Breach to Bristol, England

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

breach, n. (6)

    UGM 4.22 17 I seem to have no good without breach of good manners.
    SwM 4.144 2 ...is [Swedenborg] reporting a breach of the manners of that heavenly society?...
    ET5 5.78 22 ...no breach of truth and plain dealing...is suffered the island [England].
    ET7 5.116 13 When any breach of promise occurred [in English government], in the old days of prerogative, it was resented by the people as an intolerable grievance.
    Comc 8.166 11 ...The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy,/ Complaining loudly of the breach/ Of league held forth by Brother Patch/...
    AKan 11.262 3 Massachusetts, in its heroic day, had no government-was an anarchy. Every man...was his own governor; and there was no breach of peace from Cape Cod to Mount Hoosac.

bread, n. (121)

    DSA 1.140 6 Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give bread of life.
    DSA 1.151 12 The Hebrew and Greek Scriptures contain immortal sentences, that have been bread of life to millions.
    LE 1.169 20 [All men] serve nature for bread...
    LE 1.186 24 Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread...
    MR 1.233 9 [The individual] did not create the abuse; he cannot alter it. What is he? an obscure private person who must get his bread.
    MR 1.243 4 Let [the man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] learn...to relish the taste of fair water and black bread.
    MR 1.246 16 Sofas, ottomans...theatre, entertainments,-all these [infirm people] want, they need, and whatever can be suggested more than these they crave also, as if it was the bread which should keep them from starving;...
    MR 1.247 21 ...we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit;...
    MR 1.249 11 I ought not to allow any man, because he has broad lands, to feel that he is rich in my presence. I ought to make him feel...though I be utterly penniless, and receiving bread from him, that he is the poor man beside me.
    MR 1.251 19 [Caliph Omar's] diet was barley bread;...
    MR 1.251 21 ...oftentimes by way of abstinence [Caliph Omar] ate his bread without salt.
    MR 1.253 27 Every child that is born must have a just chance for his bread.
    LT 1.290 27 Let it not be recorded in our own memories that in this moment of the Eternity...we...disgraced the fair Day by a pusillanimous preference of our bread to our freedom.
    Con 1.305 11 The past has baked your loaf, and in the strength of its bread you would break up the oven.
    Con 1.306 24 Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all the gentlemen of this world; but you may come and work in ours, for us, and we will give you a piece of bread.
    Con 1.310 26 ...in this institution of credit...always some neighbor stands ready to be bread and land and tools and stock to the young adventurer.
    Con 1.319 27 If any man resist and set up a foolish hope he has entertained as good against the general despair, Society...shuts him out of...her water and bread...
    Con 1.324 4 If [the hero] have earned his bread by drudgery...he will make it at least honorable by his expenditure.
    YA 1.366 19 ...the farmer who is not wanted by others can yet grow his own bread...
    YA 1.382 26 At least an economical success seemed certain for the enterprise [the Associations], and that agricultural association must, sooner or later, fix the price of bread...
    YA 1.383 7 ...it is proposed to plant corn and to bake bread by companies.
    SR 2.50 2 Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.
    SR 2.87 9 The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las Casas, without abolishing our arms...until...the soldier should...bake his bread himself.
    Comp 2.93 9 The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation] is to be drawn...are the tools in our hands, the bread in our basket...
    Comp 2.125 25 We linger in the ruins of the old tent, where once we had bread and shelter and organs...
    SL 2.155 13 ...now, every thing [the great man] did, even to...the eating of bread, looks large...
    Prd1 2.223 17 The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence...a prudence which...asks but one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?
    Prd1 2.225 13 We eat of the bread which grows in the field.
    Prd1 2.234 1 Health, bread, climate, social position, have their importance...
    Prd1 2.235 18 ...let [a man] put the bread he eats at his own disposal...
    Exp 3.58 2 The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things...and so with the history of every man's bread...
    Exp 3.58 18 If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.
    Mrs1 3.138 1 I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread...
    Mrs1 3.138 2 I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread...
    Gts 3.160 20 ...it is always pleasing to see a man eat bread, or drink water, in the house or out of doors...
    Nat2 3.190 9 ...bread and wine, mix and cook them how you will, leave us hungry and thirsty...
    Pol1 3.202 26 ...if question arise whether additional officers or watch-towers should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must sell part of their herds to buy protection for the rest, judge better of this, and with more right, than Jacob, who, because he is a youth and a traveller, eats their bread and not his own?
    Pol1 3.206 12 [A cent's value] is so much warmth, so much bread...
    NR 3.240 11 A new poet has appeared; a new character approached us; why should we refuse to eat bread until we have found his regiment and section in our old army-files?
    NER 3.252 12 One apostle thought all men should go to farming...another that the mischief was in our diet, that we eat and drink damnation. These made unleavened bread...
    NER 3.277 25 ...we hold on to our little properties...for the bread which they have in our experience yielded us...
    UGM 4.13 22 If you affect to give me bread and fire, I perceive that I pay for it the full price...
    PPh 4.72 20 [Socrates]...he is hardy as a soldier, and can live...usually, in the strictest sense, on bread and water...
    PPh 4.77 16 ...elements, planet itself, laws of planet and of men, have passed through this man [Plato] as bread into his body, and become no longer bread, but body...
    PPh 4.77 17 ...elements, planet itself, laws of planet and of men, have passed through this man [Plato] as bread into his body, and become no longer bread, but body...
    SwM 4.93 5 Among eminent persons, those who are most dear to men are not of the class which the economist calls producers...they have not cultivated corn, nor made bread;...
    SwM 4.101 4 ...[Swedenborg] lived on bread, milk and vegetables;...
    SwM 4.135 21 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and chalcedony;...what with heave-offerings and unleavened bread...
    NMW 4.232 27 The weavers strike for bread, and the king and his ministers...meet them with bayonets.
    ET1 5.17 23 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. My dame makes it a rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat...
    ET10 5.168 1 England is aghast at the disclosure of her fraud in the adulteration of food, of drugs...finding that milk will not nourish...nor bread satisfy...
    ET10 5.169 5 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England] that bread rose to famine prices...
    ET11 5.191 25 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper at his council table...and the baker will not bring bread any longer.
    ET14 5.256 16 ...if I should count the poets who have contributed to the Bible of existing England sentences of guidance and consolation which are still glowing and effective,--how few! Shall I find my heavenly bread in the reigning poets?
    ET16 5.285 11 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...and so again to the house, where we found a table laid for us with bread, meats, peaches, grapes and wine.
    ET16 5.289 7 Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of Saint Cross, and after looking through the quaint antiquity, we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of beer...
    ET17 5.296 18 ...in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and plainest fare;...
    Pow 6.60 17 If we will make bread, we must have contagion, yeast, emptyings, or what not, to induce fermentation into the dough;...
    Wth 6.89 2 Wealth requires, besides the crust of bread and the roof,--the freedom of the city, the freedom of the earth...
    Wth 6.90 14 No reliance for bread and games on the government;...suits [the Saxons];...
    Wth 6.102 6 I wish the farmer held [the dollar] dearer, and would spend it only for real bread;...
    Wth 6.103 9 A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy, or to speak strictly... for the wit, probity and power which we eat bread and dwell in houses to share and exert.
    Wth 6.105 5 In Europe, crime is observed to increase or abate with the price of bread.
    Wth 6.106 14 Whoever knows what happens in the getting and spending of a loaf of bread and a pint of beer...knows all of political economy that the budgets of empires can teach him.
    Wth 6.126 15 The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits;...
    Bty 6.279 26 [Seyd] thought it happier to be dead,/ To die for Beauty, than live for bread./
    Bty 6.290 10 It is a rule of largest application, true in a plant, true in a loaf of bread, that in the construction of any fabric or organism any real increase of fitness to its end is an increase of beauty.
    Bty 6.301 4 If a man...can make bread cheap...'t is no matter whether his nose is parallel to his spine...
    Ill 6.311 27 Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.
    DL 7.113 14 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to find no invitation to what is good in us, and no receptacle for what is wise:--this is a great price to pay for sweet bread and warm lodging...
    Farm 7.137 5 ...[the farmer] obtains from the earth the bread and the meat.
    Farm 7.149 6 As [the farmer] nursed his Thanksgiving turkeys on bread and milk, so he will pamper his peaches and grapes on the viands they like best.
    Farm 7.150 15 These [drainage] tiles are political economists, confuters of Malthus and Ricardo; they are so many Young Americans announcing a better era,--more bread.
    WD 7.155 6 To each [the days] offer gifts after his will,/ Bread, kingdoms, stars and sky that holds them all./
    PI 8.35 6 This contemporary insight is transubstantiation, the conversion of daily bread into the holiest symbols;...
    PI 8.63 9 How rarely [the high poets] offer us the heavenly bread!
    Res 8.143 5 Here [in America] is bread, and wealth, and power, and education for every man who has the heart to use his opportunity.
    Insp 8.272 1 Inspiration is like yeast. 'T is no matter in which of half a dozen ways you procure the infection; you can apply one or the other equally well to your purpose, and get your loaf of bread.
    Aris 10.35 27 If a few grand natures should come to us and weave duties and offices between us and them, it would make our bread ambrosial.
    Aris 10.52 14 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they...express their unequivocal indignation and contempt? He eats their bread...
    Chr2 10.95 13 The moral element invites man...to find his satisfaction...not in bread, but in his right to his bread;...
    Chr2 10.95 14 The moral element invites man...to find his satisfaction...not in bread, but in his right to his bread;...
    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 10.165 4 Every favorite is not a cherub...nor agonies, excruciations nor ecstasies our daily bread.
    SovE 10.211 4 Man does not live by bread alone...
    Schr 10.270 25 Genius is a poor man and has no house, but see, this proud landlord who has built the palace...beseeches him to make it honorable by entering there and eating bread.
    Schr 10.271 18 There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in genius, as...in hospitalities; as if men would signify their sense that genius and virtue should not pay money for house and land and bread...
    Schr 10.286 16 [The scholar] is to eat insult, drink insult, be clothed and shod in insult until he has learned that this bitter bread and shameful dress is also wholesome and warm...
    LLNE 10.358 7 One merchant to whom I described the Fourier project, thought it must not only succeed, but that agricultural association must presently fix the price of bread...
    EzRy 10.388 26 ...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam, my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me. I regret very much the causes (which you know very well) which make it impossible for me to ask you to stay and break bread with us.
    MMEm 10.400 16 [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt and her husband...were getting old, and the husband a shiftless, easy man. There was...not always bread enough in the house.
    MMEm 10.415 16 ...I [Nature]...fed thee with my mallows, on the first young day of bread failing.
    LS 11.3 12 Without considering the frivolous questions which have been lately debated as to the posture in which men should partake of [the Lord's Supper];...whether leavened or unleavened bread should be broken;-the questions have been settled differently in every church...
    LS 11.3 18 In the Catholic Church, infants were at one time permitted and then forbidden to partake [of the Lord's Supper]; and since the ninth century the laity receive the bread only, the cup being reserved to the priesthood.
    LS 11.5 10 In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples...
    LS 11.5 17 St. Luke...after relating the breaking of the bread [at the Last Supper], has these words: This do in remembrance of me.
    LS 11.9 8 It appears that the Jews [at Passover] ate the lamb and the unleavened bread and drank wine after a prescribed manner.
    LS 11.9 10 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it...
    LS 11.10 11 [Jesus] permitted himself to be anointed, declaring that it was for his interment. He washed the feet of his disciples. These are admitted to be symbolical actions and expressions. Here [at the Last Supper], in like manner, he calls the bread his body, and bids the disciples eat.
    LS 11.12 6 ...the Passover was local too, and does not concern us, and its bread and wine were typical...
    LS 11.12 17 It appears...in Christian history that the disciples had very early taken advantage of these impressive words of Christ [This do in remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings, where they broke bread and drank wine as symbols.
    LS 11.19 9 Most men find the bread and wine [of the Lord's Supper] no aid to devotion...
    LS 11.19 10 To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.
    HDC 11.34 15 ...in these poor wigwams [the pilgrims] sing psalms, pray and praise their God, till they can provide them houses, which they could not ordinarily, till the earth...brought forth bread to feed them.
    HDC 11.34 22 ...[the pilgrims] were forced to cut their bread very thin for a long season.
    HDC 11.56 14 We have among us [says Peter Bulkeley] excess and...pride in apparel, daintiness in diet, and that in those who, in times past, would have been satisfied with bread.
    War 11.157 3 Wherever there is no property, the people will put on the knapsack for bread;...
    FSLN 11.218 20 [The newsboy] unfolds his magical sheets,-twopence a head his bread of knowledge costs...
    AKan 11.256 22 In these calamities under which they suffer...the people of Kansas ask for bread, clothes, arms and men...
    ACiv 11.298 5 All honest men are daily striving to earn their bread by their industry.
    EdAd 11.384 17 A man [in America] who has a hundred dollars to dispose of-a hundred dollars over his bread-is rich beyond the dreams of the Caesars.
    EdAd 11.390 4 Not only man but Nature is injured by the imputation that man exists only to be fattened with bread...
    EdAd 11.390 5 ...[man] lives in such connection with Thought and Fact that his bread is surely involved as one element thereof...
    FRep 11.534 11 [A man's life] is manufactured for him. The tailor makes your dress; the baker your bread...
    FRep 11.541 25 Let [men] compete, and success to the strongest, the wisest and the best. The land is wide enough, the soil has bread for all.
    PLT 12.33 22 Right thought...comes daily, like our daily bread, to humble service;...
    MAng1 12.228 8 A little bread and wine was all [Michelangelo's] nourishment;...
    MLit 12.336 6 Religion will bind again these that were sometime frivolous, customary, enemies...into a joyful reverence for the circumambient Whole, and that which was ecstasy shall become daily bread.
    Pray 12.355 10 I know that thou hast not created me and placed me here on earth...and told me to be like thyself when I see so little of thee here to profit by; thou hast not done this, and then left me here to myself, a poor, weak man, scarcely able to earn my bread.
    EurB 12.371 10 [Tennyson] is...a tasteful bachelor who collects quaint staircases and groined ceilings. We have no right to such superfineness. We must not make our bread of pure sugar.
    Trag 12.409 25 There are people who have an appetite for grief... mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread...

