackass-carts and state-carriages; beggars, Princes and Bishops, jostle each other in every street.

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We add what dignity we can to a stately ruin with our green umbrellas and jackasses, but it is little.

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We were desperate-would take horses, jackasses, cameleopards, kangaroos-any thing.

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Yesterday we met a woman riding on a little jackass, and she had a little child in her arms-honestly, I thought the child had goggles on as we approached, and I wondered how its mother could afford so much style.

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They had with them the pigmy jackasses one sees all over Syria and remembers in all pictures of the "Flight into Egypt," where Mary and the Young Child are riding and Joseph is walking alongside, towering high above the little donkey's shoulders.

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Two hours from Tabor to Nazareth-and as it was an uncommonly narrow, crooked trail, we necessarily met all the camel trains and jackass caravans between Jericho and Jacksonville in that particular place and nowhere else.

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A few infantry companies were mounted on mules and sent in pursuit of the guerillas, but the Saints merely laughed at them, terming them jackass cavalry.

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"Oh dear, oh dear," he says, "there is such a comfort in one's old coat and old shoes, one's armchair and own fireside, one's own writing- desk and own library--with a little girl climbing up my neck, and saying, 'Don't go to London, papa--you must stay with Edith'; and a little boy, whom I have taught to speak the language of cats, dogs, cuckoos, and jackasses, etc., before he can articulate a word of his own; there is such a comfort in all these things, the transportation to London for four or five weeks seems a heavier punishment than any sins of mine deserve."

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It must make him feel like a bally jackass."

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"On the other hand," his father reminded him, "no matter what the Colonel's feeling on that score may be, misery loves company, and not until I had pulled out of the Squaw Creek country and started logging in the San Hedrin watershed, did I realize that I had been considerable of a jackass myself."

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"Baas, the Spirit in Goroko----" "The jackass in Goroko, you mean," I interrupted.

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"I don't know, Baas, but what you call the jackass in Goroko, declared that those who are 'with the Great Medicine'--meaning what you wear, Baas--will be quite safe.

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"Martin, you are a pig-headed, prejudiced, unjust jackass."

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Well, who can furnish better testimony than that jackass, my worthy son, Adrian?

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to think that such a creature should have sprung from me, a human jackass only fit to bear the blows and burdens of others, to fill the field with empty brayings, and wear himself out by kicking at the air.

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Section 73 Peter could see it all very clearly when he came to figure over the thing; he could see what a whooping jackass he had been.

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Of course McGivney and Guffey and all his men read the story, and knew Peter for the whooping jackass that Peter knew himself.

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You shall have a monument of jackasses' skulls as high as the Strasburg spire if you die before I do.

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My dear Knowles, May jackasses sit upon the graves of all telegraph clerks!

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Let him go down to my office and earn his twelve dollars a week, the same as any other young jackass-- _Jack (stepping forward)._ Dad, don't you really think it's time you let me get a word in?

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_Dad (starting forward)._ Why, you infernal 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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Gilbert's curiosity was directed to the Laughing Jackass, and with too much truth he admitted that it took its tone from whatever it associated with, and caught every note, from the song of the lark to the bray of the donkey; then laughed good-humouredly when the character was fitted upon himself.

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Her husband was a jealous devil, as unreasonable as a jackass, and as stubborn as an ox.

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But said one of the four servants, "Unless, indeed, this is a deliberate joke, I cannot bring myself to believe that men so intelligent as those present are, or seem to be, can venture to declare and assert that this is not a basin, and that not a pack-saddle; but as I perceive that they do assert and declare it, I can only come to the conclusion that there is some mystery in this persistence in what is so opposed to the evidence of experience and truth itself; for I swear by"-and here he rapped out a round oath-"all the people in the world will not make me believe that this is not a barber's basin and that a jackass's pack-saddle."

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"I see nothing, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "but three country girls on three jackasses."

