Asses

Examples

• In Rome the _proletarii_ were a voting division of fully qualified citizens whose property was less than 10,000 copper asses (= ?275). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A thousand pardons, Mr. Hartright; servants are such asses, are they not? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• What a set of consummate asses you are, said Argyle to Beckford and his party; and then quietly continued on the gate, whistling as before. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We rode on asses and mules up the steep, narrow streets and entered the subterranean galleries the English have blasted out in the rock. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The word sestertius signifies two asses and a half. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• At Rome all accounts appear to have been kept, and the value of all estates to have been computed, either in asses or in sestertii. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Such ASSES as he and Ma make of themselves! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Ye know, also, that when mosques are builded, asses bear the stones and the cement, and cross the sacred threshold. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• From others he demands a certain sum, but leaves it to the states of each province to assess and levy that sum as they think proper. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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