Sting to Strangest

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

sting, n. (5)

    Wth 6.88 14 ...[nature]...takes away warmth, laughter, sleep, friends and daylight, until [a man] has fought his way to his own loaf. Then, less peremptorily but still with sting enough, she urges him to the acquisition of such things as belong to him.
    Res 8.151 21 [The art of taking a walk] will draw the sting out of frost...
    Insp 8.275 3 Like bees, [the artists] must put their lives into the sting they give.
    MMEm 10.403 19 [Mary Moody Emerson's] wit was so fertile, and only used to strike, that she never used it for display, any more than a wasp would parade his sting.
    FSLC 11.213 11 ...the sting of the late disgraces [the Fugitive Slave Law] is that this royal position of Massachusetts was foully lost...

sting, v. (2)

    Grts 8.311 11 He can toil terribly, said Cecil of Sir Walter Raleigh. These few words sting and bite and lash us when we are frivolous.
    Aris 10.35 4 The young adventurer finds that the relations of society...irk and sting him...

stinging, adj. (2)

    Prd1 2.225 23 ...an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains, and the stinging recollection of an injurious or very awkward word,-- these eat up the hours.
    MoS 4.166 18 [Montaigne] likes his saddle. You may read theology, and grammar, and metaphysics elsewhere. Whatever you get here shall smack of the earth and of real life, sweet, or smart, or stinging.

stingings, n. (1)

    UGM 4.26 7 The shield against the stingings of conscience is the universal practice...

sting-ray, n. (1)

    Bost 12.192 1 John Smith was stung near to death by the most poisonous tail of a fish, called a sting-ray.

sting-rays, n. (1)

    Bost 12.192 13 [The Massachusett colonists' experience] seems to have been the last outrage ever committed by the sting-rays...

stings, v. (2)

    PPh 4.57 19 [Plato's] patrician polish, his intrinsic elegance, edged by an irony so subtle that it stings and paralyzes, adorn the soundest health and strength of frame.
    Insp 8.285 24 At last it has become summer,/ And at the first glimpse of morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./

stingy, adj. (3)

    Res 8.154 2 ...man is more miserably fed and conditioned there [in the tropics] than in the cold and stingy zones.
    Prch 10.228 6 Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness.
    FRO2 11.490 4 I find something stingy in the unwilling and disparaging admission of these foreign opinions...by our churchmen...

stink, v. (1)

    LVB 11.93 16 You [Van Buren], sir, will bring down that renowned chair in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this intrument of perfidy [the relocation of the Cherokees]; and the name of this nation...will stink to the world.

stint, n. (7)

    AmS 1.83 5 In the divided or social state these functions [of priest, scholar, statesman, producer, and soldier] are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work...
    LE 1.185 2 ...you shall get your lesson out of the hour, and the object...even in...working off a stint of mechanical day-labor...
    YA 1.387 8 That were [the noble's] duty and stint,-to keep himself pure and purifying...
    Exp 3.65 20 ...do thou, sick or well, finish that stint.
    ET14 5.255 27 What did Walter Scott write without stint? a rhymed traveller's guide to Scotland.
    DL 7.114 5 ...we desire at least to put no stint or limit on our parents, relatives, guests or dependents;...
    EzRy 10.391 2 In [Ezra Ripley's] house dwelt order and prudence and plenty. There was no waste and no stint.

stint, v. (2)

    MR 1.242 27 For privileges so rare and grand, let [the man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] not stint to pay a great tax.
    HDC 11.84 18 [Our fathers] stint and higgle on the price of a pew, that they may send 200 soldiers to General Washington to keep Great Britain at bay.

stints, n. (2)

    GoW 4.289 24 This cheerful laborer [Goethe]...tasked himself with stints for a giant...
    PerF 10.69 6 The hero in the fairy-tales has a servant who can eat granite rocks...and a third who can run a hundred leagues in half an hour; so man in Nature is surrounded by a gang of friendly giants who can accept harder stints than these...

stints, v. (1)

    HDC 11.82 17 If the community [Concord] stints its expense in small matters, it spends freely on great duties.

stipend, n. (2)

    Wsp 6.211 2 Certain patriots in England devoted themselves for years to creating a public opinion that should break down the corn-laws and establish free trade. Well, says the man in the street, Cobden got a stipend out of it.
    Elo2 8.121 20 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud, when a holy man, passing by, asked what was his monthly stipend.

stipendiary, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.119 12 ...[Sir Lionel Smith] defended the Baptist preachers and the stipendiary magistrates [in Jamaica]...

stipulate, v. (1)

    GoW 4.268 26 A master likes a master, and does not stipulate whether it be orator, artist, craftsman, or king.

stipulated, v. (1)

    Aris 10.49 4 Time was, in England, when the state stipulated beforehand what price should be paid for each citizen's life, if he was killed.

stipulates, v. (1)

    Imtl 8.343 7 The soul stipulates for no private good.

stipulating, v. (1)

    SovE 10.195 15 We need not always be stipulating for our clean shirt and roast joint per diem.

stipulation, n. (3)

    Fdsp 2.204 5 My friend gives me entertainment without requiring any stipulation on my part.
    NMW 4.253 16 ...that is the fatal quality which we discover in our pursuit of wealth, that it...is bought by the breaking or weakening of the sentiments; and it is inevitable that we should find the same fact in the history of this champion [Napoleon], who proposed to himself simply a brilliant career, without any stipulation or scruple concerning the means.
    MAng1 12.235 14 Michael Angelo, who...distrusted his capacity as an architect, at first refused [to build St. Peter's] and then reluctantly complied. His heroic stipulation with the Pope was worthy of the man and the work.

stipulations, n. (3)

    Chr2 10.122 12 [Character] makes no stipulations for earthly felicity...
    Wom 11.425 13 Let us have the true woman...and no lawyer need be called in to write stipulations...
    EurB 12.368 6 ...Wordsworth...made no reserves or stipulations;...

stir, v. (9)

    DSA 1.123 16 ...the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
    YA 1.388 11 I find no expression...especially in our newspapers, of a high national feeling, no lofty counsels that rightfully stir the blood.
    OS 2.276 25 ...these other souls, these separated selves, draw me as nothing else can. They stir in me the new emotions we call passion;...
    NMW 4.248 13 If [the land-commander] allows himself to be guided by the commissaries [Napoleon remarks] he will never stir...
    ET6 5.109 13 Wellington...could not stir abroad for fear of public creditors.
    Wth 6.121 1 The rule is...to learn practically the secret...that things...will show to the watchful their own law. Nobody need stir hand or foot.
    Supl 10.171 17 ...rightly to be great is not to stir without great argument.
    CL 12.152 22 ...[man's] old propensities will stir at midsummer, and send him, like an Indian, to the sea.
    Milt1 12.264 10 His mind gave him, [Milton] said, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath of chastity, ought to be born a knight; nor needed to expect the gilt spur...to stir him up, by his counsel and his arm, to secure and protect attempted innocence.

Stirling, James Hutchinson, (1)

    Elo2 8.131 16 An ingenious metaphysical writer, Dr. Stirling, of Edinburgh, has noted that intellectual works in any department breed each other...

stirred, v. (2)

    Boks 7.210 24 The tap of [the auctioneer's] hammer was heard in the libraries of Rome, Milan and Venice. Boccaccio stirred in his sleep of five hundred years...
    Insp 8.285 7 When now the Spring stirred,/ I said to the nightingales:/ Dear nightingales, trill/ Early, O, early before my lattice,/ Wake me out of the deep sleep/ Which mightily chains the young man./

stirring, adj. (3)

    Prch 10.231 26 ...it is impossible to pay no regard...to the stirring shouts of parties...
    Plu 10.301 19 ...[Plutarch]...would be welcome to the sages and warriors he reports, as one having a native right to admire and recount these stirring deeds and speeches.
    Bost 12.206 13 ...youth and health like a stirring town...

stirring, v. (4)

    AmS 1.86 18 ...to this schoolboy under the bending dome of day, is suggested that he and [nature] proceed from one root;...relation, sympathy, stirring in every vein.
    Bhr 6.179 20 The confession of a low, usurping devil is there made [in the eyes], and the observer shall seem to feel the stirring of owls and bats and horned hoofs...
    CL 12.136 6 ...the necessity of exercise and the nomadic instinct are always stirring the wish to travel...
    Milt1 12.264 24 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring...

stitch, n. (2)

    PPh 4.76 27 Here is the world...perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end...
    Farm 7.151 22 ...[the first planter] coughs, he has a stitch in his side, he has a fever and chills;...

sto, v. (1)

    Prch 10.230 21 The existence of the Sunday, and the pulpit waiting for a weekly sermon, give [the young preacher] the very conditions, the pou sto he wants.

stock, adj. (4)

    SL 2.165 14 ...the painter uses the conventional story of the Virgin Mary, of Paul, of Peter. He does not therefore defer to the nature...of these stock heroes.
    PI 8.35 27 On the stage, the farce is commonly far better given than the tragedy, as the stock actors understand the farce...
    PI 8.54 8 The difference between poetry and stock poetry is this, that in the latter the rhythm is given and the sense adapted to it; while in the former the sense dictates the rhythm.
    WSL 12.340 4 [Landor] has capital enough to have furnished the brain of fifty stock authors...

stock, n. (50)

    AmS 1.97 20 ...those Savoyards...getting their livelihood by carving...went out one day to the mountain to find stock, and discovered that they had whittled up the last of their pine trees.
    AmS 1.97 26 Authors we have, in numbers...who...ramble round Algiers, to replenish their merchantable stock.
    MR 1.238 11 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies, as...a stock of cattle by hunger;...
    LT 1.273 11 A wealthy man...finds religion to be a traffic...of so many piddling accounts, that of all mysteries he cannot skill to keep a stock going upon that trade.
    Con 1.310 26 ...in this institution of credit...always some neighbor stands ready to be bread and land and tools and stock to the young adventurer.
    Con 1.326 10 [Man's hope] was not imported from the stock of some celestial plant...
    Tran 1.359 4 ...when every voice is raised for a new road...or a subscription of stock;...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
    YA 1.369 1 In Europe...the land is full of men of the best stock and the best culture...
    YA 1.373 22 ...we cannot shed a hair or a paring of a nail but instantly [Nature] snatches at the shred and appropriates it to the general stock.
    Comp 2.92 4 Man's the elm, and Wealth the vine,/ Stanch and strong the tendrils twine:/ Though the frail ringlets thee deceive,/ None from its stock that vine can reave./
    Prd1 2.234 20 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only...the the prudence which consists in husbanding...particles of stock and small gains.
    Prd1 2.235 1 ...money...if invested, is liable to depreciation of the particular kind of stock.
    Pt1 3.40 24 All the creatures by pairs and by tribes pour into [the poet's] mind as into a Noah's ark, to come forth again to people a new world. This is like the stock of air for our respiration or for the combustion of our fireplace;...
    SwM 4.124 16 ...what is real and universal cannot be confined to the circle of those who sympathize strictly with [Swedenborg's] genius, but will pass forth into the common stock of wise and just thinking.
    MoS 4.159 27 [The skeptic] is the considerer...counting stock...
    ShP 4.193 22 Shakspeare...esteemed the mass of old plays waste stock...
    ET4 5.45 2 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock.
    ET4 5.54 27 The sources from which tradition derives [the English] stock are mainly three.
    ET4 5.63 2 Alfieri said the crimes of Italy were the proof of the superiority of the stock;...
    ET8 5.130 5 ...these [lower] classes are the right English stock...
    ET8 5.134 8 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...
    ET12 5.209 5 The race of English gentlemen presents an appearance of manly vigor and form not elsewhere to be found among an equal number of persons. No other nation produces the stock.
    F 6.4 1 We decide that [the boys and girls] are not of good stock.
    Wth 6.95 3 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows the marches of a man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated, and who is using these to add to the stock.
    Ctr 6.157 25 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic. But the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and in the humanity stock...
    Ctr 6.157 26 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic. But the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and in the humanity stock...
    Ctr 6.158 3 ...the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and in the humanity stock,--and, in the last, exults as much in the demonstration of the unsoundness of Curfew, as his interest in the former gives him pleasure in the currency of Curfew. For the depreciation of his Curfew stock only shows the immense values of the humanity stock.
    Ctr 6.158 4 ...the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and in the humanity stock,--and, in the last, exults as much in the demonstration of the unsoundness of Curfew, as his interest in the former gives him pleasure in the currency of Curfew. For the depreciation of his Curfew stock only shows the immense values of the humanity stock.
    Suc 7.284 1 Men are made each with some triumphant superiority, which... enriches the community with a new art; and not only we, but all men of European stock, value these certificates.
    Suc 7.308 3 Your theory is unimportant; but what new stock you can add to humanity, or how high you can carry life?
    PI 8.41 9 These fine fruits of judgment, poesy and sentiment...know as well as coarser how to...maintain their stock alive, and multiply;...
    PPo 8.237 20 ...the essential value [in books] is the adding of knowledge to our stock...
    Aris 10.33 26 ...I notice also that [the finer qualities] may become fixed and permanent in any stock...
    Aris 10.37 14 We like cool people, who...can survive the blow well enough if stock should rise or fall...
    Aris 10.42 9 The English nation down to a late age inherited the reality of the Northern stock.
    Aris 10.43 3 ...a sound body must be at the root of any excellence in manners and actions; a strong and supple frame which yields a stock of strength and spirits for all the needs of the day...
    PerF 10.76 26 If we were truly to take account of stock before the last Court of Appeals,-that were an inventory!
    PerF 10.77 2 Our stock in life, our real estate, is that amount of thought which we have had...
    PerF 10.79 21 ...[the manufacturer] persisted, and after many years succeeded in his production of the right article for commerce, brought up the stock of his mills to par...
    Supl 10.167 20 The people of English stock...are a solid people...
    Supl 10.170 2 When [a farmer] wishes to condemn any treatment of soils or of stock, he says, It won't do any good.
    Schr 10.272 12 Union Pacific stock is not quite private property...
    LS 11.12 21 ...[the disciples] threw all their property into a common stock;...
    FSLN 11.229 26 A barbarous tribe of good stock will, by means of their best heads, secure substantial liberty.
    JBB 11.267 23 [John Brown's] father, largely interested as a raiser of stock, became a contractor to supply the army with beef, in the war of 1812...
    JBS 11.279 4 [John Brown] grew up...a fair specimen of the best stock of New England;...
    SMC 11.356 27 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...the village politician, who could now...amass what a stock of adventures to retail hereafter at the fireside...
    PLT 12.15 26 Not having enough [thought] to support all the powers of a race, [Nature] thins all her stock...
    Mem 12.98 18 We gathered up what a rolling snow-ball as we came along... as capital stock of knowledge.
    CInt 12.115 5 ...either science and literature is a hypocrisy, or it is not. If it be, then...turn your college into barracks and warehouses, and divert the funds of your founders into the stock of a rope-walk or a candle-factory...

stock, v. (2)

    DL 7.110 6 Do not ask [the scholar] to help with his savings...grocers to stock their shops...
    CL 12.139 4 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts, stock its gardens, drain its bogs...we were better patriots and happier men.

stock-brokerage, n. (1)

    PI 8.37 6 There is no subject that does not belong to [the poet],--politics, economy, manufactures and stock-brokerage, as much as sunsets and souls;...

stockholder, n. (4)

    Hsm1 2.249 17 Unhappily no man exists who has not in his own person become to some amount a stockholder in the sin...
    Pow 6.82 1 In the gingham-mill, a broken thread or a shred...is traced back to the girl that wove it, and lessens her wages. The stockholder, on being shown this, rubs his hands with delight.
    Ctr 6.157 24 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic. But the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies...
    LLNE 10.328 5 The stockholder has stepped into the place of the warlike baron.

stockholders, n. (1)

    ET10 5.162 10 Of course [steam] draws the [English] nobility into the competition, as stockholders in the mine, the canal, the railway...

