Shatter to Short-Sighted

A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey

shatter, v. (2)

    Tran 1.350 13 When [the great man] has hit the white, the rest may shatter the target.
    ET2 5.31 7 The water-laws, arctic frost, the mountain, the mine, only shatter cockneyism;...

shattered, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.361 18 The young people [at Brook Farm] lived a great deal in a short time, and came forth some of them perhaps with shattered constitutions.

shattered, v. (2)

    ET11 5.173 10 ...the fair idea of a settled government [in England] connecting itself with heraldic names...was too pleasing a vision to be shattered by a few offensive realities...
    Res 8.153 4 ...[the willows'] gentle persistency lives when the oak is shattered by storm...

shattering, v. (1)

    MoS 4.175 4 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our nineteenth century...I confess it is not very affecting to my imagination; for it seems to concern the shattering of baby-houses and crockery-shops.

shatters, v. (1)

    CbW 6.254 22 ...the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters a rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.

Shattuck, Lemuel, n. (1)

    CPL 11.500 3 Lemuel Shattuck, by his history of the town [Concord], has made all of us grateful to his memory...

shaved, v. (2)

    Carl 10.497 3 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe, when...every one ran away in a coucou, with his head shaved, through the Barriere de Passy, one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire...
    FSLC 11.183 11 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...

shaven, v. (1)

    Comc 8.172 7 Whilst [Timur] was shaven, the barber gave him a looking-glass in his hand.

shaves, v. (2)

    UGM 4.12 20 Every carpenter who shaves with a fore-plane borrows the genius of a forgotten inventor.
    ET6 5.104 25 Each man [in England] walks, eats, drinks, shaves...in his own fashion...

shaving, n. (1)

    NR 3.228 27 ...men are steel-filings. Yet we unjustly select a particle, and say, O steel-filing number one!...what prodigious virtues are these of thine!... Whilst we speak the loadstone is withdrawn; down falls our filing in a heap with the rest, and we continue our mummery to the wretched shaving.

shawl, n. (1)

    ET6 5.105 11 An Englishman...wears a wig, or a shawl, or a saddle, or stands on his head, and no remark is made.

shawls, n. (1)

    QO 8.187 21 ...if we learn how old are the patterns of our shawls...we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.

shawms, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.241 14 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...the church of men to come, without shawms, or psaltery, or sackbut;...

shay, n. (7)

    EzRy 10.384 13 The minister [Joseph Emerson] writes against January 31st [1735]: Bought a shay for 27 pounds, 10 shillings.
    EzRy 10.384 17 In March following [Joseph Emerson] notes: Had a safe and comfortable journey to York. But April 24th, we find: Shay overturned, with my wife and I in it, yet neither of us much hurt. blessed be our gracious Preserver.
    EzRy 10.384 20 Part of the shay, as it lay upon one side, went over my wife, and yet she was scarcely anything hurt. How wonderful the preservation.
    EzRy 10.384 25 Then again, May 5th [1735, Joseph Emerson writes]: Went to the beach with three of the children. The beast, being frightened when we were all out of the shay, overturned and broke it.
    EzRy 10.385 3 [Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well to get me a shay?
    EzRy 10.385 10 ...on 15th May [1735] we have this [from Joseph Emerson]: Shay brought home; mending cost thirty shillings.
    EzRy 10.385 15 And at last we have this record [from Joseph Emerson], June 4th [1735]: Disposed of my shay to Rev. Mr. White.

sheaf, n. (2)

    Nat 1.20 23 ...when Arnold Winkelried...gathers in his side a sheaf of Austrian spears to break the line for his comrades; are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    Pow 6.73 23 ...the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, instead of suffering it to spindle into a sheaf of twigs.

Sheaf River, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.179 10 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam; Sheffield the field of the river Sheaf;...

shear, v. (2)

    DSA 1.133 12 The preachers do not see that they...shear [Jesus] of the locks of beauty...
    PI 8.14 14 To the Parliament debating how to tax America, Burke exclaimed, Shear the wolf.

shears, n. (1)

    PPh 4.58 21 ...[Plato] beholds...the Fates, with the rock and shears...

sheath, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.41 27 ...thou [O poet] must pass for a fool and a churl for a long season. This is the screen and sheath in which Pan has protected his well-beloved flower...

sheathe, v. (1)

    II 12.65 11 We have a certain blind wisdom...a seminal brain...which seems to sheathe a certain omniscience;...

sheathed, adj. (1)

    F 6.15 6 Nature is the tyrannous circumstance...the sheathed snake...

sheathed, v. (3)

    F 6.9 14 People seem sheathed in their tough organization.
    Civ 7.25 19 In the snake, all the organs are sheathed;...
    SlHr 10.437 14 The Homeric heroes, when they saw the gods mingling in the fray, sheathed their swords.

sheathes, v. (1)

    Bost 12.193 7 The common eye cannot tell...the pure truth from the grotesque tenet which sheathes it.

sheaths, n. (1)

    F 6.36 5 Liberation of the will from the sheaths and clogs of organization... is the end and aim of this world.

Sheba, Queen of, n. (2)

    PPo 8.241 9 ...when the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon, he had built, against her arrival, a palace...
    PPo 8.241 13 ...when the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon, he had built...a palace, of which the floor or pavement was of glass, laid over running water, in which fish were swimming. The Queen of Sheba was deceived thereby...

shed, n. (5)

    Con 1.311 13 Would you have...preferred...the range of a planet which had no shed or boscage to cover you from sun and wind,-to this towered and citied world?...
    SR 2.84 24 What a contrast between the...American...and the naked New Zealander, whose property is...an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under!
    Prd1 2.227 13 The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed...as in Peninsular campaigns...
    LLNE 10.346 6 ...[the pilgrim]...had learned to sleep...on a wagon covered with the buffalo-robe under the shed...
    LLNE 10.346 7 ...[the pilgrim]...had learned to sleep...on a wagon covered with the buffalo-robe under the shed,-or under the stars, when the farmer denied the shed and the buffalo-robe.

shed, v. (27)

    LT 1.287 25 The main interest which any aspects of the Times can have for us, is...the light which they can shed on the wonderful questions, What we are? and Whither we tend?
    LT 1.288 17 ...where but in that Thought through which we communicate with absolute nature, and are made aware that whilst we shed the dust of which we are built...the law which clothes us with humanity remains anew?...shall we learn the Truth?
    YA 1.373 20 ...we cannot shed a hair or a paring of a nail but instantly [Nature] snatches at the shred...
    Hist 2.40 6 What light does [history] shed on those mysteries which we hide under the names Death and Immortality?
    SR 2.59 23 [Previous victories] shed a united light on the advancing actor.
    SR 2.76 21 Let a Stoic...tell men...that a man is...born to shed healing to the nations;...
    OS 2.284 10 ...the man in whom [the soul] is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite...
    Pt1 3.42 23 ...wherever is danger, and awe, and love,--there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee [O poet]...
    Exp 3.49 15 The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop.
    Chr1 3.114 10 The ages have exulted in the manners of a youth...who, by the pure quality of his nature, shed an epic splendor around the facts of his death...
    Nat2 3.176 11 The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna...
    UGM 4.29 8 [Children] shed their own abundant beauty on the objects they behold.
    SwM 4.108 14 This new spine [the skull] is destined to high uses. It is a new man on the shoulders of the last. It can almost shed its trunk and manage to live alone...
    ShP 4.205 26 ...[researches concerning Shakespeare's condition] can shed no light upon that infinite invention which is the concealed magnet of his attraction for us.
    ShP 4.207 12 Can any biography shed light on the localities into which the Midsummer Night's Dream admits me?
    NMW 4.255 3 I do not even love my brothers [said Napoleon]: perhaps Joseph a little...and Duroc, I love him too; but why?--because his character pleases me...I believe the fellow never shed a tear.
    ET5 5.87 15 It is not usually a point of honor...and never any whim, that [the English] will shed their blood for;...
    Boks 7.207 18 The [scholar's] task is aided by the strong mutual light which these [Elizabethan] men shed on each other.
    OA 7.313 8 I know ye [clouds] skilful to convoy/ The total freight of hope and joy/ Into rude and homely nooks,/ Shed mocking lustres on shelf of books,/ On farmer's byre, on pasture rude,/ And stony pathway to the wood./
    OA 7.325 3 ...these temporary stays and shifts for the protection of the young animal are shed as fast as they can be replaced by nobler resources.
    PPo 8.252 21 [Hafiz] says, The fishes shed their pearls, out of desire and longing as soon as the ship of Hafiz swims the deep.
    Dem1 10.3 7 [Dreams, omens, coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic]...shed light on our structure.
    SovE 10.195 4 The fiery soul said: Let me be a blot on this fair world, the obscurest, the loneliest sufferer, with one proviso,-that I know it is his agency. I will love him, though he shed frost and darkness on every way of mine.
    MMEm 10.426 6 The mystic dream which is shed over the season.
    LS 11.9 24 ...still it may be asked, Why did Jesus make expressions so extraordinary and emphatic as these-This is my body which is broken for you. Take; eat. This is my blood which is shed for you. Drink it?...
    HDC 11.73 10 There [at the Concord bridge] the Americans first shed British blood.
    Scot 11.463 4 If only as an eminent antiquary who has shed light on the history of Europe and of the English race, [Scott] had high claims to our regard.

sheddest, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.428 13 Constantly offer myself [Mary Moody Emerson] to continue the obscurest and loneliest thing ever heard of, with one proviso,- [God's] agency. Yes, love Thee, and all Thou dost, while Thou sheddest frost and darkness on every path of mine.

shedding, v. (3)

    PPh 4.69 14 ...beauty is the most lovely of all things, exciting hilarity and shedding desire and confidence through the universe wherever it enters...
    Boks 7.209 1 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Burke, shedding floods of light on his times;...
    II 12.80 25 Plant the pitch-pine in a sand-bank, where is no food, and it thrives, and presently makes a grove, and covers the sand with a soil by shedding its leaves.

sheds, v. (5)

    MN 1.218 27 Genius sheds wisdom like perfume...
    LT 1.278 2 We...want...the spirit that sheds and showers actions...
    ShP 4.216 1 Beauty, the spirit of joy and hilarity, [the poet] sheds over the universe.
    Comc 8.170 22 In fine pictures the head sheds on the limbs the expression of the face.
    HDC 11.86 11 The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history... sheds a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.

sheep, n. (17)

    Hist 2.16 25 ...by watching for a time [a child's] motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude. So Roos entered into the inmost nature of a sheep.
    Pol1 3.202 20 It seemed fit...that Laban and not Jacob should elect the officer who is to guard the sheep and cattle.
    ET3 5.39 19 In the manufacturing towns [of England], the fine soot or blacks...give white sheep the color of black sheep...
    ET3 5.39 20 In the manufacturing towns [of England], the fine soot or blacks...give white sheep the color of black sheep...
    ET5 5.95 3 The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses to order...
    ET5 5.98 22 A landlord who owns a province [in England] says, The tenantry are unprofitable; let me have sheep.
    ET7 5.122 3 See [the Irish], [the English] said, one hundred and twenty-seven all voting like sheep...
    Farm 7.137 23 ...the tranquillity and innocence of the countryman, his independence and his pleasing arts,--the care of bees...of sheep...all men acknowledge.
    MoL 10.246 3 In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a Highland gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain could support. ... To-day we are come to count the number of sheep.
    EzRy 10.393 3 [Ezra Ripley] watched with interest...the orchard, the house and the barn, horse, cow, sheep and dog...
    HDC 11.35 11 The great cost of cattle...the loss of [the pilgrims'] sheep and swine by wolves;...are the other disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
    War 11.174 22 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men...men who have...attained such a perception of their own intrinsic worth that they do not think property or their own body a sufficient good to be saved by such dereliction of principle as treating a man like a sheep.
    JBS 11.277 19 When [John Brown] was five years old his father emigrated to Ohio, and the boy was there set to keep sheep...
    JBS 11.280 8 If [John Brown] kept sheep, it was with a royal mind;...
    II 12.69 12 We ought to know the way to insight and prophecy as surely as the plant knows its way to the light; the cow and sheep to the running brook;...
    Mem 12.105 19 Captain John Brown, of Ossawatomie, said he had in Ohio three thousand sheep on his farm, and could tell a strange sheep in his flock as soon as he saw its face.
    Mem 12.105 20 Captain John Brown, of Ossawatomie, said he had in Ohio three thousand sheep on his farm, and could tell a strange sheep in his flock as soon as he saw its face.

sheep-farm, n. (1)

    ET11 5.189 7 The Dukes of Athol, Sutherland, Buccleugh and the Marquis of Breadalbane have introduced...the sheep-farm...

sheep-pasture, n. (1)

    CInt 12.129 7 Is...an insurance office, bank or bakery...further from God than a sheep-pasture or a clam-bank?

sheep's, n. (1)

    ET5 5.84 6 A manufacturer [in England] sits down to dinner in a suit of clothes which was wool on a sheep's back at sunrise.

sheep's-eyes, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.346 16 These [19th Century] reformers were a new class. Instead of the fiery souls of the Puritans...these were gentle souls...casting sheep's-eyes even on Fourier and his houris.

sheep-walk, n. (1)

    ET16 5.283 24 ...we [Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in our dog-cart over the downs for Wilton, Carlyle not suppressing some threats and evil omens on the proprietors, for keeping these broad plains a wretched sheep-walk...

sheer, adj. (2)

    SS 7.13 22 ...[men] adjust themselves by their demerits,--by their love of gossip, or by sheer tolerance and animal good nature.
    Cour 7.266 15 Hear what women say of doing a task by sheer force of will: it costs them a fit of sickness.

sheet, n. (6)

    Lov1 2.173 7 ...who can avert his eyes from the engaging...ways of school-girls who go into the country shops to buy...a sheet of paper...
    Nat2 3.172 12 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    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.
    QO 8.183 25 ...when [Webster] opened a new book, he turned to the table of contents, took a pen, and sketched a sheet of matters and topics...
    FSLC 11.182 16 The crisis [over the Fugitive Slave Law] had the illuminating power of a sheet of lightning at midnight.
    Scot 11.462 4 Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty every sheet of water... he looked upon...

sheets, n. (4)

    ET15 5.266 1 The old press [the London Times] were then using printed five or six thousand sheets per hour;...
    ET19 5.313 1 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back with torn sheets and battered sides...
    War 11.164 24 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or two years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid wood and brick and mortar. You shall see a hundred presses printing a million sheets;...
    FSLN 11.218 20 [The newsboy] unfolds his magical sheets,-twopence a head his bread of knowledge costs...

Sheffield, England, n. (4)

    ET5 5.89 5 At Rogers's mills, in Sheffield...I was told there is no luck in making good steel;...
    ET11 5.179 9 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam; Sheffield the field of the river Sheaf;...
    ET12 5.204 13 Oxford is a Greek factory, as Wilton mills weave carpet and Sheffield grinds steel.
    ET17 5.294 1 The like frank hospitality...I found among the great and the humble, wherever I went [in England];...in Sheffield, in Manchester, in Liverpool.

Sheik, n. (1)

    Pow 6.69 16 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...utilizing Bedouin, Sheik and Pacha, with Layard;...

sheiks, n. (2)

    OS 2.278 26 ...[men] resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses and affect an external poverty...
    Suc 7.288 4 The Arabian sheiks...do not want [American arts];...

shekels, n. (1)

    Pray 12.350 1 Not with fond shekels of the tested gold,/ Nor gems whose rates are either rich or poor/ As fancy values them; but with true prayers,/...

sheldrake, n. (2)

    Edc1 10.156 8 Can you not keep for [the child's] mind and ways, for his secret, the same curiosity you give to the squirrel...and the sheldrake and the deer?
    Thor 10.466 27 ...the birds which frequent the stream [the Concord River], heron, duck, sheldrake, loon, osprey;...were all known to [Thoreau]...

shelf, n. (8)

    LT 1.266 7 Here is a Damascus blade, such as you may search through nature in vain to parallel, laid up on the shelf in some village to rust and ruin.
    ShP 4.193 2 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...which men hear eagerly;...
    Bty 6.281 13 ...does [the geologist] know...what effect on the race that inhabits a granite shelf?...
    Boks 7.193 27 The inspection of the catalogue [of the Cambridge Library] brings me continually back to the few standard writers who are on every private shelf;...
    OA 7.313 8 I know ye [clouds] skilful to convoy/ The total freight of hope and joy/ Into rude and homely nooks,/ Shed mocking lustres on shelf of books,/ On farmer's byre, on pasture rude,/ And stony pathway to the wood./
    CPL 11.497 6 Robinson Crusoe, could he have had a shelf of our books, could almost have done without his man Friday...
    Let 12.393 19 When children come into the library, we put the inkstand and the watch on the high shelf...
    Let 12.393 21 ...Nature has set the sun and moon in plain sight and use, but laid them on the high shelf where her roystering boys may not in some mad Saturday afternoon pull them down or burn their fingers.

shell, n. (13)

    Nat 1.71 21 ...having made for himself this huge shell, [man's] waters retired;...
    Con 1.300 19 Each of the convolutions of the sea-shell...marks one year of the fish's life; what was the mouth of the shell for one season...becoming an ornamental node.
    Con 1.300 22 The leaves and a shell of soft wood are all that the vegetation of this summer has made;...
    Comp 2.117 19 Has [a man] a defect of temper that unfits him to live in society? Thereby he is driven to...acquire habits of self-help; and thus, like the wounded oyster, he mends his shell with pearl.
    Fdsp 2.201 22 ...the sweet sincerity of joy and peace which I draw from this alliance with my brother's soul is the nut itself whereof all nature and all thought is but the husk and shell.
    Nat2 3.180 22 The whirling bubble on the surface of a brook admits us to the secret of the mechanics of the sky. Every shell on the beach is a key to it.
    MoS 4.160 25 ...a shell must dictate the architecture of a house founded on the sea.
    F 6.41 19 ...the woolly aphides on the apple perspire their own bed, and the fish its shell.
    F 6.48 9 I do not wonder at...a shell...
    Insp 8.287 10 I confide that my reader...has perhaps Slighted Minerva's learned tongue,/ But leaped with joy when on the wind the shell of Clio rung./
    Thor 10.483 15 How did these beautiful rainbow-tints get into the shell of the fresh-water clam...
    PLT 12.18 13 There are...[other minds] that deposit their dangerous unripe thoughts here and there to lie still for a time and be brooded in other minds, and the shell not be broken until the next age...
    CL 12.133 3 The air is wise, the wind thinks well,/ And all through which it blows;/ If plant or brain, if egg or shell,/ Or bird or biped knows./

Shelley, Life of P. B. [T (1)

    ET4 5.63 19 Medwin, in the Life of Shelley, relates that at a military school they rolled up a young man in a snowball, and left him in his room...

