Weaned to Weevil

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

weaned, v. (1)

    War 11.153 25 [Alexander's conquest of the East] weaned the Scythians and Persians from some cruel and licentious practices to a more civil way of life.

weans, n. (1)

    RBur 11.441 19 ...[Burns] has endeared...the dear society of weans and wife, of brothers and sisters...

weapon, n. (28)

    Nat 1.35 27 That which was unconscious truth, becomes...a new weapon in the magazine of power.
    LE 1.177 2 ...literary men...dealing with the organ of language...only fitly used as the weapon of thought and of justice,-learn to enjoy the pride of playing with this splendid engine...
    PPh 4.59 13 [Plato] has that opulence which furnishes, at every turn, the precise weapon he needs.
    PPh 4.59 20 There is indeed no weapon in all the armory of wit which [Plato] did not possess and use...
    MoS 4.171 24 Every superior mind...will know how to avail himself of the checks and balances in nature, as a natural weapon against the exaggeration and formalism of bigots and blockheads.
    NMW 4.228 18 It is an advantage, within certain limits, to have renounced the dominion of the sentiments of piety, gratitude and generosity; since what was an impassable bar to us, and still is to others, becomes a convenient weapon for our purposes;...
    NMW 4.236 24 [Napoleon] fought sixty battles. He had never enough. Each victory was a new weapon.
    NMW 4.240 8 [Napoleon's] grand weapon, namely the millions whom he directed, he owed to the representative character which clothed him.
    GoW 4.284 23 ...there is no weapon in the armory of universal genius [Goethe] did not take into his hand...
    ET4 5.59 1 Another pair [of Norse kings] ride out on a morning for a frolic, and finding no weapon near, will take the bits out of their horses' mouths and crush each other's heads with them...
    ET5 5.81 10 ...when [English] courts and parliament are both deaf, the plaintiff is not silenced. Calm, patient, his weapon of defence from year to year is the obstinate reproduction of the grievance...
    Pow 6.59 24 ...if [the weaker party] knew all the facts in the encyclopedia, it would not help him; for this is an affair...of aplomb: the opponent has...in every cast, the choice of weapon and mark;...
    Ctr 6.150 23 [The man of the world] calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon.
    Bhr 6.186 6 Society is very swift in its instincts, and, if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked;...
    Wsp 6.222 26 ...gossip is a weapon impossible to exclude from the privatest, highest, selectest.
    Wsp 6.224 23 To every creature is his own weapon...
    Elo1 7.64 8 Among the Spartans, the art [of eloquence] assumed a Spartan shape, namely, of the sharpest weapon.
    Boks 7.214 1 ...what is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy;...
    SA 8.95 16 Politics, war, party, luxury, avarice, fashion, are all asses with loaded panniers to serve the kitchen of Intellect, the king. There is nothing that does not pass into lever or weapon.
    Comc 8.163 16 Plutarch happily expresses the value of the jest as a legitimate weapon of the philosopher.
    PerF 10.85 8 ...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...
    Schr 10.280 18 Society...is dazzled and deceived by the weapon [of talent]...
    Thor 10.469 7 The other weapon with which [Thoreau] conquered all obstacles in science was patience.
    War 11.169 15 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace embraced by a nation, we may be assured it will...be...one against which no weapon can prosper;...
    ACiv 11.305 15 ...next winter we must begin at the beginning, and conquer [the South] over again. What use then...to capture a regiment of rebels? But one weapon we hold which is sure.
    ACiv 11.309 4 ...this measure [emancipation], to be effectual, must come speedily. The weapon is slipping out of our hands.
    Milt1 12.259 26 Among the advantages of his foreign travel, Milton certainly did not count it the least that it contributed to forge and polish that great weapon of which he acquired such extraordinary mastery,-his power of language.
    Milt1 12.266 17 His firm grasp of this truth [of Christian humility] is [Milton's] weapon against the prelates.

weapon, v. (1)

    Farm 7.135 8 ...[Farmers] prove the virtues of each bed of rock/ And, like the chemist mid his loaded jars,/ Draw from each stratum its adapted use/ To drug their crops or weapon their arts withal./

weaponed, adj. (1)

    EdAd 11.384 4 ...the train...shows our traveller what tens of thousands of powerful and weaponed men...sit at large in this ample region...

weaponed, v. (7)

    Tran 1.338 15 ...we have yet no man...who, working for universal aims, found himself...clothed, sheltered, weaponed, he knew not how...
    NR 3.229 15 We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements...
    NMW 4.257 6 Never was such a leader so endowed and so weaponed [as Napoleon];...
    Wsp 6.235 6 ...[Benedict said] in all the encounters that have yet chanced, I have not been weaponed for that particular occasion, and have been historically beaten;...
    Elo1 7.81 22 ...when [personal ascendency] is weaponed with a power of speech, it seems first to become truly human...
    Schr 10.277 15 I delight in men adorned and weaponed with manlike arts...
    FSLC 11.209 17 Nothing is impracticable to this nation, which it shall set itself to do. Were ever men so endowed, so placed, so weaponed?

weapons, n. (26)

    LT 1.261 5 The fact of aristocracy, with its two weapons of wealth and manners, is as commanding a feature of the nineteenth century...as of old Rome...
    UGM 4.7 20 ...each legitimate idea makes its own channels and welcome... weapons to fight with...
    ET4 5.57 23 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] have weapons which they use in a determined manner...
    ET4 5.59 20 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in battle, as long as he can stand, then orders his war-ship, loaded with his dead men and their weapons, to be taken out to sea...
    ET5 5.87 6 [The English] adopt every improvement in rig, in motor, in weapons...
    F 6.8 8 ...the forms of the shark...the weapons of the grampus...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.
    F 6.30 25 [The brave youth's] science is to make weapons and wings of these passions and retarding forces.
    Ctr 6.141 11 ...I think it the part of good sense to provide every fine soul with such culture that it shall not, at thirty or forty years, have to say, This which I might do is made hopeless through my want of weapons.
    Elo1 7.85 2 ...the splendid weapons which went to the equipment of Demosthenes, of Aeschines...deserve a special enumeration.
    Elo1 7.91 4 If you arm the man with the extraordinary weapons of this art [of oratory]...all these talents...have an equal power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator.
    Elo1 7.99 24 [Eloquence's] great masters...resembling the Arabian warrior of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt, and in personal combat used them all occasionally.--yet subordinated all means;...
    PI 8.50 2 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see how wide they fly for weapons...
    PI 8.59 21 [Odin] could make his enemies in battle blind or deaf, and their weapons so blunt that they could no more cut than a willow-twig.
    Elo2 8.130 13 ...such practical chemistry as the conversion of a truth written in God's language into a truth in Dunderhead's language, is one of the most beautiful and cogent weapons that are forged in the shop of the Divine Artificer.
    Comc 8.163 25 ...in Euripides, the Bacchae, though unprovided of iron weapons...wounded their invaders with the boughs of trees which they carried...
    Schr 10.278 25 [The scholar] is to forge out of coarsest ores the sharpest weapons.
    Schr 10.278 26 [The scholar] is to forge out of coarsest ores the sharpest weapons. But if the weapons are valued for themselves...they cannot serve him.
    Schr 10.283 26 The scholar...is unfurnished who has only literary weapons.
    Thor 10.467 15 One of the weapons [Thoreau] used...was a whim which grew on him by indulgence...
    EWI 11.141 3 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro; comprising cloths and loom, weapons...
    AsSu 11.247 16 In [the slave state]...man is an animal...spending his days in hunting and practising with deadly weapons to defend himself against his slaves and against his companions brought up in the same idle and dangerous way.
    II 12.85 6 [The source of thought's] whole equipment is new, and it can only fight with its own weapons.
    CL 12.148 19 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Because they drive the clouds, they have harnessed the spotted deer to their chariot; they are coming with weapons, war-cries and decorations.
    ACri 12.283 8 An enumeration of the few principal weapons of the poet or writer will at once suggest their value.
    ACri 12.293 21 Shakspeare might be studied for his dexterity in the use of these weapons [of rhetoric], if it were not for his heroic strength.
    EurB 12.374 6 The eye and the word are certainly far subtler and stronger weapons than either money or knives.

