Close to Coldness
close, adj. (25)
Lov1 2.171 5
...we must leave a too close and lingering adherence to facts...
Lov1 2.173 3
Among the throng of girls [the village boy] runs rudely
enough, but one alone distances him; and these two little neighbors, that
were so close just now, have learned to respect each other's personality.
Fdsp 2.209 18
Of course [your friend] has merits...that you cannot honor if
you must needs hold him close to your person.
Int 2.328 15
You cannot with your best deliberation and heed come so
close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you...
Mrs1 3.142 4
Another anecdote is so close to my matter, that I must hazard
the story.
Nat2 3.170 6
We have crept out of our close and crowded houses into the
night and morning...
NER 3.257 2
...I do not like the close air of saloons.
MoS 4.165 26
...I, [says Montaigne,]...am afraid that Plato, in his purest
virtue, if he had listened and laid his ear close to himself, would have heard
some jarring sound of human mixture;...
ET4 5.47 17
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue...
ET7 5.126 3
Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says of them,--In close
intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know, they
speak,/...
Wth 6.101 11
Success consists in close appliance to the laws of the world...
WD 7.168 4
Czar Alexander...wished to call the Pacific my ocean; and the
Americans were obliged to resist his attempts to make it a close sea.
PC 8.215 14
The war-proa of the Malays in the Japanese waters struck
Commodore Perry by its close resemblance to the yacht America.
Grts 8.316 17
...in the lives of soldiers, sailors and men of large adventure,
many of the stays and guards of our household life are wanting, and yet the
opportunities and incentives to sublime daring and performance are often
close at hand.
Prch 10.234 5
Given the insight, [the deep observer] will find as many
beauties and heroes and strokes of genius close by him as Dante or
Shakspeare beheld.
LLNE 10.358 17
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 10.369 3
[Brook Farm] was a close union...
War 11.152 19
War...brings men into such swift and close collision in
critical moments that man measures man.
EPro 11.319 5
...an event [Emancipation] worth the dreadful war...seems
now to be close before us.
RBur 11.441 2
...I find [Burns's] grand plain sense in close chain with the
greatest masters...
FRO1 11.480 12
What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred
friendships between heroes, the Sacred Bands, and the relations of the
Pythagorean disciples. Our Masonic institutions probably grew from the
like origin. The close association which bound the first disciples of Jesus is
another example;...
CW 12.169 2
Not many men see beauty in the fogs/ Of close, low pine-woods
in a river town;/...
Bost 12.202 3
[The Massachusetts colonists] could say to themselves, Well,
at least this yoke of man, of bishops, of courtiers, of dukes, is off my neck.
We are a little too close to wolf and famine than that anybody should give
himself airs here in the swamp.
ACri 12.294 6
...[Shakespeare's] very sonnets are as solid and close to
facts as the Banker's Gazette;...
Let 12.397 3
The loneliest man, after twenty years, discovers that he stood
in a circle of friends, who will then show like a close fraternity held by
some masonic tie.
close, adv. (18)
AmS 1.92 7
There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when
this poet...says that which lies close to my own soul...
LT 1.289 27
The granite is curiously concealed a thousand formations and
surfaces...but it...is always indicating its presence by slight but sure signs.
So is it with the Life of our life; so close does that also hide.
Pt1 3.13 15
...the carpenter's stretched cord, if you hold your ear close
enough, is musical in the breeze.
Pt1 3.41 23
Thou [O poet] shalt lie close hid with nature...
GoW 4.273 23
Amid littleness and detail, [Goethe] detected the Genius of
life...nestling close beside us...
GoW 4.290 12
Genius hovers with [Goethe's] sunshine and music close by
the darkest and deafest eras.
ET5 5.87 8
...[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...
ET11 5.179 6
The names [of English towns and districts] are excellent,--an
atmosphere of legendary melody spread over the land. Older than all epics
and histories which clothe a nation, this undershirt sits close to the body.
ET12 5.199 15
I was the guest of my friend [Arthur Hugh Clough] in Oriel
[College, Oxford], was housed close upon that college...
ET13 5.216 25
The Catholic Church, thrown on this toiling, serious people
[of England], has made in fourteen centuries a massive system, close fitted
to the manners and genius of the country...
Wth 6.115 9
[The pale scholar] stoops to pull up a purslain or a dock that is
choking the young corn, and finds there are two; close behind the last is a
third;...
Farm 7.137 4
[The farmer] stands close to Nature;...
Cour 7.262 9
Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the
British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied Sir Alexander Ball,
as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to attack...I was ready to faint
away. Lieutenant Ball...placed himself close beside me...and whispered,
Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so;...
FSLC 11.183 9
However close Mr. Wolf's nails have been pared, however
neatly he has been shaved, and tailored...he cannot be relied on at a pinch...
FSLN 11.222 6
...[Webster] saw through his matter, hugged his fact so
close...
PLT 12.35 23
The mythology cleaves close to Nature;...
CInt 12.129 23
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 26
The facts disclosed by...Greenough, Ruskin, Garbett,
Penrose, are joyful possessions...which we rank close beside the disclosures
of natural history.
close, n. (7)
AmS 1.81 21
...our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws
to a close.
Chr1 3.96 4
An individual is an encloser. Time and space...truth and
thought, are left at large no longer. Now, the universe is a close or pound.
ET9 5.146 5
Mr. Coleridge is said to have given public thanks to God, at
the close of a lecture, that he had defended him from being able to utter a
single sentence in the French language.
Bhr 6.184 13
The theatre in which this science of manners has a formal
importance is not with us a court, but dress-circles, wherein, after the close
of the day's business, men and women meet at leisure...
MMEm 10.421 1
Hard to contend for a health which is daily used in
petition for a final close.
HDC 11.77 24
I have found within a few days, among some family papers,
[William Emerson's] almanac of 1775...and at the close of the month
[April], he writes, This month remarkable for the greatest events of the
present age.
FSLN 11.239 9
[The Greeks] said of the happiness of the unjust, that at its
close it begets itself an offspring...and...there sprouts forth for posterity
every-ravening calamity...
close, v. (7)
LT 1.267 1
As the solar system moves forward in the heavens, certain stars
open before us, and certain stars close up behind us;...
Boks 7.217 7
[In the novel] A thousand thoughts awoke; great rainbows
seemed to span the sky...but we close the book and not a ray remains in the
memory of evening.
Clbs 7.239 26
When Henry III. (1217) plead duress against his people
demanding confirmation and execution of the Charter, the reply was: If this
were admitted, civil wars could never close but by the extirpation of one of
the contending parties.
Imtl 8.345 24
...one abstains from writing or printing on the immortality of
the soul, because, when he comes to the end of his statement, the hungry
eyes that run through it will close disappointed;...
Plu 10.320 9
I cannot close these notes without expressing my sense of the
valuable service which the Editor [of Plutarch's Morals] has rendered to his
Author and to his readers.
PLT 12.48 26
I have heard that idiot children are known from their birth by
the circumstance that their hands do not close round anything.
PPr 12.388 16
One excellence [Carlyle] has in an age of Mammon and of
criticism, that he never suffers the eye of his wonder to close.
closed, adj. (3)
ET6 5.105 10
An Englishman walks in a pouring rain, swinging his closed
umbrella like a walking-stick;...and no remark is made.
ET13 5.214 16
A youth marries in haste; afterwards...he is asked what he
thinks...of the right relations of the sexes? I should have much to say, he
might reply, if the question were open, but I have a wife and children, and
all question is closed for me.
PPo 8.261 21
While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The nightingale to the
falcon said/ Why, of all birds, must thou be dumb?/ With closed mouth thou
utterest,/ Though dying, no last word to man./
closed, v. (21)
DSA 1.144 13
The stationariness of religion; the assumption...that the Bible
is closed;...indicate...the falsehood of our theology.
MR 1.242 3
...there were two pairs of eyes in man, and it is requisite that
the pair which are beneath should be closed, when the pair that are above
them perceive...
MR 1.242 5
...there were two pairs of eyes in man, and it is requisite that...
when the pair above are closed, those which are beneath should be opened.
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...terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth
which was waiting to be closed...
Exp 3.54 23
Into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed,
through which the creator passes.
Exp 3.64 21
Whilst the debate goes forward on the equity of commerce,
and will not be closed for a century or two, New and Old England may keep
shop.
UGM 4.20 25
With each new mind, a new secret of nature transpires; nor
can the Bible be closed until the last great man is born.
ET10 5.171 8
A large family is reckoned a misfortune [in England]. And it
is a consolation in the death of the young, that a source of expense is closed.
ET13 5.222 12
I suspect that there is in an Englishman's brain a valve that
can be closed at pleasure...
SA 8.98 12
...On the day of resurrection, those who have indulged in
ridicule will be called to the door of Paradise, and have it shut in their faces
when they reach it. Again, on their turning back, they will be called to
another door, and again, on reaching it, will see it closed against them...
PPo 8.257 19
The sweet narcissus closed/ Its eye, with passion pressed;/
The tulips out of envy burned/ Moles in their scarlet breast./
Edc1 10.152 15
Each [pupil] requires so much consideration, that the
morning hope of the teacher...is often closed at evening by despair.
Prch 10.237 12
There are two pairs of eyes in man; and it is requisite that
the pair which are beneath should be closed when the pair that are above
them perceive;...
Prch 10.237 14
There are two pairs of eyes in man; and it is requisite that...
when the pair above are closed, those which are beneath are opened.
MMEm 10.409 5
As a traveller enters some fine palace and finds all the
doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some avenues and passages, so
have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over the
apartments of social affections...
MMEm 10.418 1
My [Mary Moody Emerson's] uncle has been the means
of lessening my property. Ridiculous to wound him for that. He was
honestly seeking his own. But at last, this very night, the bargain is closed...
LS 11.10 26
[Jesus] closed his discourse [at Capernaum] with these
explanatory expressions: The flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I speak
to you, they are spirit and they are life.
HDC 11.82 6
...in 1788, the town [Concord], by its delegate, accepted the
new Constitution of the United States, and this event closed the whole
series of important public events in which this town played a part.
EPro 11.322 22
[Lincoln] might look wistfully for what variety of courses
lay open to him; every line but one was closed up with fire.
PLT 12.60 6
This premature stop, I know not how, befalls most of us in
early youth; as if...the access to rare truths, closed at two or three years in
the child...
EurB 12.376 12
Everything good in such a story [novel of character]
remains with the reader when the book is closed.
closely, adv. (6)
Boks 7.208 14
Another class of books closely allied to these
[Autobiographies], and of like interest, are those which may be called
Table-Talks...
PPo 8.252 7
The [Persian] law of the ghaselle, or shorter ode, requires that
the poet insert his name in the last stanza. Almost every one of several
hundreds of poems of Hafiz contains his name thus interwoven more or less
closely with the subject of the piece.
ALin 11.329 11
...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind
as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement; and
this, not so much because nations are by modern arts brought so closely
together...
PLT 12.44 11
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.
MAng1 12.218 24
...certain minds, more closely harmonized with Nature,
possess the power of abstracting Beauty from things...
Trag 12.406 10
Melancholy cleaves to the English mind in both
hemispheres as closely as to the strings of an Aeolian harp.
closeness, n. (7)
Hist 2.30 19
...[the story of Prometheus] gives the history of religion, with
some closeness to the faith of later ages.
ShP 4.215 18
We say, from the truth and closeness of [Shakespeare's]
pictures, that he knows the lesson by heart.
ET14 5.236 15
There is a...closeness to the matter in hand, even in the
second and third class of [English] writers;...
Wth 6.100 17
Probity and closeness to the facts are the basis [of
commerce]...
FSLN 11.222 23
[Webster] worked with that closeness of adhesion to the
matter in hand which a joiner or a chemist uses...
