1 An honest farmer had once an ass that had been a faithful servant to him a great many years, but was now growing old and every day more and more unfit for work.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS 2 The ass, being the tallest of the company, marched up to the window and peeped in.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS 3 So he picked out a fine head and ate of it; but scarcely had he swallowed two bites when he felt himself quite changed, and saw with horror that he was turned into an ass.
4 They all looked at him as if the ass had spoken.
5 He stood in the path like Balaam's ass, barring her way.
6 'An ass,' said the doctor again, after a further silence of some minutes.
7 The mayor of the town came to receive him at the gate of the town, and watched him dismount from his ass, with scandalized eyes.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP 8 Adonai passes on his chariot with its twelve wheels of thunder and lightning; Silenus makes his entry there on his ass.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO 9 The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the spider on the fly.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI... 10 It was as the ass and the lap-dog; yet surely the gentle ass whose intentions were affectionate, although his manners were rude, deserved better treatment than blows and execration.
11 The masses feel that drunkenness, stupidity, and immorality should be their own special property, and that if any one of us makes an ass of himself, he is poaching on their preserves.
12 Here stood old flower-pots with faces and asses' ears, and the flowers grew just as they liked.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE OLD HOUSE 13 Thus war was announced to the Bear, and all four-footed animals were summoned to take part in it, oxen, asses, cows, deer, and every other animal the earth contained.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE WILLOW-WREN AND THE BEAR 14 And as he went he saw two asses in the court running about, and the salad lying on the ground.
15 Drummle laughed outright, and sat laughing in our faces, with his hands in his pockets and his round shoulders raised; plainly signifying that it was quite true, and that he despised us as asses all.