Thoulouse [Toulouse] to Ticonderoga

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

Thoulouse [Toulouse], Franc (2)

    Bty 6.296 26 ...the citizens of her native city of Toulouse obtained the aid of the civil authorities to compel [Pauling de Viguier] to appear publicly on the balcony at least twice a week...
    Bty 6.297 21 ...why need we console ourselves with the fames of Helen of Argos...or Pauline of Toulouse...

thousand, adj. (243)

    Nat 1.7 13 If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore;...
    Nat 1.10 1 ...the guest sees not how he should tire of [these plantations of God] in a thousand years.
    Nat 1.54 1 ...this power which [the poet] exerts to dwarf the great, to magnify the small, - might be illustrated by a thousand examples from [Shakspeare's] Plays.
    AmS 1.82 8 Who can doubt that poetry will...lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp...astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand years?
    AmS 1.85 19 ...[the young mind] finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand;...
    AmS 1.108 21 [The universal mind] is one light which beams out of a thousand stars.
    DSA 1.140 11 ...[the poor preacher's] face is suffused with shame, to propose to his parish that they should send money a hundred or a thousand miles...
    DSA 1.140 13 ...[the poor preacher's] face is suffused with shame, to propose to his parish that they should send money...to furnish such poor fare as they...would do well to go the hundred or thousand miles to escape.
    DSA 1.142 11 ...scarcely in a thousand years does any man dare to be wise and good...
    LE 1.186 1 When you shall say...I must eat the good of the land and let learning and romantic expectations go...then once more perish the buds of art...as they have died already in a thousand thousand men.
    MN 1.192 15 There is in each of these works...an intellectual step...taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.
    MN 1.222 25 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character...as...the gnarled oak to live a thousand years is the arrest and fixation of the most volatile and ethereal currents.
    MR 1.229 22 The fact that a new thought and hope have dawned in your breast, should apprize you that in the same hour a new light broke in upon a thousand private hearts.
    MR 1.252 7 Our age and history, for these thousand years, has not been the history of kindness...
    LT 1.270 2 The Temperance-question, which rides the conversation of ten thousand circles...is a gymnastic training to the casuistry and conscience of the time.
    LT 1.287 4 Every age has a thousand sides and signs and tendencies...
    LT 1.289 21 The granite is curiously concealed under a thousand formations and surfaces...
    Con 1.297 7 ...Saturn...went on making oysters for a thousand years.
    Tran 1.350 7 Once possessed of the principle, it is equally easy to make four or forty thousand applications of it.
    YA 1.364 2 ...the locomotive and the steamboat...shoot every day across the thousand various threads of national descent and employment...
    YA 1.386 14 Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy... does not hear his call to go and be their king?
    Hist 2.4 1 The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn...
    SR 2.51 17 ...never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off.
    SL 2.143 14 The parts of hospitality...and a thousand other things, royalty makes its own estimate of, and a royal mind will.
    SL 2.144 20 ...I will go to the man who knocks at my door, whilst a thousand persons as worthy go by it, to whom I give no regard.
    SL 2.147 17 The vale of Tempe, Tivoli and Rome are earth and water, rocks and sky. There are as good earth and water in a thousand places, yet how unaffecting!
    SL 2.149 6 ...that author [Virgil] is a thousand books to a thousand persons.
    Fdsp 2.193 26 Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.
    Fdsp 2.209 22 To a great heart [your friend] will still be a stranger in a thousand particulars...
    OS 2.267 23 The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul.
    Int 2.344 23 I were a fool not to sacrifice a thousand Aeschyluses to my intellectual integrity.
    Art1 2.361 18 [At Naples] I...said to myself--Thou foolish child, hast thou come out hither, over four thousand miles of salt water, to find that which was perfect to thee there at home?
    Pt1 3.31 18 ...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in mean condition to fire, which, though carried to the darkest house betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus, will yet hold its natural office and burn as bright as if twenty thousand men did it behold;...
    Mrs1 3.135 22 ...Napoleon...was not great enough, with eight hundred thousand troops at his back, to face a pair of freeborn eyes...
    Mrs1 3.151 19 [Lilla] was...like air or water, an element of such a great range of affinities that it combines readily with a thousand substances.
    NR 3.223 3 In thousand far-transplanted grafts/ The parent fruit survives;/...
    NR 3.237 3 ...the sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities.
    UGM 4.12 13 In one of those celestial days when heaven and earth meet and adorn each other...we wish for a thousand heads, a thousand bodies, that we might celebrate its immense beauty in many ways and places.
    UGM 4.17 12 When [the imagination] wakes, a man seems to multiply ten times or a thousand times his force.
    PPh 4.65 23 ...in the Republic [Plato says],--By each of these disciplines a certain organ of the soul is both purified and reanimated...an organ better worth saving than ten thousand eyes...
    PPh 4.74 3 ...Meno has discoursed a thousand times, at length, on virtue...
    SwM 4.109 12 Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...ten thousand times reverberated...
    SwM 4.109 23 If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes or marries his grandmother, then in every twenty thousand or thirty thousand is found one man who eats shoes or marries his grandmother.
    SwM 4.109 24 If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes or marries his grandmother, then in every twenty thousand or thirty thousand is found one man who eats shoes or marries his grandmother.
    SwM 4.109 25 If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes or marries his grandmother, then in every twenty thousand or thirty thousand is found one man who eats shoes or marries his grandmother.
    SwM 4.109 26 If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes or marries his grandmother, then in every twenty thousand or thirty thousand is found one man who eats shoes or marries his grandmother.
    MoS 4.157 10 [The skeptic says] Why think to shut up all things in your narrow coop, when we know there are not one or two only, but ten, twenty, a thousand things, and unlike?
    ShP 4.199 24 ...what is best written or done by genius in the world...came by wide social labor, when a thousand wrought like one...
    NMW 4.238 5 At Montebello, [Napoleon said,] I ordered Kellermann to attack with eight hundred horse, and with these he separated the six thousand Hungarian grenadiers...
    GoW 4.266 14 It is believed...the running up and down to procure a company of subscribers to set a-going five or ten thousand spindles...is practical and commendable.
    GoW 4.276 1 [Goethe] hates...to be made to say over again some old wife's fable that has had possession of men's faith these thousand years.
    ET1 5.9 1 I had visited Professor Amici, who had shown me his microscopes, magnifying (it was said) two thousand diameters;...
    ET2 5.27 7 The shortest sea-line from Boston to Liverpool is 2850 miles.
    ET2 5.27 10 The shortest sea-line from Boston to Liverpool is 2850 miles. This a steamer keeps, and saves 150 miles. A sailing ship can never go in a shorter line than 3000.
    ET2 5.28 2 Our ship was registered 750 tons, and weighed perhaps, with all her freight, 1500 tons.
    ET2 5.28 15 In one week [the ship] has made 1467 miles...
    ET3 5.35 24 A nation considerable for a thousand years since Egbert, [England] has, in the last centuries, obtained the ascendent...
    ET4 5.46 3 ...it remains to be seen whether [the English] can make good the exodus of millions from Great Britain, amounting in 1852 to more than a thousand a day.
    ET4 5.60 23 Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings.
    ET5 5.101 26 ...whilst in some directions [the English] do not represent the modern spirit but constitute it;--this vanguard of civility and power they coldly hold, marching in phalanx, lockstep, foot after foot, file after file of heroes, ten thousand deep.
    ET6 5.106 19 These people [the English] have sat here a thousand years, and here they will continue to sit.
    ET6 5.110 4 [Englishmen's] leases run for a hundred and a thousand years.
    ET9 5.150 19 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...
    ET10 5.160 12 Forty thousand ships are entered in Lloyd's lists.
    ET10 5.160 15 A thousand million of pounds sterling are said to compose the floating money of commerce [of England].
    ET10 5.161 7 In Egypt, [steam] can plant forests, and bring rain after three thousand years.
    ET10 5.163 4 A hundred thousand palaces adorn the island [England].
    ET11 5.182 16 The Duke of Devonshire, besides his other estates, owns 96, 000 acres in the County of Derby.
    ET11 5.182 17 The Duke of Richmond has 40,000 acres at Goodwood and 300,000 at Gordon Castle.
    ET11 5.182 18 The Duke of Richmond has 40,000 acres at Goodwood and 300,000 at Gordon Castle.
    ET11 5.182 21 An agriculturist bought lately the island of Lewes, in Hebrides, containing 500,000 acres.
    ET11 5.183 4 In 1786 the soil of England was owned by 250,000 corporations and proprietors;...
    ET11 5.183 5 In 1786 the soil of England was owned by 250,000 corporations and proprietors; and in 1822, by 32,000.
    ET11 5.192 11 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title;...the sneer at the childish indiscretion of quarrelling with ten thousand a year;...make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
    ET11 5.193 23 [English noblemen]...keep [their houses] empty, aired, and the grounds mown and dressed, at a cost of four or five thousand pounds a year.
    ET12 5.200 24 In the reign of Edward I., it is pretended, here [at Oxford] were thirty thousand students;...
    ET12 5.202 21 In Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection at London were the cartoons of Raphael and Michael Angelo. This inestimable prize was offered to Oxford University for seven thousand pounds.
    ET12 5.202 24 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds...
    ET12 5.202 27 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds, when, among other friends, they called on Lord Eldon. Instead of a hundred pounds, he surprised them by putting down his name for three thousand pounds.
    ET12 5.203 5 ...[Lord Eldon] withdrew his cheque for three thousand, and wrote four thousand pounds.
    ET12 5.203 6 ...[Lord Eldon] withdrew his cheque for three thousand, and wrote four thousand pounds.
    ET12 5.203 17 ...one day, being in Venice [Dr. Bandinel] bought a room full of books and manuscripts...for four thousand louis d'ors...
    ET12 5.204 10 This rich library [the Bodleian] spent during the last year (1847), for the purchase of books, 1668 pounds.
    ET12 5.205 7 ...the expenses of private tuition [at Oxford] are reckoned at from 50 pounds to 70 pounds a year, or 1000 dollars for the whole course of three years and a half.
    ET12 5.205 9 At Cambridge, 750 dollars a year is economical, and 1500 dollars not extravagant.
    ET12 5.206 5 If a young American...were offered a home, a table, the walks and the library in one of these academical palaces [at Oxford], and a thousand dollars a year, as long as he chose to remain a bachelor, he would dance for joy.
    ET12 5.206 14 As the number of undergraduates at Oxford is only about 1200 or 1300...the chance of a fellowship is very great.
    ET12 5.206 17 The income of the nineteen colleges [at Oxford] is conjectured at 150,000 pounds a year.
    ET13 5.219 11 ...the clergy for a thousand years have been the scholars of the nation [England].
    ET13 5.227 10 Brougham...said...the reverend bishops...solemnly declare in the presence of God that when they are called upon to accept a living, perhaps of 4000 pounds a year, at that very instant they are moved by the Holy Ghost to accept the office and administration thereof, for no other reason whatever?
    ET14 5.232 3 A strong common sense...marks the English mind for a thousand years;...
    ET14 5.247 24 It was a curious result, in which the civility and religion of England for a thousand years ends in denying morals and reducing the intellect to a sauce-pan.
    ET14 5.252 4 Every one of [the Englishmen] is a thousand years old and lives by his memory...
    ET15 5.264 9 [The London Times] denounced and discredited the French Republic of 1848, and checked every sympathy with it in England, until it had enrolled 200,000 special constables to watch the Chartists...
    ET15 5.265 23 ...[Mowbray Morris] told us that the daily printing [of the London Times] was then 35,000 copies;...
    ET15 5.265 24 ...[Mowbray Morris] told us that the daily printing [of the London Times] was then 35,000 copies; that on the 1st March, 1848, the greatest number ever printed--54,000--were issued;...
    ET15 5.265 26 ...[Mowbray Morris] told us...that, since February, the daily circulation [of the London Times] had increased by 8000 copies.
    ET15 5.265 27 The old press [the London Times] were then using printed five or six thousand sheets per hour;...
    ET15 5.266 3 The old press [the London Times] were then using printed five or six thousand sheets per hour; the new machine, for which they were then building an engine, would print twelve thousand per hour.
    ET16 5.277 21 Over us [at Stonehenge], larks were soaring and singing;-- as my friend [Carlyle] said, the larks which were hatched last year, and the wind which was hatched many thousand years ago.
    ET16 5.279 7 ...a thousand years hence, men will thank this age for the accurate history [of Stonehenge].
    ET16 5.283 18 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.
    eT16 5.289 16 This hospitality of seven hundred years' standing [at the Church of Saint Cross] did not hinder Carlyle from pronouncing a malediction on the priest who receives 2000 pounds a year...
    ET18 5.301 21 England keeps open doors, as a trading country must, to all nations. It is one of their fixed ideas, and wrathfully supported by their laws in unbroken sequence for a thousand years.
    ET18 5.307 9 ...we must not play Providence and balance the chances of producing ten great men against the comfort of ten thousand mean men...
    ET19 5.313 6 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? And so... I feel in regard to this aged England...with the infirmities of a thousand years gathering around her...
    F 6.6 5 Yet sometime it shall fallen on a day/ That falleth not oft in a thousand yeer;/...
    F 6.7 19 At Naples three years ago ten thousand persons were crushed in a few minutes.
    F 6.15 16 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite; then a thousand ages, and a bed of slate;...
    F 6.15 17 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a measure of coal;...
    F 6.15 18 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...
    F 6.32 16 ...after cooping [the Saxon race] up for a thousand years in yonder England, [nature] gives a hundred Englands...
    Pow 6.55 23 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland. But take out Eric and put in a stronger and bolder man...and the ships will...sail...one thousand...miles further...
    Pow 6.72 6 Of the sixty thousand men making [Napoleon's] army at Eylau, it seems some thirty thousand were thieves and burglars.
    Pow 6.72 8 Of the sixty thousand men making [Napoleon's] army at Eylau, it seems some thirty thousand were thieves and burglars.
    Wth 6.90 11 The Saxons are the merchants of the world; now, for a thousand years, the leading race...
    Wth 6.115 11 [The pale scholar] stoops to pull up a purslain or a dock that is choking the young corn, and finds there are two; close behind the last is a third; he reaches out his hand to a fourth, behind that are four thousand and one.
    Wth 6.117 24 I remember in Warwickshire to have been shown a fair manor, still in the same name as in Shakspeare's time. The rent-roll I was told is some fourteen thousand pounds a year;...
    Wth 6.122 23 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...a sunset every day, bathing...the peaks of Monadnoc and Uncanoonuc. What, thirty acres, and all this magnificence for fifteen hundred dollars! It would be cheap at fifty thousand.
    CbW 6.273 3 ...He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,/ And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere./
    CbW 6.277 11 ...your theories and plans of life are fair and commendable:-- but will you stick? Not one, I fear, in that Common full of people, or in a thousand, but one...
    Bty 6.299 4 Faces...are a record in sculpture of a thousand anecdotes of whim and folly.
    Civ 7.17 28 Twirl the old wheels! Time takes fresh start again,/ On for a thousand years of genius more./
    Elo1 7.65 1 The orator sees himself the organ of a multitude, and concentrating their valors and powers:--But now the blood of twenty thousand men/ Blushed in my face./