ALin 11.333 23
...the weight and penetration of many passages in [Lincoln'
s] letters, messages and speeches, hidden now by the very closeness of their
application to the moment, are destined hereafter to wide fame.
WSL 12.347 6
[Landor] has commented on a wide variety of writers, with
a closeness and extent of view which has enhanced the value of those
authors to his readers.
closer, adj. (7)
OS 2.275 7
With each divine impulse the mind...comes out into eternity,
and inspires and expires its air. It...becomes conscious of a closer sympathy
with Zeno and Arrian than with persons in the house.
ET16 5.286 16
We [Emerson and Carlyle] passed in the train Clarendon
Park, but could see little but the edge of a wood, though Carlyle had wished
to pay closer attention to the birthplace of the Decrees of Clarendon.
Wth 6.99 6
If properties of this kind [works of art] were owned by states,
towns and lyceums, they would draw the bonds of neighborhood closer.
PI 8.6 13
...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of
matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind;...
MAng1 12.221 22
...reflection discloses evermore a closer analogy
between the finite [human] form and the infinite inhabitant.
MAng1 12.223 10
There is a closer relation than is commonly thought
between the fine arts and the useful arts;...
Milt1 12.252 17
We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton'
s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the
recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson, because it...was finer and
closer appreciation;...
closer, adv. (3)
Tran 1.351 27
...to come a little closer to the secret of these persons, we
must say that to [Transcendentalists] it seems a very easy matter to answer
the objections of the man of the world...
MMEm 10.416 16
Folly follows me [Mary Moody Emerson] as the
shadow does the form. Yet my whole life devoted to find some new truth
which will link me closer to God.
FRep 11.517 7
The lodging the power in the people...has the effect of
holding things closer to common sense;...
closes, v. (3)
GoW 4.275 16
...the tape-worm, the caterpillar, goes from knot to knot and
closes with the head [wrote Goethe].
F 6.10 27
When each comes forth from his mother's womb, the gate of gifts
closes behind him.
F 6.35 24
Behind every individual closes organization;...
closest, adj. (3)
Aris 10.64 23
...I believe in the closest affinity between moral and material
power.
SovE 10.203 12
[Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and
ceremonial occasion...perhaps on a sublime national victory or a peace. But
that, be sure, is not the religion of the universal, unsleeping providence,
which lurks...in...our closest thoughts...
LLNE 10.363 1
...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who
found his daily enjoyment not with the elders or his exact contemporaries
so much as with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;
forming the closest friendships with such...
closet, adj. (2)
SR 2.72 8
Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at
once at thy closet door...
Wth 6.93 18
Columbus thinks that the sphere is a problem for practical
navigation as well as for closet geometry...
closet, n. (19)
Nat 1.75 19
It were a wise inquiry for the closet, to compare...our daily
history with the rise and progress of ideas in the mind.
DSA 1.150 18
Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us; first
the Sabbath...whose light dawns welcome alike into the closet of the
philosopher, into the garret of toil...
Con 1.309 22
...the moon and the north star you would quickly have
occasion for in your closet and bed-chamber.
OS 2.276 14
In ascending to this primary and aboriginal sentiment we have
come from our remote station on the circumference instantaneously to the
centre of the world, where, as in the closet of God, we see causes, and
anticipate the universe...
OS 2.294 21
...if [man] would know what the great God speaketh, he must
go into his closet and shut the door...
Cir 2.306 14
The last chamber, the last closet, [every man] must feel was
never opened;...
Exp 3.65 15
...stay there in thy closet and toil until the rest are agreed what
to do about it.
ShP 4.207 6
That imagination which dilates the closet [Shakespeare] writes
in to the world's dimension...as quickly reduces the big reality to be the
glimpses of the moon.
ET15 5.268 14
[The London Times] draws from any number of learned and
skilful contributors; but a more learned and skilful person supervises,
corrects, and co-ordinates. Of this closet, the secret does not transpire.
Boks 7.219 7
...[the sacred books] are for the closet...
Cour 7.254 7
Men admire...the man...who, sitting in his closet, can lay out
the plans of a campaign...
Elo2 8.121 16
...some orators go to the assembly as to a closet where to
find their best thoughts.
Elo2 8.127 26
The doctor [Charles Chauncy]...shut up in his closet and his
theology, had lost some natural relation to men...
PPo 8.249 13
Love is a leveller, and Allah becomes a groom, and heaven a
closet, in [Hafiz's] daring hymns to his mistress or to his cupbearer.
Insp 8.287 14
Do you want...Helvellyn, or Plinlimmon, dear to English
song, in your closet?
Imtl 8.338 8
I have a house, a closet which holds my books, a table, a
garden, a field...
Chr2 10.116 24
...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind,
retain the traditions, but they carry them quietly. In general discourse, they
are never obtruded. If the clergyman should travel...he might leave them
locked up in the same closet with his occasional sermons...
Plu 10.307 4
...we expect this awe and reverence of the spiritual power
from the philosopher in his closet...
Shak1 11.450 6
...[Shakespeare] is yet to all wise men the companion of
the closet.
closets, n. (2)
Bty 6.295 6
In a house that I know, I have noticed a block of spermaceti
lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty years together...
Aris 10.54 9
The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence]
certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh, and weep, in their
eloquent closets...
closing, adj. (1)
FSLN 11.226 2
In the final hour, when he was forced by the peremptory
necessity of the closing armies to take a side,-did [Webster] take the part
of great principles...or the side of abuse and oppression and chaos?
closing, v. (6)
Nat 1.46 21
...when [our friend] has...become an object of thought, and...is
converted in the mind into solid and sweet wisdom, - it is a sign to us that
his office is closing...
YA 1.393 3
Instead of the open future expanding here before the eye of
every boy to vastness, would they like the closing in of the future to a
narrow slit of sky...
SwM 4.97 8
All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints...
Myesis, the closing of the eyes...
GoW 4.275 14
The plant goes from knot to knot, closing at last with the
flower and the seed [wrote Goethe].
ET14 5.249 5
...the misfortune of [Coleridge's] life, his vast attempts but
most inadequate performings...seems to mark the closing of an era.
ACri 12.292 10
A Mr. Randall, M. C., who appeared before the committee
of the House of Commons on the subject of the American mode of closing a
debate, said, that the one-hour rule worked well; made the debate short and
graphic.
cloth, adj. (1)
OA 7.316 9
Wellington, in speaking of military men, said, What masks are
these uniforms to hide cowards! I have often detected the like deception in
the cloth shoe...of Age.
cloth, n. (12)
MR 1.238 7
Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies, as...
cloth by moths;...
Fdsp 2.198 26
...these uneasy pleasures and fine pains [of friendship] are...
not for life. They are not to be indulged. This is to weave cobweb, and not
cloth.
ET5 5.99 20
[Englishmen's] minds, like wool, admit of a dye which is
more lasting than the cloth.
ET10 5.167 2
...the machine unmans the user. What he gains in making
cloth, he loses in general power.
ET10 5.167 3
There should be temperance in making cloth, as well as in
eating.
Pow 6.82 5
A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin...
Wth 6.119 8
Now, the farmer buys almost all he consumes,--tinware, cloth,
sugar, tea, coffee, fish, coal, railroad tickets and newspapers.
SA 8.80 21
I think Hans Andersen's story of the cobweb cloth woven so
fine that it was invisible...must mean manners...
LLNE 10.345 22
[The pilgrim] thought every one should labor at some
necessary product, and as soon as he had made more than enough for
himself, were it corn, or paper, or cloth, or boot-jacks, he should give of the
commodity to any applicant...
Thor 10.462 12
[Thoreau] had a strong common sense, like that which
Rose Flammock, the weaver's daughter in Scott's romance [The
Betrothed], commends in her father, as resembling a yardstick, which,
whilst it measures dowlas and diaper, can equally well measure tapestry and
cloth of gold.
HDC 11.38 1
Our [Concord] Records affirm that Squaw Sachem,
Tahattawan, and Nimrod did sell a tract of six miles square to the English,
receiving for the same, some fathoms of Wampumpeag, hatchets, hoes,
knives, cotton cloth and shirts.
HDC 11.38 2
Wibbacowet, the husband of Squaw Sachem, received a suit
of cloth, a hat, a white linen band, shoes, stockings and a greatcoat;...
Cloth of Gold, Field of the (1)
PPr 12.390 5
Carlyle, in his strange, half-mad way, has entered the Field of
the Cloth of Gold...
clothe, v. (24)
Nat 1.21 6
Does not the New World clothe [Columbus's] form with her
palm-groves and savannahs as fit drapery?
Nat 1.30 17
Hundreds of writers may be found...who do not of themselves
clothe one thought in its natural garment...
Nat 1.32 19
...we see that [nature] always stands ready to clothe what we
would say...
Con 1.306 12
In his first consideration how to feed, clothe, and warm
himself, [the youth] is met by warnings on every hand that this thing and
that thing have owners...
SR 2.57 13
...when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them
heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color.
ET10 5.161 4
[Steam] can clothe shingle mountains with ship-oaks...
ET11 5.179 5
The names [of English towns and districts] are excellent,--an
atmosphere of legendary melody spread over the land. Older than all epics
and histories which clothe a nation, this undershirt sits close to the body.
F 6.41 20
In youth we clothe ourselves with rainbows...
Pow 6.73 3
Michel [Angelo] was wont to draw his figures first in skeleton,
then to clothe them with flesh...
Wth 6.83 16
From air the creeping centuries drew/ The matted thicket low
and wide,/ This must the leaves of ages strew/ The granite slab to clothe
and hide,/ Ere wheat can wave its golden pride./
CbW 6.275 9
...we live...not only with the young whom we are to...clothe
with the advantages we have earned...
Ill 6.314 5
Amid the joyous troop who give in to the charivari, comes now
and then a sad-eyed boy whose eyes lack the requisite refractions to clothe
the show in due glory...
Farm 7.139 13
...[the farmer's] rule is that the earth shall feed and clothe
him;...
PI 8.17 24
As soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in
relation to it, fields, waters, skies, offer to clothe his thoughts in images.
SA 8.80 23
I think Hans Andersen's story of the cobweb cloth woven so
fine that it was invisible--woven for the king's garment--must mean
manners, which do really clothe a princely nature.
Elo2 8.117 13
The special ingredients of this force [of eloquence] are...
logic; imagination, or the skill to clothe your thought in natural images;...
LS 11.17 24
I fear it is the effect of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper] to
clothe Jesus with an authority which he never claimed...
EdAd 11.386 2
We hearken in vain for any profound voice...intelligently
announcing duties which clothe life with joy...
RBur 11.442 26
...Burns knew how to take from fairs and gypsies,
blacksmiths and drovers, the speech of the market and street, and clothe it
with melody.
Mem 12.95 1
Am I asked whether the thoughts clothe themselves in words?
MAng1 12.234 21
As [Michelangelo] refused to undo his work [The Last
Judgment], Daniel di Volterra was employed to clothe the figures;...
Milt1 12.260 11
At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language,
saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave
argument,-Such as may make thee search thy coffers round,/ Before thou
clothe my fancy in fit sound;/...
Milt1 12.260 21
The world, no doubt, contains many of that class of men
whom Wordsworth denominates silent poets, whose minds teem with
images which they want words to clothe.
ACri 12.281 1
To clothe the fiery thought/ In simple words succeeds,/ For
still the craft of genius is/ To mask a king in weeds./
clothed, adj. (1)
CbW 6.250 17
...[nature] scatters nations of naked Indians and nations of
clothed Christians, with two or three good heads among them.
clothed, v. (27)
MN 1.205 19
The great Pan of old, who was clothed in a leopard skin to
signify the beautiful variety of things...was but the representative of thee, O
rich and various Man!...
Tran 1.338 15
...we have yet no man...who, working for universal aims,
found himself...clothed, sheltered, weaponed, he knew not how...