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, n. (6)

    PI 8.25 6 When people tell me they do not relish poetry, and bring me Shelley...I am quite of their mind.
    Imtl 8.325 25 [The Greek]...built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii. The poet Shelley says of these delicately carved white marble cells, They seem not so much hiding places of that which must decay, as voluptuous chambers for immortal spirits.
    FSLN 11.216 6 ...Shakspeare was of us, Milton was for us,/ Burns, Shelley, were with us,-they watch from their graves!/ He alone breaks from the van and the freemen,/ -He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves!/ Browning, The Lost Leader.
    MLit 12.318 25 This new love of the vast, always native in Germany... appeared in England in...Byron, Shelley, Felicia Hemans, and finds a most genial climate in the American mind.
    MLit 12.319 14 Nothing certifies the prevalence of this [subjective] taste in the people more than the circulation of the poems...of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats.
    MLit 12.319 16 Shelley, though a poetic mind, is never a poet.

shell-fish, n. (3)

    Comp 2.124 24 ...the shell-fish crawls out of its beautiful but stony case...
    ET18 5.300 18 Pauperism incrusts and clogs the [English] state, and in hard times becomes hideous. In bad seasons, the porridge was diluted. Multitudes lived miserably by shell-fish and sea-ware.
    CL 12.165 7 [Agassiz] talks about lizard, shell-fish and squid, he means John and Mary, Thomas and Ann.

shells, n. (12)

    Nat 1.67 20 I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details, so long as there is...no ray...to show the relation of the forms of flowers, shells, animals, architecture, to the mind...
    Tran 1.359 14 Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded;...these cities rotted...all gone, like the shells which sprinkle the sea-beach with a white colony to-day...
    Pt1 3.22 7 ...the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules...
    Gts 3.161 15 The only gift is a portion of thyself. ... Therefore the poet brings his poem;...the sailor, coral and shells;...
    Nat2 3.180 24 A little water made to rotate in a cup explains the formation of the simpler shells;...
    NER 3.259 1 ...the Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Latin, Greek and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high and dry on the beach...
    NMW 4.236 4 [Bonaparte]...on a hostile position, rained a torrent of iron,-- shells, balls, grape-shot...
    Wth 6.98 11 Every man may have occasion to consult books which he does not care to possess...pictures also of birds, beasts, fishes, shells, trees, flowers, whose names he desires to know.
    Bty 6.282 4 The boy had juster views when he gazed at the shells on the beach or the flowers in the meadow, unable to call them by their names, than the man in the pride of his nomenclature.
    WD 7.164 27 I saw a brave man...constructing his cabinet of drawers for shells, eggs, minerals, and mounted birds.
    OA 7.329 13 The conchologist builds his cabinet whilst as yet he has few shells.
    Res 8.151 24 To know the trees is, as Spenser says of the ash, for nothing ill. Shells, too;...

shelter, n. (13)

    Comp 2.125 25 We linger in the ruins of the old tent, where once we had bread and shelter and organs...
    Hsm1 2.254 1 ...they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger... do, as it were, put God under obligation to them...
    Ctr 6.155 26 Solitude...is to genius...the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.
    DL 7.117 21 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the mountains...to be the shelter always open to good and true persons;...
    Farm 7.148 13 ...this shelter creates a new climate.
    Res 8.145 1 The old forester is never far from shelter;...
    Imtl 8.330 24 ...I have in mind the expression of an older believer, who once said to me, The thought that this frail being is never to end is so overwhelming that my only shelter is God's presence.
    Chr2 10.98 18 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...
    HDC 11.34 4 After [the pilgrims] have found a place of abode, they burrow themselves in the earth for their first shelter...
    HDC 11.34 7 After [the pilgrims] have found a place of abode, they burrow themselves in the earth for their first shelter, under a hillside, and casting the soil aloft upon timbers, they make a fire against the earth, at the highest side. And thus these poor servants of Christ provide shelter for themselves...
    HDC 11.38 15 [The Puritans] proceeded to build, under the shelter of the hill that extends for a mile along the north side of the Boston road, their first dwellings.
    HDC 11.58 14 [Simon Willard] marched from Concord to Brookfield, in season to save the people...who had taken shelter in a fortified house.
    War 11.152 1 ...in the infancy of society, when a thin population and improvidence make the supply of food and of shelter insufficient and very precarious...the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...

sheltered, v. (4)

    Tran 1.338 15 ...we have yet no man...who, working for universal aims, found himself...clothed, sheltered, weaponed, he knew not how...
    ET16 5.277 2 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked round the stones [at Stonehenge] and clambered over them...and found a nook sheltered from the wind among them, where Carlyle lighted his cigar.
    CbW 6.267 19 On experiment the horizon...leaves us on an endless common, sheltered by no glass bell.
    FSLN 11.219 12 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great name inferior men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave Law] and made the law.

shelters, v. (1)

    Fdsp 2.201 22 Happy is the house that shelters a friend!

shelves, n. (3)

    SR 2.82 14 ...our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments;...
    ET12 5.213 1 ...I should as soon think of quarrelling with the janitor for not magnifying his office by hostile sallies into the street...as of quarrelling with the professors...for not attempting themselves to fill their vacant shelves as original writers.
    OA 7.329 13 [The conchologist] labels shelves for classes, cells for species: all but a few are empty.

shelving, v. (1)

    PLT 12.22 10 ...a mollusk is a cheap edition [of man]...designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster-bank or among the seaweed.

Shem, n. (1)

    PPo 8.235 2 Go transmute crime to wisdom, learn to stem/ The vice of Japhet by the thought of Shem./

Shenandoah Mountains, n. (1)

    JBS 11.281 22 ...the arch-abolitionist, older than [John] Brown, and older than the Shenandoah Mountains, is Love...

Shenstone, William, n. (2)

    ET10 5.163 19 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...the taste of foreign and domestic artists, Shenstone, Pope, Brown, Loudon, Paxton,--are in the vast auction [in England]...
    SA 8.93 12 Shenstone gave no bad account of this influence [of women] in his description of the French woman...

Shepard, Edward O., n. (2)

    SMC 11.368 12 ...at Fredericksburg...Lieutenant-Colonel Prescott loudly expressed his satisfaction at his comrades, now and then particularizing names: Bowers, Shepard and Lauriat are as brave as lions.
    SMC 11.374 3 At Dabney's Mills...[the Thirty-second Regiment] lost seventy-four killed, wounded and missing. Here Major Shepard was taken prisoner.

Shepard, John, n. (1)

    HDC 11.48 11 Individual protests are frequent [at Concord town-meetings]. Peter Wright [1705] desired his dissent might be recorded from the town's grant to John Shepard.

Shepherd, Abraham, n. (1)

    HDC 11.60 3 Two young farmers, Abraham and Isaac Shepherd, had set their sister Mary, a girl of fifteen years, to watch whilst they threshed grain in the barn.

Shepherd, Isaac, n. (1)

    HDC 11.60 4 Two young farmers, Abraham and Isaac Shepherd, had set their sister Mary, a girl of fifteen years, to watch whilst they threshed grain in the barn.

Shepherd, Mary, n. (1)

    HDC 11.60 4 Two young farmers, Abraham and Isaac Shepherd, had set their sister Mary, a girl of fifteen years, to watch whilst they threshed grain in the barn.

shepherd, n. (9)

    Nat 1.42 9 ...the sailor, the shepherd, the miner, the merchant...have each an experience precisely parallel...
    Pt1 3.33 9 The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man.
    Gts 3.161 13 The only gift is a portion of thyself. ... Therefore the poet brings his poem the shepherd, his lamb;...
    Nat2 3.179 14 ...let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature... itself secret, its works driven before it in flocks and multitudes (as the ancients represented nature by Proteus, a shepherd,)...
    F 6.39 7 ...the world throws its life into a hero or a shepherd...
    QO 8.199 18 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences that reached...back to the first geometer, bard, mason, carpenter, planter, shepherd...
    JBS 11.279 23 A shepherd and herdsman, [John Brown] learned the manners of animals...
    JBS 11.280 1 ...[John Brown] had all the skill of a shepherd by choice of breed and by wise husbandry to obtain the best wool...
    ALin 11.328 11 How beautiful to see/ Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/...

shepherdesses, n. (2)

    AmS 1.97 18 ...those Savoyards...getting their livelihood by carving... shepherdesses...went out one day...and discovered that they had whittled up the last of their pine trees.
    LLNE 10.366 20 ...every visitor [to Brook Farm] found that there was a comic side to this Paradise of shepherds and shepherdesses.

shepherds, n. (10)

    AmS 1.97 17 ...those Savoyards...getting their livelihood by carving shepherds...went out one day...and discovered that they had whittled up the last of their pine trees.
    Exp 3.71 20 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new...region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries...as if the clouds that covered it parted...and showed the approaching traveller the inland mountains, with the tranquil eternal meadows spread at their base, whereon...shepherds pipe and dance.
    ET16 5.276 17 Far and wide a few shepherds with their flocks sprinkled the [Salisbury] plain...
    CbW 6.243 21 ...Where the star Canope shines in May,/ Shepherds are thankful, and nations gay./
    WD 7.176 3 In the Greek legend, Apollo lodges with the shepherds of Admetus...
    Plu 10.310 8 You may cull from [Plutarch's] record of barbarous guesses of shepherds and travellers, statements that are predictions of facts established in modern science.
    LLNE 10.366 19 ...every visitor [to Brook Farm] found that there was a comic side to this Paradise of shepherds and shepherdesses.
    War 11.153 25 [Alexander's conquest of the East] introduced the arts of husbandry among tribes of hunters and shepherds.
    Scot 11.466 7 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class, with whom he established the best relation,- small farmers and tradesmen, shepherds, fishermen, gypsies...
    PLT 12.35 25 ...what else [than Instinct] was it they represented in Pan, god of the shepherds, who was not yet completely finished in godlike form...

shepherd's, n. (1)

    PLT 12.36 5 [Pan] could intoxicate by the strain of his shepherd's pipe...

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, [Sheridan,] (9)

    Mrs1 3.142 9 A tradesman who had long dunned [Charles James Fox] for a note of three hundred guineas, found him one day counting gold, and demanded payment. No, said Fox, I owe this money to Sheridan; it is a debt of honor;...
    Mrs1 3.142 15 Fox thanked the man for his confidence and paid him, saying, his debt was of older standing, and Sheridan must wait.
    ET11 5.178 1 Some of [the English aristocracy]...as Sheridan said of Coke, disdain to hide their head in a coronet;...
    ET18 5.306 26 It was pleaded in mitigation of the rotten borough [in England]...that substantial justice was done. Fox...Sheridan, Romilly...were by this means sent to Parliament...
    QO 8.183 16 ...[young men] are none the worse for being already told, in the last generation of Sheridan;...
    QO 8.183 18 ...we find in Grimm's Memoires that Sheridan got [his rules] from the witty D'Argenson;...
    QO 8.197 14 ...Mr. Hallam is reported as mentioning at dinner one of his friends who had said, I don't know how it is, a thing that falls flat from me seems quite an excellent joke when given at second hand by Sheridan.
    EWI 11.137 1 All the great geniuses of the British senate...Grenville, Sheridan, Grey, Canning, ranged themselves on [emancipation's] side;...
    Mem 12.98 3 The way in which Burke or Sheridan or Webster or any orator surprises us is by his always having a sharp tool that fits the present use.

Sheridan's, Philip Henry, n (1)

    SMC 11.374 8 On the first of April, the [Thirty-second] regiment connected with Sheridan's cavalry...

Sheridan's, Richard Brinsle (2)

    Elo2 8.113 7 After Sheridan's speech in the trial of Warren Hastings, Mr. Pitt moved an adjournment, that the House might recover from the overpowering effect of Sheridan's oratory.
    Elo2 8.113 11 After Sheridan's speech in the trial of Warren Hastings, Mr. Pitt moved an adjournment, that the House might recover from the overpowering effect of Sheridan's oratory.

sheriff, n. (4)

    ET3 5.36 21 ...we have the same difficulty in making a social or moral estimate of England, that the sheriff finds in drawing a jury to try some cause which has agitated the whole community...
    ET4 5.58 6 A king among these [Norse] farmers has a varying power, sometimes not exceeding the authority of a sheriff.
    Aris 10.42 10 In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the sheriff of every county is to cause two dubbed knights...to be returned.
    PerF 10.80 16 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play, to the surprise, and, as it proved, to the delight of all the company; the jurors waked up, the sheriff forgot his duty, the judge himself beat time...

sheriff's, n. (1)

    War 11.166 19 ...bayonet and sword must...quite hide themselves, as the sheriff's halter does now...

Sherlocks, n. (1)

    ET13 5.220 15 ...the age...of the Sherlocks and Butlers, is gone.

Sherman, William Tecumseh, (2)

    Edc1 10.140 13 ...Caesar in Gaul, Sherman in Savannah, and hazing in Holworthy, dance through [the boy's] narrative in merry confusion, yet the logic is good.
    HCom 11.341 23 The War has lifted many other people besides Grant and Sherman into their true places.

she-wolf's, n. (1)

    SR 2.44 2 Cast the bantling on the rocks,/ Suckle him with the she-wolf's teat/...

shield, n. (8)

    UGM 4.26 6 The shield against the stingings of conscience is the universal practice...
    MoS 4.162 10 ...I will, under the shield of this prince of egotists, offer, as an apology for electing him as the representative of skepticism, a word or two to explain how my love began and grew for this admirable gossip [Montaigne].
    ET14 5.233 22 What [the Englishman] relishes in Dante is the vise-like tenacity with which he holds a mental image before the eyes, as if it were a scutcheon painted on a shield.
    ET15 5.269 5 No dignity or wealth is a shield from [the London Times's] assault.
    Wsp 6.224 25 [Every creature's] work is sword and shield.
    Elo1 7.69 23 The virtue of books is to be readable, and of orators to be interesting; and this is a gift of Nature; as Demosthenes...signified his sense of this necessity when he wrote, Good Fortune, as his motto on his shield.
    SA 8.81 16 Balzac finely said: Kings themselves cannot force the exquisite politeness of distance to capitulate, hid behind its shield of bronze.
    Dem1 10.16 15 [The young man] observes, with pain...that his genius, whose invisible benevolence was tower and shield to him, is no longer present and active.

shield, v. (1)

    Bost 12.182 18 A blessing through the ages thus/ Shield all thy roofs and towers!/ GOD WITH THE FATHERS, SO WITH US,/ Thou darling town of ours [Boston]1/

shift, n. (4)

    Wsp 6.204 4 The stern old faiths have all pulverized. ... 'T is as flat anarchy in our ecclesiastic realms as that...which prevails now on the slope of...Pike's Peak. Yet we make shift to live.
    Wsp 6.209 5 ...the arts sink into shift and make-believe.
    DL 7.114 23 Wealth is a shift.
    Imtl 8.335 24 ...the nebular theory threatens [the sun's and the star's] duration also...and will make a shift to eke out a sort of eternity by succession...

shift, v. (2)

    NR 3.247 19 ...if we did not in any moment shift the platform on which we stand, and look and speak from another!...
    Clbs 7.224 4 Too long shut in strait and few,/ Thinly dieted on dew,/ I will use the world, and sift it,/ To a thousand humors shift it./

shifted, v. (1)

    HDC 11.58 8 From Narragansett to the Connecticut River, the scene of war was shifted as fast as these red hunters could traverse the forest.

shifting, adj. (2)

    Ill 6.321 18 How can we penetrate the law of our shifting moods and susceptibility?
    Prch 10.224 21 A man acts not from one motive, but from many shifting fears and short motives;...

shifting, v. (3)

    ET15 5.270 15 ...[the editors of the London Times] have an instinct for finding where the power now lies, which is eternally shifting its banks.
    Farm 7.142 9 In English factories, the boy that watches the loom...is called a minder. And in this great factory of our Copernican globe, shifting its slides...the farmer is the minder.
    Chr2 10.113 9 The lines of the religious sects are very shifting;...

shiftless, adj. (3)

    Tran 1.353 7 To him who looks at his life from these moments of illumination, it will seem that he skulks and plays a mean, shiftless and subaltern part in the world.
    Prd1 2.229 7 I have seen a criticism on some paintings, of which I am reminded when I see the shiftless and unhappy men who are not true to their senses.
    MMEm 10.400 14 [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt and her husband...were getting old, and the husband a shiftless, easy man.

shiftlessness, n. (1)

    AmS 1.101 6 ...[the scholar] must betray often an ignorance and shiftlessness in popular arts...

shifts, n. (7)

    Mrs1 3.140 21 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.
    ET11 5.191 19 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced...
    F 6.17 16 Man is the arch machine of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models.
    Bty 6.291 3 ...our taste in building rejects paint, and all shifts...
    DL 7.114 3 We scorn shifts;...
    OA 7.325 2 ...these temporary stays and shifts for the protection of the young animal are shed as fast as they can be replaced by nobler resources.
    CInt 12.123 6 [The Understanding] is the power which the world of men adopt and educate. He is...the worker in the useful; he works by shifts, by compromise...

shifty, adj. (1)

    Res 8.141 5 Ah! what a plastic little creature [man] is! so shifty, so adaptive!...

