Breach to Bristol, England
breach, n. (6)
UGM 4.22 17
I seem to have no good without breach of good manners.
SwM 4.144 2
...is [Swedenborg] reporting a breach of the manners of that
heavenly society?...
ET5 5.78 22
...no breach of truth and plain dealing...is suffered the island
[England].
ET7 5.116 13
When any breach of promise occurred [in English
government], in the old days of prerogative, it was resented by the people
as an intolerable grievance.
Comc 8.166 11
...The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy,/
Complaining loudly of the breach/ Of league held forth by Brother Patch/...
AKan 11.262 3
Massachusetts, in its heroic day, had no government-was
an anarchy. Every man...was his own governor; and there was no breach of
peace from Cape Cod to Mount Hoosac.
bread, n. (121)
DSA 1.140 6
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit,
and not give bread of life.
DSA 1.151 12
The Hebrew and Greek Scriptures contain immortal
sentences, that have been bread of life to millions.
LE 1.169 20
[All men] serve nature for bread...
LE 1.186 24
Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give
you bread...
MR 1.233 9
[The individual] did not create the abuse; he cannot alter it.
What is he? an obscure private person who must get his bread.
MR 1.243 4
Let [the man with a strong bias to the contemplative life]
learn...to relish the taste of fair water and black bread.
MR 1.246 16
Sofas, ottomans...theatre, entertainments,-all these [infirm
people] want, they need, and whatever can be suggested more than these
they crave also, as if it was the bread which should keep them from
starving;...
MR 1.247 21
...we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation,
whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our
energies to the common benefit;...
MR 1.249 11
I ought not to allow any man, because he has broad lands, to
feel that he is rich in my presence. I ought to make him feel...though I be
utterly penniless, and receiving bread from him, that he is the poor man
beside me.
MR 1.251 19
[Caliph Omar's] diet was barley bread;...
MR 1.251 21
...oftentimes by way of abstinence [Caliph Omar] ate his
bread without salt.
MR 1.253 27
Every child that is born must have a just chance for his bread.
LT 1.290 27
Let it not be recorded in our own memories that in this
moment of the Eternity...we...disgraced the fair Day by a pusillanimous
preference of our bread to our freedom.
Con 1.305 11
The past has baked your loaf, and in the strength of its bread
you would break up the oven.
Con 1.306 24
Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all
the gentlemen of this world; but you may come and work in ours, for us,
and we will give you a piece of bread.
Con 1.310 26
...in this institution of credit...always some neighbor stands
ready to be bread and land and tools and stock to the young adventurer.
Con 1.319 27
If any man resist and set up a foolish hope he has entertained
as good against the general despair, Society...shuts him out of...her water
and bread...
Con 1.324 4
If [the hero] have earned his bread by drudgery...he will make
it at least honorable by his expenditure.
YA 1.366 19
...the farmer who is not wanted by others can yet grow his
own bread...
YA 1.382 26
At least an economical success seemed certain for the
enterprise [the Associations], and that agricultural association must, sooner
or later, fix the price of bread...
YA 1.383 7
...it is proposed to plant corn and to bake bread by companies.
SR 2.50 2
Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree,
for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the
liberty and culture of the eater.
SR 2.87 9
The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las
Casas, without abolishing our arms...until...the soldier should...bake his
bread himself.
Comp 2.93 9
The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation]
is to be drawn...are the tools in our hands, the bread in our basket...
Comp 2.125 25
We linger in the ruins of the old tent, where once we had
bread and shelter and organs...
SL 2.155 13
...now, every thing [the great man] did, even to...the eating of
bread, looks large...
Prd1 2.223 17
The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings
of a base prudence...a prudence which...asks but one question of any
project,--Will it bake bread?
Prd1 2.225 13
We eat of the bread which grows in the field.
Prd1 2.234 1
Health, bread, climate, social position, have their importance...
Prd1 2.235 18
...let [a man] put the bread he eats at his own disposal...
Exp 3.58 2
The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative
nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things...and so with the
history of every man's bread...
Exp 3.58 18
If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of
bread down his throat, he would starve.
Mrs1 3.138 1
I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for
bread...
Mrs1 3.138 2
I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for
bread...
Gts 3.160 20
...it is always pleasing to see a man eat bread, or drink water,
in the house or out of doors...
Nat2 3.190 9
...bread and wine, mix and cook them how you will, leave us
hungry and thirsty...
Pol1 3.202 26
...if question arise whether additional officers or watch-towers
should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must
sell part of their herds to buy protection for the rest, judge better of this, and
with more right, than Jacob, who, because he is a youth and a traveller, eats
their bread and not his own?
Pol1 3.206 12
[A cent's value] is so much warmth, so much bread...
NR 3.240 11
A new poet has appeared; a new character approached us;
why should we refuse to eat bread until we have found his regiment and
section in our old army-files?
NER 3.252 12
One apostle thought all men should go to farming...another
that the mischief was in our diet, that we eat and drink damnation. These
made unleavened bread...
NER 3.277 25
...we hold on to our little properties...for the bread which
they have in our experience yielded us...
UGM 4.13 22
If you affect to give me bread and fire, I perceive that I pay
for it the full price...
PPh 4.72 20
[Socrates]...he is hardy as a soldier, and can live...usually, in
the strictest sense, on bread and water...
PPh 4.77 16
...elements, planet itself, laws of planet and of men, have
passed through this man [Plato] as bread into his body, and become no
longer bread, but body...
PPh 4.77 17
...elements, planet itself, laws of planet and of men, have
passed through this man [Plato] as bread into his body, and become no
longer bread, but body...
SwM 4.93 5
Among eminent persons, those who are most dear to men are
not of the class which the economist calls producers...they have not
cultivated corn, nor made bread;...
SwM 4.101 4
...[Swedenborg] lived on bread, milk and vegetables;...
SwM 4.135 21
The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in
Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What
have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and chalcedony;...what
with heave-offerings and unleavened bread...
NMW 4.232 27
The weavers strike for bread, and the king and his
ministers...meet them with bayonets.
ET1 5.17 23
[Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish
abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform.
Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come
wandering over these moors. My dame makes it a rule to give to every son
of Adam bread to eat...
ET10 5.168 1
England is aghast at the disclosure of her fraud in the
adulteration of food, of drugs...finding that milk will not nourish...nor bread
satisfy...
ET10 5.169 5
...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of
chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England] that bread rose to
famine prices...
ET11 5.191 25
In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell
the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper
at his council table...and the baker will not bring bread any longer.
ET14 5.256 16
...if I should count the poets who have contributed to the
Bible of existing England sentences of guidance and consolation which are
still glowing and effective,--how few! Shall I find my heavenly bread in the
reigning poets?
ET16 5.285 11
We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall]
built by Inigo Jones...and so again to the house, where we found a table laid
for us with bread, meats, peaches, grapes and wine.
ET16 5.289 7
Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of
Saint Cross, and after looking through the quaint antiquity, we demanded a
piece of bread and a draught of beer...
ET17 5.296 18
...in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage
where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and
plainest fare;...
Pow 6.60 17
If we will make bread, we must have contagion, yeast,
emptyings, or what not, to induce fermentation into the dough;...
Wth 6.89 2
Wealth requires, besides the crust of bread and the roof,--the
freedom of the city, the freedom of the earth...
Wth 6.90 14
No reliance for bread and games on the government;...suits
[the Saxons];...
Wth 6.102 6
I wish the farmer held [the dollar] dearer, and would spend it
only for real bread;...
Wth 6.103 9
A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy, or to speak strictly...
for the wit, probity and power which we eat bread and dwell in houses to
share and exert.
Wth 6.105 5
In Europe, crime is observed to increase or abate with the
price of bread.
Wth 6.106 14
Whoever knows what happens in the getting and spending of
a loaf of bread and a pint of beer...knows all of political economy that the
budgets of empires can teach him.
Wth 6.126 15
The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits;...
Bty 6.279 26
[Seyd] thought it happier to be dead,/ To die for Beauty, than
live for bread./
Bty 6.290 10
It is a rule of largest application, true in a plant, true in a loaf
of bread, that in the construction of any fabric or organism any real increase
of fitness to its end is an increase of beauty.
Bty 6.301 4
If a man...can make bread cheap...'t is no matter whether his
nose is parallel to his spine...
Ill 6.311 27
Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and
meat.
DL 7.113 14
...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will
to remove it, than this?...to find no invitation to what is good in us, and no
receptacle for what is wise:--this is a great price to pay for sweet bread and
warm lodging...
Farm 7.137 5
...[the farmer] obtains from the earth the bread and the meat.
Farm 7.149 6
As [the farmer] nursed his Thanksgiving turkeys on bread
and milk, so he will pamper his peaches and grapes on the viands they like
best.
Farm 7.150 15
These [drainage] tiles are political economists, confuters of
Malthus and Ricardo; they are so many Young Americans announcing a
better era,--more bread.
WD 7.155 6
To each [the days] offer gifts after his will,/ Bread, kingdoms,
stars and sky that holds them all./
PI 8.35 6
This contemporary insight is transubstantiation, the conversion of
daily bread into the holiest symbols;...
PI 8.63 9
How rarely [the high poets] offer us the heavenly bread!
Res 8.143 5
Here [in America] is bread, and wealth, and power, and
education for every man who has the heart to use his opportunity.
Insp 8.272 1
Inspiration is like yeast. 'T is no matter in which of half a
dozen ways you procure the infection; you can apply one or the other
equally well to your purpose, and get your loaf of bread.
Aris 10.35 27
If a few grand natures should come to us and weave duties
and offices between us and them, it would make our bread ambrosial.
Aris 10.52 14
...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the
people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall
blame them if they...express their unequivocal indignation and contempt?
He eats their bread...
Chr2 10.95 13
The moral element invites man...to find his satisfaction...not
in bread, but in his right to his bread;...
Chr2 10.95 14
The moral element invites man...to find his satisfaction...not
in bread, but in his right to his bread;...
Edc1 10.127 26
This apparatus of wants and faculties, this craving body...
educate the wondrous creature which they satisfy...with bread, with wool.
Supl 10.165 4
Every favorite is not a cherub...nor agonies, excruciations
nor ecstasies our daily bread.
SovE 10.211 4
Man does not live by bread alone...
Schr 10.270 25
Genius is a poor man and has no house, but see, this proud
landlord who has built the palace...beseeches him to make it honorable by
entering there and eating bread.
Schr 10.271 18
There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in
genius, as...in hospitalities; as if men would signify their sense that genius
and virtue should not pay money for house and land and bread...
Schr 10.286 16
[The scholar] is to eat insult, drink insult, be clothed and
shod in insult until he has learned that this bitter bread and shameful dress
is also wholesome and warm...
LLNE 10.358 7
One merchant to whom I described the Fourier project,
thought it must not only succeed, but that agricultural association must
presently fix the price of bread...
EzRy 10.388 26
...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam,
my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me. I regret
very much the causes (which you know very well) which make it
impossible for me to ask you to stay and break bread with us.
MMEm 10.400 16
[Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt and her husband...were
getting old, and the husband a shiftless, easy man. There was...not always
bread enough in the house.
MMEm 10.415 16
...I [Nature]...fed thee with my mallows, on the first
young day of bread failing.
LS 11.3 12
Without considering the frivolous questions which have been
lately debated as to the posture in which men should partake of [the Lord's
Supper];...whether leavened or unleavened bread should be broken;-the
questions have been settled differently in every church...
LS 11.3 18
In the Catholic Church, infants were at one time permitted and
then forbidden to partake [of the Lord's Supper]; and since the ninth
century the laity receive the bread only, the cup being reserved to the
priesthood.
LS 11.5 10
In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in
giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples...
LS 11.5 17
St. Luke...after relating the breaking of the bread [at the Last
Supper], has these words: This do in remembrance of me.
LS 11.9 8
It appears that the Jews [at Passover] ate the lamb and the
unleavened bread and drank wine after a prescribed manner.
LS 11.9 10
It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break
the bread and to bless it...
LS 11.10 11
[Jesus] permitted himself to be anointed, declaring that it was
for his interment. He washed the feet of his disciples. These are admitted to
be symbolical actions and expressions. Here [at the Last Supper], in like
manner, he calls the bread his body, and bids the disciples eat.
LS 11.12 6
...the Passover was local too, and does not concern us, and its
bread and wine were typical...
LS 11.12 17
It appears...in Christian history that the disciples had very
early taken advantage of these impressive words of Christ [This do in
remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings, where they broke bread
and drank wine as symbols.
LS 11.19 9
Most men find the bread and wine [of the Lord's Supper] no aid
to devotion...
LS 11.19 10
To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and
resolve to obey them is quite another.
HDC 11.34 15
...in these poor wigwams [the pilgrims] sing psalms, pray
and praise their God, till they can provide them houses, which they could
not ordinarily, till the earth...brought forth bread to feed them.
HDC 11.34 22
...[the pilgrims] were forced to cut their bread very thin for a
long season.
HDC 11.56 14
We have among us [says Peter Bulkeley] excess and...pride
in apparel, daintiness in diet, and that in those who, in times past, would
have been satisfied with bread.
War 11.157 3
Wherever there is no property, the people will put on the
knapsack for bread;...
FSLN 11.218 20
[The newsboy] unfolds his magical sheets,-twopence a
head his bread of knowledge costs...
AKan 11.256 22
In these calamities under which they suffer...the people of
Kansas ask for bread, clothes, arms and men...
ACiv 11.298 5
All honest men are daily striving to earn their bread by their
industry.
EdAd 11.384 17
A man [in America] who has a hundred dollars to dispose
of-a hundred dollars over his bread-is rich beyond the dreams of the
Caesars.
EdAd 11.390 4
Not only man but Nature is injured by the imputation that
man exists only to be fattened with bread...
EdAd 11.390 5
...[man] lives in such connection with Thought and Fact
that his bread is surely involved as one element thereof...
FRep 11.534 11
[A man's life] is manufactured for him. The tailor makes
your dress; the baker your bread...
FRep 11.541 25
Let [men] compete, and success to the strongest, the wisest
and the best. The land is wide enough, the soil has bread for all.
PLT 12.33 22
Right thought...comes daily, like our daily bread, to humble
service;...
MAng1 12.228 8
A little bread and wine was all [Michelangelo's]
nourishment;...
MLit 12.336 6
Religion will bind again these that were sometime frivolous,
customary, enemies...into a joyful reverence for the circumambient Whole,
and that which was ecstasy shall become daily bread.
Pray 12.355 10
I know that thou hast not created me and placed me here on
earth...and told me to be like thyself when I see so little of thee here to
profit by; thou hast not done this, and then left me here to myself, a poor,
weak man, scarcely able to earn my bread.
EurB 12.371 10
[Tennyson] is...a tasteful bachelor who collects quaint
staircases and groined ceilings. We have no right to such superfineness. We
must not make our bread of pure sugar.
Trag 12.409 25
There are people who have an appetite for grief...
mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread...
Breadalbane, Marquis of [Jo (2)
ET11 5.182 10
The Marquis of Breadalbane rides out of his house a
hundred miles in a straight line to the sea...
ET11 5.189 5
The Dukes of Athol, Sutherland, Buccleugh and the Marquis
of Breadalbane have introduced the rape-culture...
bread-and-water, adj. (1)
MMEm 10.419 20
...so poor are some of those allotted to join me [Mary
Moody Emerson] on the weary needy path, that 't is benevolence enjoins
self-denial. Could I but dare it in the bread-and-water diet!
bread-closet, n. (1)
ET2 5.30 15
...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little
boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port, in
the bread-closet...
bread-room, n. (1)
Farm 7.140 14
In the great household of Nature, the farmer stands at the
door of the bread-room...
bread-stuffs, n. (1)
Supl 10.178 16
The European civility, or that of the positive degree, is
established...by agriculture for bread-stuffs, and manufacture of coarse and
family cloths.
breadth, n. (22)
DSA 1.145 15
...the chasm yawns to that breadth, that men can scarcely be
convinced there is in them anything divine.
SL 2.141 14
The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the
base.
Fdsp 2.201 1
...let us approach our friend with an audacious trust...in the
breadth, impossible to be overturned, of his foundations.
Pt1 3.5 1
...this hidden truth, that the fountains whence all this river of
Time and its creatures floweth are intrinsically ideal and beautiful, draws us
to the consideration of the nature and functions of the Poet, or the man of
Beauty;...and to the general aspect of the art in the present time. The
breadth of the problem is great...
Exp 3.66 26
The line [a man] must walk is a hair's breadth.
PPh 4.42 24
This breadth [of synthesis] entitles [Plato] to stand as the
representative of philosophy.
SwM 4.104 3
The robust Aristotelian method, with its breadth and
adequateness...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
ET3 5.41 16
It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of
the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to
France...cutting off an island...with an irregular breadth reaching to three
hundred miles;...
ET10 5.163 26
This comfort and splendor [in England], the breadth of lake
and mountain, tillage, pasture and park...all consist with perfect order.
ET16 5.289 22
The length of line [of Winchester Cathedral] exceeds that of
any other English church; being 556 feet, by 250 in breadth of transept.
Civ 7.31 20
I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning the breadth
of the temperate zone.
DL 7.122 21
I honor that man whose ambition it is...to administer the
offices...of husband, father and friend. But it requires as much breadth of
power for this as for those other functions...