OS 2.274 15
...the web of events is the flowing robe in which [the soul] is
clothed.
Chr1 3.111 18
...when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor...
clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments, it should be a
festival of nature which all things announce.
PPh 4.43 5
Plato is clothed with the powers of a poet...
ShP 4.212 9
[Shakespeare] clothed the creatures of his legend with form
and sentiments as if they were people who had lived under his roof;...
NMW 4.240 10
[Napoleon's] grand weapon, namely the millions whom he
directed, he owed to the representative character which clothed him.
GoW 4.273 20
[Goethe] has clothed our modern existence with poetry.
Pow 6.63 25
This power [in American politics]...is not clothed in satin.
Bhr 6.172 18
We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;...
to get [people] washed, clothed, and set up on end;...
Wsp 6.238 16
If there ever was a good man, be certain there was another
and will be more. And so in relation to...that spectre clothed with beauty at
our curtain by night...
Bty 6.304 19
Chaff and dust...are clothed about with immortality.
SS 7.10 13
A man must be clothed with society...
SA 8.81 8
Though the person so clothed [in manners] wrestle with you...he
is yet a thousand miles off...
Imtl 8.327 26
Swedenborg...announced many things true and admirable,
though always clothed in somewhat sad and Stygian colors.
Schr 10.286 15
[The scholar] is to eat insult, drink insult, be clothed and
shod in insult...
Schr 10.287 16
[The scholar] is still to decline how many glittering
opportunities, and to retreat, and wait. So shall you find in this penury and
absence of thought a purer splendor than ever clothed the exhibitions of wit.
MMEm 10.414 26
...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out this
afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me...I weary
of my pilgrimage,-tired that I must again be clothed in the grandeurs of
winter...
EWI 11.124 14
The sugar [the negroes] raised was excellent: nobody tasted
blood in it. The coffee was fragrant;...the cotton clothed the world.
EWI 11.126 9
It was very easy for manufacturers...to see that...if the slaves
[in the West Indies] had wages, the slaves would be clothed, would build
houses...
EWI 11.133 10
To what purpose have we clothed each of those
representatives with the power of seventy thousand persons...if they are to
sit dumb at their desks and see their constituents captured and sold;...
EWI 11.145 16
...now let [the black race] emerge, clothed and in their own
form.
War 11.171 11
...[peace] is to hear the voice of God, which bids the devils
that have rended and torn [the man] come out of him and let him now be
clothed and walk forth in his right mind.
JBS 11.277 21
...[John Brown] went bareheaded and barefooted, and
clothed in buskskin.
Wom 11.414 26
When a daughter is born, says the Shiking, the old Sacred
Book of China, she sleeps on the ground, she is clothed with a wrapper...
MAng1 12.221 14
When Michael Angelo would begin a statue, he made
first on paper the skeleton; afterwards, upon another paper, the same figure
clothed with muscles.
PPr 12.388 14
If the good heaven have any good word to impart to this
unworthy generation, here is one scribe [Carlyle] qualified and clothed for
its occasion.
clothes, n. (39)
Con 1.316 15
...[riches] take somewhat for everything they give. I look
bigger, but I am less; I have more clothes, but am not so warm;...
Mrs1 3.146 1
There is still ever some admirable person in plain clothes...
Pol1 3.202 2
One man owns his clothes, and another owns a county.
NR 3.237 11
We...get our clothes and shoes made and mended...
ET5 5.84 5
A manufacturer [in England] sits down to dinner in a suit of
clothes which was wool on a sheep's back at sunrise.
ET7 5.119 16
Plain rich clothes, plain rich equipage, plain rich finish
throughout their house and belongings mark the English truth.
ET10 5.153 9
A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls;--if you
have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?
ET11 5.179 19
Waltham is strong town; Radcliffe is red cliff; and so on,--a
sincerity and use in naming very striking to an American, whose country is
whitewashed all over by unmeaning names, the cast-off clothes of the
country from which its emigrants came;...
Wth 6.87 19
Wealth begins...in two suits of clothes...
Wth 6.114 6
Pride can go without...fine clothes...
Ctr 6.151 2
How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes of some great man
passing incognito, as a king in gray clothes;...
Ctr 6.151 10
How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Goethe, who
preferred...worse rather than better clothes...
Ctr 6.152 20
The Italians are fond of red clothes...
Bhr 6.171 16
Your manners are always under examination, and by...a
police in citizens' clothes...
Bhr 6.190 1
Under the humblest roof, the commonest person in plain
clothes sits there massive, cheerful, yet formidable...
Wsp 6.226 19
...the divine assessors who came up with [a man] into life...
like a police in citizens' clothes,--walk with him, step for step...
Bty 6.300 8
...petulant old gentlemen...who see, after a world of pains have
been successfully taken for the costume, how the least mistake in sentiment
takes all the beauty out of your clothes,--affirm that the secret of ugliness
consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
SS 7.4 26
[My friend] went to Vienna, to Smyrna, to London. In all the
variety of costumes...a kaleidoscope of clothes...he could never discover a
man in the street who wore anything like his own dress.
DL 7.121 13
...[the eager, blushing boys] sigh for fine clothes...
SA 8.87 22
[The young European emigrant's] good and becoming clothes
put him on thinking that he must behave like people who are so dressed;...
SA 8.99 23
...[manners and talk] require...human labor for food, clothes,
house, tools...
Res 8.151 10
[Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds, and
mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in the country...wants coarse
clothes, old shoes...
Comc 8.165 2
...the inertia of men inclines them, when the [religious]
sentiment sleeps, to imitate that thing it did; it...makes the mistake of...the
clothes for the man.
Comc 8.170 9
The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance
of the man out of Nature...as if truth and virtue should be bowed out of
creation by the clothes they wore, is the secret of all the fun that circulates
concerning eminent fops and fashionists...
QO 8.197 24
...James Hogg...is but a third-rate author, owing his fame to
his effigy colossalized through the lens of John Wilson,-who, again,
writes better under the domino of Christopher North than in his proper
clothes.
Insp 8.272 17
Fine clothes, equipages...cannot cover up real poverty and
insignificance...
MoL 10.251 6
A redeeming trait of the Sophists of Athens...is that they
made their own clothes and shoes.
LLNE 10.366 25
The ladies [at Brook Farm] took cold on washing-day; so
it was ordained that the gentlemen-shepherds should wring and hang out
clothes;...
MMEm 10.419 23
I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars a year for
clothes and charity...
EWI 11.126 12
It was very easy for manufacturers...to see that...if the
slaves [in the West Indies] had wages, the slaves would be clothed...and
negro women love fine clothes as well as white women.
AKan 11.256 22
In these calamities under which they suffer...the people of
Kansas ask for bread, clothes, arms and men...
AKan 11.263 20
When [the country] is lost it will be time enough then for
any who are luckless enough to remain alive to gather up their clothes and
depart to some land where freedom exists.
JBS 11.276 8
A thousand transformations rose/ From fair to foul, from foul
to fair:/ The golden crown he did not spare,/ Nor scorn the beggar's clothes./
JBS 11.278 2
...for [rough play] it needed that the playmates should be
equal; not one in fine clothes and the other in buckskin;...
ACiv 11.298 18
The boys have no new clothes, no gifts, no journeys;...
SMC 11.372 22
June fourth is marked in [George Prescott's] diary as An
awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command; and not until the fifth
of June comes at last a respite for a short space, during which...the officers
were able to send to the wagons and procure a change of clothes...
CL 12.142 10
The qualifications of a professor [of walking] are endurance,
plain clothes, old shoes...
Bost 12.197 1
...the necessity, which always presses the Northerner, of
providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against the
long winter, makes him anxiously frugal...
MAng1 12.228 10
...[Michelangelo] told Vasari that he often slept in his
clothes [while painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling], both because he was too
weary to undress, and because he would rise in the night and go
immediately to work.
clothes, v. (7)
Nat 1.31 1
The moment our discourse...is...exalted by thought, it clothes
itself in images.
LT 1.288 19
...where but in that Thought through which we communicate
with absolute nature, and are made aware that...the law which clothes us
with humanity remains anew?...shall we learn the Truth?
F 6.48 2
A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.
Suc 7.300 16
[Color] clothes the skeleton world with space, variety and
glow.
War 11.164 8
Observe how every truth and every error...clothes itself with
societies, houses, cities...
MAng1 12.233 17
Through [superficial beauty] [Michelangelo] beheld the
eternal spiritual beauty which ever clothes itself with grand and graceful
outlines...
PPr 12.387 14
...[each age's] limitation assumes the poetic form of a
beautiful superstition, as the dimness of our sight clothes the objects in the
horizon with mist and color.
clothespins, n. (1)
LLNE 10.366 27
The ladies [at Brook Farm] took cold on washing-day; so
it was ordained that the gentlemen-shepherds should wring and hang out
clothes; which they punctually did. And it would sometimes occur that
when they danced in the evening, clothespins dropped plentifully from their
pockets.
clothing, n. (4)
CbW 6.273 22
...we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient;...
Civ 7.19 15
A nation that has no clothing...we call barbarous.
EzRy 10.381 23
...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with the late Rev. Dr.
Forbes of Gloucester...to fit Ezra for college...and to have him labor during
the time sufficiently to pay for his instruction, clothing and books.
EurB 12.367 24
...[Wordsworth] accepted the call to be a poet, and sat
down...with coarse clothing and plain fare to obey the heavenly vision.
clothing, v. (5)
Nat2 3.181 12
...by clothing the sides of a bird with a few feathers [nature]
gives him a petty omnipresence.
Ill 6.324 20
The intellect is stimulated by the statement of truth in a trope,
and the will by clothing the laws of life in illusions.
WD 7.168 18
How the day fits itself to the mind...clothing all its fancies!
Chr2 10.98 17
In the ever-returning hour of reflection, [a man] says: I
stand here glad at heart of all the sympathies I can awaken and share,
clothing myself with them as with a garment of shelter and beauty...
SMC 11.351 16
...whatever good grows to the country out of war, the
largest results, the future power and genius of the land, will go on clothing
this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.
cloths, n. (5)
MR 1.238 25
...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after
year collected, in one estate to his son,-house...cloths...the son finds his
hands full...
MR 1.244 21
[Our friend] is accustomed to carpets, and we have not
sufficient character to put floor cloths out of his mind while he stays in the
house...
UGM 4.4 25
The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to
buy cloths or carpets.
Supl 10.178 17
The European civility, or that of the positive degree, is
established...by agriculture for bread-stuffs, and manufacture of coarse and
family cloths.
EWI 11.141 3
Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of
African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture
of the negro; comprising cloths and loom, weapons...
cloud, n. (52)
Nat 1.17 5
The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of
crimson light.
Nat 1.34 8
Can such things be,/ And overcome us like a summer's cloud,/
Without our special wonder?/
AmS 1.94 24
...the world hangs before the eye as a cloud of beauty...
DSA 1.137 6
The faith should blend...with the flying cloud...
LE 1.157 6
...the mark of American merit...in eloquence, seems...a vase of
fair outline...which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible
beauty...
LT 1.282 12
A great perplexity hangs like a cloud on the brow of all
cultivated persons...
Hist 2.13 1
Upborne and surrounded as we are by this all-creating nature,
soft and fluid as a cloud or the air, why should we be such hard pedants,
and magnify a few forms?
Hist 2.13 20
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Hist 2.16 13
What is Guido's Rospigliosi Aurora but a morning thought, as
the horses in it are only a morning cloud?
Hist 2.18 22
...one summer day in the fields my companion pointed out to
me a broad cloud...
Lov1 2.185 9
Does that other [lover] see...the same melting cloud...that
now delights me?
Fdsp 2.210 16
Should not the society of my friend be to me...great as
nature itself? Ought I to feel that our tie is profane in comparison with
yonder bar of cloud...
