CottinMont BédatGentiansThe Croix de Manse"The Lady's Farewell to her Asinine Steed"Market-dayThe old iron and shoe dealersSundayA cat fightThe English ChurchTo the Col d'Aspin"The Abbé's Song"BaudéanCampan, its people and churchWayside chapelsSte.

CottinMont BédatGentiansThe Croix de Manse "The Lady's Farewell to her Asinine Steed"Market-dayThe Old Iron and Shoe DealersSundayA Cat FightThe English ChurchTo the Col d'Aspin"The Abbé's Song"BaudéanCampan, its People and ChurchWayside ChapelsSte.

The ladies were inexpressibly glad to give up their donkeys, and Miss Leonards considered her experiences so bitter as to wish them to be handed down to posterity under the title of "THE LADY'S FAREWELL TO HER ASININE STEED.

"Mr. Lyndon," he said, "as a member of the Government, and one who is therefore more or less responsible for the law's asinine blunders, I am absolutely ashamed to look you in the face.

Adj. equine, asinine. 272.

[Applied to actions] foolish, unwise, injudicious, improper, unreasonable, without reason, ridiculous, absurd, idiotic, silly, stupid, asinine; ill-imagined, ill-advised, ill-judged, ill-devised; mal entendu

This evening the asses belonging to the place were driven in from pasturefour or five hundred in all; and such a show of curious asinine specimens as I never before beheld.

Oh, what truly asinine developments the human being must go through, before arriving at the stage of common sense!

The man's words are asinine, and he knows they are asinine.

The man's words are asinine, and he knows they are asinine.

Custom, and the casteI know no other wordjust the bull-headed, asinine, undemocratic caste that custom has built up.

per series, merely by cramming the mouths of the asinine with mock-majestic details of fine lifethis found favour with an indolent no less than sagacious humorist; and the fatal example was set.

I tried in vain to get their attention for a minute to give them my impressions of the Belgian peasantry (during my visit there in 1885), but my host simply turned to me for a second and said, "Have some more port?" and was back again listening to the asinine Englishman.

Doctor Lyall is writing a quarto from Madagascar, to deny the statement in toto; admitting, however, that there is a rumour of the being of some nondescript of the kind in the mountains, somewhat between the size of the elephant and the Shetland pony; but that he and we think the subject-matter will turn out asinine.

"I never heard of such an asinine proposition," sputtered Deppingham.

I myself love all these things, yet so as with a difference: for example, some animals better than others, some men rather than other men; the nightingale before the cuckoo, the swift and graceful palfrey before the slow and asinine mule.

" "Quite so," Olga agreed, "but everything we do is silly and asinine.

To speak of instinct and natural selection teaching the Veddahs to abhor marriage with an elder sister while making union with a younger sister the proper marriage (Westermarck, 292) is surely to assume that instinct and natural selection act in an asinine way, which they never doexcept in asses.

We come to wear one cut of face and figure, and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression.

I used to wonder if the Creator had invented a new variety of idiot, and made a lot in order to supply the army with medical inspectors, or, if by some cunning military device, the Surgeon-General had been able to select all those conglomerations of official dignity and asinine stupidity, from the open donkey-market of the world.

If you don't take that asinine grin off your ugly face, I'll knock it off!"

"An alibi," sneered Dukovski; "and what an asinine alibi!"

"It was a perfectly asinine mistake, Jervis.

I remembered all the sins of my youth, and conscience assured me that I richly deserved my fate; finally, I thought of a certain unspeakably asinine speech which I once inflicted upon a suffering audience, and I felt so small that I rattled round in that old log like a white bean in a washtub, and slipped like an eel out of the little pipe-stem end of that old tree.

The discriminating child seemed a little monster in my eyes, who ought to have been sent out of the way at once of all companions capable of abandon and enjoyment; and, as to the "father" she quoted from, I could imagine him as the embodiment of asinine wisdom, so to speakthe quintessence of the practical, which so often, I observe, inclines its devotees to idiocy!