Word: asse
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Coat and we will be happy together. "Not so," replied the Sagacious Brute. "I am an upper-class Animal, and if I accompanied You, my air would be so Awkward from shame at the company I was in, that you would be at once Recognized for the Ass that you are. Therefore, I pray you, put away Ambition." Thus saying, he left the Aspiring Innocent a Sadder, but alas! not a wiser child...
...must be more or less introductory, and in proportion as it is so, the hearer has all the more difficulty in becoming interested. Then, too, it is rather hard for us to appreciate the dramatic attempts of the thirteenth century in England, when Noah's Ark and Balaam's Ass were the only plays that had a "run." The next lecture, to be given at the same hour and place Monday, will be in reality the beginning, and we doubt not that those who attend the course will be introduced to much curious and valuable English literature to which they...
...dear fellow," thought I, "if you continue to be as great an ass as you are now, your pictures will probably remain undecorated, unless you should go to France, and compete for the medal of which La Marjolaine got such a number; and even then, you might not succeed. Again, why have any pictures that don't 'amount to much'? Your wall-paper, which is not intolerably ugly, is better than a bad print." This is what I thought. I only said, "Though the Art Club does not generally admit Freshmen to its hilarious meetings, your room is evidence that...
...though it is true that the "tough" H. H. might not relish the remark, yet in the future he would probably think twice before making an exhibition of himself again. Nine tenths of Holworthy's hearers, doubtless, are quick enough to think privately that he is talking like an ass; but openly they smile approval, and this often from good-nature, and in the unconsciousness of any insincerity, - nay, more, with the inward satisfaction of having displayed great worldly tact. Undoubtedly worldly tact smooths intercourse, and should therefore, in regard to the foibles of men, be generously used...
...HARWOOD, Ass't. Treas...