Shiking, n. (1)

    Wom 11.414 25 When a daughter is born, says the Shiking, the old Sacred Book of China, she sleeps on the ground...

shilling, n. (7)

    F 6.9 11 ...the cab-man is phrenologist so far, he looks in your face to see if his shilling is sure.
    Wth 6.108 9 If a St. Michael's pear sells for a shilling, it costs a shilling to raise it.
    Wth 6.108 10 If a St. Michael's pear sells for a shilling, it costs a shilling to raise it.
    Wth 6.108 13 You may not see that the fine pear costs you a shilling, but it costs the community so much.
    Wth 6.108 15 You may not see that the fine pear costs you a shilling, but it costs the community so much. The shilling represents the number of enemies the pear has...
    Wsp 6.236 25 Mira came to ask what she should do with the poor Genesee woman who had hired herself to work for her, at a shilling a day...
    HDC 11.41 11 Other portions [of land in Concord] seem to have been successively divided off and granted to individuals, at the rate of sixpence or a shilling an acre.

shillings, n. (9)

    ShP 4.205 15 About the time when [Shakespeare] was writing Macbeth, he sues Philip Rogers...for thirty-five shillings, ten pence, for corn delivered to him at different times;...
    EzRy 10.384 13 The minister [Joseph Emerson] writes against January 31st [1735]: Bought a shay for 27 pounds, 10 shillings.
    EzRy 10.385 11 ...on 15th May [1735] we have this [from Joseph Emerson]: Shay brought home; mending cost thirty shillings.
    HDC 11.65 24 It is an article in the selectmen's warrant for the town-meeting, to see if the town [Concord] will lay in for a representative not exceeding four pounds. Captain Minott was chosen, and after the General Court was adjourned received of the town for his services, an allowance of three shillings per day.
    HDC 11.66 1 ...bounties of twenty shillings are given as late as 1735, to Indians and whites, for the heads of these animals [wolves and wildcats]...
    HDC 11.78 14 ...say the plaintive records, General Washington, at Cambridge, is not able to give but 24s. per cord for wood, for the army;...
    HDC 11.80 20 ...our fathers must be forgiven by their charitable posterity, if, in 1782...it was Voted that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day...
    HDC 11.80 24 ...it was Voted [by Concord] that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day, whilst in actual service, an account of which time he should bring to the town, and if it should be that the General Court should resolve, that, their pay should be more than 6s., then the representative shall be hereby directed to pay the overpluse into the town treasury.
    EWI 11.137 11 ...every liberal mind...had had the fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. On the other part, appeared the reign of pounds and shillings...

shimmer, n. (2)

    Ill 6.307 24 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding the shimmer,/ The wild dissipation,/ And, out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
    PI 8.74 9 One man sees a spark or shimmer of the truth and reports it, and his saying becomes a legend or golden proverb for ages...

shimmers, v. (1)

    Nat 1.19 17 The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who ever could clutch it?

shin-bone, n. (1)

    Art2 7.41 11 Duhamel built a bridge by letting in a piece of stronger timber for the middle of the under-surface, getting his hint from the structure of the shin-bone.

shine, v. (40)

    Nat 1.20 2 Every heroic act...causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
    Nat 1.27 7 Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life, wherein...the natures of Justice, Truth, Love, Freedom, arise and shine.
    AmS 1.85 11 Far too as her splendors shine...Nature hastens to render account of herself to the mind.
    AmS 1.96 23 In its grub state...[the new deed] cannot shine...
    AmS 1.99 14 Let the grandeur of justice shine in [the great soul's] affairs.
    DSA 1.148 4 ...slight [the commanders]...by high and universal aims, and they instantly feel...that it is in lower places that they must shine.
    Con 1.324 2 [The hero's] greatness will shine and accomplish itself unto the end...
    SL 2.160 26 Shine with real light and not with the borrowed reflection of gifts.
    SL 2.161 23 The object of the man...is to make daylight shine through him...
    Lov1 2.178 9 Beauty...welcome as the sun wherever it pleases to shine... seems sufficient to itself.
    OS 2.286 27 If [a man] have found his centre, the Deity will shine through him...
    Mrs1 3.140 7 The dry light must shine in to adorn our festival...
    ShP 4.202 8 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age mischooses the object on which all candles shine...
    GoW 4.262 12 The facts do not lie in [the memory] inert; but some subside and others shine;...
    ET1 5.24 19 Wordsworth honored himself by his simple adherence to truth, and was very willing not to shine;...
    Pow 6.57 23 Import into any stationary district...a colony of hardy Yankees...and everything begins to shine with values.
    Ctr 6.163 7 Open your Marcus Antoninus. In the opinion of the ancients he was the great man who scorned to shine...
    Wsp 6.237 26 Honor him...who does not shine, and would rather not.
    Bty 6.300 12 We love any forms, however ugly, from which great qualities shine.
    Farm 7.153 12 ...[the farmer] would not shine in palaces;...
    Clbs 7.244 20 If [my friend] were sure to find at No. 2000 Tremont Street what scholars were abroad after the morning studies were ended, Boston would shine as the New Jerusalem in his eyes.
    Suc 7.296 24 Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the faces and houses around to shine.
    Suc 7.309 1 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton. The eye shall not see it; the sun shall not shine on it.
    Suc 7.311 13 There is an external life, which is...taught to grasp all the boy can get, urging him...to...unfold his talents, shine, conquer and possess.
    SA 8.95 23 The great gain is, not to shine...
    PC 8.216 1 The founders of nations, the wise men and inventors who shine afterwards as their gods, were probably martyrs in their own time.
    PC 8.229 13 When [a man]...does not wish to shine...he communicates himself, and not his vanity.
    Grts 8.309 6 ...the rule of the orator begins...when his deep conviction, and the right and necessity he feels to convey that conviction to his audience,- when these shine and burn in his address;...
    Grts 8.317 26 Goethe, in his correspondence with his Grand Duke of Weimar, does not shine.
    MoL 10.255 27 We should see in [the work of art] the great belief of the artist, which caused him to make it so as he did, and not otherwise;... somewhat that must be done then and there by him; he could not take his neck out of that yoke, and save his soul. And this design must shine through the whole performance.
    Plu 10.316 26 ...[Plutarch] praises the Romans, who, when the feast was over, dealt well with the lamps, and did not take away the nourishment they had given, but permitted them to live and shine by it.
    MMEm 10.403 9 [Mary Moody Emerson] wished you to scorn to shine.
    MMEm 10.414 14 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] prospered in life, what a proud, excited being, even to feverishness, I might have been. Loving to shine...
    MMEm 10.419 9 It was His will that gives my [Mary Moody Emerson's] superiors to shine in wisdom, friendship, and ardent pursuits...
    EWI 11.144 21 The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.
    PLT 12.32 23 The sun may shine, or a galaxy of suns; you will get no more light than your eye will hold.
    Mem 12.110 14 When we live...by obedience to the law of the mind instead of by passion...the light of to-day will shine backward and forward.
    cInt 12.112 16 ...if to me it is not given/ To fetch one ingot hence/ Of the unfading gold of Heaven/ [God's] merchants may dispense,/ Yet well I know the royal mine/ And know the sparkle of its ore,/ Know Heaven's truths from lies that shine-/ Explored, they teach us to explore./
    MLit 12.310 5 I have just been reading poems which now in memory shine with a certain steady, warm, autumnal light.
    MLit 12.320 21 The Excursion awakened in every lover of Nature the right feeling. We saw stars shine...

shined, v. (3)

    AmS 1.114 21 Young men...shined upon by all the stars of God...turn drudges...
    GoW 4.263 26 A new thought or a crisis of passion apprises [the writer] that all that he has yet learned and written is exoteric,--is not the fact, but some rumor of the fact. What then? Does he throw away the pen? No; he begins again to describe in the new light which has shined on him...
    Civ 7.33 19 ...a purer morality...casts backward all that we held sacred into the profane, as the flame of oil throws a shadow when shined upon by the flame of the Bude-light.

shines, v. (45)

    Nat 1.3 16 The sun shines to-day also.
    Nat 1.4 7 Let us interrogate the great apparition that shines so peacefully around us.
    Nat 1.8 27 The sun...shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
    Nat 1.19 16 ...[the moon] will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.
    Nat 1.32 2 At the call of a noble sentiment, again...the river rolls and shines...
    Nat 1.33 19 ...Make hay while the sun shines;...
    Nat 1.34 11 ...the light of higher laws than [the universe's] own shines through it.
    Nat 1.39 9 The beauty of nature shines in [man's] own breast.
    DSA 1.129 21 ...[Jesus] knew that this daily miracle shines as the character ascends.
    LE 1.173 10 ...the thing whereon [thought] shines...is a new subject with countless relations.
    LT 1.290 13 Only as far as [the Moral Sentiment] shines through them are these times or any times worth consideration.
    Hist 2.40 27 Broader and deeper we must write our annals...instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride to which we have too long lent our eyes. Already that day...shines in on us at unawares...
    Fdsp 2.196 12 We doubt that we bestow on our hero the virtues in which he shines...
    Prd1 2.238 24 If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan...meet on what common ground remains,--if only that the sun shines and the rain rains for both;...
    Hsm1 2.248 23 ...a Stoicism not of the schools but of the blood, shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch]...
    Hsm1 2.262 4 ...the day never shines in which this element [heroism] may not work.
    OS 2.270 25 From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things...
    OS 2.277 22 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property in what was said, as well as the sayer. ... All are conscious of attaining to a higher self-possession. It shines for all.
    OS 2.288 23 Humanity shines in Homer...
    Art1 2.362 10 A calm benignant beauty shines over all this picture [Raphael, Transfiguration]...
    Pt1 3.29 21 That spirit which suffices quiet hearts, which seems to come forth to such...from every pine stump and half-imbedded stone on which the dull March sun shines, comes forth to the poor and hungry...
    Chr1 3.115 1 When at last that which we have always longed for [a fine character] is arrived and shines on us with glad rays out of that far celestial land, then to be coarse...argues a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of heaven.
    Pol1 3.212 15 We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws.
    GoW 4.283 15 ...Goethe...does not speak from talent, but the truth shines through...
    ET2 5.28 20 The sea-fire shines in [the ship's] wake...
    ET11 5.190 10 Penshurst still shines for us, and its Christmas revels...
    F 6.26 14 Where [the mind] shines, Nature is no longer intrusive...
    CbW 6.243 20 ...Where the star Canope shines in May,/ Shepherds are thankful, and nations gay./
    DL 7.117 23 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the mountains...to be...a hall which shines with sincerity...
    PI 8.53 16 Poetry being an attempt to express...the beauty and soul in [the hero's] aspect as it shines to fancy and feeling;...runs into fable, personifies every fact...
    Res 8.153 20 ...the one fact that shines through all this plenitude of [man's] powers is, that as is the receiver, so is the gift;...
    PPo 8.243 16 The sun shines fair on Carlisle wall/...
    Insp 8.284 23 Often in deep midnights/ I called on the sweet muses./ No dawn shines,/ And no day will appear:/ But at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./
    Dem1 10.22 20 We may...say of one on whom the sun shines, What luck presides over him!
    Schr 10.265 14 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...the sun shines...
    Schr 10.282 11 [Truth] shines backward and forward, diminishes and annihilates everybody...
    Plu 10.300 24 [Plutarch's] style is realistic, picturesque and varied; his sharp objective eyes seeing everything that moves, shines or threatens in nature or art, or thought or dreams.
    Plu 10.319 12 If Plutarch...held the balance between the severe Stoic and the indulgent Epicurean, his humanity shines not less in his intercourse with his personal friends.
    EPro 11.322 6 The territory of the Union shines to-day with a lustre which every European emigrant can discern from far;...
    CL 12.156 10 ...we are glad to see the world, and what amplitudes it has, of meadow, stream, upland, forest and sea, which yet are lanes and crevices to the great space in which the world shines like a cockboat in the sea.
    Bost 12.201 27 What is very conspicuous is the saucy independence which shines in all [the Massachusetts colonists'] eyes.
    Milt1 12.258 13 [Milton's] sensibility to impressions from beauty needs no proof from his history; it shines through every page.
    Milt1 12.265 19 [Milton's native honor] engaged his interest...in whatsoever savored of generosity and nobleness. This magnanimity shines in all his life.
    MLit 12.309 15 We go musing into the vault of day and night; no constellation shines...
    MLit 12.316 5 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love? Or is his passion for the wilderness only...the exhibition of a talent which only shines whilst you praise it;...

shingle, adj. (2)

    ET10 5.161 4 [Steam] can clothe shingle mountains with ship-oaks...
    Boks 7.215 14 ...'t is pity [people] should not read novels a little more, to import the fine generosities and the clear, firm conduct, which are as becoming in the unions and separations which love effects under shingle roofs as in palaces and among illustrious personages.

shingle, n. (2)

    ET5 5.77 7 Nobody landed on this spellbound island [England] with impunity. The enchantments of barren shingle and rough weather transformed every adventurer into a laborer.
    PerF 10.75 4 Where are the farmer's days gone? See, they are hid...in the harvest grown on what was shingle and pine-barren.

shining, adj. (21)

    DSA 1.151 16 I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those shining laws that he shall see them come full circle;...
    Hist 2.9 6 Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
    OS 2.269 17 We see the world piece by piece...but the whole, of which these are the shining parts, is the soul.
    Int 2.323 2 Go, speed the stars of Thought/ On to their shining goals;/...
    Nat2 3.169 9 There are days which occur in this climate...when, in these bleak upper sides of the planet...we bask in the shining hours of Florida and Cuba;...
    NR 3.226 25 All persons exist to society by some shining trait of beauty or utility which they have.
    UGM 4.4 19 The gods of fable are the shining moments of great men.
    MoS 4.150 15 Read the haughty language in which Plato and the Platonists speak of all men who are not devoted to their own shining abstractions...
    ET14 5.245 23 Hallam...is unconscious of the deep worth which lies in the mystics, and which often outvalues as a seed of power and a source of revolution all the correct writers and shining reputations of their day.
    Cour 7.264 25 ...the...shining helmets, beard and moustache of the soldier have conquered you long before his sword or bayonet reaches you.
    Cour 7.270 2 ...I remember the old professor, whose searching mind engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class, when we asked if he had read this or that shining novelty, No, I have never read that book;...
    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./
    Dem1 10.19 3 It would be easy in the political history of every time to furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which without virtue, without shining talent, yet makes them prevailing.
    Edc1 10.130 12 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark...but because he acquires thereby a majestic sense of power; learning that in his own constitution he can set the shining maze in order...
    Edc1 10.132 9 ...whilst thus the man is ever invited inward into shining realms of knowledge and power by the shows of the world...it becomes the office of a just education to awaken him to the knowledge of this fact.
    Prch 10.222 7 To [the soul which is without God] heaven and earth have lost their beauty. How gloomy is the day, and upon yonder shining pond what melancholy light!
    LLNE 10.326 7 The former generations acted under the belief that a shining social prosperity was the beatitude of man...
    GSt 10.504 8 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth reading, as a shining example of the manner in which a truth-speaker baffles all statecraft...
    ALin 11.331 15 [Lincoln] offered no shining qualities at the first encounter;...

shining, n. (2)

    Fdsp 2.216 17 ...thou art enlarged by thy own shining...
    Supl 10.173 19 ...the luminous object wastes itself by its shining...

shining, v. (9)

    AmS 1.91 17 ...when the sun is hid and the stars withdraw their shining, - we repair to the lamps...to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is.
    LE 1.159 18 The sense of spiritual independence is like the lovely varnish of the dew, whereby the old...earth and its old...productions are made new every morning, and shining with the last touch of the artist's hand.
    Con 1.309 19 Yonder sun in heaven you would pluck down from shining on the universe, and make him a property and privacy, if you could;...
    Lov1 2.182 7 ...by this love [of beauty] extinguishing the base affection, as the sun puts out fire by shining on the hearth, [the lovers] become pure and hallowed.
    Int 2.344 5 ...let [new doctrines] not go until their blessing be won, and after a short season...they will be...one more bright star shining serenely in your heaven...
    Art1 2.349 17 So shall the drudge in dusty frock/ Spy behind the city clock/ .../ His fathers shining in bright fables,/ His children fed at heavenly tables./
    GoW 4.264 27 There is a certain heat in the breast...which is the shining of the spiritual sun down into the shaft of the mine.
    Bhr 6.187 25 ...through this lustrous varnish the reality is ever shining.
    Bost 12.190 20 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its islands hospitably shining in the sun...a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...

ship, n. (79)