Cir 2.321 19
True conquest is the causing the calamity to fade and
disappear as an early cloud of insignificant result...
Int 2.340 24
We talk with accomplished persons who appear to be strangers
in nature. The cloud, the tree, the turf, the bird, are not theirs...
Pt1 3.4 4
Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to talk of the spiritual
meaning of a ship or a cloud...
Pt1 3.12 19
Oftener it falls that this winged man, who will carry me into the
heaven...leaps and frisks about with me as it were from cloud to cloud...
PPh 4.60 14
[Plato] could well afford to be generous,--who from the
sunlike centrality and reach of his vision, had a faith without cloud.
ET1 5.7 4
I found [Landor]...living in a cloud of pictures at his Villa
Gherardesca...
F 6.48 17
There is no need for foolish amateurs to fetch me to admire...a
sun-gilt cloud...
Pow 6.70 23
The luxury...of electricity [is], not volleys of the charged
cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires.
Ctr 6.153 16
...in cities [the gods] have betrayed you to a cloud of
insignificant annoyances...
Bhr 6.187 20
Here comes to me Roland, with a delicacy of sentiment
leading and enwrapping him like a divine cloud or holy ghost.
Wsp 6.232 20
The lightning-rod that disarms the cloud of its threat is [man'
s] body in its duty.
Bty 6.288 9
We fancy, could we pronounce the solving word and
disenchant [beridden people], the cloud would roll up, the little rider would
be discovered and unseated...
Ill 6.320 21
The cloud is now as big as your hand, and now it covers a
county.
Ill 6.325 25
Every moment new changes and new showers of deceptions to
baffle and distract [the young mortal]. And when...for an instant...the cloud
lifts a little, there are the gods still sitting around him on their thrones,--they
alone with him alone.
Farm 7.136 2
[The farmer] planted where the deluge ploughed,/ His hired
hands were wind and cloud;/...
Farm 7.142 25
Who are the farmer's servants? Not the Irish...but...the
quarry of the air...the lightning of the cloud...
Clbs 7.229 17
[The student] seeks intelligent persons...who will give him
provocation, and at once and easily the old motion begins in his brain:
thoughts, fancies, humors flow; the cloud lifts;...
Suc 7.303 25
...[the lover] reads omens on the flower, and cloud, and face...
OA 7.313 16
...if it be to [clouds] allowed/ To fool me with a shining
cloud,/ So only new griefs are consoled/ By new delights, as old by old,/
Frankly I will be your guest,/ Count your change and cheer the best./
PI 8.48 4
Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining
on the night?/ I did not err, there does a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver
lining on the night./ Comus.
PI 8.48 6
Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining
on the night?/ I did not err, there does a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver
lining on the night./ Comus.
PI 8.51 20
History sinketh beneath [Oblivion's] cloud.
PC 8.217 1
...in [Michelangelo's] own days...you would need to hunt him
in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era...superior souls...drawn to
each other and under some cloud with the rest of the world;...
Aris 10.55 25
I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this
ambient cloud.
PerF 10.88 18
As cloud on cloud...so do nations of men and their
institutions rest on thoughts.
Prch 10.234 2
...new shop, or old cathedral, it is all one to [the deep
observer]. He will find...as deep a cloud of mystery on the cause...
EzRy 10.387 3
...I well remember [Ezra Ripley's] his pleading, almost
reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil
his hay. He...looked at the cloud, and said, We are in the Lord's hand; mind
your rake, George! We are in the Lord's hand;...
EzRy 10.393 27
Was a man a sot...or was there any cloud or suspicious
circumstances in his behavior, the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way
straight to that point...
MMEm 10.422 19
...the gray-headed god [Time] throws his shadows all
around, and his slaves catch...at the halo he throws around poetry, or
pebbles, bugs, or bubbles. Sometimes they climb, sometimes creep into the
meanest holes-but they are all alike in vanishing, like the shadow of a
cloud.
SlHr 10.446 23
...let the cloud rest where it might, [Samuel Hoar] dwelt in
eternal sunshine.
Thor 10.476 16
I have met one or two who have heard the hound, and the
tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud;...
EWI 11.136 18
Out it would come, the God's truth, out it came [in
emancipation in the West Indies], like a bolt from a cloud...
FSLC 11.202 24
We delighted...in [Webster's] daylight statement, simple
force; the facts lay like the strata of a cloud...
PLT 12.39 24
...the cloud of egotists drifting about are only interested in a
success to their egotism.
CInt 12.129 18
Only bring a deep observer, and he will make light of the
new shop or old cathedral...or new circumstances that afflict you. He will
find the circumstances not altered; as deep a cloud of mystery on the cause...
CL 12.145 14
[The farmer] makes every cloud in the sky, and every beam
of the sun, serve him.
CL 12.148 24
Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the
conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... They drive
before them in their course the long, vast, uninjurable, rain-retaining cloud.
CL 12.164 10
Every new perception of the method and beauty of Nature
gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure; and always for this double
reason: first, because they are so excellent in their primary fact, as frost, or
cloud, or fire, or animal;...
Bost 12.200 4
America is growing like a cloud...
ACri 12.292 27
Vulgarisms to be gazetted...considerable-it is
considerable of a compliment, under considerable of a cloud;...
cloud, v. (4)
Nat 1.66 7
Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight...
Mrs1 3.140 22
Society loves...sleepy languishing manners, so that they
cover...an ignoring eye, which does not see the annoyances, shifts and
inconveniences that cloud the brow and smother the voice of the sensitive.
Thor 10.464 17
...whatever faults or obstructions of temperament might
cloud it, [Thoreau] was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.
PLT 12.8 22
...was there ever prophet burdened with a message to his
people who did not cloud our gratitude by a strange confounding in his own
mind of private folly with his public wisdom?
clouded, adj. (1)
Nat 1.9 19
Crossing a bare common...under a clouded sky...I have enjoyed
a perfect exhilaration.
clouded, v. (2)
Schr 10.283 14
[Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find
there is somebody within him that knows more than he does...makes no
progress, but was wise in youth as in age. More or less clouded it yet
resides the same in all...
Bost 12.192 26
...in that time [of the settlement of Massachusetts]...a
certain degree of terror still clouded the idea of God in the mind of the
purest.
cloudless, adj. (1)
Comp 2.112 8
The terror of cloudless noon, the emerald of Polycrates...are
the tremblings of the balance of justice through the heart and mind of man.
cloud-rack, n. (1)
Ill 6.311 4
The cloud-rack, the sunrise and sunset glories...are not quite so
spheral as our childhood thought them...
Clouds [Aristophanes], n. (1)
Boks 7.201 18
...we must read the Clouds of Aristophanes, and what more
of that master we gain appetite for, to learn our way in the streets of
Athens...
clouds, n. (47)
Nat 1.12 22
What angels invented...this tent of dropping clouds...
Nat 1.16 8
...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the
eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them, as...clouds...
Nat 1.17 22
The western clouds divided and subdivided themselves into
pink flakes...
Nat 1.42 25
Who can guess...how much tranquillity has been reflected to
man from the azure sky, over whose unspotted deeps the winds forevermore
drive flocks of stormy clouds...
Nat 1.56 27
...[Ideas] were there; when [the Supreme Being] established the
clouds above...
LE 1.170 4
...not less is there a relation of beauty between my soul and the
dim crags of Agiochook up there in the clouds.
Tran 1.347 4
...what if [these youths] eat clouds, and drink wind...
Tran 1.354 4
Presently the clouds shut down again;...
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.
SL 2.131 5
Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as
clouds do far off.
Lov1 2.176 19
The clouds have faces as [the lover] looks on them.
Lov1 2.188 20
...the warm loves and fears, that swept over us as clouds,
must lose their finite character and blend with God, to attain their own
perfection.
Prd1 2.226 4
...we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still
we regard the clouds and the rain.
Int 2.346 23
...what marks [Greek philosophers' thought's] elevation and
has even a comic look to us, is the innocent serenity with which these babe-like
Jupiters sit in their clouds...
Pt1 3.12 4
...I shall mount above these clouds and opaque airs in which I
live...
Pt1 3.42 19
...Wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds or sown with
stars...there is Beauty...shed for thee [O poet]...
Exp 3.71 16
When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised
of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to read or
to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries of its
profound beauty and repose, as if the clouds that covered it parted at
intervals...
Nat2 3.173 12
...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... A holiday...establishes itself on the instant. These sunset
clouds...signify it and proffer it.
Nat2 3.175 23
The muse herself betrays her son [the poor young poet], and
enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty by a radiation out of the
air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the road...
Nat2 3.176 13
The uprolled clouds and the colors of morning and evening
will transfigure maples and alders.
Nat2 3.192 12
I have seen the softness and beauty of the summer clouds
floating feathery overhead...
NR 3.236 5
...[the divine man] sees [persons] as a rack of clouds...
GoW 4.286 7
...the clouds of egotists drifting about [the intellectual man]
are only interested in a low success.
ET5 5.79 8
...[Kenelm Digby] had so graceful elocution and noble address,
that, had he been dropt out of the clouds in any part of the world, he would
have made himself respected;...
ET14 5.233 2
[The English muse] says, with De Stael, I tramp in the mire
with wooden shoes, whenever they would force me into the clouds.
ET14 5.234 21
The Saxon materialism and narrowness, exalted into the
sphere of intellect, makes the very genius of Shakspeare and Milton. When
it reaches the pure element, it treads the clouds as securely as the adamant.
Pow 6.59 2
[The strong man's] eye makes estates, as fast as the sun breeds
clouds.
CbW 6.265 17
I know those miserable fellows...who see a black star
always riding through the light and colored clouds in the sky overhead;...
Bty 6.279 6
Beauty chased [Seyd] everywhere,/ In flame, in storm, in
clouds of air./
Art2 7.46 4
[The temple] is exalted by...the play of the clouds...
Cour 7.254 27
...here is one who, seeing the wishes of men, knows how to
come at their end;...looks at all men as wax for his hands; takes command
of them as the wind does of clouds...
Suc 7.298 3
Now it costs a rare combination of clouds and lights to
overcome the common and mean.
OA 7.313 1
Once more, the old man cried, ye clouds,/ Airy turrets purple-piled,/
Which once my infancy beguiled,/ Beguile me with the wonted
spell./
OA 7.318 10
If, on a winter day, you should stand within a bell-glass, the
face and color of the afternoon clouds would not indicate whether it were
June or January;...
PI 8.53 19
Poetry...runs into fable, personifies every fact:--the clouds
clapped their hands...
PPo 8.242 11
Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of
Afrasiyab...whose heart was bounteous as the ocean and his hands like the
clouds when rain falls to gladden the earth.
PerF 10.71 18
The Vedas of India...are hymns to the winds, to the clouds,
and to fire.
Edc1 10.130 26
...what is the charm which every ore...every new fact
touching winds, clouds, ocean currents...possess for Humboldt?
MMEm 10.397 21
...Nor me can Hope or Passion urge,/ Hearing as now
the lofty dirge/ Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn,/ Nature's
funeral high and dim,-/ Sable pageantry of clouds,/ Mourning summer laid
in shrouds./
Thor 10.482 3
The axe was always destroying [Thoreau's] forest. Thank
God, he said, they cannot cut down the clouds!
HDC 11.29 17
Who can tell how many thousand years, every day, the
clouds have shaded these fields with their purple awning?
HDC 11.33 20
Much time was lost in travelling [the pilgrims] knew not
whither, when the sun was hidden by clouds;...
CInt 12.112 7
I know the mighty bards,/ I listen when they sing,/ And now
I know/ The secret store/ Which these explore/ When they with torch of
genius pierce/ The tenfold clouds that cover/ The riches of the universe/
From God's adoring lover./
CL 12.148 17
Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the
conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Because they
drive the clouds, they have harnessed the spotted deer to their chariot;...
