Woman to Woo

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

woman, adj. (1)

    Bty 6.306 9 ...the woman who has shared with us the moral sentiment,--her locks must appear to us sublime.

woman, n. (123)

    Nat 1.47 13 It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World, that God will teach a human mind, and so makes it the receiver of a certain number of congruent sensations, which we call...man and woman...
    Nat 1.71 17 Out from [man] sprang the sun and moon; from man the sun, from woman the moon.
    Nat 1.71 27 Now is man the follower of the sun, and woman the follower of the moon.
    Nat 1.75 1 What is woman?
    Nat 1.75 11 Man and woman and their social life...are known to you.
    MR 1.228 26 ...not a kingdom, town, statute, rite, calling, man, or woman, but is threatened by the new spirit.
    MR 1.249 13 ...if...a woman or a child discovers a sentiment of piety...I ought to confess it by my respect and obedience...
    LT 1.265 7 Let us paint...the woman of the world who has tried and knows;...
    LT 1.274 24 ...[Marriage] shall honor the man and the woman...
    Hist 2.14 8 ...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the imagination; but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Osiris-Jove, a beautiful woman with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows!
    Comp 2.97 6 ...each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole; as...man, woman;...
    Comp 2.97 13 There is somewhat that resembles...man and woman, in a single needle of the pine...
    Comp 2.104 4 The soul says, The man and woman shall be one flesh and one soul; the body would join the flesh only.
    Comp 2.126 26 ...the man or woman who would have remained a sunny garden-flower...by the falling of the walls and the neglect of the gardener is made the banian of the forest...
    SL 2.151 9 The scholar...follows some giddy girl, not yet taught by religious passion to know the noble woman with all that is serene, oracular and beautiful in her soul.
    Lov1 2.173 12 ...without any coquetry the happy, affectionate nature of woman flows out in this pretty gossip.
    Lov1 2.186 23 All that is in the world, which is or ought to be known, is cunningly wrought into the texture of man, of woman...
    Lov1 2.187 9 [Lovers] resign each other without complaint to the good offices which man and woman are severally appointed to discharge in time...
    Lov1 2.187 23 Looking at these aims with which two persons, a man and a woman...are shut up in one house to spend in the nuptial society forty or fifty years, I do not wonder at the emphasis with which the heart prophesies this crisis from early infancy...
    Prd1 2.231 11 Beauty should be the dowry of every man and woman...
    Hsm1 2.246 31 This is a man, a woman..../
    Hsm1 2.259 8 ...why should a woman liken herself to any historical woman...
    Hsm1 2.259 9 ...why should a woman liken herself to any historical woman...
    OS 2.292 9 Deal so plainly with man and woman as to constrain the utmost sincerity...
    Cir 2.319 16 ...the man and woman of seventy assume to know all...
    Art1 2.365 16 A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.
    Pt1 3.1 7 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ .../ Through man, and woman, and sea, and star/ Saw the dance of nature forward far;/...
    Exp 3.58 5 Like a bird which alights nowhere, but hops perpetually from bough to bough, is the Power which abides in no man and in no woman, but for a moment speaks from this one, and for another moment from that one.
    Mrs1 3.132 21 ...any deference to some eminent man or woman of the world, forfeits all privilege of nobility.
    Mrs1 3.145 23 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout...if a woman gave him pleasure, he supported her in pain...
    Mrs1 3.148 27 Once or twice in a lifetime we are permitted to enjoy the charm of noble manners, in the presence of a man or woman who have no bar in their nature...
    Mrs1 3.149 27 Woman, with her instinct of behavior, instantly detects in man a love of trifles...
    Mrs1 3.154 3 Are you...rich enough to make...even the poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
    NER 3.270 21 You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice...
    NER 3.270 23 You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice, which Philip refused: the woman exclaimed, I appeal...
    NER 3.270 25 You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice, which Philip refused: the woman exclaimed, I appeal: the king, astonished, asked to whom she appealed: the woman replied, From Philip drunk to Philip sober.
    PPh 4.44 20 ...our Jewish Bible has implanted itself in the table-talk and household life of every man and woman in the European and American nations...
    SwM 4.127 18 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] is a fine Platonic development of the science of marriage; teaching that sex is universal, and not local; virility in the male qualifying every organ, act, and thought; and the feminine in woman.
    MoS 4.178 2 We have been sopped and drugged...with food, with woman, with children...
    ShP 4.215 26 ...[the poet] delights in the world, in man, in woman, for the lovely light that sparkles from them.
    ET15 5.265 17 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office, which was entered through a pretty garden-yard in Printing-House Square. We walked with some circumspection, as if we were entering a powder-mill; but the door was opened by a mild old woman...
    F 6.6 25 We must see that the world...will not mind drowning a man or a woman...
    F 6.11 10 ...[a man] is an adulterer before he has yet looked on the woman...
    F 6.20 14 ...[Maya] became at last woman and goddess, and [Vishnu] a man and a god.
    Wth 6.91 9 ...when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic capitals, the habit of expense...he feels that when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished;...
    Ctr 6.138 26 To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.
    Bhr 6.171 4 The power of a woman of fashion to lead and also to daunt and repel, derives from [timid girls'] belief that she knows resources and behaviors not known to them;...
    Bhr 6.184 22 ...the high-born Turk who came hither [to a dress circle] fancied that every woman seemed to be suffering for a chair;...
    Bhr 6.185 4 Look on this woman.
    Wsp 6.207 11 [Dido] was so fair,/ So young, so lusty, with her eyen glad,/ That if that God that heaven and earthe made/ Would have a love for beauty and goodness,/ And womanhede, truth, and seemliness,/ Whom should he loven but this lady sweet?/ There n' is no woman to him half so meet./
    Wsp 6.216 22 ...any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
    Wsp 6.236 24 Mira came to ask what she should do with the poor Genesee woman who had hired herself to work for her...
    Wsp 6.237 7 [Benedict said] Thrust the [sick] woman out, and you thrust your babe out of doors...
    CbW 6.264 5 I knew a wise woman who said to her friends, When I am old, rule me.
    Bty 6.293 22 ...the circumstances may be easily imagined in which woman may speak, vote, argue causes, legislate and drive a coach...if only it come by degrees.
    Bty 6.296 9 [The human form] reaches its height in woman.
    Bty 6.296 11 A beautiful woman is a practical poet...
    Bty 6.296 16 Nature wishes that woman should attract man...
    Bty 6.299 16 ...we can pardon pride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands...she confers a favor on the world.
    Ill 6.320 24 That story of Thor, who was set to drain the drinking-horn in Asgard and to wrestle with the old woman and to run with the runner Lok, and presently found that he had been drinking up the sea, and wrestling with Time, and racing with Thought,--describes us...
    SS 7.7 15 Now [a man who has fine traits] hardly seems entitled to marry; for how can he protect a woman, who cannot protect himself?
    Civ 7.23 25 Right position of woman in the State is another index [of civilization].
    Civ 7.24 3 ...a severe morality gives that essential charm to woman which educates all that is delicate, poetic and self-sacrificing;...
    Civ 7.34 5 ...if there be...a country...where the position of the white woman is injuriously affected by the outlawry of the black woman;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    Civ 7.34 6 ...if there be...a country...where the position of the white woman is injuriously affected by the outlawry of the black woman;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    Elo1 7.72 4 [Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove, This is the wise Ulysses...knowing all wiles and wise counsels. To her the prudent Antenor replied again: O woman, you have spoken truly.
    DL 7.114 9 ...we desire to play the benefactor and the prince...with the man or woman of worth who alights at our door.
    DL 7.118 25 I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate...
    DL 7.124 2 To each occurs, soon after the age of puberty, some event or society or way of living, which becomes...the chief fact in their history. In woman, it is love and marriage...
    DL 7.126 19 ...beauty is not...the dower of man and of woman as invariably as sensation.
    DL 7.130 20 The man, the woman, needs not the embellishment of canvas and marble...
    Cour 7.272 4 Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.
    Cour 7.274 17 ...the timid woman is not scared by fagots;...
    Suc 7.286 7 We have seen an American woman write a novel of which a million copies were sold...
    Suc 7.286 15 We have seen a woman who by pure song could melt the souls of whole populations.
    Suc 7.296 15 In good hours we...find Shakspeare or Homer...only to have been translators of the happy present, and every man and woman divine possibilities.
    OA 7.320 1 Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.
    PI 8.65 13 [Nature] is not proud...of space, or time, or man or woman.
    PI 8.67 19 Do you think Burns...has opened no eyes and ears to...the dignity of man and the charm and excellence of woman?
    SA 8.86 12 In man or woman, the face and the person lose power when they are on the strain to express admiration.
    SA 8.93 14 Shenstone gave no bad account of this influence [of women] in his description of the French woman...
    SA 8.93 15 Shenstone gave no bad account of this influence [of women] in his description of the French woman: There is a quality in which no woman in the world can compete with her,--it is the power of intellectual irritation.
    Res 8.138 25 I like the sentiment of the poor woman who, coming...for the first time to the seashore...said she was glad for once in her life to see something which there was enough of.
    PC 8.208 17 The new claim of woman to a political status is itself an honorable testimony to the civilization which has given her a civil status new in history.
    Insp 8.279 2 [Bonaparte said] I am like a woman with child, and when my resolution is taken, all is forgot except whatever can make it succeed.
    Grts 8.310 19 How grateful to find in man or woman a new emphasis of their own.
    Chr2 10.114 15 Men will learn to put back the emphasis peremptorily on pure morals...with...no disenfranchisement of woman...
    Edc1 10.128 20 ...here [in the household] the secrets of character are told, the guards of man, the guards of woman......
    Schr 10.269 17 ...what alone in the history of this world interests all men in proportion as they are men? What but truth...and brave obedience to it in right action? Every man or woman who can voluntarily or involuntarily give them any insight or suggestion on these secrets they will hearken after.
    Plu 10.315 9 ...this Stoic [Plutarch] in his fight...with vices, effeminacy and indolence, is gentle as a woman when other strings are touched.
    EzRy 10.393 19 An eminent skill [Ezra Ripley] had...in delivering to a man or a woman that which all their other friends had abstained from saying...
    MMEm 10.414 7 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things than their individual fault. It was from being early impressed by my poor unpractical aunt, that Providence and Prayer were all in all. Poor woman!
    LS 11.10 6 [Jesus] instructed the woman of Samaria respecting living water.
    EWI 11.103 4 For the negro...no right in the poor black woman that cherished him in her bosom...
    EWI 11.104 19 ...a good man or woman...once in a while saw these injuries [to West Indian slaves] and had the indiscretion to tell of them.
    EWI 11.124 25 ...you could not get any poetry, any wisdom, and beauty in woman, any strong and commanding character in man, but these absurdities would still come flashing out,-these absurdities of a demand for justice, a generosity for the weak and oppressed.
    EWI 11.125 19 [The planters] were full of vices; their children were lumps of pride, sloth, sensuality and rottenness. The position of woman was nearly as bad as it could be;...
    EWI 11.145 1 ...you must save yourself, black or white, man or woman;...
    ACiv 11.301 13 Here is a woman who has no other property [but slaves]...
    SMC 11.359 5 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... tender as a woman in his care for a cough or a chilblain in his men;...
    Wom 11.404 7 Lo, when the Lord made North and South,/ And sun and moon ordained he,/ Forth bringing each by word of mouth/ In order of its dignity,/ Did man from the crude clay express/ By sequence, and, all else decreed,/ He formed the woman; nor might less/ Than Sabbath such a work succeed./ Coventry Patmore.
    Wom 11.406 21 ...any remarkable opinion or movement shared by woman will be the first sign of revolution.
    Wom 11.409 12 ...a refined and accomplished woman was a being almost new to [Burns]...
    Wom 11.409 21 No woman can despise [ceremonies] with impunity.
    Wom 11.410 4 Position, Wren said, is essential to the perfecting of beauty;...much more true is it of woman.
    Wom 11.411 10 ...how should we better measure the gulf between the best intercourse of men in old Athens, in London, or in our American capitals,- between this and the hedgehog existence of diggers of worms, and the eaters of clay and offal,-than by signalizing just this department of taste or comeliness? Herein woman is the prime genius and ordainer.
    Wom 11.411 15 There is...no style adopted into the etiquette of courts, but was first the whim and the mere action of some brilliant woman...
    Wom 11.412 19 ...the starry crown of woman is in the power of her affection and sentiment...
    Wom 11.415 3 When a daughter is born, says the Shiking, the old Sacred Book of China, she sleeps on the ground...she is incapable of evil or of good. And something like that position, in all low society, is the position of woman;...
    Wom 11.415 5 With the advancements of society, the position and influence of woman bring her strength or her faults into light.
    Wom 11.415 26 ...another important step [for Woman] was made by the doctrine of Swedenborg, a sublime genius who gave a scientific exposition of the part played severally by man and woman in the world...
    Wom 11.419 18 ...if a woman demand votes, offices and political equality with men...it must not be refused.
    Wom 11.419 23 It is very cheap wit that finds it so droll that a woman should vote.
    Wom 11.425 8 ...a masculine woman is not strong, but a lady is.
    Wom 11.425 11 Let us have the true woman, the adorner...
    Wom 11.425 15 ...woman moulds the lawgiver and writes the law.
    Wom 11.425 20 Every woman being the wife or the daughter of a man... she can never be very far from his ear...
    Wom 11.426 8 Woman should find in man her guardian.
    Wom 11.426 16 The new movement [for women's rights] is only a tide shared by the spirits of man and woman;...
    PLT 12.60 24 The spiritual power of man is twofold...Intellect and morals; one respecting truth, the other the will. One is the man, the other the woman in spiritual nature.
    CL 12.137 26 [Linnaeus] showed [the people of Tornea] that the whole evil [of dying cattle] might be prevented by employing a woman for a month to eradicate the noxious plants [water-hemlock].
    CW 12.169 8 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../Nor wit, nor eloquence,-no, nor even the song/ Of any woman that is now alive,-/ Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./
    Trag 12.410 22 That which seems intolerable reproach or bereavement does not take from the accused or bereaved man or woman appetite or sleep.