wear, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.202 6 ...he alone is victor who has truth enough in his constitution to preserve the delicacy of his beauty from the wear and tear of [Time, Want, Danger].

wear, v. (59)

    Nat 1.38 14 Water is good to drink, coal to burn, wool to wear;...
    DSA 1.131 10 ...even honesty and self-denial were but splendid sins, if they did not wear the Christian name.
    MR 1.231 18 ...we eat and drink and wear perjury and fraud in a hundred commodities.
    MR 1.247 14 If we...say,-I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent...we shall stand still.
    YA 1.380 2 ...Government in our times is beginning to wear a clumsy and cumbrous appearance.
    SR 2.51 9 If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy, shall that pass?
    SR 2.55 15 We come to wear one cut of face and figure...
    SR 2.63 3 Why all this deference to Alfred and Scanderbeg and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?
    Hsm1 2.255 25 ...these rare [heroic] souls set opinion, success, and life at so cheap a rate that they will not soothe their enemies by...the show of sorrow, but wear their own habitual greatness.
    Hsm1 2.256 26 Simple hearts...would appear, could we see the human race assembled in vision, like little children frolicking together, though to the eyes of mankind at large they wear a stately and solemn garb of works and influences.
    Pt1 3.36 11 ...the same man or society of men may wear one aspect to themselves and their companions, and a different aspect to higher intelligences.
    Exp 3.43 20 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Dearest Nature, strong and kind,/ Whispered, Darling, never mind!/ To-morrow they will wear another face,/ The founder thou! these are thy race!/
    Exp 3.79 22 Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color...
    Pol1 3.213 3 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. In these decisions all the citizens find a perfect agreement, and only in these; not in what is...good to wear...
    ET7 5.119 4 [The English] are not fond of ornaments, and if they wear them, they must be gems.
    ET8 5.135 26 [The English] do not wear their heart in their sleeve for daws to peck at.
    ET8 5.138 3 [The English] are...churlish as men sometimes please to be... who ask no favors and who will do what they like with their own. With education and intercourse, these asperities wear off...
    ET8 5.138 24 Our swifter Americans, when they first deal with English, pronounce them stupid; but, later, do them justice as people who wear well...
    ET9 5.152 18 Strange...that broad America must wear the name of a thief.
    ET11 5.177 27 Some of [the English aristocracy] are too old and too proud to wear titles...
    ET11 5.180 4 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth...
    ET11 5.180 14 A susceptible man could not wear a name which represented in a strict sense a city or a county of England, without hearing in it a challenge to duty and honor.
    ET11 5.186 27 [The English] wear the laws as ornaments...
    ET11 5.196 24 This is the charter, or the chartism, which fogs and seas and rains proclaimed [in England]...that work should wear the crown.
    ET14 5.247 7 The brilliant Macaulay...explicitly teaches that good means good to eat, good to wear...
    Wth 6.91 23 The world is full of fops...who had persuaded beauties and men of genius to wear their fop livery;...
    Ctr 6.151 26 An old poet says,--Go far and go sparing,/ For you 'll find it certain,/ The poorer and the baser you appear,/ The more you 'll look through still./ Not much otherwise Milnes writes in the Lay of the Humble,-- To me men are for what they are,/ They wear no masks with me./
    Wsp 6.234 1 Hafiz writes,--At the last day, men shall wear/ On their heads the dust,/ As ensign and as ornament/ Of their lowly trust.
    Ill 6.324 1 ...we transcend the circumstance continually and taste the real quality of existence; as...in our thoughts, which wear no silks and taste no ice-creams.
    SS 7.5 9 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such great terror of being shot, I, who am only waiting...to slip away into the back stars...there to wear out ages in solitude...
    DL 7.108 19 We are sure that the sacred form of man is not seen in these whimsical, pitiful and sinister masks (masks which we wear and which we meet)...
    DL 7.123 13 The innocent Venelas alone could wear [the magic mantle].
    Farm 7.142 21 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal proportions;...and it takes him long to understand its parts and its working. This pump never sucks;...the vat and piston, wheels and tires, never wear out...
    Farm 7.143 27 No particle of oxygen can rust or wear...
    WD 7.168 20 We wear [a holiday's] cockade and favors in our humor.
    Suc 7.282 10 ...If thou go in thine own likeness,/ Be it health or be it sickness;/ If thou go as thy father's son,/ If thou wear no mask or lie,/ Dealing purely and nakedly;--/...
    PI 8.5 19 ...we see that things wear different names and faces, but belong to one family;...
    PI 8.46 1 In society you have this figure [of rhyme]...in a funeral procession, where all wear black...
    SA 8.89 8 Welfare requires one or two companions of intelligence, probity and grace, to wear out life with...
    Res 8.139 12 The vat, the piston, the wheels and tires [of the earth], never wear out...
    QO 8.175 4 All things wear a lustre which is the gift of the present, and a tarnish of time.
    PPo 8.251 11 In general what is more tedious than dedications or panegyrics addressed to grandees? Yet in the Divan you would not skip them, since [Hafiz's] muse seldom supports him better:-What lovelier forms things wear,/ Now that the Shah comes back!/...
    Insp 8.268 11 ...if with bended head I grope/ Listening behind me for my wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More anxious to keep back than forward it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/ Unto the flame my heart has lit,/ Then will the verse forever wear,/ Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
    Imtl 8.338 17 I do not wish to live to wear out my boots.
    Aris 10.53 12 ...[the eloquent man] may wear his coat out at elbows...if he will.
    Chr2 10.110 22 ...what Christ meant and willed is in essence more with [the satirists of Christianity] than with their opponents, who only wear and misrepresent the name of Christ.
    Supl 10.165 9 ...one would not wear earthquake dresses or resurrection robes for a working jacket...
    Schr 10.274 10 Men of thought fail in fighting down malignity, because they wear other armor than their own.
    EzRy 10.391 4 Ingratitude and meanness in [Ezra Ripley's] beneficiaries did not wear out his compassion;...
    MMEm 10.424 22 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or feel he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow,- labors, rather-evanescent efforts, which will wear like flowerets in brighter soils;...
    War 11.151 9 Looked at in this general and historical way, many things wear a very different face from that they show near by, and one at a time...
    ACiv 11.309 26 It is the maxim of natural philosophers that the natural forces wear out in time all obstacles, and take place...
    SMC 11.375 4 Those who went through those dreadful fields [of the Civil War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay. But those also who went through the same fields, and returned alive...in other countries, would wear distinctive badges of honor as long as they lived.
    PLT 12.57 16 The men we know, poets, wits, writers, deal with their thoughts as jewellers with jewels, which they sell but must not wear.
    II 12.85 12 I think the reason why men fail in their conflicts is because they wear other armor than their own.
    CL 12.143 1 [DeQuincey said] [Wordsworth's] eyes are not under any circumstances bright, lustrous or piercing, but, after a long day's toil in walking, I have seen them assume an appearance the most solemn and spiritual that it is possible for the human eye to wear.
    Bost 12.202 17 The soul of a political party is by no means usually the officers and pets of the party, who wear the honors...
    ACri 12.302 7 Shakspeare says, A plague of opinion; a man can wear it on both sides, like a leather jerkin.
    Trag 12.413 11 A man should try Time, and his face should wear the expression of a just judge...