Breadalbane, Marquis of [Jo (2)

    ET11 5.182 10 The Marquis of Breadalbane rides out of his house a hundred miles in a straight line to the sea...
    ET11 5.189 5 The Dukes of Athol, Sutherland, Buccleugh and the Marquis of Breadalbane have introduced the rape-culture...

bread-and-water, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.419 20 ...so poor are some of those allotted to join me [Mary Moody Emerson] on the weary needy path, that 't is benevolence enjoins self-denial. Could I but dare it in the bread-and-water diet!

bread-closet, n. (1)

    ET2 5.30 15 ...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port, in the bread-closet...

bread-room, n. (1)

    Farm 7.140 14 In the great household of Nature, the farmer stands at the door of the bread-room...

bread-stuffs, n. (1)

    Supl 10.178 16 The European civility, or that of the positive degree, is established...by agriculture for bread-stuffs, and manufacture of coarse and family cloths.

breadth, n. (22)

    DSA 1.145 15 ...the chasm yawns to that breadth, that men can scarcely be convinced there is in them anything divine.
    SL 2.141 14 The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.
    Fdsp 2.201 1 ...let us approach our friend with an audacious trust...in the breadth, impossible to be overturned, of his foundations.
    Pt1 3.5 1 ...this hidden truth, that the fountains whence all this river of Time and its creatures floweth are intrinsically ideal and beautiful, draws us to the consideration of the nature and functions of the Poet, or the man of Beauty;...and to the general aspect of the art in the present time. The breadth of the problem is great...
    Exp 3.66 26 The line [a man] must walk is a hair's breadth.
    PPh 4.42 24 This breadth [of synthesis] entitles [Plato] to stand as the representative of philosophy.
    SwM 4.104 3 The robust Aristotelian method, with its breadth and adequateness...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
    ET3 5.41 16 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...cutting off an island...with an irregular breadth reaching to three hundred miles;...
    ET10 5.163 26 This comfort and splendor [in England], the breadth of lake and mountain, tillage, pasture and park...all consist with perfect order.
    ET16 5.289 22 The length of line [of Winchester Cathedral] exceeds that of any other English church; being 556 feet, by 250 in breadth of transept.
    Civ 7.31 20 I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning the breadth of the temperate zone.
    DL 7.122 21 I honor that man whose ambition it is...to administer the offices...of husband, father and friend. But it requires as much breadth of power for this as for those other functions...
    PI 8.58 15 ...[The wind] is always of the same age with the ages of ages,/ And of equal breadth with the surface of the earth./
    Elo2 8.119 22 Those whom we admire--the great orators--have some habit of heat, and moreover...an art of husbanding it,--as if their hand was on the organ-stop, and could now use it temperately, and now let out all the length and breadth of the power.
    PC 8.234 2 ...when I say the educated class, I know what a benignant breadth that word has...
    PPo 8.240 27 When Solomon travelled, his throne was placed on a carpet of green silk, of a length and breadth sufficient for all his army to stand upon...
    Grts 8.309 9 ...the rule of the orator begins...when the thought which he stands for...gives him valor, breadth and new intellectual power...
    PerF 10.82 23 The imagination enriches [the man], as if there were no other; the memory opens all her cabinets and archives; Science her length and breadth;...
    Supl 10.179 2 The Northern genius finds itself singularly refreshed and stimulated by the breadth and luxuriance of Eastern imagery and modes of thinking...
    Schr 10.289 5 ...if I could prevail to communicate the incommunicable mysteries, you [scholars] should see the breadth of your realm;...
    CSC 10.375 6 The still-living merit of the oldest New England families... encountered [at the Chardon Street Convention] the founders of families, fresh merit, emerging, and expanding the brows to a new breadth...
    ACiv 11.306 12 There does exist, perhaps, a popular will...that our trade, and therefore our laws, must have the whole breadth of the continent...

break, n. (4)

    Nat 1.53 19 Take those lips away/.../And those eyes, the break of day/...
    Comc 8.157 23 ...the break of continuity in the intellect, is comedy...
    Chr2 10.121 10 Command is exceptional, and marks some break in the link of reason;...
    Chr2 10.121 13 ...the electricity goes round the world without a spark or a sound, until there is a break in the wire or the water chain.

break, v. (67)

    Nat 1.20 24 ...when Arnold Winkelried...gathers in his side a sheaf of Austrian spears to break the line for his comrades; are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    Nat 1.45 2 [Words] cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.
    DSA 1.125 10 ...the worlds, time, space, eternity, do seem to break out into joy.
    MR 1.254 24 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom...manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...
    Con 1.305 11 The past has baked your loaf, and in the strength of its bread you would break up the oven.
    Hist 2.15 8 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in sculpture...a multitude of forms...like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods, and, though in convulsive pain or mortal combat, never daring to break the figure and decorum of their dance.
    Hist 2.18 18 The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.
    SR 2.73 8 I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you.
    SR 2.80 14 [Unbalanced minds] do not yet perceive that light...will break into any cabin...
    Comp 2.124 19 The changes which break up at short intervals the prosperity of men are advertisements of a nature whose law is growth.
    Int 2.336 4 ...in our happy hours we should be inexhaustible poets if once we could break through the silence into adequate rhyme.
    Pt1 3.19 16 ...no mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere.
    Pt1 3.24 16 [The sculptor] rose one day...before dawn, and saw the morning break...
    Chr1 3.95 7 Is there no love, no reverence. Is there never a glimpse of right in a poor slave-captain's mind; and cannot these be supposed available to break or elude or in any manner overmatch the tension of an inch or two of iron ring?
    UGM 4.25 24 Nature abhors these complaisances which threaten to melt the world into a lump, and hastens to break up such maudlin agglutinations.
    UGM 4.33 6 The study of many individuals leads us to an elemental region...wherein all touch by their summits. Thought and feeling that break out there cannot be impounded by any fence of personality.
    PNR 4.89 3 [Plato] did not, like Pythagoras, break himself with an institution.
    SwM 4.143 14 ...[Swedenborg] could never break the umbilical cord which held him to nature...
    ET5 5.85 9 In trade, the Englishman believes that nobody breaks who ought not to break;...
    ET6 5.102 23 ...[the English] will let you break all the commandments, if you do it natively and with spirit.
    ET6 5.106 20 [The English] will not break up, or arrive at any desperate revolution...
    ET7 5.117 10 Beasts that make no truce with man, do not break faith with each other.
    ET10 5.161 13 ...[the Bank of England] refuses loans, and...revolutions break out;...
    ET11 5.180 23 Mirabeau wrote prophetically from England, in 1784, If revolution break out in France, I tremble for the aristocracy...
    ET11 5.193 10 The historic names of the Buckinghams, Beauforts, Marlboroughs and Hertfords have gained no new lustre, and now and then darker scandals break out...
    ET14 5.233 23 Byron liked something craggy to break his mind upon.
    ET14 5.258 11 It was no Oxonian, but Hafiz, who said, Let us...break up the tiresome old roof of heaven into new forms.
    Ctr 6.166 1 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...by loud taps on the tough chrysalis can break its walls and let the new creature emerge erect and free,--make way and sing paean!
    Wsp 6.210 27 Certain patriots in England devoted themselves for years to creating a public opinion that should break down the corn-laws and establish free trade.
    CbW 6.249 10 I wish not to concede anything to [masses], but to tame, drill, divide and break them up...
    CbW 6.254 17 Wars, fires, plagues, break up immovable routine...
    Ill 6.313 3 ...in Boston, in San Francisco, the carnival, the maquerade is at its height. Nobody drops his domino. The unities, the fictions of the piece it would be an impertinence to break.
    Ill 6.322 10 When we break the laws, we lose our hold on the central reality.
    SS 7.15 4 What to do with these brisk young men who break through all fences...
    Elo1 7.62 2 The plight of these phlegmatic brains is better than that of those...who impatiently break silence before their time.
    DL 7.116 27 ...[the reform that applies itself to the household] must break up caste...
    Cour 7.257 3 Break the egg of the young [snapping-turtle], and the little embryo...bites fiercely;...
    Cour 7.275 5 [The man with sacres courage] wishes to break every yoke all over the world which hinders his brother from acting after his thought.
    OA 7.330 22 We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge...with nothing to break his leisure after the three hours of his daily classes...
    SA 8.97 1 When Molyneux fancied that the observations of the nutation of the earth's axis destroyed Newton's theory of gravitation, he tried to break it softly to Sir Isaac...
    Res 8.148 12 Mr. Marshall, the eminent manufacturer at Leeds, was to preside at a Free Trade festival in that city; it was threatened that the operatives, who were in bad humor, would break up the meeting by a mob.
    Insp 8.280 5 Sydney Smith said: You will never break down in a speech on the day when you have walked twelve miles.
    Insp 8.289 5 Novelty, surprise, change of scene...break up the tiresome old roof of heaven into new forms, as Hafiz said.
    Chr2 10.100 4 ...the Deity does not break his firm laws in respect to imparting truth, more than in imparting material heat and light.
    Plu 10.319 26 ...[Plutarch]...concludes:...when I make an invitation, since it is hard to break the custom of the place, I give my guests leave to bring shadows;...
    EzRy 10.388 25 ...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam, my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me. I regret very much the causes (which you know very well) which make it impossible for me to ask you to stay and break bread with us.
    LS 11.9 10 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it...
    EWI 11.131 16 If such a damnable outrage [kidnapping of freeborn negroes] can be committed on the person of a citizen with impunity, let the Governor break the broad seal of the State;...
    FSLC 11.186 21 An immoral law makes it a man's duty to break it...
    FSLC 11.192 27 You know that the Act of Congress of September 18, 1850, is a law which every one of you will break on the earliest occasion.
    FSLN 11.220 15 I saw that a great man [Webster]...was able,-fault of the total want of stamina in public men,-when he failed, to break them all with him...
    ACiv 11.308 6 ...the statesman who shall break through the cobwebs of doubt, fear and petty cavil that lie in the way [of Emancipation], will be greeted by the unanimous thanks of mankind.
    EPro 11.315 6 These [poetic acts] are the jets of thought into affairs, when...the political leaders of the day break the else insurmountable routine of class and local legislation...
    EPro 11.325 6 ...the aim of the war on our part is...to break up the false combination of Southern society...
    SMC 11.371 8 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service...crossing the Rapidan, and suffering from such extreme cold, a few days later, at Mine Run, that the men were compelled to break rank and run in circles...
    FRep 11.520 3 Our politics are full of adventurers, who...break away from the law of honesty...
    PLT 12.44 10 If you cut or break in two a block or stone and press the two parts closely together, you can indeed bring the particles very near, but never again so near that they shall attract each other so that you can take up the block as one.
    II 12.69 5 ...could we break the silence of this oldest angel [Instinct], who was with God when the worlds were made!
    II 12.76 18 Is it that we are such mountains of conceit that Heaven cannot enough mortify and snub us,-I know not; but there seems a settled determination to break our spirit.
    CL 12.141 20 You shall never break down in a speech, said Sydney Smith, on the day on which you have walked twelve miles.
    CL 12.150 19 In January the new snow has changed the woods so that [a man] does not know them; has built sudden cathedrals in a night. In the familiar forest he finds Norway and Russia in the masses of overloading snow which break all that they cannot bend.
    ACri 12.291 5 In architecture the beauty is increased in the degree in which the material is safely diminished; as when you break up a prose wall, and leave all the strength in the poetry of columns.
    MLit 12.331 15 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets...to get a draft of sweet air...but dares not break from his slavery...
    MLit 12.333 13 When one of these grand monads is incarnated whom Nature seems to design for eternal men and draw to her bosom, we think that...the trivial forms of daily life will now end, and a new morning break on us all.
    Let 12.393 16 Our friend suggests so many inconveniences from piracy out of the high air to orchards and lone houses...that we have not the heart to break the sleep of the good public by the repetition of these details.
    Let 12.394 16 [The correspondents] do not wish...to break with society.
    Trag 12.414 5 If any perversity or profligacy break out in society, [the man who is centred] will join with others to avert the mischief...

breakfast, n. (10)

    ET1 5.8 10 [Landor] invited me to breakfast on Friday.
    ET6 5.104 5 Nothing but the most serious business could give one any counterweight to these Baresarks [the English], though they were only to order eggs and muffins for their breakfast.
    ET11 5.176 12 At [Richard Neville's] house in London, six oxen were daily eaten at a breakfast...
    ET15 5.270 2 One would think the world was on its knees to The [London] Times office for its daily breakfast.
    F 6.18 25 In a large city...things whose beauty lies in their casualty, are produced as punctually...to order as the baker's muffin for breakfast.
    Bhr 6.183 6 It was said of the late Lord Holland that he always came down to breakfast with the air of a man who had just met with some signal good fortune.
    Aris 10.52 15 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they...express their unequivocal indignation and contempt? He eats their bread...and after breakfast he cannot remember that there are human beings.
    FSLN 11.218 22 [The newsboy] unfolds his magical sheets,-twopence a head his bread of knowledge costs-and instantly the entire rectangular assembly [in the railway car], fresh from their breakfast, are bending as one man to their second breakfast.
    FSLN 11.218 23 [The newsboy] unfolds his magical sheets,-twopence a head his bread of knowledge costs-and instantly the entire rectangular assembly [in the railway car], fresh from their breakfast, are bending as one man to their second breakfast.
    Mem 12.106 3 Nature trains us on to see illusions and prodigies with no more wonder than our toast and omelet at breakfast.

breakfasted, v. (1)

    LT 1.274 6 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep; rises...is better breakfasted than he whose morning appetite would have gladly fed on green figs between Bethany and Jerusalem...

breakfast-table, n. (3)

    WD 7.163 8 ...we have the newspaper, which does its best to make every square acre of land and sea give an account of itself at your breakfast-table;...
    PI 8.6 11 The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment: our little sir...suspects that some one is doing him, and at this alarm everything is compromised; gun-powder is laid under every man's breakfast-table.
    FRep 11.512 4 Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood]; sent boxes of these as gifts to every court of Europe, and formed the taste of the world. It was a renaissance of the breakfast-table and china-closet.

breakfast-tables, n. (1)

    PC 8.211 1 People have in all countries been burned and stoned for saying things which are commonplaces at all our breakfast-tables.

breaking, adj. (1)

    CInt 12.130 6 Watch the breaking morning, the enchantments of the sunset.

breaking, n. (1)

    LS 11.5 17 St. Luke...after relating the breaking of the bread [at the Last Supper], has these words: This do in remembrance of me.

breaking, v. (13)

    NR 3.239 9 ...Nature, who abhors mannerism, has set her heart on breaking up all styles and tricks...
    NMW 4.234 27 In vain several officers and myself were placed on the slope of a hill to produce the effect: their balls and mine rolled upon the ice without breaking it up.
    NMW 4.253 12 ...that is the fatal quality which we discover in our pursuit of wealth, that it...is bought by the breaking or weakening of the sentiments;...
    ET5 5.79 20 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such chains. ...if he do aught beyond this, by breaking out into divers sorts of exterior actions, he findeth, nevertheless, in this linked sequel of simple discourses, the art, the cause, the rule, the bounds and the model of it.
    ET5 5.86 15 Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of breaking the line of sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling...were only translations into naval tactics of Bonaparte's rule of concentration.
    Bhr 6.187 26 'T is hard to keep the what from breaking through this pretty painting of the how.
    PC 8.213 21 ...each European nation, after the breaking up of the Roman Empire, had its romantic era...
    Edc1 10.157 12 Sympathy, the female force...deficient in instant control and the breaking down of resistance, is more subtle and lasting and creative [than will, the male power].
    War 11.151 13 War, which to sane men at the present day begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza...when seen in the remote past...appears a part of the connection of events...
    HCom 11.341 17 War passes the power of all chemical solvents, breaking up the old adhesions...
    FRep 11.544 12 ...I see in all directions the light breaking.
    PLT 12.35 2 Ever at intervals leaps a word or fact to light which is no man' s invention, but the common instinct, making the revolutions that never go back. This is Instinct, and Inspiration is only this power...breaking its silence;...
    Milt1 12.266 2 [Milton] said, he had learned the prudence of the Roman soldier, not to stand breaking of legs, when the breath was quite out of the body.

breaks, v. (17)

    Con 1.322 26 ...[war] breaks up the Chinese stagnation of society...
    Hist 2.18 16 A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.
    Comp 2.126 19 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 2.312 27 [Some Petrarch or Ariosto]...breaks up my whole chain of habits...
    Nat2 3.176 21 Beauty breaks in everywhere.
    NER 3.269 6 Is it strange that society should be devoured by a secret melancholy which breaks through all its smiles and all its gayety and games?
    MoS 4.158 20 ...it is alleged that labor impairs the form and breaks the spirit of man...
    ET2 5.28 21 The sea-fire shines in [the ship's] wake and far around wherever a wave breaks.
    ET5 5.85 9 In trade, the Englishman believes that nobody breaks who ought not to break;...
    ET5 5.93 19 ...it is [Englishmen's] commercial advantage that whatever light appears in better method or happy invention, breaks out in their race.
    Art2 7.54 13 ...it has been remarked by Goethe that the granite breaks into parallelopipeds...
    Elo1 7.59 11 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ .../ In his every syllable/ Lurketh nature veritable;/ .../ The forest waves, the morning breaks,/ The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,/ Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be/ And life pulsates in rock or tree./
    WD 7.165 13 Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer,--unteaches him. Once it took Archimedes; now it only needs a fireman, and a boy...to pull up the handles or mind the water-tank. But when the engine breaks, they can do nothing.
    Clbs 7.240 10 You may condemn [the eloquent man's] book, but can you fight against his thought? That is always too nimble for you...and breaks out victorious in some other quarter.
    Prch 10.223 7 Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the One breaks in everywhere.
    FSLN 11.216 8 ...Shakspeare was of us, Milton was for us,/ Burns, Shelley, were with us,-they watch from their graves!/ He alone breaks from the van and the freemen,/ -He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves!/ Browning, The Lost Leader.
    FRep 11.533 4 Blessed is all that agitates the mass, breaks up this torpor...

breams, n. (1)

    HDC 11.36 16 ...in winter, [the Indians] sat around holes in the ice, catching salmon, pickeral, breams and perch...

breast, n. (47)