Stockholm, Sweden, n. (2)

    SwM 4.98 12 In modern times no such remarkable example of this introverted mind has occurred as in Emanuel Swedenborg, born in Stockholm...
    SwM 4.110 27 ...it appears that a mass of manuscript [by Swedenborg] still unedited remains in the royal library at Stockholm.

stockinger, n. (1)

    ET10 5.167 7 The robust rural Saxon degenerates in the mills to the Leicester stockinger...

stockingers, n. (2)

    PPh 4.53 6 [The Greeks] saw before them...no pitiless subdivision of classes,--the doom of the pin-makers, the doom of...stockingers...
    CbW 6.249 17 I do not wish any mass at all...no shovel-handed, narrow-brained, gin-drinking million stockingers or lazzaroni at all.

stockings, n. (6)

    Hsm1 2.253 2 What a disgrace is it to me to take note how many pairs of silk stockings thou hast...
    ET10 5.157 6 The headlong bias to utility [in England]...if possible will teach spiders to weave silk stockings.
    OA 7.332 13 The old President [John Adams] sat in a large stuffed arm-chair, dressed in a blue coat, black small-clothes, white stockings;...
    HDC 11.33 12 ...[the pilgrims] meet a scorching plain, yet not so plain but that the ragged bushes scratch their legs foully, even to wearing their stockings to their bare skin in two or three hours.
    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.

stockish, adj. (1)

    Tran 1.343 2 ...[Transcendentalists] are not stockish or brute...

stock-list, n. (1)

    PI 8.41 21 ...the broker sees the stock-list;...

stocks, n. (14)

    LE 1.184 24 ...in the counting-room the merchant cares little whether...the transaction [be] a letter of credit or a transfer of stocks; be it what it may, his commission comes gently out of it;...
    Prd1 2.235 10 Iron cannot rust...nor money stocks depreciate, in the few swift moments in which the Yankee suffers any one of them to remain in his possession.
    Chr1 3.99 1 ...[the capitalist] is satisfied to read in the quotations of the market that his stocks have risen.
    NMW 4.224 2 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the interests of dead labor, that is, the labor of hands long ago still in the grave, which labor is now entombed in money stocks...and the interests of living labor...
    NMW 4.224 5 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the interests of dead labor...and the interests of living labor, which seeks to possess itself of land and buildings and money stocks.
    ET4 5.49 24 Any the least and solitariest fact in our natural history, such as the melioration of fruits and animal stocks, has the worth of a power in the opportunity of geologic periods.
    Wth 6.124 11 The good merchant [finds] large gains, ships, stocks and money.
    WD 7.162 12 Nature loves to cross her stocks...
    Boks 7.189 21 ...after reading to weariness the lettered backs [of books], we...learn, as I did without surprise of a surly bank director, that in bank parlors they estimate all stocks of this kind as rubbish.
    Grts 8.311 22 Leave others to count votes and calculate stocks.
    Prch 10.232 4 We are not stocks or stones...
    Schr 10.267 1 ...[the cant of the time] believes that ideas do not lead to the owning of stocks;...
    LLNE 10.345 2 State Street had an instinct that [the Transcendentalists] invalidated contracts and threatened the stability of stocks;...
    EPro 11.321 23 What if the brokers' quotations show our stocks discredited...

stocky, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.65 26 It is the fault of their forms that [the English] grow stocky...

stoic, adj. (3)

    Civ 7.33 3 The appearance...in Greece, of the Seven Wise Masters, of the acute and upright Socrates, and of the stoic Zeno;...are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...
    Plu 10.314 19 [Plutarch's] grand perceptions of duty lead him to...a stoic resistance to low indulgence;...
    MMEm 10.397 12 But O, these waves and leaves,-/ When happy, stoic Nature grieves,-/ No human speech so beautiful/ As their murmurs, mine to lull./

Stoic, adj. (3)

    Tran 1.339 15 This [Transcendental] way of thinking, falling on Roman times, made Stoic philosophers;...
    Hist 2.7 7 ...all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea...
    MoS 4.160 15 The Spartan and Stoic schemes are too stark and stiff for our occasion.

stoic, n. (2)

    MoL 10.250 24 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage. So let his habits be formed, and all his economies heroic;...a stoic, formidable, athletic...
    Thor 10.456 18 ...hermit and stoic as he was, [Thoreau] was really fond of sympathy...

Stoic, n. (6)

    SR 2.76 17 Let a Stoic open the resources of man...
    SR 2.85 23 ...every Stoic was a Stoic;...
    Plu 10.308 24 'T is a temperance, not an eclecticism, which makes [Plutarch] adverse to the severe Stoic, or the Gymnosophist, or Diogenes, or any other extremist.
    Plu 10.315 7 ...this Stoic [Plutarch] in his fight with Fortune...is gentle as a woman when other strings are touched.
    Plu 10.319 11 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.
    LLNE 10.354 8 The Stoic said, Forbear, Fourier said, Indulge.

stoical, adj. (4)

    DSA 1.132 1 The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.
    DSA 1.142 7 [The soul of the community] wants nothing so much as a stern, high, stoical, Christian discipline...
    GoW 4.284 14 [Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest...of universal truth, to be his portion: a man...of a stoical self-command and self-denial...
    ChiE 11.474 6 [Asian immigrants'] power of continuous labor...their stoical economy, are unlooked-for virtues.

Stoical, adj. (2)

    LE 1.164 12 Concede to [the man of letters] genius, which is a sort of Stoical plenum annulling the comparative, and he is content;...
    OA 7.315 22 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home... Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute]...heroic with Stoical precepts...

stoicism, n. (3)

    Lov1 2.170 4 ...I know I incur the imputation of unnecessary hardness and stoicism from those who compose the Court and Parliament of Love.
    Wsp 6.241 18 Was never stoicism so stern and exigent as this [new church founded on moral science] shall be.
    Thor 10.476 24 [Thoreau's] poem entitled Sympathy reveals the tenderness under that triple steel of stoicism...

Stoicism, n. (7)

    LE 1.171 27 ...the first observation you make...may open a new view of nature and of man, that...shall take up Greece, Rome, Stoicism, Eclecticism...as mere data and food for analysis...
    Hsm1 2.248 22 ...a Stoicism not of the schools...shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch]...
    Chr2 10.103 24 The [moral] sentiment...measures Judaism, Stoicism...or whatever philanthropy, or politics, or saint, or seer pretends to speak in its name.
    SovE 10.209 1 ...Stoicism...has now no temples...
    Bost 12.194 16 This [Christian] spirit, of course, involved that of Stoicism, as, in its turn, Stoicism did this.
    Bost 12.194 17 This [Christian] spirit, of course, involved that of Stoicism, as, in its turn, Stoicism did this.
    Bost 12.194 20 ...how much more attractive and true that this [Christian] piety should be the central trait and the stern virtues follow than that Stoicism should face the gods and put Jove on his defence.

stoics, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.186 17 Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living...
    Supl 10.169 5 Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.

Stoics, n. (5)

    SL 2.138 15 There is no permanent wise man except in the figment of the Stoics.
    QO 8.182 20 What divines had assumed as the distinctive revelations of Christianity, theologic criticism has matched by exact parallelisms from the Stoics and poets of Greece and Rome.
    PC 8.220 15 How much more are...the wise and good souls, the Stoics in Greece and Rome...than the foolish and sensual millions around them!
    Chr2 10.111 21 ...the Stoics, the Hindoo...these speak originally;...
    ACiv 11.309 13 An unprecedented material prosperity has not tended to make us Stoics or Christians.

stole, v. (2)

    SR 2.80 12 It must be somehow that you stole the light from us.
    HDC 11.60 6 The Indians stole upon [Mary Shepherd] before she was aware, and her brothers were slain.

stolen, adj. (1)

    ET11 5.172 21 In spite of...stolen charters...we take sides as we read for the loyal England...

stolen, v. (5)

    Comp 2.114 19 ...the real price of labor is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen...
    Comp 2.114 21 ...the real price of labor is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs...may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.
    PerF 10.85 17 [A survey of cosmical powers] shows us the world alive, guided, incorruptible; that its cannon cannot be stolen nor its virtues misapplied.
    HDC 11.60 11 ...at night, whilst [Mary Shepherd's] captors were asleep, she...took a horse they had stolen from Lancaster...and rode through the forest to her home.
    CPL 11.506 8 [Kepler writes] I will triumph over mankind by the honest confession that I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt.

stolidity, n. (2)

    ET7 5.125 10 Any number of delightful examples of this English stolidity are the anecdotes of Europe.
    ET7 5.125 18 This English stolidity contrasts with French wit and tact.

stomach, adj. (1)

    MoS 4.176 15 Is [a man's] belief in God and Duty no deeper than a stomach evidence?

stomach, n. (19)

    AmS 1.83 17 The state of society is one in which the members...strut about so many walking monsters, - a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.
    MR 1.246 21 One must have been born and bred with [infirm people] to know how to prepare a meal for their learned stomach.
    Nat2 3.190 11 ...bread and wine, mix and cook them how you will, leave us hungry and thirsty, after the stomach is full.
    SwM 4.114 16 ...the unities of the tongue are little tongues; those of the stomach, little stomachs;...
    ET11 5.191 6 ...when the baron, educated only for war, with his brains paralyzed by his stomach, found himself idle at home, he grew fat and wanton and a sorry brute.
    F 6.39 5 ...the first cell converts itself into stomach, mouth, nose, or nail, according to the want;...
    Pow 6.59 27 ...when [the weaker party] himself is matched with some other antagonist, his own shafts fly well and hit. 'T is a question of stomach and constitution.
    Pow 6.60 3 The second man is as good as the first,--perhaps better; but has not stoutness or stomach, as the first has...
    Wth 6.89 11 The same correspondence that is between thirst in the stomach and water in the spring, exists between the whole of man and the whole of nature.
    Farm 7.144 12 In the stomach of the plant development begins.
    Boks 7.201 13 Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek history...but the shortest is the best, and if one lacks stomach for Mr. Grote' s voluminous annals, the old slight and popular summary of Goldsmith or of Gillies will serve.
    Imtl 8.333 5 When Bonaparte insisted...that it is the pit of the stomach that moves the world,-do we thank him for the gracious instruction?
    SovE 10.186 24 It is the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe.
    EWI 11.104 17 The blood is moral: the blood is anti-slavery...the stomach rises with disgust, and curses slavery.
    War 11.174 5 I regard no longer those names that so tingled in my ear. [The man of principle] is a baron of a better nobility and a stouter stomach.
    PLT 12.33 1 A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system.
    Mem 12.93 8 As every creature is furnished with teeth to seize and eat, and with stomach to digest its food, so the memory is furnished with a perfect apparatus.
    CL 12.143 13 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention. The depth and subtlety of the eyes varies exceedingly with the state of the stomach...
    ACri 12.288 21 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of...the deep stomach of an English drayman's execration.

stomachic, adj. (1)

    ET6 5.104 7 [The Englishman's] elocution is stomachic...

stomach-pumps, n. (1)

    WD 7.160 8 What of this dapper caoutchouc and gutta-percha, which make water-pipes and stomach-pumps...

stomachs, n. (3)

    UGM 4.13 9 We must not be sacks and stomachs.
    SwM 4.114 16 ...the unities of the tongue are little tongues; those of the stomach, little stomachs;...
    Trag 12.409 24 There are people who have an appetite for grief... mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread...

stone, adj. (26)

    DSA 1.123 8 ...murder will speak out of stone walls.
    YA 1.375 7 ...we build stone houses...for remote generations.
    Hist 2.19 9 I have seen a snow-drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower.
    Comp 2.107 21 The poets related that stone walls and iron swords and leathern thongs had an occult sympathy with the wrongs of their owners;...
    Art1 2.364 25 I do not wonder that Newton...should have wondered what the Earl of Pembroke found to admire in stone dolls.
    PPh 4.42 11 ...every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries;...
    PPh 4.71 7 ...the potters copied [Socrates'] ugly face on their stone jugs.
    ET5 5.97 10 The last Reform-bill [in England] took away political power from a mound, a ruin and a stone wall...
    ET10 5.164 22 High stone fences and padlocked garden-gates announce the absolute will of the [English] owner to be alone.
    ET18 5.308 10 ...if the ocean out of which it emerged should wash it away, [England] will be remembered as an island famous...for the announcements of original right which make the stone tables of liberty.
    Wth 6.116 17 An engraver...should not lay stone walls.
    Bty 6.302 5 If a man can cut such a head on his stone gatepost as shall draw and keep a crowd about it all day, by its beauty, good nature, and inscrutable meaning;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    Civ 7.21 12 ...the effect of a framed or stone house is immense on the tranquillity, power and refinement of the builder.
    Art2 7.54 18 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any stone wall, on a fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone which have resisted the action of frost and water which has decomposed the rest.
    Farm 7.141 6 He who...constructs a stone fountain...makes a fortune... which is useful to his country long afterwards.
    Farm 7.141 9 He who...so much as puts a stone seat by the wayside... makes a fortune...which is useful to his country long afterwards.
    PC 8.208 3 Who would live in the stone age...
    PerF 10.75 3 Where are the farmer's days gone? See, they are hid in that stone wall...
    PerF 10.75 10 [Labor] is massed and blocked away in that stone house...
    Thor 10.473 13 Indian relics abound in Concord,-arrow-heads, stone chisels, pestles and fragments of pottery;...
    Thor 10.473 23 [Thoreau] was inquisitive about the making of the stone arrow-head...
    HDC 11.49 14 ...in every stone fence...[the people of Concord] read their own power...
    War 11.163 16 This vast apparatus of artillery,...of stone bastions and trenches and embankments; this incessant patrolling of sentinels;...seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.
    AgMs 12.361 3 ...why this recommendation [in the Agricultural Survey] of stone houses?
    AgMs 12.361 6 Our [New England] roads are always changing their direction, and after a man has built at great cost a stone house, a new road is opened, and he finds himself a mile or two from the highway.
    Trag 12.413 2 [Some men] treat trifles with a tragic air. This is not beautiful. Could they not lay a rod or two of stone wall, and work off this superabundant irritability?

Stone, Boston, n. (1)

    Bost 12.201 20 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 at the bottom of Plymouth Rock, and of Boston Stone;...

Stone Chapel, Boston, Mass (1)

    RBur 11.443 6 The doves perching always on the eaves of the Stone Chapel opposite, may know something about [the memory of Burns].

stone, n. (90)