CL 12.153 17
...on the shore...[the sea] is changed into a beauty as of gems
and clouds.
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./
Trag 12.417 6
...the intellect in its purity and the moral sense in its purity...
both ravish us into a region whereunto these passionate clouds of sorrow
cannot rise.
clouds, v. (2)
ET13 5.228 10
England accepts this ornamented national church, and it...
clouds the understanding of the receivers.
ET14 5.233 18
[The Englishman's] mind must stand on a fact. He will not
be baffled, or catch at clouds...
cloudy, adj. (1)
ET19 5.313 15
I see [England]...with a kind of instinct that she sees a little
better in a cloudy day...
Clough, Arthur Hugh, n. (1)
ET17 5.292 26
Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting
men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...the younger poets,
Clough, Arnold and Patmore;...
cloven, adj. (3)
Cir 2.310 21
...let us enjoy the cloven flame [of conversation] whilst it
glows on our walls.
GoW 4.276 24
...[Goethe] stripped [the Devil] of mythologic gear, of
horns, cloven foot, harpoon tail, brimstone and blue-fire...
CbW 6.262 12
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on
ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains...
cloven, v. (1)
F 6.32 6
...trim your bark, and the wave which drowned it will be cloven by
it...
clover, n. (2)
DSA 1.129 24
...the word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches,
gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing
clover...
Lov1 2.177 12
...[the lover] feels the blood of the violet, the clover and the
lily in his veins;...
Clovis, n. (1)
Con 1.317 4
...the vigor of Clovis the Frank...sufficed to build what you
call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound
body appeared.
clown, n. (2)
Lov1 2.177 22
...[love] makes the clown gentle and gives the coward heart.
PI 8.40 9
...a new verse comes once in a hundred years; therefore Pindar,
Hafiz, Dante, speak so proudly of what seems to the clown a jingle.
clownish, adj. (2)
Suc 7.291 17
'T is clownish to insist on doing all with one's own hands...
CSC 10.375 7
The still-living merit of the oldest New England families...
encountered [at the Chardon Street Convention] the founders of families,
fresh merit, emerging...and lighting a clownish face with sacred fire.
cloy, n. (1)
MoS 4.174 18
Bad as was to me this detection by San Carlo [that all direct
ascension leads to ghastly insight]...there was still a worse, namely the cloy
or satiety of the saints.
cloy, v. (1)
UGM 4.27 9
We cloy of the honey of each peculiar greatness.
cloying, adj. (1)
Boks 7.216 17
...the novelist plucks this event here and that fortune there,
and ties them rashly to his figures, to tickle the fancy of his readers with a
cloying success...
Club, Dr. Bentley's, Londo (1)
Clbs 7.243 26
Dr. Bentley's Club held Newton, Wren, Evelyn and Locke;...
Club, Harrington's, London, (1)
Clbs 7.243 26
Anthony Wood has many details of Harrington's Club.
Club, Mermaid, London, Eng (1)
Clbs 7.243 20
We know well the Mermaid Club...
club, n. (27)
YA 1.376 21
...this club of noblemen always come at last to have a will of
their own;...
SR 2.84 22
What a contrast between the...American...and the naked New
Zealander, whose property is a club...
SL 2.135 23
When we come out of...the Transcendental club...[nature] says
to us, So hot? my little Sir.
Int 2.333 7
I knew, in an academical club, a person who always deferred to
me;...
Mrs1 3.133 5
[A man] should preserve in a new company the same attitude
of mind and reality of relation which his daily associates draw him to, else
he...will be an orphan in the merriest club.
ET11 5.174 11
...the terms of admission to this club [English aristocracy]
are hard and high.
F 6.47 16
...when a man is the victim of his fate, has...a club-foot and a club
in his wit;...he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...
Pow 6.59 5
...when into any old club a new-comer is domesticated,--that
happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture
where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the best
pair of horns and the new-comer...
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 6.144 6
...the gun, fishing-rod, boat and horse, constitute, among all
who use them, secret freemasonries. They are as if they belong to one club.
Ctr 6.148 21
In town [a man] can find...foreign travelers, the libraries and
his club.
Boks 7.220 22
...let each scholar associate himself to such persons as he
can rely on, in a literary club...
Clbs 7.244 1
...we owe to Boswell our knowledge of the club of Dr.
Johnson, Goldsmith...
Clbs 7.245 5
...the club must be self-protecting...
Clbs 7.245 13
A right rule for a club would be,--Admit no man whose
presence excludes any one topic.
Clbs 7.247 14
I remember a social experiment...wherein it appeared that
each of the members fancied he was in need of society, but himself
unpresentable. On trial they all found that they could be tolerated by, and
could tolerate, each other. Nay, the tendency to extreme self-respect which
hesitated to join in a club was running rapidly down to abject admiration of
each other, when the club was broken up by new combinations.
Clbs 7.247 16
I remember a social experiment...wherein it appeared that
each of the members fancied he was in need of society, but himself
unpresentable. On trial they all found that they could be tolerated by, and
could tolerate, each other. Nay, the tendency to extreme self-respect which
hesitated to join in a club was running rapidly down to abject admiration of
each other, when the club was broken up by new combinations.
Clbs 7.247 18
The use of the hospitality of the club hardly needs
explanation.
Clbs 7.247 25
...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis...
Clbs 7.248 27
I need only hint the value of the club for bringing masters in
their several arts to compare and expand their views...
Clbs 7.249 21
A principal purpose also is the hospitality of the club...
Cour 7.279 9
I say unarmed [the hunter] stood./ Against those frightful
paws/ The rifle butt, or club of wood,/ Could stand no more than straws./
SA 8.90 22
Do not look sourly at the set or the club which does not choose
you.
Res 8.152 5
When [the scholar's] task requires the wiping out from
memory all trivial fond records/ That youth and observation copied there,/
he must leave the house, the streets and the club...
PC 8.209 27
...[the fop] lies at [the patriot's] mercy in the ballot of the club.
PLT 12.7 13
Seek the literary circles...the men of splendor, of bon-mots,
will they afford me satisfaction? I think you could not find a club of men
acute and liberal enough in the world.
PLT 12.8 3
Go into the scientific club and harken. Each savant proves in
his admirable discourse that he, and he only, knows now or ever did know
anything on the subject...
Club, Scriblerus, n. (1)
NER 3.273 5
Lord Bathurst told [Thomas Warton] that the members of the
Scriblerus Club being met at his house at dinner, they agreed to rally
Berkeley...on his scheme at Bermudas.
Club, Young Men's Republic (1)
OA 7.321 6
A man of great employments and excellent performance used
to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was sixty;
although this smacks a little of the resolution of a certain Young Men's
Republican Club, that all men should be held eligible who are under
seventy.
club-foot, n. (1)
F 6.47 16
...when a man is the victim of his fate, has...a club-foot and a club
in his wit;...he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...
club-houses, n. (4)
ET4 5.53 3
...the figures in Punch's drawings of the public men or of the
club-houses...are distinctive English...
ET8 5.129 8
The [English] club-houses were established to cultivate social
habits...
LLNE 10.358 14
Society in England and in America is trying the
[Fourierist] experiment again in small pieces, in cooperative associations, in
cheap eating-houses, as well as in the economies of club-houses and in
cheap reading-rooms.
FRep 11.535 26
[The class of which I speak] sit in decorated club-houses
in the cities, and burn tobacco and play whist;...
clubs, n. (14)
ET16 5.274 5
I thought it natural that [travelling Americans] should give...a
little [time] to scientific clubs and museums, which, at this moment, make
London very attractive.
Bhr 6.172 2
When we reflect on...how, in all clubs, mannners make the
members;...we see what range the subject has...
CbW 6.252 24
[Good men] find the journals, the clubs...to be in the interest
and the pay of the devil.
CbW 6.274 23
...one may take a good deal of pains...to organize clubs and
debating-societies, and yet no result come of it.
SS 7.6 14
If [Archimedes and Newton] had been good fellows, fond of
dancing, port and clubs, we should have had no Theory of the Sphere and
no Principia.
Clbs 7.238 14
The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin
contended I in wise words. Thou must ever the wisest be. And still the gods
and giants are so known, and still they play the same game in all the million
mansions of heaven and of earth; at all tables, clubs and tete-a-tetes...
Clbs 7.243 14
...a history of clubs from early antiquity...would be an
important chapter in history.
Clbs 7.243 18
...a history of clubs...tracing the clubs and coteries in each
country, would be an important chapter in history.
Clbs 7.245 19
It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the
laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance.
Clbs 7.248 6
The hospitalities of clubs are easily exaggerated.
Edc1 10.147 25
By many steps...the hesitating collegian, in the school
debate, in college clubs...comes at last to full, secure, triumphant unfolding
of his thought in the popular assembly...
AsSu 11.251 16
...this noble head [Charles Sumner]...must be the target for
a pair of bullies to beat with clubs.
ChiE 11.472 7
...China...had codes, journals, clubs, hackney coaches...
FRep 11.527 12
The facility with which clubs are formed by young men
for discussion of social, political and intellectual topics secures the
notoriety of the questions.
Clubs, Reform, n. (1)
ET17 5.292 16
The privileges of the [London] Athenaeum and of the
Reform Clubs were hospitably opened to me...
clue [clew], n. (1)
Comp 2.116 10
[Commit a crime and] You...cannot draw up the ladder, so
as to leave no inlet or clew.
clue, n. (1)
SwM 4.144 24
[Swedenborg] elected goodness as the clue to which the
soul must cling in all this labyrinth of nature.
clump, n. (4)
Fdsp 2.210 16
Should not the society of my friend be to me...great as
nature itself? Ought I to feel that our tie is profane in comparison with...that
clump of waving grass that divides the brook?
Res 8.145 5
...[the old forester] draws his boat ashore, turns it over in a
twinkling against a clump of alders with cat-briers, which keep up the lee-side,
crawls under it with his comrade, and lies there till the shower is over,
happy in his stout roof.
SHC 11.431 4
A simultaneous movement has, in a hundred cities and
towns in this country, selected some convenient piece of undulating ground
with pleasant woods and waters; every family chooses its own clump of
trees, and we lay the corpse in these leafy colonnades.
ACri 12.302 20
...when we came, in the woods, to a clump of goldenrod,-
Ah! [Channing] says, here they are! these things consume a great deal of
time. I don't know but they are of more importance than any other of our
investments.
clumsily, adv. (1)
PLT 12.19 19
So works the poor little blockhead manikin. He must arrange
and dignify his shop or farm the best he can. At last he must be able to tell
you it, or write it, translate it all clumsily enough into the new sky-language
he calls thought.
clumsy, adj. (8)
YA 1.380 2
...Government in our times is beginning to wear a clumsy and
cumbrous appearance.
Nat2 3.177 16
...ordinarily, whether we are too clumsy for so subtle a topic,
or from whatever cause, as soon as men begin to write on nature, they fall
into euphuism.
ShP 4.206 1
We are very clumsy writers of history.
Bhr 6.197 15
What finest hands would not be clumsy to sketch the genial
precepts of the young girl's demeanor?
Suc 7.291 19
'T is clownish to insist on doing all with one's own hands, as
if every man should build his own clumsy house...
Schr 10.270 10
...such is the gulf between our perception and our painting,
the eye is so wise, and the hand so clumsy, that all the human race have
agreed to value a man according to his power of expression.
HCom 11.343 1
[Our young men] said, It is not in me to resist. I go [to
war] because I must. It is a duty which I shall never forgive myself if I
decline. I do not know that I can make a soldier. I may be very clumsy.
Shak1 11.451 4
The palaces [Englishmen] compass earth and sea to enter,
the magnificence and personages of royal and imperial abodes, are...clumsy
pupils of [Shakespeare's] instruction.
clung, v. (2)
MoL 10.249 7
...the Church clung to ritual, and the scholar clung to joy...