    Elo1 7.76 27 You are safe...in the city...under the eyes of a hundred thousand people.
    Elo1 7.80 3 A barrister in England is reputed to have made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons.
    Farm 7.146 11 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles.
    WD 7.160 21 Egypt, where no rain fell for three thousand years, now, it is said, thanks Mehemet Ali's irrigations and planted forests for late-returning showers.
    WD 7.169 20 A thousand tunes the variable wind plays...
    WD 7.169 21 ...a thousand spectacles [the variable wind] brings...
    Boks 7.190 15 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.
    Boks 7.193 9 In 1858, the number of printed books in the Imperial Library at Paris was estimated at eight hundred thousand volumes...
    Boks 7.193 10 In 1858, the number of printed books in the Imperial Library at Paris was estimated at eight hundred thousand volumes, with an annual increase of twelve thousand volumes;...
    Boks 7.209 27 The bid [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] stood at five hundred guineas. A thousand guineas, said Earl Spencer.
    Boks 7.210 8 ...the contest [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] proceeded until the Marquis said, Two thousand pounds.
    Boks 7.210 15 Earl Spencer...had paused a quarter of a minute, when Lord Althorp with long steps came to his side, as if to bring his father a fresh lance to renew the fight. Father and son whispered together, and Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds!
    Boks 7.217 5 [In the novel] A thousand thoughts awoke;...
    Clbs 7.224 4 Too long shut in strait and few,/ Thinly dieted on dew,/ I will use the world, and sift it,/ To a thousand humors shift it./
    Clbs 7.244 16 It was a pathetic experience when a genial and accomplished person said to me, looking from his country home to the capital of New England, There is a town of two hundred thousand people, and not a chair for me.
    Cour 7.256 3 What an ado we make through two thousand years about Thermopylae and Salamis!
    Cour 7.270 17 ...for a settler in a new country, one good, believing, strong-minded man is worth a hundred, nay, a thousand men without character;...
    Cour 7.274 14 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates. Look...at the folios of the Brothers Bollandi, who collected the lives of twenty-five thousand martyrs, confessors, ascetics and self-tormentors.
    Suc 7.305 9 ...if [Sylvina] says [Odoacer] was defeated, why he had better a great deal have been defeated than give her a moment's annoy. Odoacer, if there was a particle of the gentleman in him, would have said, Let me be defeated a thousand times.
    OA 7.317 21 Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.
    SA 8.81 10 Though the person so clothed [in manners]...lodge in the same chamber, eat at the same table, he is yet a thousand miles off...
    Elo2 8.118 1 A worthy gentleman...went to [Dr. Hugh Blair] and offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in public.
    Res 8.143 27 The whole history of our civil war is rich in a thousand anecdotes attesting the fertility of resource...of our people.
    Res 8.147 15 ...when fear has once possessed you, God ye good even! You think you are flying towards the poop when you are running towards the prow, and for one enemy think you have ten before your eyes, as drunkards who see a thousand candles at once.
    QO 8.179 13 ...the invention of yesterday of making wood indestructible by means of vapor of coal-oil or paraffine was suggested by the Egyptian method which has preserved its mummy-cases four thousand years.
    QO 8.200 20 Every one of my writings [said Goethe] has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons...
    QO 8.200 21 Every one of my writings [said Goethe] has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things...
    PC 8.212 23 The old six thousand years of chronology become a kitchen clock...
    PC 8.219 7 ...Archimedes or Napoleon is worth for labor a thousand thousands...
    PPo 8.256 18 ...Seek not for faith or for truth in a world of light-minded girls;/ A thousand suitors reckons this dangerous bride./
    PPo 8.260 8 [Hafiz's ingenuity]...plays in a thousand pretty courtesies...
    PPo 8.261 25 While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The nightingale to the falcon said/... ...sitt'st thou on the hand of princes,/ And feedest on the grouse's breast,/ Whilst I, who hundred thousand jewels/ Squander in a single tone,/ Lo! I feed myself with worms,/ And my dwelling is the thorn./
    PPo 8.262 6 The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be all ear:/ I, experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/ But thee the people prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./
    Imtl 8.341 11 A thousand years,-tenfold, a hundredfold [the thinker's] faculties, would not suffice.
    Dem1 10.12 7 ...do [Watt and Fulton] not make an iron bar and half a dozen wheels do the work, not of one, but of a thousand skilful mechanics?
    Aris 10.29 13 Take fire and beare it into the derkest hous/ Betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it behold;/...
    Aris 10.43 21 In a thousand cups of life, only one is the right mixture...
    Aris 10.48 21 In the South a slave was bluntly but accurately valued at five hundred to a thousand dollars, if a good field-hand;...
    Aris 10.48 24 In the South a slave was bluntly but accurately valued at five hundred to a thousand dollars, if a good field-hand; if a mechanic, as carpenter or smith, twelve hundred or two thousand.
    PerF 10.71 2 The winds and the rains come back a thousand and a thousand times.
    PerF 10.74 1 ...each of a thousand petty accidents puts [man] to death every day...
    Chr2 10.118 20 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects.
    Edc1 10.126 27 For a thousand years the islands and forests of a great part of the world have been filled with savages...
    SovE 10.198 17 From the obscurity and casualty of those which I know, I infer the obscurity and casualty of the like balm and consolation and immortality in a thousand homes which I do not know...
    SovE 10.200 10 Here [a man] stands, a lonely thought harmoniously organized into correspondence with the universe of mind and matter. What narrative of wonders coming down from a thousand years ought to charm his attention like this?
    Prch 10.219 1 A thousand negatives [the oracle] utters...
    Prch 10.235 13 ...emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject;...seeing that a sentiment...is youthful after a thousand years.
    MoL 10.253 27 [Pytheas] came to the poet Pindar and wished him to write an ode in his praise, and inquired what was the price of a poem. Pindar replied that he should give him one talent, about a thousand dollars of our money.
    Schr 10.270 19 I, said the great-hearted Kepler, may well wait a hundred years for a reader, since God Almighty has waited six thousand years for an observer like myself.
    Plu 10.304 17 ...[Plutarch] says...the Sibyl, with her frantic grimaces... continues her voice a thousand years...
    LLNE 10.350 24 Your community should consist of two thousand persons, to prevent accidents of omission;...
    LLNE 10.350 26 ...each community should take up six thousand acres of land.
    LLNE 10.352 19 [Fourier]...skips the faculty of life...which makes or supplants a thousand phalanxes and New Harmonies with each pulsation.
    LLNE 10.359 3 Housekeepers say, There are a thousand things to everything...
    MMEm 10.431 27 What a timid, ungrateful creature! Fear the deepest pitfalls of age, when pressing on...to Him with whom a day is a thousand years...
    GSt 10.505 18 When one remembers...his immovable convictions,-I think this single will [George Stearns] was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    LS 11.8 7 [Jesus] may have foreseen that his disciples would meet to remember him, and that with good effect. It may have crossed his mind that this would be easily continued a hundred or a thousand years...
    LS 11.22 14 ...that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion...
    HDC 11.29 17 Who can tell how many thousand years, every day, the clouds have shaded these fields with their purple awning?
    HDC 11.41 20 In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to Governor Winthrop...
    HDC 11.41 21 In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to Governor Winthrop, and 1000 to Thomas Dudley...
    HDC 11.54 26 ...in 1640, when the colony rate was 1200 pounds, Concord was assessed 50 pounds.
    HDC 11.62 18 Before 1666, 15,000 acres had been added by grants of the General Court to the original territory of the town [Concord]...
    HDC 11.78 6 [Concord's] little population of 1300 souls behaved like a party to the contest [the American Revolution].
    HDC 11.79 6 In June [1776], the General Assembly of Massachusetts resolved to raise 5000 militia for six months...
    HDC 11.79 20 The taxes [in Concord], which, before the [Revolutionary] war, had not much exceeded 200 pounds per annum, amounted, in the year 1782, to 9544 dollars, in silver.
    HDC 11.82 14 [Concord's] population, in the census of 1830, was 2020 souls.
    HDC 11.82 16 The public expenses [of Concord], for the last year, amounted to 4290 dollars;...
    HDC 11.82 16 The public expenses [of Concord], for the last year, amounted to 4290 dollars; for the present year, 5040 dollars.
    HDC 11.82 19 The town [Concord] raises, this year, 1800 dollars for its public schools;...
    HDC 11.82 20 The town [Concord] raises, this year, 1800 dollars for its public schools; besides about 1200 dollars which are paid, by subscription, for private schools.
    LVB 11.91 7 ...out of eighteen thousand souls composing the [Cherokee] nation, fifteen thousand six hundred and sixty-eight have protested against the so-called treaty.
    LVB 11.91 8 ...out of eighteen thousand souls composing the [Cherokee] nation, fifteen thousand six hundred and sixty-eight have protested against the so-called treaty.
    EWI 11.99 21 In this cause [emancipation], no man's weakness is any prejudice; it has a thousand sons;...
    EWI 11.109 22 In 1791, three hundred thousand persons in Britain pledged themselves to abstain from all articles of [West Indian] island produce.
    EWI 11.110 12 In 1821, according to official documents presented to the American government by the Colonization Society, 200,000 slaves were deported from Africa.
    EWI 11.110 13 In 1821, according to official documents presented to the American government by the Colonization Society, 200,000 slaves were deported from Africa. Nearly 30,000 were landed in the port of Havana alone.
    EWI 11.114 11 It was feared that the interest of the master and servant [in the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them. In the island of Antigua, containing 37,000 people, 30,000 being negroes, these objections had such weight that the legislature rejected the apprenticeship system...
    EWI 11.114 12 It was feared that the interest of the master and servant [in the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them. In the island of Antigua, containing 37,000 people, 30,000 being negroes, these objections had such weight that the legislature rejected the apprenticeship system...
    EWI 11.116 9 At Grace Hill, [the day after emancipation in the West Indies] there were at least a thousand persons around the Moravian Chapel who could not get in.
    EWI 11.117 5 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament...that now for ten months...only one black [in the West Indies] had been hurt in 800,000 negroes...
    EWI 11.119 26 ...the great island of Jamaica, with a population of half a million, and 300,000 negroes...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.
    EWI 11.133 12 To what purpose have we clothed each of those representatives with the power of seventy thousand persons...if they are to sit dumb at their desks and see their constituents captured and sold;...
    War 11.163 11 The reference to any foreign register will inform us of the number of thousand or million men that are now under arms in the vast colonial system of the British Empire...
    War 11.172 14 What makes the attractiveness of that romantic style of living which is the material of ten thousand plays and romances...
    FSLC 11.185 9 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston-two hundred thousand souls, and one hundred and eighty millions of money-are thrown into the scale of crime...
    FSLC 11.188 4 ...this man who has run the gauntlet of a thousand miles for his freedom, the statute says, you men of Massachusetts shall hunt, and catch...
    FSLC 11.209 1 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars.
    FSLC 11.210 8 Let [the United States] confront this mountain of poison [slavery],-bore, blast, excavate, pulverize, and shovel it once for all, down into the bottomless Pit. A thousand millions were cheap.
    AKan 11.263 2 I think the American Revolution bought its glory cheap. If the problem was new, it was simple. If there were few people, they were united, and the enemy three thousand miles off.
    JBS 11.276 5 A thousand transformations rose/ From fair to foul, from foul to fair:/ The golden crown he did not spare,/ Nor scorn the beggar's clothes./
    JBS 11.278 20 ...[John Brown's] enterprise to go into Virginia and run off five hundred or a thousand slaves was not a piece of spite or revenge...
    JBS 11.280 16 I am not a little surprised at the easy effrontery with which political gentlemen, in and out of Congress, take it upon them to say that there are not a thousand men in the North who sympathize with John Brown.
    SMC 11.360 17 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or mothers may fall back; upon... the grass that can be sold, the old cow, or the heifer. These necessities make the topics of the ten thousand letters with which the mail-bags came loaded day by day.
    SMC 11.371 24 The [Thirty-second] regiment has been in the front and centre since the battle begun...and is now building breastworks on the Fredericksburg road. This has been the hardest fight the world ever knew. I think the loss of our army will be forty thousand.
    Wom 11.425 10 The loneliest thought, the purest prayer, is rushing to be the history of a thousand years.
    SHC 11.431 11 The life of a tree is a hundred and a thousand years;...
    SHC 11.435 9 ...we must look forward also, and make ourselves a thousand years old;...
    FRO2 11.491 1 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls...who do not wonder that there was a Christ, but that there were not a thousand;...
    CPL 11.497 14 The sedge Papyrus...is of more importance to history than cotton, or silver, or gold. Its first use for writing is between three and four thousand years old...
    CPL 11.506 15 [Kepler writes] [The book] may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer like myself.
    FRep 11.512 21 ...what is cotton? One plant out of some two hundred thousand known to the botanist...
    FRep 11.512 25 What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered,-every one of the two hundred thousand probably yet to be of utility in the arts.
    PLT 12.4 14 ...at last, it is only that exceeding and universal part [of Nature] which interests us, when we shall read in a true history what befalls in that kingdom where a thousand years is as one day...
    PLT 12.37 26 At a moment in our history the mind's eye opens and we become aware...of rights, of duties, of thoughts,-a thousand faces of one essence.
    PLT 12.44 15 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. That indescribably small interval is as good as a thousand miles...
    PLT 12.50 6 One would say [Shakespeare] must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first line...
    Mem 12.103 15 The poor short lone fact dies at the birth. Memory catches it up into her heaven, and bathes it in immortal waters. Then a thousand times over it lives and acts again...
    Mem 12.105 19 Captain John Brown, of Ossawatomie, said he had in Ohio three thousand sheep on his farm, and could tell a strange sheep in his flock as soon as he saw its face.
    CL 12.138 25 [Linnaeus] examined eight thousand plants;...
    Bost 12.188 7 London now for a thousand years has been in an affirmative or energizing mood;...
    MAng1 12.238 16 ...[Michelangelo] was liberal to profusion to his old domestic Urbino, to whom he gave at one time two thousand crowns...
    ACri 12.294 16 ...Shakspeare must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first piece;...
    MLit 12.322 24 ...a thousand men seemed to look through [Goethe's] eyes.
    AgMs 12.359 1 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect. Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the soil...not like Napoleon, hero of sixty battles, but of six thousand...
    EurB 12.372 5 Godiva is a noble poem that will tell the legend a thousand years.
    EurB 12.376 1 Except in the stories of Edgeworth and Scott, whose talent knew how to give to the book a thousand adventitious graces, the novels of costume are all one...
    PPr 12.388 23 How well-read, how adroit, that thousand arts in [Carlyle's] one art of writing;...
    Trag 12.411 17 ...the frailest glass bell will support a weight of a thousand pounds of water at the bottom of a river or sea, if filled with the same.