PI 8.58 15
...[The wind] is always of the same age with the ages of ages,/
And of equal breadth with the surface of the earth./
Elo2 8.119 22
Those whom we admire--the great orators--have some habit
of heat, and moreover...an art of husbanding it,--as if their hand was on the
organ-stop, and could now use it temperately, and now let out all the length
and breadth of the power.
PC 8.234 2
...when I say the educated class, I know what a benignant
breadth that word has...
PPo 8.240 27
When Solomon travelled, his throne was placed on a carpet
of green silk, of a length and breadth sufficient for all his army to stand
upon...
Grts 8.309 9
...the rule of the orator begins...when the thought which he
stands for...gives him valor, breadth and new intellectual power...
PerF 10.82 23
The imagination enriches [the man], as if there were no
other; the memory opens all her cabinets and archives; Science her length
and breadth;...
Supl 10.179 2
The Northern genius finds itself singularly refreshed and
stimulated by the breadth and luxuriance of Eastern imagery and modes of
thinking...
Schr 10.289 5
...if I could prevail to communicate the incommunicable
mysteries, you [scholars] should see the breadth of your realm;...
CSC 10.375 6
The still-living merit of the oldest New England families...
encountered [at the Chardon Street Convention] the founders of families,
fresh merit, emerging, and expanding the brows to a new breadth...
ACiv 11.306 12
There does exist, perhaps, a popular will...that our trade,
and therefore our laws, must have the whole breadth of the continent...
break, n. (4)
Nat 1.53 19
Take those lips away/.../And those eyes, the break of day/...
Comc 8.157 23
...the break of continuity in the intellect, is comedy...
Chr2 10.121 10
Command is exceptional, and marks some break in the link
of reason;...
Chr2 10.121 13
...the electricity goes round the world without a spark or a
sound, until there is a break in the wire or the water chain.
break, v. (67)
Nat 1.20 24
...when Arnold Winkelried...gathers in his side a sheaf of
Austrian spears to break the line for his comrades; are not these heroes
entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
Nat 1.45 2
[Words] cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They
break, chop, and impoverish it.
DSA 1.125 10
...the worlds, time, space, eternity, do seem to break out into
joy.
MR 1.254 24
Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or
mushroom...manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...
Con 1.305 11
The past has baked your loaf, and in the strength of its bread
you would break up the oven.
Hist 2.15 8
...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in
sculpture...a multitude of forms...like votaries performing some religious
dance before the gods, and, though in convulsive pain or mortal combat,
never daring to break the figure and decorum of their dance.
Hist 2.18 18
The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds
at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and
of the world.
SR 2.73 8
I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you.
SR 2.80 14
[Unbalanced minds] do not yet perceive that light...will break
into any cabin...
Comp 2.124 19
The changes which break up at short intervals the
prosperity of men are advertisements of a nature whose law is growth.
Int 2.336 4
...in our happy hours we should be inexhaustible poets if once
we could break through the silence into adequate rhyme.
Pt1 3.19 16
...no mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve
of the sphere.
Pt1 3.24 16
[The sculptor] rose one day...before dawn, and saw the
morning break...
Chr1 3.95 7
Is there no love, no reverence. Is there never a glimpse of right
in a poor slave-captain's mind; and cannot these be supposed available to
break or elude or in any manner overmatch the tension of an inch or two of
iron ring?
UGM 4.25 24
Nature abhors these complaisances which threaten to melt
the world into a lump, and hastens to break up such maudlin agglutinations.
UGM 4.33 6
The study of many individuals leads us to an elemental
region...wherein all touch by their summits. Thought and feeling that break
out there cannot be impounded by any fence of personality.
PNR 4.89 3
[Plato] did not, like Pythagoras, break himself with an
institution.
SwM 4.143 14
...[Swedenborg] could never break the umbilical cord which
held him to nature...
ET5 5.85 9
In trade, the Englishman believes that nobody breaks who
ought not to break;...
ET6 5.102 23
...[the English] will let you break all the commandments, if
you do it natively and with spirit.
ET6 5.106 20
[The English] will not break up, or arrive at any desperate
revolution...
ET7 5.117 10
Beasts that make no truce with man, do not break faith with
each other.
ET10 5.161 13
...[the Bank of England] refuses loans, and...revolutions
break out;...
ET11 5.180 23
Mirabeau wrote prophetically from England, in 1784, If
revolution break out in France, I tremble for the aristocracy...
ET11 5.193 10
The historic names of the Buckinghams, Beauforts,
Marlboroughs and Hertfords have gained no new lustre, and now and then
darker scandals break out...
ET14 5.233 23
Byron liked something craggy to break his mind upon.
ET14 5.258 11
It was no Oxonian, but Hafiz, who said, Let us...break up
the tiresome old roof of heaven into new forms.
Ctr 6.166 1
Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the
music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears
and joy;...by loud taps on the tough chrysalis can break its walls and let the
new creature emerge erect and free,--make way and sing paean!
Wsp 6.210 27
Certain patriots in England devoted themselves for years to
creating a public opinion that should break down the corn-laws and
establish free trade.
CbW 6.249 10
I wish not to concede anything to [masses], but to tame,
drill, divide and break them up...
CbW 6.254 17
Wars, fires, plagues, break up immovable routine...
Ill 6.313 3
...in Boston, in San Francisco, the carnival, the maquerade is at
its height. Nobody drops his domino. The unities, the fictions of the piece it
would be an impertinence to break.
Ill 6.322 10
When we break the laws, we lose our hold on the central reality.
SS 7.15 4
What to do with these brisk young men who break through all
fences...
Elo1 7.62 2
The plight of these phlegmatic brains is better than that of
those...who impatiently break silence before their time.
DL 7.116 27
...[the reform that applies itself to the household] must break
up caste...
Cour 7.257 3
Break the egg of the young [snapping-turtle], and the little
embryo...bites fiercely;...
Cour 7.275 5
[The man with sacres courage] wishes to break every yoke all
over the world which hinders his brother from acting after his thought.
OA 7.330 22
We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge...with
nothing to break his leisure after the three hours of his daily classes...
SA 8.97 1
When Molyneux fancied that the observations of the nutation of
the earth's axis destroyed Newton's theory of gravitation, he tried to break
it softly to Sir Isaac...
Res 8.148 12
Mr. Marshall, the eminent manufacturer at Leeds, was to
preside at a Free Trade festival in that city; it was threatened that the
operatives, who were in bad humor, would break up the meeting by a mob.
Insp 8.280 5
Sydney Smith said: You will never break down in a speech on
the day when you have walked twelve miles.
Insp 8.289 5
Novelty, surprise, change of scene...break up the tiresome old
roof of heaven into new forms, as Hafiz said.
Chr2 10.100 4
...the Deity does not break his firm laws in respect to
imparting truth, more than in imparting material heat and light.
Plu 10.319 26
...[Plutarch]...concludes:...when I make an invitation, since it
is hard to break the custom of the place, I give my guests leave to bring
shadows;...
EzRy 10.388 25
...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam,
my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me. I regret
very much the causes (which you know very well) which make it
impossible for me to ask you to stay and break bread with us.
LS 11.9 10
It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break
the bread and to bless it...
EWI 11.131 16
If such a damnable outrage [kidnapping of freeborn
negroes] can be committed on the person of a citizen with impunity, let the
Governor break the broad seal of the State;...
FSLC 11.186 21
An immoral law makes it a man's duty to break it...
FSLC 11.192 27
You know that the Act of Congress of September 18,
1850, is a law which every one of you will break on the earliest occasion.
FSLN 11.220 15
I saw that a great man [Webster]...was able,-fault of the
total want of stamina in public men,-when he failed, to break them all
with him...
ACiv 11.308 6
...the statesman who shall break through the cobwebs of
doubt, fear and petty cavil that lie in the way [of Emancipation], will be
greeted by the unanimous thanks of mankind.
EPro 11.315 6
These [poetic acts] are the jets of thought into affairs,
when...the political leaders of the day break the else insurmountable routine
of class and local legislation...
EPro 11.325 6
...the aim of the war on our part is...to break up the false
combination of Southern society...
SMC 11.371 8
After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard
service...crossing the Rapidan, and suffering from such extreme cold, a few
days later, at Mine Run, that the men were compelled to break rank and run
in circles...
FRep 11.520 3
Our politics are full of adventurers, who...break away from
the law of honesty...
PLT 12.44 10
If you cut or break in two a block or stone and press the two
parts closely together, you can indeed bring the particles very near, but
never again so near that they shall attract each other so that you can take up
the block as one.
II 12.69 5
...could we break the silence of this oldest angel [Instinct], who
was with God when the worlds were made!
II 12.76 18
Is it that we are such mountains of conceit that Heaven cannot
enough mortify and snub us,-I know not; but there seems a settled
determination to break our spirit.
CL 12.141 20
You shall never break down in a speech, said Sydney Smith,
on the day on which you have walked twelve miles.
CL 12.150 19
In January the new snow has changed the woods so that [a
man] does not know them; has built sudden cathedrals in a night. In the
familiar forest he finds Norway and Russia in the masses of overloading
snow which break all that they cannot bend.
ACri 12.291 5
In architecture the beauty is increased in the degree in which
the material is safely diminished; as when you break up a prose wall, and
leave all the strength in the poetry of columns.
MLit 12.331 15
[Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the
country; he steals out of the hot streets...to get a draft of sweet air...but
dares not break from his slavery...
MLit 12.333 13
When one of these grand monads is incarnated whom
Nature seems to design for eternal men and draw to her bosom, we think
that...the trivial forms of daily life will now end, and a new morning break
on us all.
Let 12.393 16
Our friend suggests so many inconveniences from piracy out
of the high air to orchards and lone houses...that we have not the heart to
break the sleep of the good public by the repetition of these details.
Let 12.394 16
[The correspondents] do not wish...to break with society.
Trag 12.414 5
If any perversity or profligacy break out in society, [the man
who is centred] will join with others to avert the mischief...
breakfast, n. (10)
ET1 5.8 10
[Landor] invited me to breakfast on Friday.
ET6 5.104 5
Nothing but the most serious business could give one any
counterweight to these Baresarks [the English], though they were only to
order eggs and muffins for their breakfast.
ET11 5.176 12
At [Richard Neville's] house in London, six oxen were
daily eaten at a breakfast...
ET15 5.270 2
One would think the world was on its knees to The [London]
Times office for its daily breakfast.
F 6.18 25
In a large city...things whose beauty lies in their casualty, are
produced as punctually...to order as the baker's muffin for breakfast.
Bhr 6.183 6
It was said of the late Lord Holland that he always came down
to breakfast with the air of a man who had just met with some signal good
fortune.
Aris 10.52 15
...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the
people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall
blame them if they...express their unequivocal indignation and contempt?
He eats their bread...and after breakfast he cannot remember that there are
human beings.
FSLN 11.218 22
[The newsboy] unfolds his magical sheets,-twopence a
head his bread of knowledge costs-and instantly the entire rectangular
assembly [in the railway car], fresh from their breakfast, are bending as one
man to their second breakfast.
FSLN 11.218 23
[The newsboy] unfolds his magical sheets,-twopence a
head his bread of knowledge costs-and instantly the entire rectangular
assembly [in the railway car], fresh from their breakfast, are bending as one
man to their second breakfast.
Mem 12.106 3
Nature trains us on to see illusions and prodigies with no
more wonder than our toast and omelet at breakfast.
breakfasted, v. (1)
LT 1.274 6
[The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his
religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep; rises...is
better breakfasted than he whose morning appetite would have gladly fed
on green figs between Bethany and Jerusalem...
breakfast-table, n. (3)
WD 7.163 8
...we have the newspaper, which does its best to make every
square acre of land and sea give an account of itself at your breakfast-table;...
PI 8.6 11
The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a
makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment: our little sir...suspects that some
one is doing him, and at this alarm everything is compromised; gun-powder
is laid under every man's breakfast-table.
FRep 11.512 4
Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the
loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood];
sent boxes of these as gifts to every court of Europe, and formed the taste of
the world. It was a renaissance of the breakfast-table and china-closet.
breakfast-tables, n. (1)
PC 8.211 1
People have in all countries been burned and stoned for saying
things which are commonplaces at all our breakfast-tables.
breaking, adj. (1)
CInt 12.130 6
Watch the breaking morning, the enchantments of the sunset.
breaking, n. (1)
LS 11.5 17
St. Luke...after relating the breaking of the bread [at the Last
Supper], has these words: This do in remembrance of me.
breaking, v. (13)
NR 3.239 9
...Nature, who abhors mannerism, has set her heart on breaking
up all styles and tricks...
NMW 4.234 27
In vain several officers and myself were placed on the
slope of a hill to produce the effect: their balls and mine rolled upon the ice
without breaking it up.
NMW 4.253 12
...that is the fatal quality which we discover in our pursuit
of wealth, that it...is bought by the breaking or weakening of the
sentiments;...
ET5 5.79 20
...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or
rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth nothing
else but weave such chains. ...if he do aught beyond this, by breaking out
into divers sorts of exterior actions, he findeth, nevertheless, in this linked
sequel of simple discourses, the art, the cause, the rule, the bounds and the
model of it.
ET5 5.86 15
Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of breaking the line of
sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling...were only translations into naval
tactics of Bonaparte's rule of concentration.
Bhr 6.187 26
'T is hard to keep the what from breaking through this pretty
painting of the how.
PC 8.213 21
...each European nation, after the breaking up of the Roman
Empire, had its romantic era...
Edc1 10.157 12
Sympathy, the female force...deficient in instant control
and the breaking down of resistance, is more subtle and lasting and creative
[than will, the male power].
War 11.151 13
War, which to sane men at the present day begins to look
like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or
influenza...when seen in the remote past...appears a part of the connection
of events...
HCom 11.341 17
War passes the power of all chemical solvents, breaking
up the old adhesions...
FRep 11.544 12
...I see in all directions the light breaking.
PLT 12.35 2
Ever at intervals leaps a word or fact to light which is no man'
s invention, but the common instinct, making the revolutions that never go
back. This is Instinct, and Inspiration is only this power...breaking its
silence;...
Milt1 12.266 2
[Milton] said, he had learned the prudence of the Roman
soldier, not to stand breaking of legs, when the breath was quite out of the
body.
breaks, v. (17)
Con 1.322 26
...[war] breaks up the Chinese stagnation of society...
Hist 2.18 16
A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the
woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them
suspended their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought
which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on
the approach of human feet.
Comp 2.126 19
The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which
seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide
or genius; for it commonly...breaks up a wonted occupation, or a
household, or style of living...
Cir 2.312 27
[Some Petrarch or Ariosto]...breaks up my whole chain of
habits...
Nat2 3.176 21
Beauty breaks in everywhere.
NER 3.269 6
Is it strange that society should be devoured by a secret
melancholy which breaks through all its smiles and all its gayety and
games?
MoS 4.158 20
...it is alleged that labor impairs the form and breaks the
spirit of man...
ET2 5.28 21
The sea-fire shines in [the ship's] wake and far around
wherever a wave breaks.
ET5 5.85 9
In trade, the Englishman believes that nobody breaks who
ought not to break;...
ET5 5.93 19
...it is [Englishmen's] commercial advantage that whatever
light appears in better method or happy invention, breaks out in their race.
Art2 7.54 13
...it has been remarked by Goethe that the granite breaks into
parallelopipeds...
Elo1 7.59 11
For whom the Muses smile upon,/ .../ In his every syllable/
Lurketh nature veritable;/ .../ The forest waves, the morning breaks,/ The
pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,/ Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be/
And life pulsates in rock or tree./
WD 7.165 13
Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more
act of the engineer,--unteaches him. Once it took Archimedes; now it only
needs a fireman, and a boy...to pull up the handles or mind the water-tank.
But when the engine breaks, they can do nothing.
Clbs 7.240 10
You may condemn [the eloquent man's] book, but can you
fight against his thought? That is always too nimble for you...and breaks out
victorious in some other quarter.
Prch 10.223 7
Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the One breaks in
everywhere.
FSLN 11.216 8
...Shakspeare was of us, Milton was for us,/ Burns, Shelley,
were with us,-they watch from their graves!/ He alone breaks from the
van and the freemen,/ -He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves!/
Browning, The Lost Leader.
FRep 11.533 4
Blessed is all that agitates the mass, breaks up this torpor...
breams, n. (1)
HDC 11.36 16
...in winter, [the Indians] sat around holes in the ice,
catching salmon, pickeral, breams and perch...
breast, n. (47)
Nat 1.39 1
The beauty of nature shines in [man's] own breast.
Nat 1.61 18
Like the figure of Jesus, [Nature] stands with...hands folded
upon the breast.
LE 1.170 26
Religion is yet to be settled on its fast foundations in the
breast of man;...
LE 1.183 27
Let [the scholar] open his breast to all honest inquiry...
MR 1.229 20
The fact that a new thought and hope have dawned in your
breast, should apprize you that in the same hour a new light broke in upon a
thousand private hearts.
Con 1.313 20
[This manner of living] nourished you with care and love on
its breast...
Lov1 2.187 5
[Lovers'] once flaming regard is sobered by time in either
breast...
Hsm1 2.250 4
Towards all this external evil the man within the breast
assumes a warlike attitude...