Woman, n. (12)

    SA 8.92 27 In this art of conversation, Woman...is the lawgiver.
    Wom 11.405 7 Among those movements which seem to be, now and then, endemic in the public mind...is that which has urged on society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the position of Woman.
    Wom 11.406 8 Weirdes all, said the Edda, Frigga knoweth, though she telleth them never. That is to say, all wisdoms Woman knows; though she takes them for granted, and does not explain them as discoveries, like the understanding of man.
    Wom 11.407 3 Man is the will, and Woman the sentiment.
    Wom 11.407 5 In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail: when Woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.
    Wom 11.414 12 ...in the East, where Woman occupies, nationally, a lower sphere...Woman yet occupies the same leading position, as a prophetess, that she has among the ancient Greeks...
    Wom 11.414 15 ...in the East...in the Mohammedan faith, Woman yet occupies the same leading position, as a prophetess, that she has among the ancient Greeks...
    Wom 11.415 9 After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century...the Quakers have the honor of having first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes.
    Wom 11.415 18 A second epoch for Woman was in France,-entirely civil;...
    Wom 11.416 5 Another step [for Woman] was the effect of the action of the age in the antagonism to Slavery. It was easy to enlist Woman in this;...
    Wom 11.416 15 ...[antagonism to Slavery] has, among its other effects, given Woman a feeling of public duty...
    Wom 11.416 21 ...the times are marked by the new attitude of Woman;...

womanhood, n. (3)

    Suc 7.311 23 We have grown to manhood and womanhood;...
    MMEm 10.402 1 In Malden [Mary Moody Emerson] lived through all her youth and early womanhood...
    MMEm 10.415 20 ...I [Nature]...fed thee with my mallows, on the first young day of bread failing. More, I...from the solitary heart taught thee to say, at first womanhood, Alive with God is enough,-'t is rapture.

womanliest, adj. (1)

    Imtl 8.346 19 ...only by rare integrity, by a man permeated and perfumed with airs of heaven,-with manliest or womanliest enduring love,-can the vision [of immortality] be clear to a use the most sublime.

womanly, adj. (1)

    Insp 8.289 1 I envy the abstraction of some scholars I have known, who could sit on a curbstone in State Street, put up their back, and solve their problem. I have more womanly eyes.

woman's, n. (3)

    SL 2.166 1 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...go out to service...
    Lov1 2.183 17 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, and that woman's life has no other aim.
    Wom 11.426 17 ...you [advocates of women's rights] may proceed in the faith that whatever the woman's heart is prompted to desire, the man's mind is simultaneously prompted to accomplish.

Woman's, n. (1)

    Wom 11.403 8 ...there in the parlor sits/ Some figure in noble guise,-/ Our Angel in a stranger's form;/ Or Woman's pleading eyes./

Woman's Rights, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.150 11 A certain awkward consciousness of inferiority in the men may give rise to the new chivalry in behalf of Woman's Rights.

womb, n. (5)

    Hist 2.13 9 Genius...far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb, that diverge...by infinite diameters.
    F 6.10 27 When each comes forth from his mother's womb, the gate of gifts closes behind him.
    Pow 6.73 14 ...a man cannot return into his mother's womb and be born with new amounts of vivacity...
    MMEm 10.424 13 ...in the weary womb [of Time] are prolific numbers of the same sad hour...
    FSLC 11.194 3 ...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;...

women, n. (201)