    Nat 1.39 1 The beauty of nature shines in [man's] own breast.
    Nat 1.61 18 Like the figure of Jesus, [Nature] stands with...hands folded upon the breast.
    LE 1.170 26 Religion is yet to be settled on its fast foundations in the breast of man;...
    LE 1.183 27 Let [the scholar] open his breast to all honest inquiry...
    MR 1.229 20 The fact that a new thought and hope have dawned in your breast, should apprize you that in the same hour a new light broke in upon a thousand private hearts.
    Con 1.313 20 [This manner of living] nourished you with care and love on its breast...
    Lov1 2.187 5 [Lovers'] once flaming regard is sobered by time in either breast...
    Hsm1 2.250 4 Towards all this external evil the man within the breast assumes a warlike attitude...
    Hsm1 2.262 15 It is but the other day that the brave Lovejoy gave his breast to the bullets of a mob...
    Art1 2.359 18 The traveller who visits the Vatican and passes from chamber to chamber...through all forms of beauty cut in the richest materials, is in danger of forgetting...that they had their origin from thoughts and laws in his own breast.
    Nat2 3.167 5 Though baffled seers cannot impart/ The secret of [world's] laboring heart,/ Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast,/ And all is clear from east to west./
    ShP 4.199 13 Is there at last in [the writer's] breast a Delphi whereof to ask concerning any thought or thing, whether it be verily so, yea or nay?...
    ShP 4.208 15 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...which not your experience but the man within the breast has accepted as words of fate, and tell me if they match;...
    GoW 4.264 25 There is a certain heat in the breast which attends the perception of a primary truth...
    GoW 4.289 24 This cheerful laborer [Goethe]...drawing his motive and his plan from his own breast, tasked himself with stints for a giant...
    F 6.24 8 Let [man] empty his breast of his windy conceits...
    Wth 6.84 1 ...Who saw what ferns and palms were pressed/ Under the tumbling mountain's breast,/ In the safe herbal of the coal?/
    Bhr 6.167 14 Little [man] says to [graceful women, chosen men]/, So dances his heart in his breast/...
    Wsp 6.224 2 If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he meets know that he conceals somewhat, and usually know what he conceals. Is it otherwise if there be some belief or some purpose he would bury in his breast?
    Art2 7.57 10 ...beauty, truth and goodness...spring eternal in the breast of man;...
    Elo1 7.71 11 ...every literature contains these high compliments to the art of the orator and the bard, from the Hebrew and the Greek down to the Scottish Glenkindie, who ...harpit a fish out o' saut-water,/ Or water out of a stone,/ Or milk out of a maiden's breast/ Who bairn had never none./
    Elo1 7.71 23 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear child, who is that man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks broader in his shoulders and breast.
    Elo1 7.72 23 ...when he sent his great voice forth out of his breast...not then would any mortal contend with Ulysses;...
    DL 7.102 8 I detected many a god/ Forth already on the road,/ Ancestors of beauty come/ In thy breast to make a home./
    DL 7.103 5 The care which covers the seed of the tree under tough husks and stony cases provides for the human plant the mother's breast and the father's house.
    PI 8.60 4 The Crusades brought out the genius of France, in the twelfth century, when Pierre d'Auvergne said,--I will sing a new song which resounds in my breast...
    Elo2 8.109 9 ...No mimic; from [the patriot's] breast his counsel drew,/ Believed the eloquent was aye the true;/...
    PPo 8.257 22 The sweet narcissus closed/ Its eye, with passion pressed;/ The tulips out of envy burned/ Moles in their scarlet breast./
    PPo 8.261 24 While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The nightingale to the falcon said/... ...sitt'st thou on the hand of princes,/ And feedest on the grouse's breast,/ Whilst I, who hundred thousand jewels/ Squander in a single tone,/ Lo! I feed myself with worms,/ And my dwelling is the thorn./
    PPo 8.262 8 The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be all ear:/ I, experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/ But thee the people prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./ To me, appointed to the chase,/ The king's hand gives the grouse's breast;/ Whilst a chatterer like thee/ Must gnaw worms in the thorn. Farewell!/
    PPo 8.263 14 The eternal Watcher, who doth wake/ All night in the body's earthen chest,/ Will of thine arms a pillow make,/ And a bolster of thy breast./
    PPo 8.264 6 The bird-soul was ashamed;/ [The birds'] body was quite annihilated;/ They had cleaned themselves from the dust,/ And were by the light ensouled./ What was, and was not,-the Past,-/ Was wiped out from their breast./
    Aris 10.62 11 ...[the true man] is to know...that there is a master grace and dignity communicated by exalted sentiments to a human form, to which utility and even genius must do homage. And it is the sign and badge of this nobility, the drawing his counsel from his own breast.
    Supl 10.170 19 ...the great official spoke and beat his breast...
    Schr 10.277 22 It is excellent when the individual is ripened to that degree that he touches both the centre and the circumference, so that he is not only widely intelligent, but carries a council in his breast for the emergency of to-day;...
    Plu 10.295 19 [Henry IV wrote] My good mother...put this book [Plutarch] into my hands almost when I was a child at the breast.
    Plu 10.320 5 [Plutarch] thought it wonderful that a man having a muse in his own breast...would have pipes and harps play...
    LLNE 10.329 16 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages...like a mother yielding food from her own breast instead of preparing it through chemic and culinary skill...all gone;...
    LLNE 10.357 3 [Thoreau] was a good Abbot Samson, and carried a counsel in his breast.
    FSLN 11.235 22 ...[the self-reliant man] will know out of his arms to make a pillow, and out of his breast a bolster.
    ALin 11.328 6 ...For [Lincoln] [Nature's] Old-World moulds aside she threw,/ And, choosing sweet clay from the breast/ Of the unexhausted West,/ With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,/ Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true./
    SMC 11.373 9 ...[George Prescott] was struck...by a musket-ball which entered his breast near the heart.
    PLT 12.35 16 The old Hindoo Gautama says, Like the approach of the iron to the loadstone is the approach of the new-born child to the breast.
    Milt1 12.262 19 ...the old eternal goodness finds a home in [Milton's] breast...

breast-pocket, n. (1)

    Thor 10.470 6 [Thoreau] drew out of his breast-pocket his diary...

breasts, n. (7)

    MN 1.195 15 The flame of life flickers feebly in human breasts.
    LT 1.286 4 There was never so great a thought laboring in the breasts of men as now.
    Con 1.315 11 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers with their babes at their breasts...
    SR 2.72 19 ...let us enter into the state of war and wake Thor and Woden, courage and constancy, in our Saxon breasts.
    SL 2.139 9 [The soul] has so infused its strong enchantment into nature that...when we struggle to wound its creatures our hands...beat our own breasts.
    Suc 7.292 17 ...we do not carry a counsel in our breasts, or do not know it;...
    FSLC 11.194 4 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...

breastworks, n. (1)

    SMC 11.371 21 The [Thirty-second] regiment has been in the front and centre since the battle begun...and is now building breastworks on the Fredericksburg road.

breath, n. (42)

    AmS 1.98 20 That great principle of Undulation in nature, that shows itself in the inspiring and expiring of the breath;...is known to us under the name of Polarity...
    DSA 1.119 2 In this refulgent summer, it has been a luxury to draw the breath of life.
    DSA 1.119 5 The air is...sweet with the breath of the pine...
    DSA 1.137 7 The faith should blend...with...the breath of flowers.
    DSA 1.150 8 ...let the breath of new life be breathed by you through the forms already existing.
    LE 1.158 24 [The scholar] inhales the year as a vapor: its fragrant midsummer breath...
    LT 1.278 10 You have set your heart and face against society when you thought it wrong, and returned it frown for frown. Excellent: now can you afford to forget it, reckoning all your action no more than...a little breath of your mouth?
    SR 2.58 25 Men...do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.
    Int 2.332 8 It seems as if the law of the intellect resembled that law of nature by which we now inspire, now expire the breath;...
    Int 2.339 8 ...if a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes...not itself but falsehood; herein resembling the air, which is...the breath of our nostrils, but if a stream of the same be directed on the body for a time, it causes cold, fever, and even death.
    Art1 2.367 22 Would it not be better...to serve the ideal...in drawing the breath...
    UGM 4.29 19 Serve the great. ... Be the limb of their body, the breath of their mouth.
    PPh 4.78 22 A chief structure of human wit...it requires all the breath of human faculty to know [Plato].
    SwM 4.143 8 It is the best sign of a great nature that it...like the breath of morning landscapes, invites us onward.
    MoS 4.172 6 Society does not like to have any breath of question blown on the existing order.
    ShP 4.217 24 Are the agents of nature, and the power to understand them, worth no more than...the breath of a cigar?
    ET1 5.9 4 Landor despised entomology, yet, in the same breath, said, the sublime was in a grain of dust.
    ET1 5.11 4 When [Coleridge] stopped to take breath, I interposed that whilst I highly valued all his explanations, I was bound to tell him that I was born and bred a Unitarian.
    ET8 5.134 25 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...as if the burly inexpressive, now mute and contumacious, now fierce and sharp-tongued dragon, which once made the island light with his fiery breath, had bequeathed his ferocity to his conqueror.
    ET14 5.232 16 [The plain style] imports into [English] songs and ballads the smell of the earth, the breath of cattle...
    F 6.27 26 A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of the Right and Necessary.
    Pow 6.53 20 ...[a man] can well afford to let events and possessions and the breath of the body go, if their value has been added to him in the shape of power.
    Wth 6.115 5 ...the pale scholar leaves his desk to draw a freer breath...in the garden-walk.
    Bhr 6.177 18 It almost violates the proprieties if we say above the breath here what the confessing eyes do not hesitate to utter to every street passenger.
    Wsp 6.207 2 The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath.
    CbW 6.247 20 Is all we have to do to draw the breath in and blow it out again?
    Cour 7.272 11 Everything feels the new breath [of courage] except the old doting nigh-dead politicians...
    Suc 7.309 21 ...every gift of noble origin/ Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath./
    OA 7.334 27 [John Adams]...enters bravely into long sentences, which are interrupted by want of breath...
    Elo2 8.114 24 For the time, [the orator's] exceeding life throws all other gifts into shade,--philosophy speculating on its own breath, taste, learning and all...
    PPo 8.257 7 By breath of beds of roses drawn,/ I found the grove in the morning pure,/ In the concert of the nightingales/ My drunken brain to cure./
    Aris 10.33 23 Some qualities [Nature] carefully fixes and transmits, but some, and those the finer, she exhales with the breath of the individual...
    LLNE 10.339 5 There was a breath of new air...
    HDC 11.47 17 The moderator [of the New England town-meeting] was the passive mouth-piece, and the vote of the town, like the vane on the turret overhead...always turned by the last and strongest breath.
    FSLC 11.184 10 What is the use of a Federal Bench, if its opinions are the political breath of the hour?
    HCom 11.340 20 Where faith made whole with deed/ Breathes its awakening breath/ Into the lifeless creed,/ They saw [Truth] plumed and mailed,/ With sweet, stern face unveiled,/ And all-repaying eyes, look proud on them in death/ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.
    EdAd 11.385 14 Where is the great breath of the New World...
    FRep 11.509 3 There is a mystery in the soul of state/ Which hath an operation more divine/ Than breath or pen can give expression to./
    CW 12.178 1 ...no pursuit has more breath of immortality in it [than that of the naturalist]..
    Bost 12.185 18 [Boston] is not a country of luxury or of pictures; of snows rather, of east winds and changing skies; visited by icebergs, which, floating by, nip with their cool breath our blossoms.
    Bost 12.194 26 These ancient men...send out their perfumed breath across the great tracts of time.
    Milt1 12.266 2 [Milton] said, he had learned the prudence of the Roman soldier, not to stand breaking of legs, when the breath was quite out of the body.

breathe, v. (30)

    AmS 1.114 13 Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat.
    Hist 2.4 13 ...the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature...
    Hsm1 2.261 22 ...not only need we breathe and exercise the soul by assuming the penalties of abstinence...
    Gts 3.164 26 I fear to breathe any treason against the majesty of love...
    UGM 4.26 1 ...the ideas of the time are in the air, and infect all who breathe it.
    GoW 4.279 10 ...at last the hero [of Sand's Consuelo]...no longer answers to his own titled name; it sounds foreign and remote in his ear. I am only man, he says; I breathe and work for man;...
    ET13 5.228 16 The English Church, undermined by German criticism...was led logically back to Romanism. But that was an element which only hot heads could breathe;...
    F 6.25 21 If the air come to our lungs, we breathe and live;...
    Pow 6.69 9 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...
    PC 8.228 1 If [men in Kansas and California] are made as [the wise man] is, if they breathe the like air...he knows that their joy or resentment rises to the same point as his own.
    PC 8.233 11 ...I draw new hope from the atmosphere we breathe to-day...
    PPo 8.254 15 To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple; but I, the Lord of the temple. Nor has any man inhaled...from the musky morning wind that sweet air which I am permitted to breathe every hour of the day.
    Imtl 8.334 11 To breathe, to sleep, is wonderful.
    Imtl 8.340 4 ...all our intellectual action...bestows a feeling of absolute existence. We are taken out of time and breathe a purer air.
    Dem1 10.21 27 Great men feel that they are so by...falling back on what is humane; in renouncing...each exclusive and local connection, to beat with the pulse and breathe with the lungs of nations.
    Prch 10.227 19 Augustine, a Kempis, Fenelon, breathe the very spirit which now fires you.
    LLNE 10.344 24 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.
    MMEm 10.420 2 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] would not breathe to--or--my want.
    MMEm 10.427 25 Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely now, not whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then I ask not faith nor knowledge;...
    HDC 11.68 1 From...1765...to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...
    EWI 11.107 10 [Lord Mansfield's] decision established the principle that the air of England is too pure for any slave to breathe...
    FSLC 11.179 8 We do not breathe well.
    CL 12.141 4 The air, said Anaximenes, is the soul, and the essence of life. By breathing it, we become intelligent, and, because we breathe the same air, understand one another.
    CL 12.141 13 The air that we breathe is an exhalation of all the solid material of the globe.
    Bost 12.183 9 The air that we breathe is an exhalation of all the solid material globe.
    Bost 12.202 9 [The Massachusetts colonists could say to themselves] Here in the clam-banks and the beech and chestnut forest, I shall take leave to breathe and think freely.
    MAng1 12.234 8 The fire and sanctity of [Michelangelo's] pencil breathe in his words.
    MAng1 12.240 11 [Vittoria Colonna]...came to Rome repeatedly to see [Michelangelo]. To her his sonnets are addressed; and they all breathe a chaste and divine regard, unparalleled in any amatory poetry except that of Dante and Petrarch.
    MLit 12.310 25 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents books that breathe of new morning...
    MLit 12.322 25 [Goethe] learned as readily as other men breathe.

breathed, v. (12)

    Nat 1.11 9 ...the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs is overspread with melancholy to-day.
    DSA 1.150 8 ...let the breath of new life be breathed by you through the forms already existing.
    ET1 5.6 8 ...[Greenough] thought art would never prosper until we left our shy jealous ways and worked in society as [the Greeks]. All his thoughts breathed the same generosity.
    Suc 7.309 21 ...every gift of noble origin/ Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath./
    SA 8.94 26 ...[the party in the second coach] had...breathed a purer air...
    QO 8.191 23 When Shakspeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies...He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life.
    PerF 10.82 27 These [mental powers] are means and stairs for new ascensions of the mind. But they are nowise impoverished for any other mind, not tarnished, not breathed upon;...
    LLNE 10.335 9 In every public discourse there was nothing left for the indulgence of [Everett's] hearer...but the goddess of grace had breathed on the work a last fragrancy and glitter.
    EWI 11.98 6 There a captive sat in chains,/ Crooning ditties treasured well/ From his Afric's torrid plains./ Sole estate his sire bequeathed,-/ Hapless sire to hapless son,-/ Was the wailing song he breathed,/ And his chain when life was done./
    FSLN 11.236 10 ...our education is...to know...that divine sentiments which are always soliciting us are breathed into us from on high...
    EPro 11.325 22 The malignant cry of the Secession press within the free states, and the recent action of the Confederate Congress, are decisive as to [the Emancipation Proclamation's] efficiency and correctness of aim. Not less so is...the new hope it has breathed into the world.
    Milt1 12.265 13 [Milton's native honor] breathed itself over his decent form.

breather, n. (1)

    PerF 10.76 6 ...a man draws on all the air for his occasions, as if there were no other breather;...

breathes, v. (16)