Hsm1 2.262 15
It is but the other day that the brave Lovejoy gave his
breast to the bullets of a mob...
Art1 2.359 18
The traveller who visits the Vatican and passes from
chamber to chamber...through all forms of beauty cut in the richest
materials, is in danger of forgetting...that they had their origin from
thoughts and laws in his own breast.
Nat2 3.167 5
Though baffled seers cannot impart/ The secret of [world's]
laboring heart,/ Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast,/ And all is clear
from east to west./
ShP 4.199 13
Is there at last in [the writer's] breast a Delphi whereof to ask
concerning any thought or thing, whether it be verily so, yea or nay?...
ShP 4.208 15
Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and
compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of
[Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...which not your experience but the man
within the breast has accepted as words of fate, and tell me if they match;...
GoW 4.264 25
There is a certain heat in the breast which attends the
perception of a primary truth...
GoW 4.289 24
This cheerful laborer [Goethe]...drawing his motive and his
plan from his own breast, tasked himself with stints for a giant...
F 6.24 8
Let [man] empty his breast of his windy conceits...
Wth 6.84 1
...Who saw what ferns and palms were pressed/ Under the
tumbling mountain's breast,/ In the safe herbal of the coal?/
Bhr 6.167 14
Little [man] says to [graceful women, chosen men]/, So
dances his heart in his breast/...
Wsp 6.224 2
If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he
meets know that he conceals somewhat, and usually know what he
conceals. Is it otherwise if there be some belief or some purpose he would
bury in his breast?
Art2 7.57 10
...beauty, truth and goodness...spring eternal in the breast of
man;...
Elo1 7.71 11
...every literature contains these high compliments to the art
of the orator and the bard, from the Hebrew and the Greek down to the
Scottish Glenkindie, who ...harpit a fish out o' saut-water,/ Or water out of
a stone,/ Or milk out of a maiden's breast/ Who bairn had never none./
Elo1 7.71 23
The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear child, who is that
man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks broader in his
shoulders and breast.
Elo1 7.72 23
...when he sent his great voice forth out of his breast...not then
would any mortal contend with Ulysses;...
DL 7.102 8
I detected many a god/ Forth already on the road,/ Ancestors of
beauty come/ In thy breast to make a home./
DL 7.103 5
The care which covers the seed of the tree under tough husks
and stony cases provides for the human plant the mother's breast and the
father's house.
PI 8.60 4
The Crusades brought out the genius of France, in the twelfth
century, when Pierre d'Auvergne said,--I will sing a new song which
resounds in my breast...
Elo2 8.109 9
...No mimic; from [the patriot's] breast his counsel drew,/
Believed the eloquent was aye the true;/...
PPo 8.257 22
The sweet narcissus closed/ Its eye, with passion pressed;/
The tulips out of envy burned/ Moles in their scarlet breast./
PPo 8.261 24
While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The nightingale to the
falcon said/... ...sitt'st thou on the hand of princes,/ And feedest on the
grouse's breast,/ Whilst I, who hundred thousand jewels/ Squander in a
single tone,/ Lo! I feed myself with worms,/ And my dwelling is the thorn./
PPo 8.262 8
The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be all ear:/ I,
experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/ But thee the people
prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./ To me, appointed to the
chase,/ The king's hand gives the grouse's breast;/ Whilst a chatterer like
thee/ Must gnaw worms in the thorn. Farewell!/
PPo 8.263 14
The eternal Watcher, who doth wake/ All night in the body's
earthen chest,/ Will of thine arms a pillow make,/ And a bolster of thy
breast./
PPo 8.264 6
The bird-soul was ashamed;/ [The birds'] body was quite
annihilated;/ They had cleaned themselves from the dust,/ And were by the
light ensouled./ What was, and was not,-the Past,-/ Was wiped out from
their breast./
Aris 10.62 11
...[the true man] is to know...that there is a master grace and
dignity communicated by exalted sentiments to a human form, to which
utility and even genius must do homage. And it is the sign and badge of this
nobility, the drawing his counsel from his own breast.
Supl 10.170 19
...the great official spoke and beat his breast...
Schr 10.277 22
It is excellent when the individual is ripened to that degree
that he touches both the centre and the circumference, so that he is not only
widely intelligent, but carries a council in his breast for the emergency of to-day;...
Plu 10.295 19
[Henry IV wrote] My good mother...put this book [Plutarch]
into my hands almost when I was a child at the breast.
Plu 10.320 5
[Plutarch] thought it wonderful that a man having a muse in
his own breast...would have pipes and harps play...
LLNE 10.329 16
The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of
past ages...like a mother yielding food from her own breast instead of
preparing it through chemic and culinary skill...all gone;...
LLNE 10.357 3
[Thoreau] was a good Abbot Samson, and carried a
counsel in his breast.
FSLN 11.235 22
...[the self-reliant man] will know out of his arms to make
a pillow, and out of his breast a bolster.
ALin 11.328 6
...For [Lincoln] [Nature's] Old-World moulds aside she
threw,/ And, choosing sweet clay from the breast/ Of the unexhausted
West,/ With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,/ Wise, steadfast in the
strength of God, and true./
SMC 11.373 9
...[George Prescott] was struck...by a musket-ball which
entered his breast near the heart.
PLT 12.35 16
The old Hindoo Gautama says, Like the approach of the iron
to the loadstone is the approach of the new-born child to the breast.
Milt1 12.262 19
...the old eternal goodness finds a home in [Milton's]
breast...
breast-pocket, n. (1)
Thor 10.470 6
[Thoreau] drew out of his breast-pocket his diary...
breasts, n. (7)
MN 1.195 15
The flame of life flickers feebly in human breasts.
LT 1.286 4
There was never so great a thought laboring in the breasts of
men as now.
Con 1.315 11
...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers with their
babes at their breasts...
SR 2.72 19
...let us enter into the state of war and wake Thor and Woden,
courage and constancy, in our Saxon breasts.
SL 2.139 9
[The soul] has so infused its strong enchantment into nature
that...when we struggle to wound its creatures our hands...beat our own
breasts.
Suc 7.292 17
...we do not carry a counsel in our breasts, or do not know it;...
FSLC 11.194 4
...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to
thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your
statute, but in the image of the Universe;...
breastworks, n. (1)
SMC 11.371 21
The [Thirty-second] regiment has been in the front and
centre since the battle begun...and is now building breastworks on the
Fredericksburg road.
breath, n. (42)
AmS 1.98 20
That great principle of Undulation in nature, that shows itself
in the inspiring and expiring of the breath;...is known to us under the name
of Polarity...
DSA 1.119 2
In this refulgent summer, it has been a luxury to draw the
breath of life.
DSA 1.119 5
The air is...sweet with the breath of the pine...
DSA 1.137 7
The faith should blend...with...the breath of flowers.
DSA 1.150 8
...let the breath of new life be breathed by you through the
forms already existing.
LE 1.158 24
[The scholar] inhales the year as a vapor: its fragrant
midsummer breath...
LT 1.278 10
You have set your heart and face against society when you
thought it wrong, and returned it frown for frown. Excellent: now can you
afford to forget it, reckoning all your action no more than...a little breath of
your mouth?
SR 2.58 25
Men...do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.
Int 2.332 8
It seems as if the law of the intellect resembled that law of
nature by which we now inspire, now expire the breath;...
Int 2.339 8
...if a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and
apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes...not itself but
falsehood; herein resembling the air, which is...the breath of our nostrils,
but if a stream of the same be directed on the body for a time, it causes
cold, fever, and even death.
Art1 2.367 22
Would it not be better...to serve the ideal...in drawing the
breath...
UGM 4.29 19
Serve the great. ... Be the limb of their body, the breath of
their mouth.
PPh 4.78 22
A chief structure of human wit...it requires all the breath of
human faculty to know [Plato].
SwM 4.143 8
It is the best sign of a great nature that it...like the breath of
morning landscapes, invites us onward.
MoS 4.172 6
Society does not like to have any breath of question blown on
the existing order.
ShP 4.217 24
Are the agents of nature, and the power to understand them,
worth no more than...the breath of a cigar?
ET1 5.9 4
Landor despised entomology, yet, in the same breath, said, the
sublime was in a grain of dust.
ET1 5.11 4
When [Coleridge] stopped to take breath, I interposed that
whilst I highly valued all his explanations, I was bound to tell him that I
was born and bred a Unitarian.
ET8 5.134 25
...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...as if
the burly inexpressive, now mute and contumacious, now fierce and sharp-tongued
dragon, which once made the island light with his fiery breath, had
bequeathed his ferocity to his conqueror.
ET14 5.232 16
[The plain style] imports into [English] songs and ballads
the smell of the earth, the breath of cattle...
F 6.27 26
A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in
the direction of the Right and Necessary.
Pow 6.53 20
...[a man] can well afford to let events and possessions and the
breath of the body go, if their value has been added to him in the shape of
power.
Wth 6.115 5
...the pale scholar leaves his desk to draw a freer breath...in
the garden-walk.
Bhr 6.177 18
It almost violates the proprieties if we say above the breath
here what the confessing eyes do not hesitate to utter to every street
passenger.
Wsp 6.207 2
The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so
devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath.
CbW 6.247 20
Is all we have to do to draw the breath in and blow it out
again?
Cour 7.272 11
Everything feels the new breath [of courage] except the old
doting nigh-dead politicians...
Suc 7.309 21
...every gift of noble origin/ Is breathed upon by Hope's
perpetual breath./
OA 7.334 27
[John Adams]...enters bravely into long sentences, which are
interrupted by want of breath...
Elo2 8.114 24
For the time, [the orator's] exceeding life throws all other
gifts into shade,--philosophy speculating on its own breath, taste, learning
and all...
PPo 8.257 7
By breath of beds of roses drawn,/ I found the grove in the
morning pure,/ In the concert of the nightingales/ My drunken brain to cure./
Aris 10.33 23
Some qualities [Nature] carefully fixes and transmits, but
some, and those the finer, she exhales with the breath of the individual...
LLNE 10.339 5
There was a breath of new air...
HDC 11.47 17
The moderator [of the New England town-meeting] was the
passive mouth-piece, and the vote of the town, like the vane on the turret
overhead...always turned by the last and strongest breath.
FSLC 11.184 10
What is the use of a Federal Bench, if its opinions are the
political breath of the hour?
HCom 11.340 20
Where faith made whole with deed/ Breathes its
awakening breath/ Into the lifeless creed,/ They saw [Truth] plumed and
mailed,/ With sweet, stern face unveiled,/ And all-repaying eyes, look
proud on them in death/ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.
EdAd 11.385 14
Where is the great breath of the New World...
FRep 11.509 3
There is a mystery in the soul of state/ Which hath an
operation more divine/ Than breath or pen can give expression to./
CW 12.178 1
...no pursuit has more breath of immortality in it [than that of
the naturalist]..
Bost 12.185 18
[Boston] is not a country of luxury or of pictures; of snows
rather, of east winds and changing skies; visited by icebergs, which,
floating by, nip with their cool breath our blossoms.
Bost 12.194 26
These ancient men...send out their perfumed breath across
the great tracts of time.
Milt1 12.266 2
[Milton] said, he had learned the prudence of the Roman
soldier, not to stand breaking of legs, when the breath was quite out of the
body.
breathe, v. (30)
AmS 1.114 13
Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and
fat.
Hist 2.4 13
...the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of
nature...
Hsm1 2.261 22
...not only need we breathe and exercise the soul by
assuming the penalties of abstinence...
Gts 3.164 26
I fear to breathe any treason against the majesty of love...
UGM 4.26 1
...the ideas of the time are in the air, and infect all who breathe
it.
GoW 4.279 10
...at last the hero [of Sand's Consuelo]...no longer answers
to his own titled name; it sounds foreign and remote in his ear. I am only
man, he says; I breathe and work for man;...
ET13 5.228 16
The English Church, undermined by German criticism...was
led logically back to Romanism. But that was an element which only hot
heads could breathe;...
F 6.25 21
If the air come to our lungs, we breathe and live;...
Pow 6.69 9
...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their
riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...
PC 8.228 1
If [men in Kansas and California] are made as [the wise man]
is, if they breathe the like air...he knows that their joy or resentment rises to
the same point as his own.
PC 8.233 11
...I draw new hope from the atmosphere we breathe to-day...
PPo 8.254 15
To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not
rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple;
but I, the Lord of the temple. Nor has any man inhaled...from the musky
morning wind that sweet air which I am permitted to breathe every hour of
the day.
Imtl 8.334 11
To breathe, to sleep, is wonderful.
Imtl 8.340 4
...all our intellectual action...bestows a feeling of absolute
existence. We are taken out of time and breathe a purer air.
Dem1 10.21 27
Great men feel that they are so by...falling back on what is
humane; in renouncing...each exclusive and local connection, to beat with
the pulse and breathe with the lungs of nations.
Prch 10.227 19
Augustine, a Kempis, Fenelon, breathe the very spirit
which now fires you.
LLNE 10.344 24
I habitually apply to [Theodore Parker] the words of a
French philosopher who speaks of the man of Nature who abominates the
steam-engine and the factory. His vast lungs breathe independence with the
air of the mountains and the woods.
MMEm 10.420 2
...I [Mary Moody Emerson] would not breathe to--or--my
want.
MMEm 10.427 25
Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely now, not
whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the
atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then I ask not faith nor knowledge;...
HDC 11.68 1
From...1765...to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town
Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...
EWI 11.107 10
[Lord Mansfield's] decision established the principle that
the air of England is too pure for any slave to breathe...
FSLC 11.179 8
We do not breathe well.
CL 12.141 4
The air, said Anaximenes, is the soul, and the essence of life.
By breathing it, we become intelligent, and, because we breathe the same
air, understand one another.
CL 12.141 13
The air that we breathe is an exhalation of all the solid
material of the globe.
Bost 12.183 9
The air that we breathe is an exhalation of all the solid
material globe.
Bost 12.202 9
[The Massachusetts colonists could say to themselves] Here
in the clam-banks and the beech and chestnut forest, I shall take leave to
breathe and think freely.
MAng1 12.234 8
The fire and sanctity of [Michelangelo's] pencil breathe
in his words.
MAng1 12.240 11
[Vittoria Colonna]...came to Rome repeatedly to see
[Michelangelo]. To her his sonnets are addressed; and they all breathe a
chaste and divine regard, unparalleled in any amatory poetry except that of
Dante and Petrarch.
MLit 12.310 25
...[the library of the Present Age] vents books that breathe
of new morning...
MLit 12.322 25
[Goethe] learned as readily as other men breathe.
breathed, v. (12)
Nat 1.11 9
...the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and
glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs is overspread with melancholy to-day.
DSA 1.150 8
...let the breath of new life be breathed by you through the
forms already existing.
ET1 5.6 8
...[Greenough] thought art would never prosper until we left our
shy jealous ways and worked in society as [the Greeks]. All his thoughts
breathed the same generosity.
Suc 7.309 21
...every gift of noble origin/ Is breathed upon by Hope's
perpetual breath./
SA 8.94 26
...[the party in the second coach] had...breathed a purer air...
QO 8.191 23
When Shakspeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor
replies...He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life.
PerF 10.82 27
These [mental powers] are means and stairs for new
ascensions of the mind. But they are nowise impoverished for any other
mind, not tarnished, not breathed upon;...
LLNE 10.335 9
In every public discourse there was nothing left for the
indulgence of [Everett's] hearer...but the goddess of grace had breathed on
the work a last fragrancy and glitter.
EWI 11.98 6
There a captive sat in chains,/ Crooning ditties treasured well/
From his Afric's torrid plains./ Sole estate his sire bequeathed,-/ Hapless
sire to hapless son,-/ Was the wailing song he breathed,/ And his chain
when life was done./
FSLN 11.236 10
...our education is...to know...that divine sentiments which
are always soliciting us are breathed into us from on high...
EPro 11.325 22
The malignant cry of the Secession press within the free
states, and the recent action of the Confederate Congress, are decisive as to
[the Emancipation Proclamation's] efficiency and correctness of aim. Not
less so is...the new hope it has breathed into the world.
Milt1 12.265 13
[Milton's native honor] breathed itself over his decent
form.
breather, n. (1)
PerF 10.76 6
...a man draws on all the air for his occasions, as if there were
no other breather;...
breathes, v. (16)
AmS 1.101 24
[The scholar] is one who...breathes and lives on public and
illustrious thoughts.
Con 1.299 1
Conservatism...breathes no prayer...
SR 2.88 14
...what the man acquires, is living property, which...perpetually
renews itself wherever the man breathes.
OS 2.271 8
When [the soul] breathes through [man's] intellect, it is
genius;...
OS 2.271 9
...when [the soul] breathes through [man's] will, it is virtue;...
Art1 2.353 10
...[a man] is necessitated by the air he breathes...to share the
manner of his times...
Art1 2.359 8
...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the
highest charm is the universal language they speak. A confession of moral
nature...breathes from them all.
Pt1 3.26 16
The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his
resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and
accompanying that.
NMW 4.254 10
Like all Frenchmen [Napoleon] has a passion for stage
effect. Every action that breathes of generosity is poisoned by this
calculation.
F 6.18 1
This kind of talent so abounds, this constructive tool-making
efficiency...as if the air [a man] breathes were made of Vaucansons...