    Nat 1.50 24 The men, the women...are unrealized at once [when seen from a coach]...
    Nat 1.63 9 [If Idealism only deny the existence of matter] It leaves me in the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions, to wander without end. Then the heart resists it, because it balks the affections in denying substantive being to men and women.
    AmS 1.85 1 Every day, men and women, conversing - beholding and beholden.
    AmS 1.94 14 I have heard it said that the clergy...are addressed as women;...
    AmS 1.98 5 Years are well spent...in frank intercourse with many men and women;...to the one end of mastering...a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.
    AmS 1.104 10 It is a shame to [the scholar] if his tranquillity...arise from the presumption that like children and women his is a protected class;...
    DSA 1.146 15 ...when you meet one of these men or women, be to them a divine man;...
    DSA 1.147 26 ...the commanders encroach on us only as fair women do, by our allowance and homage.
    LE 1.163 13 ...in the great idea and the puny execution;...behold Pericles's day,-day of all that are born of women.
    MR 1.250 22 As we cannot make a planet...by means of the best... engineers' tools...so neither can we ever construct that heavenly society you prate of out of foolish, sick, selfish men and women, such as we know them to be.
    MR 1.251 11 The [Arab] women fought like men...
    MR 1.252 18 See this wide society of laboring men and women.
    LT 1.261 20 We talk of the world, but we mean a few men and women.
    YA 1.382 5 Here are Etzlers...who...undoubtingly affirm that the smallest union would make every man rich;-and, on the other side, a multitude of poor men and women seeking work...
    YA 1.384 1 Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate life...will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
    YA 1.388 7 Every body who comes into our houses savors of these habits; the men, of the market; the women, of the custom.
    Hist 2.32 10 ...men and women are only half human.
    SR 2.75 15 We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state...
    Comp 2.111 2 The senses would make things of all persons; of women, of children, of the poor.
    SL 2.136 14 We [country folk] have not dollars, merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn;...women will sew;...
    Lov1 2.170 18 ...[love] is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom...glows and enlarges until it warms and beams upon multitudes of men and women...
    Lov1 2.176 13 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when all business seemed an impertinence, and all the men and women running to and fro in the streets, mere pictures.
    Lov1 2.183 14 Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women...
    Fdsp 2.195 9 ...the Genius of my life being thus social, the same affinity will exert its energy on whomsoever is as noble as these men and women...
    Fdsp 2.206 24 I please my imagination more with a circle of godlike men and women variously related to each other...
    Prd1 2.240 9 Scarcely can we say we see new men, new women, approaching us.
    Cir 2.303 10 A rich estate appears to women a firm and lasting fact;...
    Int 2.337 20 ...as soon as we let our will go and let the unconscious states ensue, see what cunning draughtsmen we are! We entertain ourselves with wonderful forms...of women...
    Pt1 3.9 18 ...this genius [a recent writer of lyrics] is the landscape-garden of a modern house...with well-bred men and women standing and sitting in the walks and terraces.
    Pt1 3.12 11 ...now I shall see men and women...
    Exp 3.47 10 Every roof is agreeable to the eye until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women and hard-eyed husbands...
    Exp 3.60 17 Let us treat the men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.
    Exp 3.61 12 ...a thoughtful man...cannot without affectation deny to any set of men and women a sensibility to extraordinary merit.
    Mrs1 3.150 8 ...at this moment I esteem it a chief felicity of this country, that it excels in women.
    Mrs1 3.150 26 ...are there not women who fill our vase with wine and roses to the brim...
    Nat2 3.174 10 These bribe and invite; not kings, not palaces, not men, not women, but these tender and poetic stars, eloquent of secret promises.
    Nat2 3.185 10 ...without this violence of direction which men and women have...no excitement, no efficiency.
    Nat2 3.193 7 It is the same among the men and women as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence...
    Pol1 3.221 16 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature. Such designs...are not entertained except avowedly as air-pictures. If the individual who exhibits them dare to think them practicable...men of talent and women of superior sentiments cannot hide their contempt.
    NR 3.230 7 In the parliament, in the play-house, at dinner-tables [in England], I might see a great number of rich, ignorant, book-read, conventional, proud men,--many old women...
    NR 3.233 25 ...it was easy [at Handel's Messiah] to observe what efforts nature was making, through so many hoarse, wooden and imperfect persons, to produce beautiful voices, fluid and soul-guided men and women.
    NER 3.264 12 These new associations are composed of men and women of superior talents and sentiments;...
    PPh 4.45 26 In adult life, while the perceptions are obtuse, men and women talk vehemently and superlatively...
    PPh 4.46 10 The same weakness and want, on a higher plane, occurs daily in the education of ardent young men and women.
    PNR 4.89 11 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best (which, to make emphatic, he expressed by community of women), as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur.
    MoS 4.159 17 Let us have to do with real men and women...
    ShP 4.191 4 Men, nations, poets, artisans, women, all have worked for [the great man]...
    ShP 4.211 9 ...[Shakespeare] read the hearts of men and women...
    NMW 4.228 3 Bonaparte wrought...for power and wealth,--but Bonaparte, specially, without any scruple as to the means. All the sentiments which embarrass men's pursuit of these objects, he set aside. The sentiments were for women and children.
    NMW 4.252 25 The consternation of the dull and conservative classes, the terror of the foolish old men and old women of the Roman conclave...make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
    NMW 4.255 7 Leave sensibility to women [said Napoleon];...
    NMW 4.255 19 ...[Napoleon]...rubbed his hands with joy when he had intercepted some morsel of intelligence concerning the men and women about him...
    NMW 4.255 21 ...[Napoleon]...interfered with the cutting the dresses of the women;...
    NMW 4.255 24 [Napoleon] treated women with low familiarity.
    GoW 4.285 10 [Goethe's] affections help him, like women employed by Cicero to worm out the secret of conspirators.
    ET4 5.65 26 It is the fault of their forms that [the English] grow stocky, and the women have that disadvantage...
    ET4 5.67 18 [The English] are rather manly than warlike. When the war is over, the mask falls from the affectionate and domestic tastes, which make them women in kindness.
    ET4 5.70 19 Men and women [in England] walk with infatuation.
    ET4 5.72 4 Add a certain degree of refinement to the vivacity of these [English] riders, and you obtain the precise quality which makes the men and women of polite society formidable.
    ET6 5.102 14 The cabmen [in England] have [pluck];...the women have it;...
    ET6 5.103 15 A terrible machine has possessed itself of the ground, the air, the men and women [in England]...
    ET6 5.108 12 England produces...the finest women in the world.
    ET6 5.108 14 ...as the [English] men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them.
    ET11 5.185 17 ...a race yields a nobility in some form...as surely as it yields women.
    ET16 5.280 13 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound [Stonehenge] in the twilight...and coming back two miles to our inn we were met by little showers, and late as it was, men and women were out attempting to protect their spread windrows.
    ET17 5.292 21 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society.
    ET18 5.300 21 Men and women were convicted [in England] of poisoning scores of children for burial-fees.
    ET19 5.312 16 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was...a cold, foggy, mournful country, where nothing grew well in the open air but robust men and virtuous women...
    F 6.11 23 Most men and most women are merely one couple more.
    F 6.44 21 ...women...are the best index of the coming hour.
    F 6.46 22 ...year after year, we find two men, two women, without legal or carnal tie, spend a great part of their best time within a few feet of each other.
    Pow 6.57 27 ...in both men and women [there is] a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.
    Pow 6.58 2 ...in both men and women [there is] a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.
    Wth 6.108 22 If the wind were always southwest by west, said the skipper, women might take ships to sea.
    Wth 6.114 11 ...vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace...
    Ctr 6.133 23 Beware of the man who says, I am on the eve of a revelation. It is speedily punished, inasmuch as this habit invites men to humor it, and by treating the patient tenderly, to...exclude him from the great world of God's cheerful fallible men and women.
    Ctr 6.149 21 You cannot have one well-bred man without a whole society of such. They keep each other up to any high point. Especially women;...
    Ctr 6.149 22 ...it requires a great many cultivated women...in order that you should have one Madame de Stael.
    Ctr 6.149 23 ...it requires a great many cultivated women,--saloons of bright, elegant, reading women...in order that you should have one Madame de Stael.
    Ctr 6.163 24 The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women;...
    Bhr 6.167 3 ...Graceful women, chosen men/ Dazzle every mortal/...
    Bhr 6.184 14 The theatre in which this science of manners has a formal importance is not with us a court, but dress-circles, wherein, after the close of the day's business, men and women meet at leisure...
    CbW 6.249 15 I do not wish any mass at all, but honest men only, lovely, sweet, accomplished women only...
    Bty 6.297 24 Women stand related to beautiful nature around us...
    Bty 6.303 25 ...in chosen men and women I find somewhat in form, speech and manners, which is...of a humane, catholic and spiritual character...
    Ill 6.315 24 Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion.
    SS 7.1 9 ...nor loved [Seyd] less/ Stately lords in palaces/ Princely women hard to please/...
    Civ 7.24 8 ...a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
    Civ 7.32 15 ...when I...see...the refining influence of women...I see what cubic values America has...
    Elo1 7.65 24 [Eloquence] is that despotism which poets have celebrated in the Pied Piper of Hamelin, whose music...drew...women and boys...
    Elo1 7.79 6 Men and women are [Caesar's] game.
    DL 7.111 21 The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops, where we get sweetmeats and wine; the houses of the poor are imitations of these to the extent of their ability. With these ends...[housekeeping] oppresses women.
    DL 7.111 24 ...a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women...
    DL 7.112 9 ...if you look at the multitude of particulars, one would say: Good housekeeping is impossible; order is too precious a thing to dwell with men and women.
    Farm 7.140 27 The men in cities who are the centres of energy...and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers...
    WD 7.164 7 Can anybody remember when...the right sort of men, and the right sort of women, were plentiful?
    Boks 7.216 2 A person of less courage...will answer [the question of a vicious marriage] as the heroine [of Jane Eyre] does,--giving way...to conventionalism, to the actual state and doings of men and women.
    Boks 7.217 3 Money, and killing, and the Wandering Jew, and persuading the lover that his mistress is betrothed to another, these are the main-springs [of the novel]; new names, but no new qualities in the men and women.
    Boks 7.219 21 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...I detect them in laughter and blushes and eye-sparkles of men and women.
    Clbs 7.226 14 Especially women use words that are not words...
    Clbs 7.236 26 [Dr. Johnson's] obvious religion or superstition, his deep wish that they should think so or so, weighs with [his company],--so rare is depth of feeling...among the light-minded men and women who make up society;...
    Cour 7.259 10 Those political parties which gather in the well-disposed portion of the community...always on the defensive, as if the lead were intrusted to the journals, often written in great part by women and boys...
    Cour 7.266 14 Hear what women say of doing a task by sheer force of will: it costs them a fit of sickness.
    Cour 7.272 5 Heroic women offer themselves as nurses of the brave veteran.
    Suc 7.286 13 We have seen women who could institute hospitals and schools in armies.
    PI 8.29 3 ...fancy [is] a play as with dolls and puppets which we choose to call men and women;...
    PI 8.67 17 Do you think Burns has had no influence on the life of men and women in Scotland...
    SA 8.93 3 If every one recalled his experiences, he might find the best in the speech of superior women...
    SA 8.93 9 No one can be a master in conversation who has not learned much from women;...
    SA 8.93 21 Coleridge esteems cultivated women as the depositaries and guardians of English undefiled;...
    SA 8.94 1 Madame de Stael...was the most extraordinary converser that was known in her time, and it was a time full of eminent men and women;...
    Elo2 8.112 11 There are not only the wants of the intellectual and learned and poetic men and women to be met...
    Comc 8.167 12 Women [Camper says]...they are all either narwhales or porpoises to my eyes.
    Comc 8.171 3 ...among the women in the street, you shall see one whose bonnet and dress are one thing, and the lady herself quite another...
    QO 8.185 9 A pleasantry which ran through all the newspapers a few years since...was only a theft of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's mot of a hundred years ago, that the world was made up of men and women and Herveys.
    QO 8.199 15 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences that reached through all thinkers, poets, inventors and wits, men and women...
    Grts 8.319 19 ...a very common [illusion] is the opinion you hear expressed in every village:...it happens that there are no fine young men, no superior women in my town.
    Aris 10.60 14 The solitariest man who shares [a certain order of men's] spirit walks environed by them;...and happy is he who prefers these associates to profane companions. They also take shape in men, in women.
    Chr2 10.107 13 ...it by no means follows, because those [earlier religious] offices are much disused, that the men and women are irreligious;...
    Chr2 10.117 7 In the worst times, men of organic virtue are born,-men and women of native integrity...
    SovE 10.210 5 ...there are the new conventions of social science, before which the questions of the rights of women...come for a hearing.
    SovE 10.212 19 ...all the religion we have is the ethics of one or another holy person; as soon as character appears, be sure love will...and delight of good men and women in him.
    MoL 10.256 20 [Senators and lawyers] read that they might know, did they not? Well, these men [who passed infamous laws] did not know. They blundered; they were utterly ignorant of...the rights of men and women.
    MoL 10.258 3 The times develop the strength they need. Boys are heroes. Women have shown a tender patriotism and inexhaustible charity.
    Schr 10.284 12 [The scholar] will have to answer certain questions, which... cannot be staved off. For all men, all women...are the interrogators...
    LLNE 10.324 4 For Joy and Beauty planted it/ With faerie gardens cheered,/ And boding Fancy haunted it/ With men and women weird./
    LLNE 10.334 26 There was that finish about this person [Everett] which is about women...
    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 10.348 17 [Fourier's] ciphering goes...into stars, atmospheres and animals, and men and women...
    LLNE 10.354 13 [Fourier] labored under a misapprehension of the nature of women.
    LLNE 10.354 17 [The Fourier marriage] was...full of absurd French superstitions about women;...
    LLNE 10.354 25 It is the worst of community that it must inevitably transform into charlatans the leaders, by the endeavor continually to meet the expectation and admiration of this eager crowd of men and women seeking they know not what.
    LLNE 10.359 16 The West Roxbury Association was formed in 1841, by a society of members, men and women...
    LLNE 10.360 3 ...the work [at Brook Farm] was distributed in orderly committees to the men and women.
    LLNE 10.365 5 Married women I believe uniformly decided against the community.
    LLNE 10.369 6 [Brook Farm] was a close union...of clergymen, young collegians, merchants, mechanics, farmers' sons and daughters, with men and women of rare opportunities and delicate culture...
    CSC 10.376 6 These men and women [at the Chardon Street Convention] were in search of something better and more satisfying than a vote or a definition...
    MMEm 10.398 13 [Lucy Percy] prefers the conversation of men to that of women;...
    HDC 11.32 25 [The pilgrims] must...with their axes cut a road for their teams, with their women and children and their household stuff...
    HDC 11.59 27 The virtues of patriotism and of prodigious courage and address were exhibited [in King Philip's war] on both sides, and, in many instances, by women.
    LVB 11.92 1 Men and women with pale and perplexed faces meet one another in the streets and churches here, and ask if this [relocation of the Cherokees] be so.
    EWI 11.104 3 ...if we saw the whip applied to old men, to tender women;... we too should wince.
    EWI 11.104 4 ...if we saw...pregnant women set in the treadmill for refusing to work;...we too should wince.
    EWI 11.107 19 ...[the Quakers] were religious, tender-hearted men and women;...
    EWI 11.119 9 ...[Sir Lionel Smith] defended the negro women [in Jamaica];...
    EWI 11.126 11 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.
    EWI 11.126 12 It was very easy for manufacturers...to see that...if the slaves [in the West Indies] had wages, the slaves would be clothed...and negro women love fine clothes as well as white women.
    FSLC 11.199 5 [Webster's] pacification has brought...all scrupulous and good-hearted men, all women, and all children, to accuse the law.
    AKan 11.260 23 Are there no women in that [Southern] country,-women, who always carry the conscience of a people?
    AKan 11.260 24 Are there no women in that [Southern] country,-women, who always carry the conscience of a people?
    JBB 11.268 22 [John Brown] believes in two articles,-two instruments, shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence; and he used this expression in conversation here concerning them, Better that a whole generation of men, women and children should pass away by a violent death than that one word of either should be violated in this country.
    JBS 11.280 22 All women are drawn to [John Brown] by their predominance of sentiment.
    EPro 11.320 23 The government has assured itself of the best constituency in the world...the passionate conscience of women, the sympathy of distant nations,-all rally to its support.
    SMC 11.356 12 ...when the Border raids were let loose on [Kansas] villages, these people...on witnessing the butchery done by the Missouri riders on women and babes, were so beside themselves with rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined avengers.
    SMC 11.375 26 A gloom gathers on this assembly, composed as it is of kindred men and women...
    Wom 11.405 12 In that race which is now predominant over all the other races of men, it was a cherished belief that women had an oracular nature.
    Wom 11.406 5 Among our Norse ancestors, Frigga was worshipped as the goddess of women.
    Wom 11.406 11 Men remark figure: women always catch the expression.
    Wom 11.406 26 ...the general voice of mankind has agreed...that women are strong by sentiment;...
    Wom 11.407 6 When women engage in any art or trade, it is usually as a resource, not as a primary object.
    Wom 11.408 9 ...in general, no mastery in either of the fine arts-which should, one would say, be the arts of women-has yet been obtained by them, equal to the mastery of men in the same.
    Wom 11.409 3 Women are, by [conversation] and their social influence, the civilizers of mankind.
    Wom 11.409 5 What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.
    Wom 11.409 14 I like women, said a clear-headed man of the world; they are so finished.
    Wom 11.412 8 There is no gift of Nature without some drawback. So, to women, this exquisite structure could not exist without its own penalty.
    Wom 11.413 25 The first thing men think of, when they love, is to exhibit their usefulness and advantages to the object of their affection. Women make light of these, asking only love.
    Wom 11.414 3 ...women know, at first sight, the characters of those with whom they converse.
    Wom 11.414 10 ...in every remarkable religious development in the world, women have taken a leading part.
    Wom 11.414 14 ...in the East...where the laws resist the education and emancipation of women...Woman yet occupies the same leading position, as a prophetess, that she has among the ancient Greeks...
    Wom 11.414 22 In barbarous society the position of women is always low...
    Wom 11.417 9 In all [literature], the body of the joke is one, namely, to charge women with termperament;...
    Wom 11.417 12 In all [literature], the body of the joke...is identical with Mahomet's opinion that women have not a sufficient moral or intellectual force to control the perturbations of their physical structure.
    Wom 11.417 18 ...it would be easy for women to retaliate in kind, by painting men from the dogs and gorillas that have worn our shape.
    Wom 11.417 25 There are plenty of people who believe women to be incapable of anything but to cook...
    Wom 11.418 5 There are plenty of people who...do not see the use of contemplative men, or how ignoble would be the world that wanted them. And so without the affection of women.
    Wom 11.418 24 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [of rights for women], is this: that though their mathematical justice is not be be denied, yet the best women do not wish these things;...
    Wom 11.419 2 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [for women's rights], is this: that...they are asked for by people who intellectually seek them, but who have not the support or sympathy of the truest women;...
    Wom 11.419 15 ...perhaps it is because these people [advocates of women' s rights] have been deprived of...opportunities, such as they wished...that they have been stung to say, It is too late for us...but, at least, we will see that the whole race of women shall not suffer as we have suffered.
    Wom 11.420 7 ...all my points would sooner be carried in the State if women voted.
    Wom 11.420 24 If new power is here, of a character...which...opens new careers to our young receptive men and women, you [women] can well leave voting to the old dead people.
    Wom 11.421 9 The objection to [women's] voting is the same as is urged... against clergymen who take an active part in politics;-that...if they become good politicians they are worse clergymen. So of women, that they cannot enter this arena without being contaminated and unsexed.
    Wom 11.422 1 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.
    Wom 11.423 26 I do not think it yet appears that women wish this equal share in public affairs.
    Wom 11.424 4 Let the laws be purged of every barbarous remainder, every barbarous impediment to women.
    Wom 11.425 19 Improve and refine the men, and you do the same by the women...
    Wom 11.425 26 The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
    CPL 11.505 14 I have found several humble men and women who gave as affectionate, if not as judicious testimony to their readings.
    FRep 11.515 16 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for...then the cannon articulates its explosions with the voice of a man, then the rifle seconds the cannon and the fowling-piece the rifle, and the women make cartridges...and the better code of laws at last records the victory.
    FRep 11.529 16 The men, the women, all over this land shrill their exclamations of impatience and indignation at what is short-coming or is unbecoming in the government...
    FRep 11.541 9 Humanity asks...that democratic institutions shall be more thoughtful for the interests of women...
    II 12.88 17 Our books are full of generous biographies...of men and of women who lived for the benefit and healing of nature.
    CInt 12.131 11 ...the men and women of your time...are the interrogators.
    CL 12.165 7 [Agassiz] pretends to be only busy with the foldings of the yolk of a turtle's egg. I can see very well what he is driving at; he means men and women.
    Bost 12.206 24 From...the Quaker women who for a testimony walked naked into the streets...down to Abner Kneeland...there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.
    Bost 12.208 3 I know that this history [of Massachusetts] contains many black lines of cruel injustice; murder, persecution, and execution of women for witchcraft.
    MLit 12.310 27 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents...books for which men and women peak and pine;...
    MLit 12.317 10 ...the street seems to be built, and the men and women in it moving, not in reference to pure and grand ends, but rather to very short and sordid ones.
    MLit 12.330 17 I find there [in Wilhelm Meister] actual men and women even too faithfully painted.
    EurB 12.377 26 [The Vivian Greys]...could write an Iliad any rainy morning, if fame were not such a bore. Men, women, though the greatest and fairest, are stupid things;...
    EurB 12.378 14 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is...to invert the relation in which our sex stand to women, so that they appear the attacking, and he the passive or defensive party.
    Trag 12.406 11 Men and women at thirty years, and even earlier, have lost all spring and vivacity...

Women, n. (1)

    Wom 11.406 23 Plato said, Women are the same as men in faculty, only less in degree.

womenhede, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.207 9 [Dido] was so fair,/ So young, so lusty, with her eyen glad,/ That if that God that heaven and earthe made/ Would have a love for beauty and goodness,/ And womanhede, truth, and seemliness,/ Whom should he loven but this lady sweet?/ There n' is no woman to him half so meet./

women-servants, n. (1)

    MR 1.239 21 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by...men-servants and women-servants from the earth and the sky...

won, v. (22)

    Int 2.344 1 ...let [new doctrines] not go until their blessing be won...
    Pt1 3.28 19 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...and...they were punished for that advantage they won, by a dissipation and deterioration.
    Exp 3.46 19 Some heavenly days must have been intercalated somewhere, like those that Hermes won with dice of the Moon...
    Chr1 3.87 9 His action won such reverence sweet,/ As hid all measure of the feat./
    UGM 4.31 27 Fair play and an open field and freshest laurels to all who have won them!
    NMW 4.232 11 [Bonaparte]...won his battles in his head before he won them on the field.
    NMW 4.249 7 At Arcola [said Napoleon] I won the battle with twenty-five horsemen.
    ET5 5.79 4 Sir Kenelm Digby...who won the sea-fight of Scanderoon, was a model Englishman in his day.
    ET11 5.175 5 He shall have the book, said the mother of Alfred, who can read it; and Alfred won it by that title...
    ET15 5.271 3 ...the aspirants see that The [London] Times is one of the goods of fortune, not to be won but by winning their cause.
    Pow 6.72 13 The men whom in peaceful communities we hold if we can with iron at their legs...this man [Napoleon] dealt with hand to hand...and won his victories by their bayonets.
    Ctr 6.149 16 Fuller says that William, Earl of Nassau, won a subject from the King of Spain, every time he put off his hat.
    Elo1 7.90 19 Put the argument...into an image...and the cause is half won.
    Suc 7.294 25 The time your rival spends in dressing up his work for effect... you spend in study and experiments towards real knowledge and efficiency. He has thereby...won the prize...but you have raised yourself into a higher school of art...
    Aris 10.57 7 I will not protract this discourse by describing the duties of the brave and generous. And yet I will venture to name one, and the same is almost the sole condition on which knighthood is to be won;...
    Plu 10.315 5 [Plutarch] thinks it was by superior virtue that Alexander won his battles in Asia and Africa...
    EWI 11.108 12 Thomas Clarkson was a youth at Cambridge, England, when the subject given out for a Latin prize dissertation was, Is it right to make slaves of others against their will? He wrote an essay, and won the prize;...
    EWI 11.142 25 [The blacks] won the pity and respect which they have received [in the West Indies]...
    Koss 11.400 3 ...you [Kossuth], the foremost soldier of freedom in this age, it is for us [the people of Concord] to crave your judgment; who are we that we should dictate to you? You have won your own.
    Scot 11.466 1 [Scott] saw...in his own reading and research such store of legend and renown as won his imagination to their cause.
    CPL 11.508 22 ...I am pleading a cause which in the event of this day [opening of the Concord Library] has already won...
    Let 12.402 12 A new perception...is a victory won to the living universe from Chaos and old Night...