thousand, n. (7)

    AmS 1.115 15 Is it not the chief disgrace in the world...to be reckoned...in... the thousand, of the party...to which we belong;...
    SR 2.88 24 ...the young patriot feels himself stronger than before by a new thousand of eyes and arms.
    Int 2.344 19 ...[Aeschylus] has not yet done his office when he has educated the learned of Europe for a thousand years.
    ET5 5.89 9 At Rogers's mills, in Sheffield...I was told...that they make no mistakes, every blade in the hundred and in the thousand is good.
    ET11 5.198 10 It is computed that, with titles and without, there are seventy thousand of these people coming and going in London, who make up what is called high society.
    Bhr 6.197 19 ...'t is a thousand to one that [the young girl's] air and manner will at once betray that she is not primary...
    Boks 7.192 8 ...as the enchanter has dressed [books], like battalions of infantry, in coat and jacket of one cut, by the thousand and ten thousand, your chance of hitting on the right one is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination...

Thousand, Ten, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.101 13 Xenophon and his Ten Thousand were quite equal to what they attempted, and did it;...

Thousand, Ten, Retreat of t (1)

    Hist 2.25 3 ...[in the Grecian period] the habit of [each man's] supplying his own needs educates the body to wonderful performances. Such are the Agamemnon and Diomed of Homer, and not far different is the picture Xenophon gives of himself and his compatriots in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand.

thousand-cloven, adj. (1)

    SR 2.83 27 Not possibly will the soul...with thousand-cloven tongue, deign to repeat itself;...

thousand-eyed, adj. (3)

    SR 2.57 9 It seems to be a rule of wisdom...to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present...
    Chr1 3.105 20 Care is taken that the greatly-destined shall slip up into life in the shade, with no thousand-eyed Athens to watch and blazon every new thought...
    CL 12.149 11 The Hindoos called fire Agni...the sacrificer visible to all, thousand-eyed, all-beholding...

thousand-fold, adj. (4)

    SR 2.52 17 ...alms to sots, and the thousand-fold Relief Societies;- though...I sometimes...give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar...
    Int 2.342 22 The suggestions are thousand-fold that I hear and see.
    NR 3.238 5 ...our economical mother...gathering up into some man every property in the universe, establishes thousand-fold occult mutual attractions among her offspring...
    SwM 4.134 6 [Swedenborg's] heavens and hells are dull; fault of want of individualism. The thousand-fold relation of men is not there.

thousand-fold, adv. (1)

    Pol1 3.212 2 It makes no difference how many tons' weight of atmosphere presses on our heads, so long as the same pressure resists it within the lungs. Augment the mass a thousand-fold, it cannot begin to crush us, as long as reaction is equal to action.

thousand-handed, adj. (2)

    WD 7.162 18 This thousand-handed art has introduced a new element into the state.
    CInt 12.128 17 I would have you rely on Nature ever,-wise, omnific, thousand-handed Nature...

thousands, n. (58)

    AmS 1.114 27 ...thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts...the huge world will come round to him.
    MN 1.191 21 ...the luck of one is the hope of thousands...
    Con 1.312 6 ...to thy industry and thrift and small condescension to the established usage,-scores of servants are swarming...to thy command; scores, nay hundreds and thousands, for thy wardrobe, thy table, thy chamber, thy library, thy leisure;...
    Tran 1.332 4 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away, dragging bank and banker with it at a rate of thousands of miles the hour...
    Hist 2.38 4 Who knows himself before he...has shared the throb of thousands in a national exultation or alarm?
    Comp 2.99 21 He who by force of will or of thought is great and overlooks thousands, has the charges of that eminence.
    Hsm1 2.256 19 The great will not condescend to take any thing seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were...the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.
    Nat2 3.186 23 ...[the vegetable life] fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves;...
    Pol1 3.221 25 ...there are now men...to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments...
    NR 3.240 19 Why have only two or three ways of life, and not thousands?
    NER 3.259 9 Some thousands of young men are graduated at our colleges in this country every year...
    NER 3.268 20 ...the ground on which eminent public servants urge the claims of popular education is fear; This country is filling up with thousands and millions of voters, and you must educate them to keep them from our throats.
    SwM 4.96 6 The soul having been often born, or, as the Hindoos say, travelling the path of existence through thousands of births...there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge...
    SwM 4.98 19 ...now, when the royal and ducal Frederics, Christians and Brunswicks of that day have slid into oblivion, [Swedenborg] begins to spread himself into the minds of thousands.
    ShP 4.198 23 The learned member of the legislature, at Westminster or at Washington, speaks and votes for thousands.
    ShP 4.199 5 As Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Webster vote, so Locke and Rousseau think, for thousands;...
    NMW 4.235 6 ...in less than no time we buried some thousands of Russians and Austrians under the waters of the lake.
    ET1 5.17 25 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. ... But here are thousands of acres which might give them all meat...
    ET1 5.22 4 [Wordsworth] led me out into his garden, and showed me the gravel walk in which thousands of his lines were composed.
    ET12 5.211 27 ...the rich libraries collected at every one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth in this country...
    ET13 5.231 9 ...if religion be the doing of all good, and for its sake the suffering of all evil...that divine secret has existed in England from the days of Alfred to those...of Florence Nightingale, and in thousands who have no fame.
    ET16 5.283 25 ...we [Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in our dog-cart over the downs for Wilton, Carlyle not suppressing some threats and evil omens on the proprietors, for keeping these broad plains a wretched sheep-walk when so many thousands of English men were hungry and wanted labor.
    Pow 6.79 19 To have learned the use of the tools, by thousands of manipulations;...is the power of the mechanic...
    Wth 6.110 7 Britain, France and Germany...send out, attracted by the fame of our advantages, first their thousands, then their millions of poor people, to share the crop.
    Bty 6.301 2 Those who have ruled human destinies like planets for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
    DL 7.123 16 ...every man is provided in his thought with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger. Unhappily, not one in many thousands comes up to the stature and proportions of the model.
    WD 7.169 13 The old Sabbath...white with the religions of unknown thousands of years, when this hallowed hour dawns out of the deep...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our solitude.
    Boks 7.195 10 ...all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written...by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say.
    PI 8.13 24 ...a good symbol...is a missionary to persuade thousands.
    PI 8.24 1 It cost thousands of years only to make the motion of the earth suspected.
    PI 8.24 3 Slowly, by comparing thousands of observations, there dawned on some mind a theory of the sun...
    SA 8.100 2 In every million of Europeans or of Americans there shall be thousands who would be valuable on any spot on the globe.
    QO 8.182 12 The Bible itself is like an old Cremona [violin]; it has been played upon by the devotion of thousands of years until every word and particle is public and tunable.
    QO 8.187 15 ...now it appears that [English and American nursery-tales]... have been warbled and babbled between nurses and children for unknown thousands of years.
    PC 8.219 6 ...a scientific engineer, with instruments and steam, is worth many hundred men, many thousands;...
    PC 8.219 8 ...Archimedes or Napoleon is worth for labor a thousand thousands...
    Imtl 8.335 8 The mind delights in immense time;...delights in architecture, whose building lasts so long...and here are the Pyramids, which have as many thousands [of years], and cromlechs and earth-mounds much older than these.
    Dem1 10.7 4 What keeps those wild tales [of Ovid and Kalidasa] in circulation for thousands of years?
    Dem1 10.11 2 Belzoni describes the three marks which led him to dig for a door to the pyramid of Ghizeh. What thousands had beheld the same spot for so many ages, and seen no three marks.
    Supl 10.165 13 Thousands of people live and die who were never...hungry or thirsty...
    Schr 10.276 9 There is plenty of air, but it is worth nothing until by gathering it into sails we can get it into shape and service to carry us and our cargo across the sea. Then it is paid for by hundreds of thousands of our money.
    Schr 10.278 7 These iron personalities, such as in Greece and Italy...were formed to...draw the eager service of thousands, rarely appear [in America].
    LLNE 10.355 18 In our free institutions...fortunes are easily made by thousands...
    HDC 11.86 10 The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, sheds a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.
    EWI 11.126 13 It was very easy for manufacturers...to see that...if the slaves [in the West Indies] had wages, the slaves would be clothed...and negro women love fine clothes as well as white women. In every naked negro of those thousands, they saw a future customer.
    FSLC 11.194 4 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...
    EdAd 11.384 3 ...the train...shows our traveller what tens of thousands of powerful and weaponed men...sit at large in this ample region...
    Wom 11.422 24 ...if in your city the uneducated emigrant vote numbers thousands...it is to be corrected by an educated and religious vote...
    FRep 11.525 16 In each new threat of faction the ballot has been, beyond expectation, right and decisive. It is ever an inspiration...a sudden, undated perception of eternal right...a perception that passes through thousands as readily as through one.
    Mem 12.106 8 ...I come to a bright school-girl who...carries thousands of nursery rhymes and all the poetry in all the readers, hymn-books, and pictorial ballads in her mind;...
    CInt 12.118 24 The English newspapers and some writers of reputation disparage America. Meantime I note that the British people are emigrating hither by thousands...
    CL 12.151 15 Man [in the forest] feels the blood of thousands in his body...
    CW 12.175 14 How many poems have been written, or, at least attempted, on the lost Pleiad! for though that pretty constellation is called for thousands of years the Seven Stars, most eyes can only count six.
    Bost 12.182 9 Let the blood of [Boston's] hundred thousands/ Throb in each manly vein,/ And the wits of all her wisest/ Make sunshine in her brain./
    EurB 12.373 2 ...the novels, which come to us in every ship from England, have an importance increased by the immense extension of their circulation through the new cheap press, which sends them to so many willing thousands.
    EurB 12.373 6 We have heard it alleged with some evidence that the prominence given to intellectual power in Bulwer's romances has proved a main stimulus to mental culture in thousands of young men in England and America.
    EurB 12.375 9 ...[the hero of a novel of costume or of circumstance] is greatly in want of a fortune or of a wife, and usually of both, and the business of the piece is to provide him suitably. This is the problem to be solved in thousands of English romances...
    PPr 12.382 18 A man's diet should be what is simplest and readiest to be had, because it is so private a good. His house should be better, because that is for the use of hundreds, perhaps of thousands...

Thrace, n. (1)

    Boks 7.190 3 ...there are books which are of that importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the fables...of the old Orpheus of Thrace...

thralling, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.53 9 No, [my passion] was builded far from accident;/ It suffers not in smiling pomp, nor falls/ Under the brow of thralling discontent;/...

Thraso, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.94 22 Cannot Caesar in irons shuffle off the irons and transfer them to the person of Hippo or Thraso the turnkey?

thread, n. (29)

    MN 1.199 10 We can...never find the end of a thread;...
    SR 2.58 20 The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill into my web also.
    Lov1 2.185 22 The union which is thus effected [by love] and which adds a new value to every atom in nature--for it transmutes every thread throughout the whole web of relation into a golden ray...is yet a temporary state.
    Fdsp 2.205 14 ...we cannot forgive the poet if he spins his thread too fine...
    PPh 4.55 19 Our strength is transitional, alternating; or, shall I say, a thread of two strands.
    MoS 4.170 10 We are persuaded that a thread runs through all things...
    MoS 4.170 13 We are persuaded that a thread runs through all things...and men, and events, and life, come to us only because of that thread...
    GoW 4.274 7 ...[Goethe] showed...that, in actions of routine, a thread of mythology and fable spins itself...
    ET10 5.161 26 ...now that a telegraph line runs through France and Europe from London, every message it transmits makes stronger by one thread the band which war will have to cut.
    F 6.36 19 ...find if you can a point where there is no thread of connection [between fate and freedom].
    F 6.40 24 ...we have not eyes sharp enough to descry the thread that ties cause and effect.
    Pow 6.81 25 In the gingham-mill, a broken thread or a shred spoils the web through a piece of a hundred yards...
    Pow 6.82 9 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.
    CbW 6.251 21 Fate keeps everything alive so long as the smallest thread of public necessity holds it on to the tree.
    Civ 7.28 15 ...we managed...to fold up the letter in such invisible compact form as [Electricity] could carry in those invisible pockets of his, never wrought by needle and thread...
    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.
    Farm 7.142 7 In English factories, the boy that watches the loom, to tie the thread when the wheel stops to indicate that a thread is broken, is called a minder.
    WD 7.170 19 [The days] are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.
    Boks 7.216 11 I remember when some peering eyes of boys discovered that the oranges hanging on the boughs of an orange-tree in a gay piazza were tied to the twigs by thread.
    QO 8.178 22 There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands [old and new].
    Imtl 8.329 2 A man of thought is willing to die, willing to live; I suppose because he has seen the thread on which the beads are strung...
    Chr2 10.98 21 In the ever-returning hour of reflection, [a man] says: I stand here glad at heart of all the sympathies I can awaken and share...yet knowing that it is not in the power of all who surround me to take from me the smallest thread I call mine.
    SovE 10.197 15 ...what touches any thread in the vast web of being touches me.
    PLT 12.42 4 ...this one thread [perception], fine as gassamer, is yet real;...
    PLT 12.42 6 ...I hear a whisper, which I dare trust, that [perception] is the thread on which the earth and the heaven of heavens are strung.
    Mem 12.90 5 ...[memory] is the thread on which the beads of man are strung...
    Mem 12.96 22 This thread or order of remembering, this classification, distributes men...
    CInt 12.129 12 Do not gravity and polarity keep their unerring watch on a needle and thread...as on the moon's orbit?
    ACri 12.292 7 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an adverb...the adjective graphic, which means what is written...but is used as if it meant descriptive; Minerva's graphic thread.

thread-ball, n. (1)

    Comp 2.110 11 [Every opinion] is a thread-ball thrown at a mark...

threaded, v. (1)

    ET5 5.91 12 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...

threading, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.199 12 This is he men miscall Fate,/ Threading dark ways, arriving late/...

threads, n. (13)

    YA 1.364 2 ...the locomotive and the steamboat...shoot every day across the thousand various threads of national descent and employment...
    Fdsp 2.194 11 Nor is Nature so poor but she gives me this joy [of friendship] several times, and thus we weave social threads of our own...
    Fdsp 2.201 12 When [friendships] are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork...
    Pt1 3.33 3 ...how mean to study, when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature; how great the perspective! nations, times, systems, enter and disappear like threads in tapestry of large figure and many colors;...
    Exp 3.83 1 Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are threads on the loom of time...
    UGM 4.9 10 A man is a centre for nature, running out threads of relation through every thing...
    ET5 5.80 23 [The English people's] practical vision is spacious, and they can hold many threads without entangling them.
    F 6.45 27 If the threads are there, thought can follow and show them.
    Wth 6.84 7 ...when the quarried means were piled,/ All is waste and worthless, till/ Arrives the wise selecting will/ And, out of slime and chaos, Wit/ Draws the threads of fair and fit./
    Ill 6.321 15 ...if we weave a yard of tape in all humility and as well as we can, long hereafter we shall see it was no cotton tape at all but some galaxy which we braided, and that the threads were Time and Nature.
    Dem1 10.11 7 ...the atmosphere of a summer morning is filled with innumerable gossamer threads running in every direction...
    SovE 10.190 23 Shall I say then it were truer to see Necessity...stretching her dark warp across the universe? These threads are Nature's pernicious elements...
    CInt 12.130 1 My friend, stretch a few threads over a common Aeolian harp, and put it in your window, and listen to what it says of times and the heart of Nature.

threads, v. (1)

    Imtl 8.344 25 Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect... which threads the globes as beads on a string...leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as a waif and a caprice...

thread-spools, n. (1)

    DL 7.104 14 Out of blocks, thread-spools, cards and checkers, [the child] will build his pyramid...

threat, n. (10)

    DSA 1.149 7 There are men who rise refreshed on hearing a threat;...
    Chr1 3.98 10 What have I gained...that I do not tremble before...the Calvinistic Judgment-day,--if I quake...at the threat of assault...
    Chr1 3.100 9 ...the uncivil, unavailable man, who is a problem and a threat to society...he helps;...
    Wsp 6.232 20 The lightning-rod that disarms the cloud of its threat is [man' s] body in its duty.
    Cour 7.265 9 ...the threat is sometimes more formidable than the stroke...
    Dem1 10.20 27 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the steam battery, so fatal as to put an end to war by the threat of universal murder;...are of this kind.
    MoL 10.258 5 ...on each new threat of faction, the ballot of the people has been unexpectedly right.
    HDC 11.58 22 John Monoco, a formidable savage, boasted that he...would burn Groton, Concord, Watertown and Boston; adding, what me will, me do. He did burn Groton, but before he had executed the remainder of his threat he was hanged...
    FRep 11.525 11 In each new threat of faction the ballot has been, beyond expectation, right and decisive.
    PPr 12.391 23 Whatever thought or motto has once appeared to [Carlyle] fraught with meaning...is sure to return...now as threat, now as confirmation...

threaten, v. (15)

    Prd1 2.238 15 Far off, men swell, bully and threaten;...
    Int 2.327 15 What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us...
    Pt1 3.23 26 The songs...are pursued by clamorous flights of censures, which swarm in far greater numbers and threaten to devour them;...
    Exp 3.76 16 ...the chagrins which the bad heart gives off as bubbles, at once take form as...shopmen or bar-keepers in hotels, and threaten or insult whatever is threatenable and insultable in us.
    UGM 4.25 23 Nature abhors these complaisances which threaten to melt the world into a lump...
    ET4 5.49 16 These limitations of the formidable doctrine of race suggest others which threaten to undermine it...
    F 6.8 17 Will you say, the disasters which threaten mankind are exceptional...
    Bhr 6.178 8 An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun...
    Schr 10.280 27 [Idealistic views] threaten the validity of contracts...
    AKan 11.256 21 In these calamities under which they suffer, and the worst which threaten them, the people of Kansas ask for bread, clothes, arms and men...
    ACiv 11.303 4 Better the war should more dangerously threaten us...and so...exasperate our nationality.
    ACiv 11.303 5 Better the war...should threaten fracture in what is still whole...and so...exasperate our nationality.
    SMC 11.375 15 ...if danger should ever threaten the homes which you [veterans of the Civil War] guard, the knowledge of your presence will be a wall of fire for their protection.
    FRep 11.533 25 Our politics threaten [England]. Her manners threaten us.
    FRep 11.533 26 Our politics threaten [England]. Her manners threaten us.

threatenable, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.76 16 ...the chagrins which the bad heart gives off as bubbles, at once take form as...shopmen or bar-keepers in hotels, and threaten or insult whatever is threatenable and insultable in us.

threatened, adj. (1)

    NER 3.254 9 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members...the threatened individual immediately excommunicated the church...

threatened, v. (21)

    MR 1.228 26 ...not a kingdom, town, statute, rite, calling, man, or woman, but is threatened by the new spirit.
    MR 1.235 16 ...I should not be pained at a change which threatened a loss of some of the luxuries or conveniences of society...
    Cir 2.305 20 Every several result is threatened and judged by that which follows.
    Exp 3.45 15 Our life is not so much threatened as our perception.
    NER 3.254 5 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members...
    ET8 5.133 21 It was no bad description of the Briton generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man...and would often speak his mind of particular persons then accidentally present, without examining the company he was in; for which he was...several times threatened to be kicked and beaten.
    ET11 5.191 26 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper at his council table...and the baker will not bring bread any longer. Meantime the English Channel was swept and London threatened by the Dutch fleet...
    ET11 5.192 6 The Selwyn correspondence, in the reign of George III., discloses a rottenness in the aristocracy which threatened to decompose the state.
    ET15 5.264 17 [TheLondon Times] has done bold and seasonable service in exposing frauds which threatened the commercial community.
    Elo1 7.78 18 [Caesar]...declaimed to [the pirates]; if they did not applaud his speeches, he threatened them with hanging...
    Res 8.148 10 Mr. Marshall, the eminent manufacturer at Leeds, was to preside at a Free Trade festival in that city; it was threatened that the operatives, who were in bad humor, would break up the meeting by a mob.
    PC 8.207 7 The heart still beats with the public pulse of joy that the country has withstood the rude trial which threatened its existence...
    Chr2 10.118 17 In the present tendency of our society...society is threatened with actual granulation, religious as well as political.
    SovE 10.193 15 Others may well suffer in the hideous picture of crime with which earth is filled and the life of society threatened...
    LLNE 10.345 2 State Street had an instinct that [the Transcendentalists] invalidated contracts and threatened the stability of stocks;...
    Thor 10.458 11 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail. A friend paid the tax for him, and he was released. The like annoyance was threatened the next year.
    GSt 10.504 22 I have heard...that [George Stearns] was indignant at this or that man's behavior, but never that his anger outlasted for a moment the mischief done or threatened to the good cause...
    EWI 11.111 23 ...these missionaries [to the West Indies] were persecuted by the planters, their lives threatened...
    SMC 11.364 22 At this time Captain Prescott was daily threatened with sickness...
    WSL 12.343 23 ...wherever freedom and justice are threatened...[Landor's] interest is sure to be commanded.
    Trag 12.414 24 How fast we forget the blow that threatened to cripple us.