    Nat 1.27 2 Throw a stone into the stream, and the circles that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.
    Nat 1.33 16 ...A rolling stone gathers no moss;...
    DSA 1.119 24 ...in its mountains of metal and stone;...[the world] is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.
    DSA 1.134 21 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn joy...sometimes with chisel on stone...
    MN 1.199 11 We can...never tell where to set the first stone.
    MR 1.247 25 ...we must not cease to tend to the correction of flagrant wrongs, by laying one stone aright every day.
    Tran 1.332 23 ...[the materialist] will perceive that his mental fabric is built up on just as strange and quaking foundations as his proud edifice of stone.
    YA 1.379 15 Our part is plainly not to throw ourselves across the track, to block improvement and sit till we are stone...
    Hist 2.12 6 ...the value which is given to wood by carving led to the carving over the whole mountain of stone of a cathedral.
    Hist 2.21 3 The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.
    Hist 2.37 21 Do not the constructive fingers of Watt, Fulton, Whittemore, Arkwright, predict the fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals, the properties of stone, water, and wood?
    Comp 2.92 12 ...all that Nature made thy own,/ Floating in air or pent in stone,/ Will rive the hills and swim the sea/ And, like thy shadow, follow thee./
    Lov1 2.180 8 The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not. Then first it ceases to be a stone.
    OS 2.265 7 ...A spell is laid on sod and stone,/ Night and Day 've been tampered with/...
    OS 2.296 16 [The soul]...feels that the grass grows and the stone falls by a law inferior to, and dependent on, its nature.
    Art1 2.349 4 ...Bring the moonlight into noon/ Hid in gleaming piles of stone;/...
    Art1 2.355 5 This...power to fix the momentary eminency of an object...the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone.
    Art1 2.358 27 The best of beauty is...a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature...
    Art1 2.366 26 As soon as beauty is sought...for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. High beauty is no longer attainable by him in canvas or in stone...
    Pt1 3.16 3 ...[the coachman or the hunter] loves the earnest...of stone and wood and iron.
    Pt1 3.29 20 That spirit which suffices quiet hearts, which seems to come forth to such...from every pine stump and half-imbedded stone...comes forth to the poor and hungry...
    Chr1 3.95 21 We can drive a stone upward for a moment into the air...
    Chr1 3.108 25 Every trait which the artist recorded in stone he had seen in life...
    Mrs1 3.119 9 The husbandry of the modern inhabitants of Gournou...is philosophical to a fault. To set up their housekeeping nothing is requisite but two or three earthen pots, a stone to grind meal, and a mat which is the bed.
    Mrs1 3.120 10 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man serves himself with metals, wood, stone, glass, gum, cotton, silk and wool;...
    Nat2 3.182 13 If we had eyes to see it, a bit of stone from the city wall would certify us of the necessity that man must exist, as readily as the city.
    Nat2 3.190 21 This palace of brick and stone...all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual!
    NR 3.230 23 ...[the language] is a sort of monument to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.
    NER 3.284 4 [A man] can already rely on the laws of gravity, that every stone will fall where it is due;...
    UGM 4.9 12 The earth rolls; every clod and stone comes to the meridian...
    ShP 4.197 5 [The poet] knows the sparkle of the true stone...
    NMW 4.230 26 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was born; a man of stone and iron...
    GoW 4.261 15 The falling drop makes its sculpture in the sand or the stone.
    ET1 5.6 5 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities... This was necessary in so refractory a material as stone;...
    ET3 5.39 2 [England] has plenty of water, of stone...
    ET7 5.119 11 [The English] build of stone...
    ET10 5.164 25 Every whim of exaggerated egotism is put into stone and iron [in England]...
    ET13 5.215 2 [Prudent men say] Better find some niche or crevice in this mountain of stone which religious ages have quarried and carved...than attempt anything ridiculously and dangerously above your strength, like removing it.
    ET14 5.236 23 The more hearty and sturdy [English] expression may indicate that the savageness of the Norseman was not all gone. Their dynamic brains hurled off their words as the revolving stone hurls off scraps of grit.
    ET16 5.278 6 The sacrificial stone, as it is called, is the only one in all these blocks [at Stonehenge] that can resist the action of fire...
    ET16 5.278 10 On almost every stone [at Stonehenge] we [Emerson and Carlyle] found the marks of the mineralogist's hammer and chisel.
    ET16 5.278 27 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive, stone by stone, at the whole history [of Stonehenge]...
    ET16 5.280 27 I stood on the last [the sacrificial stone at Stonehenge], and [Mr. Brown] pointed to the upright, or rather, inclined stone, called the astronomical, and bade me notice that its top ranged with the sky-line.
    ET16 5.281 4 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge]...
    ET16 5.281 5 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge], at the Druidical temple at Abury, there is also an astronomical stone, in the same relative position.
    ET16 5.282 25 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.
    F 6.36 26 Christopher Wren said of the beautiful King's College chapel, that if anybody would tell him where to lay the first stone, he would build such another.
    F 6.43 26 Iron was deep in the ground and well combined with stone, but could not hide from [man's] fires.
    CbW 6.264 26 The latent heat of an ounce of wood or stone is inexhaustible.
    Bty 6.279 3 Was never form and never face/ So sweet to Seyd as only grace/ Which did not slumber like a stone/ But hovered gleaming and was gone./
    Civ 7.28 22 I admire still more than the saw-mill the skill which, on the seashore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn, and which thus engages the assistance of the moon...to...split stone, and roll iron.
    Art2 7.54 17 ...it has been remarked by Goethe that the granite breaks into parallelopipeds, which broken in two, one part would be an obelisk; that in Upper Egypt the inhabitants would naturally mark a memorable spot by setting up so conspicuous a stone.
    Art2 7.54 20 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any stone wall, on a fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone which have resisted the action of frost and water which has decomposed the rest.
    Art2 7.56 8 The Gothic cathedrals were built when the builder and the priest and the people were overpowered by their faith. Love and fear laid every stone.
    Elo1 7.71 10 ...every literature contains these high compliments to the art of the orator and the bard, from the Hebrew and the Greek down to the Scottish Glenkindie, who ...harpit a fish out o' saut-water,/ Or water out of a stone,/ Or milk out of a maiden's breast/ Who bairn had never none./
    Farm 7.146 24 On the prairie you wander a hundred miles and hardly find a stick or a stone.
    WD 7.157 21 The sympathy of eye and hand by which an Indian or a practised slinger hits his mark with a stone, or a wood-chopper or a carpenter swings his axe to a hair-line on his log, are examples [that the eye appreciates finer differences than art can expose];...
    WD 7.170 22 'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor...a little more or less stone, or wood, or paint...
    Cour 7.254 3 Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass...
    PI 8.9 8 ...[the student] observes that all things in Nature...wood, iron, stone, vapor, have a mysterious relation to his thoughts and his life;...
    PI 8.14 12 Machiavel described the papacy as a stone inserted in the body of Italy to keep the wound open.
    PI 8.61 26 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...neither shall I ever go out from hence, for in the world there is no such strong tower as this wherein I am confined; and it is neither of wood, nor of iron, nor of stone, but of air...
    Res 8.145 15 ...the Corsicans at the battle of Golo, not having had time to cut down the bridge, which was of stone, made use of the bodies of their dead to form an intrenchment.
    QO 8.199 24 Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone;...
    PC 8.224 13 The asteroids are the chips of an old star, and a meteoric stone is a chip of an asteroid.
    PPo 8.240 14 Solomon had three talismans: first, the signet-ring by which he commanded the spirits, on the stone of which was engraven the name of God;...
    PPo 8.259 5 Jami says,-A friend is he, who, hunted as a foe,/ So much the kindlier shows him than before;/ Throw stones at him, or ruder javelins throw,/ He builds with stone and steel a firmer floor./
    Imtl 8.325 16 [The Greek] set his wit and taste, like elastic gas, under these mountains of stone [the pyramids], and lifted them.
    Dem1 10.23 15 ...to hit the mark with a stone [a man] has only to fasten his eye firmly on the mark and his arm will swing true...
    PerF 10.73 12 The animal instincts guide the animal as gravity governs the stone...
    Edc1 10.145 24 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone...
    Edc1 10.148 27 The boy wishes to learn...to hit a mark with a snowball or a stone;...
    Edc1 10.155 20 [The naturalist] sits still; if [the creatures of nature] approach, he remains passive as the stone he sits upon.
    Supl 10.167 24 [People of English stock's] houses are of wood, and brick, and stone...
    SovE 10.201 18 The house in which we were born is not quite mere timber and stone;...
    SovE 10.209 8 It accuses us...that pure ethics is not now formulated and concreted into a cultus, a fraternity...with brick and stone.
    HDC 11.62 4 For [the Indians] the heart of charity, of humanity, was stone.
    War 11.164 15 Observe the ideas of the present day...see...how timber, brick, lime and stone have flown into convenient shape, obedient to the master-idea reigning in the minds of many persons.
    SMC 11.351 17 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...mixes with surrounding nature...
    PLT 12.18 24 [The perceptions of the soul] take to themselves wood and stone and iron;...
    PLT 12.29 3 To the sculptor [Nature's] stone is soft;...
    PLT 12.44 10 If you cut or break in two a block or stone and press the two parts closely together, you can indeed bring the particles very near, but never again so near that they shall attract each other so that you can take up the block as one.
    PLT 12.49 5 [Dante] clasps the thought as if it were a tree or a stone...
    II 12.71 5 In the healthy mind, the thought...appears...in wood, in stone...
    MAng1 12.219 1 ...certain minds...possess the power of abstracting Beauty from things, and reproducing it in new forms, on any object to which accident may determine their activity; as stone, canvas, song, history.
    MAng1 12.229 21 In the Piazza del Gran Duca at Florence, stands, in the open air, [Michelangelo's] David, about to hurl the stone at Goliath.
    MAng1 12.236 12 The combined desire to fulfil, in everlasting stone, the conceptions of his mind, and to complete his worthy offering to Almighty God, sustained [Michelangelo] through numberless vexations with unbroken spirit.
    MAng1 12.239 9 [Michelangelo] said of his predecessor, the architect Bramante, that he laid the first stone of Saint Peter's, clear, insulated, luminous, with fit design for a vast structure.
    WSL 12.337 14 [John Bull] wonders that the Americans should build with wood, whilst all this stone is lying in the roadside;...
    PPr 12.382 24 [A man's] manners,-let them be hospitable and civilizing, so that no Phidias or Raphael shall have taught anything better in canvas or stone;...

stone, v. (1)

    Con 1.298 10 ...conservatism...must...suspect and stone the prophet;...

stone-blind, adj. (2)

    AmS 1.104 26 ...what stone-blind custom...you behold is there only by sufferance...
    PC 8.230 19 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...among violent proprietors, to check self-interest, stone-blind and stone-deaf...

stone-cutters, n. (1)

    Pow 6.58 18 ...Thorwaldsen's statue is finished by stone-cutters;...

stoned, v. (1)

    PC 8.210 27 People have in all countries been burned and stoned for saying things which are commonplaces at all our breakfast-tables.

stone-deaf, adj. (1)

    PC 8.230 20 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...among violent proprietors, to check self-interest, stone-blind and stone-deaf...

Stonehenge, adj. (1)

    ET16 5.283 14 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work on the substructure of a house in Bowdoin Square, in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns...

Stonehenge, England, n. (13)

    Hist 2.11 7 ...all curiosity respecting...Stonehenge...is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There or Then...
    ET16 5.273 3 It had been agreed between my friend Mr. Carlyle and me, that before I left England we should make an excursion together to Stonehenge...
    ET16 5.276 11 On the broad downs...not a house was visible, nothing but Stonehenge...
    ET16 5.276 13 On the broad downs...not a house was visible, nothing but Stonehenge...Stonehenge and the barrows...
    ET16 5.276 24 Stonehenge is a circular colonnade with a diameter of a hundred feet...
    ET16 5.277 11 It was pleasant to see that...[Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across...were like what is most permanent on the face of the planet: these, and the barrows,--mere mounds (of which there are a hundred and sixty within a circle of three miles about Stonehenge)...
    ET16 5.279 3 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive...at the whole history [of Stonehenge], by that exhaustive British sense and perseverance... which leaves its own Stonehenge...to the rabbits, whilst it opens pyramids and uncovers Nineveh.
    ET16 5.279 5 Stonehenge, in virtue of the simplicity of its plan and its good preservation, is as if new and recent;...
    ET16 5.280 23 I engaged the local antiquary, Mr. Brown, to go with us [Emerson and Carlyle] to Stonehenge...
    ET16 5.281 24 The heroic antiquary [William Stukeley]...connects [Stonehenge] with the oldest monuments and religion of the world, and... does not stick to say, the Deity who made the world by the scheme of Stonehenge.
    ET16 5.281 27 [Stukeley] finds that the cursus on Salisbury Plain stretches across the downs like a line of latitude upon the globe, and the meridian line of Stonehenge passes exactly through the middle of this cursus.
    ET16 5.282 4 ...here is the high point of the theory: the Druids had the magnet; laid their courses by it; their cardinal points in Stonehenge, Ambresbury, and elsewhere...followed the variations of the compass.
    ET16 5.283 19 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work...in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns, with an ordinary derrick. The men were common masons...nor did they think they were doing anything remarkable. I suppose there were as good men a thousand years ago. And we wonder how Stonehenge was built and forgotten.

stone-mason, n. (1)

    Wth 6.122 27 The stone-mason who should build the well thinks he shall have to dig forty feet;...

stone-masonry, n. (1)

    ET10 5.165 6 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds, so as to get a coachway and save her a mile to the avenue. Instantly he transforms his paling into stone-masonry...

stone-masons, n. (1)

    OA 7.327 3 Michel Angelo's head is full...of architectural dreams, until a hundred stone-masons can lay them in courses of travertine.

stone-quarries, n. (1)

    QO 8.176 2 ...every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone-quarries;...

stone-quarry, n. (1)

    ShP 4.198 7 ...poor Gower [Chaucer] uses as if he were only a brick-kiln or stone-quarry out of which to build his house.

stones, n. (39)

    Nat 1.13 2 Beasts, fire, water, stones, and corn serve [man].
    Nat 1.52 10 ...[the poet] invests dust and stones with humanity...
    Nat 1.59 9 I do not wish to fling stones at my beautiful mother...
    MN 1.218 19 Behold! there is the sun, and the rain, and the rocks; the old sun, the old stones.
    SL 2.155 21 ...all things are [Truth's] organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.
    Cir 2.317 24 ...O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you... would fain teach us that if we are true...our crimes may be lively stones out of which we shall construct the temple of the true God!
    Pt1 3.29 11 We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses; withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and sufficing objects of nature...the water and stones, which should be their toys.
    Chr1 3.95 23 We can drive a stone upward for a moment into the air, but it is yet true that all stones will forever fall;...
    MoS 4.169 6 [Montaigne]...likes to feel solid ground and the stones underneath.
    ET7 5.119 8 [The English] read gladly in old Fuller that a lady in the reign of Elizabeth, would have as patiently digested a lie, as the wearing of false stones...
    ET9 5.152 25 ...nobody can throw stones.
    ET16 5.276 27 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked round the stones [at Stonehenge] and clambered over them...
    ET16 5.277 6 It was pleasant to see that just this simplest of all simple structures [Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across--had long outstood all later churches...
    ET16 5.277 22 We [Emerson and Carlyle] counted and measured by paces the biggest stones [at Stonehenge]...
    ET16 5.277 25 There are ninety-four stones [at Stonehenge]...
    ET16 5.278 3 How came the stones [of Stonehenge] here?...
    ET16 5.278 12 The nineteen smaller stones of the inner circle [at Stonehenge] are of granite.
    ET16 5.278 20 I...was ready to maintain that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another. Only the good beasts must have known how...to smooth the surface of some of the stones.
    ET16 5.279 10 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked in and out and took again and again a fresh look at the uncanny stones [of Stonehenge].
    ET16 5.279 12 To these conscious stones [of Stonehenge] we two pilgrims [Emerson and Carlyle] were alike known and near.
    ET16 5.280 25 I engaged the local antiquary, Mr. Brown, to go with us [Emerson and Carlyle] to Stonehenge...and show us what he knew of the astronomical and sacrificial stones.
    ET16 5.283 9 For the difficulty of handling and carrying stones of this size [of Stonehenge], the like is done in all cities, every day, with no other aid than horse-power.
    Wsp 6.240 22 When [man's] mind is illuminated...he...does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.
    CbW 6.247 27 See what a cometary train of auxiliaries man carries with him, of animals, plants, stones, gases and imponderable elements.
    Bty 6.292 8 The pleasure a palace or a temple gives the eye is, that an order and method has been communicated to stones...
    PPo 8.242 5 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Kai Kaus, in whose palace...gold and silver and precious stones were used so lavishly that in the brilliancy produced by their combined effect, night and day appeared the same;...
    PPo 8.259 4 Jami says,-A friend is he, who, hunted as a foe,/ So much the kindlier shows him than before;/ Throw stones at him, or ruder javelins throw,/ He builds with stone and steel a firmer floor./
    PPo 8.263 6 ...quarry thy stones from the crystal All,/ And build the dome that shall not fall./
    Insp 8.275 21 ...ecstasy will be found...only an example on a higher plane of the same gentle gravitation by which stones fall and rivers run.
    Edc1 10.146 6 ...[Fellowes] read history and studied ancient art to explain his stones;...
    Supl 10.177 22 ...the Orientals excel...in the cutting of precious stones...
    Prch 10.232 4 We are not stocks or stones...
    Schr 10.265 9 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But...at the dashing among the stones of a brook from the hills;...this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...
    EzRy 10.392 3 In debate...the structure of [Ezra Ripley's] sentences was admirable; so neat, so natural, so terse, his words fell like stones;...
    Thor 10.466 24 ...the conical heaps of small stones on the river-shallows, the huge nests of small fishes...were all known to [Thoreau]...
    EWI 11.141 4 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro; comprising cloths and loom...polished stones and woods...
    SMC 11.351 4 The art of the architect and the sense of the town have made these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument] speak;...
    EdAd 11.392 27 The health which we call Virtue...resembles those rocking stones which a child's finger can move, and a weight of many hundred tons cannot overthrow.
    ACri 12.293 15 A list might be made of showy words that tempt young writers...opal and the rest of the precious stones, carcanet, diadem.

stoniness, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.154 5 Are you...rich enough to make...even the poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...