    AmS 1.101 24 [The scholar] is one who...breathes and lives on public and illustrious thoughts.
    Con 1.299 1 Conservatism...breathes no prayer...
    SR 2.88 14 ...what the man acquires, is living property, which...perpetually renews itself wherever the man breathes.
    OS 2.271 8 When [the soul] breathes through [man's] intellect, it is genius;...
    OS 2.271 9 ...when [the soul] breathes through [man's] will, it is virtue;...
    Art1 2.353 10 ...[a man] is necessitated by the air he breathes...to share the manner of his times...
    Art1 2.359 8 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they speak. A confession of moral nature...breathes from them all.
    Pt1 3.26 16 The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that.
    NMW 4.254 10 Like all Frenchmen [Napoleon] has a passion for stage effect. Every action that breathes of generosity is poisoned by this calculation.
    F 6.18 1 This kind of talent so abounds, this constructive tool-making efficiency...as if the air [a man] breathes were made of Vaucansons...
    WD 7.169 18 The old Sabbath...when this hallowed hour dawns out of the deep...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our solitude.
    HDC 11.66 20 The charges seem to have been made by the lovers of order and moderation against Mr. [Daniel] Bliss, as a favorer of religious excitements. His answer to one of the counts breathes such true piety that I cannot forbear to quote it.
    HCom 11.340 20 Where faith made whole with deed/ Breathes its awakening breath/ Into the lifeless creed,/ They saw [Truth] plumed and mailed,/ With sweet, stern face unveiled,/ And all-repaying eyes, look proud on them in death/ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.
    SHC 11.430 26 Our people accepting this lesson from science, yet touched by the tenderness which Christianity breathes, have found a mean in the consecration of gardens.
    Bost 12.210 17 The [American] heroes only shared this power of a sentiment, which, if it now breathes into us, will make it easy to us to understand them, and we shall no longer flatter them.
    Let 12.401 16 Where a people honors genius in its artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul...

breathing, adj. (2)

    MoL 10.248 25 You [scholars] are carriers of ideas which are to fashion the mind and so the history of this breathing world, so as they shall be, and not otherwise.
    War 11.157 21 Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to... come and reside in the towns. The popes...declared religious jubilees...and man had a breathing space.

breathing, n. (2)

    Comc 8.167 25 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who... was in a dying condition, when I met his physician, who accosted me...with joy sparkling in his eyes. And how is my friend, the reverend Doctor? I inquired. O, I saw him this morning; it is the most correct apoplexy I have ever seen;...breathing stertorous...
    MMEm 10.422 4 [Time] is a goodly name for our notions of breathing, suffering, enjoying, acting.

breathing, v. (7)

    GoW 4.270 11 ...[the nineteenth century's] poet, is Goethe, a man quite domesticated in the century, breathing its air...
    Ctr 6.156 3 He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended... from living, breathing, reading and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of [other men's] opinions.
    WD 7.183 6 ...in Newton, science was as easy as breathing;...
    HDC 11.52 24 ...here [at Concord] [Tahattawan and Waban] entered, by [John Eliot's] assistance, into an agreement to twenty-nine rules, all breathing a desire to conform themselves to English customs.
    EdAd 11.386 19 ...who can see the continent with...its west-wind breathing vigor through all the year...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which this muster of nations...is made?
    PLT 12.21 26 If man has organs for breathing, for sight...you shall find all the same in the muskrat.
    CL 12.141 3 The air, said Anaximenes, is the soul, and the essence of life. By breathing it, we become intelligent...

breathless, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.9 14 ...every hour and change [in nature] corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind, from breathless noon to grimmest midnight.

bred, adj. (1)

    PerF 10.78 21 ...on the signal occasions in our career [our mental forces'] inspirations...make the selfish and protected and tenderly bred person strong for his duty...

bred, v. (24)

    Nat 1.31 18 The poet...bred in the woods...shall not lose their lesson altogether...
    LE 1.167 15 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature...
    MR 1.239 23 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...and who, bred to depend on all these, is made anxious by all that endangers those possessions...
    MR 1.241 4 ...every man ought to stand in primary relations with the work of the world; ought...not to suffer the accident of...his having been bred to some dishonorable and injurious craft, to sever him from those duties;...
    MR 1.246 20 One must have been born and bred with [infirm people] to know how to prepare a meal for their learned stomach.
    ET1 5.11 6 When [Coleridge] stopped to take breath, I interposed that whilst I highly valued all his explanations, I was bound to tell him that I was born and bred a Unitarian.
    ET11 5.175 25 In France and in England, the nobles were, down to a late day, born and bred to war...
    ET11 5.180 3 The English lords...call themselves after their lands, as if the man represented the country that bred him;...
    ET11 5.190 17 I must hold Ludlow Castle an honest house, for which Milton's Comus was written, and the company nobly bred which performed it with knowledge and sympathy.
    ET11 5.194 24 When every noble was a soldier, they were carefully bred to great personal prowess.
    ET11 5.198 4 A multitude of English...bred into their society with manners, ability and the gifts of fortune, are every day confronting the peers on a footing of equality...
    ET12 5.208 4 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly;...
    ET18 5.307 4 ...now we say that the right measures of England are the men it bred;...
    Wsp 6.203 18 I and my neighbors have been bred in the notion that unless we came soon to some good church...there would be a universal thaw and dissolution.
    Farm 7.150 21 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords...
    Cour 7.257 23 A large majority of men being bred in families...never come to the rough experiences that make the Indian, the soldier or frontiersman self-subsistent and fearless.
    Cour 7.260 10 One heard much cant of peace-parties long ago in Kansas and elsewhere, that their strength lay in the greatness of their wrongs... But were their wrongs greater than the negro's? And what kind of strength did they ever give him? It was always invitation to the tyrant, and bred disgust in those who would protect the victim.
    SA 8.102 20 Our gentlemen of the old school...were bred after English types...
    SovE 10.188 11 In the pre-adamite [Nature] bred valor only;...
    SovE 10.211 12 Governments stand by [men's credence],-by the faith that the people share,-whether it comes from the religion in which they were bred, or from an original conscience in themselves...
    Thor 10.454 6 [Thoreau] was bred to no profession;...
    HDC 11.35 25 A march of a number of families with their stuff, through twenty miles of unknown forest...must be...for those who were new to the country and bred in softness, a formidable adventure.
    Milt1 12.269 9 Milton...delicately bred in all the elegancy of art and learning, was set down in England in the stern, almost fanatic society of the Puritans.
    AgMs 12.359 10 [Edmund Hosmer]...has bred up a large family...

breech, n. (1)

    Schr 10.274 8 Is a man only the breech of a gun or the haft of a bowie-knife?

breed, n. (4)

    ET4 5.71 12 If in every efficient man there is first a fine animal, in the English race it is of the best breed...
    ET4 5.73 18 The [English] gentlemen...have brought horses to an ideal perfection; the English racer is a factitious breed.
    ET5 5.78 2 The island [England] was renowned in antiquity for its breed of mastiffs...
    JBS 11.280 2 ...[John Brown] had all the skill of a shepherd by choice of breed and by wise husbandry to obtain the best wool...

breed, v. (8)

    Comp 2.98 4 The barren soil does not breed fevers, crocodiles, tigers or scorpions.
    Hsm1 2.249 8 The disease and deformity around us certify the infraction of natural, intellectual and moral laws, and often violation on violation to breed such compound misery.
    ET5 5.79 13 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life.
    Wth 6.118 2 The eldest son must inherit the [English] manor; what to do with this supernumerary? [The father] was advised to breed him for the Church...
    Farm 7.150 23 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that men breed too fast for the powers of the soil;...
    Elo2 8.131 18 An ingenious metaphysical writer...has noted that intellectual works in any department breed each other...
    Edc1 10.150 27 What poet will [the college] breed to sing to the human race?
    CInt 12.127 4 ...here [in the college] Imagination should be greeted with the problems in which it delights;...here...enthusiasm for liberty and wisdom should breed enthusiasm and form heroes for the state.

breeding, n. (21)

    SL 2.150 26 We foolishly think in our days of sin that we must court friends by compliance to the customs of society, to...its breeding...
    Hsm1 2.250 26 ...a different breeding, different religion and greater intellectual activity would have modified or even reversed the particular action...
    OS 2.286 19 Neither his age, nor his breeding...can hinder [a man] from being deferential to a higher spirit than his own.
    Cir 2.311 14 The facts which loomed so large in the fogs of yesterday... breeding, personal beauty, and the like, have strangely changed their proportions.
    Cir 2.313 15 ...yet was there never a young philosopher whose breeding had fallen into the Christian church by whom that brave text of Paul's was not specially prized...
    Mrs1 3.138 7 The compliments and ceremonies of our breeding should recall...the grandeur of our destiny.
    Mrs1 3.148 5 ...elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.
    ET7 5.118 14 Even Lord Chesterfield, with his French breeding, when he came to define a gentleman, declared that truth made his distinction;...
    ET11 5.187 13 [English nobility] is a romance adorning English life with a larger horizon; a midway heaven, fulfilling to their sense their fairy tales and poetry. This, just as far as the breeding of the nobleman really made him brave, handsome, accomplished and great-hearted.
    Ctr 6.144 14 Each class fixes its eyes on the advantages it has not;...the democrat, on birth and breeding.
    Ctr 6.146 13 ...if...nature has aimed to make a legged and winged creature, framed for locomotion, we must...furnish him with that breeding which gives currency...
    Elo1 7.86 11 In every company the man with the fact is like the guide you hire to lead your party...through a difficult country. He may not compare with any of the party in mind or breeding or courage or possessions, but he is much more important to the present need than any of them.
    SA 8.89 22 A few times in my life it has happened to me to meet persons of so good a nature and so good breeding that every topic was open...
    SA 8.102 21 Our gentlemen of the old school...were bred after English types, and that style of breeding furnished fine examples in the last generation;...
    Schr 10.280 1 What is the use of...birth, or breeding, or money to a maniac?
    Schr 10.280 4 ...society...sometimes is for an age together a maniac, with birth, breeding, beauty, cunning, strength and money.
    SlHr 10.446 25 [Samuel Hoar] had his birth and breeding in a little country town...
    FSLC 11.189 2 ...men have to to with rectitude, with benefit, with truth, with something that is, independent of appearances: and...this tie makes the substantiality of life, and not their ploughing, or sailing, their trade, or the breeding of families.
    RBur 11.440 12 ...[Robert Burns's] birth, breeding and fortunes were low.
    Bost 12.198 9 ...no good birth or breeding...can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation.
    Milt1 12.268 21 Thus chosen, by the felicity of his nature and of his breeding, for the clear perception of all that is graceful and all that is great in man, Milton was not less happy in his times.

breeds, n. (3)

    ET5 5.95 2 The native [English] cattle are extinct, but the island is full of artificial breeds.
    ET5 5.95 4 The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses to order, and breeds in which every thing was omitted but what is economical.
    ET11 5.188 16 I pardoned high park-fences [in England], when I saw that... these have preserved...breeds of cattle elsewhere extinct.

breeds, v. (9)

    Prd1 2.221 17 ...the merchant breeds his son for the church or the bar;...
    ET5 5.87 17 It is not usually a point of honor...and never any whim, that [the English] will shed their blood for; but usually property, and right measured by property, that breeds revolution.
    Pow 6.59 2 [The strong man's] eye makes estates, as fast as the sun breeds clouds.
    Pow 6.64 15 ...in morals, wild liberty breeds iron conscience;...
    Ctr 6.139 17 The city breeds one kind of speech and manners;...
    Civ 7.24 5 ...a severe morality gives that essential charm to woman which... breeds courtesy and learning, conversation and wit, in her rough mate;...
    Farm 7.140 18 Early marriages and the number of births are indissolubly connected with abundance of food; or, as Burke said, Man breeds at the mouth.
    WD 7.161 17 Invention breeds invention.
    FSLC 11.186 4 In every nation all the immorality that exists breeds plagues.

breeze, n. (5)

    LE 1.163 4 ...in the cool breeze that sings out of these northern mountains... behold Charles the Fifth's day;...
    Pt1 3.13 16 ...the carpenter's stretched cord, if you hold your ear close enough, is musical in the breeze.
    JBS 11.276 22 But though they slew him with the sword,/ And in the fire his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its undoings restored./ And when, to stop all future harm,/ They strewed its ashes to the breeze,/ They little guessed each grain of these/ Conveyed the perfect charm./ William Allingham.
    FRO2 11.484 2 Thou metest him by centuries,/ And lo! he passes like the breeze;/...
    Bost 12.211 8 ...the Quincy of the Revolution seems compensated for the shortness of his bright career in the son who so long lingers among the last of those bright clouds, That on the steady breeze of honor sail/ In long succession calm and beautiful./

breezes, n. (2)

    ET3 5.43 6 ...I [Nature] have work that requires the best will and sinew. Sharp and temperate northern breezes shall blow, to keep that will alive and alert.
    Thor 10.450 1 It seemed as if the breezes brought him,/ It seemed as if the sparrows taught him/ As if by secret sign he knew/ Where in far fields the orchis grew./

Breidablik, n. (1)

    PI 8.64 10 Bring us...poetry which, like the verses inscribed on Balder's columns in Breidablik, is capable of restoring the dead to life;...

Bremen, Germany, n. (1)

    CbW 6.268 23 ...there is a great dearth, this year, of friends;...they too... have engagements and necessities. They are just starting for Wisconsin; have letters from Bremen;...

brenne, v. (1)

    Aris 10.29 12 Take fire and beare it into the derkest hous/ Betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it behold;/...

Bretagne, n. (1)

    Hist 2.35 10 ...all the postulates of elfin annals...I find true in Concord, however they might be in Cornwall or Bretagne.

brethren, n. (8)

    Comc 8.165 24 Our brethren of New England use/ Choice malefactors to excuse/...
    LS 11.18 6 I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God...do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought?
    LS 11.23 21 ...I have proposed to the brethren of the Church to drop the use of the elements and the claim of authority in the administration of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper]...
    LS 11.23 27 My brethren have considered my views [on the Lord's Supper] with patience and candor...
    HDC 11.69 22 ...in conjunction with our brethren in America, we will risk our fortunes, and even our lives, in defence of his majesty, King George the Third, his person, crown and dignity;...
    HDC 11.79 9 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their brethren...will not confer with flesh and blood...
    Shak1 11.449 14 Men were so astonished and occupied by [Shakespeare's] poems that they have not been able to see his face and condition, or say, who was his father and his brethren;...
    MLit 12.326 17 Who saw Milton, who saw Shakspeare, saw them...utter their whole heart manlike among their brethren.

breviary, n. (1)

    Plu 10.296 1 Montaigne, in 1589, says: We dunces had been lost, had not this book [Plutarch] raised us out of the dirt. By this favor of his we dare now speak and write. The ladies are able to read to schoolmasters. 'T is our breviary.

brevity, n. (1)

    Plu 10.306 7 The plain speaking of Plutarch...has a great gain for brevity...

brew, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.226 15 [The northerner] must brew, bake, salt and preserve his food...

brewed, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.234 22 ...beer, if not brewed in the right state of the atmosphere, will sour;...

brewer, n. (2)

    Pow 6.76 2 Stick to your brewery ([Rothschild] said this to young Buxton), and you will be the great brewer of London.
    Pow 6.76 3 Stick to your brewery ([Rothschild] said this to young Buxton), and you will be the great brewer of London. Be brewer, and banker, and merchant, and manufacturer, and you will soon be in the Gazette.

breweries, n. (1)

    ET6 5.103 10 Mines, forges, mills, breweries...have operated [in England] to give a mechanical regularity to all the habit and action of men.

brewery, n. (1)

    Pow 6.76 1 Stick to your brewery ([Rothschild] said this to young Buxton), and you will be the great brewer of London.