wonder, n. (63)

    Nat 1.34 9 Can such things be,/ And overcome us like a summer's cloud,/ Without our special wonder?/
    Nat 1.34 13 [The relation between mind and matter] is the standing problem which has exercised the wonder and the study of every fine genius since the world began;...
    Nat 1.77 10 The kingdom of man over nature...he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.
    AmS 1.103 24 ...the deeper [the orator] dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most acceptable...
    DSA 1.146 20 ...when you meet one of these men or women...let their... wonder feel that you have wondered.
    MN 1.201 26 When we have spent our wonder in computing this wasteful hospitality with which boon Nature turns off new firmaments without end into her wide common...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    MN 1.204 27 ...seen from the platform of intellection there is nothing for us but praise and wonder.
    MN 1.223 6 I praise with wonder this great reality...
    LT 1.266 24 A little while this interval of wonder and comparison is permitted us...
    SL 2.150 13 Persons approach us...worthy of all wonder for their charms and gifts;...with very imperfect result.
    Int 2.335 8 [The thought] is...always a miracle...which must always leave the inquirer stupid with wonder.
    Art1 2.361 1 ...in my younger days...I fancied the great pictures would be... a foreign wonder, barbaric pearl and gold...
    Pt1 3.15 7 No wonder then, if these waters be so deep, that we hover over them with a religious regard.
    Pt1 3.19 19 A shrewd country-boy goes to the city for the first time, and the complacent citizen is not satisfied with his little wonder.
    Pt1 3.23 10 [Nature] makes a man; and having brought him to ripe age, she will no longer run the risk of losing this wonder at a blow...
    Pt1 3.37 23 Banks and tariffs...rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi, and are as swiftly passing away.
    Pt1 3.39 10 [The artist] hears a voice, he sees a beckoning. Then he is apprised, with wonder, what herds of daemons hem him in.
    Exp 3.83 25 I worship with wonder the great Fortune.
    Gts 3.164 24 ...rectitude...receives with wonder the thanks of all people.
    NR 3.234 4 ...the wonder and charm of [art] is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.
    NER 3.285 5 That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness and courage...
    NER 3.285 11 ...what powers are wrapped up under the coarse mattings of custom, and all wonder prevented.
    SwM 4.96 10 The soul having been often born...having beheld the things which are here, those which are in heaven and those which are beneath, there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge: no wonder that she is able to recollect, in regard to any one thing, what formerly she knew.
    SwM 4.122 4 No wonder that [Swedenborg's] depth of ethical wisdom should give him influence as a teacher.
    MoS 4.162 21 I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with [Montaigne's Essays].
    ShP 4.199 10 ...there were fountains around Homer, Menu, Saadi, or Milton, from which they drew;...which, if seen, would go to reduce the wonder.
    GoW 4.272 24 The wonder of the book [Goethe's Helena] is its superior intelligence.
    GoW 4.277 27 [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is read by very intelligent persons with wonder and delight.
    ET1 5.11 8 [Coleridge said] It was a wonder that after so many ages of unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St. Paul...this handful of Priestleians should take on themselves to deny it...
    ET2 5.29 24 ...'t is no wonder that the history of our race is so recent...
    ET2 5.30 10 ...the wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
    ET10 5.166 12 The cause and spring of [England's wealth] is the wealth of temperament in the people. The wonder of Britain is this plenteous nature.
    Bhr 6.179 11 The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.
    CbW 6.245 3 ...life is rather a subject of wonder than of didactics.
    Bty 6.300 15 If command...exist in the most deformed person, all the accidents that usually displease...raise esteem and wonder higher.
    Ill 6.320 18 With such volatile elements to work in, 't is no wonder if our estimates are loose and floating.
    SS 7.8 13 'T is no wonder, when each has his whole head, our societies should be so small.
    Civ 7.24 25 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts... No use can lessen the wonder of this control by so weak a creature of forces so prodigious.
    WD 7.185 9 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from a respect to the works to a wise wonder at this mystic element of time in which he is conditioned;...
    Boks 7.216 20 We are [in the novel] cheated into laughter or wonder by feats which only oddly combine acts that we do every day.
    Cour 7.253 2 I observe that there are three qualities which conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of mankind...disinterestedness...practical power...courage...
    PI 8.27 14 In some individuals this insight or second sight has an extraordinary reach which compels our wonder...
    PPo 8.246 23 On turnpikes of wonder/ Wine leads the mind forth,/ Straight, sidewise and upward,/ West, southward and north./
    PPo 8.264 23 So remained [the birds], sunk in wonder,/ Thoughtless in deepest thinking,/ And quite unconscious of themselves./ Speechless prayed they to the Highest/ To open this secret,/ And to unlock Thou and We./
    Dem1 10.9 26 It is no wonder that particular dreams and presentiments should fall out and be prophetic.
    Dem1 10.27 19 ...I think the numberless forms in which this superstition [demonology] has reappeared in every time and every people indicates the inextinguishableness of wonder in man;...
    PerF 10.78 1 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces;...
    SovE 10.200 4 The word miracle, as it is used, only indicates the ignorance of the devotee, staring with wonder to see water turned into wine...
    SovE 10.200 24 You have meditated in silent wonder on your existence in this world.
    SovE 10.201 2 You have perceived in the first fact of your conscious life here a miracle so astounding...as to exhaust wonder...
    Plu 10.307 15 Plutarch is uniformly true to this [spiritual] centre. He had not lost his wonder.
    MMEm 10.412 19 ...in dead of night, nearer morning, when the eastern stars glow or appear to glow with...a lustre which penetrates the spirit with wonder and curiosity,-then, however awed, who can fear?
    HDC 11.67 2 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was filled with wonder, that such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent Christ...
    FRO2 11.489 22 Whoever thinks a story gains...by adding something out of nature, robs it more than he adds. It is no longer an example...but an exhibition, a wonder...
    PLT 12.10 24 The wonder of the science of Intellect is that the substance with which we deal is of that subtle and active quality that it intoxicates all who approach it.
    PLT 12.16 4 To Be is the unsolved, unsolvable wonder.
    PLT 12.16 6 To Be is the unsolved, unsolvable wonder. To Be, in its two connections of inward and outward, the mind and Nature. The wonder subsists...
    PLT 12.58 22 No wonder the children love masks and costumes...
    Mem 12.92 21 ...in the history of character the day comes when you are incapable of such crime [of neglect, selfishness, passion]. Then...you look on it...with wonder at the deed...
    Mem 12.106 2 Nature trains us on to see illusions and prodigies with no more wonder than our toast and omelet at breakfast.
    Mem 12.106 19 [The bright school-girl's] is a bushel-basket memory of all unchosen knowledge...so that an old scholar, who knows what to do with a memory, is full of wonder and pity that this magical force should be squandered on such frippery.
    Milt1 12.273 22 ...it would not be matter of rational wonder [Milton said], if the wethers of our country should be born with horns that could batter down cities and towns.
    PPr 12.388 16 One excellence [Carlyle] has in an age of Mammon and of criticism, that he never suffers the eye of his wonder to close.

Wonder, n. (1)

    ShP 4.206 12 It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible...

wonder, v. (29)

    LT 1.263 3 I do not wonder at the miracles which poetry attributes to the music of Orpheus...
    Lov1 2.187 26 ...I do not wonder at the emphasis with which the heart prophesies this crisis from early infancy...
    OS 2.291 22 I do not wonder that these [simple] men go to see Cromwell and Christina and Charles the Second and James the First and the Grand Turk.
    Cir 2.306 26 ...a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages.
    Art1 2.364 22 I do not wonder that Newton...should have wondered what the Earl of Pembroke found to admire in stone dolls.
    Nat2 3.174 6 I do not wonder that the landed interest should be invincible in the State with these dangerous auxiliaries [of nature].
    NER 3.266 18 I do not wonder at the interest these projects [of association] inspire.
    ET11 5.197 24 Whilst the privileges of nobility are passing to the middle class [in England]...the titles of lordship are getting musty and cumbersome. I wonder that sensible men have not been already impatient of them.
    ET16 5.283 19 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work...in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns, with an ordinary derrick. The men were common masons...nor did they think they were doing anything remarkable. I suppose there were as good men a thousand years ago. And we wonder how Stonehenge was built and forgotten.
    F 6.46 20 We wonder how the fly finds its mate...
    F 6.48 9 I do not wonder at a snow-flake...
    Elo1 7.63 15 Who can wonder at the attractiveness of Parliament...for our ambitious young men...
    Elo1 7.75 15 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness sometimes manifested by trained statesmen...when they observe the disproportionate advantage suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public service.
    WD 7.158 1 Men love to wonder...
    PI 8.56 19 Newton may be permitted...to wonder at the frivolous taste for rhymers...
    Elo2 8.115 6 Who can wonder at [eloquence's] influence on young and ardent minds?
    QO 8.195 12 A man hears a fine sentence out of Swedenborg...and is very merry at heart that he has now got so fine a thing. Translate it out of the new words into his own usual phrase, and he will wonder again at his own simplicity...
    Plu 10.306 26 Let others wrangle, said St. Augustine; I will wonder.
    GSt 10.501 6 ...on the instant of [good men's] death, we wonder at our past insensibility...
    War 11.172 18 I do not wonder at the dislike some of the friends of peace have expressed at Shakspeare.
    FSLC 11.196 22 I wonder that our acute people who have learned that the cheapest police is dear schools, should not find out that an immoral law costs more than the loss of the custom of a Southern city.
    AKan 11.257 17 I know that lawyers hesitate on technical grounds, and wonder what method of relief [for Kansas] the legislature will apply.
    JBB 11.267 12 ...I do not wonder that gentlemen find traits of relation readily between [John Brown] and themselves.
    SHC 11.432 4 I do not wonder that [parks] are the chosen badge and point of pride of European nobility.
    FRO2 11.490 26 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls...who do not wonder that there was a Christ...
    PLT 12.39 8 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. People wonder they never saw it before.
    CL 12.143 10 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention.
    Bost 12.191 1 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...a good boatman can...wonder that Governor Carver had not better eyes than to stop on the Plymouth Sands.
    MLit 12.327 25 We think, when we contemplate the stupendous glory of the world, that it were life enough for one man merely to lift his hands and cry with Saint Augustine, Wrangle who pleases, I will wonder.

wondered, v. (7)

    DSA 1.146 20 ...when you meet one of these men or women...let their... wonder feel that you have wondered.
    MR 1.230 14 It cannot be wondered at that this general inquest into abuses should arise in the bosom of society...
    Tran 1.347 8 With this passion for what is great and extraordinary, it cannot be wondered at that [Transcendentalists] are repelled by vulgarity and frivolity in people.
    Art1 2.364 24 I do not wonder that Newton...should have wondered what the Earl of Pembroke found to admire in stone dolls.
    ET4 5.66 19 The anecdote of the handsome captives which Saint Gregory found at Rome, A. D. 600, is matched by the testimony of the Norman chroniclers, five centuries later, who wondered at the beauty and long flowing hair of the young English captives.
    Elo1 7.72 26 ...when...his words fell like the winter snows, not then would any mortal contend with Ulysses; and [the Trojans], beholding, wondered not afterwards so much at his aspect.
    Dem1 10.24 26 Men who had never wondered at anything...have been unable to suppress their amazement at the disclosures of the somnambulist.

wondereth, v. (1)

    ACri 12.286 9 Luther said, I preach coarsely; that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and Latin I spare, until we learned ones come together, and then we make it so curled and finical that God himself wondereth at us.

wonderful, adj. (134)