    Nat 1.48 23 We are not built like a ship, to be tossed...
    Nat 1.50 18 We are strangely affected by seeing the shore from a moving ship...
    AmS 1.84 3 ...the sailor [becomes] a rope of the ship.
    MN 1.192 8 ...I feel the pride which the sight of a ship inspires;...
    MN 1.205 7 ...[the ocean] it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.
    YA 1.388 17 ...the college, the church, the hospital, the theatre, the hotel, the road, the ship of the capitalist,-whatever goes to secure, adorn, enlarge these is good;...
    Hist 2.17 25 ...the true ship is the ship-builder.
    SR 2.59 6 The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
    SL 2.140 27 [Each man] is like a ship in a river;...
    Prd1 2.236 1 When [a man] sees a folded and sealed scrap of paper float round the globe in a pine ship and come safe to the eye for which it was written...let him likewise feel the admonition to integrate his being across all these distracting forces...
    Int 2.327 2 As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man...lies open to the mercy of coming events.
    Pt1 3.4 4 Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to talk of the spiritual meaning of a ship or a cloud...
    Pt1 3.16 18 In the political processions, Lowell goes in a loom...and Salem in a ship.
    Exp 3.46 22 Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
    NR 3.239 2 ...[the recluse] goes into a mob...into a ship...and in each new place he is no better than an idiot;...
    UGM 4.12 17 Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.
    UGM 4.21 5 The veneration of mankind selects these [great men] for the highest place. Witness the multitude of statues, pictures and memorials which recall their genius in every city, village, house and ship...
    PPh 4.53 15 ...[the Greeks'] perfect works in architecture and sculpture seemed things of course, not more difficult than the completion of a new ship at the Medford yards...
    MoS 4.160 20 We want a ship in these billows we inhabit.
    ET2 5.26 14 ...the captain affirmed that the ship would show us in time all her paces...
    ET2 5.26 22 The good ship darts through the water all day, all night, like a fish;...
    ET2 5.27 9 The shortest sea-line from Boston to Liverpool is 2850 miles. This a steamer keeps, and saves 150 miles. A sailing ship can never go in a shorter line than 3000...
    ET2 5.27 14 Watchfulness is the law of the ship...
    ET2 5.27 16 Since the ship was built, it seems, the master never slept but in his day-clothes whilst on board.
    ET2 5.28 1 Our ship was registered 750 tons...
    ET2 5.28 6 It is impossible not to personify a ship;...
    ET2 5.28 14 The conscious ship hears all the praise.
    ET2 5.30 14 ...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port...
    ET2 5.30 21 ...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port... having no money and wishing to go to England. The sailors have dressed him in Guernsey frock...and he...likes the work first-rate, and if the captain will take him, means now to come back again in the ship.
    ET2 5.32 20 ...I think the white path of an Atlantic ship the right avenue to the palace front of this seafaring people [the English]...
    ET2 5.33 12 Yesterday every passenger had measured the speed of the ship by watching the bubbles over the ship's bulwarks.
    ET3 5.40 7 England resembles a ship in its shape...
    ET4 5.56 11 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship.
    ET4 5.56 14 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship.
    ET4 5.59 24 The wind blew off the land, the ship flew, burning in clear flame, out between the islets into the ocean, and there was the right end of King Hake.
    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...
    ET5 5.91 18 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board. The ship struck a rock and went to the bottom.
    ET16 5.282 26 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was the compass,--a bit of loadstone, easily supposed to be the only one in the world, and therefore naturally awakening the cupidity and ambition of the young heroes of a maritime nation to join in an expedition to obtain possession of this wise stone. Hence the fable that the ship Argo was loquacious and oracular.
    ET19 5.312 26 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port...
    F 6.6 26 We must see that the world...swallows your ship like a grain of dust.
    F 6.32 4 The water drowns ship and sailor like a grain of dust.
    Wth 6.95 13 The world is his who has money to go over it. He arrives at the seashore and a sumptuous ship has floored and carpeted for him the stormy Atlantic...
    Wth 6.109 20 When the European wars threw the carrying-trade of the world, from 1800 to 1812, into American bottoms, a seizure was now and then made of an American ship.
    Bty 6.287 23 ...[the ancients] pretended to guess the pilot by the sailing of the ship.
    Bty 6.291 10 ...the carpenter building a ship...is becoming to the wise eye.
    Civ 7.24 17 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts...
    Civ 7.24 19 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts: the ship steered by compass and chart...
    Art2 7.40 2 The useful arts comprehend...navigation, practical chemistry and the construction of all the grand and delicate tools and instruments by which man serves himself; as language, the watch, the ship, the decimal cipher;...
    Art2 7.40 6 When we reflect on the pleasure we receive from a ship, a railroad, a dry-dock; or from a picture, a dramatic representation, a statue, a poem,--we find that these have not a quite simple, but a blended origin.
    Elo1 7.78 15 In earlier days, [Julius Caesar] was taken by pirates. What then? He threw himself into their ship, established the most extraordinary intimacies...
    Farm 7.138 23 [The farmer] bends to the order of the seasons, the weather, the soils and crops, as the sails of a ship bend to the wind.
    WD 7.172 24 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship...
    Suc 7.284 5 ...Olaf, King of Norway, could run round his galley on the blades of the oars of the rowers when the ship was in motion;...
    Suc 7.285 9 ...leaving the coast [of Panama], the ship full of one hundred and fifty skilful seamen...the wise admiral [Columbus] kept his private record of his homeward path.
    OA 7.323 12 The insurance of a ship expires as she enters the harbor at home.
    PI 8.6 22 Suppose there were in the ocean certain strong currents which drove a ship, caught in them, with a force that no skill of sailing with the best wind, and no strength of oars, or sails, or steam, could make any head against...
    Res 8.140 11 The marked events in history...the building of a large ship;... each of these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
    Res 8.149 14 We have not a toy or trinket for idle amusement but somewhere it is the one thing needful, for solid instruction or to save the ship or army.
    Comc 8.165 18 Smith...sent out a party into the swamp, caught an Indian, and sent him home in the first ship to London...
    PC 8.207 11 The storm which has been resisted is a crown of honor and a pledge of strength to the ship.
    PPo 8.252 23 [Hafiz] says, The fishes shed their pearls, out of desire and longing as soon as the ship of Hafiz swims the deep.
    PerF 10.74 14 ...if [man] should fight the sea and the whirlwind with his ship, he would snap his spars, tear his sails, and swamp his bark;...
    Supl 10.172 6 ...the gallant skipper...complained to his owners that he had pumped the Atlantic Ocean three times through his ship on the passage...
    SovE 10.196 18 The ship of heaven guides itself...
    Plu 10.305 1 ...asking Epaminondas about the manner of Lysis's burial, I found that Lysis had taught him as far as the incommunicable mysteries of our sect, and that the same Daemon that waited on Lysis, presided over him, if I can guess at the pilot from the sailing of the ship.
    HDC 11.36 23 ...standing on the seashore, [the Indians] often told of the coming of a ship at sea, sooner by one hour, yea, two hours' sail, than any Englishman that stood by, on purpose to look out.
    EWI 11.110 19 ...Slave ships] carried five, six, even seven hundred stowed in a ship built so narrow as to be unsafe...
    EWI 11.110 23 In attempting to make its escape from the pursuit of a man-of- war, one ship flung five hundred slaves alive into the sea.
    EWI 11.130 27 ...I thought the deck of a Massachusetts ship was as much the territory of Massachusetts as the floor on which we stand.
    EWI 11.140 14 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat the underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners...
    War 11.158 26 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. The matter of most profit to me was a great ship of the king's...
    EPro 11.325 25 [The Emancipation Proclamation] will be an insurance to the ship as it goes plunging through the sea with glad tidings to all people.
    SMC 11.353 4 A thunder-storm at sea sometimes reverses the magnets in the ship...
    Wom 11.407 3 In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail...
    CPL 11.497 8 Robinson Crusoe, could he have had a shelf of our books, could almost have done without his man Friday, or even the arriving ship.
    FRep 11.543 25 ...our little wherry is taken in tow by the ship of the great Admiral...
    II 12.74 27 ...the ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.
    EurB 12.370 2 ...notwithstanding all Wordsworth's grand merits, it was a great pleasure to know that Alfred Tennyson's two volumes were coming out in the same ship;...
    EurB 12.372 26 ...the novels, which come to us in every ship from England, have an importance increased by the immense extension of their circulation through the new cheap press...

shipboard, n. [ship-board,] (2)

    ET2 5.31 20 ...some of the happiest and most valuable hours I have owed to books, passed, many years ago, on shipboard.
    ET5 5.91 18 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board.

ship-builder, n. [shipbuilder,] (3)

    Hist 2.17 26 ...the true ship is the ship-builder.
    PC 8.219 24 McKay, the shipbuilder, thinks of George Steers; and Steers, of Pook, the naval constructor.
    PerF 10.74 22 [Man] is a planter, a miner, a shipbuilder...and each of these by dint of a wonderful method or series that resides in him and enables him to work on the material elements.

ship-building, adj. (1)

    DL 7.110 14 Another man is...a builder of ships,--a ship-building foundation, and could achieve nothing if he should dissipate himself on books...

ship-carpenter, n. (1)

    ET6 5.110 14 The [English] ship-carpenter in the public yards, my lord's gardener and porter, have been there for more than a hundred years, grandfather, father, and son.

ship-load, n. (2)

    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...
    CbW 6.275 25 ...the evil [in our domestic service] increases from the ignorance and hostility of every ship-load of the immigrant population swarming into houses and farms.

shipmaster, n. [ship-master,] (3)

    Boks 7.189 6 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or from Pontus;...
    Dem1 10.14 7 The poor ship-master discovered a sound theology, when in the storm at sea he made his prayer to Neptune, O God, thou mayst save me if thou wilt, and if thou wilt thou mayst destroy me; but, however, I will hold my rudder true.
    EWI 11.130 11 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships... freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in jails so long as the vessel remained in port, with the stringent addition, that if the shipmaster fails to pay the costs of this official arrest and the board in jail, these citizens are to be sold for slaves, to pay that expense.

ship-masters, n. [shipmasters,] (3)

    SwM 4.100 23 [Swedenborg's] rare science and practical skill, and the added fame...of extraordinary religious knowledge and gifts, drew to him queens, nobles, clergy, ship-masters...
    Clbs 7.246 19 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see how much they have to say...
    EWI 11.108 19 The shipmasters in [the slave] trade were the greatest miscreants...

ship-money, n. (2)

    ET4 5.64 23 In the case of the ship-money, the judges delivered it for law, that England being an island, the very midland shires therein are all to be accounted maritime;...
    ET5 5.87 25 ...star-chamber, ship-money, Popery...are all questions involving a yeoman's right to his dinner...

ship-oaks, n. (1)

    ET10 5.161 4 [Steam] can clothe shingle mountains with ship-oaks...

shipped, v. (3)

    ET4 5.59 21 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in battle, as long as he can stand, then orders his war-ship, loaded with his dead men and their weapons, to be taken out to sea, the tiller shipped and the sails spread;...
    Comc 8.162 22 The victim who has just received the discharge [of wit], if in a solemn company, has the air very much of a stout vessel which has just shipped a heavy sea;...
    War 11.158 7 Only in Elizabeth's time, out of the European waters, piracy was all but universal. The proverb was,-No peace beyond the line; and the seaman shipped on the buccaneer's bargain, No prey, no pay.

shipping, n. (3)

    Aris 10.42 15 In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the sheriff...of every city [is to cause] two citizens, and of every borough, two burgesses, such as have greatest skill in shipping and merchandising, to be returned.
    EWI 11.132 1 If the State has no power to defend its own people in its own shipping, because it has delegated that power to the Federal Government, has it no representation in the Federal Government?
    FRep 11.543 4 Pennsylvania coal-mines and New York shipping and free labor, though not idealists, gravitate in the ideal direction.

ships, n. (41)

    Nat 1.14 4 The private poor man hath cities, ships, canals, bridges, built for him.
    MR 1.231 24 ...in the Spanish islands...no article passes into our ships which has not been fraudulently cheapened.
    YA 1.370 27 A heterogeneous population crowding on all ships from all corners of the world to the great gates of North America...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    YA 1.377 11 ...as quickly as men go to foreign parts in ships or caravans, a new order of things springs up;...
    Prd1 2.234 24 ...timber of ships will rot at sea...
    SwM 4.100 3 In 1743, when [Swedenborg] was fifty-four years old, what is called his illumination began. All his metallurgy and transportation of ships overland was absorbed into this ecstasy.
    NMW 4.229 22 [Bonaparte] knew the properties...of wheels and ships...
    NMW 4.252 15 I call Napoleon the agent or attorney...of the throng who fill the markets, shops, counting-houses, manufactories, ships, of the modern world...
    ET2 5.32 23 ...I think the white path of an Atlantic ship the right avenue to the palace front of this seafaring people [the English], who for hundreds of years...exacted toll and the striking sail from the ships of all other peoples.
    ET3 5.42 2 ...to make these [commercial] advantages avail, the river Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the kingdom, giving road and landing to innumerable ships...
    ET5 5.83 15 The bias of the nation [England] is a passion for utility. They love the lever...the sea and the wind to bear their freight ships.
    ET5 5.85 4 The admirable equipment of [Englishmen's] arctic ships carries London to the pole.
    ET5 5.86 17 Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of breaking the line of sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling, or stationing his ships one on the outer bow and another on the outer quarter of each of the enemy's, were only translations into naval tactics of Bonaparte's rule of concentration.
    ET7 5.121 8 [The English]...cannot easily change their opinions to suit the hour. They are like ships with too much head on to come quickly about...
    ET10 5.157 23 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...announced...that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do;...
    ET10 5.160 12 Forty thousand ships are entered in Lloyd's lists.
    ET10 5.169 3 In the culmination of national prosperity, in the...building of ships, depots, towns;...it was found [in England] that bread rose to famine prices...
    ET11 5.196 7 The tools of our time, namely steam, ships, printing, money and popular education, belong to those who can handle them;...
    Pow 6.55 19 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland.
    Pow 6.55 22 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland. But take out Eric and put in a stronger and bolder man...and the ships will...sail six hundred... miles further...
    Wth 6.108 22 If the wind were always southwest by west, said the skipper, women might take ships to sea.
    Wth 6.124 11 The good merchant [finds] large gains, ships, stocks and money.
    Bty 6.291 13 How beautiful are ships on the sea!...
    Bty 6.291 14 How beautiful are ships on the sea! but ships in the theatre,-- or ships kept for picturesque effect on Virginia Water by George IV., and men hired to stand in fitting costumes at a penny an hour!
    DL 7.110 14 Another man is...a builder of ships...and could achieve nothing if he should dissipate himself on books...
    Farm 7.146 10 Water...sets its irresistible shoulder to your mills or your ships...
    WD 7.162 15 ...ships were built capacious enough to carry the people of a county.
    Boks 7.192 20 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely over dark morasses and barren oceans...
    PI 8.5 5 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that under chemistry was power and purpose: power and purpose ride on matter to the last atom. It was steeped in thought, did everywhere express thought; that, as great conquerors have burned their ships when once they were landed on the wished-for shore, so the noble house of Nature we inhabit has temporary uses...
    PC 8.215 3 ...[Roger Bacon] announced that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do...
    PerF 10.75 21 [Labor] is in dress, in pictures, in ships, in cannon;...
    Edc1 10.129 2 Every one has a trust of power,-every man, every boy a jurisdiction, whether it be over a cow...or a fleet of ships...
    Schr 10.272 15 Union Pacific stock is not quite private property, but the quality and essence of the universe is in that also. Have we less interest in ships or in shops...
    HDC 11.56 19 The people on the [Massachusetts] bay built ships...
    EWI 11.110 16 In consequence of the dangers of the [slave] trade growing out of the act of abolition, ships were built sharp for swiftness...
    EWI 11.130 4 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships, yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...
    War 11.158 21 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...
    War 11.165 9 ...when a truth appears...it will build ships;...
    War 11.165 15 We surround ourselves always...with true images of ourselves in things, whether it be ships or books or cannons or churches.
    PLT 12.12 26 ...just in proportion to the activity of thoughts on the study of outward objects, as...natural history, ships, animals, chemistry,-in that proportion the faculties of the mind had a healthy growth;...
    PLT 12.18 24 [The perceptions of the soul] take to themselves...ships and cities and nations and armies of men and ages of duration;...

ship's, n. [ships',] (10)

    Chr1 3.95 3 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: let us fancy, under these swarthy masks he has a gang of Washingtons in chains. When they arrive at Cuba, will the relative order of the ship's company be the same?
    ET2 5.33 13 Yesterday every passenger had measured the speed of the ship by watching the bubbles over the ship's bulwarks.
    ET7 5.119 13 In comparing [the English] ships' houses and public offices with the American, it is commonly said that they spend a pound where we spend a dollar.
    ET19 5.310 10 ...when I came to sea, I found the History of Europe, by Sir A. Alison, on the ship's cabin table...
    SS 7.9 14 ...though there be for heroes this moral union, yet they too are as far off as ever from an intellectual union, and the moral union is for comparatively low and external purposes, like the cooperation of a ship's company...
    Civ 7.25 4 ...I watched, in crossing the sea, the beautiful skill whereby the engine in its constant working was made to produce two hundred gallons of fresh water out of salt water, every hour,--thereby supplying all the ship's want.
    Clbs 7.228 24 We remember the time when the best gift we could ask of fortune was to fall in with a valuable companion in a ship's cabin...
    PI 8.67 9 If [the readers of a good poem] build ships, they write Ariel or Prospero or Ophelia on the ship's stern...
    LLNE 10.369 3 [Brook Farm] was a close union, like that in a ship's cabin...
    EWI 11.146 8 I doubt not that, sometimes, a despairing negro, when jumping over the ship's sides to escape from the white devils who surrounded him, has believed there was no vindication of right;...

ships, v. (2)

    ET5 5.98 23 A landlord who owns a province [in England] says, The tenantry are unprofitable; let me have sheep. He unroofs the houses and ships the population to America.
    PI 8.67 8 If [the readers of a good poem] build ships, they write Ariel or Prospero or Ophelia on the ship's stern...

shipwreck, n. (2)

    Fdsp 2.206 3 [Friendship] is fit for serene days...but also for...shipwreck...
    SwM 4.144 27 In the shipwreck, some cling to running rigging, some to cask and barrel...

shipwrecked, v. (4)

    SovE 10.213 15 [The man of this age] must not be one who can be surprised and shipwrecked by every bold or subtile word which malignant and acute men may utter in his hearing...
    LLNE 10.359 12 ...the architect, acting under a necessity to build the house for its purpose, finds himself...steering clear, though in the dark, of those dangers which might have shipwrecked him.
    CPL 11.504 9 Julius Caesar, when shipwrecked, and forced to swim for life, did not gather his gold, but took his Commentaries between his teeth and swam for the shore.
    CL 12.165 20 If we believed that Nature was...some rock on which souls wandering in the Universe were shipwrecked, we should think all exploration of it frivolous waste of time.

ship-yards, n. [shipyards,] (4)

    SwM 4.101 24 The genius [of Swedenborg] which was...to...attempt to establish a new religion in the world,--began its lessons...in ship-yards and dissecting-rooms.
    ET11 5.183 7 All over England, scattered at short intervals among ship-yards, mills, mines and forges, are the paradises of the nobles...
    Suc 7.284 26 ...when the timber in the shipyards of Sweden was ruined by rot, Linnaeus was desired by the government to find a remedy.
    CL 12.137 27 When the shipyards were infested with rot, Linnaeus was sent to provide some remedy.