Stonington, Massachusetts, n (1)

    HDC 11.58 27 A still more formidable enemy [of Concord] was removed... by the capture of Canonchet, the faithful ally of Philip, who was soon afterwards shot at Stonington.

stony, adj. (9)

    Comp 2.124 25 ...the shell-fish crawls out of its beautiful but stony case...
    Pt1 3.11 3 These stony moments are still sparkling and animated!
    ET6 5.104 23 This vigor [of the Englishman] appears in the incuriosity and stony neglect, each of the other.
    DL 7.103 4 The care which covers the seed of the tree under tough husks and stony cases provides for the human plant the mother's breast and the father's house.
    Boks 7.213 27 [The imagination] has a flute which sets the atoms of our frame in a dance, like planets; and once so liberated...they never quite subside to their old stony state.
    OA 7.313 10 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./
    FRep 11.542 23 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet...perforates forests and stony mountain chains with roads...
    Milt1 12.247 19 The fame of a great man is not rigid and stony like his bust.
    Trag 12.412 5 The Egyptian sphinxes, which sit to-day...with their stony eyes fixed on the East and on the Nile, have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...

stood, v. (62)

    LE 1.168 15 The man who stands on the seashore...seems to be the first man that ever stood on the shore...
    MR 1.240 15 Only such persons interest us...who have stood in the jaws of need, and have by their own wit and might extricated themselves...
    Hist 2.31 27 The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes [man] know the Proteus. What else am I who laughed or wept yesterday, who slept last night like a corpse, and this morning stood and ran?
    Pt1 3.35 19 I do not know the man in history to whom things stood so uniformly for words [as Swedenborg].
    Chr1 3.90 22 ...Hercules...conquered whether he stood, or walked, or sat, or whatever thing he did.
    Gts 3.164 10 The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him...
    NR 3.248 16 ...I endeavored to show my good men...that I revered saints, but woke up glad that the old pagan world stood its ground and died hard;...
    PPh 4.61 26 [Plato] even stood ready...to demonstrate that it was so,--that this Being exceeded the limits of intellect.
    PPh 4.62 6 Having paid his homage, as for the human race, to the Illimitable, [Plato] then stood erect, and for the human race affirmed, And yet things are knowable!...
    NMW 4.234 5 Horrible anecdotes may no doubt be collected from [Napoleon's] history, of the price at which he bought his successes; but he must not therefore be set down as cruel...not bloodthirsty, not cruel,--but woe to what thing or person stood in his way!
    ET1 5.22 16 ...[Wordsworth] recollected himself for a few moments and then stood forth and repeated...the three entire sonnets with great animation.
    ET5 5.75 23 The power of the Saxon-Danes...stood on the strong personality of these people.
    ET12 5.200 27 Chaucer found [Oxford] as firm as if it had always stood;...
    ET16 5.280 19 At the inn [at Amesbury], there was only milk for one cup of tea. When we called for more, the girl brought us three drops. My friend [Carlyle] was annoyed, who stood for the credit of an English inn...
    ET16 5.280 26 I stood on the last [the sacrificial stone at Stonehenge], and [Mr. Brown] pointed to the upright, or rather, inclined stone, called the astronomical, and bade me notice that its top ranged with the sky-line.
    Ctr 6.161 17 Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Washington, stood on a fine humanity...
    Ctr 6.164 9 What forests of laurel we bring...to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!
    SS 7.1 19 [Seyd] stood before the tumbling main/ With joy too tense for sober brain;/...
    Art2 7.49 14 The wonders of Shakspeare are things which he saw whilst he stood aside...
    Elo1 7.72 10 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] mixed with the assembled Trojans, and stood, the broad shoulders of Menelaus rose above the other;...
    Elo1 7.72 18 ...when the wise Ulysses arose and stood and looked down... you would say it was some angry or foolish man;...
    Elo1 7.87 25 The parts [in the court-room trial] were so well cast and discriminated that it was an interesting game to watch. The government was well enough represented. It was stupid, but it had a strong will and possession, and stood on that to the last.
    Boks 7.209 27 The bid [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] stood at five hundred guineas.
    Boks 7.210 20 ...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.
    Cour 7.279 5 The other [bear] on George Nidiver/ Came on with dreadful pace:/ The hunter stood unarmed,/ And met him face to face./
    Cour 7.279 7 I say unarmed [the hunter] stood./ Against those frightful paws/ The rifle butt, or club of wood,/ Could stand no more than straws./
    Cour 7.279 11 George Nidiver stood still/ And looked [the bear] in the face;/ The wild beast stopped amazed,/ Then came with slackening pace./
    Cour 7.279 15 Still firm the hunter stood,/ Although his heart beat high;/ Again the creature stopped,/ And gazed with wondering eye./
    SA 8.94 10 When they showed [Madame de Stael] the beautiful Lake Leman, she exclaimed, O for the gutter of the Rue de Bac! the street in Paris in which her house stood.
    Elo2 8.109 7 Not on its base Monadnoc surer stood,/ Than [the patriot] to common sense and common good/...
    QO 8.199 12 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences...
    PC 8.233 7 [Swedenborg] saw in vision the angels and the devils; but these two companies stood not face to face and hand in hand...
    Insp 8.288 3 Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in the woods in summer...
    Grts 8.308 12 Montluc...says of...Andrew Doria, It seemed as if the sea stood in awe of this man.
    Dem1 10.11 27 ...Pancrates...wanting a servant, took a door-bar and pronounced over it magical words, and it stood up and brought him water...
    Aris 10.34 26 The old French Revolution attracted to its first movement all the liberality, virtue, hope and poetry in Europe. By the abolition of kingship and aristocracy, tyranny, inequality and poverty would end. Alas! no; tyranny, inequality, poverty, stood as fast and fierce as ever.
    Chr2 10.112 6 The laws of old empires stood on the religious convictions.
    Prch 10.229 1 What sort of respect can these preachers or newspapers inspire by their weekly praises of texts and saints, when we know that they would say just the same things if Beelzebub had written the chapter, provided it stood where it does in the public opinion?
    MoL 10.256 10 Reading!-do you mean that this senator or this lawyer, who stood by and allowed the passage of infamous laws, was a reader of Greek books?
    Plu 10.315 2 At Rome [Plutarch] thinks [Fortune's] wings were clipped: she stood no longer on a ball, but on a cube as large as Italy.
    LLNE 10.344 16 [Theodore Parker] stood altogether for practical truth;...
    Thor 10.456 13 ...no equal companion stood in affectionate relations with one so pure and guileless [as Thoreau].
    Carl 10.497 18 [Carlyle] has stood for scholars...
    Carl 10.497 21 ...[Carlyle] has stood for the people...
    GSt 10.504 23 I have heard...that [George Stearns] was indignant at this or that man's behavior, but never that his anger...ever stood in the way of his hearty cooperation with the offenders when they returned to the path of public duty.
    HDC 11.36 25 ...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.
    HDC 11.45 8 ...[the settlers of Concord] stood in awe of each other, as religious men.
    HDC 11.76 13 ...we see what manner of persons they were who stood in the worst perils of the [American] Revolution.
    FSLN 11.219 25 ...[supporters of the Fugitive Slave Law] were only looking to what their great Captain did...if he stood on his head, they did.
    FSLN 11.222 19 ...[Webster's] splendid wrath...was the wrath of the fact and the cause he stood for.
    FSLN 11.231 2 [Reasonably men] answered...that they knew Cuba would be had, and Mexico would be had, and they stood stiffly on conservatism... only to moderate the velocity with which the car was running down the precipice.
    AsSu 11.249 21 [Charles Sumner]...has stood for the North, a little in advance of all the North...
    AKan 11.262 2 Massachusetts, in its heroic day, had no government-was an anarchy. Every man stood on his own feet...
    ALin 11.330 7 The President [Lincoln] stood before us as a man of the people.
    ALin 11.335 12 There, by his courage, his justice...[Lincoln] stood a heroic figure in the centre of a heroic epoch.
    SMC 11.352 7 ...after the quarrel [American Revolution] began, the Americans took higher ground, and stood for political independence.
    PLT 12.5 27 [When I look at the tree or the river] I feel as if I stood by an ambassador charged with the message of his king...
    II 12.88 3 It seems to me, as if men stood craving a more stringent creed than any of the pale and enervating systems to which they have had recourse.
    Bost 12.210 7 In an age of trade and material prosperity, we have stood a little stupefied by the elevation of our ancestors.
    MAng1 12.244 1 Whilst he was yet alive, [Michelangelo] asked that he might be buried in that church [Santa Croce], in such a spot that the dome of the cathedral might be visible from his tomb when the doors of the church stood open.
    ACri 12.296 12 [Herrick] found his subject where he stood...
    Let 12.397 2 The loneliest man, after twenty years, discovers that he stood in a circle of friends...

stools, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.229 20 Even lifeless figures, as vessels and stools--let them be drawn ever so correctly--lose all effect so soon as they lack the resting upon their centre of gravity...

stoop, v. (7)

    Nat2 3.176 9 The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna...
    Wsp 6.235 24 [Benedict said] I could not stoop to be a circumstance...
    Bty 6.298 23 ...short legs which constrain us to short, mincing steps are a kind of personal insult and contumely to the owner; and long stilts...force him to stoop to the general level of mankind.
    PerF 10.83 1 ...the mighty Intellect did not stoop to [the susceptible man] and become property...
    FRep 11.519 1 ...each aspirant for power vies with his rival which can stoop lowest...
    Bost 12.203 23 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some noble protestant, who will not stoop to infamy when all are gone mad...
    MAng1 12.242 24 ...[Michelangelo's] was a soul so enamoured of grace that it could not stoop to meanness or depravity;...

stooped, v. (2)

    Pow 6.81 24 The world-mill is more complex than the calico-mill, and the architect stooped less.
    Plu 10.310 18 [Plutarch's] humanity stooped affectionately to trace the virtues which he loved in the animals also.

stooping, v. (3)

    Cir 2.310 20 To-morrow you shall find [the parties in conversation] stooping under the old pack-saddles.
    Thor 10.463 26 One day, walking with a stranger, who inquired where Indian arrow-heads could be found, [Thoreau] replied, Everywhere, and, stooping forward, picked one on the instant from the ground.
    PPr 12.390 25 How like an air-balloon or bird of Jove does [Carlyle] seem to float over the continent, and, stooping here and there, pounce on a fact as a symbol which was never a symbol before.

stoops, v. (5)

    Nat2 3.193 15 [The maiden] was heaven whilst [the lover] pursued her as a star: she cannot be heaven if she stoops to such a one as he.
    Wth 6.115 7 [The pale scholar] stoops to pull up a purslain or a dock that is choking the young corn, and finds there are two;...
    SHC 11.428 1 No abbey's gloom, nor dark cathedral stoops,/ No winding torches paint the midnight air;/...
    Shak1 11.451 13 The unaffected joy of the comedy,-[Shakespeare] lives in a gale,-contrasted with the grandeur of the tragedy, where he stoops to no contrivance, no pulpiting...
    WSL 12.347 25 [Landor] never stoops to explanation...

stop, n. (4)

    Fdsp 2.195 1 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers, who...enlarge the meaning of all my thoughts. These are...poetry without stop...
    Res 8.146 21 A determined man...puts a stop to defeat...
    Edc1 10.155 1 ...the familiar observation of the universal compensations might suggest the fear that so summary a stop of a bad humor [striking a bad boy] was more jeopardous than its continuance.
    PLT 12.60 3 This premature stop, I know not how, befalls most of us in early youth;...

stop, v. (42)

    Nat 1.46 5 It were a pleasant inquiry to follow into detail [the human forms'] ministry to our education, but where would it stop?
    AmS 1.90 13 The book...the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius.
    MN 1.199 8 The method of nature: who could ever analyze it? That rushing stream will not stop to be observed.
    Hist 2.32 16 Ah! brother, stop the ebb of thy soul...
    Cir 2.304 16 ...if the soul is quick and strong it...expands another orbit on the great deep, which also runs up into a high wave, with attempt again to stop and to bind.
    Pt1 3.21 10 The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs.
    Pt1 3.30 14 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop.
    Pt1 3.34 8 The poet did not stop at the color or the form, but read their meaning;...
    NER 3.252 20 ...[some reformers] wish the pure wheat, and will die but it shall not ferment. Stop, dear Nature, these incessant advances of thine;...
    NER 3.277 3 ...[every man at heart] wishes that the same healing should not stop in his thought...
    UGM 4.26 15 We learn of our contemporaries what they know...almost through the pores of the skin. ... But we stop where they stop.
    UGM 4.30 1 Be another:...not a poet, but a Shaksperian. In vain, the wheels of tendency will not stop...
    SwM 4.112 21 [Swedenborg] knows, if he only, the flowing of nature, and how wise was that old answer of Amasis to him who bade him drink up the sea, Yes, willingly, if you will stop the rivers that flow in.
    ET8 5.130 20 [The English] are full of coarse strength, rude exercise, butcher's meat and sound sleep; and suspect any poetic insinuation or any hint for the conduct of life which reflects on this animal existence, as if somebody were fumbling at the umbilical cord and might stop their supplies.
    ET10 5.155 5 ...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the higher ranks, to cultivate family affections was a good thing, it was not so among the lower orders. Better take [the children] away from those who might deprave them. And it was highly injurious to trade to stop binding to manufacturers...
    F 6.31 20 The divine order does not stop where [men's] sight stops.
    F 6.39 14 The ulterior aim...will not stop but will work into finer particulars...
    Wsp 6.219 24 It is a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those...of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not stop where our eyes lose them...
    Wsp 6.238 2 Honor him...who does not shine, and would rather not. With eyes open, he makes the choice...of religion which churches stop their discords to burn and exterminate;...
    Boks 7.196 10 ...good travellers stop at the best hotels;...
    Clbs 7.240 11 Can you stop the motions of good sense?
    Clbs 7.240 21 Who can stop the mouth of Luther...
    Suc 7.309 18 When that is spoken which has a right to be spoken, the chatter and the criticism will stop.
    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;...
    PI 8.72 25 Let the poet, of all men, stop with his inspiration.
    SA 8.86 3 It is an excellent custom of the Quakers...the silent prayer before meals. It has the effect to stop mirth...
    Imtl 8.330 18 I was lately told of young children who feel a certain terror at the assurance of life without end. What! will it never stop? the child said;...
    Edc1 10.144 14 The two points in a boy's training are...to keep his naturel but stop off his uproar, fooling and horse-play;...
    Plu 10.302 8 We sail on [Plutarch's] memory into the ports of every nation, enter into every private property, and do not stop to discriminate owners...
    MMEm 10.406 24 If [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion were a little ambitious, and asked her opinions on books or matters on which she did not wish rude hands laid, she did not hesitate to stop the intruder with How's your cat, Mrs. Tenner?
    Carl 10.491 25 [Young men] wish freedom of the press, and [Carlyle] thinks the first thing he would do, if he got into Parliament, would be to turn out the reporters, and stop all manner of mischievous speaking to Buncombe, and wind-bags.
    EWI 11.132 11 Let the senators and representatives of the State [of Massachusetts]...go in a body before the Congress and say that they have a demand to make on them, so imperative that all functions of government must stop until it is satisfied.
    AKan 11.263 13 I wish we could send the sergeant-at-arms to stop every American who is about to leave the country.
    JBS 11.276 21 But though they slew him with the sword,/ And in the fire his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its undoings restored./ And when, to stop all future harm,/ They strewed its ashes to the breeze,/ They little guessed each grain of these/ Conveyed the perfect charm./ William Allingham.
    SMC 11.356 2 This [Civil War] will be a slow business, writes our Concord captain [George Prescott] home, for we have to stop and civilize people as we go along.
    SMC 11.361 3 Some of these [Civil War] letters are...written...in the saddle, and have to stop because the horse will not stand still.
    SMC 11.362 15 One day [George Prescott] writes, I expect to have a time this forenoon with the officer from West Point who drills us. He is very profane, and I will not stand it. If he does not stop it, I will march my men right away when he is drilling them.
    PLT 12.25 6 In the orchard many trees send out a moderate shoot in the first summer heat, and stop.
    Bost 12.191 3 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...a good boatman can...wonder that Governor Carver had not better eyes than to stop on the Plymouth Sands.
    ACri 12.305 14 Criticism is an art when it does not stop at the words of the poet...
    Let 12.393 2 When a railroad train shoots through Europe every day...it cannot stop every twenty or thirty miles at a German custom-house...
    Trag 12.407 7 [Fate] is the terrible meaning that...makes the Oedipus and Antigone and Orestes objects of such hopeless commiseration. They must perish, and there is no overgod to stop or to mollify this hideous enginery that grinds or thunders...

stop-cock, n. (1)

    Res 8.148 14 ...[James Marshall] had the pipes laid from the water-works of his mill, with a stop-cock by his chair from which he could discharge a stream that would knock down an ox...

stoppages, n. (2)

    Wth 6.110 12 ...in the artificial system of society and of protected labor, which we...have adopted and enlarged, there come presently checks and stoppages.
    PI 8.18 18 What is the term of the ever-flowing metamorphosis? I do not know what are the stoppages...

stopped, v. (18)