    Nat 1.49 25 Until this higher agency intervened, the animal eye sees, with wonderful accuracy, sharp outlines and colored surfaces.
    Nat 1.68 6 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world;...
    DSA 1.124 25 Wonderful is [the religious sentiment's] power to charm and to command.
    LE 1.163 22 ...the more quaintly you inspect...its wonderful details...so much the more you master the biography of this hero...
    MN 1.223 14 I cannot tell if these wonderful qualities which house to-day in this mortal frame shall ever re-assemble in equal activity in a similar frame...
    LT 1.267 26 Let us not inhabit times of wonderful and various promise without divining their tendency.
    LT 1.287 25 The main interest which any aspects of the Times can have for us, is...the light which they can shed on the wonderful questions, What we are? and Whither we tend?
    Tran 1.333 21 [The idealist] does not respect...property, otherwise than as a manifold symbol, illustrating with wonderful fidelity of details the laws of being;...
    Hist 2.8 15 Every thing tends in a wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its own virtue to [each man].
    Hist 2.24 26 ...[in the Grecian period] the habit of [each man's] supplying his own needs educates the body to wonderful performances.
    Hist 2.33 26 ...[Goethe's Helena] operates a wonderful relief to the mind from the routine of customary images...
    Hist 2.39 1 [A man] shall walk...in a robe painted all over with wonderful events and experiences;...
    SL 2.150 7 The most wonderful talents...really avail very little with us;...
    Cir 2.321 27 The way of life is wonderful;...
    Int 2.334 18 ...our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond;...
    Int 2.335 20 The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.
    Int 2.337 20 ...as soon as we let our will go and let the unconscious states ensue, see what cunning draughtsmen we are! We entertain ourselves with wonderful forms of men...
    Int 2.345 27 ...wonderful seems the calm and grand air of these few [Greek philosophers]...
    Art1 2.358 26 The best of beauty is...a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature...
    Art1 2.359 19 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets that these works were not always thus constellated;...
    Art1 2.364 6 [Sculpture] was originally a useful art...and among a people possessed of a wonderful perception of form this childish carving was refined to the utmost splendor of effect.
    Pt1 3.11 2 It is much to know that poetry has been written this very day, under this very roof, by your side. What! that wonderful spirit has not expired!
    Pt1 3.13 12 Being used as a type, a second wonderful value appears in the object...
    Pt1 3.24 13 I knew in my younger days the sculptor who made the statue of the youth which stands in the public garden. He was...unable to tell directly what made him happy or unhappy, but by wonderful indirections he could tell.
    Pt1 3.33 15 The inaccessibleness of every thought but that we are in, is wonderful.
    Exp 3.46 14 All our days are so unprofitable while they pass, that 't is wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom, poetry, virtue.
    Exp 3.83 11 A wonderful time I have lived in.
    Mrs1 3.150 16 The wonderful generosity of her sentiments raises [woman] at times into heroical and godlike regions...
    Nat2 3.176 17 There is nothing so wonderful in any particular landscape as the necessity of being beautiful under which every landscape lies.
    NER 3.253 9 With these [reformers] appeared the adepts of homoeopathy... of phrenology, and their wonderful theories of the Christian miracles!
    NER 3.258 13 The ancient languages...contain wonderful remains of genius...
    NER 3.258 17 ...by a wonderful drowsiness of usage [the ancient languages] had exacted the study of all men.
    NER 3.285 12 It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that it is just as wonderful that he should see with them;...
    NER 3.285 14 It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that it is just as wonderful that he should see with them;...
    UGM 4.14 26 ...in every solitude are those who succor our genius and stimulate us in wonderful manners.
    PPh 4.54 23 The wonderful synthesis so familiar in nature;...was now also transferred entire to the consciousness of a man [Plato].
    PPh 4.69 19 ...there is another, which is as much more beautiful than beauty as beauty is than chaos; namely, wisdom, which our wonderful organ of sight cannot reach unto...
    SwM 4.111 25 The Animal Kingdom [by Swedenborg] is a book of wonderful merits.
    SwM 4.113 10 The pursuing the inquiry under the light of an end or final cause gives wonderful animation, a sort of personality to the whole writing [of Swedenborg].
    ShP 4.199 26 Our English Bible is a wonderful specimen of the strength and music of the English language.
    ET1 5.9 19 [Landor] has a wonderful brain...
    ET1 5.18 20 London is the heart of the world, [Carlyle] said, wonderful only from the mass of human beings.
    ET2 5.28 10 ...that wonderful esprit du corps by which we adopt into our self-love every thing we touch, makes us all champions of [a ship's] sailing qualities.
    ET5 5.90 20 [The English] have a wonderful heat in the pursuit of a public aim.
    ET11 5.186 17 ...it is wonderful how much talent runs into manners...
    ET19 5.312 16 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was...a...country, where nothing grew well in the open air but robust men and virtuous women, and these of a wonderful fibre and endurance;...
    F 6.46 18 Wonderful intricacy in the web, wonderful constancy in the design this vagabond life admits.
    Bhr 6.177 1 A main fact in the history of manners is the wonderful expressiveness of the human body.
    Wsp 6.227 27 Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy, and the abbess advised the Holy Father of the wonderful powers shown by her novice.
    CbW 6.269 14 ...a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.
    CbW 6.271 26 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...then...we see the zenith over and the nadir under us. Instead of the tanks and buckets of knowledge to which we are daily confined, we come down to the shore of the sea, and dip our hands in its miraculous waves. 'T is wonderful the effect on the company.
    SS 7.15 18 These wonderful horses [independence and sympathy] need to be driven by fine hands.
    Civ 7.20 25 ...there is a Cadmus, a Pytheas, a Manco Capac at the beginning of each improvement,--some superior foreigner importing new and wonderful arts, and teaching them.
    Civ 7.21 22 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier.
    Elo1 7.62 27 Of all the musical instruments on which men play, a popular assembly is that...out of which, by genius and study, the most wonderful effects can be drawn.
    Elo1 7.70 26 ...who does not remember in childhood some white or black or yellow Scheherezade, who, by that talent of telling endless feats of fairies and magicians and kings and queens, was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now?
    Elo1 7.90 9 [A trope] is a wonderful aid to the memory...
    Farm 7.145 21 Intellect is a fire: rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man.
    Boks 7.194 20 ...perhaps, the human mind would be a gainer if all the secondary writers were lost...through the profounder study so drawn to those wonderful minds.
    Clbs 7.228 12 I prize the mechanics of conversation. 'T is pulley and lever and screw. To fairly disengage the mass, and send it jingling down, a good boulder...is a wonderful relief.
    Clbs 7.230 17 Nothing seems so cheap as the benefit of conversation; nothing is more rare. 'T is wonderful how you are balked and baffled.
    Suc 7.292 5 Any work looks wonderful to [a man], except that which he can do.
    Suc 7.303 10 Who is he...who does not like to hear of those sensibilities which...send wonderful eye-beams across assemblies...
    Suc 7.304 11 When [the lover] went abroad, he met, by wonderful casualties, the one person he sought.
    OA 7.319 5 ...the surest poison is time. This cup which Nature puts to our lips, has a wonderful virtue...
    PI 8.60 14 ...in Morte d'Arthur, I remember nothing so well as Sir Gawain' s parley with Merlin in his wonderful prison...
    Elo2 8.119 8 Go into an assembly well excited, some angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that eloquence is as natural as swimming,--an art which all men might learn, though so few do. It only needs that they should be once well pushed off into the water...and henceforward they possess this new and wonderful element.
    Res 8.141 11 Here in America are all the wealth of soil, of timber, of mines and of the sea, put into the possession of a people who wield all these wonderful machines...
    Res 8.149 27 Whether larger or less, these strokes and all exploits rest at last on the wonderful structure of the mind.
    QO 8.181 9 Albert, the wonderful doctor, St. Buonaventura...Thomas Aquinas...Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.
    QO 8.184 22 So the sarcasm attributed to Baron Alderson upon Brougham, What a wonderful versatile mind has Brougham!...if he only knew a little of law, he would know a little of everything.
    PC 8.207 4 No good citizen but shares the wonderful prosperity of the Federal Union.
    PC 8.217 8 I find the single mind equipollent to a multitude of minds...and under this view the problem of culture assumes wonderful interest.
    PPo 8.245 13 In honor dies he to whom the great seems ever wonderful.
    Insp 8.275 23 ...the wonderful juxtapositions, parallelisms, transfers, which [Shakespeare's] genius effected, were all to him locked together as links of a chain...
    Imtl 8.333 16 Here is this wonderful thought. But whence came it?
    Imtl 8.334 11 To breathe, to sleep, is wonderful.
    Imtl 8.342 2 ...courage or confidence in the mind comes to those who know by use its wonderful forces and inspirations and returns.
    Dem1 10.18 2 ...[the demonaical property] stands specially in wonderful relations with men...
    PerF 10.74 25 [Man] is a planter...a lawgiver, a builder of towns;-and each of these by dint of a wonderful method or series that resides in him and enables him to work on the material elements.
    PerF 10.78 24 I delight in tracing these wonderful [mental] powers...
    PerF 10.81 14 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone, but at night or at morning wherever she sits the inevitable circle gathers around her, willing prisoners of that wonderful memory and fancy and spirit of life.
    Chr2 10.95 24 This wonderful [moral] sentiment...seems to be the fountain of the intellect;...
    Edc1 10.156 9 [The child] has a secret; wonderful methods in him;...
    SovE 10.192 2 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... all that he calls Nature, all that he calls institutions, when once his mind is active are...wonderful allegories...
    SovE 10.193 26 ...[good men] have accepted the notion of a mechanical supervision of human life, by which that certain wonderful being whom they call God does take up their affairs where their intelligence leaves them...
    SovE 10.212 22 ...innocence is a wonderful electuary for purging the eyes to search the nature of those souls that pass before it.
    MoL 10.243 19 The subtle Hindoo...produced the wonderful epics of which, in the present century, the translations have added new regions to thought.
    Schr 10.266 25 ...practical people in America give themselves wonderful airs.
    Schr 10.270 4 'T is wonderful, 't is almost scandalous, this extraordinary favoritism shown to poets.
    Plu 10.312 8 ...we owe to that wonderful moralist [Seneca] illustrious maxims;...
    Plu 10.320 4 [Plutarch] thought it wonderful that a man having a muse in his own breast...would have pipes and harps play...
    LLNE 10.333 6 In the pulpit...[Everett] gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy. Then was exhibited all the richness of a rhetoric which we have never seen rivalled in this country. Wonderful how memorable were words made which were only pleasing pictures...
    LLNE 10.347 25 Fourier, almost as wonderful an example of the mathematical mind of France as La Place or Napoleon, turned a truly vast arithmetic to the question of social misery...
    LLNE 10.349 8 The merit of [Brisbane's] plan was...that it...was coherent and comprehensive of facts to a wonderful degree.
    EzRy 10.384 22 Part of the shay, as it lay upon one side, went over my wife, and yet she was scarcely anything hurt. How wonderful the preservation.
    MMEm 10.418 15 Shut up in this severe weather with careful, infirm, afflicted age, it is wonderful, my [Mary Moody Emerson's] spirits...
    MMEm 10.425 10 The wonderful inhabitant of the building to which unknown ages were the mechanics, is left out [of Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology] as to that part where the Creator had put his own lighted candle..
    Thor 10.461 15 [Thoreau's] senses were acute...his hands strong and skilful in the use of tools. And there was a wonderful fitness of body and mind.
    Carl 10.492 25 If you boast of the growth of the country, and show [Carlyle] the wonderful results of the census, he finds nothing so depressing as the sight of a great mob.
    TPar 11.286 10 [Theodore Parker] elected his part of duty, or accepted nobly that assigned him in his rare constitution. Wonderful acquisition of knowledge, a rapid wit...
    EPro 11.318 17 'T is wonderful what power is...
    EPro 11.322 25 It is wonderful to see the unseasonable senility of what is called the Peace Party...
    Wom 11.424 18 ...this appearance of new opinions...is itself the wonderful fact.
    Shak1 11.452 10 [Shakespeare's] birth marked a great wine year when wonderful grapes ripened in the vintage of God...
    Humb 11.457 17 The wonderful Humboldt...marches like an army...
    Humb 11.458 12 [Humboldt] belonged to that wonderful German nation, the foremost scholars in all history...
    ChiE 11.471 17 ...by some wonderful force of race and national manners, the wars and revolutions that occur in [China's] annals have proved but momentary swells or surges on the pacific ocean of her history...
    CPL 11.497 1 If you consider what has befallen you when reading...a tragedy, or a novel, even, that deeply interested you...you will easily admit the wonderful property of books to make all towns equal...
    CPL 11.504 7 There is a wonderful agreement among eminent men of all varieties of character and condition in their estimate of books.
    FRep 11.526 2 The history of civilization, or the refining of certain races to wonderful power of performance, is analogous;...
    FRep 11.534 18 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence...
    PLT 12.14 1 I wish to know the laws of this wonderful power, that I may domesticate it.
    PLT 12.16 26 Who has found the boundaries of human intelligence? Who has made a chart of its channel, or approached the fountain of this wonderful Nile?
    PLT 12.20 10 It is certain that however we may conceive of the wonderful little bricks of which the world is builded, we must suppose a similarity and fitting and identity in their frame.
    PLT 12.21 6 Wonderful is [thoughts'] working and relation each to each.
    PLT 12.31 18 [A man's aptitude] is a wonderful instrument...
    PLT 12.52 21 ...to arrange general reflections in their natural order...this continuity is for the great. The wonderful men are wonderful hereby.
    PLT 12.52 22 ...to arrange general reflections in their natural order...this continuity is for the great. The wonderful men are wonderful hereby.
    PLT 12.60 11 That wonderful oracle [the divine soul] will reply when it is consulted...
    II 12.71 3 In the healthy mind, the thought...paints itself in wonderful symbols...
    II 12.74 24 ...this wonderful source of knowledge [Inspiration] remains a mystery;...
    Mem 12.109 14 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory]...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...
    CInt 12.118 7 Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense and of simple justice, as at a wonderful discovery.
    CL 12.134 5 Keen ears can catch a syllable,/ As if one spoke to another,/ In the hemlocks tall, untamable,/ And what the whispering grasses smother./ Wonderful verse of the gods,/ Of one import, of varied tone;/...
    CW 12.176 6 If you use a good and skilful companion [on a tramp], you shall see through his eyes; if they be of great discernment, you will learn wonderful secrets.
    Bost 12.199 16 John Smith says...nothing would be done for a plantation, till about some hundred of your Brownists of England, Amsterdam and Leyden went to New Plymouth; whose humorous ignorances caused them for more than a year to endure a wonderful deal of misery, with an infinite patience.
    MAng1 12.227 24 [Michelangelo's] diligence was so great that it is wonderful how he endured its fatigues.
    MAng1 12.230 24 Of [Michelangelo's] designs, the most celebrated is the cartoon representing soldiers coming out of the bath and arming themselves; an incident of the war of Pisa. The wonderful merit of this drawing...is conspicuous even in the coarsest prints.
    Milt1 12.249 14 These writings [Milton's tracts] are wonderful for the truth, the learning...
    Milt1 12.276 5 Shall we say that in our admiration and joy in these wonderful poems [of Homer and Shakespeare] we have even a feeling of regret that the men knew not what they did;...
    ACri 12.295 2 We cannot...give any account of [Shakespeare's] existence, but only the fact that there was a wonderful symbolizer and expressor...
    ACri 12.299 7 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours, whilst he is humming and chuckling... stereoscoping every figure that passes...with its wonderful mnemonics...
    PPr 12.386 9 Every object [in Carlyle] attitudinizes...under the refraction of this wonderful humorist;...

wonderful, n. (2)

    GoW 4.280 10 The ardent and holy Novalis characterized the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] as thoroughly modern and prosaic; the romantic is completely levelled in it; so is the poetry of nature; the wonderful.
    GoW 4.280 12 The wonderful in [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is expressly treated as fiction and enthusiastic dreaming...

wonderfully, adv. (8)