wearer, n. (3)

    Suc 7.289 5 Fuller says 't is a maxim of lawyers that a crown once worn cleareth all defects of the wearer thereof.
    Dem1 10.5 12 The very landscape and scenery in a dream seem...like a coat or cloak of some other person to overlap and encumber the wearer;...
    Dem1 10.20 21 ...the fabled ring of Gyges, making the wearer invisible...is simply mischievous.

wearied, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.414 21 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out this afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me...

wearied, v. (4)

    Hsm1. 2.252 7 ...[heroism] is...of a fortitude not to be wearied out.
    UGM 4.14 8 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden, who was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out or wearied by the most laborious...of Falkland...
    SwM 4.126 2 [To Swedenborg] They who place merit in good works seem to themselves to cut wood. I asked such, if they were not wearied? They replied, that they have not yet done work enough to merit heaven.
    SlHr 10.441 20 ...[Samuel Hoar] sometimes wearied his audience with the pains he took to qualify and verify his statements...

wearies, v. (3)

    Aris 10.58 24 ...I know no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose which...wearies out opposition...
    Carl 10.494 3 Mere intellectual partisanship wearies [Carlyle];...
    PPr 12.386 4 [Carlyle's] habitual exaggeration of the tone wearies whilst it stimulates.

weariness, n. (12)

    AmS 1.99 5 ...when...books are a weariness, - [the artist] has always the resource to live.
    PNR 4.86 18 [Plato] put in all the past, without weariness...
    SwM 4.138 7 That is active duty, say the Hindoos, which is not for our bondage;...all other duty is good only unto weariness.
    Bty 6.300 3 ...petulant old gentlemen, who have chanced to suffer some intolerable weariness from pretty people...affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
    SS 7.6 21 Even Swedenborg...who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make an extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live consociated...
    Boks 7.189 18 ...after reading to weariness the lettered backs [of books], we leave the shop with a sigh...
    Schr 10.281 4 We have seen to weariness what you [idealists] cannot do; now show us what you can and will do, asks the practical man...
    Schr 10.286 8 The scholar must be ready for...poverty, insult, weariness...
    MMEm 10.425 2 When the dreamy pages of life seem all turned and folded down to very weariness, even this idea of those who fill the hour with crowded virtues, lifts the spectator to other worlds...
    CPL 11.506 24 With [books] many of us spend the most of our life...these tractable prophets, historians, and singers...who now cast their moonlight illumination over solitude, weariness and fallen fortunes.
    Bost 12.191 8 ...the weariness of the sea, the shrinking from cold weather and the pangs of hunger must justify [the Plymouth colonists].
    MLit 12.333 11 When one of these grand monads is incarnated whom Nature seems to design for eternal men and draw to her bosom, we think that the old weariness of Europe and Asia, the trivial forms of daily life will now end...

wearing, v. (6)

    ET7 5.119 7 [The English] read gladly in old Fuller that a lady in the reign of Elizabeth, would have as patiently digested a lie, as the wearing of false stones...
    OA 7.322 16 We still feel the force...of Michel Angelo, wearing the four crowns of architecture, sculpture, painting and poetry;...
    Comc 8.171 6 ...among the women in the street, you shall see one...wearing withal an expression of meek submission to her bonnet and dress;...
    Supl 10.167 21 The people of English stock...are a solid people, wearing good hats and shoes...
    MMEm 10.410 4 When Mrs. Thoreau called on [Mary Moody Emerson] one day, wearing pink ribbons, she shut her eyes, and so conversed with her for a time.
    HDC 11.33 11 ...[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.

wearisome, adj. (6)

    Int 2.339 11 How wearisome the grammarian...whose balance is lost by the exaggeration of a single topic.
    Edc1 10.136 2 ...if [the moral nature] monopolize the man...he does not yet know his wealth. He is in danger of becoming...wearisome through the monotony of his thought.
    Supl 10.164 24 'T is very wearisome, this straining talk...
    Supl 10.172 1 'T is very different, this weak and wearisome lie, from the stimulus to the fancy which is given by a romancing talker who does not mean to be exactly taken...
    CSC 10.376 1 There was a great deal of wearisome speaking in each of those three-days' sessions [of the Chardon Street Convention]...
    War 11.167 8 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness;...he...accepts with alacrity wearisome tasks of denial and charity;...

wears, v. (18)

    Nat 1.8 1 Nature never wears a mean appearance.
    Nat 1.11 12 Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
    Nat 1.44 5 The granite is differenced in its laws only by the more or less of heat from the river that wears it away.
    Con 1.314 9 Under the richest robes...the strong heart will beat...with the desire to achieve its own fate and make every ornament it wears authentic and real.
    Lov1 2.186 14 ...as life wears on, it proves a game of permutation and combination of all possible positions of the parties...
    Hsm1 2.249 2 Seen from the nook and chimney-side of prudence, [life] wears a ragged and dangerous front.
    Exp 3.52 13 Men resist the conclusion in the morning, but adopt it as the evening wears on, that temper prevails over everything of time, place and condition...
    Exp 3.84 12 Life wears to me a visionary face.
    Chr1 3.99 11 The face which character wears to me is self-sufficingness.
    PPh 4.59 14 ...the rich man wears no more garments...than the poor...
    ET5 5.84 16 The Englishman wears a sensible coat buttoned to the chin...
    ET6 5.105 11 An Englishman...wears a wig, or a shawl, or a saddle, or stands on his head, and no remark is made.
    Wth 6.95 17 The Persians say, 'T is the same to him who wears a shoe, as if the whole earth were covered with leather.
    Ctr 6.155 5 ...a tender boy who wears his rusty cap and outgrown coat, that he may secure the coveted place in college...is educated to some purpose.
    OA 7.316 14 Nature lends herself to these illusions [of time], and adds dim sight...short memory and sleep. These also are masks, and all is not Age that wears them.
    HDC 11.83 27 For the most part, the town [Concord] has deserved the name it wears.
    PLT 12.36 9 [Pan] wears a coat of leopard spots or stars.
    CInt 12.129 20 Is it so important whether a man wears a shoe-buckle or ties his shoe-lappet with a string?

weary, adj. (26)