Shiraz, Persia, n. (1)

    PPo 8.251 18 Take my heart in thy hand, O beautiful boy of Shiraz!/ I would give for the mole on thy cheek Samarcand and Buchara!/

shires, n. (1)

    ET4 5.64 25 In the case of the ship-money, the judges delivered it for law, that England being an island, the very midland shires therein are all to be accounted maritime;...

shirking, v. (2)

    CbW 6.275 18 Our domestic service is usually a foolish fracas of unreasonable demand on one side and shirking on the other.
    Civ 7.27 19 The farmer had much ill temper, laziness and shirking to endure from his hand-sawyers, until one day he bethought him to put his saw-mill on the edge of a waterfall;...

Shirley, Massachusetts, n. (1)

    SlHr 10.443 3 ...in many a town it was asked, What does Squire Hoar think of this? and in political crises, he was entreated to write a few lines to make known to good men in Chelmsford, or Marlborough, or Shirley, what that opinion was.

shirt, n. (5)

    ET5 5.84 15 The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.
    F 6.8 15 ...it is of no use...to dress up that terrific benefactor [Providence] in a clean shirt...
    Res 8.146 6 ...[Tissenet] opened his shirt a little and showed to each of the savages in turn the reflection of his own eyeball in a small pocket-mirror which he had hung next to his skin.
    SovE 10.195 15 We need not always be stipulating for our clean shirt and roast joint per diem.
    Carl 10.491 8 It needs something more than a clean shirt and reading German to visit [Carlyle].

shirts, n. (6)

    Hsm1 2.253 5 What a disgrace is it to me...to bear the inventory of thy shirts...
    CbW 6.247 13 There are other measures of self-respect for a man than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
    CbW 6.262 21 Nature...works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist whom I found the other day in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.
    WD 7.159 18 [Steam] must sew our shirts...
    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 11.79 17 For these men [in the Continental army] [Concord] was continually providing shoes, stockings, shirts, coats, blankets and beef.

shirt-sleeves, n. (4)

    ET2 5.30 13 ...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port...
    Pow 6.63 2 ...let these rough riders--legislators in shirt-sleeves...drive as they may, and the disposition of territories and public lands...will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority and majesty of manners.
    MoL 10.243 5 All the world took off their coats and worked in shirt-sleeves [in California].
    FRep 11.526 9 ...here is the human race poured out over the continent to do itself justice; all mankind in its shirt-sleeves;...

shittim-wood, n. (1)

    SwM 4.136 10 Of all absurdities, this of some foreigner proposing to take away my rhetoric and substitute his own, and amuse me with...palm-trees and shittim-wood, instead of sassafras and hickory,--seems the most needless.

shiver, v. (1)

    SA 8.105 22 The warmer [the sentimentalists'] expressions, the colder we feel; we shiver with cold.

shivered, v. (2)

    FSLC 11.205 10 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop, which, if so much as the smallest end be shivered off, the whole will snap into atoms.
    FRep 11.528 14 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop, which will snap into atoms is so much as the smallest end be shivered off.

shivering, adj. (1)

    Boks 7.213 8 Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature.

shivering, v. (1)

    Res 8.144 12 The invalid sits shivering in lamb's-wool and furs; the woodsman knows how to make garments out of cold and wet themselves.

shivers, v. (2)

    GoW 4.278 27 In the progress of the story, the characters of the hero and heroine [of Sand's Consuelo] expand at a rate that shivers the porcelain chess-table of aristocratic convention...
    Supl 10.165 23 ...there is an inverted superlative...which shivers like Demophoon, in the sun...

shoals, n. (2)

    ET3 5.39 11 In the northern lochs [of England], the herring are in innumerable shoals;...
    OA 7.323 10 [Age] has weathered the perilous capes and shoals in the sea whereon we sail...

shock, adj. (1)

    Mem 12.106 13 [The bright school-girl] carries [what she has memorized] so carelessly, it seems like the profusion of hair on the shock heads of all the village boys and village dogs;...

shock, n. (15)

    Nat2 3.179 19 [Efficient Nature] publishes itself in creatures...arriving at consummate results without a shock or a leap.
    NER 3.258 5 ...the shock of the electric spark in the elbow, outvalues all the theories;...
    NMW 4.245 21 ...as intellectual beings we feel the air purified by the electric shock, when material force is overthrown by intellectual energies.
    F 6.25 3 A tube made of a film of glass can resist the shock of the ocean if filled with the same water.
    Boks 7.210 16 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the assembly.
    PI 8.15 25 The poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the nouns of language, uses them representatively, too well pleased with their ulterior to value much their primary meaning. Every new object so seen gives a shock of agreeable surprise.
    PI 8.72 2 One would say of the force in the works of Nature, all depends on the battery. If it give one shock, we shall get to the fish form, and stop;...
    Insp 8.273 24 To-day the electric machine will not work, no spark will pass; then presently the world is all a cat's back, all sparkle and shock.
    Grts 8.302 23 Who can doubt the potency of an individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races...by Mahomet;...
    Supl 10.174 24 Nor is there in Nature itself any swell, any brag, any strain or shock...
    Prch 10.229 20 It was said: [The clergy] have bronchitis because they read from their papers sermons with a near voice, and then, looking at the congregation, they try to speak with their far voice, and the shock is noxious.
    Prch 10.229 24 [The clergy] look into Plato, or into the mind, and then try to make parish mince-meat of the amplitudes and eternities, and the shock is noxious.
    War 11.171 23 The attractiveness of war shows one thing through...the jousts of chivalry, the shock of hosts...
    CL 12.164 7 Every new perception of the method and beauty of Nature gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure;...
    Trag 12.413 22 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...and in calm times it will not appear that he is adrift and not moored; but let any shock take place in society...and at once his type of permanence is shaken.

shock, v. (1)

    Wom 11.424 27 When new opinions appear, they will be entertained and respected, by every fair mind, according to their reasonableness, and not according to...their fitness to shock our customs.

shocked, v. (5)

    LT 1.263 15 ...somebody shocked a circle of friends of order here in Boston...by declaring that an eloquent man...would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches.
    Ill 6.314 25 [I knew a humorist who] shocked the company by maintaining that the attributes of God were two,--power and risibility...
    Clbs 7.245 16 [A club] requires people who are not surprised and shocked...
    SA 8.89 24 A few times in my life it has happened to me to meet persons of so good a nature and so good breeding that every topic was...discussed without possibility of offence,--persons who could not be shocked.
    FSLN 11.229 11 The way in which the country was dragged to consent to this [Fugitive Slave Law]...was the darkest passage in the history. It showed...that we could not be shocked by crime.

shocking, adj. (6)

    SA 8.94 21 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...shocking roads...
    EWI 11.105 5 It became plain to all men, the more this business was looked into, that the crimes and cruelties of the slave-traders and slave-owners could not be overstated. The more it was searched, the more shocking anecdotes came up...
    EWI 11.111 14 ...[West Indian slaves] were done to death with the most shocking levity between the master and manager...
    EWI 11.140 25 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea...the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners: they had a right to do what they had done. Lord Mansfield is reported to have said on the bench, The matter left to the jury is,-Was it from necessity? For they had no doubt...that the case of slaves was the same as if horses had been thrown overboard. It is
    FSLC 11.180 10 Every hour brings us from distant quarters of the Union the expression of mortification at the late events in Massachusetts, and at the behavior of Boston. The tameness was indeed shocking.
    AsSu 11.248 25 The outrage [attack on Sumner] is the more shocking from the singularly pure character of its victim.

shocking, v. (1)

    Comc 8.164 13 ...as the religious sentiment is the most vital and sublime of all our sentiments...so is it abhorrent to our whole nature, when, in the absence of the sentiment, the act or word or officer volunteers to stand in its stead. To the sympathies this is shocking...

shocks, n. (19)

    MR 1.256 1 ...we have seen a few scattered up and down in time for the blessing of the world; men who have in the gravity of their nature a quality which answers to the fly-wheel in a mill, which...hinders [the motion] from falling unequally and suddenly in destructive shocks.
    Hist 2.34 3 ...[Goethe's Helena]...awakens the reader's invention and fancy...by the unceasing succession of brisk shocks of surprise.
    SR 2.78 16 We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down and cry for company, instead of imparting to them truth and health in rough electric shocks...
    Comp 2.125 16 ...to us...resisting, not cooperating with the divine expansion, this growth comes by shocks.
    SwM 4.97 14 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Swedenborg, will readily come to mind. But what as readily comes to mind is the accompaniment of disease. This beatitude comes...with shocks to the mind of the receiver.
    NMW 4.258 1 [Napoleon's egotism] resembled the torpedo, which inflicts a succession of shocks on any one who takes hold of it...
    NMW 4.258 5 [Napoleon's egotism] resembled the torpedo, which inflicts a succession of shocks on any one who takes hold of it, producing spasms which contract the muscles of the hand, so that the man can not open his fingers; and the animal inflicts new and more violent shocks, until he paralyzes and kills his victim.
    F 6.7 12 The planet is liable to shocks from comets...
    F 6.8 23 ...these shocks and ruins are less destructive to us than the stealthy power of other laws which act on us daily.
    Wth 6.116 13 The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks; the other is diffuse strength;...
    Boks 7.216 18 ...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 or scare them with shocks of tragedy.
    PI 8.64 6 Is not poetry the little chamber in the brain where is generated the explosive force which, by gentle shocks, sets in action the intellectual world?
    PI 8.72 3 One would say of the force in the works of Nature, all depends on the battery. If it give one shock, we shall get to the fish form, and stop; if two shocks, to the bird;...
    Dem1 10.13 1 Nature never works like a conjuror, to surprise, rarely by shocks...
    MoL 10.250 21 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage.
    LLNE 10.330 1 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...
    TPar 11.287 7 'T is sometimes a question, shall we not leave [the old religions] to decay without rude shocks?
    Shak1 11.448 13 What shocks of surprise and sympathetic power, this battery, which [Shakespeare] is, imparts to every fine mind that is born!
    FRep 11.529 1 We...are are defended from shocks now for a century by the facility with which through popular assemblies every necessary measure of reform can instantly be carried.

shocks, v. (3)

    ET11 5.172 4 The inequality of power and property [in England] shocks republican nerves.
    Chr2 10.102 5 ...the perpetual supply of new genius shocks us with thrills of life...
    EWI 11.140 23 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea...the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners: they had a right to do what they had done. Lord Mansfield is reported to have said on the bench, The matter left to the jury is,-Was it from necessity? For they had no doubt-though it shocks one very much-that the case of slaves was the same as if horses had b

shod, v. (3)

    ET13 5.217 6 [The English Church]...has coupled itself with the almanac, that no court can be held, no field ploughed, no horse shod, without some leave from the church.
    Schr 10.286 15 [The scholar] is to eat insult, drink insult, be clothed and shod in insult...
    MAng1 12.229 24 In the church called the Minerva, at Rome, is [Michelangelo's] Christ; an object of so much devotion to the people that the right foot has been shod with a brazen sandal to prevent it from being kissed away.

shoe, adj. (1)

    ACiv 11.300 26 Can you convince the shoe interest, or the iron interest...by reading passages from Milton or Montesquieu?

shoe, n. (7)

    MN 1.199 2 Empedocles undoubtedly spoke a truth of thought, when he said, I am God; but the moment it was out of his mouth it became a lie to the ear; and the world revenged itself for the seeming arrogance by the good story about his shoe.
    Hist 2.17 20 There is nothing but is related to us...kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron shoe...
    Pt1 3.16 18 In the political processions, Lowell goes in a loom, and Lynn in a shoe...
    Nat2 3.183 22 A man does not tie his shoe without recognizing laws which bind the farthest regions of nature...
    Wth 6.95 17 The Persians say, 'T is the same to him who wears a shoe, as if the whole earth were covered with leather.
    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.
    Grts 8.310 27 The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

shoe-bills, n. (1)

    Ill 6.321 4 We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid condition, low debts, shoe-bills...

shoe-box, n. (1)

    Bty 6.304 17 Every word has a double, treble or centuple use and meaning. What! has my stove and pepper-pot a false bottom? I cry you mercy, good shoe-box! I did not know you were a jewel-case.

shoe-buckle, n. (1)

    CInt 12.129 20 Is it so important whether a man wears a shoe-buckle or ties his shoe-lappet with a string?

shoe-factory, n. (1)

    CInt 12.129 4 Is a railroad, or a shoe-factory...further from God than a sheep-pasture or a clam-bank?

shoe-lappet, n. (1)

    CInt 12.129 21 Is it so important whether a man wears a shoe-buckle or ties his shoe-lappet with a string?

shoemaker, n. (2)

    Grts 8.310 26 The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
    FRep 11.526 18 In Massachusetts, every twelfth man is a shoemaker...

shoe-makers, n. [shoemakers,] (2)

    ET11 5.173 11 ...the fair idea of a settled government [in England] connecting itself with heraldic names...was too pleasing a vision to be shattered by...the politics of shoe-makers and costermongers.
    LLNE 10.360 5 There were many employments more or less lucrative found for, or brought hither by these members [of Brook Farm],- shoemakers, joiners, sempstresses.

shoes, n. (46)

    AmS 1.92 20 ...the human body can be nourished on any food, though it were...the broth of shoes...
    MR 1.235 12 ...will you...set every man to make his own shoes, bureau, knife, wagon, sails, and needle?
    Con 1.312 26 ...as soon as you put your gift to use, you shall have acre or acre's worth according to your exhibition of desert,-acre, if you need land;-acre's worth, if you prefer to...make shoes or wheels, to the tilling of the soil.
    Hist 2.34 16 Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science. The shoes of swiftness, the sword of sharpness...are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction.
    SR 2.71 9 Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet...
    Prd1 2.240 13 These old shoes are easy to the feet.
    Int 2.342 15 The circle of the green earth he [in whom the love of truth predominates] must measure with his shoes to find the man who can yield him truth.
    Mrs1 3.131 23 A sainted soul is always elegant, and, if it will, passes unchallenged into the most guarded ring. But so will Jock the teamster pass...and find favor, as long as...the iron shoes do not wish to dance in waltzes and cotillons.
    Gts 3.160 17 ...if the man at the door have no shoes, you have not to consider whether you could procure him a paint-box.
    Nat2 3.188 5 Each prophet comes presently...to esteem his hat and shoes sacred.
    NR 3.237 11 We...get our clothes and shoes made and mended...
    UGM 4.7 23 ...the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his own shoes.
    SwM 4.109 24 If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes or marries his grandmother, then in every twenty thousand or thirty thousand is found one man who eats shoes or marries his grandmother.
    SwM 4.109 27 If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes or marries his grandmother, then in every twenty thousand or thirty thousand is found one man who eats shoes or marries his grandmother.
    MoS 4.167 12 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] I...think an undress and old shoes that do not pinch my feet...the most suitable.
    ET5 5.84 20 [The English] have diffused the taste for plain substantial hats, shoes and coats through Europe.
    ET5 5.101 2 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata...or Harvey of blood-vessels; and these studies, once dangerous, are in fashion. So what is invented or known in agriculture...or in literature and antiquities. A great ability...poured into the general mind, so that each of them could at a pinch stand in the shoes of the other;...
    ET6 5.102 2 I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.
    ET14 5.233 1 [The English muse] says, with De Stael, I tramp in the mire with wooden shoes, whenever they would force me into the clouds.
    Wth 6.92 9 The brave workman...must replace the grace or elegance forfeited, by the merit of the work done. No matter whether he makes shoes, or statues, or laws.
    Ctr 6.148 23 In the country [a man] can find...cheap living and his old shoes;...
    WD 7.163 5 We have new shoes, gloves, glasses and gimlets;...
    WD 7.180 8 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will take off its dusty shoes...
    WD 7.183 8 ...[Newton] used the same wit to weigh the moon that he used to buckle his shoes;...
    Suc 7.287 25 Newton was a great man, without...steam-coach, or rubber shoes...
    Suc 7.292 19 ...because we cannot shake off from our shoes this dust of Europe and Asia, the world seems to be born old...
    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 8.166 4 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./
    Dem1 10.25 15 [Animal Magnetism] seemed to open again that door which was open to the imagination of childhood-of...the travelling cloak, the shoes of swiftness and the sword of sharpness...
    Edc1 10.125 17 ...the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take...a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
    Supl 10.167 22 The people of English stock...are a solid people, wearing good hats and shoes...
    Supl 10.178 19 Our modern improvements have been in the invention...of india-rubber shoes;...
    SovE 10.206 7 Superstitious persons we see with respect, because their whole existence is not bounded by their hats and their shoes...
    MoL 10.251 7 A redeeming trait of the Sophists of Athens...is that they made their own clothes and shoes.
    MoL 10.251 16 I asked the first [West Point] Cadet, Who makes your bed? I do. Who fetches your water? I do. Who blacks your shoes? I do.
    Thor 10.469 24 [Thoreau] wore a straw hat, stout shoes, strong gray trousers...
    Thor 10.483 17 Hard are the times when the infant's shoes are second-foot.
    HDC 11.38 3 Wibbacowet, the husband of Squaw Sachem, received a suit of cloth, a hat, a white linen band, shoes, stockings and a greatcoat;...
    HDC 11.79 17 For these men [in the Continental army] [Concord] was continually providing shoes, stockings, shirts, coats, blankets and beef.
    FSLN 11.220 23 There is always...men who calculate on the immense ignorance of the masses;...they use the constituencies at home only for their shoes.
    SMC 11.372 20 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 men drew shoes and socks...
    Humb 11.457 14 ...a whole French Academy, travelled in [Humboldt's] shoes.
    FRep 11.539 26 ...if we have taught the river to make shoes and nails and carpets...let these wonders work for honest humanity...
    CL 12.140 1 ...thick coats and shoes must be recommended to walkers [in Massachusetts].
    CL 12.142 10 The qualifications of a professor [of walking] are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes...
    ACri 12.288 6 I envy the boys the force of the double negative (no shoes, no money, no nothing)...