    Hist 2.30 4 [The advancing man's] own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him, dotted down before he was born.
    NMW 4.246 2 Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.
    QO 8.190 14 Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust, in another mouth.
    LLNE 10.332 1 ...all [Everett's] learning was available for purposes of the hour. It was all new learning, that wonderfully took and stimulated the young men.
    MMEm 10.404 23 ...wonderfully as [Mary Moody Emerson] varies and poetically repeats that image [of the angel of Death] in every page and day, yet not less fondly and sublimely she returns to the other,-the grandeur of humility and privation...
    PLT 12.24 4 ...the spectacle of vigor of any kind, any prodigious power of performance wonderfully arms and recruits us.
    Bost 12.190 11 ...Dr. Mather writes of [Boston], The town hath indeed three elder Sisters in this colony, but it hath wonderfully outgrown them all...
    Trag 12.415 4 Our human being is wonderfully plastic;...

wondering, adj. (4)

    MN 1.213 3 These beautiful basilisks [the stars] set their brute glorious eyes on the eye of every child, and, if they can, cause their nature to pass through his wondering eyes into him...
    ShP 4.204 13 It was not until the nineteenth century...that the tragedy of Hamlet could find such wondering readers.
    Cour 7.279 18 Still firm the hunter stood,/ Although his heart beat high;/ Again the creature stopped,/ And gazed with wondering eye./
    MLit 12.334 18 Are there no lonely, anxious, wondering children, who must tell their tale?

wonders, n. (18)

    Nat 1.75 10 These wonders are brought to our own door.
    SL 2.134 17 ...the wonders of which [men of extraordinary success] were the visible conductors seemed to the eye their deed.
    OS 2.297 5 ...man will come to see that the world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh, and be less astonished at particular wonders;...
    Int 2.330 18 Do you think the porter and the cook have...no wonders for you?
    Art1 2.360 25 I remember when in my younger days I had heard of the wonders of Italian painting, I fancied the great pictures would be great strangers;...
    Art2 7.49 13 The wonders of Shakspeare are things which he saw whilst he stood aside...
    Art2 7.51 15 ...a certain analogy reigns throughout the wonders of both [Nature and works of art];...
    DL 7.105 14 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...
    Elo2 8.122 19 ...the wonders [John Quincy Adams] could achieve with that cracked and disobedient organ [his voice] showed what power might have belonged to it in early manhood.
    Dem1 10.12 22 We are used to vaster wonders than these that are alleged.
    Supl 10.172 23 Our travelling is a sort of search for the superlatives or summits of art,-much more the real wonders of power in the human form.
    SovE 10.200 1 When we ask simply, What is true in thought? what is just in action? it is the yielding of the private heart to the Divine mind, and all personal preferences, and all requiring of wonders, are profane.
    SovE 10.200 9 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?
    MMEm 10.403 15 My opinion, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, [is]...that the fiery depths of Calvinism...and all its attendant wonders, would have alone been fitted to fix [Byron's] imagination.
    FSLC 11.209 23 We are on the brink of more wonders.
    Humb 11.457 1 Humboldt was one of those wonders of the world, like Aristotle...
    FRO2 11.489 2 If you are childish, and exhibit your saint as a worker of wonders, a thaumaturgist, I am repelled.
    FRep 11.540 1 If our mechanic arts are unsurpassed in usefulness...let these wonders work for honest humanity...

wonders, v. (10)

    Nat 1.72 2 ...sometimes [man]...wonders at himself and his house...
    Pt1 3.15 21 The writer wonders what the coachman or the hunter values in riding, in horses and dogs.
    NER 3.285 17 ...that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.
    NER 3.285 18 ...that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.
    WD 7.166 16 Every victory over matter ought to recommend to man the worth of his nature. But now one wonders who did all this good.
    QO 8.195 9 A man hears a fine sentence out of Swedenborg, and wonders at the wisdom...
    Plu 10.308 6 [Plutarch] wonders with Plato at that nail of pain and pleasure which fastens the body to the mind.
    FRO1 11.479 1 One wonders sometimes that the churches still retain so many votaries, when he reads the histories of the Church.
    WSL 12.337 13 [John Bull] wonders that the Americans should build with wood...
    WSL 12.337 18 ...[John Bull] wonders that [Americans] do not make elder-wine and cherry-bounce, since here are cherries, and every mile is crammed with elder-bushes.

wonderworker, n. (1)

    DSA 1.144 9 Man is the wonderworker.

wondrous, adj. (8)

    AmS 1.112 12 Man is surprised to find that things near are not less beautiful and wondrous than things remote.
    LT 1.288 11 ...to what port are we bound? Who knows! There is no one to tell us but such poor weather-tossed mariners as ourselves...who have... floated to us some letter in a bottle from far. But what know they more than we? They also found themselves on this wondrous sea.
    PI 8.20 18 All that is wondrous in Swedenborg is not his invention, but his extraordinary perception;...
    PerF 10.82 17 By this wondrous susceptibility to all the impressions of Nature the man finds himself the receptacle of celestial thoughts...
    Edc1 10.127 24 This apparatus of wants and faculties, this craving body... educate the wondrous creature which they satisfy with light, with heat...
    Edc1 10.128 14 Here [in the household] is the sincere thing, the wondrous composition for which day and night go round.
    SovE 10.194 24 Wondrous state of man! never so happy as when he has lost all private interests and regards...
    PLT 12.18 16 The perceptions of a soul, its wondrous progeny, are born by the conversation, the marriage of souls;...

wont, adj. (31)

    DSA 1.137 21 Men go, thought I, where they are wont to go...
    LT 1.267 14 Slowly...it steals on us, the new fact, that we who were pupils or aspirants...do compose a portion of that head and heart we are wont to think worthy of all reverence and heed.
    SR 2.50 15 I remember an answer which...I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church.
    Fdsp 2.192 23 We talk better [with the commended stranger] than we are wont.
    Hsm1 2.247 1 Kiss thy lord,/ And live with all the freedom you were wont./
    Pt1 3.27 8 The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he speaks...as the ancients were wont to express themselves, not with intellect alone but with the intellect inebriated by nectar.
    Pt1 3.28 13 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...
    Mrs1 3.135 26 ...Napoleon...was wont, when he found himself observed, to discharge his face of all expression.
    Mrs1 3.151 21 Where [Lilla] is present all others will be more than they are wont.
    PPh 4.42 27 [Plato] says, in the Republic, Such a genius as philosophers must of necessity have, is wont but seldom in all its parts to meet in one man...
    SwM 4.100 25 [Swedenborg's] rare science and practical skill, and the added fame...of extraordinary religious knowledge and gifts, drew to him queens...and people about the ports through which he was wont to pass...
    MoS 4.186 6 ...let [a man] learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence without losing his reverence;...
    NMW 4.252 5 In intervals of leisure...Napoleon appears as a man of genius directing on abstract questions...the impatience of words he was wont to show in war.
    ET1 5.22 19 ...[Wordsworth] recollected himself for a few moments and then stood forth and repeated...the three entire sonnets with great animation. I fancied the second and third more beautiful than his poems are wont to be.
    ET4 5.62 8 Konghelle, the town where the kings of Norway, Sweden and Denmark were wont to meet, is now rented to a private English gentleman for a hunting ground.
    ET6 5.109 18 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval...to the fact that he was wont to go to church every Sunday...
    ET8 5.129 26 In every [English] inn is the Commercial-Room, in which travellers, or bagmen who carry patterns and solicit orders for the manufacturers, are wont to be entertained.
    ET16 5.273 21 The fine weather and my friend's [Carlyle's] local knowledge of Hampshire, in which he is wont to spend a part of every summer, made the way short.
    Pow 6.73 2 Michel [Angelo] was wont to draw his figures first in skeleton...
    Pow 6.77 25 Diligence passe sens, Henry VIII. was wont to say, or great is drill.
    Wth 6.113 2 Allston the painter was wont to say that he built a plain house, and filled it with plain furniture, because he would hold out no bribe to any to visit him who had not similar tastes to his own.
    Bhr 6.175 3 A keen eye...will...see in the manners the degree of homage the party is wont to receive.
    DL 7.118 7 With a change of aim has followed a change of the whole scale by which men and things were wont to be measured.
    Clbs 7.245 23 The poet Marvell was wont to say that he would not drink wine with any one with whom he could not trust his life.
    Suc 7.301 16 ...the great hearing and sympathy of men is more true and wise than their speaking is wont to be.
    PI 8.61 5 [The voice said to Sir Gawaine] You were wont to know me well...
    SA 8.85 14 ...youth in America is wont to be poor and hurried...
    Schr 10.263 8 A celebrated musician was wont to say, that men knew not how much more he delighted himself with his playing than he did others;...
    FSLC 11.182 18 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] ended a good deal of nonsense we had been wont to hear and to repeat...
    Wom 11.405 19 ...Coleridge was wont to apply to a lady for her judgment in questions of taste...
    RBur 11.439 20 At the first announcement...that the 25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race...to keep the festival. We are here to hold our parliament with love and poesy, as men were wont to do in the Middle Ages.

wont, n. (2)

    ET4 5.51 1 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter... world-wide enterprise and devoted use and wont;...
    ET12 5.200 12 It is a curious proof of the English use and wont...that these young men [at Oxford] are locked up every night at nine o'clock...

wont, v. (2)

    ET16 5.277 1 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked round the stones [at Stonehenge] and clambered over them, to wont ourselves with their strange aspect...
    PC 8.211 20 We have been taught...to wont ourselves to daring conjectures.

wonted, adj. (10)

    Nat 1.51 5 ...the most wonted objects, (make a very slight change in the point of vision,) please us most.
    Comp 2.126 20 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly...breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living...
    Cir 2.305 26 The new statement...to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of scepticism. But the eye soon gets wonted to it...
    NER 3.283 27 As soon as a man is wonted to look beyond surfaces...he settles himself into serenity.
    ShP 4.195 3 This balance-wheel, which the sculptor found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found in the accumulated dramatic materials to which the people were already wonted...
    ET1 5.3 18 ...the public and private buildings wore a more native and wonted front.
    ET5 5.80 10 [The English]...cannot conceal their contempt for sallies of thought...whose steps they cannot count by their wonted rule.
    Ctr 6.157 4 The more I know you [wrote Neander to his sacred friends], the more I dissatisfy and must dissatisfy all my wonted companions.
    OA 7.313 4 Once more, the old man cried, ye clouds,/ Airy turrets purple-piled,/ Which once my infancy beguiled,/ Beguile me with the wonted spell./
    MAng1 12.241 20 So vehement was this desire [for death], that, [Michelangelo] says, my soul can no longer be appeased by the wonted seductions of painting and sculpture.

woo, v. (7)

    MN 1.212 15 Ever [the stars] woo and court the eye of every beholder.
    MN 1.222 7 ...the solicitations of this spirit, as long as there is life, are never forborne. Tenderly, tenderly, they woo and court us from every object in nature...
    NER 3.276 2 ...instead of avoiding these men who make his fine gold dim, [a man] will cast all behind him and seek their society only, woo and embrace this his humiliation and mortification...
    Wsp 6.236 6 If [the thought] can spare me [said Benedict], I am sure I can spare it. It shall be the same with my friends. I will never woo the loveliest.
    Suc 7.301 8 If we follow this hint [of correspondence] into our intellectual education, we shall find that it is...not new dogmas...that are our first need; but to watch and tenderly cherish the intellectual and moral sensibilities... and woo them to stay and make their home with us.
    RBur 11.442 6 ...[Burns's] love-songs still woo and melt the youths and maids;...
    II 12.68 26 To coax and woo the strong Instinct to bestir itself, and work its miracle, is the end of all wise endeavor.

wood, adj. (2)

    Art1 2.360 17 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear, in the gray unpainted wood cabin...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
    Thor 10.449 7 ...[Nature] to her son will treasures more,/ And more to purpose, freely pour/ In one wood walk, than learned men/ Will find with glass in ten times ten./

Wood, Anthony, n. (5)

    ET4 5.69 25 Wood the antiquary, in describing the poverty and maceration of Father Lacey, an English Jesuit, does not deny him beer.
    Clbs 7.243 25 Anthony Wood has many details of Harrington's Club.
    Insp 8.297 7 Aubrey and Burton and Wood tell me incidents which I find not insignificant.
    SovE 10.186 9 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that which Anthony Wood reports of Nathaniel Carpenter... It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity).
    Milt1 12.257 10 Wood, [Milton's] political opponent, relates that his deportment was affable...

wood, n. (71)

