111 Verbs to Use for the Word ass

When a man attempts to handle this delicate weapon, he usually makes, if one may put it thus crudely, an ass of himself.

" "I saw an ass attacked by a swarm of flies.

Here shall JOSEPH come in, leading an ass, on which are seated MARY and the CHILD.

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.

For the student of nature, gentlemen, if he will be but patient, diligent, methodical, is liable at any moment to the same good fortune as befell Saul of old, when he went out to seek his father's asses, and found a kingdom.

Then she took an ass and rode after, and when she came to the foot of the hill, David and his men descended; to whom she ran, and David said: I have for naught saved all the beasts of this Nabal in desert, and there perished nothing of his that pertained to him, and he hath yielded evil for good.

He mounted his ass and came back to his house.

As they remarked to us, if they were obliged to send an ass to the Assembly, it was far better for them to send a white ass than a black one.

I rode a white ass, I mind me, and my lord walked beside me very fair and soft-spoken, whereupon I called himSir Dove!

An ass and a mule went laden over a brook, the one with salt, the other with wool: the mule's pack was wet by chance, the salt melted, his burden the lighter, and he thereby much eased: he told the ass, who, thinking to speed as well, wet his pack likewise at the next water, but it was much the heavier, he quite tired.

O, my lord thinks me an ass.

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

The scientific explorer is always like Saul of old, who set out simply to find his father's asses, and found themand a kingdom besides.

He is wiser than the fellow that sold his ass, but kept the shadow for his own use; for he sells only the shadow (that is, the picture) and keeps the ass himself.

They were both condemned, to the great mortification of the patricians: Romilius to pay ten thousand asses, Veturius fifteen thousand.

Joseph, therefore, arose and saddled his ass, and set his wife upon it, and went up from Nazareth to Bethlehem.

Nothing can kill an ass but cold: cold entertainment, discouraging scoffs, authorised disgraces, may kill a whole litter of young asses of them here at once, that hath travelled thus far in impudence, only in hope to sit a-sunning in your smiles.

SPEAK, A. B. I lost my ass, in California, by An Oakie (A. B. Speak) © 17Nov41; AA413677.

He supposes the empty title of honour sufficient to serve his turn, though he has spent the substance and reality of it, like the fellow that sold his ass but would not part with the shadow of it; or Apicius, that sold his house, and kept only the balcony to see and be seen in.

"Did we love each other as this poor soul but loved his ass, 'twould be something.

Make a wager with a man who does not possess even an ass, and whose father has never been rich enough to buy a horse.

We are told (pt. I. iii. 9) that Gines de Passamonte "stole Sancho's ass."

One of you hold my ass, while I light: walk him up and down the hall, till I talk a word or two.

A set o' dull, conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes; They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek!

The friar puffed out his cheeks and sighed: "'Twas a goodly ass, my son, a fair and gentle beast and of an easy gait, and I am one that loveth not to trip it in the dust.

111 Verbs to Use for the Word  ass