    LT 1.286 18 [The spiritualists'] fault is that they have stopped at the intellectual perception;...
    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.
    Gts 3.157 4 Gifts of one who loved me,--/ 'T was high time they came;/ When he ceased to love me,/ Time they stopped for shame./
    ET1 5.11 4 When [Coleridge] stopped to take breath, I interposed that whilst I highly valued all his explanations, I was bound to tell him that I was born and bred a Unitarian.
    ET16 5.276 8 We [Emerson and Carlyle]...took a carriage to Amesbury... and...stopped at the George Inn.
    ET16 5.286 18 At Bishopstoke we [Emerson and Carlyle] stopped, and found Mr. H[elps]....
    ET16 5.289 4 Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of Saint Cross...
    Pow 6.67 25 ...[Boniface] introduced the new horse-rake, the new scraper, the baby-jumper, and what not, that Connecticut sends to the admiring citizens. He did this the easier that the peddler stopped at his house, and paid his keeping by setting up his new trap on the landlord's premises.
    Wth 6.105 4 If a talent is anywhere born into the world, the community of nations is enriched; and much more with a new degree of probity. The expense of crime...is so far stopped.
    Cour 7.279 13 George Nidiver stood still/ And looked [the bear] in the face;/ The wild beast stopped amazed,/ Then came with slackening pace./
    Cour 7.279 17 Still firm the hunter stood,/ Although his heart beat high;/ Again the creature stopped,/ And gazed with wondering eye./
    LLNE 10.345 12 There was a pilgrim in those days walking in the country who stopped at every door...
    Thor 10.463 7 [Thoreau!s] trenchant sense was never stopped by his rules of daily prudence...
    LS 11.10 3 Remember the readiness which [Jesus] always showed to spiritualize every occurrence. He stopped and wrote on the sand.
    Humb 11.458 8 When [Humboldt] was stopped in Spain and could not get away, he turned round and interpreted their mountain system...
    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.
    Bost 12.188 8 London now for a thousand years...has not stopped growing.
    MLit 12.324 10 ...[Goethe] never stopped at surface...

stopping, n. (1)

    PLT 12.49 17 The pace of Nature is so slow. Why not from strength to strength...and not as now with this retardation...and plenteous stopping at little stations?

stopping, v. (3)

    ET1 5.24 13 [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...
    Pow 6.73 17 ...there are two economies which are the best succedanea which the case admits. The first is the stopping off decisively our miscellaneous activity...
    SMC 11.364 19 [George Prescott writes] We started and marched two miles without stopping to rest...

stops, n. (1)

    II 12.72 9 It is as impossible for labor to produce...a song of Burns, as...the Iliad. There is much loss, as we say on the railway, in the stops, but the running time need be but little increased, to add great results.

stops, v. (12)

    Pol1 3.201 5 Meantime the education of the general mind never stops.
    NR 3.243 18 As soon as the soul sees any object, it stops before that object.
    F 6.31 21 The divine order does not stop where [men's] sight stops.
    Wth 6.119 18 [A farm] requires as much watching as if you were decanting wine from a cask. The farmer knows what to do with it, stops every leak...
    Farm 7.142 6 In English factories, the boy that watches the loom, to tie the thread when the wheel stops...is called a minder.
    Cour 7.257 22 Every moment as long as [the child] is awake he studies the use of his eyes, ears, hands and feet, learning how to meet and avoid his dangers, and thus every hour loses one terror more. But this education stops too soon.
    Comc 8.168 16 The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as that of religion and science]. In both cases there is a lie, when the mind, seizing a classification to help it to a sincerer knowledge of the fact, stops in the classification;...
    Comc 8.168 19 The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as that of religion and science]. In both cases there is a lie, when the mind... learning languages and reading books to the end of a better acquaintance with man, stops in the languages and books;...
    PPo 8.249 11 [Hafiz] fears nothing, he stops for nothing.
    Chr2 10.103 6 The [moral] sentiment never stops in pure vision...
    Edc1 10.158 18 ...if the boy [in your school] stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!
    FRep 11.532 15 ...as soon as the success stops and the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him;...

storax, n. (1)

    DSA 1.124 27 [The religious sentiment] is myrrh and storax, and chlorine and rosemary.

store, n. (9)

    LE 1.186 24 Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread, and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions...
    Gts 3.163 16 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate all Timons, not at all considering the value of the gift but looking back to the greater store it was taken from,--I rather sympathize with the beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.
    Ctr 6.163 1 If there is any great and good thing in store for you, it will not come at the first or the second call...
    DL 7.128 23 A verse of the old Greek Menander remains, which runs in translation:--Not on the store of sprightly wine,/ Nor plenty of delicious meats,/ Though generous Nature did design/ To court us with perpetual treats,--/ 'T is not on these we for content depend,/ So much as on the shadow of a Friend./
    Clbs 7.247 4 [Manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters] have found virtue in the strangest homes; and in the rich store of their adventures are instances and examples which you have been seeking in vain for years...
    Plu 10.301 5 I admire [Plutarch's] rapid and crowded style, as if he had such store of anecdotes of his heroes that he is forced to suppress more than he recounts...
    HDC 11.34 23 ...the Lord is pleased to provide for [the pilgrims] great store of fish in the spring-time...
    Scot 11.465 27 [Scott] saw...in his own reading and research such store of legend and renown as won his imagination to their cause.
    CInt 12.112 4 I know the mighty bards,/ I listen when they sing,/ And now I know/ The secret store/ Which these explore/ When they with torch of genius pierce/ The tenfold clouds that cover/ The riches of the universe/ From God's adoring lover./

store, v. (1)

    Mem 12.104 24 Sampson Reed says, The true way to store the memory is to develop the affections.

stored, v. (6)

    Prd1 2.227 18 In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box... stored with nails, gimlet, pincers, screwdriver and chisel.
    Pt1 3.25 26 ...a summer, with its harvest sown, reaped and stored, is an epic song...
    Wth 6.84 16 ...Then docks were built, and crops were stored,/ And ingots added to the hoard./
    Wth 6.126 9 [A man's] body is a jar in which the liquor of life is stored.
    Ctr 6.149 1 Aubrey writes, I have heard Thomas Hobbes say, that, in the Earl of Devon's house, in Derbyshire, there was a good library and books enough for him, and his lordship stored the library with what books he thought fit to be bought.
    Mem 12.100 9 ...men of great presence of mind...do not need to rely on what they have stored for use...

storehouse, n. (1)

    ET14 5.235 26 For two centuries England was philosophic, religious, poetic. The mental furniture seemed of larger scale: the memory capacious like the storehouse of the rains.

storeroom, n. (1)

    PLT 12.28 23 ...[Nature] is careful to leave all her doors ajar,-towers, hall, storeroom and cellar.

stores, n. (7)

    AmS 1.92 13 ...we should suppose...some foresight of souls that were to be, and some preparation of stores for their future wants...
    ET11 5.179 7 The names [of English towns and districts] are excellent,--an atmosphere of legendary melody spread over the land. Older than all epics and histories which clothe a nation, this undershirt sits close to the body. What history too, and what stores of primitive and savage observation it infolds!
    HDC 11.72 21 A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this town [Concord]...
    HDC 11.72 24 A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this town [Concord], by order of the Provincial Committee of Safety. It was to destroy those stores that the troops who were attacked in this town, on the 19th April, 1775, were sent hither by General Gage.
    HDC 11.74 10 ...when the smoke began to rise from the village where the British were burning cannon-carriages and military stores, the Americans resolved to force their way into town.
    FRep 11.535 27 ...in the country [the class of which I speak] sit idle in stores and bar-rooms...
    Milt1 12.277 12 Milton...exhausted the stores of his intellect for an end beyond, namely, to teach.

stores, v. (1)

    Edc1 10.129 5 How [the desire of power] sharpens the perceptions and stores the memory with facts.

stories, n. (23)

    Con 1.315 21 These are stories of godly children...
    Tran 1.356 3 ...as ridiculous stories will be to be told of [Transcendentalists] as of any.
    Hsm1 2.257 1 The interest these fine stories have for us...our delight in the hero, is the main fact to our purpose.
    MoS 4.165 16 Five or six as ridiculous stories, too, [Montaigne] says, can be told of me, as of any man living.
    ShP 4.193 1 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...the Death of Julius Caesar, and other stories out of Plutarch, which [the audience] never tire of;...
    ET6 5.114 8 The [English] dress-dinner generates a talent of table-talk which reaches great perfection: the stories are so good that one is sure they must have been often told before...
    ET6 5.114 16 English stories, bon-mots and the recorded table-talk of their wits, are as good as the best of the French.
    ET15 5.266 18 [The London Times's] private information...recalls the stories of Fouche's police...
    Elo1 7.70 19 Scheherezade tells these stories [in the Arabian Nights] to save her life...
    Elo1 7.72 13 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] conversed, and interweaved stories and opinions with all, Menelaus spoke succinctly...
    Elo1 7.78 16 In earlier days, [Julius Caesar] was taken by pirates. What then? He threw himself into their ship...told them stories...
    Boks 7.214 19 These stories [novels] are to the plots of real life what the figures in La Belle Assemblee...are to portraits.
    Clbs 7.232 1 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the company of those who have convivial talent. But the moment they meet, to be sure they begin to be something else than they were; they...tell stories...
    Clbs 7.246 13 I knew a scholar...who said that he liked, in a barroom, to tell a few coon stories...
    Comc 8.172 14 Timur saw himself in the mirror and found his face quite too ugly. Therefore he began to weep; Chodscha also set himself to weep; and so they wept for two hours. On this, some courtiers...entertained [Timur] with strange stories in order to make him forget all about it.
    QO 8.187 11 It is only within this century that England and America discovered that their nursery-tales were old German and Scandinavian stories;...
    Edc1 10.148 23 The joy of our childhood in hearing beautiful stories from some skilful aunt who loves to tell them, must be repeated in youth.
    MoL 10.256 6 Very little reliance must be put on the common stories that circulate of this great senator's or that great barrister's learning...
    SlHr 10.442 11 Many good stories are still told of the perplexity of jurors who found the law and the evidence on one side, and yet Squire Hoar had said that he believed, on his conscience, his client entitled to a verdict.
    Scot 11.466 16 From these originals [Scott] drew so genially his Jeanie Deans, his Dinmonts...making these, too, the pivots on which the plots of his stories turn;...
    MLit 12.324 1 ...for many of [Goethe's] stories, this seems the only reason: Here is a piece of humanity I had hitherto omitted to sketch;-take this.
    EurB 12.374 23 ...Mr. Bulwer's recent stories have given us who do not read novels occasion to think of this department of literature...
    EurB 12.375 26 Except in the stories of Edgeworth and Scott...the novels of costume are all one...

storing, v. (1)

    Farm 7.142 12 In English factories, the boy that watches the loom...is called a minder. And in this great factory of our Copernican globe... bringing now the day of planting, then of watering, then of weeding, then of reaping, then of curing and storing,--the farmer is the minder.

stork, n. (1)

    SwM 4.136 8 Of all absurdities, this of some foreigner proposing to take away my rhetoric and substitute his own, and amuse me with pelican and stork, instead of thrush and robin;...seems the most needless.

storm, n. (24)

    Nat 1.10 26 The waving of the boughs in the storm is new to me and old.
    Nat 1.34 22 ...river and storm...preexist in necessary Ideas in the mind of God...
    SR 2.88 12 ...what the man acquires, is living property, which does not wait the beck of...storm...
    Prd1 2.237 23 The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlor and the cabin.
    SwM 4.103 3 A drop of water has the properties of the sea, but cannot exhibit a storm.
    MoS 4.160 23 An angular, dogmatic house would be rent to chips and splinters in this storm of many elements.
    ET2 5.26 20 At last, on Sunday night...the storm came...
    ET19 5.313 3 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...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm?
    ET19 5.313 16 I see [England]...with a kind of instinct...that in storm of battle and calamity she has a secret vigor and a pulse like a cannon.
    Bty 6.279 6 Beauty chased [Seyd] everywhere,/ In flame, in storm, in clouds of air./
    Civ 7.24 24 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts: the ship...driven by steam; and in wildest sea-mountains, at vast distances from home,--The pulses of her iron heart/ Go beating through the storm./
    Elo1 7.77 1 ...how is it on the Atlantic, in a storm,--do you understand how to infuse your reason into men disabled by terror, and to bring yourself off safe then?...
    OA 7.314 2 As the bird trims her to the gale,/ I trim myself to the storm of time,/ I man the rudder, reef the sail,/ Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime/...
    Elo2 8.109 1 He, when the rising storm of party roared,/ Brought his great forehead to the council board,/ There, while hot heads perplexed with fears the state,/ Calm as the morn the manly patriot sate;/...
    Res 8.153 4 ...[the willows'] gentle persistency lives when the oak is shattered by storm...
    PC 8.207 10 The storm which has been resisted is a crown of honor and a pledge of strength to the ship.
    Imtl 8.323 15 Whilst [the sparrow] stays in our mansion, it feels not the winter storm;...
    Dem1 10.14 9 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.
    PerF 10.70 25 ...the lightning fell and the storm raged...to create and flavor the fruit on your table to-day.
    Prch 10.235 6 Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid! As for position, the position is always the same,-insulting the timid, and not taken by storm...
    ACiv 11.307 1 There will be a lull after so loud a storm;...
    SMC 11.353 5 A thunder-storm at sea sometimes reverses the magnets in the ship, and south is north. The storm of war works the like miracle on men.
    MAng1 12.225 13 On the 21st of March, 1530, the Prince of Orange assaulted the city [Florence] by storm.
    Trag 12.414 18 As the west wind lifts up again the heads of the wheat which were bent down and lodged in the storm...so we let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which are dark and wet and low bent.

storm, v. (1)

    MAng1 12.224 13 On the 24th of October, 1529, the Prince of Orange, general of Charles V., encamped on the hills surrounding the city [Florence], and his first operation was to throw up a rampart to storm the bastion of San Miniato.

stormed, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.405 24 When [Mary Moody Emerson] met a young person who interested her, she made herself acquainted and intimate with him or her at once...and stormed the castle.

storming, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.423 3 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war...the cruel oppression of the poor by the rich, which corrupts old worlds? How much better, more honest, are storming and conflagration of towns!

storming, v. (3)

    Tran 1.350 18 All that the brave Xanthus brings home from his wars is the recollection that at the storming of Samos, in the heat of the battle, Pericles smiled on me, and passed on to another detachment.
    ET8 5.131 20 [The English] are good at storming redoubts...
    OA 7.322 8 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them:...as blind old Dandolo...storming Constantinople at ninety-four...

storm-lights, n. (1)

    PPr 12.386 7 ...everything [in Carlyle] is seen in lurid storm-lights.

storms, n. (10)

    Con 1.300 7 ...the superior beauty is with the oak which stands with its hundred arms against the storms of a century...
    Prd1 2.236 5 ...let [a man]...feel the admonition to...keep a slender human word among the storms , distances and accidents that drive us hither and thither...
    MoS 4.185 24 ...the world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves cannot drown him.
    ET5 5.95 21 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been drained, and put on equality with the best, for rape-culture and grass. The climate too...is so far reached by this new action, that fogs and storms are said to disappear.
    ET8 5.134 18 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...abysmal temperament, hiding wells of wrath, and glooms on which no sunshine settles, alternated with a common sense and humanity which hold them fast to every piece of cheerful duty; making this temperament a sea to which all storms are superficial;...
    ET8 5.138 17 [The English] are subject to panics of credulity and of rage, but the temper of the nation...settles itself soon and easily, as, in this temperate zone, the sky after whatever storms clears again...
    Wth 6.102 13 [The dollar] is the finest barometer of social storms, and announces revolutions.
    WD 7.167 16 Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works and Days... instructing the husbandman...when to gather wood, when the sailor might launch his boat in security from storms...
    Imtl 8.323 10 The hearth blazes in the middle and a grateful heat is spread around, while storms of rain and snow are raging without.
    Schr 10.287 6 ...[the scholar]...is pelted by storms of cares, untuning cares...

storms, v. (1)

    PI 8.35 3 American life storms about us daily, and is slow to find a tongue.

storm-tossed, adj. (1)

    Tran 1.358 21 ...the storm-tossed vessel at sea speaks the frigate or line packet to learn its longitude...

storm-wind, n. (2)

    Wth 6.84 12 ...The storm-wind wove, the torrent span,/ Where they were bid the rivers ran;/...
    Elo1 7.59 3 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ And touch with soft persuasion,/ His words, like a storm-wind, can bring/ Terror and beauty on their wing;/...

stormy, adj. (6)

    Nat 1.42 25 Who can guess...how much tranquillity has been reflected to man from the azure sky, over whose unspotted deeps the winds forevermore drive flocks of stormy clouds...
    LT 1.290 6 ...[the Moral Sentiment] rides the stormy eloquence of the senate, sole victor;...
    Wth 6.95 14 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...
    CbW 6.262 4 ...we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism...
    Bty 6.302 2 The lives of the Italian artists, who established a despotism of genius amidst the dukes and kings and mobs of their stormy epoch, prove how loyal men in all times are to a finer brain, a finer method than their own.
    Edc1 10.141 1 That stormy genius of [the boy's] needs a little direction to games, charades...

story, n. (89)

