Sentence examples similar to ass's bray from inspiring English sources

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They include "Do not buy an ass which brays too much," "Do not commit rape upon a man's daughter" and "Do not answer back against your father, do not raise a 'heavy eye.' " Many of these tablets were left by students learning how to write.

They were warned that if the ass brayed it was a sign of guilt.

The dogs yelp and howl, the horses whinny, the mules and asses bray, the children cry, the boys halloo, the women scold, the men chide and threaten, no one hears and everything goes wrong.

As he said later, "I was as great an ass as ever brayed & thought it singing".

Yeah, I stole Demetrius's Boxster, opened the roof, and squeezed the donkey's ass into the footwell-thingy, his front legs and hooves propped on the cream leather, his adorable face braying towards me.

And Oberon punishes the rebellious Titania by causing her to fall head over heels in love with a certain Nick Bottom (Lea DeLaria), roguishly changed by Puck into a braying ass.

Other species utter similar sounds, the whinny of the horse and the bray of the ass being well-known examples.

Henry James compared the female voice to the "moo of the cow, the bray of the ass and the bark of the dog".

Bray: Seth's list rules.

Verily, the harshest of all voices is the voice (braying) of the ass".

It's noisy; people heckle and bray.

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