Brewster, David, n. (2)

    ET14 5.248 14 Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon...
    Wth 6.116 18 Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic observation...

bribe, n. (12)

    MN 1.191 22 ...the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish the farm, the school, the church, the house...
    Pol1 3.216 11 [The wise man] needs...no bribe, or feast, or palace, to draw friends to him;...
    ET11 5.197 10 ...the analysis of the [English] peerage and gentry shows the rapid decay and extinction of old families, the continual recruiting of these from new blood. The doors, though ostentatiously guarded, are really open, and hence the power of the bribe.
    F 6.24 12 ...no bribe shall make [man] give up his point.
    F 6.28 26 There is a bribe possible for any finite will.
    Wth 6.113 4 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.
    Ctr 6.150 7 The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist...
    DL 7.115 4 [To give money to a sufferer] is only...a bribe paid for silence...
    Aris 10.50 17 It is curious how negligent the public is of the essential qualifications of its representatives. They ask if a man is a Republican, a Democrat? Yes. Is he a man of talent? Yes. Is he honest and not looking for an office or any manner of bribe? He is honest.
    MoL 10.242 26 ...the bribe came to men of intellectual culture,-Come, drudge in our mill.
    FSLC 11.196 2 A wicked law cannot be executed by good men, and must be by bad. Flagitious men must be employed, and every act of theirs is a stab at the public peace. It cannot be executed at such a cost, and so it brings a bribe in its hand.
    FSLC 11.196 4 [the Fugitive Slave Law] offers a bribe in its own clauses for the consummation of the crime.

bribe, v. (2)

    Nat2 3.174 8 These bribe and invite; not kings, not palaces, not men, not women, but these tender and poetic stars, eloquent of secret promises.
    NMW 4.253 3 ...the vain attempts of statists to amuse and deceive him, of the emperor of Austria to bribe him;...make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.

bribed, v. (6)

    SL 2.154 7 ...a public not to be bribed...decides upon every man's title to fame.
    PPh 4.74 23 Crito bribed the jailer; but Socrates would not go out by treachery.
    GoW 4.284 13 [Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest...of universal truth, to be his portion: a man not to be bribed, nor deceived, nor over-awed;...
    ET8 5.132 24 ...[young Englishmen]...translate and send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Bramins;...
    F 6.29 2 ...the pure sympathy with universal ends...cannot be bribed or bent.
    FSLC 11.196 17 But worse, not the officials alone are bribed [by the Fugitive Slave Law], but the whole community is solicited.

bribery, n. (2)

    ET11 5.192 9 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title; lewdness, gaming, smuggling, bribery and cheating;...make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
    Suc 7.290 16 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn... power through...a packed jury or caucus, bribery and repeating votes...

bribes, n. (8)

    LE 1.183 1 Snares and bribes abound to mislead [the student];...
    ET4 5.48 27 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...high bribes to talent and skill;...
    ET8 5.142 27 ...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn, this original predilection for private independence, and however this inclination may have been disturbed by the bribes with which their vast colonial power has warped men out of orbit, the inclination endures...
    Elo1 7.63 18 Who can wonder at the attractiveness...of...the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?
    Cour 7.253 5 I observe that there are three qualities which conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of mankind: 1. Disinterestedness, as shown in indifference to the ordinary bribes and influences of conduct... practical power...courage...
    Aris 10.59 19 We have a rich men's aristocracy, plenty of bribes for those who like them;...
    Edc1 10.152 25 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the wisest are tempted...to proclaim...bribes, spies, wrath...
    CInt 12.123 7 [The Understanding] is the power which the world of men adopt and educate. He is...the worker in the useful; he works...by statute, by bribes.

brick, n. (7)

    Nat2 3.190 21 This palace of brick and stone...all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual!
    ET5 5.84 2 [The English] apply themselves...to fishery, to manufacture of indispensable staples,--salt, plumbago, leather, wool, glass, pottery and brick...
    Suc 7.299 17 Is...the college where you first knew the dreams of fancy and joys of thought, only boards or brick and mortar?
    Supl 10.167 24 [People of English stock's] houses are of wood, and brick, and stone...
    SovE 10.209 7 It accuses us...that pure ethics is not now formulated and concreted into a cultus, a fraternity...with brick and stone.
    War 11.164 15 Observe the ideas of the present day...see...how timber, brick, lime and stone have flown into convenient shape, obedient to the master-idea reigning in the minds of many persons.
    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.

brickbats, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.96 6 [The woods and mountains] send us every year...some some sturdy countryman, on whom neither money...nor brickbats make any impression.

brick-colored, adj. (1)

    MLit 12.309 16 We go musing into the vault of day and night;...the stars are white points, the roses, brick-colored leaves...

brick-kiln, n. (1)

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

bricks, n. (2)

    ShP 4.189 4 If we require the originality which consists...in finding clay and making bricks and building the house; no great men are original.
    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.

bridal, adj. (1)

    PI 8.45 24 In society you have this figure [of rhyme] in a bridal company, where a choir of white-robed maidens give the charm of living statues;...

bride, n. (10)

    DSA 1.149 11 There are...men to whom a crisis...comes graceful and beloved as a bride.
    LE 1.173 21 [The scholar] must embrace solitude as a bride.
    Exp 3.77 20 The universe is the bride of the soul.
    NR 3.241 4 Into paint will I grind thee, my bride!/
    SwM 4.128 26 ...God is the bride or bridegroom of the soul.
    MoS 4.174 17 Bad as was to me this detection by San Carlo [that all direct ascension leads to ghastly insight]...this blow from a bride, there was still a worse, namely the cloy or satiety of the saints.
    PI 8.48 15 Busk thee, busk thee, my bonny bonny bride,/ Busk thee, busk thee, my winsome marrow./ Hamilton.
    PPo 8.246 1 The world is a bride superbly dressed;-/ Who weds her for dowry must pay his soul./
    PPo 8.256 18 ...Seek not for faith or for truth in a world of light-minded girls;/ A thousand suitors reckons this dangerous bride./
    MAng1 12.243 17 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Do you see this fine church of Santa Maria Novella? It is that which Michael Angelo called his bride.

Bride of Lammermoor, The [ (1)

    Scot 11.465 12 The tone of strength in Waverley...was more than justified by the superior genius of the following romances, up to the Bride of Lammermoor...

Bride of Lammermoor [Walter (1)

    Hist 2.35 12 I read the Bride of Lammermoor.

bridegroom, n. (2)

    SwM 4.128 26 ...God is the bride or bridegroom of the soul.
    DL 7.115 20 You are to bring with you that spirit which is understanding, health and self-help. To offer [man] money in lieu of these is to do him the same wrong as when the bridegroom offers his betrothed virgin a sum of money to release him from his engagements.

Bridge, Broken, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.226 17 [The Pons Palatinus] fell, five years after it was built, in 1557, and is still called the Broken Bridge.

bridge, n. (30)

    MN 1.207 14 A link was wanting between two craving parts of nature, and [man] was hurled into being as the bridge over that yawning need...
    MR 1.238 12 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies, as...a bridge by freshets.
    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.
    Pt1 3.36 18 ...instantly the mind inquires whether these fishes under the bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs in the yard, are immutably fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to me...
    PPh 4.61 14 [Plato] has reason, as all the philosophic and poetic class have: but he has also what they have not,--this strong solving sense to reconcile his poetry with the appearances of the world, and build a bridge from the streets of cities to the Atlantis.
    ET1 5.17 1 Gibbon [Carlyle] called the splendid bridge from the old world to the new.
    ET5 5.76 7 What signifies a pedigree of a hundred links...against a company of broad-shouldered Liverpool merchants, for whom Stephenson and Brunel are contriving locomotives and a tubular bridge?
    ET7 5.125 14 I knew a very worthy man...who went to the opera to see Malibran. In one scene, the heroine was to rush across a ruined bridge.
    ET7 5.125 17 I knew a very worthy man...who went to the opera to see Malibran. In one scene, the heroine was to rush across a ruined bridge. Mr. B. arose and mildly yet firmly called the attention of the audience and the performers to the fact that, in his judgment, the bridge was unsafe!
    ET11 5.175 1 He that will be a head, let him be a bridge, said the Welsh chief Benegridran...
    ET11 5.179 9 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...
    ET16 5.285 3 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...
    Art2 7.38 25 ...from [the child's] first pile of toys or chip bridge to the masonry of Minot Rock Lighthouse or the Pacific Railroad;...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.
    Art2 7.41 8 Duhamel built a bridge by letting in a piece of stronger timber for the middle of the under-surface...
    Res 8.145 15 ...the Corsicans at the battle of Golo, not having had time to cut down the bridge...made use of the bodies of their dead to form an intrenchment.
    Aris 10.40 9 ...if the healer of small-pox, the contriver...of the aqueduct, of the bridge, of the tunnel;...should keep their secrets...must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?
    Thor 10.482 15 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.
    HDC 11.49 7 It is the consequence of this institution [the town-meeting] that not a school-house...a bridge...hath been set up, or pulled down... without the whole population of this town [Concord] having a voice in the affair.
    HDC 11.73 7 In the field where the western abutment of the old bridge [in Concord] may still be seen...the first organized resistance was made to the British arms.
    HDC 11.73 25 The British following [the minute-men] across the bridge, posted two companies...to guard the bridge...
    HDC 11.73 27 The British following [the minute-men] across the bridge, posted two companies...to guard the bridge...
    HDC 11.74 7 ...Major Buttrick found himself superior in number to the enemy's party at the bridge [at Concord].
    HDC 11.74 12 The English beginning to pluck up some of the planks of the [Concord] bridge, the Americans quickened their pace...
    Koss 11.397 17 ...you [Kossuth] could not take all your steps in the pilgrimage of American liberty, until you had seen with your eyes the ruins of the bridge where a handful of brave farmers opened our Revolution.
    SHC 11.434 14 What is the Earth itself but...according to the Eastern fable, a bridge full of holes, into one or other of which all passengers sink to silence?
    PLT 12.13 23 The adepts value only the pure geometry, the aerial bridge ascending from earth to heaven with arches and abutments of pure reason.
    Bost 12.194 23 These men [Christian writers] are a bridge to us between the unparalleled piety of the Hebrew epoch and our own.
    MAng1 12.223 22 ...even at Venice, on defective evidence, [Michelangelo] is said to have given the plan of the bridge of the Rialto.
    MAng1 12.226 11 Michael Angelo made known his opinion that the bridge [Pons Palatinus] could not resist the force of the current;...
    MAng1 12.226 14 ...one day riding over [the Pons Palatinus] on horseback, with his friend Vasari, [Michelangelo] cried, George, this bridge trembles under us;...

Bridge, South Boston, n. (1)

    ACri 12.301 22 When Samuel Dexter...argued the claims of South Boston Bridge, he had to meet loud complaints of the shutting out of the coasting-trade by the proposed improvements.

Bridge, Staley, England, n. (1)

    ET10 5.159 6 Iron and steel are very obedient. Whether it were not possible to make a spinner that would not rebel...nor emigrate? At the solicitation of the masters, after a mob and riot at Staley Bridge, Mr. Roberts of Manchester undertook to create this peaceful fellow...

bridged, v. (4)

    ShP 4.191 3 The human race has gone out before [the great man], sunk the hills, filled the hollows and bridged the rivers.
    Civ 7.22 5 When the Indian trail gets widened, graded and bridged to a good road, there is a benefactor...
    Elo2 8.109 11 ...[The patriot] bridged the gulf from th' alway good and wise/ To that within the vision of small eyes./
    MoL 10.244 13 See the activity of the imagination in the Crusades...the chasm was bridged over;...

bridges, n. (7)

    Nat 1.14 4 The private poor man hath cities, ships, canals, bridges, built for him.
    MR 1.238 24 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son,-house...bridges...the son finds his hands full...
    Tran 1.358 9 In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges...but also some few finer instruments...
    Art2 7.41 1 It was said, in allusion to the great structures of the ancient Romans, the aqueducts and bridges, that their Art was a Nature working to municiple ends.
    Boks 7.192 19 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely over dark morasses and barren oceans...
    HDC 11.42 6 ...the town [Concord]...ordered that the North quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in their quarter...
    PLT 12.42 8 The universe is traversed by paths or bridges or stepping-stones across the gulfs of space in every direction.

bridges, v. (1)

    SMC 11.353 25 ...when you replace the love of family or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line...leaps the mountains, bridges river and lake...

bridging, v. (1)

    Art1 2.368 25 When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England...is a step of man into harmony with nature.

bridle, n. (1)

    Ill 6.317 18 'T is the charm of practical men that outside of their practicality are a certain poetry and play, as if they led the good horse Power by the bridle, and preferred to walk...

bridle, v. (1)

    Mrs1 3.148 22 In Shakspeare alone the speakers do not strut and bridle...

bridle-road, n. (1)

    HDC 11.48 14 In 1795, several town-meetings are called [in Concord], upon the compensation to be made to a few proprietors for land taken in making a bridle-road;...

brief, adj. (12)

    Tran 1.352 13 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief experience...
    OS 2.267 5 ...there is a depth in those brief moments [of faith] which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.
    PNR 4.87 25 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the centre that we see the sphere illuminated...a theory so averaged, so modulated, that you would say the winds of ages had swept through this rhythmic structure, and not that it was the brief extempore blotting of one short-lived scribe.
    SwM 4.103 15 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature;...
    CbW 6.258 3 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who...if he falls... on objects which have a brief importance...he prefers it to the universe...
    PerF 10.88 10 ...[wrath and petulance] quickly reach their brief date and decompose...
    CSC 10.374 3 The daily newspapers reported...brief sketches of the course of proceedings [of the Chardon Street Convention]...
    HDC 11.68 5 It would be impossible on this occasion to recite all these patriotic papers [of Concord]. I must content myself with a few brief extracts.
    ALin 11.329 24 ...that first despair [at Lincoln's death] was brief...
    ALin 11.334 2 ...[Lincoln's] brief speech at Gettysburg will not easily be surpassed by words on any recorded occasion.
    PLT 12.56 1 The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow men, or objects which have a brief importance, prefers it to the universe...
    II 12.84 3 [Men slow in finding their vocation] ripen too slowly than that the determination should appear in this brief life.

brief, n. (1)

    Boks 7.196 27 ...Never read any [books] but what you like;, or, in Shakspeare's phrase, No profit goes where is no pleasure te'en:/ In brief, sir, study what you most affect./

briefly, adv. (1)

    MoS 4.154 20 I knew a philosopher of this kidney who was accustomed briefly to sum up his experience of human nature in saying, Mankind is a damned rascal...

brier-rose, n. (1)

    NR 3.242 11 After taxing Goethe as a courtier...I took up this book of Helena, and found him...a piece of pure nature...virtuous as a brier-rose.

brig, n. (2)

    ET2 5.31 18 Classics which at home are drowsily read, have a strange charm...in the transom of a merchant brig.
    SS 7.12 10 ...if we recall the rare hours when we encountered the best persons, we then found ourselves, and then first society seemed to exist. That was society, though in the transom of a brig...

brigade, adj. (1)

    SMC 11.370 12 Let me add an extract from the official report of the brigade commander...

brigade, n. (2)

    SMC 11.368 15 At the battle of Gettysburg, in July, 1863, the brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed a part, was in line of battle seventy-two hours...
    SMC 11.374 14 The brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed part was detailed to receive the formal surrender of the rebel arms.

brigand, n. (1)

    YA 1.377 5 Feudalism grew to be a bandit and brigand.

brigands, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.328 13 Are there any brigands on the road? inquired the traveller in France.

bright, adj. (47)

