My heart's only murmuring now, but it may start shouting soon, and a silly ass I shall look walking about in the street with a heart yelling 'Beatrice' at the top of its voice.

Will, then, this golden ass bestow a vicarage gilded?

"Be quiet, you little ass!"

Ever since then I have felt like a conceited ass, who tried to make himself out more clever than he really was.

" "I can't lift my left hand," said the invalid, flushing, "and Phibbs is a stupid ass.

"For a few seconds, I stood there, feeling an awful ass.

A shallow, solemn ass.

A live ass is better than a dead lion; and so the Republican Party, who consider themselves very much alive, went to look after their daily thistles and left their dead lion in charge of a policeman.

Owl, ye ass!

If I did not know that he was a first-class man I should set him down as a colossal ass.

This theologue, like many of his cloth, was possessed of the insane impression that he was gifted with the sublime inspiration of eloquence, and being invited to preach on his return to the old home for vacation, he selected the somewhat startling text "and the dumb ass opened his mouth and spake."

Only, Thomas Thurnall, if you go for to come for to go for to make such an abominable ass of yourself with that young lady any more, like a miserable school-boy, you will be pleased to make tracks, and vanish out of these parts for ever.

" "The man's an absolute driveling ass

There's something come into my thought That must and shall be sung high and aloof, Safe from the wolf's black jaw and the dull ass's hoof.

" I sent the foregoing scientific deductions to the "Resident Physician," and the bearer told me afterwards that the venerable Esculapian only observed,"Well, the writer of that must have been a most egregious ass.

Thou art a fool, a dog, a fatuous ass, a slave, a nincompoop, a cowardly boy, and as suchmark me again!now do I spit at thee!" Hereupon Beltane, having finished the archangel's wing, laid by his brush and, with thoughtful mien, arose, and being upon his feet, turned him, swift and sudden, and caught the stranger in a fierce and cunning wrestling grip, and forthwith threw him upon his back.

"You're a fearful ass, Jerrold.

I had hardly started to talk about the rate of exchange on the German mark in relation to the fall of sterling billsa thing that you would think a whole table full of people would be glad to listen towhen first thing I knew the whole lot of them had ceased paying any attention and were listening to an insufferable ass of an EnglishmanI forget his name.

ASSES.Of those who, in the spiritual world, appear at a distance like asses heavily laden, 232.

From Oltrarra to Armalecco, it is forty-five days journey with loaded asses, and in this road, one meets every day with Moguls.

It is when he wishes to describe how Peter Bell became aware of the dead body floating under the nose of the patient ass that Wordsworth loses himself in uncouth similes.

'The weakness of life,' says this pompous ass, 'is that it deviates from art!'

Rather an ass ... rather ridiculous; apparently in every way but one.

Doctor (aside).A sentimental ass. Stella.

As we had all seen the paper's hiding-place I found it a little difficult to be impressed by the elaborate efforts, unconscionably long drawn out, of the departed spirit to disclose the matter to Helen and Hugh; while the masterly inactivity of Stephen, who was trying to find his document by pure reason (mere looking for it would not occur to his Napoleonic brain), confirmed the opinion I had earlier formed of that solemn ass.