MoL 10.249 8
...the Church clung to ritual, and the scholar clung to joy...
cluster, v. (1)
Art2 7.54 9
The first form in which [savages] built a house would be the
first form of their public and religious edifice also. This form becomes
immediately sacred in the eyes of their children, and as more traditions
cluster round it, is imitated with more splendor in each succeeding
generation.
clustering, adj. (1)
PPo 8.257 25
The lilies white prolonged/ Their sworded tongue to the
smell;/ The clustering anemones/ Their pretty secrets tell./
clustering, v. (1)
Milt1 12.274 14
[Milton] beholds [man] as he walked in Eden:-His fair
large front and eye sublime declared/ Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks/
Round from his parted forelock manly hung/ Clustering, but not beneath his
shoulders broad./
clusters, n. (1)
Clbs 7.248 17
Herrick's verses to Ben Jonson no doubt paint the fact:--
When we such clusters had/ As made us nobly wild, not mad;/ And yet,
each verse of thine/ Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine./
clutch, v. (4)
Nat 1.19 18
The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October,
who ever could clutch it?
Con 1.297 26
[Conservatism's] fingers clutch the fact...
Prd1 2.228 8
If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness
before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.
Exp 3.49 21
I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets
them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most
unhandsome part of our condition.
clutching, v. (1)
MoS 4.159 6
...we ought to secure those advantages which we can
command, and not risk them by clutching after the airy and unattainable.
Clyde [River, Scotland], ad (1)
QO 8.186 4
The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned
Lovers-Thou art roaring ower loud, Clyde water,/ Thy streams are ower
strang;/...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...
coach, n. (18)
Nat 1.13 24
...[man] paves the road with iron bars, and mounting a coach
with a ship-load of men, animals, and merchandise behind him, he darts
through the country...
Nat 1.21 16
Charles II., to intimidate the citizens of London, caused the
patriot Lord Russell to be drawn in an open coach through the principal
streets of the city...
Nat 1.50 22
A man who seldom rides, needs only to get into a coach and
traverse his own town, to turn the street into a puppet-show.
YA 1.387 12
I think I see place and duties for a nobleman in every society;
but it is not to drink wine and ride in a fine coach...
SR 2.85 5
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his
feet.
Comp 2.113 3
[The borrower] may soon come to see that he had better
have broken his own bones than to have ridden in his neighbor's coach...
ET1 5.15 2
...being intent on delivering a letter which I had brought from
Rome, [I] inquired for Craigenputtock. It was a farm in Nithsdale, in the
parish of Dunscore, sixteen miles distant. No public coach passed near it...
ET10 5.153 9
A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls;--if you
have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?
ET11 5.192 19
...the rotten debauchee [George IV] let down from a
window by an inclined plane into his coach to take the air, was a scandal to
Europe...
ET11 5.196 12
...advantages once confined to men of family are now open
to the whole middle class. The road that grandeur levels for his coach, toil
can travel in his cart.
ET13 5.224 20
Abroad with my wife, writes Pepys piously, the first time
that ever I rode in my own coach; which do make my heart rejoice and
praise God...
ET13 5.230 19
But the religion of England...is it the sects? no; they...are to
the Established Church as cabs are to a coach...
ET16 5.285 14
On leaving Wilton House, we [Emerson and Carlyle] took
the coach for Salisbury.
Bty 6.293 23
...the circumstances may be easily imagined in which woman
may speak, vote, argue causes, legislate and drive a coach...if only it come
by degrees.
SA 8.94 20
Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged circle at Coppet, that
after making an excursion one day, the party returned in two coaches from
Chambery to Aix, on the way to Coppet. The first coach had many rueful
accidents to relate...
SA 8.94 23
The party in the second coach, on arriving, heard this story with
surprise;...
WSL 12.337 9
When Mr. Bull rides in an American coach, he speaks quick
and strong;...
WSL 12.337 22
[John Bull] has never seen a good horse in America, nor a
good coach, nor a good inn.
coach, v. (1)
CInt 12.131 4
...the examination for admission and the examination for
degrees and honors may be lax in this college and severe in that, and you
may find facilities, translations, syllabuses and tutors here or there to coach
you through, but 't is very certain than an examination is yonder before us...
coaches, n. (12)
MR 1.230 6
...the scholar says, Cities and coaches shall never impose on
me again;...
MR 1.239 21
...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by...stoves
and down beds, coaches...
Nat2 3.175 15
That [the rich] have some high-fenced grove which they call
a park; that they...go in coaches...to watering-places and to distant cities,--
these make the groundwork from which [the poor young poet] has
delineated estates of romance...
CbW 6.247 11
[Fine society] is...an affair of clean linen and coaches...
SS 7.7 22
The ministers of beauty are rarely beautiful in coaches and
saloons.
OA 7.320 2
Age is comely in coaches, in churches...
SA 8.94 18
Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged circle at Coppet, that
after making an excursion one day, the party returned in two coaches from
Chambery to Aix...
Elo2 8.123 6
I remember, when, long after, I entered college, hearing the
story of the numbers of coaches in which his friends came from Boston to
hear [John Quincy Adams].
Elo2 8.123 14
When, on his return from Washington, [John Quincy Adams]
resumed his lectures in Cambridge...the coaches from Boston did not
come...
Supl 10.169 18
The poor countryman, having no circumstance of carpets,
coaches, dinners, wine and dancing in his head to confuse him, is able to
look straight at you...
FSLC 11.209 4
'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand
millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so
enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... We will give up our coaches, and
wine, and watches.
ChiE 11.472 8
...China...had codes, journals, clubs, hackney coaches...
coachman, n. (2)
Pt1 3.15 21
The writer wonders what the coachman or the hunter values in
riding, in horses and dogs.
ET4 5.65 17
I remarked the stoutness [of the English] on my first landing at
Liverpool; porter, drayman, coachman, guard...
coachway, n. (1)
ET10 5.165 4
An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to
establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds,
so as to get a coachway and save her a mile to the avenue.
coactive, adj. (1)
Exp 3.70 14
In the growth of the embryo, Sir Everard Home I think noticed
that the evolution was...coactive from three or more points.
coadjutors, n. (4)
Exp 3.69 25
[The individual] designed many things, and drew in other
persons as coadjutors, quarreled with some or all, blundered much, and
something is done;...
NMW 4.244 2
[Napoleon's] impatience at levity was...an oblique tribute of
respect to those able persons who commanded his regard not only when he
found them friends and coadjutors but also when they resisted his will.
Pow 6.58 11
...if [the plus man] have the accidental advantage of personal
ascendency...then...all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his right to
absorb them.
Grts 8.320 1
...any man filled with an idea or a purpose will find examples
and illustrations and coadjutors wherever he goes.
coal, adj. (1)
ET3 5.39 17
The only drawback on this industrial conveniency [in
England] is the darkness of its sky. The night and day are too nearly of a
color. It strains the eyes to read and to write. Add the coal smoke.
coal, n. (34)
Nat 1.38 13
Water is good to drink, coal to burn...
Nat 1.38 15
...wool cannot be drunk, nor water spun, nor coal eaten.
Nat 1.72 19
[Man's] relation to nature, his power over it, is through the
understanding, as by...the economic use of...coal...
YA 1.365 13
...the mineral riches are explored; limestone, coal, slate, and
iron;...
Prd1 2.226 16
[The northerner] must...pile wood and coal.
UGM 4.9 18
Justice has already been done to steam...to coal...
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.
GoW 4.261 14
The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain;...the
fern and leaf their modest epitaph in the coal.
ET3 5.39 3
[England] has plenty...of potter's clay, of coal...
ET3 5.40 4
It is...pretended that the enormous consumption of coal in the
island [England] is also felt in modifying the general climate.
ET5 5.95 20
By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of
acres of bad land [in England] have been drained, and put on equality with
the best, for rape-culture and grass. The climate too, which was already
believed to have become milder and drier by the enormous consumption of
coal, is so far reached by this new action, that fogs and storms are said to
disappear.
ET10 5.159 24
England already had this laborious race, rich soil, water,
wood, coal, iron...
F 6.15 18
One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages,
and a measure of coal;...
F 6.37 21
[Man's] food is cooked when he arrives; his coal in the pit;...
Wth 6.84 2
...Who saw what ferns and palms were pressed/ Under the
tumbling mountain's breast,/ In the safe herbal of the coal?/
Wth 6.86 22
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood...
Wth 6.86 26
...coal is a portable climate.
Wth 6.87 5
Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their
secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile...
Wth 6.87 5
...coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as
warm as Calcutta;...
Wth 6.87 6
...coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as
warm as Calcutta;...
Wth 6.108 17
The price of coal shows the narrowness of the coal-field...
Wth 6.119 9
Now, the farmer buys almost all he consumes,--tinware, cloth,
sugar, tea, coffee, fish, coal, railroad tickets and newspapers.
Ill 6.321 6
We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid
condition...pots to buy, butcher's meat, sugar, milk and coal.
WD 7.159 5
...one franc's worth of coal does the work of a laborer for
twenty days.
PI 8.8 19
In geology, what a useful hint was given to the early inquirers on
seeing in the possession of Professor Playfair a bough of a fossil tree which
was perfect wood at one end and perfect mineral coal at the other.
PI 8.13 20
...if running water, if burning coal...say what I say, it must be
true.
Res 8.140 24
By his machines man...can carry whatever loads a ton of coal
can lift;...
Res 8.141 25
When our population, swarming west, reached the boundary
of arable land...on the face of the sterile waste beyond, the land was
suddenly in parts found...floored with coal.
PC 8.208 5
Who does not prefer the age...of coal...
Insp 8.276 17
Pit-coal,-where to find it? 'T is of no use that your engine
is made like a watch,-that you are a good workman, and know how to
drive it, if there is no coal.
PerF 10.71 3
The coal on your grate gives out in decomposing to-day
exactly the same amount of light and heat which was taken from the
sunshine in its formation in the leaves and boughs of the antediluvian tree.
MoL 10.242 21
The country was full of activity, with its wheat, coal, iron,
cotton;...
CL 12.139 26
The [Massachusetts] climate needs...to be corrected by a
little anthracite coal...
CL 12.139 27
...a little coal indoors, during much of the year, and thick
coats and shoes must be recommended to walkers [in Massachusetts].
coal-field, n. (1)
Wth 6.108 18
The price of coal shows the narrowness of the coal-field...
coal-fields, n. (1)
FRep 11.522 4
[The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast
domain...looks from his coal-fields, his wheat-bearing prairie, his gold-mines,
to his two oceans...
coalitions, n. (1)
ET5 5.90 23
Private persons [in England] exhibit...the same pertinacity as
the nation showed in the coalitions in which it yoked Europe against the
empire of Bonaparte...
coal-mine, n. (2)
Nat 1.40 26
...every change of vegetation from the first principle of
growth...to the...antediluvian coal-mine...shall hint or thunder to man the
laws of right and wrong...
MLit 12.315 18
The great lead us...in our age to metaphysical Nature...to
moral abstractions, which are not less Nature than is a river, or a coal-mine...
coal-mines, n. (3)
ET8 5.142 12
...the calm, sound and most British Briton...respects an
economy founded on agriculture, coal-mines, manufactures or trade...
Supl 10.178 13
The European civility, or that of the positive degree, is
established by coal-mines, by ventilation, by irrigation and every skill...
FRep 11.543 3
Pennsylvania coal-mines and New York shipping and free
labor, though not idealists, gravitate in the ideal direction.
coal-oil, n. (1)
QO 8.179 11
...the invention of yesterday of making wood indestructible by
means of vapor of coal-oil or paraffine was suggested by the Egyptian
method which has preserved its mummy-cases four thousand years.
coals, n. (7)
SwM 4.128 20
The Eden of God is bare and grand: like the out-door
landscape remembered from the evening fireside, it seems cold and desolate
whilst you cower over the coals...