    Con 1.300 22 The leaves and a shell of soft wood are all that the vegetation of this summer has made;...
    Con 1.306 18 ...[the youth] says, If I am born in the earth...have the goodness, gentlemen of this world, to show me my wood-lot, where I may fell my wood...
    Con 1.306 21 ...[the youth] says, If I am born in the earth...have the goodness, gentlemen of this world, to show me...my pleasant ground where to build my cabin. Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all the gentlemen of this world;...
    Con 1.315 17 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers...who told him how much love they bore their children, and how they were perplexed...lest they should fail in their duty to them. What! he said, and this...on marble floors, with...carved wood...about you?
    Hist 2.12 5 ...the value which is given to wood by carving led to the carving over the whole mountain of stone of a cathedral.
    Hist 2.25 8 ...Xenophon arose naked, and taking an axe, began to split wood;...
    Hist 2.37 21 Do not the constructive fingers of Watt, Fulton, Whittemore, Arkwright, predict the fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals, the properties of stone, water, and wood?
    SL 2.162 26 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.
    Lov1 2.177 7 Behold there in the wood the fine madman [the lover]!
    Prd1 2.225 20 I want wood or oil, or meal or salt;...
    Prd1 2.226 16 [The northerner] must...pile wood and coal.
    Int 2.325 4 Water dissolves wood and iron and salt;...
    Art1 2.355 27 A squirrel leaping from bough to bough and making the wood but one wide tree for his pleasure...is beautiful...
    Pt1 3.3 9 [The umpires of tastes'] cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire...
    Pt1 3.16 3 ...[the coachman or the hunter] loves the earnest...of stone and wood and iron.
    Mrs1 3.120 10 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man serves himself with metals, wood, stone, glass, gum, cotton, silk and wool;...
    UGM 4.9 18 Justice has already been done to steam...to wood...
    SwM 4.126 1 [To Swedenborg] They who place merit in good works seem to themselves to cut wood.
    NMW 4.228 26 [Napoleon] is a worker in brass...in wood...
    ET3 5.38 25 ...England has all the materials of a working country except wood.
    ET4 5.67 10 The fair Saxon man...is not the wood out of which cannibal, or inquisitor, or assassin is made...
    ET10 5.159 24 England already had this laborious race, rich soil, water, wood, coal, iron...
    ET10 5.163 18 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...the wood that Gibbons carved;...are in the vast auction [in England]...
    ET10 5.166 25 Man...is ever...adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood and leather to some required function in the work of the world.
    ET16 5.285 8 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...climbed to the lonely sculptured summer-house, on a hill backed by a wood;...
    ET16 5.286 16 We [Emerson and Carlyle] passed in the train Clarendon Park, but could see little but the edge of a wood...
    F 6.43 26 Wood, lime...were dispersed over the earth and sea, in vain.
    Wth 6.121 4 I know...neither how to buy wood, nor what to do with the house-lot...when bought.
    CbW 6.264 25 The latent heat of an ounce of wood or stone is inexhaustible.
    Bty 6.291 4 ...our taste in building...shows the original grain of the wood...
    Farm 7.140 8 ...[the farmer] has...wood to burn great fires...
    Farm 7.146 27 At rare intervals [on the prairie] a thin oak-opening has been spared, and every such section has been long occupied. But the farmer manages to procure wood from far, puts up a rail-fence, and at once the seeds sprout and the oaks rise.
    WD 7.167 14 Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works and Days... instructing the husbandman...when to gather wood...
    WD 7.170 22 'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor...a little more or less stone, or wood, or paint...
    Cour 7.254 3 Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass...
    Cour 7.279 9 I say unarmed [the hunter] stood./ Against those frightful paws/ The rifle butt, or club of wood,/ Could stand no more than straws./
    OA 7.313 10 I know ye [clouds] skilful to convoy/ The total freight of hope and joy/ Into rude and homely nooks,/ Shed mocking lustres on shelf of books,/ On farmer's byre, on pasture rude,/ And stony pathway to the wood./
    PI 8.8 18 In geology, what a useful hint was given to the early inquirers on seeing in the possession of Professor Playfair a bough of a fossil tree which was perfect wood at one end and perfect mineral coal at the other.
    PI 8.9 8 ...[the student] observes that all things in Nature...wood, iron, stone, vapor, have a mysterious relation to his thoughts and his life;...
    PI 8.12 23 ...children resent your showing them that their doll Cinderella is nothing but pine wood and rags;...
    PI 8.58 11 [The wind] is in the field, it is in the wood,/ Without hand, without foot,/ Without age, without season/...
    PI 8.61 25 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...neither shall I ever go out from hence, for in the world there is no such strong tower as this wherein I am confined; and it is neither of wood, nor of iron, nor of stone, but of air...
    Res 8.142 25 ...we begin to perforate and mould the old ball, as a carpenter does with wood.
    Res 8.145 12 The boat is full of water, and resists all your strength to drag it ashore and empty it. The fisherman looks about him, puts a round stick of wood underneath, and it rolls as on wheels at once.
    QO 8.179 10 ...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.
    Edc1 10.127 26 This apparatus of wants and faculties, this craving body... educate the wondrous creature which they satisfy...with water, with wood...
    Supl 10.167 24 [People of English stock's] houses are of wood, and brick, and stone...
    Plu 10.315 27 A brother, embroiled with his brother, going to seek in the street a stranger who can take his place, resembles him who will cut off his foot to give himself one of wood.
    LLNE 10.350 17 All these [the hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea] shall be redressed by human culture, and the useful goat and dog and innocent poetical moth, or the wood-tick to consume decomposing wood, shall take their place.
    LLNE 10.366 22 There was a stove in every chamber [at Brook Farm], and every one might burn as much wood as he or she would saw.
    HDC 11.27 3 Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Merriam, Flint,/ Possessed the land which rendered to their toil/ Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood./
    HDC 11.39 20 A poor servant [in Concord], that is to possess but fifty acres, may afford to give more wood for fire as good as the world yields, than many noblemen in England.
    HDC 11.78 15 ...say the plaintive records, General Washington, at Cambridge, is not able to give but 24s. per cord for wood, for the army;...
    HDC 11.78 18 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither;...
    HDC 11.78 19 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither; and 210 cords of wood were carried.
    HDC 11.78 24 Whilst Boston was occupied by the British troops, Concord contributed to the relief of the inhabitants...a quantity of meat and wood.
    War 11.164 22 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or two years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid wood and brick and mortar.
    PLT 12.18 23 [The perceptions of the soul] take to themselves wood and stone and iron;...
    II 12.71 4 In the healthy mind, the thought...appears...in wood, in stone...
    II 12.81 24 Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church, or a dream of Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants, lawyers, landlords, who administer the world of to-day, as leaves and wood are made of air, an idea fashioned them...
    CL 12.147 12 Evelyn quotes Lord Caernarvon's saying, Wood is an excrescence of the earth provided by God for the payment of debts.
    CL 12.148 2 I admire the taste which makes the avenue to a house... through a wood;...
    CL 12.152 17 ...the pleasures of garden, orchard and wood must be alternated.
    CL 12.165 13 Swedenborg or Behman or Plato tried...to explain what rock, what sand, what wood, what fire signified in regard to man.
    CW 12.175 23 I admire the taste which makes the avenue to the house... through a wood;...
    CW 12.178 13 ...I am always glad to remember that in proportion to the foliation is the addition of wood.
    MAng1 12.221 10 Most of [Michelangelo's] designs, his contemporaries inform us, were made...in the style of an engraving on copper or wood;...
    MAng1 12.231 19 Very slowly came [Michelangelo], after months and years, to the dome [of St. Peter's]. At last he began to model it very small in wax. When it was finished, he had it copied larger in wood, and by this model it was built.
    ACri 12.299 6 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours, whilst he is humming and chuckling... stereoscoping every figure that passes, and every hill, river, wood, hummock and pebble in the long perspective...
    WSL 12.337 14 [John Bull] wonders that the Americans should build with wood...
    WSL 12.343 9 ...if fire cheers us, we should bring wood and coals.

Wood, n. (1)

    HDC 11.30 16 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is...Wood, Hosmer, Barrett, Wheeler...

wood-birds, n. (2)

    LE 1.168 8 ...the fall of swarms of flies...pattering down on the leaves like rain; the angry hiss of the wood-birds;...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].
    Cir 2.313 9 We can never see Christianity from the catechism...from amidst the songs of wood-birds, we possibly may.

wood-chopper, n. (3)

    MR 1.237 25 ...now I feel some shame before my wood-chopper...
    SR 2.51 14 ...love thy wood-chopper;...
    WD 7.157 21 The sympathy of eye and hand by which an Indian or a practised slinger hits his mark with a stone, or a wood-chopper or a carpenter swings his axe to a hair-line on his log, are examples [that the eye appreciates finer differences than art can expose];...

woodchuck, n. (3)

    Exp 3.63 23 Fox and woodchuck...have no more root in the deep world than man...
    Thor 10.467 2 ...the snake, muskrat, otter, woodchuck and fox, on the banks [of the Concord River];...were all known to [Thoreau]...
    Thor 10.472 7 ...[Thoreau] pulled the woodchuck out of its hole by the tail...

woodchucks, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.183 8 ...let us be men instead of woodchucks...

woodcock, n. (1)

    ET3 5.39 6 The land [in England] naturally abounds with game; immense heaths and downs are paved with quails, grouse and woodcock...

woodcocks, n. (2)

    CL 12.151 21 In August, when the corn is grown to be a resort and protection to woodcocks and small birds...we observe already that the leaf is sere...
    CL 12.162 9 [Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person who knows]...where trout, woodcocks, wild bees, pigeons, where the bittern (stake-driver) can be seen and heard...

woodcraft, n. [wood-craft,] (4)

    Exp 3.63 17 The imagination delights in the woodcraft of Indians, trappers and bee-hunters.
    Nat2 3.177 10 Men are naturally hunters and inquisitive of wood-craft...
    Thor 10.453 8 With his hardy habits and few wants, his skill in wood-craft, and his powerful arithmetic, [Thoreau] was very competent to live in any part of the world.
    HDC 11.50 25 Master of all sorts of wood-craft, [the Indian] seemed a part of the forest and the lake...

wood-cutter, n. (1)

    Nat 1.8 13 It is this [integrity of impression] which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood-cutter from the tree of the poet.

wood-cutters, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.177 11 ...I suppose that such a gazetteer as wood-cutters and Indians should furnish facts for, would take place in the most sumptuous drawing-rooms of all the Wreaths and Flora's chaplets of the bookshops;...

wooded, adj. (1)

    Res 8.152 6 When [the scholar's] task requires the wiping out from memory all trivial fond records/ That youth and observation copied there,/ he must...go to wooded uplands...

wooden, adj. (21)

    MR 1.251 25 ...when [Caliph Omar] left Medina to go to the conquest of Jerusalem, he rode on a red camel, with a wooden platter hanging at his saddle...
    Hist 2.19 17 The Doric temple preserves the semblance of the wooden cabin in which the Dorian dwelt.
    Pt1 3.29 4 Milton says that...the epic poet...must drink water out of a wooden bowl.
    NR 3.233 23 ...it was easy [at Handel's Messiah] to observe what efforts nature was making, through so many hoarse, wooden and imperfect persons, to produce beautiful voices...
    ET6 5.111 27 There is a prose in certain Englishmen which exceeds in wooden deadness all rivalry with other countrymen.
    ET10 5.158 7 Two centuries ago...the carriage wheels ran on wooden axles;...
    ET10 5.158 8 Two centuries ago...the land was tilled by wooden ploughs.
    ET14 5.233 1 [The English muse] says, with De Stael, I tramp in the mire with wooden shoes, whenever they would force me into the clouds.
    PI 8.52 24 We do not enclose watches in wooden, but in crystal cases...
    Aris 10.42 7 Epeus builds the wooden horse.
    PerF 10.81 2 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...
    SovE 10.196 19 The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.
    Prch 10.229 25 ...once we had wooden chalices and golden priests, now we have golden chalices and wooden priests.
    Prch 10.229 27 ...once we had wooden chalices and golden priests, now we have golden chalices and wooden priests.
    Plu 10.315 23 The Arcadian prophet, of whom Herodotus speaks, was obliged to make a wooden foot in place of that which had been chopped off.
    SlHr 10.441 4 [Samuel Hoar] returned from courts or congresses to sit down, with unaltered humility, in the church or in the town-house, on the plain wooden bench where honor came and sat down beside him.
    HDC 11.39 27 Hard labor and spare diet [the settlers of Concord] had, and off wooden trenchers...
    FSLC 11.188 2 ...[resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law] is befriending...on our own farms, a man who has taken the risk of being...suffocated in a wooden box, to get away from his driver...
    II 12.75 1 ...the ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.
    WSL 12.337 15 [John Bull]...is astonished to learn that a wooden house may last a hundred years;...
    EurB 12.378 8 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is to appear with the most wooden manners...

wooden-ware, n. (1)

    MR 1.238 25 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son,-house...wooden-ware...the son finds his hands full...

wood-fire, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.171 23 There is...the wood-fire to which the chilled traveller rushes for safety,--and there is the sublime moral of autumn and of noon.

wood-gods, n. (2)

    Chr1 3.106 11 It was only this morning that I sent away some wild flowers of these wood-gods.
    SS 7.1 15 ...[Seyd] wood-gods fed with honey wild/ And of his memory beguiled./

Woodhill, England, n. (1)

    HDC 11.31 17 Among the silenced [English] clergymen was a distinguished minister of Woodhill, in Bedfordshire...

woodland, n. (3)

    Nat 1.8 17 Miller owns this field...and Manning the woodland beyond.
    ET11 5.180 12 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle...the clays of Stafford...know the man who...like the long line of his fathers, had carried that crag, that shore, dale, fen, or woodland, in his blood and manners.
    Bost 12.191 18 ...the next colony planted itself at Salem, and the next at Weymouth; another at Medford; before these men...wisely judged that the best point for a city was at the bottom of a deep and islanded bay...where a bold shore was bounded by a country of rich undulating woodland.

woodlands, n. (2)

    YA 1.368 9 ...[the farmer] is so contented with his alleys, woodlands, orchards and river, that Niagara and the Notch of the White Hills...are superfluities.
    SHC 11.434 6 In all the multitudes of woodlands and hillsides, which within a few years have been laid out with a similar design [as a cemetery], I have not known one so fitly named. Sleepy Hollow.

wood-life, n. (1)

    SR 2.58 13 In this pleasing contrite wood-life which God allows me, let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect...

wood-lot, n. (7)

    Con 1.306 18 ...[the youth] says, If I am born in the earth...have the goodness, gentlemen of this world, to show me my wood-lot, where I may fell my wood...
    Nat2 3.177 3 A susceptible person does not like to indulge his tastes in this kind [in passive nature] without the apology of some trivial necessity: he goes to see a wood-lot...
    Wth 6.121 5 I know...neither how to buy wood, nor what to do with...the wood-lot, when bought.
    Suc 7.298 23 The owner of the wood-lot finds only a number of discolored trees...
    Aris 10.44 19 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the...land fit for...pasturage, wood-lot, cranberry-meadow;...
    CL 12.147 8 According to the common estimate of farmers, the wood-lot yields its gentle rent of six per cent....
    CW 12.173 27 The place where a thoughtful man in the country feels the joy of eminent domain is in his wood-lot.

woodpecker, n. (1)

    SHC 11.435 23 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less, the high-holding woodpecker, the meadow-lark...will find out the hospitality and protection from the gun of this asylum...

wood-pile, n. (1)

    Let 12.403 26 Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any sympathy if there is a wood-pile in the yard...

Wood's, Anthony, n. (3)

    ET10 5.154 11 I was lately turning over Wood's Athenae Oxonienses...
    ET12 5.201 15 Here indeed [at Oxford] was the Olympia of all Antony Wood's and Aubrey's games and heroes...
    ET12 5.201 17 ...Wood's Athenae Oxonienses...is a lively record of English manners and merits...