shoe-shops, n. (1)

    EWI 11.145 15 The civility of the world has reached that pitch that...the quality of this [black] race is to be honored for itself. For this, they have been preserved...in kitchens and shoe-shops, so long...

shoestring, n. [shoe-string,] (2)

    Ill 6.321 9 ...says the good Heaven;...weave a shoestring;...
    Supl 10.164 2 Like the French, [those with the superlative temperament] are enchanted, they are desolate, because you have got or have not got a shoe-string or a wafer you happen to want...

shoe-strings, n. (1)

    ET10 5.167 14 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when the fashion of shoe-strings supersedes buckles...

shone, v. (3)

    Pt1 3.36 5 The men in one of [Swedenborg's] visions, seen in heavenly light, appeared like dragons, and seemed in darkness; but to each other they appeared as men, and when the light from heaven shone into their cabin, they complained of the darkness...
    Grts 8.302 5 What anecdotes of any man do we wish to hear or read? Only the best. Certainly...those in which he rose above all competition by obeying a light that shone to him alone.
    Thor 10.464 8 [Thoreau's] robust common sense, armed with stout hands, keen perceptions and strong will, cannot yet account for the superiority which shone in his simple and hidden life.

shook, v. (8)

    Mrs1 3.149 19 I have seen an individual...who shook off the captivity of etiquette, with happy, spirited bearing...
    ET5 5.80 1 [The English people] would hardly greet the good that did not logically fall,--as if it...shook their understandings.
    WD 7.184 25 Mars shook the lots in his helmet, and that of Apollo leaped out first.
    Cour 7.262 7 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...my knees shook...
    Elo2 8.109 14 Self-centred; when [the patriot] launched the genuine word/ It shook or captivated all who heard/...
    PC 8.222 12 We are told that in posting his books, after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian, when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that empirical one, his hand shook...
    Imtl 8.332 7 Slowly [the two men] advanced towards each other as they could, through the brilliant company, and at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially.
    EWI 11.116 6 The [West Indian] planters informed us that [the day after emancipation] they went to the chapels where their own people were assembled...shook hands with them...

shoot, n. (1)

    PLT 12.25 6 In the orchard many trees send out a moderate shoot in the first summer heat, and stop.

shoot, v. (17)

    MN 1.208 23 ...darest thou think meanly of thyself whom the stalwart Fate brought forth...to shoot the gulf...
    YA 1.364 1 ...the locomotive and the steamboat...shoot every day across the thousand various threads of national descent and employment...
    Hist 2.35 16 We may all shoot a wild bull that would toss the good and beautiful...
    PNR 4.82 14 These expansions or extensions [of facts] consist in continuing the spiritual sight where the horizon falls on our natural vision, and by this second sight discovering the long lines of law which shoot in every direction.
    MoS 4.167 23 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the best I can, this dancing balloon? So, at least, I...can shoot the gulf at last with decency.
    ET4 5.70 11 [The English] box, run, shoot, ride, row, and sail from pole to pole.
    ET4 5.70 24 Every season turns out the [the English] aristocracy into the country to shoot and fish.
    ET4 5.73 12 It is a proverb in England that it is safer to shoot a man than a hare.
    ET7 5.122 18 In February, 1848, [the English] said, Look, the French king and his party fell for want of a shot; they had not conscience to shoot...
    ET15 5.262 25 Hundreds of clever Praeds and Freres and Froudes and Hoods and Hooks and Maginns and Mills and Macaulays, make poems, or short essays for a journal...as they shoot and ride.
    F 6.48 4 When a god wishes to ride, any chip...will bud and shoot out winged feet...
    WD 7.185 2 ...Zeus rose, and with one stride cleared the whole distance, and said, Where shall I shoot? there is no space left.
    SA 8.103 8 It is of course that [the American to be proud of] should ride well, shoot well, sail well, keep house well, administer affairs well;...
    Imtl 8.336 18 Will you...educate your children to be adepts in their several arts, and, as soon as they are ready to produce a masterpiece, call out a file of soldiers to shoot them down?
    Carl 10.492 14 [Carlyle says] I think if [Parliament] would give [the money] to me, to provide the poor with labor, and with authority to make them work or shoot them,-and I to be hanged if I did not do it,-I could find them in plenty of Indian meal.
    FRep 11.515 16 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for...then the cannon articulates its explosions with the voice of a man, then the rifle seconds the cannon and the fowling-piece the rifle, and the women make cartridges, and all shoot at one mark;...and the better code of laws at last records the victory.
    Let 12.404 27 Many of the best must die of consumption...and many be stupid and insane, before the one great and fortunate life which they each predicted can shoot up into a thrifty and beneficent existence.

shooting, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.106 4 [Swedenborg's] varied and solid knowledge makes his style lustrous with points and shooting spiculae of thought...

shooting, v. (7)

    AmS 1.85 12 Far too as her splendors shine, system on system shooting like rays...Nature hastens to render account of herself to the mind.
    SR 2.69 18 Power...resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf...
    Wth 6.121 25 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight...shooting through this man's cellar and that man's attic window...
    WD 7.161 9 What shall we say of the ocean telegraph...whose sudden performance astonished mankind as if the intellect were...shooting the first thrills of life and thought through the unwilling brain?
    Res 8.149 22 ...the guide kindled a Roman candle, and held it here and there shooting its fireballs successively into each crypt of the groined roof [of the Mammoth Cave]...
    PLT 12.59 6 ...we behold [the universe] shooting the gulf from the past to the future.
    Pray 12.357 2 ...thou [God] didst beat back my weak sight upon myself, shooting out beams upon me after a vehement manner;...

shooting-gallery, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.148 17 In town [a man] can find...the dancing-master, the shooting-gallery...

shooting-match, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.141 20 The favorites of society...are able men...who exactly fill the hour and the company; contented and contenting, at...a water-party or a shooting-match.

shoots, v. (9)

    SR 2.64 1 What is the nature and power of that science-baffling star...which shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial and impure actions...
    Comp 2.91 14 The lonely Earth amid the balls/ That hurry through the eternal halls,/ A makeweight flying to the void,/ Supplemental asteroid,/ Or compensatory spark,/ Shoots across the neutral Dark./
    Pol1 3.216 18 [The wise man] needs...no experience, for the life of the creator shoots through him...
    MoS 4.176 1 ...a book...or only the sound of a name, shoots a spark through the nerves, and we suddenly believe in will...
    PI 8.71 11 To every plant there are two powers; one shoots down as rootlet, and one upward as tree.
    Imtl 8.340 6 I know not whence we draw the assurance...of a life which shoots the gulf we call death...by so many claims as from our intellectual history.
    Thor 10.463 12 ...Thoreau thought all diets a very small matter, saying that the man who shoots the buffalo lives better than the man who boards at the Graham House.
    Mem 12.101 23 With every new fact a ray of light shoots up from the long buried years.
    Let 12.392 23 When a railroad train shoots through Europe every day...it cannot stop every twenty or thirty miles at a German custom-house...

shop, adj. (1)

    ET3 5.40 12 The shop-keeping nation [England], to use a shop word, has a good stand.

shop, n. (38)

    AmS 1.111 24 ...let me see...the shop, the plough, and the ledger referred to the like cause by which light undulates...
    LT 1.274 10 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep; rises... and after the malmsey...his religion walks abroad at eight, and leaves his kind entertainer in the shop, trading all day without his religion.
    Tran 1.349 6 Each cause as it is called...say Calvinism, or Unitarianism- becomes speedily a little shop...
    YA 1.369 19 He who keeps shop on it...values [the land] less.
    Prd1 2.227 11 The application of means to ends insures victory and the songs of victory not less in a farm or a shop than in the tactics of party or of war.
    Art1 2.368 13 ...it is [genius's] instinct to find beauty and holiness...in the shop and mill.
    Exp 3.64 23 Whilst the debate goes forward on the equity of commerce... New and Old England may keep shop.
    NR 3.239 1 ...[the recluse] goes into a mob...into a mechanic's shop...and in each new place he is no better than an idiot;...
    PPh 4.73 2 ...it is said that to procure the pleasure, which he loves, of talking at his ease all day with the most elegant and cultivated young men, [Socrates] will now and then return to his shop and carve statues, good or bad, for sale.
    ET5 5.87 23 ...if you offer to lay hand on [the Englishman's] day's wages... or his shop, he will fight to the Judgment.
    ET5 5.92 24 [The English] have made...London a shop, a law-court, a record-office and scientific bureau...
    ET10 5.155 17 From the Exchequer and the East India House to the huckster's shop, every thing [in England] prospers because it is solvent.
    ET13 5.217 8 All maxims of prudence or shop or farm are fixed and dated by the [English] church.
    ET19 5.311 11 It is this [sense of right and wrong] which...in trade and in the mechanic's shop, gives that honesty in performance...which is a national [English] characteristic.
    Wth 6.84 9 Then temples rose, and towns, and marts,/ The shop of toil, the hall of arts;/...
    Wth 6.118 17 A farm is a good thing when it...does not need a salary or a shop to eke it out.
    Ctr 6.148 18 In town [a man] can find...the chemist's shop...
    Ctr 6.153 8 The countryman finds the town a chop-house, a barber's shop.
    Wsp 6.203 10 ...as [the Shakers] go with perfect sympathy to their tasks in the field or shop, so are they inclined for a ride or a journey at the same instant...
    Elo1 7.74 9 There is the glib tongue and cool self-possession of the salesman in a large shop...
    Boks 7.189 19 ...after reading to weariness the lettered backs [of books], we leave the shop with a sigh...
    SA 8.88 16 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably.
    SA 8.98 27 ...we never talk shop before company.
    Elo2 8.130 14 ...such practical chemistry as the conversion of a truth written in God's language into a truth in Dunderhead's language, is one of the most beautiful and cogent weapons that are forged in the shop of the Divine Artificer.
    Res 8.139 4 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power...
    Insp 8.269 13 Our money is only a second best. We would jump to buy power with it, that is, intellectual perception moving the will. That is first best. But we don't know where the shop is.
    Edc1 10.149 14 I have seen a carriage-maker's shop emptied of all its workmen into the street, to scrutinize a new pattern from New York.
    Prch 10.233 26 Only let there be a deep observer, and he will make light of new shop and new circumstance that afflict you;...
    Prch 10.233 27 Only let there be a deep observer, and he will make light of new shop and new circumstance that afflict you; new shop, or old cathedral, it is all one to him.
    LLNE 10.367 25 In every family is the father;...in a shop, a master;...
    Carl 10.489 7 [Carlyle] is...a practical Scotchman, such as you would find in any saddler's or iron-dealer's shop...
    EWI 11.105 19 Granville Sharpe found [the West Indian slave] at his brother's and procured a place for him in an apothecary's shop.
    PLT 12.19 17 So works the poor little blockhead manikin. He must arrange and dignify his shop or farm the best he can.
    PLT 12.58 19 ...[each talent] works for show and for the shop...
    CInt 12.123 19 Falsehood begins as soon as [talent] disobeys, it works for show, and for the shop...
    CInt 12.129 15 Only bring a deep observer, and he will make light of the new shop or old cathedral...
    CL 12.161 9 The college is not so wise as the mechanic's shop...
    Bost 12.196 6 ...the young farmers and mechanics, who work all summer in the field or shop, in the winter often go into a neighboring town to teach the district school arithmetic and grammar.

shop-bill, n. (1)

    Comp 2.115 20 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant, the stern ethics...which stand as manifest in the footing of the shop-bill as in the history of a state,--do recommend to him his trade...

shop-boy, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.173 9 ...who can avert his eyes from the engaging...ways of school-girls who go into the country shops...and talk half an hour about nothing with the broad-faced, good-natured shop-boy.

shopkeeper, n. (2)

    MMEm 10.433 8 ...every banker, shopkeeper and wood-sawer has a stake in the elevation of the moral code by saint and prophet.
    EWI 11.123 9 The English lord is a retired shopkeeper...

shopkeepers, n. (2)

    EWI 11.123 11 ...we are shopkeepers...
    EWI 11.123 23 It was, or it seemed the dictate of trade, to keep the negro down. We had found a race who were less warlike, and less energetic shopkeepers than we;...

shop-keeping, adj. [shopkeeping,] (2)

    ET3 5.40 11 The shop-keeping nation [England], to use a shop word, has a good stand.
    EWI 11.123 8 [Our civility] is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility.

shopman's, n. (2)

    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.
    Wth 6.108 26 One might say...that nothing is cheap or dear, and that the apparent disparities that strike us are only a shopman's trick of concealing the damage in your bargain.

shopmen, n. (2)

    Exp 3.76 15 ...the chagrins which the bad heart gives off as bubbles, at once take form as...shopmen or bar-keepers in hotels...
    CbW 6.269 1 When joy or calamity or genius shall show [the youth his purpose]...then city shopmen and cabdrivers...will mirror back to him its unfathomable heaven...

shop-rule, n. (3)

    ET6 5.103 12 ...rule of court and shop-rule have operated [in England] to give a mechanical regularity to all the habit and action of men.
    ET18 5.302 3 ...this [English] shop-rule had one magnificent effect. It extends its cold unalterable courtesy to political exiles of every opinion...
    Mem 12.96 24 This thread or order of remembering, this classification, distributes men, one remembering by shop-rule or interest; one by passion;...

shops, n. (19)

    Lov1 2.173 7 ...who can avert his eyes from the engaging...ways of school-girls who go into the country shops...
    Gts 3.161 21 ...it is a cold lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.
    NR 3.237 10 We...run about all day among the shops and markets...
    PPh 4.55 9 ...[Plato] fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers;...from...the shops of potters...
    NMW 4.252 14 I call Napoleon the agent or attorney...of the throng who fill the markets, shops, counting-houses, manufactories, ships, of the modern world...
    ET10 5.167 27 England is aghast at the disclosure of her fraud in the adulteration...of almost every fabric in her mills and shops;...
    Ill 6.314 18 ...I remember the quarrel of another youth with the confectioners, that when he racked his wit to choose the best comfits in the shops, in all the endless varieties of sweetmeat he could find only three flavors, or two.
    DL 7.109 22 We ask the price of many things in shops and stalls...
    DL 7.110 6 Do not ask [the scholar] to help with his savings...grocers to stock their shops...
    DL 7.111 15 The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops...
    DL 7.131 12 I wish to bring home to my children and my friends copies of these admirable forms [Michelangelo's sibyle and prophets], which I can find in the shops of the engravers;...
    Boks 7.196 9 Dr. Johnson said he always went into stately shops;...
    Clbs 7.232 14 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go...into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear to any one.
    Edc1 10.138 16 I like...boys, who have the same liberal ticket of admission to all shops...as flies have;...
    Schr 10.272 15 Union Pacific stock is not quite private property, but the quality and essence of the universe is in that also. Have we less interest in ships or in shops...
    FSLC 11.182 4 The college, the churches, the schools, the very shops and factories, are discredited [by the Fugitive Slave Law];...
    FSLN 11.218 16 Look into the morning trains which, from every suburb, carry the business men into the city to their shops, counting-rooms...
    SMC 11.360 8 [The Civil War soldiers]...have farms, shops, factories, affairs of every kind to think of...
    FRep 11.511 3 It is a rule that holds in economy as well as in hydraulics that you must have a source higher than your tap. The mills, the shops... have all found out this secret.

shop-signs, n. (1)

    ET1 5.3 15 The shop-signs spoke our language;...

shop-till, adj. (1)

    ET14 5.254 16 ...parochial and shop-till politics...betray the ebb of life and spirit [in English students].

shop-window, n. (2)

    Wth 6.88 16 Every warehouse and shop-window...opens a new want to [a man]...
    Carl 10.491 19 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they will eat vegetables and drink water, and he...describes with gusto the crowds of people who gaze at the sirloins in the dealer's shop-window...

shop-windows, n. (2)

    ET4 5.53 4 ...the figures in Punch's drawings of the public men or of the club-houses, the prints in the shop-windows, are distinctive English...
    Ctr 6.142 16 You send [your boy] to the Latin class, but much of his tuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop-windows.