    Nat 1.40 9 Man is never weary of working [nature] up.
    Nat 1.43 9 [Xenophanes] was weary of seeing the same entity in the tedious variety of forms.
    Nat 1.58 24 ...[external beauty] is the frail and weary weed, in which God dresses the soul which he has called into time.
    MR 1.254 10 Love would put a new face on this weary old world in which we dwell as pagans and enemies too long...
    Con 1.296 7 Saturn grew weary of sitting alone...
    Hsm1 2.246 18 ...[To die] is to end/ An old, stale, weary work and to commence/ A newer and a better..../
    Art1 2.352 11 What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures...and what is...his love of painting, his love of nature, but a still finer success,--all the weary miles and tons of space and bulk left out...
    Art1 2.367 13 [Men] despatch the day's weary chores, and fly to voluptuous reveries.
    Pt1 3.23 17 ...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs,--a fearless, sleepless, deathless progeny, which is not exposed to the accidents of the weary kingdom of time;...
    NER 3.273 26 We are weary of gliding ghostlike through the world...
    Cour 7.256 17 How short a time since this whole nation rose every morning to read or hear the traits of courage of its sons and brothers in the field, and was never weary of the theme!
    PI 8.72 23 A little more or less skill in whistling is of no account. See those weary pentameter tales of Dryden and others.
    SA 8.97 23 ...[in the man of genius] is...always some weary, captious paradox to fight you with...
    Res 8.148 20 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...
    PPo 8.255 12 My phoenix long ago secured/ His nest in the sky-vault's cope;/ In the body's cage immured,/ He was weary of life's hope./
    PPo 8.263 23 In the fable [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations], the birds were soon weary of the length and difficulties of the way...
    MMEm 10.418 7 Weary at times of objects so tedious to hear and see.
    MMEm 10.419 18 ...so poor are some of those allotted to join me [Mary Moody Emerson] on the weary needy path, that 't is benevolence enjoins self-denial.
    MMEm 10.424 13 ...in the weary womb [of Time] are prolific numbers of the same sad hour...
    MMEm 10.427 23 Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely now, not whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then I ask not faith nor knowledge;...
    II 12.70 22 ...genius is as weary of [Inspiration's] personality as others are...
    MAng1 12.228 10 ...[Michelangelo] told Vasari that he often slept in his clothes [while painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling], both because he was too weary to undress, and because he would rise in the night and go immediately to work.
    MAng1 12.233 20 [Michelangelo] called external grace the frail and weary weed, in which God dresses the soul which he has called into Time.
    Milt1 12.265 2 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors...till the attention be weary...
    Pray 12.352 7 ...soon I am weary of spending my time causelessly and unimproved...
    Pray 12.352 12 ...thou, O my Father, knowest I always delight to commune with thee in my lone and silent heart; I am never full of thee; I am never weary of thee;...

weary, v. (2)

    MoS 4.156 21 [The skeptic says] I weary of these dogmatizers.
    MMEm 10.414 25 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out this afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me...I weary of my pilgrimage...

weather, n. (28)

    Con 1.320 10 [Conservatism's] social and political action has no better aim; to keep out wind and weather...
    Prd1 2.226 3 ...we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.
    Art1 2.360 14 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
    Nat2 3.169 14 These halcyons may be looked for with a little more assurance in that pure October weather which we distinguish by the name of the Indian summer.
    MoS 4.167 10 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] I like gray days, and autumn and winter weather.
    MoS 4.175 24 Our life is March weather...
    NMW 4.248 21 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains. The snow is then firm, the weather settled...
    ET2 5.31 14 'T is a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company and taverns steal from the best economist.
    ET5 5.77 8 Nobody landed on this spellbound island [England] with impunity. The enchantments of barren shingle and rough weather transformed every adventurer into a laborer.
    ET16 5.273 20 The fine weather and my friend's [Carlyle's] local knowledge of Hampshire...made the way short.
    Ctr 6.150 24 [The man of the world's] conversation clings to the weather and the news...
    Wsp 6.213 3 You say there is no religion now. 'T is like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun...
    Civ 7.21 19 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay. He is safe from the teeth of wild animals, from frost, sun-stroke and weather;...
    Farm 7.138 23 [The farmer] bends to the order of the seasons, the weather, the soils and crops...
    Farm 7.139 6 The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with...bad weather...
    SA 8.95 4 ...[the party in the second coach] had...breathed a purer air: such a conversation between Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier and Benjamin Constant and Schlegel! they were all in a state of delight. The intoxication of the conversation had made them insensible to all notice of weather or rough roads.
    Comc 8.169 23 ...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...
    Supl 10.169 25 The common people diminish: a cold snap; it rains easy; good haying weather.
    Schr 10.286 7 The scholar must be ready for bad weather...
    LLNE 10.356 7 Since the foxes and the birds have the right of it, with a warm hole to keep out the weather, and no more,-a pent-house to fend the sun and rain is the house which lays no tax on the owner's time and thoughts...
    EzRy 10.386 9 [Ezra Ripley's] prayers...for good weather;...are well remembered...
    EzRy 10.392 23 Mr. N. F. is dead, and I expect to hear of the death of Mr. B. It is cruel to separate old people from their wives in this cold weather.
    EzRy 10.393 5 [Ezra Ripley]...knew the weather like a sea-captain.
    MMEm 10.418 14 Shut up in this severe weather with careful, infirm, afflicted age, it is wonderful, my [Mary Moody Emerson's] spirits...
    CL 12.139 23 ...among our many prognostics of the weather, the only trustworthy one that I know is that, when it is warm, it is a sign that it is going to be cold.
    Bost 12.191 9 ...the weariness of the sea, the shrinking from cold weather and the pangs of hunger must justify [the Plymouth colonists].

weather-beaten, adj. (1)

    ET17 5.296 9 [Wordsworth] had a healthy look, with a weather-beaten face...

weathercock, n. (2)

    SL 2.162 25 One piece of the tree is cut for a weathercock and one for the sleeper of a bridge; the virtue of the wood is apparent in both.
    FRep 11.514 7 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns that it is by no means by obeying the vulgar weathercock of his party...that real power is gained...

weathered, v. (1)

    OA 7.323 9 [Age] has weathered the perilous capes and shoals in the sea whereon we sail...

weathering, v. (1)

    Cir 2.302 26 You admire this tower of granite, weathering the hurts of so many ages.

weathers, n. (5)

    Exp 3.67 8 In the street and in the newspapers, life appears so plain a business that manly resolution and adherence to the multiplication-table through all weathers will insure success.
    Pow 6.60 13 A good tree that agrees with the soil will grow...in all weathers and all treatments.
    WD 7.169 20 ...in the common experience of the scholar, the weathers fit his moods.
    SovE 10.191 27 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment: the house, the works, the persons, the days, the weathers-all that he calls Nature, all that he calls institutions, when once his mind is active are visions merely...
    SlHr 10.439 26 ...[Samuel Hoar] had a strong, unaffected interest in farms, and crops, and weathers...

weather-tossed, adj. (1)

    LT 1.288 6 ...to what port are we bound? Who knows! There is no one to tell us but such poor weather-tossed mariners as ourselves...

weather-worn, adj. (1)

    AgMs 12.358 9 This man [Edmund Hosmer] always impresses me with respect, he is...so disdainful of all appearances; excellent and reverable in his old weather-worn cap and blue frock...

weave, v. (17)

