What is "assy"

Usage examples of "assy".

The ground on which they were standing turned glassy, insubstantial -- a smoky matrix in which something huge lay entombed.

But for his other guests he let bear in the massy cups of silver, and the great eared wine jars holding two firkins apiece, and he let pour forth to the Witches and the Foliots, and they drank the cup of memory unto King Gorice XI.

The tables resting on great trestles were massy slabs of a dusky polished stone, powdered with sparks of gold as small as atoms.

Juss waked, and stood up to scan the gray glassy surface of the sea spread to vast distances where sky and water faded into one.

Glassy was the lake and like a turquoise, and the birch-clad slopes to the east and north and the bare rugged ridges of Stathfell and Budrafell beyond were mirrored in its depths.

Along that road the hard earth rang with the tramp of armed men and the tramp of horses, and the light west wind wafted to Gro and Mevrian on their grassy hill snatches of deep-voiced battle-chants or the galloping notes of trumpet and pipe and the drum that sets men's hearts a-throb.

In that soft radiance grains as of golden fire swam and circled, losing themselves on the confines of the gloom where the massy furniture and the arras and the figured hangings of the bed were but cloudier divisions and congestions of the general dark.

Then she said, "I see a banquet hall with walls of dark green jasper speckled with red, and a massy cornice borne up by giants three-headed carved in black serpentine.

There were vast patches of glassy smoothness near its centre, like solidified tar.

For I knew at Corinth a certain man of Assyria, who would give answers in every part of the City, and for the gaine of money would tell every man his fortune, to some he would tel the dayes of their marriages, to others he would tell when they should build, that their edifices should continue.

Whereat Milo laughed againe, and enquired of me, of what stature this man of Assyria was, and what he was named.

Whereunto Diophanes this notable Assyrian (not yet come unto his minde, but halfe amased) soone answered and sayd, I would to god that all our enemies and evil willers might fall into the like dangerous peregrination and trouble.

Howbeit the Assyrian Diophanes did firmely assure unto me, that my peregrination and voyage hither should be prosperous.

You make sure nobody gets assy with me, you make sure the freeze sticks.

She was a good old American girl, as educated and sassy and assertive as any.