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Updated: May 17, 2025
You say 'flahsk' and 'bahsket, and 'jackahss'; we say 'flask, 'basket, 'jackass' sounding the 'a' as it is in 'tallow, 'fallow, and so on. Up to as late as 1847 Mr. Webster's Dictionary had the impudence to still pronounce 'basket' bahsket, when he knew that outside of his little New England all America shortened the 'a' and paid no attention to his English broadening of it.
And you asked me afterward about that last batch. You said to me: 'Louis, you are sure that they are all quite gone? Remember that there is trouble in the possession of them! And I told you a lie!" Mr. Bundercombe coughed and poured himself out a little more of the coffee. "Louis," he declared, "you are a fool! You are a blithering idiot! You are a jackass! It never occurred to me before.
"Can't quite figger it out," he would mutter, lowering the astrolabe from its aim at the sun "accordin' to this here jackass-quadrant we orter be dee-creesing our latitude but the answer comes out different." "Too much jackass and too little quadrant," snapped Swank, whose nerves were still like E strings.
He looked the fool and jackass he is. Why didn't you warn us he was a rotten thief, too?" "Wasn't it for shoplifting you served six months in Joliet?" retorted Mabel. "You lie you streetwalker!" screamed Violet. "Ladies! Ladies!" said Eshwell. "That's what I say," observed Pat. "I'm no lady," replied Mabel. "I'm an actress." "An actress he-he!" jeered Violet. "An actress!"
Her hands pressed to her face, with flood of happy tears, she only says, "Oh! I'm so happy, Sam! So glad, so glad!" Pipe up there, golden-voiced magpie; give us one song more before you go to roost. Laugh out, old jackass; till you fetch an echo back from the foggy hollow.
If I'd a-done right when I was a boy I'd be sittin' right up there with the rest o' that bunch o' people this minute. But I was bound to have my fling, and sow my wild oats and now I can have the pleasure of harvestin' my crop. It ought to be thistles, for if ever there was a jackass that same was Jim Bolivar."
"Is this the latest masterpiece can it be seen?" he asked, turning to his host, his hand half stretched to the cover. Mary made an exclamation of denial, and started forward to intercept the hand. But even as she moved, dismay visible on her face, the perverse devil which had been mounting in Stefan's brain attained the mastery. She had asked him to be nice to this jackass very well, he would.
Next morning's tide, the Doctor Humm cleared out, and I had no other chance of discourse with Moosoo Jacks. But I want to know what you think, Cappen Zeb." "So you shall," said the captain of Springhaven, sternly. "I think you had better call your Moosoo Jacks 'Master Jackass, or 'Master Jackanapes, and put your own name on the back of him.
Trunnion, "I am resolved to hire a sledge or waggon, or such a thing as a jackass; for I'll be d d if ever I cross the back of a horse again." "And what do you propose to do with these creatures?" said the other, pointing to the hunters; "they seem to have some mettle; but then they are mere colts, and will take the devil-and-all of breaking: methinks this hinder one is shoulder-slipped."
Two hours from Tabor to Nazareth and as it was an uncommonly narrow, crooked trail, we necessarily met all the camel trains and jackass caravans between Jericho and Jacksonville in that particular place and nowhere else. The donkeys do not matter so much, because they are so small that you can jump your horse over them if he is an animal of spirit, but a camel is not jumpable.
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