    Tran 1.354 5 ...we retain the belief that this petty web we weave will at last be overshot and reticulated with veins of the blue...
    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 2.198 25 ...these uneasy pleasures and fine pains [of friendship] are... not for life. They are not to be indulged. This is to weave cobweb, and not cloth.
    OS 2.297 8 [Man] will weave no longer a spotted life of shreds and patches...
    SwM 4.131 12 ...a bird does not more readily weave its nest...than this seer of the souls [Swedenborg] substructs a new hell and pit...round every new crew of offenders.
    ET5 5.79 16 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such chains.
    ET10 5.157 6 The headlong bias to utility [in England]...if possible will teach spiders to weave silk stockings.
    ET12 5.204 13 Oxford is a Greek factory, as Wilton mills weave carpet and Sheffield grinds steel.
    Pow 6.81 9 Success has no more eccentricity than the gingham and muslin we weave in our mills.
    Pow 6.82 4 Are you so cunning, Mr. Profitloss, and do you expect to swindle your master and employer, in the web you weave?
    Ill 6.321 9 ...says the good Heaven;...weave a shoestring;...
    Ill 6.321 11 ...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...
    WD 7.163 3 ...we have a pretty artillery of tools now in our social arrangements: we...travel, grind, weave, forge, plant, till and excavate better [than our fathers did].
    Aris 10.35 26 If a few grand natures should come to us and weave duties and offices between us and them, it would make our bread ambrosial.
    Chr2 10.98 12 How can [a man] exist to weave relations of joy and virtue with other souls...
    War 11.157 10 ...learning and art, and especially religion weave ties that make war look like fratricide, as it is.
    PLT 12.29 2 To the miller [Nature's] rivers whirl the wheel and weave carpets and broadcloth.

weaver, n. (7)

    MN 1.192 27 The weaver should not be bereaved of his superiority to his work...
    Wth 6.108 7 We must have joiner, locksmith, planter, priest, poet, doctor, cook, weaver, ostler; each in turn, through the year.
    SS 7.11 8 [The scholar's] products are as needful as those of the baker or the weaver.
    WD 7.164 14 The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine.
    PI 8.41 20 The weaver sees gingham;...
    Comc 8.166 24 ...[the saints] maturely having weighed/ They had no more but [the cobbler] o' th' trade/ (A man that served them in the double/ Capacity to teach and cobble),/ Resolved to spare him; yet to do/ The Indian Hoghan Moghan too/ Impartial justice, in his stead did/ Hang an old weaver that was bedrid./
    MLit 12.331 11 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country;...

weavers, n. (4)

    Tran 1.358 13 ...in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character;...
    YA 1.392 26 Would [our youths and maidens] like...threatening, starved weavers...
    PPh 4.53 5 [The Greeks] saw before them...no pitiless subdivision of classes,--the doom of the pin-makers, the doom of the weavers...
    NMW 4.232 26 The weavers strike for bread, and the king and his ministers...meet them with bayonets.

weaver's, n. (1)

    Thor 10.462 8 [Thoreau] had a strong common sense, like that which Rose Flammock, the weaver's daughter in Scott's romance [The Betrothed], commends in her father...

weaves, v. (6)

    ET5 5.95 27 [Steam] weaves, forges, saws, pounds, fans...
    F 6.10 19 You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere...
    WD 7.171 23 ...could a power open our eyes to behold millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on which they moved floored beneath and arched above with the same web of blue depth which weaves itself over me now...
    WD 7.182 4 Shakspeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.
    Suc 7.309 1 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton. ... She weaves her tissues and integuments of flesh and skin and hair and beautiful colors of the day over it...
    CPL 11.501 18 [Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a few fanciful persons, and not at all to be the interest of the multitude. To these objections, which proceed on the cheap notion that nothing but what... weaves cotton, is anything worth, I have little to say.

weaving, n. (2)

    ET10 5.169 26 A part of the money earned [in England] returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists with; and a part to repair the wrongs of this intemperate weaving, by hospitals, savings-banks, Mechanics' Institutes, public grounds, and other charities and amenities.
    Edc1 10.128 2 The necessities imposed by this most irritable and all-related texture have taught Man...weaving, joining, masonry...

weaving, v. (5)

    ShP 4.189 3 If we require the originality which consists in weaving, like a spider, their web from their own bowels;...no great men are original.
    Art2 7.39 26 The useful arts comprehend not only those that lie next to instinct, as agriculture, building, weaving, etc., but also navigation, practical chemistry...
    DL 7.121 17 The angels that dwell with [the eager, blushing boys] and are weaving laurels of life for their youthful brows, are Toil and Want...
    Supl 10.177 23 ...the Orientals excel...in weaving on hand-looms costly stuffs from silk and wool...
    Schr 10.285 14 ...Genius has no taste for weaving sand...

web, n. (36)

    AmS 1.85 7 There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God...
    Tran 1.354 5 ...we retain the belief that this petty web we weave will at last be overshot and reticulated with veins of the blue...
    YA 1.364 4 ...the locomotive and the steamboat...shoot every day across the thousand various threads of national descent and employment, and bind them fast in one web...
    SR 2.58 21 The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill into my web also.
    Lov1 2.185 23 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 2.194 12 Nor is Nature so poor but she gives me this joy [of friendship] several times, and thus we weave...a new web of relations;...
    Fdsp 2.199 4 The laws of friendship are...of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.
    OS 2.274 13 ...the web of events is the flowing robe in which [the soul] is clothed.
    Int 2.327 9 ...any record of our fancies or reflections, disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and immortal.
    Int 2.336 15 In common hours we have the same facts as in the uncommon or inspired, but...they are not detached, but lie in a web.
    Pt1 3.19 7 ...the poet sees [the factory-village and the railway] fall within the great Order not less than the beehive or the spider's geometrical web.
    Exp 3.51 7 Of what use [is genius]...if the web is too finely woven...
    ShP 4.189 3 If we require the originality which consists in weaving, like a spider, their web from their own bowels;...no great men are original.
    ET10 5.158 17 The Life of Sir Robert Peel...very properly has, for a frontispiece, a drawing of the spinning-jenny, which wove the web of his fortunes.
    F 6.37 3 The web of relation is shown in habitat...
    F 6.46 18 Wonderful intricacy in the web...this vagabond life admits.
    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 4 Are you so cunning, Mr. Profitloss, and do you expect to swindle your master and employer, in the web you weave?
    Pow 6.82 11 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.
    Wsp 6.203 4 Men as naturally make a state, or a church, as caterpillars a web.
    Wsp 6.221 1 ...[a man] does not see...that relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always;...method, and an even web;...
    WD 7.164 15 The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine.
    WD 7.170 19 [The days] are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.
    WD 7.171 23 ...could a power open our eyes to behold millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on which they moved floored beneath and arched above with the same web of blue depth which weaves itself over me now...
    WD 7.173 20 Ah! poor dupe, will you never slip out of the web of the master juggler...
    Suc 7.300 18 ...the affections make some little web of cottage and fireside populous, important...
    PI 8.2 5 For Fancy's gift/ Can mountains lift;/ The Muse can knit/ What is past, what is done,/ With the web that 's just begun;/...
    PI 8.26 10 ...when, on rare days, [nature] speaks to the imagination, we feel that the huge heaven and earth are but a web drawn around us...
    PPo 8.248 9 ...it is only a few delicate spirits who are sufficient to see that the whole web of convention is the imbecility of those whom it entangles...
    PPo 8.262 17 A painter in China once painted a hall;/ Such a web never hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush with rich colors did run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the sun;/...
    SovE 10.197 15 ...what touches any thread in the vast web of being touches me.
    LLNE 10.349 12 [Brisbane's plan]...wove its large Ptolemaic web of cycle and epicycle, of phalanx and phalanstery, with laudable assiduity.
    MMEm 10.397 8 Ah me! it was my childhood's thought,/ If He should make my web a blot/ On life's fair picture of delight,/ My heart's content would find it right./
    MMEm 10.424 17 ...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...
    ALin 11.336 19 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web, that [Lincoln] had reached the term;...
    PLT 12.42 23 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself...

