She suggested that when he had his government in hand, he ought to pension Dapple off and let him quit working; and Sancho thought that was by no means a bad idea, for, he said, he would not be the first ass to be so pensioned.
They feasted on the scraps that remained in the alforjas, while Rocinante and Sancho's ass were left free to pluck all the grass they desired.
But it so happened that both of them brayed at the same time, and when they ran to look, convinced that the donkey had turned up, they found not the ass but only each other, so naturally had they brayed.
His next concern was his stomach; and when they found that the barber's ass carried ample supplies, they soon satisfied their appetites.
Finally, when the men had been sufficiently amused, they stopped their sport, then mounted Sancho with no little kindness on his ass and bade him godspeed on his journey.
Sancho was moved to tears by his master's wrath, and he confessed in a broken voice that if he had only had a tail he would have been a complete ass himself.
Sancho then said he could plainly see that the man's horse was an ass and that the man had something on his head that shone.
Wildly shouting, he set out after the galley-slave, who threw himself off the ass at Sancho's first shout.
When they came in sight of one another, said the loser, 'Is it possible, gossip, that it was not my ass that brayed?
In this way, doubling the brays at every step, they made the complete circuit of the forest, but the lost ass never gave them an answer or even the sign of one.
Moses therefore being very angry, said to the Lord: Respect not their sacrifices: thou knowest that I have not taken of them so much as a young ass at any time, nor have injured any of them.
If thou meet thy enemy's ox or ass going astray, bring it back to him.
The ass seeing the angel standing in the way, with a drawn sword, turned herself out of the way, and went into the field.
A wildass accustomed to the wilderness in the desire of his heart, snuffed up the wind of his love: none shall turn her away: all that seek her shall not fail: in her monthly filth they shall find her.
Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.
The ass said: Am not I thy beast, on which thou hast been always accustomed to ride until this present day?
For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath given gifts to his lovers.
Who hath sent out the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his bonds?
If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lie underneath his burden, thou shalt not pass by, but shalt lift him up with him.
And he was gone, he found the dead body cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcass: the lion had not eaten of the dead body, nor hurt the ass.
And the Lord answering him, said: Ye hypocrites, doth not every one of you, on the sabbath day, loose his ox or his ass from the manger and lead them to water?
And he had forty sons, and of them thirty grandsons, mounted upon seventy ass colts, and he judged Israel eight years: 12:15.
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.
If thou see thy brother's ass or his ox to be fallen down in the way, thou shalt not slight it, but shalt lift it up with him.
If they were not, I have no doubt But some reforming ass Would recommend to take them down And light the world with gas.
Thy ass thou buriest in the place Sacred by church.
Lamb wrote more fully of this passage in an article on the ass contributed to Hone's Every-Day Book in 1825 (see Vol.
As I say to her, ass in praesenti rarely makes a wise man in futuro.
There is nothing in this fact that hybrids cannot breed with each other, to establish such a theory; there is nothing to prevent the Horse breeding with the Ass, or the Ass with the Horse.
Mitford suggests: 'The assmore than the lion, and the felon Loaden &c.
How has the ass broke the wall, that thou art out of the city?
And th' ass more than the lion, the felon Loaden &c.
My son Vandal now hath lost himself, And shall all night go straying 'bout the town; Or meet with some strange watch that knows him not, And all by such an arrant ass as this!
Then, there's not only a growte head, but an ass also.
The horse refused, And got his due, For the ass died.
No ass more famously could do," The lion says, "but thee I knew, Or I might have been frightened too.
Having done this, I occupied myself again with my business until sunset, when the owner of the ass came, and I took fifty pieces of gold, and put them into a handkerchief.
The hunting of the wildass is another sport of the Persians and Arabs, but one of a more difficult nature.
The ass exclaimed, I was living at ease, and nought but my meddling hath injured me!
The man did so; and when the ass returned at the close of the day, the bull thanked him for the favour he had conferred upon him by relieving him of his trouble on that day; but the ass returned him no answer, for he repented most grievously.
Then, said he, I fear for thee that the same will befall thee that happened in the case of the ass and the bull and the husbandman.
I'd be waiting still if that ass of a policeman hadn't insisted that I was drunk and dragged me away.
Those were the days when one got months of sick leave, before some rotten ass invented convalescent homes for officers and kept them there.
We rose at dawn, put the ass in the sledge, took what food we thought we should need, and set out from The Nest just as the sun rose.
These we put in our large cart, with such tools as we thought we should need, tied the black ox, the cow, and the ass to the shafts, and then set off from The Nest.
The ass at once saw its foe, but stood still as if struck with fear, and in less time than I take to tell it, our old friend was tight in the folds of the boa.
The ass was just at my back, and as soon as it saw the light, made a rush to get out.
When it had put the whole of the ass out of sight, it lay down on the sand quite still, as if it had gone to sleep or died.
According to him, the serpent which seduced our first parents was not a devil, but a real serpent; as Balaam's ass was a real ass, and as the whale that swallowed Jonah was a real whale.
The soul of a Brahmin takes up its abode in the body of an elephant, the soul of an ass is that of a little Brahmin.
The patriarch Photius relates, in the extract from the Life of Isidorus, that Ammonius had an ass which had a great taste for poetry, and would leave his manger to go and hear verses.