shore, adj. (1)

    Suc 7.299 24 You walk on the beach and enjoy the animation of the picture. Scoop up a little water in the hollow of your palm, take up a handful of shore sand; well, these are the elements.

shore, n. (37)

    Nat 1.17 7 From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea.
    Nat 1.20 27 When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America;...can we separate the man from the living picture?
    Nat 1.50 18 We are strangely affected by seeing the shore from a moving ship...
    LE 1.168 15 The man who stands on the seashore...seems to be the first man that ever stood on the shore...
    MN 1.205 6 ...[the ocean] it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.
    MN 1.205 10 ...let [the ocean] wash a shore where wise men dwell, and it is filled with expression;...
    Con 1.305 5 ...you cannot...put out the boat to sea without shoving from the shore...
    YA 1.377 16 [Traders'] information, their wealth, their correspondence, have made them quite other men than left their native shore.
    SL 2.144 8 [A man] is like one of those booms which are set out from the shore on rivers to catch drift-wood...
    Nat2 3.172 25 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river...
    PPh 4.55 20 The sea-shore, sea seen from shore, shore seen from sea;...this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    NMW 4.246 14 On the shore of Ptolemais, gigantic projects agitated [Napoleon].
    ET2 5.33 16 There lay the green shore of Ireland, like some coast of plenty.
    ET4 5.56 15 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy.
    ET4 5.56 23 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy. ... Of course they...can engage [the land-nations] on shore with a victorious advantage in the retreat.
    ET11 5.180 11 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle...the clays of Stafford...know the man who...like the long line of his fathers, had carried that crag, that shore, dale, fen, or woodland, in his blood and manners.
    F 6.16 9 We see the English, French, and Germans planting themselves on every shore and market of America and Australia...
    F 6.22 23 On one side elemental order...peat-bog, forest, sea and shore; and on the other part thought...
    Pow 6.57 3 ...a broad, healthy, massive understanding seems to lie on the shore of unseen rivers...
    CbW 6.271 25 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...then...we see the zenith over and the nadir under us. Instead of the tanks and buckets of knowledge to which we are daily confined, we come down to the shore of the sea...
    Cour 7.254 7 Men admire...the man...who can lead his telegraph through the ocean from shore to shore;...
    PI 8.5 6 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that under chemistry was power and purpose: power and purpose ride on matter to the last atom. It was steeped in thought, did everywhere express thought; that, as great conquerors have burned their ships when once they were landed on the wished-for shore, so the noble house of Nature we inhabit has temporary uses...
    PI 8.26 3 [People] like to see sunsets...on a lake shore.
    Insp 8.289 18 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic creativeness...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty]. A ride near the sea, a sail near the shore, said the ancient.
    PerF 10.72 3 When the continent sinks, the opposite continent, that is to say, the opposite shore of the ocean, rises.
    Supl 10.178 10 The political economist defies us to show...a shore where pearls are found on which good schools are erected.
    HDC 11.62 11 Alas! for [the Indians]-their day is o'er,/ Their fires are out from hill and shore,/ No more for them the wild deer bounds,/ The plough is on their hunting grounds;/...
    EWI 11.115 3 Some American captains left the shore and put to sea [at the announcement of emancipation in the West Indies]...
    Humb 11.458 1 You could not put [Humboldt] on any sea or shore but his instant recollection of every other sea or shore illuminated this.
    Humb 11.458 2 You could not put [Humboldt] on any sea or shore but his instant recollection of every other sea or shore illuminated this.
    CPL 11.504 12 Julius Caesar, when shipwrecked, and forced to swim for life...took his Commentaries between his teeth and swam for the shore.
    PLT 12.64 6 [The hints of the Intellect] overcome us like perfumes from a far-off shore of sweetness...
    CL 12.137 10 [Linnaeus] went into Oland, and found that the farms on the shore were perpetually encroached on by the sea...
    CL 12.153 15 ...on the shore...[the sea] is changed into a beauty as of gems and clouds.
    Bost 12.191 17 ...the next colony planted itself at Salem, and the next at Weymouth; another at Medford; before these men...wisely judged that the best point for a city was at the bottom of a deep and islanded bay...where a bold shore was bounded by a country of rich undulating woodland.
    Bost 12.199 22 What should hinder that this America...the firm shore hid until science and art should be ripe to propose it as a fixed aim...should have its happy ports...
    MLit 12.325 4 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the Venetian music of the gondolier, originating in the habit of the fishers' wives of the Lido singing on shore to their husbands on the sea;...

Shoreditch, London, England (1)

    ET4 5.69 3 ...the bullies of the costermongers of Shoreditch, Seven Dials and Spitalfield, [the English] know how to wake up.

shores, n. (23)

    Nat 1.54 20 ...the approaching tide/ Will shortly fill the reasonable shores/ That now lie foul and muddy./
    AmS 1.114 20 Young men...who begin life upon our shores...turn drudges...
    DSA 1.124 13 ...the ocean receives different names on the several shores which it washes.
    LT 1.280 12 [This denouncing philanthropist] is the state of Georgia, or Alabama...walking here on our north-eastern shores.
    Cir 2.308 8 Infinitely alluring and attractive was [a man] to you yesterday... a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond...
    UGM 4.7 17 The river makes its own shores...
    ET3 5.39 6 The land [in England] naturally abounds with game; immense heaths and downs are paved with quails, grouse and woodcock, and the shores are animated by water-birds.
    ET4 5.56 24 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy. ... As soon as the shores are sufficiently peopled to make piracy a losing business, the same skill and courage are ready for the service of trade.
    Civ 7.21 7 ...the change of shores and population clears [a man's] head of much nonsense of his wigwam.
    Boks 7.210 22 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the assembly. And ten, quietly added the Marquis [of Blandford]. There ended the strife [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio]. Ere Evans let the hammer fall, he paused; the ivory instrument swept the air; the spectators stood dumb, when the hammer fell. The stroke of its fall sounded on the farthest shores of Italy.
    PI 8.41 23 ...the poet sees...the shores of matter lying on the sky...
    Res 8.143 3 America is...such a magazine of power, that at her shores all the common rules of political economy utterly fail.
    PPo 8.247 19 ...a large utterance, a river that makes its own shores...this generosity of ebb and flow satisfies...
    Insp 8.290 16 Certain localities, as...the shores of rivers and rapid brooks... are excitants of the muse.
    MoL 10.244 7 On the south and east shores of the Mediterranean Mahomet impressed his fierce genius how deeply into the manners, language and poetry of Arabia and Persia!
    Thor 10.457 26 In 1845 [Thoreau] built himself a small framed house on the shores of Walden Pond...
    War 11.162 5 ...if a foreign nation should wantonly insult or plunder our commerce, or, worse yet, should land on our shores to rob and kill, you would not have us sit, and be robbed and killed?
    Koss 11.401 5 ...as the shores of Europe and America approach every month...when the crisis arrives it will find us all instructed beforehand in the rights and wrongs of Hungary...
    CL 12.137 15 [Linnaeus] discovered that the arundo arenaris, or beach-grass, had long firm roots, and he taught [the people of Oland] to plant it for the protection of their shores.
    CL 12.153 2 The history of the world,-what is it but the doings about the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic?
    CL 12.153 17 Shores in sight of each other in a warm climate make boat-builders;...
    CL 12.157 8 Can you bring home...the sunny shores of your own bay, and the low Indian hills of Rhode Island?...
    Bost 12.190 23 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its shores trending steadily from the two arms which the capes of Massachusetts stretch out to sea, down to the bottom of the bay where the city domes and spires sparkle through the haze,-a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...

shorn, v. (3)

    Mrs1 3.133 3 [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 is shorn of his best beams...
    ET10 5.162 20 Scandinavian Thor...in England...has shorn his beard...
    Supl 10.174 22 ...Nature measures her greatness...by what remains when all superfluity and accessories are shorn off.

short, adj. (113)

    Nat 1.30 15 Hundreds of writers may be found...who for a short time believe...that they see and utter truths...
    Nat 1.46 22 ...when [our friend] has...become an object of thought, and...is converted in the mind into solid and sweet wisdom...he is commonly withdrawn from our sight in a short time.
    AmS 1.93 9 ...the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days and months...
    MN 1.192 12 There is in each of these works...an intellectual step, or short series of steps, taken;...
    MR 1.235 27 Who could regret to see...a purer taste...thinning the ranks of competition in the labors...of state? It is easy to see that the inconvenience would last but a short time.
    YA 1.380 18 Witness too the spectacle of three Communities which have within a very short time sprung up within this Commonwealth...
    YA 1.392 16 ...to imaginative persons in this country there is somewhat bare and bald in our short history and unsettled wilderness.
    Comp 2.97 24 If the head and neck are enlarged, the trunk and extremities are cut short.
    Comp 2.99 14 To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, [the President] is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
    Comp 2.124 19 The changes which break up at short intervals the prosperity of men are advertisements of a nature whose law is growth.
    SL 2.137 11 Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways.
    Fdsp 2.196 25 The root of the plant is not unsightly to science, though for chaplets and festoons we cut the stem short.
    Fdsp 2.198 26 Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions...
    Fdsp 2.209 25 Leave it to girls and boys to regard a friend as property, and to suck a short and all-confounding pleasure...
    Prd1 2.241 5 ...begin where we will, we are pretty sure in a short space to be mumbling our ten commandments.
    OS 2.269 27 My words do not carry [the soul's] august sense; they fall short and cold.
    Cir 2.307 26 We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.
    Int 2.344 2 ...let [new doctrines] not go until their blessing be won, and after a short season the dismay will be overpast...
    Pt1 3.23 27 The songs...are pursued by clamorous flights of censures, which swarm in far greater numbers and threaten to devour them; but these last are not winged. At the end of a very short leap they fall plump down and rot...
    Exp 3.60 11 It is not the part of men, but of fanatics...to say that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want or sitting high.
    Chr1 3.104 7 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as...two professors recommended to foreign universities; etc., etc. The longest list of specifications of benefit would look very short.
    Mrs1 3.138 27 ...at short distances the senses are despotic.
    NER 3.260 11 One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements...the wish, namely, to...arrive at short methods;...
    NER 3.271 20 Genius counts all its miracles poor and short.
    ET1 5.3 2 In 1833, on my return from a short tour in Sicily, Italy and France, I crossed from Boulogne and landed in London...
    ET1 5.10 13 ...[Coleridge] appeared, a short, thick old man...
    ET5 5.94 12 [England's] short rivers do not afford water-power, but the land shakes under the thunder of the mills.
    ET8 5.140 8 Haldor was...short in conversation...
    ET8 5.140 12 Haldor remained a short time with the king...
    ET11 5.177 22 [The English aristocracy] have often no residence in London, and only go thither a short time, during the season, to see the opera;...
    ET11 5.183 7 All over England, scattered at short intervals among ship-yards, mills, mines and forges, are the paradises of the nobles...
    ET14 5.243 1 ...[the Elizabethan age was] a period almost short enough to justify Ben Jonson's remark on Lord Bacon,--About his time, and within his view, were born all the wits that could honor a nation, or help study.
    ET15 5.262 23 Hundreds of clever Praeds and Freres and Froudes and Hoods and Hooks and Maginns and Mills and Macaulays, make poems, or short essays for a journal, as they make speeches in Parliament and on the hustings...
    ET16 5.273 22 The fine weather and my friend's [Carlyle's] local knowledge of Hampshire...made the way short.
    Wth 6.104 15 An apple-tree, if you take out every day for a number of days a load of loam and put in a load of sand about its roots, will find it out. An apple-tree is a stupid kind of creature, but if this treatment be pursued for a short time I think it would begin to mistrust something.
    Wth 6.126 10 The way to ruin is short and facile.
    Wsp 6.219 22 It is a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity...and so forth.
    CbW 6.244 6 A day for toil, an hour for sport,/ But for a friend is life too short./
    CbW 6.255 24 Some of [the people] went [to California] with honest purposes, some with very bad ones, and all of them with the very commonplace wish to find a short way to wealth.
    CbW 6.269 4 The uses of travel are occasional, and short;...
    Bty 6.298 19 ...short legs which constrain us to short, mincing steps are a kind of personal insult and contumely to the owner;...
    Bty 6.298 20 ...short legs which constrain us to short, mincing steps are a kind of personal insult and contumely to the owner;...
    Elo1 7.64 14 Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians...when a proper opportunity offers, this same person...will hurl a sentence worthy of attention, short and contorted...
    Elo1 7.78 19 [Caesar]...declaimed to [the pirates]; if they did not applaud his speeches, he threatened them with hanging...and in a short time, was master of all on board.
    Elo1 7.92 24 ...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It... perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation. Then it rushes from him as in short, abrupt screams...
    DL 7.106 8 What entertainments make every day bright and short for the fine freshman!
    DL 7.108 21 We are sure that the sacred form of man is not seen in...these bloated and shrivelled bodies...short winds...
    WD 7.159 25 Lord Chancellor Thurlow thought [steam] might be made to draw bills and answers in chancery. If that were satire, yet it is coming to render many higher services of a mechanico-intellectual kind, and will leave the satire short of the fact.
    Boks 7.204 23 If [the student] can read Livy, he has a good book; but one of the short English compends, some Goldsmith or Ferguson, should be used, that will place in the cycle [of Roman history] the bright stars of Plutarch.
    Clbs 7.229 6 In youth...the day is too short for books...
    Clbs 7.250 7 There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time...
    Cour 7.256 14 How short a time since this whole nation rose every morning to read or hear the traits of courage of its sons and brothers in the field...
    Cour 7.265 26 Our affections and wishes for the external welfare of the hero tumultuously rush to expression in tears and outcries: but we, like him, subside into indifferency and defiance when we perceive how short is the longest arm of malice...
    Suc 7.288 19 Cause and effect are a little tedious; how to leap to the result by short or by false means?
    Suc 7.295 2 ...a few years will show the advantage of the real master over the short popularity of the showman.
    OA 7.316 13 Nature lends herself to these illusions [of time], and adds dim sight...short memory and sleep.
    PI 8.55 5 Hence, all ye vain delights,/ As short as are the nights/ In which you spend your folly!/
    SA 8.85 18 Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
    Elo2 8.124 25 Ought not the scholar to be able to convey his meaning in terms as short and strong as the porter or truckman uses to convey his?
    PPo 8.238 4 Life in the East is fierce, short, hazardous, and in extremes.
    PPo 8.243 6 ...for the most part, [the Persians] affect short poems and epigrams.
    Insp 8.280 11 Life is in short cycles or periods;...
    Insp 8.288 19 At home, the day is cut into short strips.
    Imtl 8.323 15 Whilst [the sparrow] stays in our mansion, it feels not the winter storm; but when this short moment of happiness has been enjoyed, it is forced again into the same dreary tempest from which it had escaped...
    Imtl 8.331 18 [One of the men] said that when he entered the Senate he became in a short time intimate with one of his colleagues...
    Imtl 8.339 13 Every really able man...considers his work...as far short of what it should be.
    Imtl 8.341 21 Art is long, says the thinker, and life is short.
    Dem1 10.5 14 The very landscape and scenery in a dream seem...like a coat or cloak of some other person to overlap and encumber the wearer; so is the ground, the road, the house, in dreams, too long or too short...
    Aris 10.52 4 To a right aristocracy...everything will be permitted and pardoned,-gaming, drinking, fighting, luxury. These are the heads of party...everything short of infamous crime will pass.
    PerF 10.69 14 Art is long, and life short...
    PerF 10.88 9 Wrath and petulance may have their short success...
    Chr2 10.99 10 The aid which others give us is like that of the mother to the child...a short period of lactation...
    Edc1 10.147 23 By many steps each just as short, the stammering boy...in the school debate, in college clubs...comes at last to full, secure, triumphant unfolding of his thought in the popular assembly...
    Supl 10.169 6 Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
    SovE 10.204 14 A sleep creeps over the great functions of man. Enthusiasm goes out. In its stead a low prudence seeks to hold society stanch, but its arms are too short...
    Prch 10.224 22 A man acts not from one motive, but from many shifting fears and short motives;...
    Prch 10.232 26 ...the gigantic evils which seem to us so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves and rid the world of their presence, as all crime sooner or later must. But be that event for us soon or late, we are not excused from playing our short part in the best manner we can...
    Schr 10.273 8 In this country we are fond of results and of short ways to them;...
    LLNE 10.344 18 [Theodore Parker] used every day and hour of his short life...
    LLNE 10.361 17 The young people [at Brook Farm] lived a great deal in a short time...
    EzRy 10.395 12 All [Ezra Ripley's] opinions and actions might be securely predicted by a good observer on short acquaintance.
    MMEm 10.400 25 [Mary Moody Emerson]...lived in entire solitude with these old people, very rarely cheered by short visits from her brothers and sisters.
    Thor 10.453 6 ...[Thoreau] preferred, when he wanted money, earning it by some piece of manual labor agreeable to him, as...planting, grafting, surveying or other short work...
    Thor 10.461 10 [Thoreau] was of short stature, firmly built...
    Thor 10.485 6 ...[Thoreau] had in a short life exhausted the capabilities of this world;...
    GSt 10.502 13 [George Stearns] was the more engaged to this cause [of Kansas] by making in 1857 the acquaintance of Captain John Brown, who... attached some of the best and noblest to him, on very short acquaintance, by lasting ties.
    HDC 11.29 16 ...in the eternity of Nature, how recent our antiquities appear! The imagination is impatient of a cycle so short.
    HDC 11.34 8 ...thus these poor servants of Christ provide shelter for themselves...keeping off the short showers from their lodgings...
    LVB 11.89 14 ...at the instance of a few of my friends and neighbors, I crave of your [Van Buren's] patience a short hearing for their sentiments and my own...
    War 11.175 10 ...if the rising generation...shall feel the generous darings of austerity and virtue, then war has a short day...
    FSLC 11.180 5 There are men who are as sure indexes of the equity of legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the air, and it is a bad sign when these are discontented, for though they snuff oppression and dishonor at a distance, it is because they are more impressionable: the whole population will in a short time be as painfully affected.
    FSLC 11.194 16 You can commit no crime, for [men] are created in their sentiments conscious of and hostile to it; and unless you can suppress the newspaper, pass a law against book-shops, gag the English tongue in America, all short of this is futile.
    EPro 11.315 14 [Liberty] comes, like religion, for short periods...
    SMC 11.351 27 The old [Concord] Monument, a short half-mile from this house, stands to signalize the first Revolution...
    SMC 11.361 1 Some of these [Civil War] letters are...written by fire-light, making the short night shorter;...
    SMC 11.367 23 In McClellan's retreat in the Peninsula, in July, 1862, it is all our men can do to draw their feet out of the mud. We marched one mile through mud...a good deal of the way over my boots, and with short rations;...
    SMC 11.372 19 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...
    Shak1 11.449 14 ...at the short distance of three hundred years [Shakespeare] is mythical...
    Shak1 11.452 14 [Shakespeare's] birth marked a great wine year when wonderful grapes ripened in the vintage of God, when Shakspeare and Galileo were born within a few months of each other...and, in short space before and after, Montaigne, Bacon, Spenser, Raleigh and Jonson.
    FRep 11.539 18 ...liberty, like religion, is a short and hasty fruit...
    PLT 12.59 19 ...wit sees the short way...
    Mem 12.99 25 The reason of the short memory is shallow thought.
    Mem 12.103 12 The poor short lone fact dies at the birth.
    Mem 12.109 5 In dreams a rush...of spending hours and going through a great variety of actions and companies, and when we start up and look at the watch, instead of a long night we are surprised to find it was a short nap.
    CInt 12.123 1 The Understanding is the name we give to the low, limitary power working to short ends...
    CInt 12.123 7 All [the Understanding's] activities are to short, personal ends...
    Milt1 12.247 4 For a short time the literary journals were filled with disquisitions on [Milton's] genius;...
    ACri 12.285 12 Ought not the scholar to convey his meaning in terms as short and strong as the smith and the drover use to convey theirs?
    ACri 12.288 2 The short Saxon words with which the people help themselves are better than Latin.
    ACri 12.292 11 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.
    MLit 12.317 11 ...the street seems to be built, and the men and women in it moving, not in reference to pure and grand ends, but rather to very short and sordid ones.
    PPr 12.387 10 ...after a short time, down go [the age's] follies and weakness and the memory of them;...
    Trag 12.405 12 In the dark hours, our existence seems to be...a struggle against the encroaching All, which threatens surely to engulf us soon, and is impatient of our short reprieve.