threatening, adj. (1)

    YA 1.392 25 Would [our youths and maidens] like...threatening, starved weavers...

threatening, v. (3)

    Cir 2.306 5 Does the fact look crass and material, threatening to degrade thy theory of spirit?
    F 6.33 13 Man...stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.
    FSLN 11.226 11 Mr. Webster decided for Slavery, and that...when [the aspect of the institution] was strong, aggressive, and threatening an illimitable increase.

threatens, v. (12)

    YA 1.385 22 The currency threatens to fall entirely into private hands.
    Exp 3.76 4 ...now, the rapaciousness of this new power, which threatens to absorb all things, engages us.
    UGM 4.28 14 There is such good will to impart, and such good will to receive, that each threatens to become the other;...
    F 6.32 1 ...every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force.
    OA 7.323 24 ...it will not add a pang to the prisoner marched out to be shot, to assure him that the pain in his knee threatens mortification.
    Imtl 8.335 23 ...the nebular theory threatens [the sun's and the star's] duration also...
    SovE 10.207 9 ...in all churches a certain decay of ancient piety is lamented, and all threatens to lapse into apathy and indifferentism.
    Plu 10.300 24 [Plutarch's] style is realistic, picturesque and varied; his sharp objective eyes seeing everything that moves, shines or threatens in nature or art, or thought or dreams.
    LVB 11.96 12 I write thus, sir [Van Buren]...to pray with one voice more that you, whose hands are strong with the delegated power of fifteen millions of men, will avert with that might the terrific injury which threatens the Cherokee tribe.
    JBB 11.270 17 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It comprises...almost every man...who sees what a tiger's thirst threatens him in the malignity of public sentiment in the slave states.
    FRep 11.533 27 Life is grown and growing so costly that it threatens to kill us.
    Trag 12.405 11 In the dark hours, our existence seems to be...a struggle against the encroaching All, which threatens surely to engulf us soon...

threats, n. (3)

    LT 1.262 27 By tones of triumph...by threats...[persons] have the skill to make the world look bleak and inhospitable, or seem the nest of tenderness and joy.
    ET16 5.283 23 ...we [Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in our dog-cart over the downs for Wilton, Carlyle not suppressing some threats and evil omens on the proprietors...
    Cour 7.255 8 The third excellence is courage, the perfect will...which is attracted by frowns or threats or hostile armies...

three, adj. (208)

    Nat 1.20 18 ...when Leonidas and his three hundred martyrs consume one day in dying...are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    Nat 1.62 16 Three problems are put by nature to the mind...
    AmS 1.85 19 ...[the young mind] finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three...
    AmS 1.85 19 ...[the young mind] finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand;...
    AmS 1.92 6 There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived...two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul...
    AmS 1.109 9 ...I believe each individual passes through all three [epochs].
    LE 1.160 5 ...neither Greece nor Rome, nor the three Unities of Aristotle... is to command any longer.
    LE 1.160 5 ...neither Greece nor Rome...nor the three Kings of Cologne... is to command any longer.
    LE 1.161 9 ...see how much you would impoverish the world if you could take clean out of history the lives of Milton, Shakspeare, and Plato,-these three...
    LE 1.161 17 I console myself...by...seeing that Plato was, and Shakspeare, and Milton,-three irrefragable facts.
    MR 1.237 9 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of sugar...by simply signing my name once in three months to a cheque...get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act which nature intended me...
    Tran 1.354 20 In the eternal trinity of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, each in its perfection including the three, [Transcendentalists] prefer to make Beauty the sign and head.
    YA 1.380 17 Witness too the spectacle of three Communities which have within a very short time sprung up within this Commonwealth...
    SR 2.86 5 ...nor can all the science, art, religion, and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes, three or four and twenty centuries ago.
    Fdsp 2.207 5 You shall have very useful and cheering discourse at several times with two several men, but let all three of you come together and you shall not have one new and hearty word.
    Fdsp 2.207 7 ...three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
    Prd1 2.222 20 There are all degrees of proficiency in knowledge of the world. It is sufficient to our present purpose to indicate three.
    Hsm1 2.255 5 Better still is the temperance of King David, who poured out on the ground unto the Ord the water which three of his warriors had brought him to drink...
    Pt1 3.4 20 ...we are...children of the fire, made of it, and only the same divinity transmuted and at two or three removes, when we know least about it.
    Pt1 3.6 19 ...the Universe has three children...
    Pt1 3.7 1 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought...but which we will call here the Knower, the Doer and the Sayer. These stand respectively for the love of truth, for the love of good, and for the love of beauty. These three are equal.
    Pt1 3.7 4 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought...but which we will call here the Knower, the Doer and the Sayer. ... ...each of these three has the power of the others latent in him and his own, patent.
    Exp 3.70 14 In the growth of the embryo, Sir Everard Home I think noticed that the evolution was...coactive from three or more points.
    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 3.142 6 A tradesman who had long dunned [Charles James Fox] for a note of three hundred guineas, found him one day counting gold, and demanded payment.
    NR 3.229 12 Who can tell if Washington be a great man or no? Who can tell if Franklin be? Yes, or any but the twelve, or six, or three great gods of fame?
    NR 3.240 19 Why have only two or three ways of life, and not thousands?
    NR 3.241 11 A recluse sees only two or three persons, and allows them all their room;...
    NER 3.264 1 Following or advancing beyond the ideas of St. Simon, of Fourier, and of Owen, three communities have already been formed in Massachusetts on kindred plans...
    UGM 4.23 24 ...I intended to specify, with a little minuteness, two or three points of service.
    PPh 4.44 5 [Plato]...accepted the invitations of Dion and of Dionysius to the court of Sicily, and went thither three times...
    PPh 4.44 8 [Plato] travelled into Italy; then into Egypt, where he stayed a long time; some say three,--some say thirteen years.
    SwM 4.122 15 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him all day...
    NMW 4.239 1 [Bonaparte] directed Bourrienne to leave all letters unopened for three weeks...
    NMW 4.249 24 On the voyage to Egypt [Napoleon] liked, after dinner, to fix on three or four persons to support a proposition, and as many to oppose it.
    NMW 4.254 15 If I were to give the liberty of the press [said Napoleon], my power could not last three days.
    ET1 5.4 3 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers,--Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, DeQuincey...
    ET1 5.8 17 [Landor]...designated as three of the greatest of men, Washington, Phocion and Timoleon...
    ET1 5.8 20 [Landor]...designated as three of the greatest of men, Washington, Phocion and Timoleon--much as our pomologists, in their lists, select the three or the six best pears for a small orchard;...
    ET1 5.11 1 ...taking up Bishop Waterland's book, which lay on the table, [Coleridge] read with vehemence two or three pages written by himself in the fly-leaves...
    ET1 5.13 22 [Coleridge said] There were only three things which the government had brought into that garden of delights [Sicily], namely, itch, pox and famine.
    ET1 5.22 10 [Wordsworth] had just returned from a visit to Staffa, and within three days had made three sonnets on Fingal's Cave...
    ET1 5.22 17 ...[Wordsworth] recollected himself for a few moments and then stood forth and repeated...the three entire sonnets with great animation.
    ET2 5.27 10 The shortest sea-line from Boston to Liverpool is 2850 miles. This a steamer keeps, and saves 150 miles. A sailing ship can never go in a shorter line than 3000...
    ET3 5.35 3 Cushioned and comforted in every manner, the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...through mountains in tunnels of three or four miles...
    ET3 5.41 17 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...cutting off an island...with an irregular breadth reaching to three hundred miles;...
    ET4 5.44 16 Blumenbach reckons five races; Humboldt three;...
    ET4 5.45 5 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. Add the United States of America, which reckon...20,000,000 of people, on a territory of 3,000,000 square miles...and you have a population of English descent and language of 60,000,000...
    ET4 5.50 24 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed; the names of men are of different nations,--three languages, three or four nations;...
    ET4 5.54 27 The sources from which tradition derives [the English] stock are mainly three.
    ET5 5.86 22 Lord Collingwood was accustomed to tell his men that if they could fire three well-directed broadsides in five minutes, no vessel could resist them;...
    ET5 5.86 25 Lord Collingwood was accustomed to tell his men that if they could fire three well-directed broadsides in five minutes, no vessel could resist them; and from constant practice they came to do it in three minutes and a half.
    ET5 5.99 2 ...three or four days' rain will reduce hundreds to starving in London.
    ET5 5.100 17 The island [England] has produced two or three of the greatest men that ever existed...
    ET7 5.120 23 ...one cannot think this festival [of St. George in Montreal] fruitless, if, all over the world, on the 23d of April, wherever two or three English are found, they meet to encourage each other in the nationality of veracity.
    ET8 5.143 7 [The English] choose that welfare which is compatible with the commonwealth, knowing that such alone is stable; as wise merchants prefer investments in the three per cents.
    ET10 5.157 8 An Englishman...labors three times as many hours in the course of a year as another European;...
    ET10 5.157 10 An Englishman...labors three times as many hours in the course of a year as another European; or, his life as a workman is three lives.
    ET10 5.160 19 In 1848, Lord John Russell stated that the people of this country [England] had laid out 300,000,000 pounds of capital in railways, in the last four years.
    ET10 5.161 7 In Egypt, [steam] can plant forests, and bring rain after three thousand years.
    ET11 5.178 19 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival...to mark the day when the dukedom should have remained three hundred years in their house...
    ET11 5.182 18 The Duke of Richmond has 40,000 acres at Goodwood and 300,000 at Gordon Castle.
    ET11 5.182 25 ...before the Reform of 1832, one hundred and fifty-four persons sent three hundred and seven members to Parliament.
    ET11 5.189 14 Against the cry of the old tenantry and the sympathetic cry of the English press, the [English nobility] have rooted out and planted anew, and now six millions of people live, and live better, on the same land that fed three millions.
    ET11 5.191 22 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper at his council table...and but three bands to his neck...
    ET12 5.202 23 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds...
    ET12 5.202 27 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds, when, among other friends, they called on Lord Eldon. Instead of a hundred pounds, he surprised them by putting down his name for three thousand pounds.
    ET12 5.203 5 ...[Lord Eldon] withdrew his cheque for three thousand, and wrote four thousand pounds.
    ET12 5.204 24 Seven years' residence [at Oxford] is the theoretic period for a master's degree. In point of fact, it has long been three years' residence, and four years more of standing.
    ET12 5.204 25 Seven years' residence [at Oxford] is the theoretic period for a master's degree. In point of fact, it has long been three years' residence, and four years more of standing. This three years is about twenty-one months in all.
    ET12 5.205 7 ...the expenses of private tuition [at Oxford] are reckoned at from 50 pounds to 70 pounds a year, or 1000 dollars for the whole course of three years and a half.
    ET12 5.206 14 As the number of undergraduates at Oxford is only about 1200 or 1300...the chance of a fellowship is very great.
    ET12 5.210 23 Oxford sends out yearly twenty or thirty very able men, and three or four hundred well-educated men.
    ET14 5.242 17 ...the very announcement...of Kepler's three harmonic laws...finds a sudden response in the mind...
    ET14 5.245 10 Mr. Hallam, a learned and elegant scholar, has written the history of European literature for three centuries...
    ET14 5.252 21 A good Englishman shuts himself out of three fourths of his mind...
    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 5.280 18 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.
    ET16 5.285 19 ...I had been more struck with [a cathedral] of no fame, at Coventry, which rises three hundred feet from the ground...
    ET17 5.293 16 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days, one at Kew, where Sir William Hooker showed me all the riches of the vast botanic garden;...
    F 6.7 19 At Naples three years ago ten thousand persons were crushed in a few minutes.
    Wth 6.87 21 Wealth begins...in a good double-wick lamp, and three meals;...
    Wth 6.120 5 ...the cow that [Mr. Cockayne] buys gives milk for three months; then her bag dries up.
    Ctr 6.136 1 Have you seen...two or three scholars...
    Ctr 6.136 2 Have you seen...two or three capitalists, two or three editors of newspapers?
    Ctr 6.155 16 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that...takes two looms in the factory, three looms, six looms...
    Ctr 6.164 22 ...these boys who now grow up are caught not only years too late, but two or three births too late, to make the best scholars of.
    Wsp 6.224 5 A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought...
    CbW 6.250 7 Suppose the three hundred heroes at Thermopylae had paired off with three hundred Persians;...
    CbW 6.250 8 Suppose the three hundred heroes at Thermopylae had paired off with three hundred Persians;...
    CbW 6.250 18 ...[nature] scatters nations of naked Indians and nations of clothed Christians, with two or three good heads among them.
    CbW 6.266 7 There are three wants which never can be satisfied...
    Ill 6.309 13 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...paddled three quarters of a mile in the deep Echo River...
    Ill 6.314 19 ...I remember the quarrel of another youth with the confectioners, that when he racked his wit to choose the best comfits in the shops, in all the endless varieties of sweetmeat he could find only three flavors, or two.
    Elo1 7.64 1 No man has a prosperity so high or firm but two or three words can dishearten it.
    Elo1 7.85 25 ...in the examination of witnesses there usually leap out...three or four stubborn words or phrases which are the pith and fate of the business...
    Elo1 7.86 4 ...the court and the county have really come together to arrive at these three or four memorable expressions which betrayed the mind and meaning of somebody.
    DL 7.104 2 All day, between his three or four sleeps, [the nestler] coos like a pigeon-house...
    DL 7.124 15 ...we soon catch the trick of each man's conversation, and knowing his two or three main facts, anticipate what he thinks of each new topic that rises.
    DL 7.131 7 ...in the Sistine Chapel I see the grand sibyls and prophets, painted in fresco by Michel Angelo,--which have every day now for three hundred years inflamed the imagination...of what vast multitudes of men of all nations!
    Farm 7.147 13 ...Nature drops a pine-cone in Mariposa, and it...grows three or four hundred feet high...
    WD 7.160 21 Egypt, where no rain fell for three thousand years, now, it is said, thanks Mehemet Ali's irrigations and planted forests for late-returning showers.
    Boks 7.192 11 ...your chance of hitting on the right [book] is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination,--not a choice out of three caskets, but out of half a million caskets, all alike.
    Boks 7.196 21 The three practical rules [for reading]...which I have to offer, are,--1. Never read any book that is not a year old.
    Boks 7.198 4 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare... ... 3. Aeschylus, the grandest of the three tragedians...
    Boks 7.200 21 An inestimable trilogy of ancient social pictures are the three Banquets respectively of Plato, Xenophon and Plutarch.
    Clbs 7.240 18 The court successively appoints three more severe inquisitors; Beaumarchais converts them all into triumphant vindicators of the play which is to bring in the Revolution.
    Clbs 7.248 26 ...it was when things went prosperously, and the company was full of honor, at the banquet of the Cid, that the guests all...agreed in one thing,--that they had not eaten better for three years.
    Cour 7.253 1 I observe that there are three qualities which conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of mankind...disinterestedness...practical power...courage...
    Suc 7.286 11 We have seen an American woman write a novel...which... was read with equal interest to three audiences, namely, in the parlor, in the kitchen and in the nursery of every house.
    Suc 7.302 17 Fontenelle said: There are three things about which I have curiosity, though I know nothing of them,--music, poetry and love.
    OA 7.330 23 We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge...with nothing to break his leisure after the three hours of his daily classes...
    PI 8.42 20 Anything, child, that the mind covets, from the milk of a cocoa to the throne of the three worlds, thou mayest obtain, by keeping the law of thy members and the law of thy mind.
    PI 8.72 4 One would say of the force in the works of Nature, all depends on the battery. If it give one shock, we shall get to the fish form, and stop;...if three, to the quadruped;...
    SA 8.98 22 Everything is unseasonable which is private to two or three or any portion of the company.
    QO 8.183 11 Thirty years ago...you might often hear cited as Mr. Webster' s three rules: first, never to do to-day what he could defer till to-morrow;...
    PC 8.216 15 I think I have seen two or three great men who, for that reason, were of no account among scholars.
    PPo 8.240 13 Solomon had three talismans...
    PPo 8.252 10 ...this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy. We remember but two or three examples in English poetry...
    PPo 8.263 25 In the fable [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations], the birds were soon weary of the length and difficulties of the way, and at last almost all gave out. Three only persevered...
    PPo 8.264 10 The sun from near-by beamed/ Clearest light into [the birds'] soul;/ The resplendence of the Simorg beamed/ As one back from all three./ They knew not, amazed, if they/ Were either this or that./
    PPo 8.265 3 The Highest is a sun-mirror;/ Who comes to Him sees himself therein,/ Sees body and soul, and soul and body;/ When you came to the Simorg,/ Three therein appeared to you,/ And, had fifty of you come,/ So had you seen yourselves as many./ Him has none of us yet seen./
    PPo 8.265 16 You as three birds are amazed,/ Impatient, heartless, confused:/ Far over you am I raised,/ Since I am in act Simorg./
    Insp 8.291 6 Allston rarely left his studio by day. An old friend took him, one fine afternoon, a spacious circuit into the country, and he painted two or three pictures as the fruits of that drive.
    Insp 8.291 21 Allston...had two or three rooms in different parts of Boston, where he could not be found.
    Imtl 8.349 12 Yama, the lord of Death, promised Nachiketas, the son of Gautama, to grant him three boons at his own choice.
    Dem1 10.3 5 The name Demonology covers dreams, omens, coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic and other experiences which...deserve notice chiefly because every man has usually in a lifetime two or three hints in this kind which are specially impressive to him.
    Dem1 10.8 12 Wise and sometimes terrible hints shall in [dreams] be thrown to the man out of a quite unknown intelligence. He shall be startled two or three times in his life by the justice as well as the significance of this phantasmagoria.
    Dem1 10.10 27 Belzoni describes the three marks which led him to dig for a door to the pyramid of Ghizeh.
    Dem1 10.11 4 Belzoni describes the three marks which led him to dig for a door to the pyramid of Ghizeh. What thousands had beheld the same spot for so many ages, and seen no three marks.
    PerF 10.82 7 ...when the soldier comes home from the fight, he fills all eyes. But the soldier has the same admiration of the great parliamentary debater. And poetry and literature are disdainful of all these claims beside their own. Like the boy who thought in turn...each of the three hundred and sixty-five days in the year the crowner.
    Chr2 10.106 16 ...what has been running on through three horizons, or ninety years, looks to all the world like a law of Nature...
    Chr2 10.106 22 ...'t is incredible to us, if we look into the religious books of our grandfathers, how they held themselves in such a pinfold. But why not? As far as they could see, through two or three horizons, nothing but ministers and ministers.
    Supl 10.172 5 ...the gallant skipper...complained to his owners that he had pumped the Atlantic Ocean three times through his ship on the passage...
    Supl 10.172 11 ...[it] was similarly asserted of the late Lord Jeffrey, at the Scottish bar,-an attentive auditor declaring on one occasion after an argument of three hours, that he had spoken the whole English language three times over in his speech.
    Supl 10.172 12 ...[it] was similarly asserted of the late Lord Jeffrey, at the Scottish bar,-an attentive auditor declaring on one occasion after an argument of three hours, that he had spoken the whole English language three times over in his speech.
    Prch 10.235 25 A wise man advises that we should see to it that we read and speak two or three reasonable words, every day...
    MoL 10.249 4 Coleridge traces three silent revolutions...
    Schr 10.278 16 It seems as if two or three persons coming who should add to a high spiritual aim great constructive energy, would carry the country with them.
    LLNE 10.342 20 ...there was no concert, and only here and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual vivacity.
    LLNE 10.359 25 An old house on the place [Brook Farm] was enlarged, and three new houses built.
    CSC 10.373 9 The [Chardon Street] Convention...spent three days in the consideration of the Sabbath...
    CSC 10.373 17 ...the [Chardon Street] Convention debated, for three days again, the remaining subject of the Priesthood.
    EzRy 10.383 4 [The Ezra Ripleys] had three children...
    EzRy 10.384 23 Then again, May 5th [1735, Joseph Emerson writes]: Went to the beach with three of the children.
    MMEm 10.419 25 I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars a year for clothes and charity, and I never remember to have been needy, though I never had but two or three aids in those six years of earning my home.
    MMEm 10.432 3 Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson] who have learned within three years to sit whole days in peace and enjoyment without the least apparent benefit to any...
    SlHr 10.447 26 ...Mr. Hoar remarked that Judge Marshall could afford to lose brains enough to furnish three or four common men, before common men would find it out.
    Carl 10.493 1 [Carlyle] saw once, as he told me, three or four miles of human beings, and fancied that the airth was some great cheese, and these were mites.
    LS 11.4 1 In the Fourth Lateran Council, it was decreed that any believer should communicate at least once in a year,-at Easter. Afterwards it was determined that this Sacrament should be received three times in the year...
    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 9 ...after the bargain [for Concord] was concluded, Mr. Simon Willard, pointing to the four corners of the world, declared that they had bought three miles from that place, east, west, north and south.
    HDC 11.41 17 Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his estate, and, doubtless in consideration of his charges, the General Court, in 1639, granted him 300 acres towards Cambridge;...
    HDC 11.41 19 Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his estate, and, doubtless in consideration of his charges, the General Court, in 1639, granted him 300 acres towards Cambridge; and to Mr. Spencer, probably for the like reason, 300 acres by the Alewife River.
    HDC 11.42 2 ...the town [Concord] having divided itself into three districts...ordered that the North quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in their quarter...
    HDC 11.42 10 ...the town [Concord]...ordered that the North quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in their quarter, and...in regard of the ease of the East quarter above the rest, in their highways, they are to allow the North quarter 3 pounds.
    HDC 11.50 6 Tell [the Continental nations] the Union has twenty-four States, and Massachusetts is one. Tell them, Massachusetts has three hundred towns, and Concord is one;...
    HDC 11.57 19 This war [with the Niantic Indians] seems to have been pressed by three of the colonies...
    HDC 11.64 22 After the death of Rev. Mr. Estabrook, in 1711, it was propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one of the three gentlemen lately improved here in preaching...shall be now chosen in the work of the ministry?
    HDC 11.65 24 It is an article in the selectmen's warrant for the town-meeting, to see if the town [Concord] will lay in for a representative not exceeding four pounds. Captain Minott was chosen, and after the General Court was adjourned received of the town for his services, an allowance of three shillings per day.
    HDC 11.70 21 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant...
    HDC 11.78 6 [Concord's] little population of 1300 souls behaved like a party to the contest [the American Revolution].
    EWI 11.109 22 In 1791, three hundred thousand persons in Britain pledged themselves to abstain from all articles of [West Indian] island produce.
    EWI 11.112 13 ...the praedials [in the West Indies] should owe three fourths of the profits of their labor to their masters for six years...
    EWI 11.119 26 ...the great island of Jamaica, with a population of half a million, and 300,000 negroes...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.
    War 11.165 3 This happens daily, yearly about us, with half thoughts, often with flimsy lies, pieces of policy and speculation. With good nursing they will last three or four years before they will come to nothing.
    War 11.170 18 Men who love that bloated vanity called public opinion think all is well if they have once got their bantling through a sufficient course of speeches and cheerings, of one, two, or three public meetings;...
    FSLC 11.214 2 ...one, two, three occasions have just now occurred, and past, in either of which, if one man had felt the spirit of Coke or Mansfield or Parsons, and read the law with the eye of freedom, the dishonor of Massachusetts had been prevented...
    AKan 11.263 2 I think the American Revolution bought its glory cheap. If the problem was new, it was simple. If there were few people, they were united, and the enemy three thousand miles off.
    ACiv 11.297 11 ...for two or three ages [slavery] has lasted...
    EPro 11.318 3 ...it is not long since the President [Lincoln] anticipated...the secession of three states...
    SMC 11.364 3 Whilst [George Prescott's] regiment was encamped at Camp Andrew, near Alexandria, in June, 1861, marching orders came. Colonel Lawrence sent for eight wagons, but only three came.
    SMC 11.365 20 The three months of the enlistment expired a few days after the battle [of Bull Run].
    SMC 11.366 20 In August, 1862...mainly through the personal example and influence of Mr. Sylvester Lovejoy, twelve men, including himself, were enlisted for three years...
    SMC 11.366 25 After the return of the three months' company to Concord, in 1861, Captain Prescott raised a new company of volunteers...
    SMC 11.367 4 Enlisting for three years, and remaining to the end of the war, these troops [Thirty-second Regiment] saw every variety of hard service...
    SMC 11.368 27 Here [at the battle of Gettysburg] Francis Buttrick... Sergeant Appleton...were fatally wounded. The Colonel [George Prescott] was hit by three bullets.
    SMC 11.372 27 On the sixteenth of June, [the Thirty-second Regiment]... marched to within three miles of Petersburg.
    SMC 11.375 23 There are people who can hardly read the names on yonder bronze tablet [Concord Monument], the mist so gathers in their eyes. Three of the names are of sons of one family.
    Wom 11.415 7 With the advancements of society, the position and influence of woman bring her strength or her faults into light. In modern times, three or four conspicuous instrumentalities may be marked.
    Wom 11.421 12 Here are two or three objections [to women's voting]: first, a want of practical wisdom; second, a too purely ideal view; and, third, the danger of contamination.
    Shak1 11.449 15 ...at the short distance of three hundred years [Shakespeare] is mythical...
    Shak1 11.450 2 ...Shakspeare, by his transcendant reach of thought, so unites the extremes, that, whilst he has kept the theatre now for three centuries...he is yet to all wise men the companion of the closet.
    Shak1 11.453 15 The Pilgrims came to Plymouth in 1620. The plays of Shakspeare were not published until three years later.
    CPL 11.494 3 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library, intending to exclude him from it for three days...
    CPL 11.497 14 The sedge Papyrus...is of more importance to history than cotton, or silver, or gold. Its first use for writing is between three and four thousand years old...
    CPL 11.499 7 I possess the manuscript journal of a lady [Mary Moody Emerson], native of this town [Concord] (and descended from three of its clergymen), who removed into Maine...
    CPL 11.506 3 ...[Kepler] writes, It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light,-three months since the dawn...
    FRep 11.511 7 The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or three seconds in a year...
    FRep 11.524 3 ...the people] must take wine at the hotel, first, for the look of it, and second, for the purpose of sending the bottle to two or three gentlemen at the table;...
    PLT 12.60 6 This premature stop, I know not how, befalls most of us in early youth; as if...the access to rare truths, closed at two or three years in the child...
    II 12.83 6 The dream which lately floated before the eyes of the French nation-that every man shall do that which of all things he prefers, and shall have three francs a day for doing that-is the real law of the world;...
    Mem 12.98 21 The facts of the last two or three days or weeks are all you have with you...
    Mem 12.105 19 Captain John Brown, of Ossawatomie, said he had in Ohio three thousand sheep on his farm, and could tell a strange sheep in his flock as soon as he saw its face.
    CInt 12.127 10 ...these two [the College and the Church] should be counterbalancing to the bad politics and selfish trade. But there is but one institution, and not three. The Church and the College now take their tone from the City...
    CL 12.144 4 In Massachusetts, our land...is permeable like a park, and not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills having each one side at forty-five degrees...
    Bost 12.182 1 The rocky nook with hilltops three/ Looked eastward from the farms,/ And twice each day the flowing sea/ Took Boston in its arms./
    Bost 12.185 24 What Vasari said, three hundred years ago, of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...
    Bost 12.190 10 ...Dr. Mather writes of [Boston], The town hath indeed three elder Sisters in this colony, but it hath wonderfully outgrown them all...
    MAng1 12.216 10 [Michelangelo] is an eminent master in the four fine arts, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Poetry. In three of them by visible means...he strove to express the Idea of Beauty.
    MAng1 12.244 9 Three significant garlands are sculptured on [Michelangelo's] tomb;...
    Milt1 12.270 11 ...a history of England was one of the three main tasks which [Milton] proposed to himself.
    ACri 12.284 3 Chiefly in this country, the common school has added two or three audiences [for the writer]: once, we had only the boxes; now, the galleries and the pit.
    ACri 12.298 9 Here has come into the country, three months ago, a History of Friedrich, infinitely the wittiest book that ever was written;...
    MLit 12.319 16 Nothing certifies the prevalence of this [subjective] taste in the people more than the circulation of the poems...of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats. The only unity is in the subjectiveness and the aspiration common to the three writers.
    WSL 12.347 12 [Landor's] picture of Demosthenes in three several Dialogues is new and adequate.
    Pray 12.351 26 ...what led us to these remembrances [of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately brought us acquainted with two or three diaries...
    PPr 12.383 19 The historian of to-day is yet three ages off.