    LE 1.160 19 The whole value...of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do. This is the moral of...the Tennemanns, who give us the story of men or of opinions.
    LE 1.162 21 ...[the youth] has read the story of Emperor Charles the Fifth...
    MN 1.199 1 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 2.30 14 What a range of meanings and what perpetual pertinence has the story of Prometheus!
    Hist 2.35 1 In the story of the Boy and the Mantle even a mature reader may be surprised with a glow of virtuous pleasure at the triumph of the gentle Genelas;...
    SL 2.165 11 ...the painter uses the conventional story of the Virgin Mary, of Paul, of Peter.
    Lov1 2.172 8 How we glow over these novels of passion, when the story is told with any spark of truth and nature!
    Lov1 2.180 18 ...personal beauty is then first charming and itself...when it becomes a story without an end;...
    Cir 2.304 24 The man finishes his story,--how good! how final!...
    Exp 3.56 12 The child asks, Mamma, why don't I like the story as well as when you told it me yesterday?
    Exp 3.56 16 The child asks, Mamma, why don't I like the story as well as when you told it me yesterday? Alas! child, it is even so with the oldest cherubim of knowledge. But will it answer thy question to say, Because thou wert born to a whole and this story is a particular?
    Mrs1 3.142 5 Another anecdote is so close to my matter, that I must hazard the story.
    NER 3.270 21 You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice...
    PPh 4.72 13 ...there was some story that under cover of folly, [Socrates] had, in the city government, when one day he chanced to hold a seat there, evinced a courage in opposing singly the popular voice, which had well-nigh ruined him.
    PNR 4.88 14 Shakspeare is a Platonist when he writes...He, that can endure/ To follow with allegiance a fallen lord,/ Does conquer him that did his master conquer,/ And earns a place in the story./
    SwM 4.118 4 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties, other science would be put by...
    ShP 4.212 18 Give a man of talents a story to tell, and his partiality will presently appear.
    GoW 4.278 26 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...
    GoW 4.280 12 ...[Goethe's Milhelm Meister] is a poeticized civic and domestic story.
    GoW 4.283 22 ...your interest in the writer is not confined to his story and he dismissed from memory when he has performed his task creditably...
    ET4 5.57 15 Individuals are often noticed [in the Norse Sagas] as very handsome persons, which trait only brings the story nearer to the English race.
    ET9 5.149 20 [The English] tell you daily in London the story of the Frenchman and Englishman who quarrelled.
    ET12 5.201 1 ...[Oxford] is, in British story, rich with great names...
    ET17 5.296 23 A gentleman in the neighborhood told the story of Walter Scott's staying once for a week with Wordsworth...
    Wth 6.100 24 Napoleon was fond of telling the story of the Marseilles banker who said to his visitor...Young man, you are too young to understand how masses are formed;...
    Bhr 6.192 4 [The boy in earlier novels] was in want of a wife and a castle, and the object of the story was to supply him with one or both.
    CbW 6.245 19 The lawyer advises the client, and tells his story to the jury and leaves it with them...
    Ill 6.312 7 The boy, how sweet to him is his fancy! how dear the story of barons and battles!
    Ill 6.320 22 That story of Thor, who was set to drain the drinking-horn in Asgard and to wrestle with the old woman and to run with the runner Lok, and presently found that he had been drinking up the sea, and wrestling with Time, and racing with Thought,--describes us...
    Elo1 7.65 5 That...which eloquence ought to reach, is not a particular skill in telling a story...
    Elo1 7.69 13 ...[the Sicilians]...were it only by the physical strength exerted in telling the story, keep the table in unbounded excitement.
    Farm 7.150 9 By drainage we went down to a subsoil we did not know, and have found...that Massachusetts has a basement story more valuable... than all the superstructure.
    Boks 7.209 20 In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Roxburgh was sold. The sale lasted forty-two days,--we abridge the story from Dibdin...
    Boks 7.212 21 The child asks you for a story, and is thankful for the poorest.
    Clbs 7.230 1 [Men] kindle each other; and such is the power of suggestion that each sprightly story calls out more;...
    Clbs 7.230 12 ...a natural fact has only half its value until a fact in moral nature, its counterpart, is stated. Then they confirm and adorn each other; a story is matched by another story.
    Clbs 7.230 13 ...a natural fact has only half its value until a fact in moral nature, its counterpart, is stated. Then they confirm and adorn each other; a story is matched by another story.
    Clbs 7.233 21 ...[Holmes (?)] tells the best story in the county...
    Clbs 7.235 18 ...he that can answer a question so as to admit of no further answer, is the best man. This was the meaning of the story of the Sphinx.
    OA 7.330 9 The day comes when the hidden author of our story is found;...
    SA 8.80 20 I think Hans Andersen's story of the cobweb cloth woven so fine that it was invisible...must mean manners...
    SA 8.94 23 The party in the second coach, on arriving, heard this story with surprise;...
    Elo2 8.123 6 I remember, when, long after, I entered college, hearing the story of the numbers of coaches in which his friends came from Boston to hear [John Quincy Adams].
    Res 8.148 5 If a good story will not answer, still milder remedies sometimes serve to disperse a mob.
    Res 8.148 21 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it: the story, the pictures...
    Comc 8.168 3 I think there is malice in a very trifling story which goes about...
    Comc 8.169 20 The multiplication of artificial wants and expenses in civilized life, and the exaggeration of all trifling forms, present innumerable occasions for this discrepancy [between the man and his appearance] to expose itself. Such is the story told of the painter Astley...
    Comc 8.172 1 The Persians have a pleasant story of Tamerlane...
    QO 8.180 27 Rabelais is the source of many a proverb, story and jest...
    QO 8.181 25 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society,-that every talker helps a story in repeating it...the same growth befalls mythology...
    QO 8.186 25 There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers, Gyge's Ring...whose omnipresence only indicates how easily a good story crosses all frontiers.
    PPo 8.243 19 ...the connection between the stanzas of [the Persians'] longer odes is much like that between the refrain of our old English ballads...and the main story.
    Insp 8.270 13 They...cut off [the aboriginal man's] tail, set him on end, sent him to school and made him pay taxes, before he could begin to write his sad story...
    Dem1 10.14 14 Let me add one more example of the same good sense in a story quoted out of Hecateus of Abdera...
    PerF 10.80 9 There was a story in the journals of a poor prisoner in a Western police-court...
    PerF 10.82 13 The story of Orpheus, of Arion, of the Arabian minstrel, are not fables...
    Edc1 10.140 9 The young giant, brown from his hunting-tramp, tells his story well...
    Prch 10.229 25 It is the old story again: once we had wooden chalices and golden priests, now we have golden chalices and wooden priests.
    MoL 10.253 13 There is a proverb that Napoleon, when the Mameluke cavalry approached the French lines, ordered the grenadiers to the front, and the asses and the savans to fall into the hollow square. It made a good story...
    Plu 10.297 15 [Plutarch] is, among prose writers, what Chaucer is among English poets, a repertory for those who want the story without searching for it at first hand...
    Plu 10.318 11 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or verse,-there will Plutarch, who told the story of Leonidas, of Agesilaus...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.
    LLNE 10.364 6 No friend who knew Margaret Fuller could recognize her rich and brilliant genius under the dismal mask which the public fancied was meant for her in that disagreeable story [Blithedale Romance].
    EzRy 10.386 1 ...in passing each house [Ezra Ripley] told the story of the family that lived in it...
    EzRy 10.387 8 [Ezra Ripley] used to tell the story of one of his old friends, the minister of Sudbury...
    EzRy 10.392 12 We remember the remark of a gentleman who listened with much delight to [Ezra Ripley's] conversation...that a man who could tell a story so well was company for kings and John Quincy Adams.
    SlHr 10.441 26 ...a plain way [Samuel Hoar] had of putting his statement with all his might, and now and then borrowing the aid of a good story...
    Thor 10.457 11 ...a young girl...sharply asked [Thoreau], Whether his lecture would be a nice, interesting story...
    Carl 10.489 24 [Carlyle] has...the strong religious tinge you sometimes find in burly people. That, and all his qualities, have a certain virulence, coupled though it be in his case with the utmost impatience of Christendom and Jewdom and all existing presentments of the good old story.
    LS 11.14 22 ...the import of [St. Paul's] expression is that he had received the story [of the Last Supper] of an eye-witness such as we also possess.
    HDC 11.72 27 A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this town [Concord], by order of the Provincial Committee of Safety. It was to destroy those stores that the troops who were attacked in this town, on the 19th April, 1775, were sent hither by General Gage. The story of that day is well known.
    EWI 11.104 22 ...a good man or woman...once in a while saw these injuries [to West Indian slaves] and had the indiscretion to tell of them. The horrid story ran and flew;...
    EWI 11.107 14 Public attention...was drawn that way [to the West Indies], and the methods of the stealing and the transportation [of slaves] from Africa became noised abroad. The Quakers got the story.
    AKan 11.259 5 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years...
    TPar 11.288 21 ...[the next generation] will read very intelligently in [Theodore Parker's] rough story...what part was taken by each actor [in Boston];...
    HCom 11.344 9 A single company in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard. You all know as well as I the story of these dedicated men...
    Koss 11.397 12 ...it is the privilege of the people of this town [Concord] to keep a hallowed mound which has a place in the story of the country;...
    Koss 11.401 2 You [Kossuth] have got your story told in every palace and log hut and prairie camp, throughout the continent.
    FRO2 11.489 15 ...do not attempt to elevate [the lesson of the New Testament] out of humanity, by saying, This was not a man, for then you confound it with the fables of every popular religion, and my distrust of the story makes me distrust the doctrine as soon as it differs from my own belief.
    FRO2 11.489 18 Whoever thinks a story gains by the prodigious...robs it more than he adds.
    Mem 12.98 5 [The orator] has an old story, an odd circumstance, that illustrates the point he is now proving, and is better than an argument.
    CInt 12.125 12 In the romance Spiridion...we had...the story of a young saint who comes into a convent for her education...
    MAng1 12.230 7 [Michelangelo's paintings are in the Sistine Chapel, of which he first covered the ceiling with the story of the Creation...
    MLit 12.328 27 ...we may here set down...the impressions recently awakened in us by the story of Wilhelm Meister.
    WSL 12.344 23 [Landor]...serenely enjoys the victory of Nature over fortune. Not only the elaborated story of Normanby, but the whimsical selection of his heads proves this taste.
    AgMs 12.360 25 The story [in the Agricultural Survey] of the farmer's daughter, whom education had spoiled for everything useful on a farm,- that is good, too...
    EurB 12.366 16 [The poet's] fable must be a good story...
    EurB 12.373 17 ...we have read Mr. Bulwer enough to see that the story is rapid and interesting;...
    EurB 12.373 22 The story of Zanoni was one of those world-fables which is so agreeable to the human imagination that it is found in some form in the language of every country...
    EurB 12.376 11 Everything good in such a story [novel of character] remains with the reader when the book is closed.

story-teller, n. (1)

    CL 12.142 18 ...a story-teller...profanes the river and the forest...

story-tellers, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.70 12 It is said that the Khans or story-tellers in Ispahan and other cities of the East, attain a controlling power over their audience...

story-telling, n. (1)

    F 6.11 27 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain...some stray taste or talent for...story-telling;...

Stoughton, Mr., n. (1)

    HDC 11.63 8 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother, Peter, was deputy from Concord, and was chosen speaker of the house of deputies in 1676. The following year, he was sent to England, with Mr. Stoughton, as agent for the Colony;...

stout, adj. (17)

    SR 2.61 21 ...all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.
    Hsm1 2.256 8 In Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage, Juletta tells the stout captain and his company,--Jul. Why, slaves, 't is in our power to hang ye./ Master. Very likely,/ 'T is in our powers, then, to be hanged, and scorn ye./
    SwM 4.110 24 I own with some regret that [Swedenborg's] printed works amount to about fifty stout octavos...
    MoS 4.160 19 We want some coat woven of elastic steel, stout as the first and limber as the second.
    MoS 4.169 1 Montaigne...is stout and solid;...
    ET4 5.65 14 [The English] are round, ruddy and handsome;...and there is a tendency to stout and powerful frames.
    ET8 5.139 27 Haldor was very stout and strong and remarkably handsome in appearances.
    ET11 5.176 8 In the same line of Warwick, the successor next but one to [Richard] Beauchamp was the stout earl of Henry VI. and Edward IV.
    Cour 7.259 19 ...the part of the leader and soul of the vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and sincere men...
    Res 8.145 8 ...[the old forester] draws his boat ashore, turns it over in a twinkling against a clump of alders with cat-briers, which keep up the lee-side, crawls under it with his comrade, and lies there till the shower is over, happy in his stout roof.
    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;...
    LLNE 10.344 10 Theodore Parker was...the stout Reformer to urge and defend every cause of humanity with and for the humblest of mankind.
    Thor 10.464 6 [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.
    Thor 10.469 24 [Thoreau] wore a straw hat, stout shoes, strong gray trousers...
    Bost 12.208 26 What public souls have lived here [in Boston]...what...stout captains...
    EurB 12.369 8 ...the spirit of literature and the modes of living and the conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question [by Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...from the lessons which the country muse taught a stout pedestrian climbing a mountain...
    Trag 12.415 23 The market-man never damned the lady because she had not paid her bill, but the stout Irishman has to take that once a month.

stouter, adj. (1)

    War 11.174 4 I regard no longer those names that so tingled in my ear. [The man of principle] is a baron of a better nobility and a stouter stomach.

stoutly, adv. (4)

    Chr1 3.99 24 ...[the ingenious man] shall stand stoutly in his place...
    ET8 5.132 12 [Young Englishmen] stoutly carry into every nook and corner of the earth their turbulent sense;...
    HDC 11.34 17 [Food the pilgrims] attain with sore travail, every one that can lift a hoe to strike into the earth standing stoutly to his labors...
    HDC 11.58 27 [King Philip] stoutly declared to the Commissioners that he would not deliver up a Wampanoag...

stoutness, n. (14)

    Prd1 2.237 15 Let [a man] front the object of his worst apprehension, and his stoutness will commonly make his fear groundless.
    Mrs1 3.123 10 In times of violence, every eminent person must fall in with many opportunities to approve his stoutness and worth;...
    MoS 4.161 18 The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have...proof...that he has evinced the temper, stoutness and the range of qualities which...entitle him to fellowship and trust.
    ET4 5.65 15 I remarked the stoutness [of the English] on my first landing at Liverpool;...
    ET7 5.121 5 On the king's birthday, when each bishop was expected to offer the king a purse of gold, Latimer gave Henry VIII. a copy of the Vulgate, with a mark at the passage, Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge; and [the English] so honor stoutness in each other that the king passed it over.
    ET7 5.122 11 The ruling passion of Englishmen in these days is a terror of humbug. In the same proportion they value honesty, stoutness, and adherence to your own.
    ET7 5.122 22 [The English] love stoutness in standing for your right...
    ET8 5.131 12 [Englishmen's] looks bespeak an invincible stoutness...
    ET8 5.131 18 Of absolute stoutness no nation has more or better examples [than England].
    ET18 5.302 24 ...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years! What dignity resting on what reality and stoutness!
    Pow 6.60 2 The second man is as good as the first,--perhaps better; but has not stoutness or stomach, as the first has...
    QO 8.183 2 The borrowing [from the past] is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness.
    FSLC 11.185 20 The learning of the universities...the stoutness of Democracy...are all combined to kidnap [the poor black boy].
    ACri 12.296 22 The Germans praise in Goethe the comfortable stoutness.

stove, n. (4)

    YA 1.388 4 In America, out-of-doors all seems a market; in-doors an air-tight stove of conventionalism.
    Bty 6.304 15 Every word has a double, treble or centuple use and meaning. What! has my stove and pepper-pot a false bottom?
    Elo1 7.68 11 ...as we must be fed and warmed before we can do any work well,--even the best,--so is this semi-animal exuberance [in the orator], like a good stove, of the first necessity in a cold house.
    LLNE 10.366 20 There was a stove in every chamber [at Brook Farm], and every one might burn as much wood as he or she would saw.

stoves, n. (3)

    MR 1.239 20 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by...stoves and down beds...
    MR 1.246 12 Sofas, ottomans, stoves, wine, game-fowl, spices, perfumes, rides, the theatre, entertainments,-all these [infirm people] want...
    Schr 10.265 5 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the mischief of books...

Stow, n. (1)

    HDC 11.30 17 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is...Stow, Hoar, Heywood, Hunt, Miles...

stowed, v. (1)

    EWI 11.110 19 ...Slave ships] carried five, six, even seven hundred stowed in a ship built so narrow as to be unsafe...