    LE 1.158 26 ...so pass into [the scholar's] mind, in bright transfiguration, the grand events of history...
    LE 1.169 1 That is morning, to cease for a bright hour to be a prisoner of this sickly body...
    MN 1.197 6 [Pure law] existed already in the mind in solution; now, it has been precipitated, and the bright sediment is the world.
    MN 1.213 14 The poet must be a rhapsodist; his inspiration a sort of bright casualty;...
    LT 1.288 1 Here we drift, like white sail across the wild ocean, now bright on the wave, now darkling in the trough of the sea;...
    SR 2.85 14 ...the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in [the man in the street's] mind.
    Comp 2.93 22 ...if this doctrine [Compensation] could be stated in terms with any resemblance to those bright intuitions in which this truth is sometimes revealed to us, it would be a star in many dark hours...
    Comp 2.103 26 The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair;...
    Lov1 2.188 18 ...in health the mind is presently seen again,--its overarching vault, bright with galaxies of immutable lights...
    Int 2.334 2 If you gather apples in the sunshine...and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see apples hanging in the bright light...
    Int 2.344 5 ...let [new doctrines] not go until their blessing be won, and after a short season...they will be...one more bright star shining serenely in your heaven...
    Art1 2.349 17 So shall the drudge in dusty frock/ Spy behind the city clock/ .../ His fathers shining in bright fables,/ His children fed at heavenly tables./
    Pt1 3.31 17 ...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in mean condition to fire, which, though carried to the darkest house betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus, will yet hold its natural office and burn as bright as if twenty thousand men did it behold;...
    Nat2 3.173 3 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.
    UGM 4.24 24 Not one [person] has a misgiving of being wrong. Was it not a bright thought that made things cohere with this bitumen, fastest of cements?
    PPh 4.68 23 ...Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts. Cut again each of these two main parts,--one representing the visible, the other the intelligible world,--and let these two new sections represent the bright part and the dark part of each of these worlds.
    SwM 4.146 1 If the glory was too bright for [Swedenborg's] eyes to bear... the more excellent is the spectacle he saw...
    NMW 4.253 6 ...the vain attempts of statists to amuse and deceive him... and the instinct of the young, ardent and active men every where, which pointed him out as the giant of the middle class, make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
    ET1 5.5 15 ...I have copied the few notes I made of visits to persons, as they respect parties quite too good and too transparent to the whole world to make it needful to affect any prudery of suppression about a few hints of those bright personalities.
    ET1 5.10 14 ...[Coleridge] appeared, a short, thick old man, with bright blue eyes and fine clear complexion...
    ET13 5.227 1 ...a bishop [in England] is only a surpliced merchant. Through his lawn I can see the bright buttons of the shopman's coat glitter.
    ET17 5.291 12 ...my impression of the island [England] is bright with agreeable memories both of public societies and of households...
    Ctr 6.132 21 There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists.
    Ctr 6.149 22 ...it requires a great many cultivated women,--saloons of bright, elegant, reading women...in order that you should have one Madame de Stael.
    Art2 7.44 8 In painting, bright colors stimulate the eye before yet they are harmonized into a landscape.
    DL 7.101 7 Five rosy boys with morning light/ Had leaped from one fair mother's arms,/ Fronted the sun with hope as bright,/ And greeted God with childhood's psalms./
    DL 7.106 8 What entertainments make every day bright and short for the fine freshman!
    Boks 7.204 25 If [the student] can read Livy, he has a good book; but one of the short English compends, some Goldsmith or Ferguson, should be used, that will place in the cycle [of Roman history] the bright stars of Plutarch.
    PC 8.229 6 No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.
    PPo 8.262 25 In thee, friend, that Tyrian chamber is found;/ Thine the star-pointing- roof, and the base on the ground:/ Is one half depicted with colors less bright?/ Beware that the counterpart blazes with light!/
    Imtl 8.325 19 [The Greek]...made [death] bright with games of strength and skill...
    Aris 10.53 26 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men [in a village]...and drawing all these men round him...interested the whole village, good and bad, bright and stupid, in his facts;...
    Aris 10.63 22 Let [the man of honor]...say...the music and the dance of liberty will come up to bright and holy ground and will take me in also.
    PerF 10.81 18 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone... Would you know where to find her? Listen for the laughter...see where is... a pretty crowd all bright with one electricity;...
    Edc1 10.131 7 ...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the means of classifying the most refractory phenomena, of...subordinating them to a bright reason of its own...
    LLNE 10.334 9 ...he [Everett] who was heard with such throbbing hearts and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded churches, did not let go his hearers when the church was dismissed, but the bright image of that eloquent form followed the boy home to his bed-chamber;...
    EzRy 10.390 3 To undeceive [Ezra Ripley], I hastened to recall some particulars to show the absurdity of the thing, as the Major [Jack Downing] and the President [Andrew Jackson] going out skating on the Potomac, etc. Why, said the Doctor with perfect faith, it was a bright moonlight night;...
    EWI 11.135 4 ...as an omen and assurance of success, I point to you the bright example which England set you [in emancipation in the West Indies]...
    EWI 11.135 11 ...I turn gladly to the rightful theme, to the bright aspects of the occasion.
    War 11.153 14 Plutarch...considers the invasion and conquest of the East by Alexander as one of the most bright and pleasing pages in history;...
    RBur 11.443 8 Every name in broad Scotland keeps [Burns's] fame bright.
    Mem 12.102 8 Some days are bright with thought and sentiment, and we live a year in a day.
    Mem 12.106 7 ...I come to a bright school-girl who remembers all she hears...
    CL 12.142 24 [DeQuincey said] [Wordsworth's] eyes are not under any circumstances bright, lustrous or piercing...
    Bost 12.211 5 ...the Quincy of the Revolution seems compensated for the shortness of his bright career in the son who so long lingers among the last of those bright clouds, That on the steady breeze of honor sail/ In long succession calm and beautiful./
    Bost 12.211 7 ...the Quincy of the Revolution seems compensated for the shortness of his bright career in the son who so long lingers among the last of those bright clouds, That on the steady breeze of honor sail/ In long succession calm and beautiful./
    MLit 12.328 8 [Goethe's] are the bright and terrible eyes which meet the modern student in every sacred chapel of thought...

brighten, v. (1)

    ShP 4.219 18 ...knowledge will brighten the sunshine;...

brighter, adj. (6)

    Fdsp 2.215 10 In the great days, presentiments hover before me in the firmament. ... I fear only that I may lose them receding into the sky in which now they are only a patch of brighter light.
    ET9 5.150 6 [The English] have no curiosity about foreigners, and answer any information you may volunteer with Oh, Oh! until the informant makes up his mind that they shall die in their ignorance, for any help he will offer. There are really no limits to this conceit, though brighter men among them make painful efforts to be candid.
    Elo2 8.124 1 In the vain and foolish exultation of the heart, which the brighter prospects of life will sometimes excite, the pensive portress of Science shall call you to the sober pleasures of her holy cell.
    MMEm 10.424 22 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or feel he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow,- labors, rather-evanescent efforts, which will wear like flowerets in brighter soils;...
    WSL 12.342 7 From the moment of entering a library and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear. What boundless leisure!...the old constellations have set, new and brighter have arisen;...
    EurB 12.365 1 It was a brighter day than we have often known in our literary calendar, when within a twelvemonth a single London advertisement announced a new volume of poems by Wordsworth, poems by Tennyson, and a play by Henry Taylor.

brightest, adj. (1)

    ShP 4.209 9 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart...on those mysterious and demoniacal powers...which yet interweave their malice and their gift in our brightest hours.

brightly, adv. (1)

    Ill 6.310 15 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars glimmering more or less brightly over our heads...

brightness, n. (4)

    NR 3.242 16 If we were not kept among surfaces, everything would be large and universal; now the excluded attributes burst in on us with the more brightness that they have been excluded.
    Insp 8.273 17 A glimpse, a point of view that by its brightness excludes the purview is granted, but no panorama.
    Plu 10.316 17 ...nothing so resembles an animal as fire. It is moved and nourished by itself, and by its brightness, like the soul, discovers and makes everything apparent...
    Pray 12.356 16 [I, Augustine, entered my soul and saw] Not this vulgar light which all flesh may look upon, nor as it were a greater of the same kind, as though the brightness of this should be manifold greater and with its greatness take up all space.

Brighton, Massachusetts, n. (1)

    AgMs 12.361 26 ...necessity finds out when to go to Brighton, and when to feed in the stall, better than Mr. [Henry] Colman can tell us.

Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme, (1)

    Res 8.150 26 I do not know that the treatise of Brillat-Savarin on the Physiology of Taste deserves its fame.

brilliancy, n. (5)

    GoW 4.280 26 In France there is even a greater delight in intellectual brilliancy for its own sake.
    ET12 5.211 5 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic.
    Boks 7.215 7 ...I often see traces of the Scotch or the French novel in the courtesy and brilliancy of young midshipmen, collegians and clerks.
    PI 8.32 20 We are dazzled at first by new words and brilliancy of color...
    PPo 8.242 6 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Kai Kaus, in whose palace...gold and silver and precious stones were used so lavishly that in the brilliancy produced by their combined effect, night and day appeared the same;...

brilliant, adj. (40)

    Nat 1.31 6 ...good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories.
    MR 1.231 7 ...if [the young man] would thrive in [the employments of commerce], he must sacrifice all the brilliant dreams of boyhood and youth as dreams;...
    MR 1.232 26 [The general system of our trade] is not that which a man... meditates on with joy and self-approval in his hour of love and aspiration; but rather what he then puts out of sight, only showing the brilliant result...
    OS 2.290 15 The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...the brilliant friend they know;...
    Pt1 3.22 5 The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
    Chr1 3.89 4 It has been complained of our brilliant English historian of the French Revolution that when he has told all his facts about Mirabeau, they do not justify his estimate of his genius.
    Mrs1 3.128 20 The class of power, the working heroes...see...that the brilliant names of fashion run back to just such busy names as their own...
    NR 3.228 8 Our native love of reality joins with this [disillusioning] experience...to dissuade a too sudden surrender to the brilliant qualities of persons.
    NER 3.276 5 ...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, until he shall know why... his brilliant talents are paralyzed in this presence.
    SwM 4.112 4 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was an anatomist's account of the human body, in the highest style of poetry. Nothing can exceed the bold and brilliant treatment of a subject usually so dry and repulsive.
    NMW 4.242 16 ...brilliant prizes glittered in the eyes of [French] youth and talent.
    NMW 4.253 8 I am sorry that the brilliant picture [of Napoleon] has its reverse.
    NMW 4.253 15 ...that is the fatal quality which we discover in our pursuit of wealth, that it...is bought by the breaking or weakening of the sentiments; and it is inevitable that we should find the same fact in the history of this champion [Napoleon], who proposed to himself simply a brilliant career...
    GoW 4.282 5 Though [the writer] were dumb [his message] would speak. If not,--if there be no such God's word in the man,--what care we how adroit, how fluent, how brilliant he is?
    ET14 5.247 4 The brilliant Macaulay, who expresses the tone of the English governing classes of the day, explicitly teaches that good means good to eat, good to wear...
    ET19 5.309 21 On being introduced to the meeting [Manchester Athenaeum Banquet] I said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It is pleasant to me to meet this great and brilliant company...
    Bhr 6.185 4 Look on this woman. There is not beauty, nor brilliant sayings...
    Elo1 7.71 16 ...what is the Odyssey but a history of the orator...carried through a series of adventures furnishing brilliant opportunities to his talent?
    Elo1 7.89 26 By applying the habits of a higher style of thought to the common affairs of this world, [the orator] introduces beauty and magnificence wherever he goes. Such a power was Burke's, and of this genius we have had some brilliant examples in our own political and legal men.
    Clbs 7.243 12 The history of the Hotel Rambouillet and its brilliant circles makes an important date in French civilization.
    Clbs 7.244 4 ...we have records of the brilliant society that Edinburgh boasted in the first decade of this century.
    PI 8.53 7 Victor Hugo says well, An idea steeped in verse becomes suddenly more incisive and more brilliant...
    SA 8.90 13 The delight...in pure, brilliant, social atmosphere;...doubles the value of life.
    Elo2 8.131 12 Your argument is ingenious...your illustrations brilliant, but your major proposition palpably absurd. Will you establish a lie?
    QO 8.196 4 It is a familiar expedient of brilliant writers...the device of ascribing their own sentence to an imaginary person...
    Grts 8.304 15 You shall not enumerate your brilliant acquaintances...
    Grts 8.318 3 Voltaire is brilliant, nimble and various, but Frederick has the superior tone.
    Imtl 8.332 6 Slowly [the two men] advanced towards each other as they could, through the brilliant company...
    Edc1 10.133 10 If I have renounced the search of truth...I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as a bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain.
    Edc1 10.142 25 Culture makes [the youth's] books realities to him, their characters more brilliant, more effective on his mind, than his actual mates.
    LLNE 10.334 3 ...every young scholar could recite brilliant sentences from [Everett's] sermons...
    LLNE 10.358 16 It chanced that here in one family were two brothers, one a brilliant and fertile inventor, and close by him his own brother, a man of business...
    LLNE 10.364 3 No friend who knew Margaret Fuller could recognize her rich and brilliant genius under the dismal mask which the public fancied was meant for her in that disagreeable story [Blithedale Romance].
    Thor 10.470 15 The redstart was flying about, and presently the fine grosbeaks, whose brilliant scarlet makes the rash gazer wipe his eye...
    FSLN 11.219 14 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great name inferior men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave Law] and made the law. I say inferior men. There were all sorts of what are called brilliant men...but men without self-respect...
    ALin 11.332 3 In a host of young men that start together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial;...
    Wom 11.411 14 There is...no style adopted into the etiquette of courts, but was first the whim and the mere action of some brilliant woman...
    Scot 11.467 27 [Scott] found himself in his youth and manhood and age in the society of...Wilson, Hogg, De Quincey, to name only some of his literary neighbors, and, as soon as he died, all this brilliant circle was broken up.
    PLT 12.37 6 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense. It requires the performance of all that is needful to the animal life and health. Then it...requires...that symmetry and connection which is imperative in all healthily constituted men, and the want of which the rare and brilliant sallies of irregular genius cannot excuse.
    PPr 12.384 13 It is plain that whether by hope or by fear, or were it only by delight in this panorama of brilliant images, all the great classes of English society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present]...

brim, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.150 27 ...are there not women who fill our vase with wine and roses to the brim...
    EPro 11.314 6 Pay ransom to the owner/ And fill the bag to the brim./ Who is the owner? The slave is the owner,/ And ever was. Pay him./

brimstone, n. (1)

    GoW 4.276 24 ...[Goethe] stripped [the Devil] of mythologic gear, of horns, cloven foot, harpoon tail, brimstone and blue-fire...

Brindley, James, n. (1)

    ET5 5.77 1 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of...Gibbon, Brindley, Watt, Wedgwood, dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain...

brine, n. (2)

    MN 1.205 8 Who would value any number of miles of Atlantic brine bounded by lines of latitude and longitude?
    EWI 11.104 9 ...if we saw men's backs flayed with cowhides, and hot rum poured on, superinduced with brine or pickle...we too should wince.

bring, v. (179)