WD 7.169 18
The old Sabbath...when this hallowed hour dawns out of the
deep...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our
solitude.
HDC 11.66 20
The charges seem to have been made by the lovers of order
and moderation against Mr. [Daniel] Bliss, as a favorer of religious
excitements. His answer to one of the counts breathes such true piety that I
cannot forbear to quote it.
HCom 11.340 20
Where faith made whole with deed/ Breathes its
awakening breath/ Into the lifeless creed,/ They saw [Truth] plumed and
mailed,/ With sweet, stern face unveiled,/ And all-repaying eyes, look
proud on them in death/ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.
SHC 11.430 26
Our people accepting this lesson from science, yet touched
by the tenderness which Christianity breathes, have found a mean in the
consecration of gardens.
Bost 12.210 17
The [American] heroes only shared this power of a
sentiment, which, if it now breathes into us, will make it easy to us to
understand them, and we shall no longer flatter them.
Let 12.401 16
Where a people honors genius in its artists, there breathes
like an atmosphere a universal soul...
breathing, adj. (2)
MoL 10.248 25
You [scholars] are carriers of ideas which are to fashion the
mind and so the history of this breathing world, so as they shall be, and not
otherwise.
War 11.157 21
Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities
had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to...
come and reside in the towns. The popes...declared religious jubilees...and
man had a breathing space.
breathing, n. (2)
Comc 8.167 25
...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who...
was in a dying condition, when I met his physician, who accosted me...with
joy sparkling in his eyes. And how is my friend, the reverend Doctor? I
inquired. O, I saw him this morning; it is the most correct apoplexy I have
ever seen;...breathing stertorous...
MMEm 10.422 4
[Time] is a goodly name for our notions of breathing,
suffering, enjoying, acting.
breathing, v. (7)
GoW 4.270 11
...[the nineteenth century's] poet, is Goethe, a man quite
domesticated in the century, breathing its air...
Ctr 6.156 3
He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended...
from living, breathing, reading and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of
[other men's] opinions.
WD 7.183 6
...in Newton, science was as easy as breathing;...
HDC 11.52 24
...here [at Concord] [Tahattawan and Waban] entered, by
[John Eliot's] assistance, into an agreement to twenty-nine rules, all
breathing a desire to conform themselves to English customs.
EdAd 11.386 19
...who can see the continent with...its west-wind breathing
vigor through all the year...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the
purpose for which this muster of nations...is made?
PLT 12.21 26
If man has organs for breathing, for sight...you shall find all
the same in the muskrat.
CL 12.141 3
The air, said Anaximenes, is the soul, and the essence of life.
By breathing it, we become intelligent...
breathless, adj. (1)
Nat 1.9 14
...every hour and change [in nature] corresponds to and
authorizes a different state of the mind, from breathless noon to grimmest
midnight.
bred, adj. (1)
PerF 10.78 21
...on the signal occasions in our career [our mental forces']
inspirations...make the selfish and protected and tenderly bred person
strong for his duty...
bred, v. (24)
Nat 1.31 18
The poet...bred in the woods...shall not lose their lesson
altogether...
LE 1.167 15
By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an
oratorio of praises of nature...
MR 1.239 23
...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls
and curtains...and who, bred to depend on all these, is made anxious by all
that endangers those possessions...
MR 1.241 4
...every man ought to stand in primary relations with the work
of the world; ought...not to suffer the accident of...his having been bred to
some dishonorable and injurious craft, to sever him from those duties;...
MR 1.246 20
One must have been born and bred with [infirm people] to
know how to prepare a meal for their learned stomach.
ET1 5.11 6
When [Coleridge] stopped to take breath, I interposed that
whilst I highly valued all his explanations, I was bound to tell him that I
was born and bred a Unitarian.
ET11 5.175 25
In France and in England, the nobles were, down to a late
day, born and bred to war...
ET11 5.180 3
The English lords...call themselves after their lands, as if the
man represented the country that bred him;...
ET11 5.190 17
I must hold Ludlow Castle an honest house, for which
Milton's Comus was written, and the company nobly bred which performed
it with knowledge and sympathy.
ET11 5.194 24
When every noble was a soldier, they were carefully bred to
great personal prowess.
ET11 5.198 4
A multitude of English...bred into their society with manners,
ability and the gifts of fortune, are every day confronting the peers on a
footing of equality...
ET12 5.208 4
It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton,
Harrow, Rugby and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of
those schools is high-toned and manly;...
ET18 5.307 4
...now we say that the right measures of England are the men
it bred;...
Wsp 6.203 18
I and my neighbors have been bred in the notion that unless
we came soon to some good church...there would be a universal thaw and
dissolution.
Farm 7.150 21
There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion
and spleen among landlords and loom-lords...
Cour 7.257 23
A large majority of men being bred in families...never come
to the rough experiences that make the Indian, the soldier or frontiersman
self-subsistent and fearless.
Cour 7.260 10
One heard much cant of peace-parties long ago in Kansas
and elsewhere, that their strength lay in the greatness of their wrongs... But
were their wrongs greater than the negro's? And what kind of strength did
they ever give him? It was always invitation to the tyrant, and bred disgust
in those who would protect the victim.
SA 8.102 20
Our gentlemen of the old school...were bred after English
types...
SovE 10.188 11
In the pre-adamite [Nature] bred valor only;...
SovE 10.211 12
Governments stand by [men's credence],-by the faith that
the people share,-whether it comes from the religion in which they were
bred, or from an original conscience in themselves...
Thor 10.454 6
[Thoreau] was bred to no profession;...
HDC 11.35 25
A march of a number of families with their stuff, through
twenty miles of unknown forest...must be...for those who were new to the
country and bred in softness, a formidable adventure.
Milt1 12.269 9
Milton...delicately bred in all the elegancy of art and
learning, was set down in England in the stern, almost fanatic society of the
Puritans.
AgMs 12.359 10
[Edmund Hosmer]...has bred up a large family...
breech, n. (1)
Schr 10.274 8
Is a man only the breech of a gun or the haft of a bowie-knife?
breed, n. (4)
ET4 5.71 12
If in every efficient man there is first a fine animal, in the
English race it is of the best breed...
ET4 5.73 18
The [English] gentlemen...have brought horses to an ideal
perfection; the English racer is a factitious breed.
ET5 5.78 2
The island [England] was renowned in antiquity for its breed of
mastiffs...
JBS 11.280 2
...[John Brown] had all the skill of a shepherd by choice of
breed and by wise husbandry to obtain the best wool...
breed, v. (8)
Comp 2.98 4
The barren soil does not breed fevers, crocodiles, tigers or
scorpions.
Hsm1 2.249 8
The disease and deformity around us certify the infraction of
natural, intellectual and moral laws, and often violation on violation to
breed such compound misery.
ET5 5.79 13
...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or
rather are all the variety of man's life.
Wth 6.118 2
The eldest son must inherit the [English] manor; what to do
with this supernumerary? [The father] was advised to breed him for the
Church...
Farm 7.150 23
There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion
and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that men
breed too fast for the powers of the soil;...
Elo2 8.131 18
An ingenious metaphysical writer...has noted that intellectual
works in any department breed each other...
Edc1 10.150 27
What poet will [the college] breed to sing to the human
race?
CInt 12.127 4
...here [in the college] Imagination should be greeted with
the problems in which it delights;...here...enthusiasm for liberty and
wisdom should breed enthusiasm and form heroes for the state.
breeding, n. (21)
SL 2.150 26
We foolishly think in our days of sin that we must court
friends by compliance to the customs of society, to...its breeding...
Hsm1 2.250 26
...a different breeding, different religion and greater
intellectual activity would have modified or even reversed the particular
action...
OS 2.286 19
Neither his age, nor his breeding...can hinder [a man] from
being deferential to a higher spirit than his own.
Cir 2.311 14
The facts which loomed so large in the fogs of yesterday...
breeding, personal beauty, and the like, have strangely changed their
proportions.
Cir 2.313 15
...yet was there never a young philosopher whose breeding
had fallen into the Christian church by whom that brave text of Paul's was
not specially prized...
Mrs1 3.138 7
The compliments and ceremonies of our breeding should
recall...the grandeur of our destiny.
Mrs1 3.148 5
...elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.
ET7 5.118 14
Even Lord Chesterfield, with his French breeding, when he
came to define a gentleman, declared that truth made his distinction;...
ET11 5.187 13
[English nobility] is a romance adorning English life with a
larger horizon; a midway heaven, fulfilling to their sense their fairy tales
and poetry. This, just as far as the breeding of the nobleman really made
him brave, handsome, accomplished and great-hearted.
Ctr 6.144 14
Each class fixes its eyes on the advantages it has not;...the
democrat, on birth and breeding.
Ctr 6.146 13
...if...nature has aimed to make a legged and winged creature,
framed for locomotion, we must...furnish him with that breeding which
gives currency...
Elo1 7.86 11
In every company the man with the fact is like the guide you
hire to lead your party...through a difficult country. He may not compare
with any of the party in mind or breeding or courage or possessions, but he
is much more important to the present need than any of them.
SA 8.89 22
A few times in my life it has happened to me to meet persons of
so good a nature and so good breeding that every topic was open...
SA 8.102 21
Our gentlemen of the old school...were bred after English
types, and that style of breeding furnished fine examples in the last
generation;...
Schr 10.280 1
What is the use of...birth, or breeding, or money to a maniac?
Schr 10.280 4
...society...sometimes is for an age together a maniac, with
birth, breeding, beauty, cunning, strength and money.
SlHr 10.446 25
[Samuel Hoar] had his birth and breeding in a little country
town...
FSLC 11.189 2
...men have to to with rectitude, with benefit, with truth,
with something that is, independent of appearances: and...this tie makes the
substantiality of life, and not their ploughing, or sailing, their trade, or the
breeding of families.
RBur 11.440 12
...[Robert Burns's] birth, breeding and fortunes were low.
Bost 12.198 9
...no good birth or breeding...can bestow that delicacy and
grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial
conversation.
Milt1 12.268 21
Thus chosen, by the felicity of his nature and of his
breeding, for the clear perception of all that is graceful and all that is great
in man, Milton was not less happy in his times.
breeds, n. (3)
ET5 5.95 2
The native [English] cattle are extinct, but the island is full of
artificial breeds.
ET5 5.95 4
The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses
to order, and breeds in which every thing was omitted but what is
economical.
ET11 5.188 16
I pardoned high park-fences [in England], when I saw that...
these have preserved...breeds of cattle elsewhere extinct.
breeds, v. (9)
Prd1 2.221 17
...the merchant breeds his son for the church or the bar;...
ET5 5.87 17
It is not usually a point of honor...and never any whim, that
[the English] will shed their blood for; but usually property, and right
measured by property, that breeds revolution.
Pow 6.59 2
[The strong man's] eye makes estates, as fast as the sun breeds
clouds.
Pow 6.64 15
...in morals, wild liberty breeds iron conscience;...
Ctr 6.139 17
The city breeds one kind of speech and manners;...
Civ 7.24 5
...a severe morality gives that essential charm to woman which...
breeds courtesy and learning, conversation and wit, in her rough mate;...
Farm 7.140 18
Early marriages and the number of births are indissolubly
connected with abundance of food; or, as Burke said, Man breeds at the
mouth.
WD 7.161 17
Invention breeds invention.
FSLC 11.186 4
In every nation all the immorality that exists breeds plagues.
breeze, n. (5)
LE 1.163 4
...in the cool breeze that sings out of these northern mountains...
behold Charles the Fifth's day;...
Pt1 3.13 16
...the carpenter's stretched cord, if you hold your ear close
enough, is musical in the breeze.
JBS 11.276 22
But though they slew him with the sword,/ And in the fire
his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its undoings
restored./ And when, to stop all future harm,/ They strewed its ashes to the
breeze,/ They little guessed each grain of these/ Conveyed the perfect
charm./ William Allingham.
FRO2 11.484 2
Thou metest him by centuries,/ And lo! he passes like the
breeze;/...
Bost 12.211 8
...the Quincy of the Revolution seems compensated for the
shortness of his bright career in the son who so long lingers among the last
of those bright clouds, That on the steady breeze of honor sail/ In long
succession calm and beautiful./
breezes, n. (2)
ET3 5.43 6
...I [Nature] have work that requires the best will and sinew.
Sharp and temperate northern breezes shall blow, to keep that will alive and
alert.
Thor 10.450 1
It seemed as if the breezes brought him,/ It seemed as if the
sparrows taught him/ As if by secret sign he knew/ Where in far fields the
orchis grew./
Breidablik, n. (1)
PI 8.64 10
Bring us...poetry which, like the verses inscribed on Balder's
columns in Breidablik, is capable of restoring the dead to life;...
Bremen, Germany, n. (1)
CbW 6.268 23
...there is a great dearth, this year, of friends;...they too...
have engagements and necessities. They are just starting for Wisconsin;
have letters from Bremen;...
brenne, v. (1)
Aris 10.29 12
Take fire and beare it into the derkest hous/ Betwixt this and
the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol
the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it behold;/...
Bretagne, n. (1)
Hist 2.35 10
...all the postulates of elfin annals...I find true in Concord,
however they might be in Cornwall or Bretagne.
brethren, n. (8)
Comc 8.165 24
Our brethren of New England use/ Choice malefactors to
excuse/...
LS 11.18 6
I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment
when you make the least petition to God...do you not, in the very act,
necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought?
LS 11.23 21
...I have proposed to the brethren of the Church to drop the use
of the elements and the claim of authority in the administration of this
ordinance [the Lord's Supper]...
LS 11.23 27
My brethren have considered my views [on the Lord's Supper]
with patience and candor...
HDC 11.69 22
...in conjunction with our brethren in America, we will risk
our fortunes, and even our lives, in defence of his majesty, King George the
Third, his person, crown and dignity;...
HDC 11.79 9
The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the
General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the
fullest assurance that their brethren...will not confer with flesh and blood...
Shak1 11.449 14
Men were so astonished and occupied by [Shakespeare's]
poems that they have not been able to see his face and condition, or say,
who was his father and his brethren;...
MLit 12.326 17
Who saw Milton, who saw Shakspeare, saw them...utter
their whole heart manlike among their brethren.
breviary, n. (1)
Plu 10.296 1
Montaigne, in 1589, says: We dunces had been lost, had not
this book [Plutarch] raised us out of the dirt. By this favor of his we dare
now speak and write. The ladies are able to read to schoolmasters. 'T is our
breviary.
brevity, n. (1)
Plu 10.306 7
The plain speaking of Plutarch...has a great gain for brevity...
brew, v. (1)
Prd1 2.226 15
[The northerner] must brew, bake, salt and preserve his
food...
brewed, v. (1)
Prd1 2.234 22
...beer, if not brewed in the right state of the atmosphere,
will sour;...
brewer, n. (2)
Pow 6.76 2
Stick to your brewery ([Rothschild] said this to young Buxton),
and you will be the great brewer of London.
Pow 6.76 3
Stick to your brewery ([Rothschild] said this to young Buxton),
and you will be the great brewer of London. Be brewer, and banker, and
merchant, and manufacturer, and you will soon be in the Gazette.
breweries, n. (1)
ET6 5.103 10
Mines, forges, mills, breweries...have operated [in England]
to give a mechanical regularity to all the habit and action of men.
brewery, n. (1)
Pow 6.76 1
Stick to your brewery ([Rothschild] said this to young Buxton),
and you will be the great brewer of London.
Brewster, David, n. (2)
ET14 5.248 14
Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon...
Wth 6.116 18
Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic
observation...
bribe, n. (12)
MN 1.191 22
...the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to
impoverish the farm, the school, the church, the house...
Pol1 3.216 11
[The wise man] needs...no bribe, or feast, or palace, to draw
friends to him;...
ET11 5.197 10
...the analysis of the [English] peerage and gentry shows the
rapid decay and extinction of old families, the continual recruiting of these
from new blood. The doors, though ostentatiously guarded, are really open,
and hence the power of the bribe.
F 6.24 12
...no bribe shall make [man] give up his point.
F 6.28 26
There is a bribe possible for any finite will.
Wth 6.113 4
Allston the painter was wont to say that he built a plain house,
and filled it with plain furniture, because he would hold out no bribe to any
to visit him who had not similar tastes to his own.
Ctr 6.150 7
The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination
is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe there
is room for persons of romantic character to exist...
DL 7.115 4
[To give money to a sufferer] is only...a bribe paid for silence...
Aris 10.50 17
It is curious how negligent the public is of the essential
qualifications of its representatives. They ask if a man is a Republican, a
Democrat? Yes. Is he a man of talent? Yes. Is he honest and not looking for
an office or any manner of bribe? He is honest.
MoL 10.242 26
...the bribe came to men of intellectual culture,-Come,
drudge in our mill.
FSLC 11.196 2
A wicked law cannot be executed by good men, and must
be by bad. Flagitious men must be employed, and every act of theirs is a
stab at the public peace. It cannot be executed at such a cost, and so it
brings a bribe in its hand.
FSLC 11.196 4
[the Fugitive Slave Law] offers a bribe in its own clauses
for the consummation of the crime.
bribe, v. (2)
Nat2 3.174 8
These bribe and invite; not kings, not palaces, not men, not
women, but these tender and poetic stars, eloquent of secret promises.
