A coy and timid, yet trusting, though evanescent intangibility which softly lingers in the untroubled air, and lulls the tired senses to dreamy rest, like the subdued murmur of a hoarse jackassabout nine miles up the gulch.
The buffalo, the antelope, the sage hen and the jackass rabbit are ours.
She will come to you frankly and acknowledge that you have make a jackass of yourself.
The bell-bird, cat-bird, and laughing jackass announce their presence in unmistakable utterances, all serving to keep the senses on the qui vive.
This process is repeated until life becomes extinct in the victim, when the jackass proceeds leisurely to devour the body piecemeal.
The captain allowed me to go, for I told him the whole truth of the matter, and he saw that it was true; so he recommended me to the captain of a jackass frigate, who was in want of midshipmen.
So the jackass proved a very good friend, and, to reward him, I hired him every day, and galloped him all over the island.
It was as though a blight had descended upon the countryside, and the only living thing Finn saw that morning, besides the crows, was a laughing jackass on the stump of a blasted stringy-bark tree, who jeered at him hoarsely as he passed.
Entreat him in jackass fashion; if he won’t carry the sack, give him a whack.
At the brave Jackass in Boots, There is tobacco, brandy, and gingerbread for sale.
And I remember, as I was walking along the road some days past, I saw a little naughty boy that used a poor jackass very ill indeed.
Here's a bit of damper to stay your appetite until we can catch a 'possum or a laughing jackass for dinner;" and Harry produced one of the dampers which he had stowed away in his pocket.
I never heard that a jackass laughed, and I don't see one there," for in his eagerness he had jumped up, and gone to the window.
He called himself an addleheaded jackass and a crackbrained fool in Mexican as well as English.
Jeb ain't the brains of a jackass an' Wallie ain't hardly ever home.
And if a jackass rambles round, we won't be frightened and make three instead of one,' laughed Dick.
We can well believe that the cry, "General Washington's jackass is coming!
The jackass sallied forth, but he could not catch a lamb.
One day the jackass noticed the lion comfortably eating a lamb, whereupon he said "That's the scheme for me.
The jackass was browsing on thistles in the desert.
Here the jackass at times becomes a co-worker with the cow in hauling tobacco and other necessaries of life into town, but he goes no further in the matter of assistance.
Much as has been said of the jackass pro and con, I do not remember ever to have seen the above statement in print before, and yet it is as trite as it is incontrovertible.
In this great work she is assisted by the pearl-gray or ecru colored jackass of the tepid South.
Lion and Horse were always side by side, as were Jackass and Bear, and Tiger and Panther.
It was the first vessel they had seen since they had set up the piratical business on their own account and risk, except an English "jackass frigate," that chased them at the rate of one mile to the schooner's five.