Stow's, Becky, Swamp, n. (1)

    Thor 10.480 10 ...the blockheads were not born in Concord; but who said they were? It was their unspeakable misfortune to be born in London, or Paris, or Rome; but...they did what they could, considering that they never saw...Becky Stow's Swamp;...

Strafford, Earl of [Thomas (1)

    QO 8.184 2 ...we find in Southey's Commonplace Book this said of the Earl of Strafford: I learned one rule of him, says Sir G. Radcliffe, which I think worthy to be remembered.

Strafford, Thomas Wentworth (2)

    ET8 5.139 15 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England]; Gentlemen, as Charles I. said of Strafford, whose abilities might make a prince rather afraid than ashamed in the greatest affairs of state;...
    MMEm 10.398 20 Lucy Percy...the friend of Strafford and of Pym, is thus described by Sir Toby Matthews.

straggled, v. (1)

    HDC 11.43 12 ...when, presently...parties, with grants of land, straggled into the country to truck with the Indians and to clear the land for their own benefit, the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.

straggler, n. (1)

    HDC 11.59 9 The red man may destroy here and there a straggler, as a wild beast may;...

straggling, adj. (2)

    CL 12.146 15 I know a whole district...made up of wide, straggling orchards...
    MLit 12.331 9 [Goethe]...gleans what straggling joys may yet remain out of [Fate's] ban.

straight, adj. (21)

    Nat 1.25 16 Right means straight;...
    MN 1.201 7 ...intention might be signified by a straight line of definite length.
    MR 1.228 10 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a brave and upright man, who must find or cut a straight road to everything excellent in the earth...
    Hist 2.14 27 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once more in their architecture, a beauty...limited to the straight line and the square...
    Prd1 2.239 12 Though your views are in straight antagonism to [your contemporaries], assume an identity of sentiment...
    OS 2.274 19 The soul's advances are not made by gradation, such as can be represented by motion in a straight line...
    Cir 2.313 4 [Some Petrarch or Ariosto] claps wings to the sides of all the solid old lumber of the world, and I am capable once more of choosing a straight path in theory and practice.
    Int 2.326 10 In the fog of good and evil affections it is hard for man to walk forward in a straight line.
    NMW 4.233 26 [Napoleon] would shorten a straight line to come at his object.
    ET2 5.27 13 Our good master...by incessant straight steering, never loses a rod of way.
    ET4 5.50 11 The low organizations are simplest; a mere mouth, a jelly, or a straight worm.
    ET7 5.117 20 ...[the English] require plain dealing of others. We will not have to do with a man in a mask. Let us know the truth. Draw a straight line, hit whom and where it will.
    ET11 5.182 11 The Marquis of Breadalbane rides out of his house a hundred miles in a straight line to the sea...
    Pow 6.74 10 Friends, books, pictures, lower duties, talents, flatteries, hopes,--all are distractions which cause oscillations in our giddy balloon, and make a good poise and a straight course impossible.
    Wth 6.112 23 I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.
    Bty 6.299 7 Portrait painters say that most faces and forms are irregular and unsymmetrical;...the nose not straight...
    Bty 6.301 10 If a man...can enlarge knowledge,--'t is no matter...whether his legs are straight...
    WD 7.181 2 There are no straight lines.
    PPo 8.245 21 Good is what goes on the road of Nature. On the straight way the traveller never misses.
    EzRy 10.394 1 Was a man a sot...or was there any cloud or suspicious circumstances in his behavior, the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...
    CL 12.149 25 [The Indian] knows his way in a straight line from watercourse to watercourse...

straight, adv. (14)

    Mrs1 3.134 5 ...[a gentleman's] eyes look straight forward...
    NER 3.259 25 ...I will omit this conjugating [of Greek and Latin], and go straight to affairs.
    NER 3.274 8 [Souls of great vigor] feel the poverty at the bottom of all the seeming affluence of the world. They know the speed with which they come straight through the thin masquerade...
    ET4 5.70 18 The French say that Englishmen in the street always walk straight before them like mad dogs.
    Wth 6.121 23 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight from terminus to terminus...
    DL 7.107 23 Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear from the wise gypsy who could tell straight on the real fortunes of the man;...
    OA 7.330 10 The day comes...when the brave speech returns straight to the hero who said it;...
    PPo 8.246 25 On turnpikes of wonder/ Wine leads the mind forth,/ Straight, sidewise and upward,/ West, southward and north./
    Aris 10.41 7 An aristocracy is composed of simple and sincere men...who say what they mean and go straight to their objects.
    Edc1 10.159 5 Work straight on in absolute duty, and you lend an arm and an encouragement to all the youth of the universe.
    Supl 10.169 20 The poor countryman, having no circumstance of carpets... wine and dancing in his head to confuse him, is able to look straight at you...
    Supl 10.169 21 The poor countryman, having no circumstance of carpets... wine and dancing in his head to confuse him, is able to look straight at you... and he sees whether you see straight also...
    EzRy 10.391 27 [Ezra Ripley] had a foresight, when he opened his mouth, of all that he would say, and he marched straight to the conclusion.
    PLT 12.63 19 The superiority of the man is...that he has no obstruction, but looks straight at the pure fact...

straighten, v. (1)

    ChiE 11.473 12 ...[Confucius]...met the ingrained prudence of his nation by saying always, Bend one cubit to straighten eight.

straightens, v. (1)

    SR 2.59 7 See the [zigzag] line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

straighter, adj. (1)

    Pow 6.82 10 A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin...and you shall not...fear that any honest thread, or straighter steel, or more inflexible shaft, will not testify in the web.

straightforward, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.212 8 Even well-disposed, good sort of people...for brave, straightforward action, use half-measures...

straightway, adv. (3)

    ShP 4.219 3 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...
    QO 8.196 1 ...Hallam...distinguishes a lyric of Edwards or Vaux, and straightway it commends itself to us...
    LLNE 10.353 13 ...it would be better to say, Let us be lovers and servants of that which is just, and straightway every man becomes a centre of a holy and beneficent republic...

strain, n. (34)

    LE 1.177 16 How can [the scholar] catch and keep the strain of upper music that peals from [human life]?
    MN 1.200 13 ...like a strain of music...[the dance of the hours] is inexact and boundless.
    MN 1.210 21 ...the wish to be recognized as individuals,-is finite, comes of a lower strain.
    Hist 2.2 4 I am owner of the sphere,/ .../ Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakspeare's strain./
    Hist 2.16 10 ...there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the books of all ages.
    SR 2.53 6 I much prefer that [my life] should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal...
    SL 2.165 16 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought, emotion as pure...these all are his...
    Prd1 2.235 14 Let [a man] learn a prudence of a higher strain.
    Hsm1 2.256 7 Socrates's condemnation of himself to be maintained in all honor in the Prytaneum, during his life, and Sir Thomas More's playfulness at the scaffold, are of the same strain.
    OS 2.273 6 ...in languor, give us a strain of poetry...and we are refreshed;...
    OS 2.280 20 ...[the soul] also reveals truth. And here we should seek to reinforce ourselves by its very presence, and to speak with a worthier, loftier strain of that advent.
    OS 2.289 11 Shakspeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own;...
    SwM 4.143 24 [Swedenborg] knew the grammar and rudiments of the Mother-Tongue,--how could he not read off one strain into music?
    GoW 4.266 20 If I were to compare action of a much higher strain with a life of contemplation, I should not venture to pronounce with much confidence in favor of the former.
    ET4 5.60 1 The early [Norse] Sagas are sanguinary and piratical; the later are of a noble strain.
    Ctr 6.143 1 Archery, cricket, gun and fishing-rod, horse and boat, are all educators, liberalizers; and so are dancing, dress and the street talk; and provided only the boy...is of a noble and ingenuous strain, these will not serve him less than the books.
    DL 7.102 3 Spirits of a higher strain/ Who sought thee once shall seek again./
    Farm 7.143 12 Nature works on a method of all for each and each for all. The strain that is made on one point bears on every arch and foundation of the structure.
    OA 7.316 1 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home...Cicero' s famous essay [De Senectute]...rising at the conclusion to a lofty strain.
    PI 8.52 2 With...the first strain of a song, we quit the world of common sense...
    PI 8.55 2 Try this strain of Beaumont and Fletcher...
    PI 8.56 26 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise to a loftier strain...
    PI 8.75 11 Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
    SA 8.86 14 In man or woman, the face and the person lose power when they are on the strain to express admiration.
    PerF 10.83 25 ...[the world's energies] work together on a system of mutual aid...the strain made on one point bears on every arch and foundation of the structure.
    Supl 10.174 24 Nor is there in Nature itself any swell, any brag, any strain or shock...
    Schr 10.262 13 I do not now refer to that intellectual conscience which... gives us many twinges for our sloth and unfaithfulness:-the influence I speak of is of a higher strain.
    Schr 10.265 7 ...[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...this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...
    HDC 11.80 1 The Town Records show how slowly the inhabitants [of Concord] recovered from the strain of excessive exertion [during the Revolution].
    Koss 11.398 9 [The people of Concord] wish to reserve our honor for actions of the noblest strain.
    FRep 11.524 23 These [the good and wise] we just join to wake, for these are of the strain/ That justice dare defend, and will the age maintain./
    PLT 12.36 5 [Pan] could intoxicate by the strain of his shepherd's pipe...
    Milt1 12.277 14 [Milton's] own conviction it is which gives such authority to his strain.
    AgMs 12.363 22 In this strain the Farmer [Edmund Hosmer] proceeded...

strain, v. (5)

    LE 1.171 12 It looks as if [the French Eclectics] had all truth, in taking all the systems, and had nothing to do but to sift and wash and strain...
    Prd1 2.234 25 ...timber...if laid up high and dry, will strain, warp and dry-rot;...
    SwM 4.131 22 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that...was formed of angelic spirits, that he might descend safely amongst the unhappy, and witness the vastation of souls and hear there...their lamentations; he saw their tormentors, who increase and strain pangs to infinity;...
    MoS 4.167 14 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] I...think...plain topics where I do not need to strain myself and pump my brains, the most suitable.
    Pow 6.61 27 Personal power, freedom, and the resources of nature strain every faculty of every citizen.

strained, adj. (3)

    Bhr 6.178 24 ...there is no end to the catalogue of [the eye's] performances, whether in indolent vision (that of health and beauty), or in strained vision (that of art and labor).
    Suc 7.302 3 Ah! if one could...find the day and its cheap means contenting, which only ask receptivity in you, and no strained exertion and cankering ambition...
    Mem 12.109 20 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...so that what one had painfully held by strained attention and recapitulation now falls into place...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...

strained, v. (3)

    ShP 4.202 26 Ben Jonson, though we have strained his few words of regard and panegyric, had no suspicion of the elastic fame whose first vibrations [Shakespeare] was attempting.
    NMW 4.230 2 ...[Bonaparte's] whole talent is strained by endless manoeuvre and evolution...
    ET2 5.26 22 At last...the storm came, the winds blew, and we flew before a northwester which strained every rope and sail.

straining, adj. (1)

    Supl 10.164 24 'T is very wearisome, this straining talk...

straining, n. (2)

    MN 1.218 24 ...when Genius arrives...it has no straining to describe...
    MN 1.218 25 ...when Genius arrives...it has no straining to describe, more than there is straining in nature to exist.

strains, n. (10)

    UGM 4.20 20 ...if persons and things are scores of a celestial music, let us read off the strains.
    PPh 4.49 15 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being. This tendency finds its highest expression...chiefly...in the Vedas, the Bhagavat Geeta, and the Vishnu Purana. Those writings contain little else than this idea, and they rise to pure and sublime strains in celebrating it.
    GoW 4.284 5 There are nobler strains in poetry than any [Goethe] has sounded.
    Boks 7.198 12 You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in Homer...the poet converted to a philosopher, with loftier strains of musical wisdom than Homer reached;...
    PI 8.49 7 ...the elemental forces have their...their own grand strains of harmony...
    PI 8.54 27 ...the masters sometimes rise above themselves to strains which charm their readers...
    Thor 10.474 18 [Thoreau] thought the best of music was in single strains;...
    Milt1 12.261 3 ...soaring into unattempted strains, [Milton] made [English] capable of an unknown majesty...
    MLit 12.321 4 ...the interest of the poem [Wordsworth's The Excursion] ended almost with the narrative of the influences of Nature on the mind of the Boy, in the First Book. Obviously for that passage the poem was written, and with the exception of this and of a few strains of the like character in the sequel, the whole poem was dull.
    PPr 12.390 2 Plato is the purple ancient, and Bacon and Milton the moderns of the richest strains.

strains, v. (1)

    ET3 5.39 16 The only drawback on this industrial conveniency [in England] is the darkness of its sky. The night and day are too nearly of a color. It strains the eyes to read and to write.

strait, adj. (3)

    Con 1.322 1 [The sagacious] detect the falsehood of the preaching, but when they say so, all good citizens cry...do not take off the strait jacket from dangerous persons.
    SR 2.80 17 If [unbalanced minds] are honest and do well, presently their neat new pinfold will be too strait and low...
    Clbs 7.224 1 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./

strait, n. (2)

    YA 1.370 1 ...now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind...
    ET3 5.41 21 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...cutting off...a territory...so near that it can see the harvests of the continent, and so far that who would cross the strait must be an expert mariner...

Strait of Gibraltar, n. (1)

    PerF 10.74 12 If a straw be held still in the direction of the ocean-current, the sea will pour through it as through Gibraltar.

Strait of Magellan, n. (1)

    War 11.158 14 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world, entering in at the Strait of Magellan, and returning by the Cape of Buena Esperanca;...

Strait [Straits], Behring's (1)

    ET5 5.91 13 The [English] Admiralty sent out the Arctic expeditions year after year, in search of Sir John Franklin, until at last they have threaded their way through polar pack and Behring's Straits...

straitened, v. (1)

    YA 1.373 18 It is because Nature thus saves and uses, laboring for the general, that we poor particulars are so crushed and straitened...

straitest, adj. (1)

    CSC 10.374 13 The singularity and latitude of the summons [to the Chardon Street Convention] drew together...men of every shade of opinion from the straitest orthodoxy to the wildest heresy...

strait-jacket, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.385 21 ...if [Ezra Ripley] made his forms a strait-jacket to others, he wore the same himself all his years.

Straits of Dover, n. (1)

    ACri 12.295 16 ...if the English island had been larger and the Straits of Dover wider, to keep it at pleasure a little out of the imbroglio of Europe, they might have managed to feed on Shakspeare for some ages yet;...