Three Errors, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.347 8 [Robert Owen's] love of men made us forget his Three Errors.

three, n. (1)

    Insp 8.294 27 Neither by sea nor by land, said Pindar, canst thou find the way to the Hyperboreans; neither by...rule of three or rule of thumb.

Three, Rule of, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.223 15 The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence...a prudence which adores the Rule of Three...

three-days', n. (2)

    CSC 10.373 13 In March [1841], accordingly, a three-day' session [of the Chardon Street Convention] was holden in the same place, on the subject of the Church...
    CSC 10.376 2 There was a great deal of wearisome speaking in each of those three-days' sessions [of the Chardon Street Convention]...

threefold, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.16 12 ...we may distribute the aspects of Beauty in a threefold manner.
    Nat 1.25 3 Nature is the vehicle of thought, and in a simple, double, and threefold degree.

threepence, n. (1)

    Wth 6.109 22 ...we charged threepence a pound for carrying cotton, sixpence for tobacco, and so on;...

three-per-cents, n. (1)

    Aris 10.36 7 I cannot tell how English titles are bestowed, whether on pure blood, or on the largest holder in the three-per-cents.

threshed, v. (1)

    HDC 11.60 5 Two young farmers, Abraham and Isaac Shepherd, had set their sister Mary, a girl of fifteen years, to watch whilst they threshed grain in the barn.

threshes, v. (1)

    ET8 5.135 2 [The English] hide virtues under vices, or the semblance of them. It is the misshapen hairy Scandinavian troll again, who...threshes The corn/ That ten day-laborers could not end,/ but it is done in the dark and with muttered maledictions.

threshing, n. (1)

    Wth 6.102 1 [The farmer] knows that, in the dollar, he gives you so much discretion and patience, so much hoeing and threshing.

threshold, n. (4)

    LE 1.185 8 ...I thought that standing...on the threshold of this College...you would not be sorry to be admonished of those primary duties of the intellect...
    Exp 3.82 15 In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the threshold.
    Wsp 6.204 27 There is always some religion, some hope and fear extended into the invisible,--from the blind boding which nails a horseshoe to the mast or the threshold, up to the song of the Elders in the Apocalypse.
    Clbs 7.237 16 Odin comes to the threshold of the Jotun Wafthrudnir in disguise...

thresholds, n. (1)

    CbW 6.259 14 ...[an absorbing passion] is the heat which...overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds and first addresses in society...

threw, v. (22)