Woods, Joseph, n. (1)

    EWI 11.107 23 Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of July, 1783,- William Dillwyn, Samuel Hoar, George Harrison, Thomas Knowles, John Lloyd, Joseph Woods, to consider what step they should take for the relief and liberation of the negro slaves in the West Indies...

woods, n. (78)

    Nat 1.9 22 In the woods, too, a man casts off his years...
    Nat 1.9 25 In the woods is perpetual youth.
    Nat 1.10 2 In the woods, we return to reason and faith.
    Nat 1.10 22 The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable.
    Nat 1.16 22 ...the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again.
    Nat 1.31 18 The poet...bred in the woods...shall not lose their lesson altogether...
    Nat 1.32 1 At the call of a noble sentiment, again the woods wave...
    DSA 1.119 24 ...in its forests of all woods;...[the world] is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.
    LE 1.162 23 ...[the youth's] fancy has brought home to the surrounding woods the faint roar of cannonades in the Milanese...
    LE 1.163 3 In the sighing of these woods...behold Charles the Fifth's day;...
    LE 1.168 14 The man...who rambles in the woods, seems to be the first man that ever...entered a grove.
    LE 1.169 4 ...the deep, echoing, aboriginal woods...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    MN 1.212 7 ...there is a certain infatuating air in woods and mountains which draws on the idler to want and misery.
    MR 1.254 19 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom...by its...gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...
    Tran 1.347 18 ...a favorite spot in the hills or the woods which they can people with the fair and worthy creation of the fancy, can give [Transcendentalists] often forms so vivid that these for the time shall seem real, and society the illusion.
    YA 1.395 6 Here stars, here woods, here hills, here animals, here men abound...
    Hist 2.18 12 A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait...
    Hist 2.20 14 No one can walk in a road cut through pine woods, without being struck with the architectural appearance of the grove...
    Hist 2.20 18 In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window...in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.
    Comp 2.116 6 Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge...
    SL 2.135 24 When we come out of the caucus...into the fields and woods, [nature] says to us, So hot? my little Sir.
    Prd1 2.225 26 ...if we walk in the woods we must feed mosquitos;...
    Cir 2.307 16 I thought as I walked in the woods and mused on my friends, why should I play with them this game of idolatry?
    Cir 2.315 7 Geoffrey draws on his boots to go through the woods...
    Int 2.337 21 ...as soon as we let our will go and let the unconscious states ensue, see what cunning draughtsmen we are! We entertain ourselves with wonderful forms...of woods and of monsters...
    Pt1 3.29 27 If thou...wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pine woods.
    Pt1 3.42 13 ...the woods and the rivers thou shalt own [O poet]...
    Nat2 3.170 12 The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning...
    Nat2 3.192 8 There is in woods and waters a certain enticement and flattery...
    Nat2 3.192 26 This or this [in nature] is but outskirt and a far-off reflection and echo of the triumph that has passed by, and is now at its glancing splendor and heyday, perchance in the neighboring fields, or, if you stand in the field, then in the adjacent woods.
    NER 3.257 18 We do not know an edible root in the woods...
    ET4 5.48 12 ...I found abundant points of resemblance between the Germans of the Hercynian forest, and our Hoosiers, Suckers, and Badgers of the American woods.
    ET19 5.311 1 That which lures a solitary American in the woods with the wish to see England, is the moral peculiarity of the Saxon race...
    Wth 6.89 22 ...forests of all woods;...are [man's] natural playmates...
    CbW 6.268 27 When joy or calamity or genius shall show [the youth his purpose], then woods, then farms...will mirror back to him its unfathomable heaven...
    Bty 6.297 27 ...the enamoured youth mixes [women's] form...with woods and waters...
    Ill 6.311 23 ...the fop in the street, the hunter in the woods...ascribe a certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it.
    Elo1 7.95 23 ...the slight yet sufficient party organization [the resistance to slavery] offered, reinforced the city with new blood from the woods and mountains.
    Farm 7.135 13 [Farmers] turn the frost upon their chemic heap,/ They set the wind to winnow pulse and grain,/ They thank the spring-flood for its fertile slime,/ And on cheap summit-levels of the snow/ Slide with the sledge to inaccessible woods/ O'er meadows bottomless./
    Cour 7.264 2 The hunter is not alarmed by bears, catamounts or wolves... nor a farmer by a fire in the woods.
    Suc 7.298 11 Remember what befalls a city boy who goes for the first time into the October woods.
    Res 8.151 13 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds, and mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in the country...wants...an old horse that will stand tied in a pasture half a day without risk, so allowing the picnic-party the full freedom of the woods.
    Res 8.151 27 ...the uses of the woods are many...
    Res 8.152 10 If I go into the woods in winter, and am shown the thirteen or fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that they quietly expand in the warmer days...
    Res 8.152 20 ...long before anything else is ready, these osiers hang out their joyful flowers in contrast to all the woods.
    Insp 8.287 6 Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, the October woods!
    Insp 8.288 3 Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in the woods in summer...
    Edc1 10.155 10 When [the naturalist] goes into the woods the birds fly before him...
    MoL 10.251 8 Learn...to camp down in the woods...
    LLNE 10.344 25 I habitually apply to [Theodore Parker] the words of a French philosopher who speaks of the man of Nature who abominates the steam-engine and the factory. His vast lungs breathe independence with the air of the mountains and the woods.
    LLNE 10.345 9 The clergyman who would live in the city may have piety, but must have taste, whilst there was often coming, among these, some John the Baptist, wild from the woods...
    Thor 10.461 19 [Thoreau] could find his path in the woods at night, he said, better by his feet than his eyes.
    Thor 10.481 10 ...[Thoreau]...never willingly walked in the road, but in the grass, on mountains and in woods.
    HDC 11.32 16 The green meadows of Musketaquid or Grassy Brook were far up in the woods...
    HDC 11.37 8 Many instances of [the Indian's] humanity were known to the Englishmen who suffered in the woods from sickness or cold.
    HDC 11.38 25 The little flower which at this season stars our woods and roadsides with its profuse blooms, might attract even eyes as stern as [the settlers of Concord's] with its humble beauty.
    HDC 11.40 2 ...the wailing of the tempest in the woods sounded kindlier in [the settlers of Concord's] ear than the smooth voice of the prelates, at home, in England.
    HDC 11.44 22 In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to dispose of their own lands and woods, and choose their own particular officers.
    HDC 11.50 21 The man of the woods might well draw on himself the compassion of the planters.
    HDC 11.62 14 Alas! for [the Indians]-their day is o'er,/ Their fires are out from hill and shore,/ No more for them the wild deer bounds,/ The plough is on their hunting grounds;/ The pale man's axe rings in their woods,/ The pale man's sail skims o'er their floods,/ Their pleasant springs are dry./
    HDC 11.65 27 The country [near Concord] was not yet so thickly settled but that the inhabitants suffered from wolves and wildcats, which infested the woods;...
    EWI 11.129 21 As I have walked in the pastures and along the edge of woods, I could not keep my imagination on those agreeable figures, for other images that intruded on me.
    EWI 11.141 4 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro; comprising cloths and loom...polished stones and woods...
    FSLC 11.202 1 [Webster] must learn...that he who was their pride in the woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification...
    SMC 11.370 14 ...Word was sent by General Barnes, that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods.
    SHC 11.431 3 A simultaneous movement has, in a hundred cities and towns in this country, selected some convenient piece of undulating ground with pleasant woods and waters;...and we lay the corpse in these leafy colonnades.
    SHC 11.431 22 ...there is no ornament, no architecture alone, so sumptuous as well disposed woods and waters...
    PLT 12.37 10 If we could retain our early innocence, we might trust our feet uncommanded to take the right path to our friend in the woods.
    CL 12.135 24 The Indians go in summer to the coast, for fishing; in winter, to the woods.
    CL 12.147 16 When Nero advertised for a new luxury, a walk in the woods should have been offered.
    CL 12.149 7 The Hindoos called fire Agni, born in the woods...
    CL 12.149 27 ...you cannot lose [the Indian] in the woods.
    CL 12.150 15 In January the new snow has changed the woods so that [a man] does not know them;...
    CL 12.162 13 The true naturalist can go wherever woods or waters go;...
    CL 12.162 26 ...sometimes [my naturalist] brought [the farmers] ostentatiously gifts of flowers, fruit or rare shrubs they would gladly have paid a price for, and did not tell them that he gathered them in their own woods.
    CW 12.177 22 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches...in the night even, because the woods exhibit a whole new world of nocturnal animals;...
    MAng1 12.237 16 ...[Michelangelo] says he is only half in Rome, since, truly, peace is only to be found in the woods.
    ACri 12.302 20 ...when we came, in the woods, to a clump of goldenrod,- Ah! [Channing] says, here they are! these things consume a great deal of time. I don't know but they are of more importance than any other of our investments.

wood-sawer, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.433 9 ...every banker, shopkeeper and wood-sawer has a stake in the elevation of the moral code by saint and prophet.

wood-sawyer, n. (1)

    NER 3.256 11 Why should professional labor and that of the counting-house be paid so disproportionately to the labor of the porter and wood-sawyer?

wood-shed, n. (2)

    DL 7.120 8 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...in barn or wood-shed with scraps of poetry or song...
    Thor 10.482 17 The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon...and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.

woodsman, n. (1)

    Res 8.144 13 ...the woodsman knows how to make warm garments out of cold and wet themselves.

Woodstock, Connecticut, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.381 2 Ezra Ripley was born May 1, 1751 (O. S.), at Woodstock, Connecticut.

wood-strawberries, n. (2)

    CL 12.138 10 [Linnaeus] found that the gout...was cured by wood-strawberries.
    CL 12.138 16 ...the curiosity to see [Kalm's] plants, restored [Linnaeus] instantly, and he found an old friend as good as the treatment by wood-strawberries.

wood-tick, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.350 16 All these [the hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea] shall be redressed by human culture, and the useful goat and dog and innocent poetical moth, or the wood-tick to consume decomposing wood, shall take their place.

Woodward, Hezekiah, n. (1)

    ET8 5.131 5 [The English] are headstrong believers and defenders of their opinion, and not less resolute in maintaining their whim and perversity. Hezekiah Woodward wrote a book against the Lord's Prayer.

wooed, v. (1)

    Thor 10.477 13 Now chiefly is my natal hour,/ And only now my prime of life;/ I will not doubt the love untold,/ Which not my worth nor want have bought,/ Which wooed me young, and wooes me old,/ And to this evening hath me brought./

wooes, v. (1)

    Thor 10.477 13 Now chiefly is my natal hour,/ And only now my prime of life;/ I will not doubt the love untold,/ Which not my worth nor want have bought,/ Which wooed me young, and wooes me old,/ And to this evening hath me brought./

woof, n. (7)

    WD 7.170 17 The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time.
    QO 8.178 22 Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment.
    Dem1 10.18 6 ...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world...a transverse element, so that the former may be called the warp, the latter the woof.
    SovE 10.191 7 Humanity sits at the dread loom and throws the shuttle and fills it with joyful rainbows, until the sable ground is flowered all over with a woof of human industry and wisdom...
    MMEm 10.424 20 ...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...
    JBS 11.279 7 [John Brown] grew up...having that force of thought and that sense of right which are the warp and woof of greatness.
    Wom 11.412 3 The worm its golden woof presents./ Whatever runs, flies, dives or delves/ All doff for [woman] their ornaments,/ Which suit her better than themselves./

wooing, v. (1)

    LE 1.178 2 ...out of wooing and worshipping;...comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

wool, n. (17)

    Nat 1.3 17 There is more wool and flax in the fields.
    Nat 1.38 14 Water is good to drink, coal to burn, wool to wear;...
    Nat 1.38 14 ...wool cannot be drunk...
    Mrs1 3.120 11 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man serves himself with metals, wood, stone, glass, gum, cotton, silk and wool;...
    UGM 4.22 14 We live in a market, where is only so much wheat, or wool, or land;...
    MoS 4.152 1 The trade in our streets...thinks nothing of the force which necessitated traders and a trading planet to exist: no, but sticks to cotton, sugar, wool and salt.
    ET5 5.84 2 [The English] apply themselves...to fishery, to manufacture of indispensable staples,--salt, plumbago, leather, wool, glass, pottery and brick...
    ET5 5.84 6 A manufacturer [in England] sits down to dinner in a suit of clothes which was wool on a sheep's back at sunrise.
    ET5 5.99 19 [Englishmen's] minds, like wool, admit of a dye which is more lasting than the cloth.
    DL 7.114 2 The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat and wool and household stuff.
    Chr2 10.95 14 The moral element invites man...to find his satisfaction...not in much corn or wool, but in its communication.
    Edc1 10.127 26 This apparatus of wants and faculties, this craving body... educate the wondrous creature which they satisfy...with bread, with wool.
    Supl 10.177 24 ...the Orientals excel...in weaving on hand-looms costly stuffs from silk and wool...
    HDC 11.27 3 Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Merriam, Flint,/ Possessed the land which rendered to their toil/ Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood./
    JBS 11.280 3 ...[John Brown] had all the skill of a shepherd by choice of breed and by wise husbandry to obtain the best wool...
    JBS 11.280 9 ...if [John Brown] traded in wool, he was a merchant prince...
    MAng1 12.224 18 ...the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist [Michelangelo] hung mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the attack...

wool-combers, n. (1)

    ET5 5.83 23 [The English] are...the best iron-masters, colliers, wool-combers and tanners in Europe.

woollen, adj. (1)

    Suc 7.297 22 ...[the youth] can read Plato, covered to his chin with a cloak in a cold upper chamber, though he should associate the Dialogues ever after with a woollen smell.

woolly, adj. (1)

    F 6.41 18 ...the woolly aphides on the apple perspire their own bed...

Woolman, John, n. (1)

    EWI 11.108 3 John Woolman of New Jersey, whilst yet an apprentice, was uneasy in his mind when he was set to write a bill of sale of a negro, for his master.

woolsacks, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.118 6 If the performance of the advocate reaches any high success it is paid in England with dignities in the professions, and in the state with... woolsacks.

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