short, adv. (15)

    DSA 1.146 4 ...the imitator...bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.
    Con 1.311 1 ...if in any one respect [existing institutions] have come short, see what ample retribution of good they have made.
    Tran 1.338 7 ...all who by strong bias of nature have leaned to the spiritual side in doctrine, have stopped short of their goal.
    GoW 4.262 3 In nature...the narrative is the print of the seal. It neither exceeds nor comes short of the fact.
    ET1 5.24 14 [Wordsworth] then said he would show me a better way towards the inn; and he walked a good part of a mile, talking and ever and anon stopping short to impress the word or the verse...
    Cour 7.269 18 ...out of love of the reality [the scholar] is an expert judge how far the book has approached it, and where it has come short.
    PPo 8.250 9 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low rioter, he turns short on you with verses which express the poverty of sensual joys...
    Supl 10.161 2 When wrath and terror changed Jove's port/ And the rash-leaping thunderbolt fell short./
    HDC 11.40 13 [The Concord settler's pastor said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world. We cannot excel nor so much as equal other people in these things; and if we come short in grace and holiness too, we are the most despicable people under heaven.
    EWI 11.117 7 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament...that the new crop of [West Indian] island produce would not fall short of that of the last year.
    CPL 11.498 14 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world. We cannot excel, nor so much as equal other people in these things, and if we come short in grace and holiness too, we are the most despicable people under heaven.
    FRep 11.520 16 We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape Cod farm...the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure.
    CInt 12.121 13 Do you suppose that the thunderbolt falls short?
    ACri 12.285 26 Rabelais and Montaigne are masters of this Romany, but cannot be read aloud, and so far fall short.
    ACri 12.290 14 The French have a neat phrase, that the secret of boring you is that of telling all,-Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire; which we translate short, Touch and go.

short, n. (38)

    Nat 1.58 22 In short, [the theosophists] might all say of matter, what Michael Angelo said of external beauty...
    MN 1.203 27 In short, the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on us is this, that it does not exist to any one or to any number of particular ends...
    MN 1.210 8 [A man's] health and greatness consist...in short, in the fulness in which an ecstatical state takes place in him.
    Cir 2.321 25 The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is...to do something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle.
    Mrs1 3.150 3 Woman, with her instinct of behavior, instantly detects in man...any coldness or imbecility, in short, any want of that large, flowing and magnanimous deportment which is indispensable as an exterior in the hall.
    PPh 4.54 9 Metaphysics and natural philosophy expressed the genius of Europe; [Plato] substructs the religion of Asia, as the base. In short, a balanced soul was born, perceptive of the two elements.
    PPh 4.71 19 In short, [Socrates] was what our country-people call an old one.
    SwM 4.106 26 In short, [Swedenborg] was a believer in the Identity-philosophy...
    MoS 4.159 1 In short, since true fortitude of understanding consists in not letting what we know be embarrassed by what we do not know, we ought to secure those advantages which we can command, and not risk them by clutching after the airy and unattainable.
    ShP 4.194 9 In short, the poet owes to his legend what sculpture owed to the temple.
    ShP 4.213 27 In short, [Shakespeare] is the chief example to prove that more or less of production...is a thing indifferent.
    NMW 4.256 3 In short, when you have penetrated through all the circles of power and splendor [of Napoleon], you were not dealing with a gentleman, at last;...
    ET1 5.20 10 ...I [Wordsworth] fear [the Americans] lack a class of men of leisure,--in short, of gentlemen...
    ET6 5.105 15 In short, every one of these islanders [the English] is an island himself...
    ET9 5.147 8 In short, I am afraid that English nature is so rank and aggressive as to be a little incompatible with every other.
    Pow 6.75 2 Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade in short in all management of human affairs.
    Bhr 6.173 16 I have seen...the frivolous Asmodeus, who relies on you to find him in ropes of sand to twist; the monotones; in short, every stripe of absurdity;...
    CbW 6.259 17 In short there is no man who is not at some time indebted to his vices...
    Art2 7.42 24 In short, in all our operations we seek not to use our own, but to bring a quite infinite force to bear.
    Cour 7.264 9 In short, courage consists in equality to the problem before us.
    OA 7.320 15 In short, the creed of the street is, Old Age is not disgraceful, but immensely disadvantageous.
    PI 8.69 19 In short, our English nature and genius has made us the worst critics of Goethe...
    SA 8.99 24 ...[manners and talk] require...human labor for food, clothes, house, tools and, in short, plenty and ease...
    Res 8.151 20 The first care of a man settling in the country should be to open the face of the earth to himself by a little knowledge of Nature, or a great deal, if he can; of birds, plants, rocks, astronomy; in short, the art of taking a walk.
    Imtl 8.340 1 In short, all our intellectual action, not promises but bestows a feeling of absolute existence.
    Aris 10.37 19 In short, we dislike every mark of a superficial life and action...
    Edc1 10.146 22 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...which had been destroyed by earthquakes, then by iconoclast Christians, then by savage Turks. But mark that in the task he...in short, had formed a college for himself;...
    Edc1 10.149 26 Happy the natural college thus self-instituted around every natural teacher; the young men of Athens around Socrates...in short the natural sphere of every leading mind.
    Schr 10.286 18 [The scholar] is to eat insult, drink insult, be clothed and shod in insult until he has learned that this bitter bread and shameful dress is also wholesome and warm, is, in short, indifferent;...
    Thor 10.459 9 In short, the President [of Harvard University] found the petitioner [Thoreau] so formidable, and the rules [of the Harvard Library] getting to look so ridiculous, that he ended by giving him a privilege which in his hands proved unlimited thereafter.
    FSLN 11.231 5 [Reasonably men] answered...that they knew Cuba would be had, and Mexico would be had, and they stood...as near to monarchy as they could, only to moderate the velocity with which the car was running down the precipice. In short, their theory was despair;...
    Wom 11.416 22 ...the times are marked by the new attitude of Woman; urging, by argument and by association, her rights of all kinds,-in short, to one half of the world;...
    Shak1 11.449 2 In short, Shakspeare is the one resource of our life on which no gloom gathers;...
    PLT 12.24 21 What happens here in mankind is matched by what happens out there in the history of grass and wheat. This curious resemblance repeats, in the mental function, the...crossings, blight, parasites, and in short, all the accidents of the plant.
    II 12.76 9 ...Van Mons of Belgium, after all his experiments at crossing and refining his fruit, arrived at last at the most complete trust in the native power. My part is to sow, and sow, and re-sow, and in short do nothing but sow.
    II 12.87 22 In short, the whole moral of modern science is the transference of that trust which is felt in Nature's admired arrangements, to the sphere of freedom and of rational life.
    ACri 12.298 4 In short, I think the revolution wrought by Carlyle is precisely parallel to that going forward in picture, by the stereoscope.
    MLit 12.331 7 Goethe...must be set down as...the poet...of this world, and not of religion and hope;, in short, if we may say so, the poet of prose, and not of poetry.

Short Particular Metre, n. (1)

    Bost 12.201 25 There is a little formula...I 'm as good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence. And this...was said and rung...in every note of Old Hundred and Hallelujah and Short Particular Metre.

short [short-numbered], adj. (1)

    Nat 1.53 11 ...[My passion] fears not policy, that heretic,/ That works on leases of short numbered hours/...

short-coming, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.529 18 The men, the women, all over this land shrill their exclamations of impatience and indignation at what is short-coming or is unbecoming in the government...

shortcoming, n. (3)

    Clbs 7.237 1 ...though they know that there is in the speaker a degree of shortcoming...yet the existence of character...is felt by the frivolous.
    Schr 10.280 24 The objection of men of the world to what they call the morbid intellectual tendency in our young men at present, is not a hostility to their truth, but to this, its shortcoming, that the idealistic views unfit their children for business in their sense...
    Schr 10.281 9 Everybody hates imbecility and shortcoming, not new methods.

shortcomings, n. [short-comings,] (5)

    SwM 4.93 12 A higher class...are the poets, who...feed the thought and imagination with ideas and pictures which...console [men] for the shortcomings of the day...
    SA 8.104 23 The consolation and happy moment of life, atoning for all short-comings, is sentiment;...
    Comc 8.170 4 ...on the back of [Astley's] waistcoat a gay cascade was thundering down the rocks with foam and rainbow...a picture of his own, with which the poor painter had been fain to repair the shortcomings of his wardrobe.
    EPro 11.317 20 [Lincoln] is well entitled to the most indulgent construction. Forget all that we thought shortcomings...
    CL 12.156 14 If you wish to know the shortcomings of poetry and language, try to reproduce the October picture to a city company...

shorten, v. (3)

    MN 1.202 4 When we...shorten the sight to look into this court of Louis Quatorze...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to... glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    NMW 4.233 25 [Napoleon] would shorten a straight line to come at his object.
    F 6.34 5 ...time [steam] shall lengthen, and shorten space.

shortened, v. (2)

    Suc 7.299 11 Does that deep-toned bell, which has shortened many a night of ill nerves, render to you nothing but acoustic vibrations?
    Dem1 10.17 21 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... It seemed to deal at pleasure with the necessary elements of our constitution; it shortened time and extended space.

shortens, v. (3)

    LT 1.284 15 [Ennui] shortens life...
    Res 8.140 3 See...how...every impatient boss who sharply shortens the phrase or the word to give his order quicker...improves the national tongue.
    MMEm 10.398 15 [Lucy Percy] prefers the conversation of men to that of women; not but she can talk on the fashions with her female friends, but she is too soon sensible...that preeminence shortens all equality.

shorter, adj. (7)

    YA 1.380 4 ...Government in our times is beginning to wear a clumsy and cumbrous appearance. We have already seen our way to shorter methods.
    ET2 5.27 9 The shortest sea-line from Boston to Liverpool is 2850 miles. This a steamer keeps, and saves 150 miles. A sailing ship can never go in a shorter line than 3000...
    ET14 5.244 23 Burke was addicted to generalizing, but his was a shorter line [than Milton's];...
    CbW 6.253 21 Edward I. wanted money, armies, castles, and as much as he could get. It was necessary to call the people together by shorter, swifter ways,--and the House of Commons arose.
    Elo1 7.71 21 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear child, who is that man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks broader in his shoulders and breast.
    PPo 8.252 4 The [Persian] law of the ghaselle, or shorter ode, requires that the poet insert his name in the last stanza.
    SMC 11.361 1 Some of these [Civil War] letters are...written by fire-light, making the short night shorter;...

shortest, adj. (11)

    PPh 4.43 11 Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
    ET2 5.27 6 The shortest sea-line from Boston to Liverpool is 2850 miles.
    F 6.38 10 Nature...takes the shortest way to her ends.
    Pow 6.76 11 There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest;...
    Wth 6.99 24 An infinite number of shrewd men, in infinite years, have arrived at certain best and shortest ways of doing...
    DL 7.112 3 The shortest enumeration of our wants in this rugged climate appalls us by the multitude of things not easy to be done.
    Boks 7.193 2 ...private readers, reading purely for love of the book, would serve us by leaving each the shortest note of what he found.
    Boks 7.201 13 Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek history...but the shortest is the best...
    Elo2 8.126 14 If I should make the shortest list of the qualifications of the orator, I should begin with manliness;...
    Imtl 8.335 18 ...a century, when we have once made it familiar and compared it with a true antiquity, looks dwarfish and recent; and it does not help the matter adding numbers, if we see that it has an end, which it will reach just as surely as the shortest.
    SlHr 10.445 9 [Samuel Hoar] had uniformly the air of knowing just what he wanted and of going to that in the shortest way.

short-lived, adj. [shortlived,] (8)

    Nat 1.48 27 ...we resist with indignation any hint that nature is more short-lived or mutable than spirit.
    AmS 1.87 24 [Nature] came to [the scholar] short-lived actions; it went out from him immortal thoughts.
    Con 1.314 21 ...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty...has also his gracious and relenting moments, and espouses for the time the cause of man; and even if this be a shortlived emotion, yet the remembrance of it in private hours mitigates his selfishness...
    PPh 4.45 11 This perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by any thing short-lived or local...
    PNR 4.87 26 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the centre that we see the sphere illuminated...a theory so averaged, so modulated, that you would say the winds of ages had swept through this rhythmic structure, and not that it was the brief extempore blotting of one short-lived scribe.
    ET17 5.294 7 At Edinburgh...I made the acquaintance...of the Messrs. Chambers, and of a man of high character and genius, the short-lived painter, David Scott.
    ET19 5.311 24 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes...which stands in strong contrast with the superficial attachments of other races, their excessive courtesy and short-lived connection.
    FSLN 11.238 24 ...the spasms of Nature are centuries and ages, and will tax the faith of short-lived men.

shortly, adv. (6)

    Nat 1.54 20 ...the approaching tide/ Will shortly fill the reasonable shores/ That now lie foul and muddy./
    LS 11.15 2 ...[St. Paul's] mind had not escaped the prevalent error of the primitive Church, the belief, namely, that the second coming of Christ would shortly occur...
    LS 11.24 8 My brethren...have recommended, unanimously, an adherence to the present form [of the Lord's Supper]. I have therefore been compelled to consider whether it becomes me to administer it. I am clearly of opinion I ought not. This discourse has already been so far extended that I can only say that the reason of my determination is shortly this: It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my
    HDC 11.30 1 ...the little society of men who now, for a few years, fish in this river...shortly shall hurry from its banks as did their forefathers.
    MAng1 12.236 21 In answer to the importunate solicitations of the Duke of Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies...that he hoped he should shortly see the execution of his plans [for St. Peter's] brought to such a point that they could no longer be interfered with...
    Let 12.393 9 Shortly, then, we think the population is not yet quite fit for [flying-machines]...

shortness, n. (7)

    Exp 3.60 9 It is not the part of men, but of fanatics...to say that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want or sitting high.
    NER 3.271 6 Iron conservative, miser, or thief, no man is but by a supposed necessity, which he tolerates by shortness or torpidity of sight.
    ShP 4.190 26 ...[every master's] power lay...in his love of the materials he wrought in. What an economy of power! and what a compensation for the shortness of life!
    Boks 7.220 13 In comparing the number of good books with the shortness of life, many might well be read by proxy, if we had good proxies;...
    Imtl 8.322 4 Mute orator! well skilled to plead,/ And send conviction without phrase,/ Thou dost succor and remede/ The shortness of our days,/ And promise, on thy Founder's truth,/ Long morrow to this mortal youth./ Monadnoc.
    Mem 12.98 14 We hate this fatal shortness of Memory...
    Bost 12.211 5 ...the Quincy of the Revolution seems compensated for the shortness of his bright career in the son who so long lingers among the last of those bright clouds, That on the steady breeze of honor sail/ In long succession calm and beautiful./

shorts, n. (1)

    ET12 5.206 24 ...an Eton captain can write Latin longs and shorts...

short-sighted, adj. (1)

    DL 7.121 9 Ah! short-sighted students of books, of Nature and of man!...

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