Horne Tooke says, "The truth is, that AS is also an article; and (however and whenever used in English) means the same as It, or That, or Which.

620 The Ass is startledand stops short Right in the middle of the thicket; And Peter, wont to whistle loud Whether alone or in a crowd, Is silent as a silent cricket.

Thus prepared, the enemy began the attack: the signal being given, and the asses braying on each side, for such are the trumpeters they make use of on these occasions, the left wing of the Heliots, unable to sustain the onset of our Hippogypi, soon gave way, and we pursued them with great slaughter: their right wing, however, overcame our left.

No, the wild ass of the prairie is a large powerful, swift creature.

A GOLDEN ASS Is a young thing, whose father went to the devil; he is followed like a salt bitch, and limbed by him that gets up first; his disposition is cut, and knaves rend him like tenter-hooks; he is as blind as his mother, and swallows flatterers for friends.

In a cottage his banquets were given, He lived upon four meals a-day, sir, On which diet he seems to have thriven: And an ass was his charger they say, sir, A dog was his life-guard, we're told, And many a peregrination Thus attended, he must have been bold, He made step and step through the nation.

Balaam's ass, and the dogs which crouched and whined before Athene, whom Eumaeus could not see, are 'classical' instances.

The usual reading is "which the Ass spake to the Cat;" the Ass being Osiris and the cat R[=a].]

A horse is a horse, and an ass is an ass, no matter what stable you put them into.

The Haunting Spectre of the Might Have Been,What a preposterous ass!what a monumental idiot I was!" "Posterous ass, isn't a very pretty word, Uncle Porges,or continental idiot!" said a voice behind him, and turning, he beheld Small Porges somewhat stained, and bespattered with ink, who shook a reproving head at him.

Porter, what, porter, where's this drowsy ass? Enter PORTER.

In September, 1825, was an essay entitled "The Sorrows of ** ***" (an ass), which might, both from style and sympathy, be almost Lamb's; but was, I think, by another hand.

Further along the road they met some travellers, who asked the Miller whether the Ass he was riding was his own property, or a beast hired for the occasion.

VI "The Golden Ass of Apuleius is, so to say, a beginning of modern literature.

The few productions of the kind which appeared during the decline of literature in the early Christian centuries, as the "Golden Ass" of Apuleius and the "Æthiopica" of Heliodorus, were freaks of Nature, an odd growth rather than a distinct species, and are also to be contrasted rather than compared with the later novel.

An over-loaded ass is his client for ever.

THE ASS AND THE LAP-DOG There was once a man who had an Ass and a Lap-dog.

"Dear Messer Cornelio, you have done so much for me, and are so kind,will you not go out and find the sindaco, and bring him here to marry us?" "Nino," I said, gravely, "the ass is a patient beast, and very intelligent, but there is a limit to his capabilities.

A weatherbeaten, bankrupt ass it is That scatters and consumeth all he hath: Each one do pluck from him without control.