NMW 4.253 3
...the vain attempts of statists to amuse and deceive him, of
the emperor of Austria to bribe him;...make [Napoleon's] history bright and
commanding.
bribed, v. (6)
SL 2.154 7
...a public not to be bribed...decides upon every man's title to
fame.
PPh 4.74 23
Crito bribed the jailer; but Socrates would not go out by
treachery.
GoW 4.284 13
[Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest...of
universal truth, to be his portion: a man not to be bribed, nor deceived, nor
over-awed;...
ET8 5.132 24
...[young Englishmen]...translate and send to Bentley the
arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Bramins;...
F 6.29 2
...the pure sympathy with universal ends...cannot be bribed or bent.
FSLC 11.196 17
But worse, not the officials alone are bribed [by the
Fugitive Slave Law], but the whole community is solicited.
bribery, n. (2)
ET11 5.192 9
The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and
title; lewdness, gaming, smuggling, bribery and cheating;...make the reader
pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices
to a handful of rich men.
Suc 7.290 16
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn...
power through...a packed jury or caucus, bribery and repeating votes...
bribes, n. (8)
LE 1.183 1
Snares and bribes abound to mislead [the student];...
ET4 5.48 27
Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form.
Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...high bribes
to talent and skill;...
ET8 5.142 27
...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn,
this original predilection for private independence, and however this
inclination may have been disturbed by the bribes with which their vast
colonial power has warped men out of orbit, the inclination endures...
Elo1 7.63 18
Who can wonder at the attractiveness...of...the bar, for our
ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of
the successful orator?
Cour 7.253 5
I observe that there are three qualities which conspicuously
attract the wonder and reverence of mankind: 1. Disinterestedness, as
shown in indifference to the ordinary bribes and influences of conduct...
practical power...courage...
Aris 10.59 19
We have a rich men's aristocracy, plenty of bribes for those
who like them;...
Edc1 10.152 25
Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the
conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty
pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the
wisest are tempted...to proclaim...bribes, spies, wrath...
CInt 12.123 7
[The Understanding] is the power which the world of men
adopt and educate. He is...the worker in the useful; he works...by statute, by
bribes.
brick, n. (7)
Nat2 3.190 21
This palace of brick and stone...all for a little conversation,
high, clear and spiritual!
ET5 5.84 2
[The English] apply themselves...to fishery, to manufacture of
indispensable staples,--salt, plumbago, leather, wool, glass, pottery and
brick...
Suc 7.299 17
Is...the college where you first knew the dreams of fancy and
joys of thought, only boards or brick and mortar?
Supl 10.167 24
[People of English stock's] houses are of wood, and brick,
and stone...
SovE 10.209 7
It accuses us...that pure ethics is not now formulated and
concreted into a cultus, a fraternity...with brick and stone.
War 11.164 15
Observe the ideas of the present day...see...how timber,
brick, lime and stone have flown into convenient shape, obedient to the
master-idea reigning in the minds of many persons.
War 11.164 22
You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man
has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or two
years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid wood
and brick and mortar.
brickbats, n. (1)
Elo1 7.96 6
[The woods and mountains] send us every year...some some
sturdy countryman, on whom neither money...nor brickbats make any
impression.
brick-colored, adj. (1)
MLit 12.309 16
We go musing into the vault of day and night;...the stars
are white points, the roses, brick-colored leaves...
brick-kiln, n. (1)
ShP 4.198 7
...poor Gower [Chaucer] uses as if he were only a brick-kiln or
stone-quarry out of which to build his house.
bricks, n. (2)
ShP 4.189 4
If we require the originality which consists...in finding clay
and making bricks and building the house; no great men are original.
PLT 12.20 10
It is certain that however we may conceive of the wonderful
little bricks of which the world is builded, we must suppose a similarity and
fitting and identity in their frame.
bridal, adj. (1)
PI 8.45 24
In society you have this figure [of rhyme] in a bridal company,
where a choir of white-robed maidens give the charm of living statues;...
bride, n. (10)
DSA 1.149 11
There are...men to whom a crisis...comes graceful and
beloved as a bride.
LE 1.173 21
[The scholar] must embrace solitude as a bride.
Exp 3.77 20
The universe is the bride of the soul.
NR 3.241 4
Into paint will I grind thee, my bride!/
SwM 4.128 26
...God is the bride or bridegroom of the soul.
MoS 4.174 17
Bad as was to me this detection by San Carlo [that all direct
ascension leads to ghastly insight]...this blow from a bride, there was still a
worse, namely the cloy or satiety of the saints.
PI 8.48 15
Busk thee, busk thee, my bonny bonny bride,/ Busk thee, busk
thee, my winsome marrow./ Hamilton.
PPo 8.246 1
The world is a bride superbly dressed;-/ Who weds her for
dowry must pay his soul./
PPo 8.256 18
...Seek not for faith or for truth in a world of light-minded
girls;/ A thousand suitors reckons this dangerous bride./
MAng1 12.243 17
...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's]
opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Do you see this fine church of
Santa Maria Novella? It is that which Michael Angelo called his bride.
Bride of Lammermoor, The [ (1)
Scot 11.465 12
The tone of strength in Waverley...was more than justified
by the superior genius of the following romances, up to the Bride of
Lammermoor...
Bride of Lammermoor [Walter (1)
Hist 2.35 12
I read the Bride of Lammermoor.
bridegroom, n. (2)
SwM 4.128 26
...God is the bride or bridegroom of the soul.
DL 7.115 20
You are to bring with you that spirit which is understanding,
health and self-help. To offer [man] money in lieu of these is to do him the
same wrong as when the bridegroom offers his betrothed virgin a sum of
money to release him from his engagements.
Bridge, Broken, n. (1)
MAng1 12.226 17
[The Pons Palatinus] fell, five years after it was built, in
1557, and is still called the Broken Bridge.
bridge, n. (30)
MN 1.207 14
A link was wanting between two craving parts of nature, and
[man] was hurled into being as the bridge over that yawning need...
MR 1.238 12
Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies,
as...a bridge by freshets.
SL 2.162 26
One piece of the tree is cut for a weathercock and one for the
sleeper of a bridge; the virtue of the wood is apparent in both.
Pt1 3.36 18
...instantly the mind inquires whether these fishes under the
bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs in the yard, are immutably
fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to me...
PPh 4.61 14
[Plato] has reason, as all the philosophic and poetic class have:
but he has also what they have not,--this strong solving sense to reconcile
his poetry with the appearances of the world, and build a bridge from the
streets of cities to the Atlantis.
ET1 5.17 1
Gibbon [Carlyle] called the splendid bridge from the old world
to the new.
ET5 5.76 7
What signifies a pedigree of a hundred links...against a
company of broad-shouldered Liverpool merchants, for whom Stephenson
and Brunel are contriving locomotives and a tubular bridge?
ET7 5.125 14
I knew a very worthy man...who went to the opera to see
Malibran. In one scene, the heroine was to rush across a ruined bridge.
ET7 5.125 17
I knew a very worthy man...who went to the opera to see
Malibran. In one scene, the heroine was to rush across a ruined bridge. Mr.
B. arose and mildly yet firmly called the attention of the audience and the
performers to the fact that, in his judgment, the bridge was unsafe!
ET11 5.175 1
He that will be a head, let him be a bridge, said the Welsh
chief Benegridran...
ET11 5.179 9
Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...
ET16 5.285 3
We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall]
built by Inigo Jones...
Art2 7.38 25
...from [the child's] first pile of toys or chip bridge to the
masonry of Minot Rock Lighthouse or the Pacific Railroad;...Art is the
spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.
Art2 7.41 8
Duhamel built a bridge by letting in a piece of stronger timber
for the middle of the under-surface...
Res 8.145 15
...the Corsicans at the battle of Golo, not having had time to
cut down the bridge...made use of the bodies of their dead to form an
intrenchment.
Aris 10.40 9
...if the healer of small-pox, the contriver...of the aqueduct, of
the bridge, of the tunnel;...should keep their secrets...must not the whole
race of mankind serve them as gods?
Thor 10.482 15
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to
the moon...and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed
with them.
HDC 11.49 7
It is the consequence of this institution [the town-meeting]
that not a school-house...a bridge...hath been set up, or pulled down...
without the whole population of this town [Concord] having a voice in the
affair.
HDC 11.73 7
In the field where the western abutment of the old bridge [in
Concord] may still be seen...the first organized resistance was made to the
British arms.
HDC 11.73 25
The British following [the minute-men] across the bridge,
posted two companies...to guard the bridge...
HDC 11.73 27
The British following [the minute-men] across the bridge,
posted two companies...to guard the bridge...
HDC 11.74 7
...Major Buttrick found himself superior in number to the
enemy's party at the bridge [at Concord].
HDC 11.74 12
The English beginning to pluck up some of the planks of the
[Concord] bridge, the Americans quickened their pace...
Koss 11.397 17
...you [Kossuth] could not take all your steps in the
pilgrimage of American liberty, until you had seen with your eyes the ruins
of the bridge where a handful of brave farmers opened our Revolution.
SHC 11.434 14
What is the Earth itself but...according to the Eastern fable,
a bridge full of holes, into one or other of which all passengers sink to
silence?
PLT 12.13 23
The adepts value only the pure geometry, the aerial bridge
ascending from earth to heaven with arches and abutments of pure reason.
Bost 12.194 23
These men [Christian writers] are a bridge to us between
the unparalleled piety of the Hebrew epoch and our own.
MAng1 12.223 22
...even at Venice, on defective evidence, [Michelangelo]
is said to have given the plan of the bridge of the Rialto.
MAng1 12.226 11
Michael Angelo made known his opinion that the bridge
[Pons Palatinus] could not resist the force of the current;...
MAng1 12.226 14
...one day riding over [the Pons Palatinus] on horseback,
with his friend Vasari, [Michelangelo] cried, George, this bridge trembles
under us;...
Bridge, South Boston, n. (1)
ACri 12.301 22
When Samuel Dexter...argued the claims of South Boston
Bridge, he had to meet loud complaints of the shutting out of the coasting-trade
by the proposed improvements.
Bridge, Staley, England, n. (1)
ET10 5.159 6
Iron and steel are very obedient. Whether it were not possible
to make a spinner that would not rebel...nor emigrate? At the solicitation of
the masters, after a mob and riot at Staley Bridge, Mr. Roberts of
Manchester undertook to create this peaceful fellow...
bridged, v. (4)
ShP 4.191 3
The human race has gone out before [the great man], sunk the
hills, filled the hollows and bridged the rivers.
Civ 7.22 5
When the Indian trail gets widened, graded and bridged to a
good road, there is a benefactor...
Elo2 8.109 11
...[The patriot] bridged the gulf from th' alway good and
wise/ To that within the vision of small eyes./
MoL 10.244 13
See the activity of the imagination in the Crusades...the
chasm was bridged over;...
bridges, n. (7)
Nat 1.14 4
The private poor man hath cities, ships, canals, bridges, built for
him.
MR 1.238 24
...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after
year collected, in one estate to his son,-house...bridges...the son finds his
hands full...
Tran 1.358 9
In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges...but
also some few finer instruments...
Art2 7.41 1
It was said, in allusion to the great structures of the ancient
Romans, the aqueducts and bridges, that their Art was a Nature working to
municiple ends.
Boks 7.192 19
It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in
naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely
over dark morasses and barren oceans...
HDC 11.42 6
...the town [Concord]...ordered that the North quarter are to
keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in
their quarter...
PLT 12.42 8
The universe is traversed by paths or bridges or stepping-stones
across the gulfs of space in every direction.
bridges, v. (1)
SMC 11.353 25
...when you replace the love of family or clan by a
principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line...leaps the
mountains, bridges river and lake...
bridging, v. (1)
Art1 2.368 25
When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat
bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England...is a step of man into
harmony with nature.
bridle, n. (1)
Ill 6.317 18
'T is the charm of practical men that outside of their
practicality are a certain poetry and play, as if they led the good horse
Power by the bridle, and preferred to walk...
bridle, v. (1)
Mrs1 3.148 22
In Shakspeare alone the speakers do not strut and bridle...
bridle-road, n. (1)
HDC 11.48 14
In 1795, several town-meetings are called [in Concord],
upon the compensation to be made to a few proprietors for land taken in
making a bridle-road;...
brief, adj. (12)
Tran 1.352 13
...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief
experience...
OS 2.267 5
...there is a depth in those brief moments [of faith] which
constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.
PNR 4.87 25
[Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the centre that we see the
sphere illuminated...a theory so averaged, so modulated, that you would say
the winds of ages had swept through this rhythmic structure, and not that it
was the brief extempore blotting of one short-lived scribe.
SwM 4.103 15
Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences
are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing
a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature;...
CbW 6.258 3
The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who...if he falls...
on objects which have a brief importance...he prefers it to the universe...
PerF 10.88 10
...[wrath and petulance] quickly reach their brief date and
decompose...
CSC 10.374 3
The daily newspapers reported...brief sketches of the course
of proceedings [of the Chardon Street Convention]...
HDC 11.68 5
It would be impossible on this occasion to recite all these
patriotic papers [of Concord]. I must content myself with a few brief
extracts.
ALin 11.329 24
...that first despair [at Lincoln's death] was brief...
ALin 11.334 2
...[Lincoln's] brief speech at Gettysburg will not easily be
surpassed by words on any recorded occasion.
PLT 12.56 1
The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing
with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow men, or
objects which have a brief importance, prefers it to the universe...
II 12.84 3
[Men slow in finding their vocation] ripen too slowly than that
the determination should appear in this brief life.
brief, n. (1)
Boks 7.196 27
...Never read any [books] but what you like;, or, in
Shakspeare's phrase, No profit goes where is no pleasure te'en:/ In brief,
sir, study what you most affect./
briefly, adv. (1)
MoS 4.154 20
I knew a philosopher of this kidney who was accustomed
briefly to sum up his experience of human nature in saying, Mankind is a
damned rascal...
brier-rose, n. (1)
NR 3.242 11
After taxing Goethe as a courtier...I took up this book of
Helena, and found him...a piece of pure nature...virtuous as a brier-rose.
brig, n. (2)
ET2 5.31 18
Classics which at home are drowsily read, have a strange
charm...in the transom of a merchant brig.
SS 7.12 10
...if we recall the rare hours when we encountered the best
persons, we then found ourselves, and then first society seemed to exist.
That was society, though in the transom of a brig...
brigade, adj. (1)
SMC 11.370 12
Let me add an extract from the official report of the
brigade commander...
brigade, n. (2)
SMC 11.368 15
At the battle of Gettysburg, in July, 1863, the brigade of
which the Thirty-second Regiment formed a part, was in line of battle
seventy-two hours...
SMC 11.374 14
The brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed
part was detailed to receive the formal surrender of the rebel arms.
brigand, n. (1)
YA 1.377 5
Feudalism grew to be a bandit and brigand.
brigands, n. (1)
LLNE 10.328 13
Are there any brigands on the road? inquired the traveller
in France.
bright, adj. (47)
LE 1.158 26
...so pass into [the scholar's] mind, in bright transfiguration,
the grand events of history...
LE 1.169 1
That is morning, to cease for a bright hour to be a prisoner of
this sickly body...
MN 1.197 6
[Pure law] existed already in the mind in solution; now, it has
been precipitated, and the bright sediment is the world.
MN 1.213 14
The poet must be a rhapsodist; his inspiration a sort of bright
casualty;...
LT 1.288 1
Here we drift, like white sail across the wild ocean, now bright
on the wave, now darkling in the trough of the sea;...
SR 2.85 14
...the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in [the
man in the street's] mind.
Comp 2.93 22
...if this doctrine [Compensation] could be stated in terms
with any resemblance to those bright intuitions in which this truth is
sometimes revealed to us, it would be a star in many dark hours...
Comp 2.103 26
The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the
solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual
strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the
moral fair;...
Lov1 2.188 18
...in health the mind is presently seen again,--its overarching
vault, bright with galaxies of immutable lights...
Int 2.334 2
If you gather apples in the sunshine...and then retire within
doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see
apples hanging in the bright light...
Int 2.344 5
...let [new doctrines] not go until their blessing be won, and
after a short season...they will be...one more bright star shining serenely in
your heaven...
Art1 2.349 17
So shall the drudge in dusty frock/ Spy behind the city
clock/ .../ His fathers shining in bright fables,/ His children fed at heavenly
tables./
Pt1 3.31 17
...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in
mean condition to fire, which, though carried to the darkest house betwixt
this and the mount of Caucasus, will yet hold its natural office and burn as
bright as if twenty thousand men did it behold;...
Nat2 3.173 3
...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with
one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and
moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and
probation.
UGM 4.24 24
Not one [person] has a misgiving of being wrong. Was it not
a bright thought that made things cohere with this bitumen, fastest of
cements?
PPh 4.68 23
...Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts. Cut again each
of these two main parts,--one representing the visible, the other the
intelligible world,--and let these two new sections represent the bright part
and the dark part of each of these worlds.
SwM 4.146 1
If the glory was too bright for [Swedenborg's] eyes to bear...
the more excellent is the spectacle he saw...
NMW 4.253 6
...the vain attempts of statists to amuse and deceive him...
and the instinct of the young, ardent and active men every where, which
pointed him out as the giant of the middle class, make [Napoleon's] history
bright and commanding.