    SwM 4.99 26 [Swedenborg]...from this time [1716] for the next thirty years was employed in the composition and publication of his scientific works. With the like force he threw himself into theology.
    NMW 4.240 16 In the social interests, [Napoleon] knew the meaning and value of labor, and threw himself naturally on that side.
    ET1 5.21 22 [Wordsworth] had never gone farther than the first part [of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]; so disgusted was he that he threw the book across the room.
    ET6 5.106 10 ...in my lectures [in England] I hesitated to read and threw out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase which I had been accustomed to spin...
    Wth 6.109 17 When the European wars threw the carrying-trade of the world, from 1800 to 1812, into American bottoms, a seizure was now and then made of an American ship.
    Wsp 6.228 5 [St. Philip Neri] threw himself on his mule...and hastened through the mud and mire to the distant convent.
    Elo1 7.78 14 In earlier days, [Julius Caesar] was taken by pirates. What then? He threw himself into their ship, established the most extraordinary intimacies...
    WD 7.169 3 Cannot memory still descry the old school-house and its porch...and do you not recall that life...threw itself into nervous knots of glittering hours...
    Comc 8.169 24 ...the painter Astley...going out of Rome one day with a party for a ramble in the Campagna and the weather proving hot, refused to take off his coat when his companions threw off theirs...
    QO 8.198 24 Swedenborg threw a formidable theory into the world...
    LLNE 10.331 24 It was remarked that for a man who threw out so many facts [Everett] was seldom convicted of a blunder.
    Thor 10.456 19 ...[Thoreau]...threw himself heartily and childlike into the company of young people whom he loved...
    LS 11.12 20 ...[the disciples] threw all their property into a common stock;...
    EWI 11.117 22 The governors [of Jamaica], Lord Belmore, the Earl of Sligo, and afterwards Sir Lionel Smith (a governor of their own class who had been sent out to gratify the planters), threw themselves on the side of the oppressed...
    FSLN 11.219 12 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great name inferior men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave Law] and made the law.
    FSLN 11.224 12 Four years ago to-night...Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
    FSLN 11.230 25 [Reasonably men] answered...that...each was vying with his neighbor to lead the [Democratic] party, by proposing the worst measure, and they threw themselves on the extreme conservatism, as a drag on the wheel...
    TPar 11.288 23 ...[the next generation] will read very intelligently in [Theodore Parker's] rough story...what part was taken by each actor [in Boston]; who threw himself into the cause of humanity...
    ALin 11.328 5 ...For [Lincoln] [Nature's] Old-World moulds aside she threw,/ And, choosing sweet clay from the breast/ Of the unexhausted West,/ With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,/ Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true./
    FRep 11.524 10 The record of the election now and then alarms people by the all but unanimous choice of a rogue and a brawler. But how was it done? What lawless mob burst into the polls and threw in these hundreds of ballots in defiance of the magistrates?
    Milt1 12.269 18 ...[Milton] threw himself...on the side of the reeking conventicle;...
    EurB 12.368 5 ...Wordsworth threw himself into his place...

threwest, v. (1)

    WD 7.175 9 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols...was that clay which thou heldest but now in thy foolish hands, and threwest away to go and seek in vain in sepulchres, mummy-pits and old book-shops of Asia Minor, Egypt and England.

thrice, adv. (2)

    OA 7.335 18 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed, for it was not yet time for any news to arrive. The informer...insisted on repairing to the meeting-house, and proclaimed it aloud to the congregation, who were so overjoyed that they rose in their seats and cheered thrice.
    MoL 10.245 17 Ernest Renan finds that Europe has thrice assembled for exhibitions of industry, and not a poem graced the occasion;...

thrift, n. (11)

    DSA 1.149 9 There are...men to whom a crisis...demanding not the faculties of prudence and thrift...comes graceful and beloved as a bride.
    Con 1.312 2 ...to thy industry and thrift and small condescension to the established usage,-scores of servants are swarming...to thy command;...
    Lov1 2.183 16 Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift...
    Prd1 2.234 15 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only...the thrift of the agriculturist, to stick a tree between whiles, because it will grow whilst he sleeps;...
    ET10 5.156 10 [The English] proceed logically by the double method of labor and thrift.
    ET17 5.296 12 Miss Martineau...praised [Wordsworth] to me not for his poetry, but for thrift and economy;...
    Wth 6.126 22 The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane;...
    DL 7.111 6 ...what idea predominates in our houses? Thrift first, then convenience and pleasure.
    WD 7.167 19 [Hesiod's Works and Days] is full of economies for Grecian life, noting...the rules of household thrift and of hospitality.
    Chr2 10.89 1 Shun passion, fold the hands of thrift,/ Sit still, and Truth is near;/...
    Bost 12.206 5 When men saw that these people [of Boston], besides their industry and thrift, had a heart and soul...they desired to come and live here.

thriftless, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.61 15 ...the clear-headed thinker complains of souls led hither and thither by affections, which, alone, are blind guides and thriftless workmen...

thrifty, adj. (6)

    Pow 6.60 10 Here is question, every spring...whether to whitewash, or to potash, or to prune; but the one point is the thrifty tree.
    Pow 6.62 2 We prosper with such vigor that like thrifty trees, which grow in spite of ice, lice, mice and borers, so we do not suffer from the profligate swarms that fatten on the national treasury.
    Farm 7.147 24 The roots that shot deepest, and the stems of happiest exposure, drew the nourishment from the rest, until the less thrifty perished and manured the soil for the stronger...
    Milt1 12.255 18 Franklin's man is a frugal, inoffensive, thrifty citizen...
    Let 12.403 13 From Massachusetts to Illinois...the proofs of thrifty cultivation abound;...
    Let 12.404 27 Many of the best must die of consumption...and many be stupid and insane, before the one great and fortunate life which they each predicted can shoot up into a thrifty and beneficent existence.

thrill, n. (5)

    OS 2.281 9 A thrill passes through all men at the reception of new truth...
    Cir 2.309 5 Generalization is always a new influx of the divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.
    Int 2.334 9 So lies the whole series of natural images with which your life has made you acquainted, in your memory, though you know it not; and a thrill of passion flashes light on their dark chamber...
    Clbs 7.227 22 ...in higher activity of mind, every new perception is attended with a thrill of pleasure...
    PLT 12.53 5 I must think...this thrill of awe with which we watch the performance of genius, a sign of our own readiness to exert the like power.

thrill, v. (5)

    LT 1.262 18 [Persons] are the pungent instructors who thrill the heart of each of us...
    Pt1 3.6 6 Every touch [of nature] should thrill.
    Bty 6.287 6 ...the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
    PI 8.73 5 The high poetry which shall thrill and agitate mankind...is deeper hid...
    Mem 12.100 2 ...a principle of the reason will thrill and magnetize and redistribute the whole world.

thrilled, v. (1)

    Hist 2.38 2 Who knows himself before he has been thrilled with indignation at an outrage...

thrilling, adj. (1)

    CPL 11.501 3 [Thoreau writes] I think the best parts of Shakspeare would only be enhanced by the most thrilling and affecting events.

thrills, n. (3)

    Wth 6.84 21 ...Still, through [Matter's] motes and masses, draw/ Electric thrills and ties of Law/...
    WD 7.161 9 What shall we say of the ocean telegraph...whose sudden performance astonished mankind as if the intellect were...shooting the first thrills of life and thought through the unwilling brain?
    Chr2 10.102 5 ...the perpetual supply of new genius shocks us with thrills of life...

thrills, v. (3)

    CbW 6.255 7 ...Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts...
    PC 8.207 8 The heart still beats with the public pulse of joy that the country has withstood the rude trial which threatened its existence, and thrills with the vast augmentation of strength which it draws from this proof.
    MMEm 10.412 13 ...when Nature beams with such excess of beauty, when the heart thrills with hope in its Author...it exults, too fondly perhaps for a state of trial.

thrive, v. (7)

    MR 1.231 6 ...if [the young man] would thrive in [the employments of commerce], he must sacrifice all the brilliant dreams of boyhood and youth as dreams;...
    Exp 3.68 12 We thrive by casualties.
    Mrs1 3.153 3 ...the advantages which fashion values are plants which thrive in very confined localities...
    NMW 4.258 12 [Napoleon] did all that in him lay to live and thrive without moral principle.
    ET4 5.52 9 Certain temperaments suit the sky and soil of England...as, out of a hundred pear-trees, eight or ten suit the soil of an orchard and thrive...
    Farm 7.152 6 As [the first planter's] family thrive, and other planters come up around him, he begins to fell trees and clear good land;...
    CW 12.172 8 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through...and...other men not known widely but known at home, farmers... when witch-grass and nettles grew, causing a forest of apple-trees or miles of corn and rye to thrive.

thrives, v. (3)

    Imtl 8.335 3 The mind delights in immense time; delights...in the age of trees...in the noble toughness and imperishableness of the palm-tree, which thrives under abuse;...
    II 12.80 24 Plant the pitch-pine in a sand-bank, where is no food, and it thrives...
    Bost 12.209 4 ...thus our little city [Boston] thrives and enlarges...

thriving, adj. (3)

    ET5 5.96 4 The markets created by the manufacturing population [in England] have erected agriculture into a great thriving and spending industry.
    Schr 10.287 24 Give me bareness and poverty so that I know them as the sure heralds of the Muse. Not in plenty, not in a thriving, well-to-do condition, she delighteth.
    LVB 11.90 21 ...it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic, of the men and the matrons sitting in the thriving independent families all over the land, that [the Indians] shall be duly cared for;...

throat, n. (8)

    AmS 1.108 19 [The universal mind] is one central fire, which, flaming... now out of the throat of Vesuvius, illuminates the towers and vineyards of Naples.
    Exp 3.58 18 If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.
    GoW 4.276 17 ...[Goethe] flies at the throat of this imp [the Devil].
    ET6 5.104 15 [The Englishman's] vivacity betrays itself...in...the inarticulate noises he makes in clearing the throat;...
    ET9 5.146 23 ...so help him God! [the Englishman] will force his island by-laws down the throat of great countries, like India, China, Canada, Australia...
    Wsp 6.225 1 Here is a low political economy plotting to cut the throat of foreign competition and establish our own;...
    Comc 8.162 16 So painfully susceptible are some men to these impressions [of halfness], that if a man of wit come into the room where they are, it seems to take them out of themselves with violent convulsions of the face and sides, and obstreperous roarings of the throat.
    Carl 10.492 23 [Carlyle says] St. John was insulted by the Dutch; he came home, got the law passed that foreign vessels should pay high fees, and it cut the throat of the Dutch, and made the English trade.

throats, n. (2)

    NER 3.268 21 ...the ground on which eminent public servants urge the claims of popular education is fear; This country is filling up with thousands and millions of voters, and you must educate them to keep them from our throats.
    War 11.171 21 The attractiveness of war shows one thing through all the throats of artillery...

throb, n. (3)

    Hist 2.38 4 Who knows himself before he...has shared the throb of thousands in a national exultation or alarm?
    Suc 7.307 1 ...the heart at the centre of the universe with every throb hurls the flood of happiness into every artery, vein and veinlet...
    SHC 11.428 9 ...shalt thou pause to hear some funeral-bell/ Slow stealing o' er the heart in this calm place,/ Not with a throb of pain, a feverish knell,/ But in its kind and supplicating grace,/ It says, Go, pilgrim, on thy march, be more/ Friend to the friendless than thou wast before;/...

throb, v. (7)

    Lov1 2.176 1 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days when happiness was not happy enough...
    Nat2 3.167 5 Though baffled seers cannot impart/ The secret of [world's] laboring heart,/ Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast,/ And all is clear from east to west./
    Koss 11.397 24 ...[the people of Concord] think that the graves of our heroes around us throb to-day to a footstep that sounded like their own...
    Bost 12.182 10 Let the blood of [Boston's] hundred thousands/ Throb in each manly vein,/ And the wits of all her wisest/ Make sunshine in her brain./

throbbing, adj. (8)

    Lov1 2.169 23 The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heyday of the blood seems to require that in order to portray it in vivid tints, which every youth and maid should confess to be true to their throbbing experience, one must not be too old.
    Nat2 3.167 5 Though baffled seers cannot impart/ The secret of [world's] laboring heart,/ Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast,/ And all is clear from east to west./
    Boks 7.219 12 [The sacred books'] communications are not to be given or taken with the lips and the end of the tongue, but out of the glow of the cheek, and with the throbbing heart.
    LLNE 10.334 6 ...he [Everett] who was heard with such throbbing hearts and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded churches, did not let go his hearers when the church was dismissed...
    SMC 11.349 20 ...it is a piece of nature and the common sense that the throbbing chord that holds us to our kindred, our friends and our town, is not to be denied or resisted...

throbbing, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.193 11 Now, when [the stranger] comes, he may get the order, the dress and the dinner,--but the throbbing of the heart and the communications of the soul, no more.

throbbing, v. (2)

    Ctr 6.165 27 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...if Science with her telegraphs through the deeps of space and time can set his dull nerves throbbing...make way and sing paean!
    ALin 11.335 19 Step by step [Lincoln] walked before [the American people];...the pulse of twenty millions throbbing in his heart...

throbs, n. (2)

    DSA 1.135 16 I wish you may feel your call in throbs of desire and hope.
    Pt1 3.40 6 ...hence these throbs and heart-beatings in the orator...to the end namely that thought may be ejaculated as Logos, or Word.

throbs, v. (4)

    DSA 1.138 11 ...[this man's] heart throbs;...
    Tran 1.339 5 Man owns the dignity of the life which throbs around him...
    GoW 4.261 4 I find a provision in the constitution of the world for the writer, or secretary, who is to report the doings of the miraculous spirit of life that everywhere throbs and works.
    PPo 8.246 17 To be wise the dull brain so earnestly throbs,/ Bring bands of wine for the stupid head./

throe, n. (1)

    OS 2.274 27 ...by every throe of growth the man expands there where he works...

throes, n. (1)

    OA 7.327 6 The throes continue until the child is born.

throne, n. (25)

    Nat 1.72 24 This is such a resumption of power as if a banished king should buy his territories inch by inch, instead of vaulting at once into his throne.
    Con 1.312 10 The king on the throne governs for thee...
    Comp 2.99 17 ...[the President] is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
    Mrs1 3.136 24 I like that every chair should be a throne...
    NMW 4.242 3 The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that no longer the throne was occupied...by a small class of legitimates...
    NMW 4.254 2 [Napoleon] is unjust to his generals;...intriguing to involve his faithful Junot in hopeless bankruptcy, in order to drive him to a distance from Paris, because the familiarity of his manners offends the new pride of his throne.
    ET9 5.152 7 [George of Cappadocia] saved his money...and got promoted by a faction to the episcopal throne of Alexandria.
    ET13 5.219 17 The [English] national temperament deeply enjoys the unbroken order and tradition of its church;...the sober grace, the good company, the connection with the throne and with history, which adorn it.
    Pow 6.51 4 His tongue was framed to music,/ And his hand was armed with skill;/ His face was the mould of beauty,/ And his heart the throne of will./
    Art2 7.35 4 I framed his tongue to music,/ I armed his hand with skill,/ I moulded his face to beauty/ And his heart the throne of Will./
    Clbs 7.239 22 When Edward I. claimed to be acknowledged by the Scotch (1292) as lord paramount, the nobles of Scotland replied, No answer can be made while the throne is vacant.
    OA 7.322 10 ...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...elected at the age of ninety-six to the throne of the Eastern Empire...
    PI 8.42 19 Anything, child, that the mind covets, from the milk of a cocoa to the throne of the three worlds, thou mayest obtain, by keeping the law of thy members and the law of thy mind.
    PPo 8.240 26 When Solomon travelled, his throne was placed on a carpet of green silk...
    PPo 8.241 17 On the occasion of Solomon's marriage, all the beasts, laden with presents, appeared before his throne.
    PPo 8.263 26 In the fable [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations], the birds were soon weary of the length and difficulties of the way, and at last almost all gave out. Three only persevered, and arrived before the throne of the Simorg.
    PPo 8.265 21 You as three birds are amazed,/ Impatient, heartless, confused:/ Far over you am I raised,/ Since I am in act Simorg./ Ye blot out my highest being,/ That ye may find yourselves on my throne;/ Forever ye blot out yourselves,/ As shadows in the sun./ Farewell!/
    Chr2 10.119 16 ...[the infant soul's] narrow chapel expands to the blue cathedral of the sky, where he Looks in and sees each blissful deity,/ Where he before the thunderous throne doth lie./
    MMEm 10.423 24 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou, whose might has laid low the vastest and crushed the worm, restest on thy hoary throne...
    MMEm 10.430 8 I [Mary Moody Emerson] pray to die, though happier myriads and mine own companions press nearer to the throne.
    FSLC 11.201 11 Hills and Halletts, servile editors by the hundred, we could have spared. But [Webster]...the first man of the North, in the very moment of mounting the throne, irresistibly taking the bit in his mouth and the collar on his neck...
    FSLN 11.236 18 The Persian Saadi said, Beware of hurting the orphan. When the orphan sets a-crying, the throne of the Almighty is rocked from side to side.
    FRep 11.540 20 [The Constitution and the law in America] should be mankind's...Royal Proclamation of the Intellect ascending the throne...
    Milt1 12.245 4 I framed his tongue to music,/ I armed his hand with skill,/ I moulded his face to beauty,/ And his heart the throne of will./
    Milt1 12.260 15 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument... Such where the deep transported mind may soar/ Above the wheeling poles, and at Heaven's door/ Look in, and see each blissful deity,/ How he before the thunderous throne doth lie./

thrones, n. (7)