Strand, London, England, n. (2)

    ET1 5.3 9 ...I remember the pleasure of that first walk on English ground... from the Tower up through Cheapside and the Strand...
    CL 12.154 26 It was said of [Samuel Johnson] that he preferred the Strand to the Garden of the Hesperides.

strands, n. (3)

    MN 1.207 22 [a man] cannot read, or think, or look but he unites the hitherto separated strands into a perfect cord.
    PPh 4.55 19 Our strength is transitional, alternating; or, shall I say, a thread of two strands.
    QO 8.178 23 There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands [old and new].

strang, adj. (1)

    QO 8.186 5 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers-Thou art roaring ower loud, Clyde water,/ Thy streams are ower strang;/...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...

strange, adj. (69)

    AmS 1.86 10 The ambitious soul...one after another reduces all strange consitutions...
    AmS 1.96 1 A strange process too, this by which experience is converted into thought...
    DSA 1.138 23 It seemed strange that the people should come to church.
    LE 1.168 17 The man who...rambles in the woods, seems to be the first man that ever...entered a grove, his sensations and his world are so novel and strange.
    Con 1.312 4 ...to thy industry and thrift and small condescension to the established usage,-scores of servants are swarming in every strange place... to thy command;...
    Tran 1.332 21 ...[the materialist] will perceive that his mental fabric is built up on just as strange and quaking foundations as his proud edifice of stone.
    Tran 1.344 24 [Transcendentalists] make us feel the strange disappointment which overcasts every human youth.
    Tran 1.345 4 'T is strange, but this masterpiece is the result of such an extreme delicacy that the most unobserved flaw in the boy will neutralize the most aspiring genius, and spoil the work.
    Tran 1.355 13 [Our virtue's respresentatives] are still liable to that slight taint of burlesque which in our strange world attaches to the zealot.
    YA 1.392 18 ...it is not strange that our youths and maidens should burn to see the picturesque extremes of an antiquated country.
    Hist 2.29 27 [The advancing man] finds that the poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible situations...
    SR 2.68 26 ...when you have life in yourself...the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new.
    Lov1 2.174 17 ...here is a strange fact;...
    Hsm1 2.260 18 ...congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
    Int 2.333 19 Perhaps, if we should meet Shakspeare we should...be conscious...only that he possessed a strange skill of using, of classifying his facts, which we lacked.
    Pt1 3.39 21 ...the poet knows well that [what he says] not his; that it is as strange and beautiful to him as to you;...
    Chr1 3.105 7 Thence [from character] comes a new intellectual exaltation, to be again rebuked by some new exhibition of character. Strange alternation of attraction and repulsion!
    Mrs1 3.128 1 Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue.
    Pol1 3.221 1 What is strange too, there never was in any man sufficient faith in the power of rectitude to inspire him with the broad design of renovating the State on the principle of right and love.
    NR 3.244 10 ...men feign themselves dead...and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.
    NER 3.269 4 Is it strange that society should be devoured by a secret melancholy...
    NER 3.270 8 When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened...
    PPh 4.74 8 This hard-headed humorist [Socrates], whose strange conceits, drollery and bonhommie diverted the young patricians...turns out...to have a probity as invincible as his logic...
    PPh 4.75 16 The strange synthesis in the character of Socrates capped the synthesis in the mind of Plato.
    SwM 4.115 20 Was it strange that a genius so bold [as Swedenborg] should take the last step also, should conceive that he might attain the science of all sciences...
    SwM 4.126 19 [Swedenborg] almost justifies his claim to preternatural vision, by strange insights of the structure of the human body and mind.
    SwM 4.142 11 Strange, scholastic, didactic, passionless, bloodless man [Swedenborg], who denotes classes of souls as a botanist disposes of a carex...
    MoS 4.151 9 It is not strange that these men [predisposed to morals]... should affirm disdainfully the superiority of ideas.
    NMW 4.246 8 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!...
    GoW 4.271 17 What is strange too, [Goethe] lived in a small town...
    ET2 5.31 16 Classics which at home are drowsily read, have a strange charm in a country inn...
    ET4 5.50 2 ...all our experience is of the gradation and resolution of races, and strange resemblances meet us everywhere.
    ET9 5.152 15 ...this precious knave [George of Cappadocia] became, in good time, Saint George of England...the pride of the best blood of the modern world. Strange, that the solid truth-speaking Briton should derive from an impostor.
    ET9 5.152 16 ...this precious knave [George of Cappadocia] became, in good time, Saint George of England...the pride of the best blood of the modern world. Strange, that the solid truth-speaking Briton should derive from an impostor. Strange, that the New World should have no better luck...
    ET13 5.218 12 It was strange to hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with circumstantiality in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848...
    ET16 5.277 1 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked round the stones [at Stonehenge] and clambered over them, to wont ourselves with their strange aspect...
    ET19 5.311 8 It is this [sense of right and wrong] which lies at the foundation of that aristocratic character, which certainly wanders into strange vagaries...but which, if it should lose this, would find itself paralyzed;...
    F 6.41 14 ...as we do in dreams, with equanimity, the most absurd acts, so a drop more of wine in our cup of life will reconcile us to strange company and work.
    Pow 6.59 7 When a new boy comes into school...that happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the new-comer...
    Wsp 6.232 11 It is strange that superior persons should not feel that they have some better resistance against cholera than avoiding green peas and salads.
    CbW 6.267 20 ...'t is strange how tenaciously we cling to that bell-astronomy of a protecting domestic horizon.
    CbW 6.270 11 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household] are soon perverted...into...repairers of this one malefactor; like a boat about to be overset, or a carriage run away with...everybody on board is forced to assume strange and ridiculous attitudes, to balance the vehicle and prevent the upsetting.
    Boks 7.211 6 [Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy] is an inventory to remind us how many classes and species of facts exist, in observing into what strange and multiplex byways learning has strayed, to infer our opulence.
    OA 7.323 14 It were strange if a man should turn his sixtieth year without a feeling of immense relief from the number of dangers he has escaped.
    PI 8.6 16 ...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind; its strange suggestions and laws;...
    Comc 8.172 14 Timur saw himself in the mirror and found his face quite too ugly. Therefore he began to weep; Chodscha also set himself to weep; and so they wept for two hours. On this, some courtiers...entertained [Timur] with strange stories in order to make him forget all about it.
    Imtl 8.348 1 It is strange that Jesus is esteemed by mankind the bringer of the doctrine of immortality.
    Dem1 10.4 27 When newly awaked from lively dreams...give us...one hint, and we should repossess the whole; hours of this strange entertainment would come trooping back to us;...
    Dem1 10.5 3 There is a strange wilfulness in the speed with which [a dream] disperses and baffles our grasp.
    Dem1 10.18 27 ...[demonic individuals] are not to be conquered save by the universe itself, against which they have taken up arms. Out of such experiences doubtless arose the strange, monstrous proverb, Nobody against God but God.
    Aris 10.60 25 The Golden Table never lacks members; all its seats are kept full; but with this strange provision, that the members are carefully withdrawn into deep niches...
    Chr2 10.103 2 ...the memory and tradition of such a [steadfast] leader is preserved in some strange way by those who only half understand him...
    Edc1 10.132 16 Day creeps after day, each full of facts, dull, strange, despised things, that we cannot enough despise...
    Edc1 10.154 8 The advantages of this system of emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...that it is not strange that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.
    Schr 10.261 17 ...in coming among strange faces we find that the love of letters makes us friends...
    Schr 10.261 18 ...in strange thoughts...we find with some surprise that learning and truth and beauty have not let us go;...
    Plu 10.293 6 Strange that the writer of so many illustrious biographies [as Plutarch] should wait so long for his own.
    LLNE 10.349 16 One could not but be struck with strange coincidences betwixt Fourier and Swedenborg.
    MMEm 10.425 6 'T is a strange deficiency in Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology, when the moral constitution of the being for whom these contrivances were made is not recognized.
    HDC 11.38 24 The landscape before [the settlers of Concord] was fair, if it was strange and rude.
    FSLN 11.219 18 ...it was strange to see that office, age, fame, talent...all count for nothing.
    SMC 11.357 24 One [volunteer] wrote to his father these words: You may think it strange that I, who have always naturally rather shrunk from danger, should wish to enter the army;...
    Wom 11.411 27 For [woman] the seas their pearls reveal,/ Art and strange lands her pomp supply/ With purple, chrome and cochineal,/ Ochre and lapis lazuli./
    PLT 12.8 23 ...was there ever prophet burdened with a message to his people who did not cloud our gratitude by a strange confounding in his own mind of private folly with his public wisdom?
    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.
    Bost 12.193 2 The divine will descends into the barbarous mind in some strange disguise;...
    WSL 12.348 17 [Landor's] books are a strange mixture of politics, etymology, allegory, sentiment and personal history;...
    EurB 12.372 9 ...it is strange that one of the best poems [Abou ben Adhem] should be written by a man [Leigh Hunt] who has hardly written any other.
    PPr 12.390 4 Carlyle, in his strange, half-mad way, has entered the Field of the Cloth of Gold...

strangely, adv. (10)

    Nat 1.50 17 We are strangely affected by seeing the shore from a moving ship...
    Nat 1.72 3 ...sometimes [man]...muses strangely at the resemblance betwixt himself and [his house].
    Cir 2.311 15 The facts which loomed so large in the fogs of yesterday... have strangely changed their proportions.
    SwM 4.123 10 [Swedenborg] is superfluously explanatory, and his feeling of the ignorance of men, strangely exaggerated.
    MoS 4.179 25 Men are strangely mistimed and misapplied;...
    ET1 5.9 26 Landor is strangely undervalued in England;...
    OA 7.330 2 We have an admirable line worthy of Horace...but have searched all probable and improbable books for it in vain. We consult the reading men: but, strangely enough, they who know everything know not this.
    Dem1 10.19 8 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...yet makes them prevailing. ... The crimes they commit...are strangely overlooked...
    Dem1 10.19 9 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...yet makes them prevailing. ... The crimes they commit...are strangely overlooked, or do more strangely turn to their account.
    CL 12.157 18 Our schools and colleges strangely neglect the general education of the eye.

strangeness, n. (2)

    Int 2.341 2 ...the poet...is one whom Nature cannot deceive, whatsoever face of strangeness she may put on.
    Mrs1 3.137 14 Lovers should guard their strangeness.

stranger, adj. (1)

    PerF 10.77 16 Certain thoughts, certain observations...would be my capital if I removed to Spain or China, or, by stranger translation, to the planet Jupiter or Mars...

stranger, n. (34)

    SR 2.46 6 ...to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time...
    SL 2.158 6 A stranger comes from a distant school, with better dress...
    Fdsp 2.192 7 See, in any house where virtue and self-respect abide, the palpitation which the approach of a stranger causes.
    Fdsp 2.192 8 A commended stranger is expected and announced...
    Fdsp 2.192 15 Of a commended stranger, only the good report is told by others...
    Fdsp 2.193 4 ...as soon as the stranger begins to intrude his partialities... into the conversation, it is all over.
    Fdsp 2.193 8 ...as soon as the stranger begins to intrude...his defects, into the conversation, it is all over. He has heard the first, the last and best he will ever hear from us. He is no stranger now.
    Fdsp 2.209 22 To a great heart [your friend] will still be a stranger in a thousand particulars...
    Hsm1 2.245 7 When any Rodrigo, Pedro or Valerio enters [in the plays of the elder English dramatists], though he be a stranger, the duke or governor exclaims, This is a gentleman...
    Hsm1 2.254 2 ...they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger... do, as it were, put God under obligation to them...
    SwM 4.110 15 These grand rhymes or returns in nature,--the dear, best-known face startling us at every turn, under a mask so unexpected that we think it the face of a stranger...delighted the prophetic eye of Swedenborg;...
    ET6 5.113 12 It is the mode of doing honor to a stranger [in England], to invite him to eat...
    ET9 5.146 11 ...the ordinary phrases in all good society, of postponing or disparaging one's own things in talking with a stranger, are seriously mistaken by [the English] for an insuppressible homage to the merits of their nation;...
    Wth 6.85 1 As soon as a stranger is introduced into any company, one of the first questions which all wish to have answered, is, How does that man get his living?
    Bhr 6.176 19 Every man...looks with confidence for some traits and talents in his own child which he would not dare to presume in the child of a stranger.
    Bhr 6.196 7 It is good to give a stranger a meal...
    DL 7.114 8 ...we desire to play the benefactor and the prince...with the stranger at the gate...
    DL 7.119 1 ...let this stranger...in your looks, in your accent and behavior, read your heart and earnessness...
    Boks 7.209 9 ...tender readers have a great pudency in showing their books to a stranger.
    Clbs 7.241 24 ...the simple lover of truth...finds himself a stranger and alien.
    SA 8.84 13 When a stranger comes to buy goods of you, do you not look in his face and answer according to what you read there?
    QO 8.192 4 ...Voltaire usually imitated, but with such superiority that Dubuc said: He is like the false Amphitryon; although the stranger, it is always he who has the air of being master of the house.
    Schr 10.261 5 A stranger but yesterday to every person present, I find myself already at home...
    Schr 10.261 12 Literary men gladly acknowledge these ties which find for the homeless and the stranger a welcome where least looked for.
    Plu 10.315 25 A brother, embroiled with his brother, going to seek in the street a stranger who can take his place, resembles him who will cut off his foot to give himself one of wood.
    MMEm 10.407 20 [Mary Moody Emerson] would tear...into the conversation, into the thought, into the character of the stranger,- disdaining all the graduation by which her fellows time their steps...
    Thor 10.463 24 One day, walking with a stranger, who inquired where Indian arrow-heads could be found, [Thoreau] replied, Everywhere...
    GSt 10.506 19 For a year or two, the most affectionate and domestic of men [George Stearns] became almost a stranger in his beautiful home.
    CPL 11.503 24 Every one of us is always in search of his friend, and when unexpectedly he finds a stranger enjoying the rare poet or thinker who is dear to his own solitude,-it is like finding a brother.
    CInt 12.125 8 ...unless...the professor has a generous sympathy with genius...the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
    MAng1 12.241 4 [Condivi wrote] As for me...this I know very well...that [Michelangelo's] own nature is a stranger to depravity.
    MAng1 12.244 16 The traveller from a distant continent, who gazes on that marble brow [bust of Michelangelo], feels that he is not a stranger in the foreign church;...
    MLit 12.313 14 Accustomed always to behold the presence of the universe in every part, the soul will not condescend to look at any new part as a stranger...
    Let 12.401 21 Where a people honors genius in its artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul...all hearts become pious and great, and it adds fire to heroes. The home of all men is with such a people, and there will the stranger gladly abide.

strangers, n. (31)

    Nat 1.65 9 We are as much strangers in nature as we are aliens from God.
    MN 1.197 8 We can never be quite strangers or inferiors in nature.
    Lov1 2.172 15 Perhaps we never saw [the lovers] before and never shall meet them again. But we see them...betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers.
    Fdsp 2.194 15 ...as many thoughts in succession substantiate themselves, we shall by and by stand...no longer strangers and pilgrims in a traditionary globe.
    Hsm1 2.253 8 Citizens...consider the inconvenience of receiving strangers at their fireside...
    Hsm1 2.253 21 Strangers may present themselves at any hour and in whatever number;...
    Int 2.340 24 We talk with accomplished persons who appear to be strangers in nature.
    Art1 2.360 26 ...in my younger days...I fancied the great pictures would be great strangers;...
    Exp 3.63 18 We fancy that we are strangers, and not so intimately domesticated in the planet as the wild man and the wild beast and bird.
    Nat2 3.171 12 ...ever like a dear friend and brother when we chat affectedly with strangers, comes in this honest face [of nature], and takes a grave liberty with us...
    PPh 4.73 8 ...under his hypocritical pretence of knowing nothing, [Socrates] attacks and brings down...all the fine philosophers of Athens, whether natives or strangers from Asia Minor and the islands.
    ET5 5.92 25 [The English] have made...London a shop, a law-court, a record-office and scientific bureau, inviting to strangers;...
    ET6 5.105 17 In a company of strangers you would think [the Englishman] deaf;...
    Pow 6.59 4 ...when a man travels and encounters strangers every day...that happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the new-comer...
    Ctr 6.151 9 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Goethe, who preferred trifling subjects and common expressions in intercourse with strangers...
    Bhr 6.174 8 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution to strangers not to speak loud;...
    Bhr 6.179 10 The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.
    Ill 6.323 11 At the top or at the bottom of all illusions, I set the cheat which still leads us to work and live for appearances; in spite of our conviction, in all sane hours, that it is what we really are that avails with friends, with strangers, and with fate or fortune.
    Boks 7.190 22 A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible...but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.
    SA 8.89 17 ...now and then we say things to our mates, or hear things from them, which seem to put it out of the power of the parties to be strangers again.
    Insp 8.278 8 The depth of the notes which we accidentally sound on the strings of Nature...might teach us what strangers and novices we are...
    Chr2 10.120 5 [Character]...domesticates itself with strangers and enemies.
    HDC 11.27 7 Where are these men? asleep beneath their grounds:/ And strangers, fond as they, their furrows plough./
    EdAd 11.382 8 Our eyes/ Are armed, but we are strangers to the stars,/ And strangers to the mystic beast and bird,/ And strangers to the plant and to the mine./
    EdAd 11.382 9 Our eyes/ Are armed, but we are strangers to the stars,/ And strangers to the mystic beast and bird,/ And strangers to the plant and to the mine./
    EdAd 11.382 10 Our eyes/ Are armed, but we are strangers to the stars,/ And strangers to the mystic beast and bird,/ And strangers to the plant and to the mine./
    CPL 11.496 9 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...offering a strong attraction to strangers who are seeking a country home to sit down here.
    PLT 12.5 10 In geology, vast duration, but we are never strangers.
    Bost 12.211 14 [Boston] has grown great. She is filled with strangers, but she can only prosper by adhering to her faith.
    Let 12.400 18 It is heartrending to see your [German] poet, your artist, and all who still revere genius, who love and foster the Beautiful. The Good! They live in the world as strangers in their own house;...
    Trag 12.413 3 When two strangers meet in the highway, what each demands of the other is that the aspect should show a firm mind...

stranger's, n. (1)

    Wom 11.403 7 ...there in the parlor sits/ Some figure in noble guise,-/ Our Angel in a stranger's form;/ Or Woman's pleading eyes./

strangest, adj. (3)

    GoW 4.286 22 ...certain love affairs [of Goethe] that came to nothing, as people say, have the strangest importance...
    Clbs 7.247 3 [Manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters] have found virtue in the strangest homes;...
    RBur 11.443 12 The memory of Burns,-every man's, every boy's and girl' s head carries snatches of his songs, and they say them by heart, and, what is strangest of all, never learned them from a book...

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