webs, n. (4)

    Wth 6.89 24 ...the webs of his loom;...are [man's] natural playmates...
    Schr 10.282 5 ...a true orator will make us feel that the states and kingdoms, the senators, lawyers and rich men are caterpillars' webs and caterpillars...
    MMEm 10.424 5 In Eternity, no deceitful promises, no fantastic illusions, no riddles concealed by thy [Time's] shrouds, none of thy Arachnean webs, which decoy and destroy.
    AKan 11.263 4 ...now, vast property...webs of party, cover the land with a network that immensely multiplies the dangers of war.

Webster, Daniel, n. (40)

    NR 3.230 14 Webster cannot do the work of Webster.
    UGM 4.15 12 Under this head [of the effects of friendship]...falls that homage...which all ranks pay to the hero of the day, from Coriolanus and Gracchus down to...Webster...
    ShP 4.199 4 As Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Webster vote, so Locke and Rousseau think, for thousands;...
    Pow 6.63 24 The senators who dissented from Mr. Polk's Mexican war were...those who from political position could afford it; not Webster, but Benton and Calhoun.
    Ctr 6.135 21 Have you seen Mr. Allston, Doctor Channing, Mr. Adams, Mr. Webster, Mr. Greenough?
    PI 8.25 27 [People] like to go...to Faneuil Hall, and be taught by Otis, Webster...what great hearts they have...
    Elo2 8.117 19 As soon as a man shows rare power of expression, like Chatham, Erskine, Patrick Henry, Webster, or Phillips, all the great interests...crowd to him to be their spokesman...
    QO 8.183 8 Thirty years ago, when Mr. Webster at the bar or in the Senate filled the eyes and minds of young men, 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 8.219 24 Everett dreamed of Webster.
    Grts 8.318 18 A great style of hero draws equally...all the extremes of society, till we say the very dogs believe in him. We have had such examples in this country, in Daniel Webster, Henry Clay...
    SlHr 10.447 23 ...[Samuel Hoar's] sincere admiration was commanded by certain heroes of the [legal] profession, like...Mr. Mason and Mr. Webster.
    Carl 10.490 7 [Carlyle]...understands his own value quite as well as Webster...
    FSLC 11.192 20 Against a principle like this [that immoral laws are void], all the arguments of Mr. Webster are the spray of a child's squirt against a granite wall.
    FSLC 11.193 25 Mr. Webster tells the President that he has been in the North, and he has found no man, whose opinion is of any weight, who is opposed to the [Fugitive Slave] law.
    FSLC 11.199 19 ...Mr. Webster can judge whether this sort of solar microscope brought to bear on his law is likely to make opposition less.
    FSLC 11.201 15 The fairest American fame ends in this filthy [Fugitive Slave] law. Mr. Webster cannot choose but regret his law.
    FSLC 11.202 14 I have as much charity for Mr. Webster, I think, as any one has.
    FSLC 11.203 21 Mr. Webster perhaps is only following the laws of his blood and constitution.
    FSLC 11.203 24 Mr. Webster is a man who lives by his memory...
    FSLN 11.219 5 ...I never felt the check on my free speech and action, until, the other day, when Mr. Webster, by his personal influence, brought the Fugitive Slave Law on the country.
    FSLN 11.219 7 I say Mr. Webster, for though the [Fugitive Slave] Bill was not his, it is yet notorious that he was the life and soul of it...
    FSLN 11.220 17 In what I have to say of Mr. Webster I do not confound him with vulgar politicians before or since.
    FSLN 11.221 2 Mr. Webster had a natural ascendancy of aspect and carriage which distinguished him over all his contemporaries.
    FSLN 11.221 18 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill. There was the Monument, and here was Webster.
    FSLN 11.221 26 [Webster's appearance at Bunker Hill] was a place for behavior more than for speech, and Mr. Webster walked through his part with entire success.
    FSLN 11.224 12 Four years ago to-night...Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
    FSLN 11.224 21 It is remarked of Americans...that they think they praise a man more by saying that he is smart than by saying that he is right. Whether the defect be national or not, it is the defect and calamity of Mr. Webster...
    FSLN 11.225 9 Nobody doubts that Daniel Webster could make a good speech.
    FSLN 11.226 7 Mr. Webster decided for Slavery...
    FSLN 11.227 17 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for the application to these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law.
    FSLN 11.227 20 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for the application to these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law. People were expecting a totally different course from Mr. Webster.
    FSLN 11.227 25 ...the decision of Webster [for the Fugitive Slave Law] was accompanied with everything offensive to freedom and good morals.
    FSLN 11.228 4 ...by Mr. Webster the opposition to the [Fugitive Slave] law was sharply called treason...
    FSLN 11.233 25 ...now you relied on these dismal guaranties infamously made in 1850; and, before the body of Webster is yet crumbled, it is found that they have crumbled.
    FSLN 11.240 13 ...all the statesmen, Guizot, Palmerston, Webster, Calhoun, are sure to be found befriending liberty with their words, and crushing it with their votes.
    AsSu 11.247 22 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was challenged in Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends came forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be thought of;...
    AsSu 11.250 26 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his speeches were written before they were spoken; which, of course, must be true in Sumner's case, as it was true of Webster...
    PLT 12.48 27 Webster naturally and always grasps...
    Mem 12.97 25 A knife with a good spring, a forceps...the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly, as compared with the same tools when badly put together, describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception, like...Webster or Richard Owen, and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...
    Mem 12.98 3 The way in which Burke or Sheridan or Webster or any orator surprises us is by his always having a sharp tool that fits the present use.

Webster, John, n. (1)

    ShP 4.192 14 The best proof of [the Elizabethan theatre's] vitality is the crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field; Kyd, Marlow, Greene, Jonson, Chapman, Decker, Webster, Heywood, Middleton, Peele, Ford, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher.

Webster's, Daniel, n. (11)

    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;...
    QO 8.183 22 In our own college days we remember hearing other pieces of Mr. Webster's advice to students...
    SlHr 10.447 28 [Samuel Hoar] had a huge respect for Mr. Webster's ability...
    SlHr 10.448 1 [Samuel Hoar] had a huge respect for Mr. Webster's ability... and a proportionately deep regret at Mr. Webster's political course in his later years.
    FSLC 11.181 6 I met the smoothest of Episcopal Clergymen the other day, and allusion being made to Mr. Webster's treachery, he blandly replied, Why, do you know I think that the great action of his life.
    FSLC 11.198 22 Mr. Webster's measure [the Fugitive Slave Law] was, he told us, final.
    FSLC 11.202 6 [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. No roars of New York mobs can drown this voice in Mr. Webster's ear.
    FSLC 11.205 8 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop...
    FSLN 11.225 1 ...Mr. Webster's literary editor believes that it was his wish to rest his fame on the speech of the seventh of March.
    AsSu 11.248 3 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was challenged in Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends came forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be thought of; Mr. Webster's life was the property of his friends and of the whole country...
    FRep 11.528 11 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop, which will snap into atoms is so much as the smallest end be shivered off.