    AmS 1.92 27 ...He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies.
    AmS 1.105 8 As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it.
    DSA 1.135 9 Courage, piety, love, wisdom, can teach; and every man can open his door to these angels, and they shall bring him the gift of tongues.
    LE 1.155 7 A summons to celebrate with scholars a literary festival, is so alluring to me as to overcome the doubts I might well entertain of my ability to bring you any thought worthy of your attention.
    LE 1.176 15 Silence, seclusion, austerity, may...bring up out of secular darkness the sublimities of the moral constitution.
    LE 1.187 11 [Thought] will bring you friendships.
    MR 1.237 27 ...now I feel some shame before my wood-chopper...and my cook, for...they can contrive without my aid to bring the day and year round...
    MR 1.252 15 An acceptance of the sentiment of love throughout Christendom for a season would bring the felon and the outcast to our side in tears...
    LT 1.262 13 ...persons are the world to persons,-a cunning mystery by which the Great Desert of thoughts and of planets takes this engaging form, to bring...its meanings nearer to the mind.
    LT 1.283 10 ...talents bring their usual temptations...
    Con 1.320 10 [Conservatism's] social and political action has no better aim;...to bring the week and year about...
    Con 1.322 14 ...if it still be asked in this necessity of partial organization, which party, on the whole, has the highest claims on our sympathy,-I bring it home to the private heart...
    Tran 1.346 6 ...these youths bring us a rough but effectual aid.
    YA 1.366 3 The land...is to...bring us into just relations with men and things.
    YA 1.378 7 Trade goes...to bring every kind of faculty of every individual that can in any manner serve any person, on sale.
    YA 1.382 9 The science is confident, and surely the poverty is real. If any means could be found to bring these two together!
    Hist 2.39 11 [Each man] shall...bring with him into humble cottages the blessing of the morning stars...
    SR 2.57 8 It seems to be a rule of wisdom...to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present...
    SR 2.73 26 ...if we follow the truth it will bring us out safe at last.
    SR 2.90 3 Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
    SR 2.90 4 Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
    SL 2.136 15 We [country folk] have not dollars, merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn;...the children will bring flowers.
    SL 2.145 13 That mood into which a friend can bring us is his dominion over us.
    Lov1 2.188 4 ...nature and intellect and art emulate each other in the gifts and the melody they bring to the epithalamium.
    Prd1 2.238 15 Far off, men swell, bully and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are a feeble folk.
    Hsm1 2.263 4 Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the youth may freely bring home to his mind...
    OS 2.293 20 ...there is a power, which, as it is in you, is in [your friend] also, and could therefore very well bring you together...
    Int 2.328 16 You cannot with your best deliberation and heed come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you...
    Int 2.330 21 The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.
    Art1 2.349 3 ...Bring the moonlight into noon/ Hid in gleaming piles of stone;/...
    Art1 2.359 10 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they speak. A confession of moral nature...breathes from them all. That which we carry to them, the same we bring back more fairly illustrated in the memory.
    Pt1 3.8 3 ...[the poet] writes primarily what will and must be spoken, reckoning [the hero and the sage], though primaries also, yet, in respect to him, secondaries and servants;...as assistants who bring building-materials to an architect.
    Exp 3.45 24 We have enough [spirit] to live and bring the year about...
    Exp 3.57 2 [Our friends] stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take the single step that would bring them there.
    Chr1 3.94 6 When the high cannot bring up the low to itself, it benumbs it...
    Mrs1 3.127 6 Manners aim to...bring the man pure to energize.
    Nat2 3.195 7 ...though we are always engaged with particulars...we bring with us to every experiment the innate universal laws.
    NER 3.265 23 The candidate my party votes for is not to be trusted with a dollar, but he will be honest in the Senate, for we can bring public opinion to bear on him.
    NER 3.270 5 ...[a canine appetite for knowledge] did not bring [the scholar] to peace...
    NER 3.278 12 We are haunted with a belief that you [reformers] have a secret which it would highliest advantage us to learn, and we would force you to impart it to us, though it should bring us to prison or to worse extremity.
    UGM 4.31 10 ...bring to each [man] an intelligent person of another experience, and it is as if you let off water from a lake by cutting a lower basin.
    PNR 4.89 6 All [Plato's] painting in the Republic must be esteemed mythical, with intent to bring out...his thought.
    SwM 4.135 25 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and chalcedony;...what with...behemoth and unicorn? ... The more learning you bring to explain them, the more glaring the impertinence.
    MoS 4.152 9 Things always bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.
    ShP 4.190 20 [A great man] finds two counties groping to bring coal, or flour, or fish, from the place of production to the place of consumption, and he hits on a railroad.
    ShP 4.196 1 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with Cromwell, where instead of the metre of Shakspeare, whose secret is that the thought constructs the tune, so that reading for the sense will best bring out the rhythm,--here the lines are constructed on a given tune...
    ShP 4.196 20 A great poet who appears in illiterate times, absorbs into his sphere all the light which is any where radiating. Every intellectual jewel... it is his fine office to bring to his people;...
    NMW 4.230 6 ...a very small force, skilfully and rapidly manoeuvring so as always to bring two men against one at the point of engagement, will be an overmatch for a much larger body of men.
    NMW 4.238 21 ...when you bring bad news [Bonaparte told his secretary], rouse me instantly, for then there is not a moment to be lost.
    GoW 4.265 11 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo... and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare;...
    ET4 5.56 9 As [the Northmen] put out to sea again, the emperor [Charlemagne] gazed long after them, his eyes bathed in tears. I am tormented with sorrow, he said, when I foresee the evils they will bring on my posterity.
    ET5 5.87 2 ...[the English]...do not like ponderous and difficult tactics, but delight to bring the affair hand to hand;...
    ET5 5.87 9 ...[the English] fundamentally believe that the best strategem in naval war is to lay your ship close alongside of the enemy's ship and bring all your guns to bear on him...
    ET7 5.116 18 ...any slipperiness in the [English] government of political faith...would bring the whole nation to a committee of inquiry and reform.
    ET7 5.120 5 If war do not bring in its sequel new trade, better agriculture and manufactures...no prosperity could support it;...
    ET8 5.131 1 ...you shall find in the common [English] people a surly indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper; and in minds of more power, magazines of inexhaustible war, challenging The ruggedest hour that time and spite dare bring/ To frown upon the enraged Northumberland./
    ET10 5.156 19 [In England] An economist, or a man who can...bring the year round with expenditure which expresses his character without embarrassing one day of his future, is already a master of life, and a freeman.
    ET10 5.161 6 In Egypt, [steam] can plant forests, and bring rain after three thousand years.
    ET11 5.191 25 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper at his council table...and the baker will not bring bread any longer.
    ET11 5.192 25 ...gaming, racing, drinking and mistresses bring [the English aristocracy] down...
    ET14 5.247 21 [Macaulay] thinks...that, solid advantage, as he calls it, meaning always sensual benefit, is the only good. The eminent benefit of astronomy is the better navigation it creates to enable the fruit-ships to bring home their lemons and wine to the London grocer.
    ET14 5.252 3 ...[the English] are the most conditioned men, as if, having the best conditions, they could not bring themselves to forfeit them.
    ET14 5.257 25 ...[Tennyson] wants a subject, and climbs no mount of vision to bring its secrets to the people.
    F 6.24 5 The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.
    Pow 6.62 18 A Western lawyer of eminence said to me he wished it were a penal offence to bring an English law-book into a court in this country...
    Pow 6.76 13 A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much but can only bring it to light slowly.
    Pow 6.76 16 A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much but can only bring it to light slowly.
    Wth 6.91 18 ...if [a man] wishes...having society on his own terms, he must bring his wants within his proper power to satisfy.
    Wth 6.93 6 The life of pleasure is so ostentatious that a shallow observer must believe that this is the agreed best use of wealth, and, whatever is pretended, it ends in cosseting. But if this were the main use of surplus capital, it would bring us to barricades, burned towns and tomahawks, presently.
    Wth 6.104 6 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the schools will feel it, the children will bring home their little dose of the poison;...
    Ctr 6.136 10 Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!
    Ctr 6.164 8 What forests of laurel we bring...to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!
    Bhr 6.196 23 ...if you have headache...or thunderstroke, I beseech you...to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning, to which all the housemates bring serene and pleasant thoughts...
    Wsp 6.215 1 That which is signified by the words moral and spiritual, is a lasting essence, and, with whatever illusions we have loaded them, will certainly bring back the words...to their ancient meaning.
    Wsp 6.230 15 I am well assured that the Questioner who brings me so many problems will bring the answers also in due time.
    CbW 6.258 8 Better, certainly, if we could secure the strength and fire which rude, passionate men bring into society, quite clear of their vices.
    CbW 6.274 22 ...one may take a good deal of pains to bring people together...and yet no result come of it.
    SS 7.7 5 ...no man is fit for society who has fine traits. At a distance he is admired, but bring him hand to hand, he is a cripple.
    Civ 7.17 1 We flee away from cities, but we bring/ The best of cities with us/...
    Civ 7.29 17 We cannot bring the heavenly powers to us, but if we will only choose our jobs in directions in which they travel, they will undertake them with the greatest pleasure.
    Art2 7.42 21 ...in our handiwork...we place ourselves in such attitudes as to bring the force of gravity...to bear upon the spade or the axe we wield.
    Art2 7.42 25 ...in all our operations we seek not to use our own, but to bring a quite infinite force to bear.
    Art2 7.49 11 So much as we can...bring the omniscience of reason upon the subject before us, so perfect is the work [of art].
    Elo1 7.59 3 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ And touch with soft persuasion,/ His words, like a storm-wind, can bring/ Terror and beauty on their wing;/...
    Elo1 7.65 13 Bring [the master orator] to his audience, and...he will have them pleased and humored as he chooses;...
    Elo1 7.77 3 ...how is it on the Atlantic, in a storm,--do you understand how to infuse your reason into men disabled by terror, and to bring yourself off safe then?...
    Elo1 7.77 8 Face to face with a highwayman...can you bring yourself off safe by your wit exercised through speech?...
    DL 7.115 17 You are to bring with you that spirit which is understanding, health and self-help.
    DL 7.121 2 ...who can see unmoved...the unrestrained glee with which [the eager, blushing boys] disburden themselves of their early mental treasures when the holidays bring them again together?
    DL 7.131 10 I wish to bring home to my children and my friends copies of these admirable forms [Michelangelo's sibyle and prophets]...
    Farm 7.146 6 ...there is no porter like Gravitation, who will bring down any weights which man cannot carry...
    Farm 7.149 18 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through constant evaporation, and allows the warm rain to bring down into the roots the temperature of the air and of the surface soil;...
    WD 7.155 4 Daughters of Time, the hypocritic days,/ Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,/ And marching single in an endless file,/ Bring diadems and fagots in their hands./
    WD 7.159 10 Why need I speak of steam...which is made in hospitals to bring a bowl of gruel to a sick man's bed...
    WD 7.161 3 The chain of Western railroads from Chicago to the Pacific has planted cities and civilization in less time than it costs to bring an orchard into bearing.
    WD 7.168 15 ...if we do not use the gifts [the days] bring, they carry them as silently away.
    WD 7.173 27 How difficult to deal erect with [these passing hours]! The events they bring...all throw dust in the eyes and distract attention.
    Boks 7.204 21 For history there is great choice of ways to bring the student through early Rome.
    Boks 7.205 4 [Horace, Tacitus, Martial] will bring [the student] to Gibbon...
    Boks 7.206 18 If now the relations of England to European affairs bring [the scholar] to British ground, he is arrived at the very moment when modern history takes new proportions.
    Boks 7.210 12 Earl Spencer...had paused a quarter of a minute, when Lord Althorp with long steps came to his side, as if to bring his father a fresh lance to renew the fight.
    Clbs 7.226 19 ...the church-chimes in the distance bring the church and its serious memories before us.
    Clbs 7.240 20 The court successively appoints three more severe inquisitors; Beaumarchais converts them all into triumphant vindicators of the play which is to bring in the Revolution.
    Cour 7.270 27 [John Brown] said, As soon as I hear one of my men say, Ah, let me only get my eye on such a man, I'll bring him down, I don't expect much aid in the fight from that talker.
    Suc 7.301 11 We bring a welcome to the highest lessons of religion and of poetry out of all proportion beyond our skill to teach.
    PI 8.25 6 When people tell me they do not relish poetry, and bring me Shelley...I am quite of their mind.
    PI 8.25 12 ...bring [people] Homer's Iliad, and they like that;...
    PI 8.33 25 We want design, and do not forgive the bards if they have only the art of enamelling. We want an architect, and they bring us an upholsterer.
    PI 8.40 23 [The poet] has seen something which all the mathematics and the best industry could never bring him unto.
    PI 8.64 7 Bring us the bards who shall sing all our old ideas out of our heads...
    PI 8.73 8 The high poetry which shall...bring in the new thoughts, the sanity and heroic aims of nations, is deeper hid...
    SA 8.92 18 [Speech] is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
    Elo2 8.130 19 [Eloquence] leads us to...the men of character, who bring an overpowering personality into court...
    Res 8.144 22 The hunter, the soldier, rolls himself in his blanket, and the falling snow, which he did not have to bring in his knapsack, is his eider-down...
    Comc 8.159 23 ...a prophet...or a philosopher...bring the standard...
    PPo 8.245 6 The rapidity of [Hafiz's] turns is always surprising us:-See how the roses burn!/ Bring wine to quench the fire!/ Alas! the flames come up with us,/ We perish with desire./
    PPo 8.246 18 To be wise the dull brain so earnestly throbs,/ Bring bands of wine for the stupid head./
    PPo 8.250 15 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low rioter, he turns short on you...to ejaculate with equal fire the most unpalatable affirmations of heroic sentiment and contempt for the world. Sometimes it is a glance from the height of thought, as thus:-Bring wine; for in the audience-hall of the soul' s independence, what is sentinel or Sultan?...
    PPo 8.256 4 Come!-the palace of heaven rests on aery pillars,-/ Come, and bring me wine; our days are wind./
    Insp 8.284 11 My anchorite thought it sad that atmospheric influences should bring to our dust the communion of the soul with the Infinite.
    Grts 8.308 2 In morals this [individual bias] is conscience; in intellect, genius; in practice, talent;-not to imitate or surpass a particular man in his way, but to bring out your own new way;...
    Aris 10.44 14 ...when I bring one man into an estate, he sees vague capabilities...
    Aris 10.44 16 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it.
    Aris 10.46 26 ...the revolution of things is always bringing the need, now of this, now of that, and is sure to bring home the opportunity to every one.
    Aris 10.53 15 The best feat of genius is to bring all the varieties of talent and culture into its audience;...
    PerF 10.70 3 ...I find it wholesome and invigorating to enumerate the resources we can command, to look a little into this arsenal, and see...how many arms better than Springfield muskets, we can bring to bear.
    Chr2 10.96 7 There is no labor or sacrifice to which [the moral sentiment] will not bring a man...
    SovE 10.201 8 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree. You cannot bring yourself to care for it.
    SovE 10.207 6 ...new views of inspiration, of miracles, of the saints, have supplanted the old opinions, and it is vain to bring them again.
    SovE 10.208 26 ...a new crop of geniuses like those of the Elizabethan age, may be born in this age, and...bring asceticism, duty and magnanimity into vogue again.
    Prch 10.219 25 ...the sentiment that pervades a nation, the nation must react upon. It is resisted and corrupted by that obstinate tendency to personify and bring under the eyesight what should be the contemplation of Reason alone.
    MoL 10.241 15 ...let me use the occasion...to offer you some counsels which an old scholar may without pretension bring to youth...
    MoL 10.247 11 The worst times...only relieve and bring out the splendor of [the scholar's] privilege.
    Schr 10.268 10 Nature...will bring to each of you the crowded hour, the great opportunity.
    Plu 10.308 4 [Plutarch] says of Socrates that he endeavored to bring reason and things together...
    Plu 10.319 23 The guests not invited to a private board by the entertainer, but introduced by a guest as his companions, the Greek called shadows; and the question is debated whether it was civil to bring them...
    Plu 10.319 27 ...[Plutarch]...concludes:...when I make an invitation...I give my guests leave to bring shadows;...
    LLNE 10.340 13 Dr. Channing took counsel in 1840 with George Ripley, to the point whether it were possible to bring cultivated, thoughtful people together...
    EzRy 10.392 19 The society will meet after the Lyceum, as it is difficult to bring people together in the evening,-and no moon.
    MMEm 10.399 15 I have found that I could only bring you this portrait [of Mary Moody Emerson] by selections from the diary of my heroine...
    MMEm 10.423 7 A war-trump would be harmony to the jars of theologians and statesmen such as the papers bring.
    Thor 10.462 27 If [Thoreau] brought you yesterday a new proposition, he would bring you to-day another not less revolutionary.
    GSt 10.506 13 ...if [George Stearns] could not bring his associates to adopt his measure, he accepted with entire sweetness the next best measure which could secure their assent.
    LS 11.7 20 ...I cannot bring myself to believe that in the use of such an expression [This do in remembrance of me] [Jesus] looked beyond the living generation...
    HDC 11.76 8 The presence of these aged men who were in arms on that day [battle of Concord] seems to bring us nearer to it.
    HDC 11.80 22 ......it was Voted [by Concord] that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day, whilst in actual service, an account of which time he should bring to the town...
    LVB 11.93 12 You [Van Buren], sir, will bring down that renowned chair in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this intrument of perfidy [the relocation of the Cherokees];...
    EWI 11.124 5 What if [slavery] cost a few unpleasant scenes on the coast of Africa? That was a great way off; and the scenes could be endured by some sturdy, unscrupulous fellows, who could go, for high wages, and bring us the men...
    EWI 11.126 22 ...the [slave] trade could not be abolished whilst this hungry West Indian market...cried, More, more, bring me a hundred a day;...
    FSLC 11.208 9 We shall one day bring the States shoulder to shoulder and the citizens man to man to exterminate slavery.
    FSLC 11.212 16 We will never intermeddle with your slavery,-but you can in no wise be suffered to bring it to Cape Cod and Berkshire.
    ACiv 11.299 16 Is...this evolution of man to the highest powers...not to bring duties with it?
    ACiv 11.300 21 [People] bring their opinion [of slavery] into the world.
    ACiv 11.304 1 ...the one [power] strong enough to bring all the civility up to the height of that which is best, prays now at the door of Congress for leave to move.
    Wom 11.415 6 With the advancements of society, the position and influence of woman bring her strength or her faults into light.
    Wom 11.419 24 ...bring together a cultivated society of both sexes, in a drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste or on a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical difficulty in obtaining their authentic opinions?
    Wom 11.422 14 ...one [man] wishes schools, another armies, one gunboats, another public gardens. Bring all these biases together and something is done in favor of them all.
    SHC 11.431 24 ...there is no ornament, no architecture alone, so sumptuous as well disposed woods and waters, where art has been employed only to... bring out the natural advantages.
    SHC 11.436 4 We shall bring hither [to Sleepy Hollow] the body of the dead, but how shall we catch the escaped soul?
    RBur 11.442 23 It seemed odious to Luther that the devil should have all the best tunes; he would bring them into the churches;...
    Humb 11.456 1 If a life prolonged to an advanced period bring with it several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in the delight of being able to compare older states of knowledge with that which now exists...
    FRO2 11.490 9 ...you cannot bring me too good a word...from the Jews.
    FRep 11.513 2 ...prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant.
    FRep 11.516 6 ...when the adventurers [to America] have planted themselves and looked about, they send back all the money they can spare to bring their friends.
    FRep 11.534 26 ...the land and sea educate the people, and bring out presence of mind, self-reliance...
    FRep 11.539 6 Here is the post where the patriot should plant himself; here the altar...where genius should...bring forgotten truth to the eyes of men.
    PLT 12.7 14 Bring the best wits together, and they are so impatient of each other...that you shall have no academy.
    PLT 12.9 19 We must have a special talent, and bring something to pass.
    PLT 12.31 17 ...[a man's] aptitude, if he would obey it, would prove a telescope to bring under his clear vision what was blur to everybody else.
    PLT 12.44 12 If you cut or break in two a block or stone and press the two parts closely together, you can indeed bring the particles very near, but never again so near that they shall attract each other so that you can take up the block as one.
    CInt 12.129 13 Only bring a deep observer, and he will make light of the new shop or old cathedral...
    CInt 12.129 21 Bring the insight, and [the deep observer] will find as many beauties and heroes and astounding strokes of genius close by him as Shakspeare or Aeschylus or Dante beheld.
    CL 12.157 4 Can you bring home the summits of Wachusett, Greylock, and the New Hampshire hills?...
    CL 12.157 11 Can you...bring home the tops of Uncanoonuc?
    Milt1 12.267 8 [Wrote Milton] Albeit I must confess to be half in doubt whether I should bring it forth or no, it being so contrary to the eye of the world, that I shall endanger either not to be regarded, or not to be understood. For who is there, almost, that measures wisdom by simplicity...
    ACri 12.305 20 Criticism is an art when it...looks at...the essential quality of [the poet's] mind. Then the critic is poet. 'T is a question...of...not particular merits, but the mood of mind into which one and another can bring us.
    WSL 12.343 9 ...if fire cheers us, we should bring wood and coals.
    PPr 12.383 15 ...to bring out the truth for beauty, and as literature, surmounts the powers of art.
    Let 12.397 9 ...discontent and the luxury of tears will bring nothing to pass.