    Cir 2.307 25 We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.
    Ill 6.325 13 The young mortal enters the hall of the firmament; there is he alone with [the gods] alone, they...beckoning him up to their thrones.
    Ill 6.325 27 Every moment new changes and new showers of deceptions to baffle and distract [the young mortal]. And when...for an instant...the cloud lifts a little, there are the gods still sitting around him on their thrones,--they alone with him alone.
    Elo1 7.63 22 ...they are not kings who sit on thrones, but they who know how to govern.
    Chr2 10.118 12 ...in the new importance of the individual, when thrones are crumbling...society is threatened with actual granulation, religious as well as political.
    Carl 10.496 26 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe, when all thrones fell like card-houses...one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire...
    LS 11.15 7 Elsewhere [St. Paul] tells [the primitive Church] that at that time [the second coming of Christ], the world would be burnt up with fire, and a new government established, in which the Saints would sit on thrones;...

throng, n. (2)

    Lov1 2.173 1 Among the throng of girls [the village boy] runs rudely enough...
    NMW 4.252 13 I call Napoleon the agent or attorney...of the throng who fill the markets, shops, counting-houses, manufactories, ships, of the modern world...

throttles, v. (1)

    DSA 1.134 10 The injury to faith throttles the preacher;...

throw, n. (1)

    Con 1.301 8 If we read the world historically, we shall say, Of all the ages... this is the best throw of the dice of nature that has yet been, or that is yet possible.

throw, v. (54)

    Nat 1.27 2 Throw a stone into the stream, and the circles that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.
    LE 1.167 6 We assume that...what we say we only throw in as confirmatory of this supposed complete body of literature.
    Con 1.303 5 We have all a certain intellection or presentiment of reform existing in the mind, which does not yet descend into the character, and those who throw themselves blindly on this lose themselves.
    Con 1.322 21 Which is that state which promises to edify a great, brave, and beneficent man; to throw him on his resources...
    YA 1.379 13 Our part is plainly not to throw ourselves across the track, to block improvement...
    YA 1.390 7 That is [the hero's] nobility, his oath of knighthood...always to throw himself on the side of weakness, of youth, of hope;...
    YA 1.390 18 ...to one thing we are bound...not to throw stumbling-blocks in the way of the abolitionist...
    Comp 2.102 1 The value of the universe contrives to throw itself into every point.
    Comp 2.108 4 ...when the Thasians erected a statue to Theagenes, a victor in the games, one of his rivals went to it by night and endeavored to throw it down...
    Hsm1 2.258 21 ...[many extraordinary young men] seem to throw contempt on our entire polity and social state;...
    OS 2.290 18 The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...and so seek to throw a romantic color over their life.
    Art1 2.363 23 Art should...throw down the walls of circumstance on every side...
    Exp 3.53 25 I carry the keys of my castle in my hand, ready to throw them at the feet of my lord...
    Chr1 3.99 9 That exultation [in events] is only to be checked by the foresight of an order of things so excellent as to throw all our prosperities into the deepest shade.
    Pol1 3.208 25 Our quarrel with [political parties] begins when they quit this deep natural ground at the bidding of some leader, and...throw themselves into the maintenance and defence of points nowise belonging to their system.
    Pol1 3.217 11 Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world, alters the world.
    Pol1 3.218 3 [What we do] may throw dust in [our companions'] eyes, but does not smooth our own brow...
    NER 3.255 23 ...the country is frequently affording solitary examples of resistance to the government, solitary nullifiers, who throw themselves on their reserved rights;...
    PPh 4.53 9 [The Greeks] saw before them...no Indian caste, superinduced by the efforts of Europe to throw it off.
    SwM 4.111 21 The admirable preliminary discourses with which Mr. Wilkinson has enriched these volumes [by Swedenborg], throw all the contemporary philosophy of England into shade...
    SwM 4.132 21 An ardent and contemplative young man...might read once these books of Swedenborg...and then throw them aside for ever.
    NMW 4.251 6 Believe me, [Bonaparte] said...we had better leave off all these remedies: life is a fortress which neither you nor I know any thing about. Why throw obstacles in the way of its defence?
    GoW 4.263 24 A new thought or a crisis of passion apprises [the writer] that all that he has yet learned and written is exoteric,--is not the fact, but some rumor of the fact. What then? Does he throw away the pen?
    ET9 5.152 25 ...nobody can throw stones.
    F 6.47 11 A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature, as the equestrians in the circus throw themselves nimbly from horse to horse...
    Bhr 6.187 9 ...[Aspasia] adds good-humoredly, the movers and masters of our souls have surely a right to throw out their limbs as carelessly as they please...
    Elo1 7.73 5 ...Thucydides, when Archidamus, king of Sparta, asked him which was the best wrestler, Pericles or he, replied, When I throw him, he says he was never down, and he persuades the very spectators to believe him.
    WD 7.174 1 How difficult to deal erect with [these passing hours]! The events they bring...their urgent work, all throw dust in the eyes and distract attention.
    Suc 7.288 26 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is victory, without regard to the cause;...the way of the Talleyrands, prudent people...who detect the first moment of decline and throw themselves on the instant on the winning side.
    Suc 7.292 15 The gravest and learnedest courts in this country...will wait months and years for a case to occur that can be tortured into a precedent, and thus throw on a bolder party the onus of an initiative.
    SA 8.96 23 The main point is to throw yourself on the truth...
    Res 8.148 5 What can a poor truckman, who is hired to groan and to hiss, do, when the orator shakes him into convulsions of laughter so that he cannot throw his egg?
    PC 8.212 17 Geology...has had the effect to throw an air of novelty and mushroom speed over entire history.
    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./
    Aris 10.42 21 The [ancient] chief is taller by a head than any of his tribe. Douglas can throw the bar a greater cast.
    PerF 10.79 18 [The manufacturer's] friends dissuaded him, advised him to give up the work, which was not suited to the country. Why throw good money after bad?
    Edc1 10.143 26 ...I hear the outcry which replies to this suggestion:- Would you verily throw up the reins of public and private discipline;...
    SovE 10.202 1 [A man] may throw himself upon some sharp statement of one fact...with such concentration as to hide the universe from him: but the stars roll above;...
    MMEm 10.424 19 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or feel he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow,- labors, rather...
    Thor 10.465 19 There was nothing so important to [Thoreau] as his walk; he had no walks to throw away on company.
    Thor 10.475 25 [Thoreau]...liked to throw every thought into a symbol.
    Thor 10.476 5 [Thoreau]...knew well how to throw a poetic veil over his experience.
    EWI 11.119 27 ...the great island of Jamaica...resolved to throw up the two remaining years of apprenticeship, and to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.
    EWI 11.134 21 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and political men have found out...that [these neglected victims] have...no valuable business to throw into any man's hands...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    War 11.172 4 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a man]...should be himself a kingdom and a state;...quite willing to use the opportunities and advantages that good government throw in his way, but nothing daunted, and not really poorer if government, law and order went by the board;...
    FSLC 11.203 11 [Webster] indulged occasionally in excellent expression of the known feeling of the New England people [on slavery]: but...he omitted to throw himself into the movement in those critical moments when his leadership would have turned the scale.
    FSLN 11.241 9 Possession is sure to throw its stupid strength for existing power...
    FSLN 11.242 17 I listened, lately, on one of those occasions when the university chooses one of its distinguished sons returning from the political arena, believing that senators and statesmen would be glad to throw off the harness and to dip again in the Castalian pools.
    FRep 11.518 1 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of professional politicians...
    FRep 11.532 26 Young men at thirty and even earlier...if they fail in their first enterprise throw up the game.
    PLT 12.54 21 ...[a man] does not throw himself into his judgments;...
    MAng1 12.224 12 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.
    WSL 12.339 1 ...[Landor] delights to throw a clod of dirt on the table, and cry, Gentlemen, there is a better man than all of you.
    Trag 12.406 14 Men and women at thirty years, and even earlier...if they fail in their first enterprises, they throw up the game.

thrower's, n. (1)

    Comp 2.110 12 [Every opinion] is a thread-ball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains in the thrower's bag.

throwing, v. (5)

    LE 1.168 9 ...the pine throwing out its pollen for the benefit of the next century; the turpentine exuding from the tree...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].
    LT 1.269 21 How can such a question as the Slave-trade be agitated for forty years by...without throwing great light on ethics into the general mind?
    SovE 10.191 21 Man is always throwing his praise or blame on events...
    EWI 11.104 13 ...if we saw the runaways hunted with bloodhounds into swamps and hills; and, in cases of passion, a planter throwing his negro into a copper of boiling cane-juice,-if we saw these things with eyes, we too should wince.
    TPar 11.286 24 [Theodore Parker]...often amused himself with throwing his meaning into pretty apologues;...

thrown, v. (35)

    Nat 1.12 4 Whoever considers the final cause of the world will discern a multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result. They all admit of being thrown into one of the following classes: Commodity; Beauty; Language; and Discipline.
    AmS 1.82 15 Let us inquire what light new days and events have thrown on [the American Scholar's] character and his hopes.
    MN 1.206 5 [Every child]...is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos...
    Comp 2.110 11 [Every opinion] is a thread-ball thrown at a mark...
    Comp 2.110 16 ...[every opinion] is a harpoon hurled at the whale, unwinding, as it flies, a coil of cord in the boat, and, if the harpoon is not good, or not well thrown, it will go nigh to cut the steersman in twain or sink the boat.
    Lov1 2.183 21 In the procession of the soul from within outward, it enlarges its circles ever, like the pebble thrown into the pond...
    Pt1 3.23 5 This atom of seed is thrown into a new place...
    NER 3.274 21 The heroes of ancient and modern fame...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully played, but the stake not to be so valued but that any time it could be held as a trifle light as air, and thrown up.
    ShP 4.200 25 The translation of Plutarch gets its excellence by being translation on translation. There never was a time when there was none. All the truly idiomatic and national phrases are kept, and all others successively picked out and thrown away.
    GoW 4.266 1 ...there is a certain ridicule...thrown on the scholars or clerisy...
    ET10 5.170 16 [England's] prosperity, the splendor which so much manhood and talent and perseverance has thrown upon vulgar aims, is the very argument of materialism.
    ET13 5.216 23 The Catholic Church, thrown on this toiling, serious people [of England], has made in fourteen centuries a massive system...
    ET18 5.305 11 There is cramp limitation in [Englishmen's] habit of thought...and a tortoise's instinct to hold hard to the ground with his claws, lest he should be thrown on his back.
    Pow 6.59 20 Nothing that [the weaker party] knows will quite hit the mark, whilst all the rival's arrows are good, and well thrown.
    Ctr 6.141 15 ...a large part of our cost and pains is thrown away.
    Wsp 6.199 7 ...Thrown to lions for their meat,/ The crouching lion kissed his feet/...
    CbW 6.256 2 California gets peopled and subdued, civilized in this immoral way, and on this fiction a real prosperity is rooted and grown. 'T is a decoy-duck; 't is tubs thrown to amuse the whale;...
    Ill 6.325 4 It would be hard to put more mental and moral philosophy than the Persians have thrown into a sentence...
    Civ 7.33 12 ...it is frivolous to insist on the invention...of...percussion-caps and rubber-shoes, which are toys thrown off from that security, freedom and exhilaration which a healthy morality creates in society.
    Elo1 7.82 12 The audience [if there be personality in the orator] is thrown into the attitude of pupil...
    Clbs 7.248 3 ...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis, as it...puts pedantry and business to the door. ...the ordinary reserves are thrown off...
    Insp 8.280 2 The Arabs say that Allah does not count from life the days spent in the chase, that is, those are thrown in.
    Dem1 10.8 11 Wise and sometimes terrible hints shall in [dreams] be thrown to the man...
    Aris 10.58 13 I have heard that in horsemanship he is not the good rider who never was thrown...
    Aris 10.58 15 I have heard that in horsemanship...a man never will be a good rider until he is thrown;...
    SovE 10.208 8 We are thrown back on rectitude forever and ever, only rectitude,-to mend one;...
    MoL 10.242 4 [The scholar]...is born one or two centuries too early for the rough and sensual population into which he is thrown.
    LLNE 10.334 21 When Massachusetts was full of [Everett's] fame it was not contended that he had thrown any truths into circulation.
    Thor 10.454 25 A fine house, dress, the manners and talk of highly cultivated people were all thrown away on [Thoreau].
    EWI 11.140 15 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat the underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners...
    EWI 11.140 24 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea...the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners: they had a right to do what they had done. Lord Mansfield is reported to have said on the bench, The matter left to the jury is,-Was it from necessity? For they had no doubt...that the case of slaves was the same as if horses had been thrown overboard.
    FSLC 11.185 11 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime...
    ALin 11.332 21 ...how [Lincoln's] good nature became a noble humanity, in many a tragic case which the events of the war brought to him, every one will remember; and with what increasing tenderness he dealt when a whole race was thrown on his compassion.
    Scot 11.466 22 In the number and variety of his characters [Scott] approaches Shakspeare. Other painters in verse or prose have thrown into literature a few type-figures; as Cervantes, De Foe...
    ACri 12.295 3 We cannot...give any account of [Shakespeare's] existence, but only the fact that there was a wonderful symbolizer and expressor...who has thrown an accidental lustre over his time and subject.

throws, n. (1)

    CbW 6.250 20 Nature...only hits the white once in a million throws.

throws, v. (29)

    Nat 1.23 15 The production of a work of art throws a light upon the mystery of humanity.
    Hist 2.5 17 This [identification with history] throws our actions into perspective...
    SR 2.59 26 [Virtue] is it which throws thunder into Chatham's voice...
    SR 2.89 12 He who knows that power is inborn...and, so perceiving, throws himself unhesitatingly on his thought, instantly rights himself...
    Comp 2.118 5 The wise man throws himself on the side of his assailants.
    Pt1 3.27 11 ...the traveller who has lost his way throws his reins on his horse's neck...
    Exp 3.83 7 I can very confidently announce one or another law, which throws itself into relief and form...
    PNR 4.89 22 In his eighth book of the Republic, [Plato] throws a little mathematical dust in our eyes.
    ShP 4.213 15 This [power of expression] is that which throws [Shakespeare] into natural history...
    NMW 4.232 7 [Bonaparte] sees where the matter hinges, throws himself on the precise point of resistance...
    ET18 5.302 15 We cannot go deep enough into the biography of the spirit who never throws himself entire into one hero...
    F 6.25 27 This insight [of truth] throws us on the party and interest of the Universe...
    F 6.39 6 ...the world throws its life into a hero or a shepherd...
    Pow 6.76 25 The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency...but who throws himself on your part so heartily that he can get you out of a scrape.
    Wsp 6.240 21 When [man's] mind is illuminated...he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order...
    Civ 7.33 19 ...a purer morality...casts backward all that we held sacred into the profane, as the flame of oil throws a shadow when shined upon by the flame of the Bude-light.
    Farm 7.148 6 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps.
    SA 8.81 26 ...trying experiments, and at perfect leisure with these posture-masters and flatterers all day, [the babe] throws himself into all the attitudes that correspond to theirs.
    Elo2 8.114 22 For the time, [the orator's] exceeding life throws all other gifts into shade...
    PPo 8.249 21 Hafiz...tears off his turban and throws it at the head of the meddling dervish...
    PPo 8.249 22 Hafiz...tears off his turban and throws it at the head of the meddling dervish, and throws his glass after the turban.
    PerF 10.84 8 ...this child of the dust throws himself by obedience into the circuit of the heavenly wisdom, and shares the secret of God.
    SovE 10.191 5 Humanity sits at the dread loom and throws the shuttle...
    MMEm 10.422 13 ...the gray-headed god [Time] throws his shadows all around...
    MMEm 10.422 15 ...the gray-headed god [Time] throws his shadows all around, and his slaves catch...at the halo he throws around poetry, or pebbles, bugs, or bubbles.
    Carl 10.492 17 [Carlyle] throws himself readily on the other side.
    ALin 11.332 7 In a host of young men that start together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial;...each has some disqualifying fault that throws him out of the career.
    PLT 12.39 7 A man of talent has only to name any form or fact with which we are most familiar, and the strong light which he throws on it enhances it to all eyes.
    PPr 12.380 6 ...he is the commander...whose eye not only sees details, but throws crowds of details into their right arrangement...

thrush, n. (3)

    SwM 4.136 9 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.
    SHC 11.435 24 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...the oriole, robin, purple finch, bluebird, thrush...will find out the hospitality and protection from the gun of this asylum...
    PLT 12.22 7 A fish in like manner is man furnished to live in the sea; a thrush, to fly in the air;...

thrushes, n. (2)

    PI 8.26 6 ...a cow does not...show or affect any interest in...the song of thrushes.
    CW 12.171 3 When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, bobolinks and thrushes, which were not charged in the bill;...

thrust, v. (13)

    Gts 3.165 11 I find that I am not much to you;...you do not feel me; then am I thrust out of doors...
    Pol1 3.218 2 ...[what we do] does not satisfy us, whilst we thrust it on the notice of our companions.
    MoS 4.184 23 Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and passion without bounds...but, on the first motion to prove his strength,-- hands, feet, senses, gave way and would not serve him. He was an emperor...left to whistle by himself, or thrust into a mob of emperors, all whistling...
    Wsp 6.237 5 [Benedict said] Is it a question whether to put [the sick woman] into the street? Just as much whether to thrust the little Jenny on your arm into the street.
    Wsp 6.237 7 [Benedict said] Thrust the [sick] woman out, and you thrust your babe out of doors...
    Wsp 6.237 8 [Benedict said] Thrust the [sick] woman out, and you thrust your babe out of doors...
    Chr2 10.121 16 Swedenborg said, that, in the spiritual world, when one wishes to rule, or despises others, he is thrust out of doors.
    FSLC 11.202 4 [Webster] must learn...that he who was their pride in the woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification...they have thrust his speeches into the chimney.
    ALin 11.328 21 [The people] knew that outward grace is dust;/ They could not choose but trust/ In that sure-footed mind's [Lincoln's] unfaltering skill./ And supple-tempered will/ That bent, like perfect steel, to spring again and thrust./
    FRep 11.518 4 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of professional politicians, who...thrust their unworthy minority into the place of the old aristocracy on the one side...
    II 12.70 23 ...[Inspiration] has the royal expedient to thrust Nature between him and you...
    CW 12.178 10 ...the top of the tree is also a tap-root thrust into the public pocket of the atmosphere.
    Let 12.400 11 ...is [a man] driven into a circumstance where the spirit must not live? Let him thrust it from him with scorn, and learn to dig and plough.

thrusting, v. (2)

    ET4 5.58 25 A pair of [Norse] kings, after dinner, will divert themselves by thrusting each his sword through the other's body...
    Suc 7.289 22 [Egotists] are ever thrusting this pampered self between you and them.

thrusts, n. (1)

    PPr 12.385 5 The wit [of Carlyle's Past and Present] has eluded all official zeal; and yet...these cunning thrusts, this flaming sword of Cherubim waved high in air...shows to the eyes of the universe every wound it inflicts.

thrusts, v. (3)

    Hsm1 2.253 11 ...the soul of a better quality thrusts back the unreasonable economy into the vaults of life...
    Chr2 10.97 16 The excellence of Jesus...is, that he affirms the Divinity in him and in us,-not thrusts himself between it and us.
    ALin 11.337 21 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which...thrusts aside enemy and obstruction...