ET1 5.5 15
...I have copied the few notes I made of visits to persons, as
they respect parties quite too good and too transparent to the whole world to
make it needful to affect any prudery of suppression about a few hints of
those bright personalities.
ET1 5.10 14
...[Coleridge] appeared, a short, thick old man, with bright
blue eyes and fine clear complexion...
ET13 5.227 1
...a bishop [in England] is only a surpliced merchant.
Through his lawn I can see the bright buttons of the shopman's coat glitter.
ET17 5.291 12
...my impression of the island [England] is bright with
agreeable memories both of public societies and of households...
Ctr 6.132 21
There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine
egotists.
Ctr 6.149 22
...it requires a great many cultivated women,--saloons of
bright, elegant, reading women...in order that you should have one Madame
de Stael.
Art2 7.44 8
In painting, bright colors stimulate the eye before yet they are
harmonized into a landscape.
DL 7.101 7
Five rosy boys with morning light/ Had leaped from one fair
mother's arms,/ Fronted the sun with hope as bright,/ And greeted God with
childhood's psalms./
DL 7.106 8
What entertainments make every day bright and short for the
fine freshman!
Boks 7.204 25
If [the student] can read Livy, he has a good book; but one
of the short English compends, some Goldsmith or Ferguson, should be
used, that will place in the cycle [of Roman history] the bright stars of
Plutarch.
PC 8.229 6
No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.
PPo 8.262 25
In thee, friend, that Tyrian chamber is found;/ Thine the star-pointing-
roof, and the base on the ground:/ Is one half depicted with colors
less bright?/ Beware that the counterpart blazes with light!/
Imtl 8.325 19
[The Greek]...made [death] bright with games of strength and
skill...
Aris 10.53 26
...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men
[in a village]...and drawing all these men round him...interested the whole
village, good and bad, bright and stupid, in his facts;...
Aris 10.63 22
Let [the man of honor]...say...the music and the dance of
liberty will come up to bright and holy ground and will take me in also.
PerF 10.81 18
See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special
vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone...
Would you know where to find her? Listen for the laughter...see where is...
a pretty crowd all bright with one electricity;...
Edc1 10.131 7
...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the
means of classifying the most refractory phenomena, of...subordinating
them to a bright reason of its own...
LLNE 10.334 9
...he [Everett] who was heard with such throbbing hearts
and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded churches, did not let go his
hearers when the church was dismissed, but the bright image of that
eloquent form followed the boy home to his bed-chamber;...
EzRy 10.390 3
To undeceive [Ezra Ripley], I hastened to recall some
particulars to show the absurdity of the thing, as the Major [Jack Downing]
and the President [Andrew Jackson] going out skating on the Potomac, etc.
Why, said the Doctor with perfect faith, it was a bright moonlight night;...
EWI 11.135 4
...as an omen and assurance of success, I point to you the
bright example which England set you [in emancipation in the West
Indies]...
EWI 11.135 11
...I turn gladly to the rightful theme, to the bright aspects of
the occasion.
War 11.153 14
Plutarch...considers the invasion and conquest of the East
by Alexander as one of the most bright and pleasing pages in history;...
RBur 11.443 8
Every name in broad Scotland keeps [Burns's] fame bright.
Mem 12.102 8
Some days are bright with thought and sentiment, and we
live a year in a day.
Mem 12.106 7
...I come to a bright school-girl who remembers all she
hears...
CL 12.142 24
[DeQuincey said] [Wordsworth's] eyes are not under any
circumstances bright, lustrous or piercing...
Bost 12.211 5
...the Quincy of the Revolution seems compensated for the
shortness of his bright career in the son who so long lingers among the last
of those bright clouds, That on the steady breeze of honor sail/ In long
succession calm and beautiful./
Bost 12.211 7
...the Quincy of the Revolution seems compensated for the
shortness of his bright career in the son who so long lingers among the last
of those bright clouds, That on the steady breeze of honor sail/ In long
succession calm and beautiful./
MLit 12.328 8
[Goethe's] are the bright and terrible eyes which meet the
modern student in every sacred chapel of thought...
brighten, v. (1)
ShP 4.219 18
...knowledge will brighten the sunshine;...
brighter, adj. (6)
Fdsp 2.215 10
In the great days, presentiments hover before me in the
firmament. ... I fear only that I may lose them receding into the sky in
which now they are only a patch of brighter light.
ET9 5.150 6
[The English] have no curiosity about foreigners, and answer
any information you may volunteer with Oh, Oh! until the informant makes
up his mind that they shall die in their ignorance, for any help he will offer.
There are really no limits to this conceit, though brighter men among them
make painful efforts to be candid.
Elo2 8.124 1
In the vain and foolish exultation of the heart, which the
brighter prospects of life will sometimes excite, the pensive portress of
Science shall call you to the sober pleasures of her holy cell.
MMEm 10.424 22
...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy
warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or feel
he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow,-
labors, rather-evanescent efforts, which will wear like flowerets in
brighter soils;...
WSL 12.342 7
From the moment of entering a library and opening a
desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear. What boundless
leisure!...the old constellations have set, new and brighter have arisen;...
EurB 12.365 1
It was a brighter day than we have often known in our
literary calendar, when within a twelvemonth a single London
advertisement announced a new volume of poems by Wordsworth, poems
by Tennyson, and a play by Henry Taylor.
brightest, adj. (1)
ShP 4.209 9
We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those
questions which knock for answer at every heart...on those mysterious and
demoniacal powers...which yet interweave their malice and their gift in our
brightest hours.
brightly, adv. (1)
Ill 6.310 15
...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed
to see the night heaven thick with stars glimmering more or less brightly
over our heads...
brightness, n. (4)
NR 3.242 16
If we were not kept among surfaces, everything would be
large and universal; now the excluded attributes burst in on us with the
more brightness that they have been excluded.
Insp 8.273 17
A glimpse, a point of view that by its brightness excludes the
purview is granted, but no panorama.
Plu 10.316 17
...nothing so resembles an animal as fire. It is moved and
nourished by itself, and by its brightness, like the soul, discovers and makes
everything apparent...
Pray 12.356 16
[I, Augustine, entered my soul and saw] Not this vulgar
light which all flesh may look upon, nor as it were a greater of the same
kind, as though the brightness of this should be manifold greater and with
its greatness take up all space.
Brighton, Massachusetts, n. (1)
AgMs 12.361 26
...necessity finds out when to go to Brighton, and when to
feed in the stall, better than Mr. [Henry] Colman can tell us.
Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme, (1)
Res 8.150 26
I do not know that the treatise of Brillat-Savarin on the
Physiology of Taste deserves its fame.
brilliancy, n. (5)
GoW 4.280 26
In France there is even a greater delight in intellectual
brilliancy for its own sake.
ET12 5.211 5
No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men
[at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic.
Boks 7.215 7
...I often see traces of the Scotch or the French novel in the
courtesy and brilliancy of young midshipmen, collegians and clerks.
PI 8.32 20
We are dazzled at first by new words and brilliancy of color...
PPo 8.242 6
Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Kai
Kaus, in whose palace...gold and silver and precious stones were used so
lavishly that in the brilliancy produced by their combined effect, night and
day appeared the same;...
brilliant, adj. (40)
Nat 1.31 6
...good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories.
MR 1.231 7
...if [the young man] would thrive in [the employments of
commerce], he must sacrifice all the brilliant dreams of boyhood and youth
as dreams;...
MR 1.232 26
[The general system of our trade] is not that which a man...
meditates on with joy and self-approval in his hour of love and aspiration;
but rather what he then puts out of sight, only showing the brilliant result...
OS 2.290 15
The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience,
cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...the brilliant friend they know;...
Pt1 3.22 5
The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a
brilliant picture.
Chr1 3.89 4
It has been complained of our brilliant English historian of the
French Revolution that when he has told all his facts about Mirabeau, they
do not justify his estimate of his genius.
Mrs1 3.128 20
The class of power, the working heroes...see...that the
brilliant names of fashion run back to just such busy names as their own...
NR 3.228 8
Our native love of reality joins with this [disillusioning]
experience...to dissuade a too sudden surrender to the brilliant qualities of
persons.
NER 3.276 5
...instead of avoiding these men who make his fine gold dim,
[a man] will cast all behind him and seek their society only, woo and
embrace this his humiliation and mortification, until he shall know why...
his brilliant talents are paralyzed in this presence.
SwM 4.112 4
[Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was an anatomist's
account of the human body, in the highest style of poetry. Nothing can
exceed the bold and brilliant treatment of a subject usually so dry and
repulsive.
NMW 4.242 16
...brilliant prizes glittered in the eyes of [French] youth and
talent.
NMW 4.253 8
I am sorry that the brilliant picture [of Napoleon] has its
reverse.
NMW 4.253 15
...that is the fatal quality which we discover in our pursuit
of wealth, that it...is bought by the breaking or weakening of the
sentiments; and it is inevitable that we should find the same fact in the
history of this champion [Napoleon], who proposed to himself simply a
brilliant career...
GoW 4.282 5
Though [the writer] were dumb [his message] would speak.
If not,--if there be no such God's word in the man,--what care we how
adroit, how fluent, how brilliant he is?
ET14 5.247 4
The brilliant Macaulay, who expresses the tone of the
English governing classes of the day, explicitly teaches that good means
good to eat, good to wear...
ET19 5.309 21
On being introduced to the meeting [Manchester
Athenaeum Banquet] I said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It is pleasant
to me to meet this great and brilliant company...
Bhr 6.185 4
Look on this woman. There is not beauty, nor brilliant
sayings...
Elo1 7.71 16
...what is the Odyssey but a history of the orator...carried
through a series of adventures furnishing brilliant opportunities to his talent?
Elo1 7.89 26
By applying the habits of a higher style of thought to the
common affairs of this world, [the orator] introduces beauty and
magnificence wherever he goes. Such a power was Burke's, and of this
genius we have had some brilliant examples in our own political and legal
men.
Clbs 7.243 12
The history of the Hotel Rambouillet and its brilliant circles
makes an important date in French civilization.
Clbs 7.244 4
...we have records of the brilliant society that Edinburgh
boasted in the first decade of this century.
PI 8.53 7
Victor Hugo says well, An idea steeped in verse becomes
suddenly more incisive and more brilliant...
SA 8.90 13
The delight...in pure, brilliant, social atmosphere;...doubles the
value of life.
Elo2 8.131 12
Your argument is ingenious...your illustrations brilliant, but
your major proposition palpably absurd. Will you establish a lie?
QO 8.196 4
It is a familiar expedient of brilliant writers...the device of
ascribing their own sentence to an imaginary person...
Grts 8.304 15
You shall not enumerate your brilliant acquaintances...
Grts 8.318 3
Voltaire is brilliant, nimble and various, but Frederick has the
superior tone.
Imtl 8.332 6
Slowly [the two men] advanced towards each other as they
could, through the brilliant company...
Edc1 10.133 10
If I have renounced the search of truth...I have died to all
use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of
life every hour. I am as a bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in
vain.
Edc1 10.142 25
Culture makes [the youth's] books realities to him, their
characters more brilliant, more effective on his mind, than his actual mates.
LLNE 10.334 3
...every young scholar could recite brilliant sentences from
[Everett's] sermons...
LLNE 10.358 16
It chanced that here in one family were two brothers, one
a brilliant and fertile inventor, and close by him his own brother, a man of
business...
LLNE 10.364 3
No friend who knew Margaret Fuller could recognize her
rich and brilliant genius under the dismal mask which the public fancied
was meant for her in that disagreeable story [Blithedale Romance].
Thor 10.470 15
The redstart was flying about, and presently the fine
grosbeaks, whose brilliant scarlet makes the rash gazer wipe his eye...
FSLN 11.219 14
...under the shadow of [Webster's] great name inferior
men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave Law]
and made the law. I say inferior men. There were all sorts of what are called
brilliant men...but men without self-respect...
ALin 11.332 3
In a host of young men that start together and promise so
many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial;...
Wom 11.411 14
There is...no style adopted into the etiquette of courts, but
was first the whim and the mere action of some brilliant woman...
Scot 11.467 27
[Scott] found himself in his youth and manhood and age in
the society of...Wilson, Hogg, De Quincey, to name only some of his
literary neighbors, and, as soon as he died, all this brilliant circle was
broken up.
PLT 12.37 6
In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world,
[Instinct] is common sense. It requires the performance of all that is needful
to the animal life and health. Then it...requires...that symmetry and
connection which is imperative in all healthily constituted men, and the
want of which the rare and brilliant sallies of irregular genius cannot excuse.
PPr 12.384 13
It is plain that whether by hope or by fear, or were it only by
delight in this panorama of brilliant images, all the great classes of English
society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present]...
brim, n. (2)
Mrs1 3.150 27
...are there not women who fill our vase with wine and roses
to the brim...
EPro 11.314 6
Pay ransom to the owner/ And fill the bag to the brim./ Who
is the owner? The slave is the owner,/ And ever was. Pay him./
brimstone, n. (1)
GoW 4.276 24
...[Goethe] stripped [the Devil] of mythologic gear, of
horns, cloven foot, harpoon tail, brimstone and blue-fire...
Brindley, James, n. (1)
ET5 5.77 1
Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of...Gibbon,
Brindley, Watt, Wedgwood, dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain...
brine, n. (2)
MN 1.205 8
Who would value any number of miles of Atlantic brine
bounded by lines of latitude and longitude?
EWI 11.104 9
...if we saw men's backs flayed with cowhides, and hot rum
poured on, superinduced with brine or pickle...we too should wince.
bring, v. (179)
AmS 1.92 27
...He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must
carry out the wealth of the Indies.
AmS 1.105 8
As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it
is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it.
DSA 1.135 9
Courage, piety, love, wisdom, can teach; and every man can
open his door to these angels, and they shall bring him the gift of tongues.
LE 1.155 7
A summons to celebrate with scholars a literary festival, is so
alluring to me as to overcome the doubts I might well entertain of my
ability to bring you any thought worthy of your attention.
LE 1.176 15
Silence, seclusion, austerity, may...bring up out of secular
darkness the sublimities of the moral constitution.
LE 1.187 11
[Thought] will bring you friendships.
MR 1.237 27
...now I feel some shame before my wood-chopper...and my
cook, for...they can contrive without my aid to bring the day and year
round...
MR 1.252 15
An acceptance of the sentiment of love throughout
Christendom for a season would bring the felon and the outcast to our side
in tears...
LT 1.262 13
...persons are the world to persons,-a cunning mystery by
which the Great Desert of thoughts and of planets takes this engaging form,
to bring...its meanings nearer to the mind.
LT 1.283 10
...talents bring their usual temptations...
Con 1.320 10
[Conservatism's] social and political action has no better
aim;...to bring the week and year about...
Con 1.322 14
...if it still be asked in this necessity of partial organization,
which party, on the whole, has the highest claims on our sympathy,-I
bring it home to the private heart...
Tran 1.346 6
...these youths bring us a rough but effectual aid.
YA 1.366 3
The land...is to...bring us into just relations with men and
things.
YA 1.378 7
Trade goes...to bring every kind of faculty of every individual
that can in any manner serve any person, on sale.
YA 1.382 9
The science is confident, and surely the poverty is real. If any
means could be found to bring these two together!
Hist 2.39 11
[Each man] shall...bring with him into humble cottages the
blessing of the morning stars...
SR 2.57 8
It seems to be a rule of wisdom...to bring the past for judgment
into the thousand-eyed present...
SR 2.73 26
...if we follow the truth it will bring us out safe at last.
SR 2.90 3
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
SR 2.90 4
Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
SL 2.136 15
We [country folk] have not dollars, merchants have; let them
give them. Farmers will give corn;...the children will bring flowers.
SL 2.145 13
That mood into which a friend can bring us is his dominion
over us.
Lov1 2.188 4
...nature and intellect and art emulate each other in the gifts
and the melody they bring to the epithalamium.
Prd1 2.238 15
Far off, men swell, bully and threaten; bring them hand to
hand, and they are a feeble folk.
Hsm1 2.263 4
Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the
youth may freely bring home to his mind...
OS 2.293 20
...there is a power, which, as it is in you, is in [your friend]
also, and could therefore very well bring you together...
Int 2.328 16
You cannot with your best deliberation and heed come so
close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you...
Int 2.330 21
The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with
thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.
Art1 2.349 3
...Bring the moonlight into noon/ Hid in gleaming piles of
stone;/...
Art1 2.359 10
...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the
highest charm is the universal language they speak. A confession of moral
nature...breathes from them all. That which we carry to them, the same we
bring back more fairly illustrated in the memory.
Pt1 3.8 3
...[the poet] writes primarily what will and must be spoken,
reckoning [the hero and the sage], though primaries also, yet, in respect to
him, secondaries and servants;...as assistants who bring building-materials
to an architect.
Exp 3.45 24
We have enough [spirit] to live and bring the year about...
Exp 3.57 2
[Our friends] stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and
power, but they never take the single step that would bring them there.
Chr1 3.94 6
When the high cannot bring up the low to itself, it benumbs it...
Mrs1 3.127 6
Manners aim to...bring the man pure to energize.