Websters, n. (1)

    F 6.13 23 ...strong natures...Websters...are inevitable patriots...

wed, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.206 13 Hengist had verament/ A daughter both fair and gent,/ But she was heathen Sarazine,/ And Vortigern for love fine/ Her took to fere and to wife,/ And was cursed in all his life;/ For he let Christian wed heathen,/ And mixed our blood as flesh and mathen./

wedded, v. (1)

    NER 3.271 11 ...we are not so wedded to our paltry performances of every kind but that every man has at intervals the grace to scorn his performances, in comparing them with his belief of what he should do;...

wedding, adj. (1)

    Bhr 6.192 7 We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], step by step, [the boy's] climbing, until at last...the wedding day is fixed...

wedding, n. (2)

    Chr2 10.106 25 Calvinism was one and the same thing in Geneva, in Scotland, in Old and New England. If there was a wedding, they had a sermon; if a funeral, then a sermon;...
    SovE 10.203 6 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion, on a wedding or a baptism...

wedge, n. (2)

    MN 1.196 18 The wedge turns out to be a rocket.
    PC 8.224 3 The immeasurableness of Nature is not more astounding than [man's] power to gather all her omnipotence into a manageable rod or wedge...

wedges, n. (1)

    Wth 6.92 23 The case of the young lawyer was pitiful to disgust,--a paltry matter of buttons or tweezer-cases; but the determined youth saw in it an aperture to insert his dangerous wedges...

Wedgwood, Josiah, n. (2)

    ET5 5.77 2 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of...Gibbon, Brindley, Watt, Wedgwood, dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain...
    FRep 11.511 16 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel...

Wednesday, n. (1)

    WD 7.179 21 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar...who can unfold the theory of this particular Wednesday.

weds, v. (1)

    PPo 8.246 2 The world is a bride superbly dressed;-/ Who weds her for dowry must pay his soul./

weed, n. (8)

    Nat 1.58 24 ...[external beauty] is the frail and weary weed, in which God dresses the soul which he has called into time.
    SL 2.131 9 The river-bank, the weed at the water-side...have a grace in the past.
    Cir 2.307 3 ...I am a weed by the wall.
    Imtl 8.334 7 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive...the secret workman so transcendently skilful that it tasks successive generations of observers only to find out...the delicate contrivance and adjustment of a weed...and the contriver of it all forever hidden!
    FRep 11.512 23 What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered...
    PLT 12.43 13 There are times when...a weed...is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour.
    PLT 12.55 16 To science there is no poison; to botany no weed; to chemistry no dirt.
    MAng1 12.233 20 [Michelangelo] called external grace the frail and weary weed, in which God dresses the soul which he has called into Time.

weed, v. (1)

    SR 2.77 27 The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers...

weeding, v. (2)

    Farm 7.142 11 In English factories, the boy that watches the loom...is called a minder. And in this great factory of our Copernican globe... bringing now the day of planting, then of watering, then of weeding, then of reaping, then of curing and storing,--the farmer is the minder.
    ALin 11.337 12 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius... which...carried forward the fortunes of certain chosen houses, weeding out single offenders or offending families...

weeds, n. (13)

    Nat 1.42 5 ...weeds and plants...[a farm] is a sacred emblem...
    MR 1.238 10 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies, as...a planted field by weeds...
    Hsm1 2.249 23 Let [a man] hear in season...that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace...
    NER 3.249 6 Peace now each for malice takes,/ Beauty for his sinful weeds,/ For the angel Hope aye makes/ Him an angel whom she leads./
    ET12 5.207 6 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam...the atmosphere is loaded with Greek learning; the whole river has reached a certain height, and kills all that growth of weeds which this Castalian water kills.
    Wth 6.107 26 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for he knows that the weeds will grow with the potatoes...
    Ctr 6.152 17 Can it be that the American forest has refreshed some weeds of old Pictish barbarism just ready to die out...
    Bty 6.281 9 ...what does the botanist know of the virtues of his weeds?
    Edc1 10.137 10 ...jealous provision seems to have been made in [the new man's] constitution that you shall not invade and contaminate him with the worn weeds of your language and opinions.
    Thor 10.468 10 [Thoreau]...owned to a preference of the weeds to the imported plants...
    Thor 10.468 13 See these weeds, [Thoreau] said, which have been hoed at by a million farmers...and yet have prevailed...
    FRep 11.512 23 ...what is cotton? One plant out of some two hundred thousand known to the botanist, vastly the larger part of which are reckoned weeds.
    ACri 12.281 4 To clothe the fiery thought/ In simple words succeeds,/ For still the craft of genius is/ To mask a king in weeds./

week, n. (31)

    Nat 1.18 20 The state of the crop in the surrounding farms alters the expression of the earth from week to week.
    Con 1.320 10 [Conservatism's] social and political action has no better aim;...to bring the week and year about...
    Fdsp 2.215 18 ...next week I shall have languid moods...
    Exp 3.85 23 We dress our garden, eat our dinners...and these things...are forgotten next week;...
    MoS 4.176 18 I like not the French celerity,--a new Church and State once a week.
    ShP 4.192 27 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is the Tale of Troy, which the audience will bear hearing some part of, every week;...
    ET2 5.28 15 In one week [the ship] has made 1467 miles...
    ET4 5.58 9 A [Norse] king was maintained, much as in some of our country districts a winter-schoolmaster is quartered, a week here, a week there, and a fortnight on the next farm...
    ET17 5.296 24 A gentleman in the neighborhood told the story of Walter Scott's staying once for a week with Wordsworth...
    F 6.18 26 Punch makes exactly one capital joke a week;...
    Pow 6.72 24 ...[Michel Angelo] went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow, mixed them with glue and water with his own hands, and having after many trials at last suited himself, climbed his ladders, and painted away, week after week...the sibyls and prophets.
    Wth 6.107 27 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for he knows that...the vines must be planted, next week...
    Bty 6.297 1 ...the citizens of her native city of Toulouse obtained the aid of the civil authorities to compel [Pauline de Viguier] to appear publicly on the balcony at least twice a week...
    Elo1 7.77 16 The newspapers, every week, report the adventures of some impudent swindler...
    DL 7.132 24 Does the consecration of Sunday confess the desecration of the entire week?
    WD 7.181 3 I remember well the foreign scholar who made a week of my youth happy by his visit.
    Insp 8.284 3 A day to [Mirabeau] was of more value than a week or a month to others.
    Chr2 10.107 5 ...in many a house in country places the poor children found seven sabbaths in a week.
    Edc1 10.139 11 [Boys] detect weakness in your eye and behavior a week before you open your mouth...
    LLNE 10.328 2 Europe is strewn with wrecks; a constitution once a week.
    MMEm 10.411 25 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights.
    MMEm 10.428 4 The sickness of the last week was fine medicine;...
    Carl 10.496 17 Edwin Chadwick is one of [Carlyle's] heroes,-who proposes to provide every house in London with pure water...at a penny a week;...
    GSt 10.501 10 ...the painful surprise which the last week brought us, in the tidings of the death of Mr. [George] Stearns, opened all eyes to the just consideration of the singular merits of the citizen...whom this assembly mourns.
    AKan 11.263 11 ...I think the towns should hold town meetings, and resolve themselves into Committees of Safety, go into permanent sessions, adjourning from week to week...
    ACiv 11.305 21 Congress can...abolish slavery, and pay for such slaves as we ought to pay for. Then the slaves near our armies will come to us; those in the interior will know in a week what their rights are...
    ACiv 11.308 11 A week before the two captive commissioners were surrendered to England, every one thought it could not be done...
    Mem 12.102 17 ...I would rather have a perfect recollection of all I have thought and felt in a day or a week of high activity than read all the books that have been published in a century.
    Mem 12.107 14 ...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning. Only I should give extension to this rule and say, Yes, drive the nail this week and clinch it the next...
    Bost 12.196 2 The universality of an elementary education in New England is her praise and her power in the whole world. To the schools succeeds the village lyceum...where every week through the winter, lectures are read and debates sustained...
    Let 12.398 22 ...companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for Europe;...