Wsp 6.205 23
King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was
to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly...
DL 7.125 3
In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is
made the coals of an ever-burning egotism.
Suc 7.311 3
...to help the young soul...and blow the coals into a useful
flame;...that is not easy...
SovE 10.209 19
[The moral law] has not yet its first hymn. But, that every
line and word may be coals of true fire, ages must roll...
FRep 11.526 26
...instead of the doleful experience of the European
economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great
body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has
arrived at a sloven plenty...tight roof and coals enough have been attained;...
WSL 12.343 9
...if fire cheers us, we should bring wood and coals.
coarse, adj. (47)
Nat 1.62 1
We can foresee God in the coarse, as it were, distant phenomena
of matter;...
Hsm1 2.263 3
Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the
youth may freely bring home to his mind...
Cir 2.303 6
...ever, behind the coarse effect, is a fine cause...
Pt1 3.16 8
It is nature the symbol...which [the coachman or the hunter]
worships with coarse but sincere rites.
Chr1 3.115 3
When at last that which we have always longed for [a fine
character] is arrived...then to be coarse...argues a vulgarity that seems to
shut the doors of heaven.
Pol1 3.201 15
The history of the State sketches in coarse outline the
progress of thought...
NER 3.283 20
...whether thy work be fine or coarse...so only it be honest
work...it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought...
NER 3.285 10
...what powers are wrapped up under the coarse mattings of
custom...
NMW 4.255 23
[Napoleon's] manners were coarse.
ET4 5.70 3
Wood the antiquary, in describing the poverty and maceration
of Father Lacey, an English Jesuit, does not deny him beer. He says...his
fare was coarse; his drink, a penny a gawn, or gallon.
ET5 5.83 22
[The English] are heavy at the fine arts, but adroit at the
coarse;...
ET8 5.130 15
[The English] are full of coarse strength, rude exercise,
butcher's meat and sound sleep;...
ET9 5.151 13
Coarse local distinctions...are useful in the absence of real
ones;...
ET10 5.153 7
A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls;...
F 6.37 25
These are coarse adjustments, but the invisible are not less.
Pow 6.64 24
Those who have most of this coarse [political] energy...have
their own vices, but they have the good nature of strength and courage.
Pow 6.74 2
...the one evil [in life] is dissipation; and it makes no difference
whether our dissipations are coarse or fine;...
Wth 6.107 6
Your paper is not fine or coarse enough...
Wth 6.125 21
The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's
economy.
Ctr 6.132 22
There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine
egotists.
CbW 6.248 12
The men we meet are coarse and torpid.
CbW 6.256 13
The agencies by which events so grand as...the junction of
the two oceans, are effected, are paltry,--coarse selfishness, fraud and
conspiracy;...
Ill 6.318 4
We begin low with coarse masks and rise to the most subtle and
beautiful.
Art2 7.45 1
A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in
wax-work;...these things give to unpractised eyes...almost as much pleasure
as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.
Art2 7.45 3
A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in
wax-work; a coarse sketch in colors of a landscape...these things give to
unpractised eyes...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a
picture of Titian.
Elo1 7.65 14
Bring [the master orator] to his audience, and, be they...coarse
or refined...he will have them pleased and humored as he chooses;...
Elo1 7.66 10
There are many audiences in every public assembly, each one
of which rules in turn. If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see
the emergence of the boys and rowdies...
Clbs 7.225 10
...thought...pure...soon burns up the bone-house of man,
unless tempered with affection and coarse practice in the material world.
Suc 7.287 4
I don't know but we and our race elsewhere set a higher value
on wealth, victory and coarse superiority of all kinds, than other men...
PI 8.1 14
[The people of the sky] turn his heart from lovely maids,/ And
make the darlings of the earth/ Swainish, coarse and nothing worth/...
SA 8.87 4
Sometimes, when in almost all expressions the Choctaw and the
slave have been worked out of [a man], a coarse nature still betrays itself in
his contemptible squeals of joy.
Res 8.151 9
[Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds, and mainly
one thing should be illustrated: that life in the country...wants coarse
clothes, old shoes...
Insp 8.273 8
[Most men's] house and trade and families serve them as
ropes to give a coarse continuity.
Insp 8.281 1
...another Arabian proverb has its coarse truth: When the belly
is full, it says to the head, Sing, fellow!
Imtl 8.332 21
...you shall find a good deal of skepticism in the...places of
coarse amusement.
Aris 10.46 19
I only point in passing to the order of the universe, which
makes a rotation,-not like the coarse policy of the Greeks, ten generals,
each commanding one day and then giving place to the next...
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.
SovE 10.210 24
...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be
drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for
another...the respect he feels for one who thinks life is quite too coarse and
frivolous...
MoL 10.243 12
It is the perpetual tendency of wealth to draw on the
spiritual class, not in this coarse way [of California], but in plausible and
covert ways.
LLNE 10.337 14
Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on
the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature, dragging down every sacred
secret to a street show. The attempt was coarse and odious to scientific
men...
War 11.155 19
The instinct of self-help is very early unfolded in the coarse
and merely brute form of war...
Mem 12.97 18
We can help ourselves to the modus of mental processes
only by coarse material experiences.
CL 12.139 13
If we have coarse days, and dogdays...we have also yellow
days, and crystal days...
Bost 12.198 16
No external advantages...can bestow that delicacy and
grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial
conversation. All else is coarse and external;...
MAng1 12.215 18
The means, the materials of [Michelangelo's] activity,
were coarse enough to be appreciated...
WSL 12.338 22
[Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man...prone to indulge a
sort of ostentation of coarse imagery and language.
EurB 12.367 24
...[Wordsworth] accepted the call to be a poet, and sat
down...with coarse clothing and plain fare to obey the heavenly vision.
coarse, n. (2)
Lov1 2.172 20
[Love] is the dawn of civility and grace in the coarse and
rustic.
Exp 3.61 13
The coarse and frivolous have an instinct of superiority...
coarsely, adv. (6)
Mrs1 3.138 16
Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful
carriage and customs.
NMW 4.239 18
...[Napoleon]...made no secret of his contempt...for the
hereditary asses, as he coarsely styled the Bourbons.
ET14 5.232 10
...[the English] delight in strong earthy expression...coarsely
true to the human body...
Ctr 6.154 15
Let us learn to live coarsely...
Wsp 6.202 8
If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out...in tyrannies,
literatures and arts,--let us not be so nice that we cannot write these facts
down coarsely...
ACri 12.286 5
Luther said, I preach coarsely; that giveth content to all.
coarseness, n. (3)
ET4 5.53 15
In Scotland...the poverty of the country makes itself remarked,
and a coarseness of manners;...
ACri 12.287 6
Into the exquisite refinement of his Academy, [Plato]
introduces the low-born Socrates, relieving the purple diction by his
perverse talk...and steadily kept this coarseness to flavor a dish else too
luscious.
WSL 12.339 19
In Mr. Landor's coarseness there is a certain air of
defiance...
coarser, adj. (6)
Prd1 2.221 22
...it would be hardly honest in me not to balance these fine
lyric words of Love and Friendship with words of coarser sound...
Pt1 3.28 2
All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this
extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize
conversation...animal intoxication,--which are several coarser or finer quasi-mechanical
substitutes for the true nectar...
NR 3.236 27
Everything must have its flower or effort at the beautiful,
coarser or finer according to its stuff.
Cour 7.275 25
Scholars and thinkers...shrink if a coarser shout comes up
from the street...
PI 8.41 8
These fine fruits of judgment, poesy and sentiment...know as well
as coarser how to feed and replenish themselves;...
Chr2 10.119 19
To nations or to individuals the progress of opinion is...
simply a change from coarser to finer checks.
coarsest, adj. (14)
Tran 1.340 26
It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest
observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves
from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus...
Tran 1.349 23
...[Transcendentalists] have...found that from the liberal
professions to the coarsest manual labor...there is a spirit of cowardly
compromise...
Chr1 3.91 6
...in our political elections, where this element [character], if it
appears at all, can only occur in its coarsest form, we sufficiently
understand its incomparable rate.
Mrs1 3.150 22
...by the firmness with which she treads her upward path,
[woman] convinces the coarsest calculators that another road exists than
that which their feet know.
NR 3.239 20
Jesus would absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest
blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.
Wsp 6.222 22
We cannot spare the coarsest muniment of virtue.
Civ 7.24 14
Scraps of science, of thought, of poetry are in the coarsest
sheet, so that in every house we hesitate to burn a newspaper until we have
looked it through.
Elo1 7.67 4
There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can
inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels. Humble persons are
conscious of new illumination;...delicate spirits...masked and muffled in
coarsest fortunes, who now hear their own native language for the first
time...
Schr 10.278 25
[The scholar] is to forge out of coarsest ores the sharpest
weapons.
LLNE 10.332 19
...even the coarsest [auditors] were contented to go
punctually to listen, for [Everett's] manner, when they had found out that
the subject-matter was not for them.
HDC 11.35 2
Indian corn, even the coarsest, made as pleasant meal as rice.
LVB 11.92 14
The piety, the principle that is left in the United States, if
only in its coarsest form...forbid us to entertain [the relocation of the
Cherokees] as a fact.
MAng1 12.230 26
Of [Michelangelo's] designs, the most celebrated is the
cartoon representing soldiers coming out of the bath and arming
themselves; an incident of the war of Pisa. The wonderful merit of this
drawing...is conspicuous even in the coarsest prints.
ACri 12.297 1
[Herrick] has, and knows that he has...a perfect, plain style,
from which he can soar to a fine, lyric delicacy, or descend to coarsest
sarcasm, without losing his firm footing.
coast, n. (23)
YA 1.365 8
...even on the coast, prudent men have begun to see that every
American should be educated with a view to the values of land.
Chr1 3.94 24
Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea should take on board
a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of Toussaint
L'Ouverture...
ET2 5.33 16
There lay the green shore of Ireland, like some coast of plenty.
ET4 5.57 27
[The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are people...living
amphibiously on a rough coast...
ET11 5.177 1
[The Duke of Bedford's] ancestor...became the companion of
a foreign prince wrecked on the Dorsetshire coast, where Mr. [John]
Russell lived.
Civ 7.34 13
...if there be...a country...where the suffrage is not free or
equal;--that country is...not civil, but barbarous; and no advantages of soil,
climate or coast can resist these suicidal mischiefs.
Suc 7.285 9
...leaving the coast [of Panama]...the wise admiral [Columbus]
kept his private record of his homeward path.
Res 8.140 11
The marked events in history, as the emigration of a colony to
a new and more delightful coast; the building of a large ship;...each of these
events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
PC 8.214 3
...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the
productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an
example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain...the Norse Sagas,
in Scandinavia; and, I may add, the Arabian Nights, on the African coast.
PerF 10.71 27
When the rain exceeds on the coast, there is drought on the
prairie.
SovE 10.196 16
...when we have conversed with navigators who know the
coast, we may begin to put out an oar and trim a sail.
EWI 11.107 27
Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of July, 1783...to
consider what step they should take...for the discouragement of the slave-trade
on the coast of Africa.
EWI 11.124 2
...by the aid of a little whipping, we could get [the negroes']
work for nothing but their board and the cost of whips. What if it cost a few
unpleasant scenes on the coast of Africa?
EWI 11.126 16
...[British merchants] saw further that the slave-trade, by
keeping in barbarism the whole coast of eastern Africa, deprives them of
countries and nations of customers...
War 11.158 19
I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and
New Spain...
War 11.158 24
I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and
New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of
ships, small and great. All the villages and towns that ever I landed at, I
burned and spoiled. And had I not been discovered upon the coast, I had
taken great quantity of treasure.
FSLC 11.195 8
By the law of Congress, March 2, 1807, it is piracy and
murder, punishable by death, to enslave a man on the coast of Africa.