Thucydides, n. (7)

    LE 1.170 19 Thucydides, Livy, have only provided materials.
    Hist 2.14 19 We have the civil history of [the Greek] people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given it;...
    Elo1 7.73 3 Plutarch tells us that Thucydides, when Archidamus, king of Sparta, asked him which was the best wrestler, Pericles or he, replied, When I throw him, he says he was never down, and he persuades the very spectators to believe him.
    Plu 10.302 16 [Plutarch] disowns any attempt to rival Thucydides;...
    Plu 10.302 17 ...I suppose [Plutarch] has a hundred readers where Thucydides finds one...
    Plu 10.302 18 ...I suppose [Plutarch] has a hundred readers where Thucydides finds one, and Thucydides must often thank Plutarch for that one.
    WSL 12.347 15 [Landor] has illustrated the genius of Homer, Aeschylus, Pindar, Euripides, Thucydides.

Thucydides's, n. (1)

    Plu 10.310 22 [Plutarch] quotes Thucydides's saying that not the desire of honor only never grows old, but much less also the inclination to society and affection to the State...

thumb, n. (4)

    Ctr 6.131 15 If [nature] wants a thumb, she makes one at the cost of arms and legs...
    Civ 7.22 15 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran and picked him up with her finger and thumb...
    WD 7.157 15 The apprentice clings to his foot-rule; a practised mechanic will measure by his thumb and his arm with equal precision;...
    Insp 8.295 1 Neither by sea nor by land, said Pindar, canst thou find the way to the Hyperboreans; neither by...rule of three or rule of thumb.

thumbnail, n. [thumb-nail,] (2)

    Nat2 3.180 19 The whole code of [nature's] laws may be written on the thumbnail...
    Dem1 10.10 5 It is no wonder that particular dreams and presentiments should fall out and be prophetic. The fallacy consists in selecting a few insignificant hints, when all are inspired with the same sense. As if one should exhaust his astonishment at the economy of his thumb-nail, and overlook the central causal miracle of his being a man.

thumping, v. (2)

    Pt1 3.35 27 The noise which at a distance appeared like gnashing and thumping, on coming nearer was found to be the voice of disputants.
    SwM 4.142 27 ...when [Behmen] asserts that, in some sort, love is greater than God, his heart beats so high that the thumping against his leathern coat is audible across the centuries.

thumps, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.209 3 In creeds never was such levity; witness...the rat and mouse revelation, thumps in table-drawers, and black art.

thunder, n. (12)

    MN 1.196 16 ...the thunder is a surface phenomenon...
    SR 2.59 26 [Virtue] is it which throws thunder into Chatham's voice...
    Hsm1 2.249 25 ...neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let [a man] take both reputation and life in his hand...
    Pt1 3.26 27 ...there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man] can draw, by...suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him; then he is caught up into the life of the Universe, his speech is thunder...
    PPh 4.60 5 What moderation and understatement and checking [Plato's] thunder in mid volley!
    ET2 5.27 25 ...in hurrying over these abysses [of the sea], whatever dangers we are running into, we are certainly running out of the risks of hundreds of miles every day, which have their own chances of squall, collision, sea-stroke, piracy, cold and thunder.
    ET5 5.94 13 [England's] short rivers do not afford water-power, but the land shakes under the thunder of the mills.
    ET14 5.258 22 For a self-conceited modish life...there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness. That astonishes and disconcerts English decorum. For once, there is thunder it never heard...
    PI 8.12 1 Note our incessant use of the word like...like thunder, like a bee...
    QO 8.196 20 ...many men can write better under a mask than for themselves; as...I doubt not, many a young barrister in chambers in London, who forges good thunder for the Times...
    Milt1 12.275 2 Milton's sublimest song, bursting into heaven with its peals of melodious thunder, is the voice of Milton still.
    Trag 12.416 16 Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature... has given me a temperament like a block of marble. Thunder cannot move it;...

Thunder, Roaring, Indians, (1)

    Comc 8.165 10 The Society in London which had contributed their means to convert the savages, hoping doubtless to see the...Roaring Thunders and Tustanuggees...converted into church-wardens and deacons at least, pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations... touching the conversion of the Indians...

thunder, v. (3)

    Nat 1.40 27 ...every animal function from the sponge up to Hercules, shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    Art2 7.49 27 Not [the orator's] will, but...the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.
    ALin 11.329 23 ...perhaps, at this hour, when the coffin which contains the dust of the President [Lincoln] sets forward...on its way to his home in Illinois, we might well be silent, and suffer the awful voices of the time to thunder to us.

thunderbolt, n. (10)

    MN 1.196 15 The new book says, I will give you the key to nature, and we expect to go like a thunderbolt to the centre.
    Hist 2.19 7 ...the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove.
    NMW 4.237 7 A thunderbolt in the attack, [Napoleon] was found invulnerable in his intrenchments.
    Supl 10.161 2 When wrath and terror changed Jove's port/ And the rash-leaping thunderbolt fell short./
    Schr 10.277 25 It is excellent when the individual is ripened to that degree that he touches both the centre and the circumference, so that he...alternates the contemplation of the fact in pure intellect, with the total conversion of the intellect into energy; Jove, and the thunderbolt launched from his hand.
    EPro 11.314 23 My will fulfilled shall be,/ For in daylight or in dark,/ My thunderbolt has eyes to see/ His way home to the mark./
    HCom 11.343 13 It is a principle of war, said Napoleon, that when you can use the thunderbolt you must prefer it to the cannon.
    HCom 11.343 14 It is a principle of war, said Napoleon, that when you can use the thunderbolt you must prefer it to the cannon. Enthusiasm was the thunderbolt [in the Civil War].
    FRep 11.530 25 The spread eagle...must keep his wings to carry the thunderbolt when he is commanded.
    CInt 12.121 13 Do you suppose that the thunderbolt falls short?

thunderbolts, n. (2)

    LE 1.180 10 ...[Napoleon] had a sublime confidence...in the sallies of courage...which, at the right moment...demolished cavalry, infantry, king, and kaisar, as with irresistible thunderbolts.
    Bty 6.283 3 ...a man is a fagot of thunderbolts.

thunder-clap, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.89 18 This inequality of the reputation to the works or the anecdotes is not accounted for by saying that the reverberation is longer than the thunder-clap...

thunderclouds, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.243 4 ...Thunderclouds are Jove's festoons/...

thunder-gust, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.387 1 ...I well remember [Ezra Ripley's] his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil his hay.

thundering, v. (2)

    Comc 8.170 1 ...on the back of [Astley's] waistcoat a gay cascade was thundering down the rocks with foam and rainbow...
    Chr2 10.104 21 The moral sentiment is the perpetual critic on these [religious] forms, thundering its protest...

thunderous, adj. (3)

    Cour 7.256 11 ...any man who puts his life in peril in a cause which is esteemed becomes the darling of all men. The very nursery-books...the thunderous emphasis which orators give to every martial defiance and passage of arms, and which the people greet, may testify.
    Chr2 10.119 16 ...[the infant soul's] narrow chapel expands to the blue cathedral of the sky, where he Looks in and sees each blissful deity,/ Where he before the thunderous throne doth lie./
    Milt1 12.260 15 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument... Such where the deep transported mind may soar/ Above the wheeling poles, and at Heaven's door/ Look in, and see each blissful deity,/ How he before the thunderous throne doth lie./

thunders, n. (6)

    Comp 2.106 17 [Jove] cannot get his own thunders; Minerva keeps the key of them...
    Comp 2.106 21 [Jove] cannot get his own thunders; Minerva keeps the key of them:--Of all the gods, I only know the keys/ That ope the solid doors within whose vaults/ His thunders sleep./
    ET13 5.229 10 ...the religion of the day is a theatrical Sinai, where the thunders are supplied by the property-man.
    Art2 7.47 18 Our arts are happy hits. We are...like a traveller surprised by a mountain echo, whose trivial word returns to him in romantic thunders.
    WD 7.169 10 In college terms, and in years that followed, the young graduate, when the Commencement anniversary returned, though he were in a swamp, would...find the air faintly echoing with plausive academic thunders.
    War 11.171 21 The attractiveness of war shows one thing through...the thunders of so many sieges...

thunders, v. (4)

    Wth 6.88 3 ...here we must recite the iron law which nature thunders in these northern climates.
    SA 8.96 19 Don't say things. What you are...thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
    FSLN 11.237 5 The terror which the Marseillaise struck into oppression, it thunders again to-day...
    Trag 12.407 9 [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...

thunder-storm, n. (5)

    SA 8.94 21 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged circle at Coppet, that after making an excursion one day, the party returned in two coaches from Chambery to Aix, on the way to Coppet. The first coach had many rueful accidents to relate,--a terrific thunder-storm...
    SA 8.94 24 The party in the second coach, on arriving, heard this story with surprise;--of thunder-storm, of steeps, of mud, of danger, they knew nothing;...
    Insp 8.273 13 ...this quick ebb of power,-as if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand,-tantalizes us.
    SMC 11.353 3 A thunder-storm at sea sometimes reverses the magnets in the ship...
    SMC 11.364 6 It looked very much like a severe thunder-storm, writes the captain [George Prescott] and I knew the men would all have to sleep out of doors, unless we carried [tent-poles].

thunder-stricken, adj. (1)

    Ill 6.317 26 ...the best soldiers, sea-captains and railway men have a gentleness when off duty, a good-natured admission that there are illusions, and who shall say that he is not their sport? We stigmatize the cast-iron fellows who cannot so detach themselves, as...thunder-stricken...

thunderstroke, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.196 21 ...if you have headache...or thunderstroke, I beseech you...to hold your peace...

thunder-tones, n. (1)

    MLit 12.331 22 Poetry is with Goethe thus external...but the Muse never assays those thunder-tones which cause to vibrate the sun and the moon...

Thurlow, Edward, n. (3)

    ET5 5.90 17 They are excellent judges in England of a good worker, and when they find one, like...Ashley, Burke, Thurlow...there is nothing too good or too high for him.
    WD 7.159 21 Lord Chancellor Thurlow thought [steam] might be made to draw bills and answers in chancery.
    PerF 10.85 7 ...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of debate, and says, I will know how with this weapon to defend the cause that will pay best...

Thursday, adj. (2)

    Elo2 8.127 12 ...when once going to preach the Thursday lecture in Boston...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned...
    EzRy 10.387 10 ...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain.

Thursday Lecture, n. (1)

    Pow 6.68 14 Men of this surcharge of arterial blood...cannot satisfy all their wants at the Thursday Lecture or the Boston Athenaeum.

Thursday, n. (1)

    HDC 11.63 19 ...the country people came armed into Boston, on the afternoon (of Thursday, 18th April)...

thwart, v. (3)

    SL 2.133 10 ...education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism...
    SA 8.91 2 [The highly organized person] of all men would...feel that the exclusions are in the interest of the admissions, though they happen at this moment to thwart his wishes.
    Dem1 10.23 23 The fault of most men is that they...interfere and thwart the instructions of their own minds.

thwarted, v. (1)

    Int 2.328 11 I have been floated into hour...by secret currents of might and mind, and my ingenuity and wilfulness have not thwarted, have not aided to an appreciable degree.

thwarting, v. (1)

    Edc1 10.143 18 By your tampering and thwarting and too much governing [the pupil] may be hindered from his end...

thwarts, v. (1)

    Trag 12.408 20 The law which establishes nature and the human race, continually thwarts the will of ignorant individuals...

thyme, n. (2)

    ET16 5.277 16 Within the enclosure [of Stonehenge] grow buttercups, nettles, and all around, wild thyme, daisy, meadowsweet, goldenrod, thistle and the carpeting grass.
    Thor 10.475 18 [Thoreau's] own verses are often rude and defective. The gold...is drossy and crude. The thyme and marjoram are not yet honey.

Tibboos, rock-, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.119 21 In the deserts of Borgoo the rock-Tibboos still dwell in caves...

Tiber River, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.226 3 [Michelangelo] was charged with rebuilding the Pons Palatinus over the Tiber.

ticket, n. (4)

    Wth 6.94 20 To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the master-works and chief men of each race.
    CbW 6.262 23 ...when you pay for your ticket and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.
    Edc1 10.138 16 I like...boys, who have the same liberal ticket of admission to all shops...as flies have;...
    Wom 11.421 24 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote,-how many gentlemen...standing at the door of the polls, give every innocent citizen his ticket as he comes in, informing him that this is the vote of his party;...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.

tickets, n. (2)

    Wth 6.119 9 Now, the farmer buys almost all he consumes,--tinware, cloth, sugar, tea, coffee, fish, coal, railroad tickets and newspapers.
    Ctr 6.143 14 These minor skills and accomplishments...are tickets of admission to the dress-circle of mankind...

tickle, v. (3)

    Prd1 2.240 16 Undoubtedly we...can easily whisper names prouder, and that tickle the fancy more.
    Boks 7.216 17 ...the novelist plucks this event here and that fortune there, and ties them rashly to his figures, to tickle the fancy of his readers with a cloying success...
    Plu 10.304 13 ...[Plutarch] says:-Do you not observe, some one will say, what a grace there is in Sappho's measures, and how they delight and tickle the ears and fancies of the hearers?

tickled, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.193 22 Are we tickled trout, and fools of nature?

tickled, v. (3)

    DL 7.124 22 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away. The same jokes pleased, the same straws tickled;...
    Suc 7.292 9 ...we are tickled by great names;...
    Comc 8.174 4 Mirth quickly becomes intemperate, and the man would soon die of inanition, as some persons have been tickled to death.

tickling, adj. (2)

    PI 8.64 23 Bring us...poetry which tastes the world and reports of it, upbuilding the world again in the thought;--Not with tickling rhymes,/ But high and noble matter, such as flies/ From brains entranced, and filled with ecstasies./
    SlHr 10.446 3 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability...and not for tickling commodity, that it was admirable...

ticklish, adj. (1)

    MoS 4.167 16 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough.

Ticonderoga, New York, n. (2)

    MMEm 10.400 5 [Mary Moody Emerson's] father...went as chaplain to the the American army at Ticonderoga...
    HDC 11.78 2 ...[William Emerson] asked, and obtained of the town [Concord], leave to accept the commission of chaplain to the Northern army, at Ticonderoga...

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