weekly, adj. (5)

    Prch 10.228 25 What sort of respect can these preachers or newspapers inspire by their weekly praises of texts and saints, when we know that they would say just the same things if Beelzebub had written the chapter, provided it stood where it does in the public opinion?
    Prch 10.230 20 The existence of the Sunday, and the pulpit waiting for a weekly sermon, give [the young preacher] the very conditions, the pou sto he wants.
    EzRy 10.389 15 ...[Ezra Ripley] knew nothing beyond the columns of his weekly religious newspaper, the tracts of his sect, and perhap the Middlesex Yeoman.
    SMC 11.363 22 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they...wrote a daily or weekly newspaper...
    CInt 12.124 22 The necessity of a mechanical system [of education] is not to be denied. Young men must be classed and employed...by some available plan that will give weekly and annual results;...

weeks, n. (16)

    Mrs1 3.136 18 When [Montaigne] leaves any house in which he has lodged for a few weeks, he causes his arms to be painted and hung up as a perpetual sign...
    Mrs1 3.151 9 Steep us, we cried [to women], in these influences, for days, for weeks...
    NR 3.247 14 ...the most sincere and revolutionary doctrine...shall in a few weeks be coldly set aside...
    NMW 4.239 1 [Bonaparte] directed Bourrienne to leave all letters unopened for three weeks...
    Ctr 6.143 7 [The boy] is infatuated for weeks with whist and chess;...
    SS 7.3 16 ...[my new friend's] evident earnestness engaged my attention, and in the weeks that followed we became better acquainted.
    Elo1 7.81 6 Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?--for example...if he is a prudent, industrious person, to...give days and weeks to a new interest?
    MoL 10.248 5 War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize. Weeks, months pass-a new harvest;...
    Thor 10.474 2 Occasionally, a small party of Penobscot Indians would visit Concord, and pitch their tents for a few weeks in summer on the river-bank.
    Thor 10.474 9 In his last visit to Maine [Thoreau] had great satisfaction from Joseph Polis, an intelligent Indian of Oldtown, who was his guide for some weeks.
    FSLC 11.196 15 The first execution of the [Fugitive Slave] law, as was inevitable, was a little hesitating; the second was easier; and the glib officials became, in a few weeks, quite practised and handy at stealing men.
    FSLC 11.197 10 Philadelphia...in this auction of the rights of mankind, rescinded all its legislation against slavery. And the Boston Advertiser, and the Courier, in these weeks, urge the same course on the people of Massachusetts.
    SMC 11.372 22 June fourth is marked in [George Prescott's] diary as An awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command; and not until the fifth of June comes at last a respite for a short space, during which...the officers were able to send to the wagons and procure a change of clothes, for the first time in five weeks.
    Mem 12.98 21 The facts of the last two or three days or weeks are all you have with you...
    CL 12.140 8 In summer, we have for weeks a sky of Calcutta...
    Bost 12.199 3 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...which have been so profoundly ventilated, but end in a protracted picnic which after a few weeks or months dismisses the partakers to their old homes, we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...

week's, n. [weeks',] (2)

    FSLC 11.209 12 Every man in the land will give a week's work to dig away this accursed mountain of sorrow [slavery] once and forever out of the world.
    CL 12.143 16 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention. ...if young ladies were aware of the magical transformations which can be wrought in the depth and sweetness of the eye by a few weeks' exercise, I fancy we should see their habits in this point altered greatly for the better.

weep, v. (14)

    LE 1.176 11 Let us...suffer, and weep, and drudge...
    SR 2.78 14 We come to them who weep foolishly...
    Comp 2.126 1 ...we sit and weep in vain.
    PPh 4.46 13 ...[ardent young men and women] sigh and weep, write verses and walk alone...
    PI 8.25 26 [People] like to go to the theatre and be made to weep;...
    Comc 8.156 2 And if I laugh at any mortal thing/ 't is that I may not weep./ Byron.
    Comc 8.172 11 Timur saw himself in the mirror and found his face quite too ugly. Therefore he began to weep; Chodscha also set himself to weep;...
    Comc 8.172 17 Timur ceased weeping, but Chodscha ceased not, but began now first to weep amain...
    Comc 8.173 1 Chodscha answered [Timur], If thou hast only seen thy face once, at at once seeing hast not been able to contain thyself, but hast wept, what should we do,--we who see thy face every day and night? If we weep not, who should weep?
    Comc 8.173 2 Chodscha answered [Timur], If thou hast only seen thy face once, at at once seeing hast not been able to contain thyself, but hast wept, what should we do,--we who see thy face every day and night? If we weep not, who should weep?
    Aris 10.54 8 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh, and weep, in their eloquent closets...
    GSt 10.507 10 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember that there is not a town in the remote State of Kansas that will not weep with you at the loss of its founder;...
    PLT 12.45 5 Artist natures do not weep.
    MAng1 12.242 16 Michael [Angelo] admonishes [Vasari] that a man ought not to smile, when all those around him weep;...

weepest, v. (1)

    Comc 8.172 23 ...said Timur to Chodscha, Hearken! I have looked in the mirror, and seen myself ugly. Thereat I grieved, because, although I am Caliph...yet still I am so ugly; therefore have I wept. But, thou, why weepest thou without ceasing?

weeping, adj. (3)

    LT 1.290 1 I read [the Moral Sentiment] in glad and in weeping eyes;...
    ET5 5.94 25 Let India boast her palms, nor envy we/ The weeping amber, nor the spicy tree,/ While, by our oaks, those precious loads are borne,/ And realms commanded which those trees adorn./
    EWI 11.114 24 On the night of the 31st July [1834], [the negroes of the West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and chapels, and at midnight...on their knees, the silent, weeping assembly became men;...

weeping, v. (1)

    Comc 8.172 16 Timur ceased weeping...

weevil, n. (1)

    CbW 6.254 16 The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvests of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.

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