Which preposition to use with ass

of Occurrences 75%

Bob Acres was not much for valor and he made an ass of himself when he went to fight a duel, yet one could have sat agreeably at mutton with him.

in Occurrences 39%

Then must we write ourselves down asses in Constantinople.

for Occurrences 17%

In anticipation of the advance the Quartermaster-General's department, with the foresight which characterised that department and all its branches throughout the campaign, searched Egypt for the proper stamp of asses for pack transport in the hills.

with Occurrences 14%

Sir Thomas Browne (Vulgar Errors, I. vii.) quotes from Pierius another strange cure for a scorpion's bite, "to sit upon an ass with one's face towards his tail, for so the pain leaveth the man and passeth into the beast.

at Occurrences 10%

We sighted only one stream of importance, the Kara-kash, on which appeared a few drifting rafts, and files of horses and asses at the fords between the pebbly banks.

to Occurrences 9%

Now he, espying Beltane amid the leaves, brought the ass to a sudden halt and clapped hand to the pommel of his sword.

on Occurrences 8%

According to Morga, there were neither horses nor asses on the Island until the Spaniards imported them from China and New Spain.

from Occurrences 5%

Gushtásp and his wife took refuge in a miserable cell, which they inhabited, and when necessity pressed, he used to cross the river, and bring in an elk or wild ass from the forest, give half of it to the ferryman for his trouble, and keep the remainder for his own board, so that he and the ferryman became great friends by these mutual obligations.

out Occurrences 4%

He distributed to each of his soldiers four hundred asses out of the spoils.

than Occurrences 4%

"and so," Mr. Woods was stating, "I've been an even greater ass than usual, and I hope you'll be very, very happy.

without Occurrences 3%

as I live, there is the ass without his rider;what has become of the blackguard Antoine Giraud?

as Occurrences 3%

[Footnote 8: Dr. Johnson says there is a quibble here with asses as beasts of charge or burden.

by Occurrences 3%

Jules Favre, as Joseph, leads the ass by the reins, and a wet-nurse, who holds the Comte de Paris in her arms instead of the infant Jesus, is seated between the two panniers, trying to look at once like Monsieur Thiers and the Holy Virgin.

into Occurrences 3%

Then were they all afeard and said softly together: Because of the money that we had in our sacks we be brought in that he take us with the default, and shall by violence bring us and our asses into servitude.

about Occurrences 2%

"Well, don't be an ass about it!

like Occurrences 2%

What better could a widow do with the money she had inherited from a husband she probably did not love than give it to a man like Alfordor to an ass like Alford, Minver corrected himself.

between Occurrences 1%

[Fr.]; pliancy &c (softness) 324; weakness; timidity &c 860; cowardice &c 862; half measures. waverer, ass between two bundles of hay; shuttlecock, butterfly; wimp; doughface

before Occurrences 1%

He that was a mariner today, is an apothecary tomorrow; a smith one while, a philosopher another, in his volupiae ludis; a king now with his crown, robes, sceptre, attendants, by and by drove a loaded ass before him like a carter, &c.

over Occurrences 1%

He was driving several asses over the mountain, when one of them ran away.

per Occurrences 1%

And since there was need of large funds for the war, they all contributed the twenty-fifth part of the property they owned and the senators also four asses per tile of all the houses in the city that they themselves owned or dwelt in belonging to others.

among Occurrences 1%

We passed, on the road to Géz, a caravan of fifteen mules laden with the spoilibex, deer, wild sheep, and even a wild ass among the slain.

through Occurrences 1%

A Danish botanist, journeying alone upon an ass through the mountains of Abruzzi, was involved in several perilous adventures by this superstitious terror of the peasantry.

after Occurrences 1%

But soon afterwards Cervantes says: "He [Sancho] jogged on leisurely upon his ass after his master.

up Occurrences 1%

In Rome, too, [a spirit wearing the likeness of a man led an ass up the Capitol and later up the Palatine, seeking, as he said, its master and stating that Antoninus was dead and Jupiter reigned.

for Occurrences 1%

Tostig's our chief, and Tostig's man am I. As for Eric" "Ayeaye, and what of Eric?" spake a third voicea soft voice and liquid, and a man stepped forth of the rocks with two other men at his heels.

Which preposition to use with  ass