bringer, n. (3)

    MN 1.193 12 ...the scholar must be a bringer of hope...
    NER 3.279 11 The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion... is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because...he feels that you have it not.
    Imtl 8.348 2 It is strange that Jesus is esteemed by mankind the bringer of the doctrine of immortality.

bringeth, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.425 5 When the dreamy pages of life seem all turned and folded down to very weariness, even this idea of those who fill the hour with crowded virtues, lifts the spectator to other worlds, and he adores the eternal purposes of Him who...bringeth to dust, and raiseth to the skies.

bringing, v. (36)

    DSA 1.123 1 See how this rapid intrinsic energy worketh everywhere... bringing up facts to a harmony with thoughts.
    MN 1.213 25 ...if you incline your mind, you will apprehend [the Intelligible]: not too earnestly, but bringing a pure and inquiring eye.
    YA 1.364 13 ...this invention [the railroad] has reduced England to a third of its size, by bringing people so much nearer...
    YA 1.369 13 Whatever events in progress shall go to disgust men with cities...will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.
    Fdsp 2.203 12 I knew a man who...spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered, and that with great insight and beauty. At first...all men agreed he was mad. But persisting...he attained to the advantage of bringing every man of his acquaintance into true relations with him.
    Prd1 2.227 2 Time is always bringing the occasions that disclose [facts!] value.
    PPh 4.47 7 [Philosophy's] early records...are of the immigrations from Asia, bringing with them the dreams of barbarians;...
    MoS 4.150 6 One class [predisposed to Sensation]...is conversant with... cities and persons, and the bringing certain things to pass;...
    ET6 5.110 19 [The English] have difficulty in bringing their reason to act...
    ET16 5.273 7 It seemed a bringing together of extreme points, to visit the oldest religious monument in Britain in company with her latest thinker...
    Pow 6.80 16 ...this force or spirit, being the means relied on by Nature for bringing the work of the day about,--as far as we attach importance to household life and the prizes of the world, we must respect that.
    Wth 6.85 23 ...the mind acts in bringing things from where they abound to where they are wanted;...
    Wth 6.87 14 The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing from where it abounds to where it is costly.
    Ctr 6.154 25 How can you mind...even the bringing things to pass,--when you think how paltry are the machinery and the workers?
    Ctr 6.164 11 The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.
    Civ 7.24 11 Another measure of culture is the diffusion of knowledge...by the cheap press, bringing the university to every poor man's door...
    Art2 7.42 14 All powerful action is performed by bringing the forces of Nature to bear upon our objects.
    Art2 7.49 5 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength, but by bringing the weight of the planet to bear on the spade, axe or bar.
    Farm 7.142 10 In English factories, the boy that watches the loom...is called a minder. And in this great factory of our Copernican globe... bringing now the day of planting, then of watering, then of weeding, then of reaping, then of curing and storing,--the farmer is the minder.
    Boks 7.189 8 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or from Pontus;...
    Clbs 7.242 17 ...in all civil nations attempts have been made to organize conversation by bringing together cultivated people under the most favorable conditions.
    Clbs 7.249 1 I need only hint the value of the club for bringing masters in their several arts to compare and expand their views...
    PI 8.66 18 I count the genius of Swedenborg and Wordsworth as the agents of a reform in philosophy, the bringing poetry back to Nature...
    PC 8.224 3 The immeasurableness of Nature is not more astounding than [man's] power to gather all her omnipotence into a manageable rod or wedge, bringing it to a hair-point for the eye and hand of the philosopher.
    Aris 10.46 25 ...the revolution of things is always bringing the need, now of this, now of that...
    SovE 10.189 4 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...an eternal, beneficent necessity is always bringing things right;...
    SovE 10.204 18 Luther would cut his hand off sooner than write theses against the pope if he suspected that he was bringing on with all his might the pale negations of Boston Unitarianism.
    Schr 10.284 6 ...the sure months are bringing [the scholar] to an examination-day in which nothing is remitted or excused...
    Plu 10.319 15 [Plutarch]...delighted in bringing chosen companions to the supper-table.
    LLNE 10.331 18 [Everett] had a great talent for collecting facts, and for bringing those he had to bear with ingenious felicity on the topic of the moment.
    LLNE 10.348 10 A man is entitled...to the air of good conversation in his bringing up...
    HDC 11.67 5 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was filled with wonder, that such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent Christ... even so far as to be bringing the petitions and thank-offerings of the people unto God...
    TPar 11.286 16 Such was the largeness of [Theodore Parker's] reception of facts and his skill to employ them that it looked as if he were some president of council to whom a score of telegraphs were ever bringing in reports;...
    SMC 11.364 25 [George Prescott writes] I told Lieutenant Bowers, this morning, that I could afford to be sick from bringing the tent-poles...
    Wom 11.404 3 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.
    ACri 12.293 25 I do not mean that [Shakespeare]...exults in bringing the street itself...on the scene...

bringing-up, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.142 22 ...you are not fit to direct [your boy's] bringing-up if your theory leaves out his gymnastic training.

brings, v. (75)

    Nat 1.1 2 A subtle chain of countless rings/ The next unto the farthest brings;/...
    Nat 1.59 16 Culture...brings the mind to call that apparent which it uses to call real...
    Nat 1.75 17 Whilst the abstract question occupies your intellect, nature brings it in the concrete to be solved by your hands.
    DSA 1.119 7 Night brings no gloom to the heart with its welcome shade.
    Tran 1.350 17 All that the brave Xanthus brings home from his wars is the recollection that at the storming of Samos, in the heat of the battle, Pericles smiled on me, and passed on to another detachment.
    SR 2.79 18 In proportion...to the number of objects [a thought]...brings within reach of the pupil, is his complacency.
    Comp 2.123 4 I no longer wish to meet a good I do not earn...knowing that it brings with it new burdens.
    Fdsp 2.192 11 [The stranger's] arrival almost brings fear to the good hearts that would welcome him.
    Int 2.340 11 Neither by detachment, neither by aggregation is the integrity of the intellect transmitted to its works, but by a vigilance which brings the intellect in its greatness and best state to operate every moment.
    Mrs1 3.131 21 A sainted soul is always elegant, and, if it will, passes unchallenged into the most guarded ring. But so will Jock the teamster pass, in some crisis that brings him thither, and find favor, as long as his head is not giddy with the new circumstance...
    Gts 3.161 13 The only gift is a portion of thyself. ... Therefore the poet brings his poem;...
    Nat2 3.195 15 ...the new engine brings with it the old checks.
    UGM 4.19 6 ...[a wise man] would...calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guaranties of condition. The rich would see their mistakes and poverty, the poor their escapes and their resources. But nature brings all this about in due time.
    PPh 4.59 10 [Plato] has finished his thinking before he brings it to the reader...
    PPh 4.73 7 ...under his hypocritical pretence of knowing nothing, [Socrates] attacks and brings down all the fine speakers...
    SwM 4.109 21 ...the terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios.
    ET1 5.18 23 The baker's boy brings muffins to the window at a fixed hour every day, and that is all the Londoner knows or wishes to know on the subject.
    ET3 5.39 1 The constant rain...brings agricultural production [in England] up to the highest point.
    ET4 5.57 15 Individuals are often noticed [in the Norse Sagas] as very handsome persons, which trait only brings the story nearer to the English race.
    ET5 5.80 13 ...[the English] have a supreme eye to facts, and theirs is a logic that brings salt to soup...
    ET5 5.99 13 An electric touch by any of their national ideas, melts [the English] into one family, and brings the hoards of power which their individuality is always hiving, into use and play for all.
    ET6 5.107 21 Hither [to his house the Englishman] brings all that is rare and costly...
    ET7 5.117 12 'T is said that the wolf, who makes a cache of his prey and brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on digging, it is not found, is instantly and unresistingly torn in pieces.
    ET11 5.176 17 The new age brings new qualities into request;...
    ET13 5.222 8 [The English] value a philosopher as they value an apothecary who brings bark or a drench;...
    Pow 6.64 1 This power [in American politics]...is not clothed in satin. 'T is the power...of soldiers and pirates; and it bullies the peaceable and loyal. But it brings its own antidote;...
    Wth 6.86 24 Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface.
    Wth 6.87 7 ...coal...with its comfort brings its industrial power.
    Wth 6.105 19 Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances.
    Wsp 6.230 14 I am well assured that the Questioner who brings me so many problems will bring the answers also in due time.
    Wsp 6.231 19 The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and in the dark brings them friends from far.
    Wsp 6.233 16 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners, and...the king said, Do you not know, sir, that every moment you spend here is at the risk of your life? I run no more risk, replied the gentleman, than your Majesty. Yes, said the king, but my duty brings me here, and yours does not.
    CbW 6.274 27 ...a habit of union and competition brings people up and keeps them up to their highest point;...
    CbW 6.276 16 Life brings to each his task...
    Civ 7.27 17 ...see [the carpenter] on the ground, dressing his timber under him. Now, not his feeble muscles but the force of gravity brings down the axe;...
    Elo1 7.71 18 See with what care and pleasure the poet [Homer] brings [Ulysses] on the stage.
    DL 7.111 3 [The citizen] brings home whatever commodities and ornaments have for years allured his pursuit...
    DL 7.129 22 Whatever brings the dweller into a finer life...may well find place [in the household].
    Farm 7.143 18 You cannot...strip off from [an atom]...the relation to light and heat and leave the atom bare. No, it brings with it its universal ties.
    Farm 7.152 5 The sun-stroke which knocks [the first planter] down brings his corn up.
    WD 7.169 22 ...a thousand spectacles [the variable wind] brings...
    WD 7.177 1 Do not refuse the employment which the hour brings you...
    Boks 7.193 25 The inspection of the catalogue [of the Cambridge Library] brings me continually back to the few standard writers who are on every private shelf;...
    Clbs 7.237 22 Wafthrudnir asks [Odin] the name...of the god who brings the night;...
    Clbs 7.249 23 Every man brings into society some partial thought and local culture.
    Cour 7.272 4 Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman. Florence Nightingale brings lint and the blessing of her shadow.
    Suc 7.298 13 [The city boy in the October woods] is suddenly initiated into a pomp and glory that brings to pass for him the dreams of romance.
    PI 8.14 3 ...[a new symbol] will last a hundred years. Then comes a new genius, and brings another.
    PI 8.53 2 The poet, like a delighted boy, brings you heaps of rainbow-bubbles... instead of a few drops of soap and water.
    Res 8.140 17 The marked events in history...each of these events...supples the tough barbarous sinew, and brings it into that state of sensibility which makes the transition to civilization possible and sure.
    Insp 8.284 26 ...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./
    Aris 10.44 1 ...when the well-mixed man is born...he brings with him fortune, followers, love, power.
    PerF 10.77 22 Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise...what he chiefly brings, all he brings...is...his thoughts...
    PerF 10.78 5 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as of the diving-bell of the Memory, which descends into the deeps of our past and oldest experience and brings up every lost jewel;...
    Edc1 10.123 2 With the key of the secret he marches faster/ From strength to strength, and for night brings day,/ While classes or tribes too weak to master/ The flowing conditions of life, give way./
    Supl 10.175 24 ...[Nature] brings the most heartless trifler to determined purpose presently.
    SovE 10.187 19 ...every truth brings that which will supplant it.
    Prch 10.234 7 A vivid thought brings the power to paint it;...
    MoL 10.257 12 War, seeking for the roots of strength, comes upon the moral aspects at once. In quiet times, custom...brings in the brazen devil, as by immemorial right.
    EWI 11.120 12 The manner in which the new festival [of emancipation in the West Indies] was celebrated, brings tears to the eyes.
    War 11.152 18 War...brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.
    War 11.157 4 ...trade brings men to look each other in the face...
    FSLC 11.180 6 Every hour brings us from distant quarters of the Union the expression of mortification at the late events in Massachusetts...
    FSLC 11.196 2 A wicked law cannot be executed by good men, and must be by bad. Flagitious men must be employed, and every act of theirs is a stab at the public peace. It cannot be executed at such a cost, and so it brings a bribe in its hand.
    FSLN 11.218 25 There is, no doubt, chaff enough in what [the newsboy] brings;...
    Koss 11.396 3 God said, I am tired of kings,/ I suffer them no more;/ Up to my ear the morning brings/ The outrage of the poor./
    Koss 11.398 2 The mighty tread/ Brings from the dust the sound of liberty./
    Wom 11.422 17 Every one is a half vote, but the next elector behind him brings the other or corresponding half in his hand...
    FRO1 11.479 26 What strikes me in the sudden movement which brings together to-day so many separated friends...was some practical suggestions by which we were to reanimate and reorganize for ourselves the true Church...
    FRep 11.524 19 Whilst each cabal...at last brings...men whose names are a knell to all hope of progress, the good and wise are hidden in their active retirements...
    PLT 12.13 20 I want not the logic, but the power, if any, which [metaphysics] brings into science and literature;...
    PLT 12.20 24 ...a well-ordered mind brings to the study of every new fact or class of facts a certain divination of that which it shall find.
    CL 12.151 26 The world has nothing to offer more rich or entertaining than the days which October always brings us...
    ACri 12.303 11 [Writing] brings man into alliance with what is great and eternal.
    Let 12.401 12 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken...that with them, truly, life is shallow and anxious and full of discord because they despise genius, which brings power and nobleness into manly action...

brink, n. (7)

    Nat 1.9 22 I am glad to the brink of fear.
    Hsm1 2.263 14 We rapidly approach a brink over which no enemy can follow us...
    Pt1 3.33 12 On the brink of the waters of life and truth, we are miserably dying.
    Exp 3.56 27 [Our friends] stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power...
    WD 7.164 3 ...the new man always finds himself standing on the brink of chaos...
    PC 8.211 7 Here...the freedom of action goes to the brink, if not over the brink, of license.
    FSLC 11.209 23 We are on the brink of more wonders.

Brisbane, Albert, n. (2)

    LLNE 10.348 25 We had an opportunity of learning something of these Socialists and their theory, from...Albert Brisbane.
    LLNE 10.348 25 Mr. Brisbane pushed his doctrine with all the force of memory, talent, honest faith and importunacy.

Briscoll, Mr., n. (1)

    ET13 5.222 4 Wellington esteems a saint only as far as he can be an army chaplain: Mr. Briscoll, by his admirable conduct and good sense, got the better of Methodism, which had appeared among the soldiers and once among the officers.

brisk, adj. (5)

    Hist 2.34 3 ...[Goethe's Helena]...awakens the reader's invention and fancy...by the unceasing succession of brisk shocks of surprise.
    Cir 2.312 24 ...some Petrarch or Ariosto...writes me an ode or a brisk romance...
    PPh 4.39 17 ...every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to each reluctant generation...is some reader of Plato...
    SS 7.15 3 What to do with these brisk young men who break through all fences...
    Suc 7.297 17 What is so admirable as the health of youth?--with his long days because...brisk circulations keep him warm in cold rooms...

bristle, n. (1)

    War 11.165 22 He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart.

bristled, v. (1)

    EPro 11.322 23 [Lincoln] might look wistfully for what variety of courses lay open to him; every line but one was closed up with fire. This one [Emancipation], too, bristled with danger...

bristling, v. (1)

    AmS 1.111 22 ...let me see every trifle bristling with the polarity that ranges it instantly on an eternal law;...

Bristol, England, n. (1)

    EWI 11.108 21 [Thomas] Clarkson went to Bristol, made himself acquainted with the interior of the slave-ships and the details of the trade.

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