Nat2 3.195 7
...though we are always engaged with particulars...we bring
with us to every experiment the innate universal laws.
NER 3.265 23
The candidate my party votes for is not to be trusted with a
dollar, but he will be honest in the Senate, for we can bring public opinion
to bear on him.
NER 3.270 5
...[a canine appetite for knowledge] did not bring [the
scholar] to peace...
NER 3.278 12
We are haunted with a belief that you [reformers] have a
secret which it would highliest advantage us to learn, and we would force
you to impart it to us, though it should bring us to prison or to worse
extremity.
UGM 4.31 10
...bring to each [man] an intelligent person of another
experience, and it is as if you let off water from a lake by cutting a lower
basin.
PNR 4.89 6
All [Plato's] painting in the Republic must be esteemed
mythical, with intent to bring out...his thought.
SwM 4.135 25
The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in
Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What
have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and chalcedony;...what
with...behemoth and unicorn? ... The more learning you bring to explain
them, the more glaring the impertinence.
MoS 4.152 9
Things always bring their own philosophy with them, that is,
prudence.
ShP 4.190 20
[A great man] finds two counties groping to bring coal, or
flour, or fish, from the place of production to the place of consumption, and
he hits on a railroad.
ShP 4.196 1
The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a
superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know
well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with
Cromwell, where instead of the metre of Shakspeare, whose secret is that
the thought constructs the tune, so that reading for the sense will best bring
out the rhythm,--here the lines are constructed on a given tune...
ShP 4.196 20
A great poet who appears in illiterate times, absorbs into his
sphere all the light which is any where radiating. Every intellectual jewel...
it is his fine office to bring to his people;...
NMW 4.230 6
...a very small force, skilfully and rapidly manoeuvring so as
always to bring two men against one at the point of engagement, will be an
overmatch for a much larger body of men.
NMW 4.238 21
...when you bring bad news [Bonaparte told his secretary],
rouse me instantly, for then there is not a moment to be lost.
GoW 4.265 11
The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo...
and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare;...
ET4 5.56 9
As [the Northmen] put out to sea again, the emperor
[Charlemagne] gazed long after them, his eyes bathed in tears. I am
tormented with sorrow, he said, when I foresee the evils they will bring on
my posterity.
ET5 5.87 2
...[the English]...do not like ponderous and difficult tactics, but
delight to bring the affair hand to hand;...
ET5 5.87 9
...[the English] fundamentally believe that the best strategem in
naval war is to lay your ship close alongside of the enemy's ship and bring
all your guns to bear on him...
ET7 5.116 18
...any slipperiness in the [English] government of political
faith...would bring the whole nation to a committee of inquiry and reform.
ET7 5.120 5
If war do not bring in its sequel new trade, better agriculture
and manufactures...no prosperity could support it;...
ET8 5.131 1
...you shall find in the common [English] people a surly
indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper; and in minds of more
power, magazines of inexhaustible war, challenging The ruggedest hour
that time and spite dare bring/ To frown upon the enraged Northumberland./
ET10 5.156 19
[In England] An economist, or a man who can...bring the
year round with expenditure which expresses his character without
embarrassing one day of his future, is already a master of life, and a
freeman.
ET10 5.161 6
In Egypt, [steam] can plant forests, and bring rain after three
thousand years.
ET11 5.191 25
In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell
the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper
at his council table...and the baker will not bring bread any longer.
ET11 5.192 25
...gaming, racing, drinking and mistresses bring [the
English aristocracy] down...
ET14 5.247 21
[Macaulay] thinks...that, solid advantage, as he calls it,
meaning always sensual benefit, is the only good. The eminent benefit of
astronomy is the better navigation it creates to enable the fruit-ships to
bring home their lemons and wine to the London grocer.
ET14 5.252 3
...[the English] are the most conditioned men, as if, having
the best conditions, they could not bring themselves to forfeit them.
ET14 5.257 25
...[Tennyson] wants a subject, and climbs no mount of
vision to bring its secrets to the people.
F 6.24 5
The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of
nature.
Pow 6.62 18
A Western lawyer of eminence said to me he wished it were a
penal offence to bring an English law-book into a court in this country...
Pow 6.76 13
A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him
on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as
much but can only bring it to light slowly.
Pow 6.76 16
A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him
on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as
much but can only bring it to light slowly.
Wth 6.91 18
...if [a man] wishes...having society on his own terms, he must
bring his wants within his proper power to satisfy.
Wth 6.93 6
The life of pleasure is so ostentatious that a shallow observer
must believe that this is the agreed best use of wealth, and, whatever is
pretended, it ends in cosseting. But if this were the main use of surplus
capital, it would bring us to barricades, burned towns and tomahawks,
presently.
Wth 6.104 6
If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and
put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the
schools will feel it, the children will bring home their little dose of the
poison;...
Ctr 6.136 10
Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again
after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius
could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would
come up!
Ctr 6.164 8
What forests of laurel we bring...to those who stood firm
against the opinion of their contemporaries!
Bhr 6.196 23
...if you have headache...or thunderstroke, I beseech you...to
hold your peace, and not pollute the morning, to which all the housemates
bring serene and pleasant thoughts...
Wsp 6.215 1
That which is signified by the words moral and spiritual, is a
lasting essence, and, with whatever illusions we have loaded them, will
certainly bring back the words...to their ancient meaning.
Wsp 6.230 15
I am well assured that the Questioner who brings me so
many problems will bring the answers also in due time.
CbW 6.258 8
Better, certainly, if we could secure the strength and fire
which rude, passionate men bring into society, quite clear of their vices.
CbW 6.274 22
...one may take a good deal of pains to bring people
together...and yet no result come of it.
SS 7.7 5
...no man is fit for society who has fine traits. At a distance he is
admired, but bring him hand to hand, he is a cripple.
Civ 7.17 1
We flee away from cities, but we bring/ The best of cities with
us/...
Civ 7.29 17
We cannot bring the heavenly powers to us, but if we will only
choose our jobs in directions in which they travel, they will undertake them
with the greatest pleasure.
Art2 7.42 21
...in our handiwork...we place ourselves in such attitudes as to
bring the force of gravity...to bear upon the spade or the axe we wield.
Art2 7.42 25
...in all our operations we seek not to use our own, but to
bring a quite infinite force to bear.
Art2 7.49 11
So much as we can...bring the omniscience of reason upon the
subject before us, so perfect is the work [of art].
Elo1 7.59 3
For whom the Muses smile upon,/ And touch with soft
persuasion,/ His words, like a storm-wind, can bring/ Terror and beauty on
their wing;/...
Elo1 7.65 13
Bring [the master orator] to his audience, and...he will have
them pleased and humored as he chooses;...
Elo1 7.77 3
...how is it on the Atlantic, in a storm,--do you understand how
to infuse your reason into men disabled by terror, and to bring yourself off
safe then?...
Elo1 7.77 8
Face to face with a highwayman...can you bring yourself off
safe by your wit exercised through speech?...
DL 7.115 17
You are to bring with you that spirit which is understanding,
health and self-help.
DL 7.121 2
...who can see unmoved...the unrestrained glee with which [the
eager, blushing boys] disburden themselves of their early mental treasures
when the holidays bring them again together?
DL 7.131 10
I wish to bring home to my children and my friends copies of
these admirable forms [Michelangelo's sibyle and prophets]...
Farm 7.146 6
...there is no porter like Gravitation, who will bring down
any weights which man cannot carry...
Farm 7.149 18
See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he
alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through
constant evaporation, and allows the warm rain to bring down into the roots
the temperature of the air and of the surface soil;...
WD 7.155 4
Daughters of Time, the hypocritic days,/ Muffled and dumb
like barefoot dervishes,/ And marching single in an endless file,/ Bring
diadems and fagots in their hands./
WD 7.159 10
Why need I speak of steam...which is made in hospitals to
bring a bowl of gruel to a sick man's bed...
WD 7.161 3
The chain of Western railroads from Chicago to the Pacific has
planted cities and civilization in less time than it costs to bring an orchard
into bearing.
WD 7.168 15
...if we do not use the gifts [the days] bring, they carry them
as silently away.
WD 7.173 27
How difficult to deal erect with [these passing hours]! The
events they bring...all throw dust in the eyes and distract attention.
Boks 7.204 21
For history there is great choice of ways to bring the student
through early Rome.
Boks 7.205 4
[Horace, Tacitus, Martial] will bring [the student] to Gibbon...
Boks 7.206 18
If now the relations of England to European affairs bring
[the scholar] to British ground, he is arrived at the very moment when
modern history takes new proportions.
Boks 7.210 12
Earl Spencer...had paused a quarter of a minute, when Lord
Althorp with long steps came to his side, as if to bring his father a fresh
lance to renew the fight.
Clbs 7.226 19
...the church-chimes in the distance bring the church and its
serious memories before us.
Clbs 7.240 20
The court successively appoints three more severe
inquisitors; Beaumarchais converts them all into triumphant vindicators of
the play which is to bring in the Revolution.
Cour 7.270 27
[John Brown] said, As soon as I hear one of my men say,
Ah, let me only get my eye on such a man, I'll bring him down, I don't
expect much aid in the fight from that talker.
Suc 7.301 11
We bring a welcome to the highest lessons of religion and of
poetry out of all proportion beyond our skill to teach.
PI 8.25 6
When people tell me they do not relish poetry, and bring me
Shelley...I am quite of their mind.
PI 8.25 12
...bring [people] Homer's Iliad, and they like that;...
PI 8.33 25
We want design, and do not forgive the bards if they have only
the art of enamelling. We want an architect, and they bring us an
upholsterer.
PI 8.40 23
[The poet] has seen something which all the mathematics and
the best industry could never bring him unto.
PI 8.64 7
Bring us the bards who shall sing all our old ideas out of our
heads...
PI 8.73 8
The high poetry which shall...bring in the new thoughts, the
sanity and heroic aims of nations, is deeper hid...
SA 8.92 18
[Speech] is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good
sense.
Elo2 8.130 19
[Eloquence] leads us to...the men of character, who bring an
overpowering personality into court...
Res 8.144 22
The hunter, the soldier, rolls himself in his blanket, and the
falling snow, which he did not have to bring in his knapsack, is his eider-down...
Comc 8.159 23
...a prophet...or a philosopher...bring the standard...
PPo 8.245 6
The rapidity of [Hafiz's] turns is always surprising us:-See
how the roses burn!/ Bring wine to quench the fire!/ Alas! the flames come
up with us,/ We perish with desire./
PPo 8.246 18
To be wise the dull brain so earnestly throbs,/ Bring bands of
wine for the stupid head./
PPo 8.250 15
...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low rioter, he turns short on
you...to ejaculate with equal fire the most unpalatable affirmations of heroic
sentiment and contempt for the world. Sometimes it is a glance from the
height of thought, as thus:-Bring wine; for in the audience-hall of the soul'
s independence, what is sentinel or Sultan?...
PPo 8.256 4
Come!-the palace of heaven rests on aery pillars,-/ Come,
and bring me wine; our days are wind./
Insp 8.284 11
My anchorite thought it sad that atmospheric influences
should bring to our dust the communion of the soul with the Infinite.
Grts 8.308 2
In morals this [individual bias] is conscience; in intellect,
genius; in practice, talent;-not to imitate or surpass a particular man in his
way, but to bring out your own new way;...
Aris 10.44 14
...when I bring one man into an estate, he sees vague
capabilities...
Aris 10.44 16
If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he
should do with it.
Aris 10.46 26
...the revolution of things is always bringing the need, now of
this, now of that, and is sure to bring home the opportunity to every one.
Aris 10.53 15
The best feat of genius is to bring all the varieties of talent
and culture into its audience;...
PerF 10.70 3
...I find it wholesome and invigorating to enumerate the
resources we can command, to look a little into this arsenal, and see...how
many arms better than Springfield muskets, we can bring to bear.
Chr2 10.96 7
There is no labor or sacrifice to which [the moral sentiment]
will not bring a man...
SovE 10.201 8
...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul,
which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree. You cannot bring
yourself to care for it.
SovE 10.207 6
...new views of inspiration, of miracles, of the saints, have
supplanted the old opinions, and it is vain to bring them again.
SovE 10.208 26
...a new crop of geniuses like those of the Elizabethan age,
may be born in this age, and...bring asceticism, duty and magnanimity into
vogue again.
Prch 10.219 25
...the sentiment that pervades a nation, the nation must
react upon. It is resisted and corrupted by that obstinate tendency to
personify and bring under the eyesight what should be the contemplation of
Reason alone.
MoL 10.241 15
...let me use the occasion...to offer you some counsels
which an old scholar may without pretension bring to youth...
MoL 10.247 11
The worst times...only relieve and bring out the splendor of
[the scholar's] privilege.
Schr 10.268 10
Nature...will bring to each of you the crowded hour, the
great opportunity.
Plu 10.308 4
[Plutarch] says of Socrates that he endeavored to bring reason
and things together...
Plu 10.319 23
The guests not invited to a private board by the entertainer,
but introduced by a guest as his companions, the Greek called shadows; and
the question is debated whether it was civil to bring them...
Plu 10.319 27
...[Plutarch]...concludes:...when I make an invitation...I give
my guests leave to bring shadows;...
LLNE 10.340 13
Dr. Channing took counsel in 1840 with George Ripley,
to the point whether it were possible to bring cultivated, thoughtful people
together...
EzRy 10.392 19
The society will meet after the Lyceum, as it is difficult to
bring people together in the evening,-and no moon.
MMEm 10.399 15
I have found that I could only bring you this portrait [of
Mary Moody Emerson] by selections from the diary of my heroine...
MMEm 10.423 7
A war-trump would be harmony to the jars of theologians
and statesmen such as the papers bring.
Thor 10.462 27
If [Thoreau] brought you yesterday a new proposition, he
would bring you to-day another not less revolutionary.
GSt 10.506 13
...if [George Stearns] could not bring his associates to adopt
his measure, he accepted with entire sweetness the next best measure which
could secure their assent.
LS 11.7 20
...I cannot bring myself to believe that in the use of such an
expression [This do in remembrance of me] [Jesus] looked beyond the
living generation...
HDC 11.76 8
The presence of these aged men who were in arms on that
day [battle of Concord] seems to bring us nearer to it.
HDC 11.80 22
......it was Voted [by Concord] that the person who should
be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day,
whilst in actual service, an account of which time he should bring to the
town...
LVB 11.93 12
You [Van Buren], sir, will bring down that renowned chair
in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this intrument of perfidy
[the relocation of the Cherokees];...
EWI 11.124 5
What if [slavery] cost a few unpleasant scenes on the coast
of Africa? That was a great way off; and the scenes could be endured by
some sturdy, unscrupulous fellows, who could go, for high wages, and
bring us the men...
EWI 11.126 22
...the [slave] trade could not be abolished whilst this
hungry West Indian market...cried, More, more, bring me a hundred a day;...
FSLC 11.208 9
We shall one day bring the States shoulder to shoulder and
the citizens man to man to exterminate slavery.
FSLC 11.212 16
We will never intermeddle with your slavery,-but you
can in no wise be suffered to bring it to Cape Cod and Berkshire.
ACiv 11.299 16
Is...this evolution of man to the highest powers...not to
bring duties with it?
ACiv 11.300 21
[People] bring their opinion [of slavery] into the world.
ACiv 11.304 1
...the one [power] strong enough to bring all the civility up
to the height of that which is best, prays now at the door of Congress for
leave to move.
Wom 11.415 6
With the advancements of society, the position and
influence of woman bring her strength or her faults into light.
Wom 11.419 24
...bring together a cultivated society of both sexes, in a
drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste or on
a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical difficulty in
obtaining their authentic opinions?
Wom 11.422 14
...one [man] wishes schools, another armies, one gunboats,
another public gardens. Bring all these biases together and something is
done in favor of them all.
SHC 11.431 24
...there is no ornament, no architecture alone, so sumptuous
as well disposed woods and waters, where art has been employed only to...
bring out the natural advantages.
SHC 11.436 4
We shall bring hither [to Sleepy Hollow] the body of the
dead, but how shall we catch the escaped soul?
RBur 11.442 23
It seemed odious to Luther that the devil should have all
the best tunes; he would bring them into the churches;...
Humb 11.456 1
If a life prolonged to an advanced period bring with it
several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in the
delight of being able to compare older states of knowledge with that which
now exists...
FRO2 11.490 9
...you cannot bring me too good a word...from the Jews.
FRep 11.513 2
...prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant.
FRep 11.516 6
...when the adventurers [to America] have planted
themselves and looked about, they send back all the money they can spare
to bring their friends.
FRep 11.534 26
...the land and sea educate the people, and bring out
presence of mind, self-reliance...
FRep 11.539 6
Here is the post where the patriot should plant himself; here
the altar...where genius should...bring forgotten truth to the eyes of men.
PLT 12.7 14
Bring the best wits together, and they are so impatient of each
other...that you shall have no academy.
PLT 12.9 19
We must have a special talent, and bring something to pass.
PLT 12.31 17
...[a man's] aptitude, if he would obey it, would prove a
telescope to bring under his clear vision what was blur to everybody else.
PLT 12.44 12
If you cut or break in two a block or stone and press the two
parts closely together, you can indeed bring the particles very near, but
never again so near that they shall attract each other so that you can take up
the block as one.
