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  • Science fiction fans will be happy to learn that it references a spaceship called The Onager, which is both a type of medieval siege engine and a type of ass, a rare twofer indeed.

    Writing 2007

  • Science fiction fans will be happy to learn that it references a spaceship called The Onager, which is both a type of medieval siege engine and a type of ass, a rare twofer indeed.

    June 2006 2006

  • Science fiction fans will be happy to learn that it references a spaceship called The Onager, which is both a type of medieval siege engine and a type of ass, a rare twofer indeed.

    I'm melting! 2006

  • Equus hemionus onager, the Onager or Asian Ass, but it would have been a bit too confusing.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

  • Equus hemionus onager, the Onager or Asian Ass, but it would have been a bit too confusing.

    The Law Is A Ass Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

  • Of þeose bemeres sei ` d´ [p.  130] Jeremie · _Onager solitarius in desiderio suo attraxit uentum amoris sui_ · Of þe wind drahinde in for luue of hereword {;} seid as ich seide.

    Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

  • Onager (Wild Ass), pages 171-174 (picture, page 172).

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • Of þeose bem {er} es seið Jeremie · _Onager solitari {us} in desiderio anime sue attraxit uentum amoris sui_

    Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

  • I might now have travelled still farther in search of the Onager, or wild ass of the Asiatic and Indian deserts, but at this point a more interesting and far wider question presented itself, as I flung myself down on the moor to ponder over the early history of all these tribes.

    A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891

  • Here it becomes a Princess, daughter of Bahrám-i-Gúr (Bahram of the Onager, his favourite game), the famous Persian king in the fifth century, a contemporary of

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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