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"Now, may God deliver me from the devil!" said Sancho, "and can it be that your worship takes three hackneys-or whatever they're called-as white as the driven snow, for jackasses?

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"Well, I can only say, Sancho, my friend," said Don Quixote, "that it is as plain they are jackasses-or jennyasses-as that I am Don Quixote, and thou Sancho Panza: at any rate, they seem to me to be so."

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"I see nothing, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "but three country girls on three jackasses."

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"Now, may God deliver me from the devil!" said Sancho, "and can it be that your worship takes three hackneys-or whatever they're called-as white as the driven snow, for jackasses?

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"Why, it was all along of he, man," continued Lance, "that is, of Bridgenorth, that she did not follow me-Gad, I first walked slow, and then stopped, and then turned back a little, and then began to wonder what she had made of herself, and to think I had borne myself something like a jackass in the matter."

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"That I deny," said Whitaker, "never jackass but would have borne him better-but go on."

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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 a red-cheeked apple.

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Ninety-nine out of every hundred judges in the courts of the U. S. A. sit through a trial worrying their heads off trying to remember the law so that they can keep out of the record things that might make them look like jackasses when the case is carried up to a higher court,--and while they are thinking so hard about the law they forget all about the poor little trifle called justice.

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The jackass don't know enough to wear it on his left hand."

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I enjoyed Joey a heap, although I could see he was a jolly young jackass.

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"What a prime lot of jackasses we Americans are!" he continued.

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One well-meaning and good-natured fellow-passenger asked F---- if I was fond of birds, and on his saying "Yes," went off for a large wicker cage of hideous "laughing Jackasses," which he was taking as a great treasure to Canterbury.

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Why they should be called "Jackasses" I never could discover; but the creatures certainly do utter by fits and starts a sound which may fairly be described as laughter.

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"Well," sais I, "two souls we know they have--their great fat splaw feet show that, and as hard as jackasses' they are too; out the third is my difficulty; if they have a spiritual soul, where is it?

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"Of course, right now, it may seem perfectly proper from your point of view to take advantage of certain adventitious circumstances, but--" "Yes, the humble little jackass is really an adventitious circumstance.

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He was confirmed in this thought now at the news which he heard upon the first night of his return to San Pasqual, and with the thought that he had been worshiping an idol with feet of clay, Mr. O'Rourke cursed himself for an unmitigated jackass in thus leaving to some other roving rascal the prize which he had so earnestly desired for himself.

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Theer's one o' t' Ten Commandments says yo' maun't cuwet your neebor's ox nor his jackass, but it doesn't say nowt about his tarrier dogs, an' happen thot's t' reason why Mrs. DeSussa cuvveted Rip, tho' she went to church reg'lar along wi' her husband who was so mich darker 'at if he hedn't such a good coaat tiv his back yo' might ha' called him a black man and nut tell a lee nawther.

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There was the range of the Copper-mine hills to the south, lighted by the wan moon; and between and to the west a rough scrub country, desolating beyond words, and where even edible snakes would be scarce; spots of dead-finish, gidya, and brigalow-bush to north and east, and in the trees by the billabong the cry of the cockatoo and the laughing-jackass.

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"Sit down--sit down, jackass!" shouted some of the more raucous of the crowd, but the man was stubborn.

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"Sit down--sit down, jackass!" shouted some of the more raucous of the crowd, but the man was stubborn.

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"Sit down--sit down, jackass!" shouted some of the more raucous of the crowd, but the man was stubborn.

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Would it not be more philosophical to conclude that I, who never saw or felt or heard this which I call myself, am what I have seen, heard, and felt--and no more and no less--that sensation which I call that horse, that dead man, that jackass, those forty thousand two-legged jackasses who appear to be running for their lives below there, having got hold of this same notion of their being one thing each--as I choose to fancy in my foolish habit of imputing to them the same disease of thought which I find in myself--crucify the word!--The folly of my ancestors--if I ever had any--prevents my having any better expression.... Why should I not be all I feel--that sky, those clouds--the whole universe?

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