FSLC 11.195 12
By law of Congress September, 1850, it is a high crime
and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to resist the
reenslaving a man on the coast of America.
ChiE 11.474 2
It is gratifying to know that the advantages of the new
intercourse between the two countries [China and the United States] are
daily manifest on the Pacific coast.
CL 12.135 23
The Indians go in summer to the coast, for fishing;...
CL 12.153 19
...whenever we find a coast broken up into bays and harbors,
we find an instant effect on the intellect and the industry of the people.
CL 12.153 23
On the seashore the play of the Atlantic with the coast! What
wealth is here!
Bost 12.192 7
In the journey of Rev. Peter Bulkeley and his company
through the forest from Boston to Concord they fainted from the powerful
odor of the stweefern in the sun;-like what befell, still earlier, Biorn and
Thorfinn, Northmen, in their expedition to the same coast;...
Coast, Pacific, n. (1)
Ctr 6.146 24
California and the Pacific Coast is now the university of this
class [of poor country boys of Vermont and Connecticut]...
coast, v. (2)
Edc1 10.134 14
Why always coast on the surface...
Edc1 10.148 25
The boy wishes to learn to skate, to coast...
coasting, v. (1)
Elo2 8.128 15
This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result
of our half-education...allowing [a youth] to skulk from the games of ball
and skates and coasting down the hills on his sled...that I wish his guardians
to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part
when he is full-grown.
coasting-trade, n. (1)
ACri 12.301 24
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.
coat, n. (45)
Nat 1.12 22
What angels invented...this striped coat of climates...
LE 1.169 11
...the broad, cold lowland which forms its coat of vapor with
the stillness of subterranean crystallization;...this beauty...has never been
recorded by art...
LE 1.176 21
How mean to go blazing...in fashionable or political salons...
forfeiting the real prerogative of the russet coat...
LE 1.183 11
They [whom the student's thoughts have entertained or
inflamed] find that he is a poor, ignorant man, in a white-seamed, rusty
coat, like themselves...
MN 1.205 21
The great Pan of old...the firmament, his coat of stars,-was
but the representative of thee, O rich and various Man!...
SR 2.51 9
If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy, shall that
pass?
SR 2.57 15
Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot...
Comp 2.116 5
Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the
ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge...
SL 2.163 22
The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing unless it
have an outside badge,--some Gentoo diet, or Quaker coat...
Fdsp 2.192 13
...the old coat is exchanged for the new...
Prd1 2.226 1
...if we go a-fishing we must expect a wet coat.
NER 3.254 20
It is right and beautiful in any man to say, I will take this
coat, or this book, or this measure of corn of yours,--in whom we see the
act to be original...
NER 3.256 8
Who gave me the money with which I bought my coat?
SwM 4.101 16
There is a common portrait of [Swedenborg] in antique coat
and wig...
SwM 4.142 27
...when [Behmen] asserts that, in some sort, love is greater
than God, his heart beats so high that the thumping against his leathern coat
is audible across the centuries.
MoS 4.160 19
We want some coat woven of elastic steel...
NMW 4.243 24
I have only to put some gold-lace on the coat of my
virtuous republicans [said Napoleon] and they immediately become just
what I wish them.
ET5 5.84 16
The Englishman wears a sensible coat buttoned to the chin...
ET10 5.165 21
[The Englishman] is a king in a plain coat.
ET13 5.221 17
...gentlemen lately testified in the House of Commons that
in their lives they never saw a poor man in a ragged coat inside a church.
ET13 5.227 2
...a bishop [in England] is only a surpliced merchant.
Through his lawn I can see the bright buttons of the shopman's coat glitter.
Pow 6.73 9
There is no way to success in our art but to take off your coat,
grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
Wth 6.117 20
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never
large enough to cover.
Ctr 6.152 9
...among a million of good coats a fine coat comes to be no
distinction...
Ctr 6.155 5
...a tender boy who wears his rusty cap and outgrown coat, that
he may secure the coveted place in college...is educated to some purpose.
Bhr 6.173 25
In the hotels on the banks of the Mississippi they print...that
No gentleman can be permitted to come to the public table without his
coat;...
Bhr 6.186 21
...we sometimes dream that we are in a well-dressed company
without any coat...
Wsp 6.237 19
...[The Shakers] say, the Spirit will presently manifest to the
man himself and to the society what manner of person he is, and whether he
belongs among them. They do not receive him, they do not reject him. And
not in vain have they worn their clay coat...if they have truly learned thus
much wisdom.
Boks 7.192 7
...as the enchanter has dressed [books], like battalions of
infantry, in coat and jacket of one cut, by the thousand and ten thousand,
your chance of hitting on the right one is to be computed by the arithmetical
rule of Permutation and Combination...
OA 7.332 12
The old President [John Adams] sat in a large stuffed arm-chair,
dressed in a blue coat...
PI 8.18 7
The thoughts are few, the forms many; the large vocabulary or
many-colored coat of the indigent unity.
SA 8.87 21
When the young European emigrant, after a summer's labor,
puts on for the first time a new coat, he puts on much more.
SA 8.88 2
...a king or a general does not need a fine coat...
SA 8.88 13
Remember George Herbert's maxim, This coat with my
discretion will be brave.
Comc 8.169 24
...the painter Astley...going out of Rome one day with a
party for a ramble in the Campagna and the weather proving hot, refused to
take off his coat...
Comc 8.169 26
...[Astley's] comrades playfully forced off his coat...
PPo 8.244 25
[Hafiz] says to the Shah, Thou who rulest after words and
thoughts which no ear has heard and no mind has thought, abide firm until
thy young destiny tears off his blue coat from the old graybeard of the sky.
Dem1 10.5 11
The very landscape and scenery in a dream seem...like a coat
or cloak of some other person to overlap and encumber the wearer;...
Aris 10.53 12
...[the eloquent man] may wear his coat out at elbows...if he
will.
HCom 11.344 6
Scholars changed the black coat for the blue.
RBur 11.441 13
...how true a poet is [Burns]! And the poet, too, of poor
men, of gray hodden and the guernsey coat and the blouse.
FRep 11.526 11
...here is the human race poured out over the continent to
do itself justice;...unmistakably taking off its coat to hard work...
PLT 12.36 9
[Pan] wears a coat of leopard spots or stars.
CL 12.152 6
The forest in its coat of many colors reflects its varied
splendor through the softest haze.
MLit 12.330 21
I am [in Wilhelm Meister]...taught to look for great talent
and culture under a gray coat.
coat-pocket, n. (1)
ET15 5.267 2
I was told of the dexterity of one of [the London Times's]
reporters, who, finding himself...where the magistrates had strictly
forbidden reporters, put his hands into his coat-pocket, and with pencil in
one hand and tablet in the other, did his work.
coats, n. (13)
Exp 3.49 15
The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that
shed every drop.
UGM 4.16 5
Senates and sovereigns have no compliment, with their
medals, swords and armorial coats, like the addressing to a human being
thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence.
GoW 4.271 13
Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;...
a manly mind, unembarrassed by the variety of coats of convention with
which life had got encrusted...
ET5 5.84 20
[The English] have diffused the taste for plain substantial hats,
shoes and coats through Europe.
ET11 5.197 27
[Titles of lordship] belong, with wigs, powder and scarlet
coats, to an earlier age...
Ctr 6.152 8
...among a million of good coats a fine coat comes to be no
distinction...
Ill 6.321 9
...says the good Heaven;...vamp your old coats and hats...
WD 7.160 10
What of this dapper caoutchouc and gutta-percha, which
make...rain-proof coats for all climates...
WD 7.170 21
'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor,--a matter
of coins, coats and carpets...
MoL 10.243 5
All the world took off their coats and worked in shirt-sleeves
[in California].
HDC 11.79 18
For these men [in the Continental army] [Concord] was
continually providing shoes, stockings, shirts, coats, blankets and beef.
CL 12.140 1
...thick coats and shoes must be recommended to walkers [in
Massachusetts].
Let 12.403 17
From Massachusetts to Illinois...the proofs of thrifty
cultivation abound;-a result...owing...to the hard times, which, driving
men out of cities and trade, forced them to take off their coats and go to
work on the land;...
coat-skirt, n. (1)
Wth 6.115 18
A garden is like those pernicious machineries we read of
every month in the newspapers, which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand
and draw in his arm, his leg and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
coax, v. (3)
Edc1 10.139 2
...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company...
so too the merits of every locomotive on the rails, and will coax the
engineer to let them ride with him...
FSLC 11.197 13
Nothing remains in this race of roguery but to coax
Connecticut or Maine to outbid us all by adopting slavery into its
constitution.
II 12.68 26
To coax and woo the strong Instinct to bestir itself, and work its
miracle, is the end of all wise endeavor.
coaxed, v. (2)
WD 7.172 15
We are coaxed, flattered and duped from morn to eve...
Wom 11.423 12
As for the unsexing and contamination [of women in
politics],-that only...shows...that our policies are...made up of things...to
be understood only by wink and nudge; this man to be coaxed, that man to
be bought, and that other to be duped.
coaxes, v. (1)
Elo1 7.77 15
A man succeeds because he has more power of eye than
another, and so coaxes or confounds him.
coaxing, n. (1)
Edc1 10.139 24
Everybody delights in the energy with which boys deal and
talk with each other; the mixture of...reproach and coaxing...with which the
game is played;...
coaxing, v. (1)
Elo1 7.75 6
These accomplishments [of eloquence] are of the same kind,
and only a degree higher than the coaxing of the auctioneer...
cobalt, n. (1)
ET11 5.187 27
He who keeps the door of a mine, whether of cobalt, or
mercury...securely knows that the world cannot do without him.
Cobbett, William, n. (1)
ET6 5.109 16
Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval, prime
minister in 1810, to the fact that he was wont to go to church every
Sunday...
cobble, v. (1)
Comc 8.166 20
...[the saints] maturely having weighed/ They had no more
but [the cobbler] o' th' trade/ (A man that served them in the double/
Capacity to teach and cobble),/ Resolved to spare him;.../
cobbler, n. (2)
Con 1.320 14
[Conservatism's] social and political action has no better
aim;...a timid cobbler and patcher, it degrades whatever it touches.
Comc 8.166 2
Our brethren of New England use/ Choice malefactors to
excuse,/ And hang the guiltless in their stead,/ Of whom the churches have
less need;/ As lately happened, in a town/ Where lived a cobbler, and but
one,/ That out of doctrine could cut use,/ And mend men's lives as well as
shoes./
cobbler's, adj. (1)
CInt 12.129 12
Do not gravity and polarity keep their unerring watch...on a
cobbler's lapstone...as on the moon's orbit?
cobbler's, n. (1)
Nat 1.76 13
...you perhaps call [your house], a cobbler's trade;...
Cobden, Richard, n. (6)
ET15 5.264 5
[The London Times] adopted the League against the Corn
Laws, and when Cobden had begun to despair, it announced his triumph.
ET19 5.309 14
Sir Archibald Alison, the historian, presided [at the
Manchester Athenaeum Banquet], and opened the meeting with a speech.
He was followed by Mr. Cobden, Lord Brackley and others...
F 6.39 23
The times, the age, what is that but a few profound persons and a
few active persons who epitomize the times?--...Cobden...and the rest.
Pow 6.78 7
Stumping it through England for seven years made Cobden a
consummate debater.
Wsp 6.211 2
Certain patriots in England devoted themselves for years to
creating a public opinion that should break down the corn-laws and
establish free trade. Well, says the man in the street, Cobden got a stipend
out of it.
Carl 10.491 12
[Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they admire
Cobden and free trade and he is a protectionist in political economy;...
Cobham, Lord [John Oldcast (1)
ET13 5.216 20
...Cobham, Antony Parsons, Sir Harry Vane...are the
democrats, as well as the saints of their times.
Cobhams, n. (1)