CInt 12.129 13
Only bring a deep observer, and he will make light of the
new shop or old cathedral...
CInt 12.129 21
Bring the insight, and [the deep observer] will find as many
beauties and heroes and astounding strokes of genius close by him as
Shakspeare or Aeschylus or Dante beheld.
CL 12.157 4
Can you bring home the summits of Wachusett, Greylock, and
the New Hampshire hills?...
CL 12.157 11
Can you...bring home the tops of Uncanoonuc?
Milt1 12.267 8
[Wrote Milton] Albeit I must confess to be half in doubt
whether I should bring it forth or no, it being so contrary to the eye of the
world, that I shall endanger either not to be regarded, or not to be
understood. For who is there, almost, that measures wisdom by simplicity...
ACri 12.305 20
Criticism is an art when it...looks at...the essential quality
of [the poet's] mind. Then the critic is poet. 'T is a question...of...not
particular merits, but the mood of mind into which one and another can
bring us.
WSL 12.343 9
...if fire cheers us, we should bring wood and coals.
PPr 12.383 15
...to bring out the truth for beauty, and as literature,
surmounts the powers of art.
Let 12.397 9
...discontent and the luxury of tears will bring nothing to pass.
bringer, n. (3)
MN 1.193 12
...the scholar must be a bringer of hope...
NER 3.279 11
The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion...
is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because...he feels
that you have it not.
Imtl 8.348 2
It is strange that Jesus is esteemed by mankind the bringer of
the doctrine of immortality.
bringeth, v. (1)
MMEm 10.425 5
When the dreamy pages of life seem all turned and
folded down to very weariness, even this idea of those who fill the hour
with crowded virtues, lifts the spectator to other worlds, and he adores the
eternal purposes of Him who...bringeth to dust, and raiseth to the skies.
bringing, v. (36)
DSA 1.123 1
See how this rapid intrinsic energy worketh everywhere...
bringing up facts to a harmony with thoughts.
MN 1.213 25
...if you incline your mind, you will apprehend [the
Intelligible]: not too earnestly, but bringing a pure and inquiring eye.
YA 1.364 13
...this invention [the railroad] has reduced England to a third
of its size, by bringing people so much nearer...
YA 1.369 13
Whatever events in progress shall go to disgust men with
cities...will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the
bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.
Fdsp 2.203 12
I knew a man who...spoke to the conscience of every person
he encountered, and that with great insight and beauty. At first...all men
agreed he was mad. But persisting...he attained to the advantage of bringing
every man of his acquaintance into true relations with him.
Prd1 2.227 2
Time is always bringing the occasions that disclose [facts!]
value.
PPh 4.47 7
[Philosophy's] early records...are of the immigrations from
Asia, bringing with them the dreams of barbarians;...
MoS 4.150 6
One class [predisposed to Sensation]...is conversant with...
cities and persons, and the bringing certain things to pass;...
ET6 5.110 19
[The English] have difficulty in bringing their reason to act...
ET16 5.273 7
It seemed a bringing together of extreme points, to visit the
oldest religious monument in Britain in company with her latest thinker...
Pow 6.80 16
...this force or spirit, being the means relied on by Nature for
bringing the work of the day about,--as far as we attach importance to
household life and the prizes of the world, we must respect that.
Wth 6.85 23
...the mind acts in bringing things from where they abound to
where they are wanted;...
Wth 6.87 14
The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing from where
it abounds to where it is costly.
Ctr 6.154 25
How can you mind...even the bringing things to pass,--when
you think how paltry are the machinery and the workers?
Ctr 6.164 11
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men
round to his opinion twenty years later.
Civ 7.24 11
Another measure of culture is the diffusion of knowledge...by
the cheap press, bringing the university to every poor man's door...
Art2 7.42 14
All powerful action is performed by bringing the forces of
Nature to bear upon our objects.
Art2 7.49 5
...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength, but
by bringing the weight of the planet to bear on the spade, axe or bar.
Farm 7.142 10
In English factories, the boy that watches the loom...is
called a minder. And in this great factory of our Copernican globe...
bringing now the day of planting, then of watering, then of weeding, then of
reaping, then of curing and storing,--the farmer is the minder.
Boks 7.189 8
In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The shipmaster walks in a
modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or from
Pontus;...
Clbs 7.242 17
...in all civil nations attempts have been made to organize
conversation by bringing together cultivated people under the most
favorable conditions.
Clbs 7.249 1
I need only hint the value of the club for bringing masters in
their several arts to compare and expand their views...
PI 8.66 18
I count the genius of Swedenborg and Wordsworth as the agents
of a reform in philosophy, the bringing poetry back to Nature...
PC 8.224 3
The immeasurableness of Nature is not more astounding than
[man's] power to gather all her omnipotence into a manageable rod or
wedge, bringing it to a hair-point for the eye and hand of the philosopher.
Aris 10.46 25
...the revolution of things is always bringing the need, now of
this, now of that...
SovE 10.189 4
...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart
that...an eternal, beneficent necessity is always bringing things right;...
SovE 10.204 18
Luther would cut his hand off sooner than write theses
against the pope if he suspected that he was bringing on with all his might
the pale negations of Boston Unitarianism.
Schr 10.284 6
...the sure months are bringing [the scholar] to an
examination-day in which nothing is remitted or excused...
Plu 10.319 15
[Plutarch]...delighted in bringing chosen companions to the
supper-table.
LLNE 10.331 18
[Everett] had a great talent for collecting facts, and for
bringing those he had to bear with ingenious felicity on the topic of the
moment.
LLNE 10.348 10
A man is entitled...to the air of good conversation in his
bringing up...
HDC 11.67 5
...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was filled with wonder, that
such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent Christ...
even so far as to be bringing the petitions and thank-offerings of the people
unto God...
TPar 11.286 16
Such was the largeness of [Theodore Parker's] reception of
facts and his skill to employ them that it looked as if he were some
president of council to whom a score of telegraphs were ever bringing in
reports;...
SMC 11.364 25
[George Prescott writes] I told Lieutenant Bowers, this
morning, that I could afford to be sick from bringing the tent-poles...
Wom 11.404 3
Lo, when the Lord made North and South,/ And sun and
moon ordained he,/ Forth bringing each by word of mouth/ In order of its
dignity,/ Did man from the crude clay express/ By sequence, and, all else
decreed,/ He formed the woman; nor might less/ Than Sabbath such a work
succeed./ Coventry Patmore.
ACri 12.293 25
I do not mean that [Shakespeare]...exults in bringing the
street itself...on the scene...
bringing-up, n. (1)
Ctr 6.142 22
...you are not fit to direct [your boy's] bringing-up if your
theory leaves out his gymnastic training.
brings, v. (75)
Nat 1.1 2
A subtle chain of countless rings/ The next unto the farthest
brings;/...
Nat 1.59 16
Culture...brings the mind to call that apparent which it uses to
call real...
Nat 1.75 17
Whilst the abstract question occupies your intellect, nature
brings it in the concrete to be solved by your hands.
DSA 1.119 7
Night brings no gloom to the heart with its welcome shade.
Tran 1.350 17
All that the brave Xanthus brings home from his wars is the
recollection that at the storming of Samos, in the heat of the battle, Pericles
smiled on me, and passed on to another detachment.
SR 2.79 18
In proportion...to the number of objects [a thought]...brings
within reach of the pupil, is his complacency.
Comp 2.123 4
I no longer wish to meet a good I do not earn...knowing that
it brings with it new burdens.
Fdsp 2.192 11
[The stranger's] arrival almost brings fear to the good hearts
that would welcome him.
Int 2.340 11
Neither by detachment, neither by aggregation is the integrity
of the intellect transmitted to its works, but by a vigilance which brings the
intellect in its greatness and best state to operate every moment.
Mrs1 3.131 21
A sainted soul is always elegant, and, if it will, passes
unchallenged into the most guarded ring. But so will Jock the teamster pass,
in some crisis that brings him thither, and find favor, as long as his head is
not giddy with the new circumstance...
Gts 3.161 13
The only gift is a portion of thyself. ... Therefore the poet
brings his poem;...
Nat2 3.195 15
...the new engine brings with it the old checks.
UGM 4.19 6
...[a wise man] would...calm us with assurances that we could
not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guaranties of
condition. The rich would see their mistakes and poverty, the poor their
escapes and their resources. But nature brings all this about in due time.
PPh 4.59 10
[Plato] has finished his thinking before he brings it to the
reader...
PPh 4.73 7
...under his hypocritical pretence of knowing nothing,
[Socrates] attacks and brings down all the fine speakers...
SwM 4.109 21
...the terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every
piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios.
ET1 5.18 23
The baker's boy brings muffins to the window at a fixed hour
every day, and that is all the Londoner knows or wishes to know on the
subject.
ET3 5.39 1
The constant rain...brings agricultural production [in England]
up to the highest point.
ET4 5.57 15
Individuals are often noticed [in the Norse Sagas] as very
handsome persons, which trait only brings the story nearer to the English
race.
ET5 5.80 13
...[the English] have a supreme eye to facts, and theirs is a
logic that brings salt to soup...
ET5 5.99 13
An electric touch by any of their national ideas, melts [the
English] into one family, and brings the hoards of power which their
individuality is always hiving, into use and play for all.
ET6 5.107 21
Hither [to his house the Englishman] brings all that is rare
and costly...
ET7 5.117 12
'T is said that the wolf, who makes a cache of his prey and
brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on digging, it is not found, is
instantly and unresistingly torn in pieces.
ET11 5.176 17
The new age brings new qualities into request;...
ET13 5.222 8
[The English] value a philosopher as they value an
apothecary who brings bark or a drench;...
Pow 6.64 1
This power [in American politics]...is not clothed in satin. 'T is
the power...of soldiers and pirates; and it bullies the peaceable and loyal.
But it brings its own antidote;...
Wth 6.86 24
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a
laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface.
Wth 6.87 7
...coal...with its comfort brings its industrial power.
Wth 6.105 19
Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances.
Wsp 6.230 14
I am well assured that the Questioner who brings me so
many problems will bring the answers also in due time.
Wsp 6.231 19
The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and in the dark
brings them friends from far.
Wsp 6.233 16
[A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the
operation of his gunners, and...the king said, Do you not know, sir, that
every moment you spend here is at the risk of your life? I run no more risk,
replied the gentleman, than your Majesty. Yes, said the king, but my duty
brings me here, and yours does not.
CbW 6.274 27
...a habit of union and competition brings people up and
keeps them up to their highest point;...
CbW 6.276 16
Life brings to each his task...
Civ 7.27 17
...see [the carpenter] on the ground, dressing his timber under
him. Now, not his feeble muscles but the force of gravity brings down the
axe;...
Elo1 7.71 18
See with what care and pleasure the poet [Homer] brings
[Ulysses] on the stage.
DL 7.111 3
[The citizen] brings home whatever commodities and
ornaments have for years allured his pursuit...
DL 7.129 22
Whatever brings the dweller into a finer life...may well find
place [in the household].
Farm 7.143 18
You cannot...strip off from [an atom]...the relation to light
and heat and leave the atom bare. No, it brings with it its universal ties.
Farm 7.152 5
The sun-stroke which knocks [the first planter] down brings
his corn up.
WD 7.169 22
...a thousand spectacles [the variable wind] brings...
WD 7.177 1
Do not refuse the employment which the hour brings you...
Boks 7.193 25
The inspection of the catalogue [of the Cambridge Library]
brings me continually back to the few standard writers who are on every
private shelf;...
Clbs 7.237 22
Wafthrudnir asks [Odin] the name...of the god who brings
the night;...
Clbs 7.249 23
Every man brings into society some partial thought and local
culture.
Cour 7.272 4
Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.
Florence Nightingale brings lint and the blessing of her shadow.
Suc 7.298 13
[The city boy in the October woods] is suddenly initiated into
a pomp and glory that brings to pass for him the dreams of romance.
PI 8.14 3
...[a new symbol] will last a hundred years. Then comes a new
genius, and brings another.
PI 8.53 2
The poet, like a delighted boy, brings you heaps of rainbow-bubbles...
instead of a few drops of soap and water.
Res 8.140 17
The marked events in history...each of these events...supples
the tough barbarous sinew, and brings it into that state of sensibility which
makes the transition to civilization possible and sure.
Insp 8.284 26
...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it,
instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./
Aris 10.44 1
...when the well-mixed man is born...he brings with him
fortune, followers, love, power.
PerF 10.77 22
Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise...what he
chiefly brings, all he brings...is...his thoughts...
PerF 10.78 5
It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the
performance of each of these mental forces; as of the diving-bell of the
Memory, which descends into the deeps of our past and oldest experience
and brings up every lost jewel;...
Edc1 10.123 2
With the key of the secret he marches faster/ From strength
to strength, and for night brings day,/ While classes or tribes too weak to
master/ The flowing conditions of life, give way./
Supl 10.175 24
...[Nature] brings the most heartless trifler to determined
purpose presently.
SovE 10.187 19
...every truth brings that which will supplant it.
Prch 10.234 7
A vivid thought brings the power to paint it;...
MoL 10.257 12
War, seeking for the roots of strength, comes upon the
moral aspects at once. In quiet times, custom...brings in the brazen devil, as
by immemorial right.
EWI 11.120 12
The manner in which the new festival [of emancipation in
the West Indies] was celebrated, brings tears to the eyes.
War 11.152 18
War...brings men into such swift and close collision in
critical moments that man measures man.
War 11.157 4
...trade brings men to look each other in the face...
FSLC 11.180 6
Every hour brings us from distant quarters of the Union the
expression of mortification at the late events in Massachusetts...
FSLC 11.196 2
A wicked law cannot be executed by good men, and must
be by bad. Flagitious men must be employed, and every act of theirs is a
stab at the public peace. It cannot be executed at such a cost, and so it
brings a bribe in its hand.
FSLN 11.218 25
There is, no doubt, chaff enough in what [the newsboy]
brings;...
Koss 11.396 3
God said, I am tired of kings,/ I suffer them no more;/ Up to
my ear the morning brings/ The outrage of the poor./
Koss 11.398 2
The mighty tread/ Brings from the dust the sound of liberty./
Wom 11.422 17
Every one is a half vote, but the next elector behind him
brings the other or corresponding half in his hand...
FRO1 11.479 26
What strikes me in the sudden movement which brings
together to-day so many separated friends...was some practical suggestions
by which we were to reanimate and reorganize for ourselves the true
Church...
FRep 11.524 19
Whilst each cabal...at last brings...men whose names are a
knell to all hope of progress, the good and wise are hidden in their active
retirements...
PLT 12.13 20
I want not the logic, but the power, if any, which
[metaphysics] brings into science and literature;...
PLT 12.20 24
...a well-ordered mind brings to the study of every new fact
or class of facts a certain divination of that which it shall find.
CL 12.151 26
The world has nothing to offer more rich or entertaining than
the days which October always brings us...
ACri 12.303 11
[Writing] brings man into alliance with what is great and
eternal.
Let 12.401 12
On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German.
Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken...that with them, truly, life
is shallow and anxious and full of discord because they despise genius,
which brings power and nobleness into manly action...
brink, n. (7)
Nat 1.9 22
I am glad to the brink of fear.
Hsm1 2.263 14
We rapidly approach a brink over which no enemy can
follow us...
Pt1 3.33 12
On the brink of the waters of life and truth, we are miserably
dying.
Exp 3.56 27
[Our friends] stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and
power...
WD 7.164 3
...the new man always finds himself standing on the brink of
chaos...
PC 8.211 7
Here...the freedom of action goes to the brink, if not over the
brink, of license.
FSLC 11.209 23
We are on the brink of more wonders.
Brisbane, Albert, n. (2)
LLNE 10.348 25
We had an opportunity of learning something of these
Socialists and their theory, from...Albert Brisbane.
LLNE 10.348 25
Mr. Brisbane pushed his doctrine with all the force of
memory, talent, honest faith and importunacy.
Briscoll, Mr., n. (1)
ET13 5.222 4
Wellington esteems a saint only as far as he can be an army
chaplain: Mr. Briscoll, by his admirable conduct and good sense, got the
better of Methodism, which had appeared among the soldiers and once
among the officers.
brisk, adj. (5)
Hist 2.34 3
...[Goethe's Helena]...awakens the reader's invention and
fancy...by the unceasing succession of brisk shocks of surprise.
Cir 2.312 24
...some Petrarch or Ariosto...writes me an ode or a brisk
romance...
PPh 4.39 17
...every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to
each reluctant generation...is some reader of Plato...
SS 7.15 3
What to do with these brisk young men who break through all
fences...
Suc 7.297 17
What is so admirable as the health of youth?--with his long
days because...brisk circulations keep him warm in cold rooms...
bristle, n. (1)
War 11.165 22
He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in their
glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart.
bristled, v. (1)
EPro 11.322 23
[Lincoln] might look wistfully for what variety of courses
lay open to him; every line but one was closed up with fire. This one
[Emancipation], too, bristled with danger...
bristling, v. (1)
AmS 1.111 22
...let me see every trifle bristling with the polarity that
ranges it instantly on an eternal law;...
Bristol, England, n. (1)
EWI 11.108 21
[Thomas] Clarkson went to Bristol, made himself
acquainted with the interior of the slave-ships and the details of the trade.