Court to Creature's

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

Court, adj. (1)

    LT 1.269 9 The leaders of the crusades against War...Court and Custom-house Oaths...are the right successors of Luther, Knox...

Court and Parliament of Lov (1)

    Lov1 2.170 5 ...I know I incur the imputation of unnecessary hardness and stoicism from those who compose the Court and Parliament of Love.

Court, General, n. (21)

    HDC 11.32 5 [The pilgrims] petitioned the General Court for a grant of a township...
    HDC 11.32 14 The grant of the General Court was but a preliminary step.
    HDC 11.41 17 Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his estate, and, doubtless in consideration of his charges, the General Court, in 1639, granted him 300 acres towards Cambridge;...
    HDC 11.44 4 [The colonists'] wants, their poverty, their manifest convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General Court, immunities...
    HDC 11.44 17 As early as 1633, the office of townsman or selectman appears [in New England], who seems first to have been appointed by the General Court...
    HDC 11.44 18 In 1635, the [General] Court say, whereas particular towns have many things which concern only themselves, it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to dispose of their own lands and woods, and choose their own particular officers.
    HDC 11.46 6 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies. And the General Court, thus constituted, only needed to go into separate session from the Council, as they did in 1644, to become essentially the same assembly they are to this day.
    HDC 11.51 17 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of Nanepashemet...with two sachems of Wachusett...intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright; and the General Court acted on their request.
    HDC 11.54 2 At the instance of [John] Eliot, in 1651, [the Indians'] desire was granted by the General Court, and Nashobah, lying near Nagog Pond... became an Indian town...
    HDC 11.56 1 In 1643, one seventh or one eighth part of the inhabitants [of Concord] went to Connecticut with Reverend Mr. Jones, and settled Fairfield. Weakened by this loss, the people begged to be released from a part of their rates, to which the General Court consented.
    HDC 11.56 24 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every township after the Lord had increased them to the number of fifty house-holders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    HDC 11.62 19 Before 1666, 15,000 acres had been added by grants of the General Court to the original territory of the town [Concord]...
    HDC 11.65 4 The charges of education and of legislation, at this period, seem to have afflicted the town [Concord]; for they vote to petition the General Court to be eased of the law relating to providing a school-master;...
    HDC 11.65 6 The charges of education and of legislation, at this period, seem to have afflicted the town [Concord]; for they vote to petition the General Court to be eased of the law relating to providing a school-master; happily, the Court refused;...
    HDC 11.65 22 It is an article in the selectmen's warrant for the town-meeting, to see if the town [Concord] will lay in for a representative not exceeding four pounds. Captain Minott was chosen, and after the General Court was adjourned received of the town for his services, an allowance of three shillings per day.
    HDC 11.67 26 From the appearance of the article in the Selectmen's warrant, in 1765, to see if the town will give the Representative any instructions about any important affair to be transacted by the General Court, concerning the Stamp Act, to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...
    HDC 11.80 15 [The country towns] were jealous lest the General Court should pay itself too liberally...
    HDC 11.80 20 ...our fathers must be forgiven by their charitable posterity, if, in 1782...it was Voted that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day...
    HDC 11.80 23 ......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, and if it should be that the General Court should resolve, that, their pay should be more than 6s., then the representative shall be hereby directed to pay the overplus into the town treasury.
    HDC 11.81 23 It was put to the town of Concord, in October, 1776, by the Legislature, whether the existing house of representatives should enact a constitution for the State? The town answered No. The General Court, notwithstanding, draughted a constitution, sent it here...
    EWI 11.131 20 The Governor of Massachusetts is a trifler;...the General Court is a dishonored body, if they make laws which they cannot execute.

Court, General, of Massachu (1)

    Bost 12.195 12 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that every township, after the Lord has increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...

Court House, n. (1)

    SHC 11.432 12 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...to the Court House...

Court Journal, n. (1)

    Aris 10.32 24 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars...but so few...that their names and doings are not recorded in...any Court Journal...

Court Journals, n. (1)

    EurB 12.369 11 ...the Court Journals and Literary Gazettes were not well pleased, and voted the poet [Wordsworth] a bore.

court, n. (66)

    MN 1.202 5 When we...shorten the sight to look into this court of Louis Quatorze...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to... glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    MR 1.252 12 We make, by our distrust, the thief...and by our court and jail we keep him so.
    Hist 2.8 25 ...[each man] must transfer the point of view from which history is commonly read...to himself, and not deny his conviction that he is the court...
    Hist 2.21 15 ...the Persian court in its magnificent era never gave over the nomadism of its barbarous tribes...
    SL 2.154 6 They who make up the final verdict upon every book are...a court as of angels...
    OS 2.285 24 In full court...men offer themselves to be judged.
    Mrs1 3.129 6 It is only country which came to town day before yesterday that is city and court to-day.
    Mrs1 3.147 19 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle...to which there is always a tacit appeal of pride and reference, as to its inner and imperial court;...
    NER 3.255 26 ...the country is frequently affording solitary examples of resistance to the government, solitary nullifiers...who reply to the assessor and to the clerk of court that they do not know the State...
    PPh 4.44 4 [Plato]...accepted the invitations of Dion and of Dionysius to the court of Sicily...
    MoS 4.151 8 Picture, statue, temple, railroad, steam-engine, existed first in an artist's mind, without flaw, mistake, or friction, which impair the executed models. So did the Church, the State, college, court, social circle, and all the institutions.
    ShP 4.191 17 The court [in Shakespeare's time] took offence easily at political allusions and attempted to suppress [dramatic entertainments].
    NMW 4.241 5 ...a sort of freedom and companionship grew up between [Napoleon] and [his troops], which the forms of his court never permitted between the officers and himself.
    NMW 4.244 6 [Napoleon] could not confound Fox and Pitt, Carnot, Lafayette and Bernadotte, with the danglers of his court;...
    NMW 4.245 3 Natural power was sure to be well received at [Napoleon's] court.
    ET5 5.98 4 For the administration of justice [in England], Sir Samuel Romilly's expedient for clearing the arrears of business in Chancery was, the Chancellor's staying away entirely from his court.
    ET6 5.103 11 ...rule of court and shop-rule have operated [in England] to give a mechanical regularity to all the habit and action of men.
    ET6 5.109 9 Nothing so much marks [Englishmen's] manners as the concentration on their household ties. This domesticity is carried into court and camp.
    ET6 5.112 11 A severe decorum rules the court and the cottage [in England].
    ET11 5.172 23 In spite of...the devastation of society by the profligacy of the court, we take sides as we read for the loyal England...
    ET11 5.181 1 The English go to their estates for grandeur. The French live at court, and exile themselves to their estates for economy.
    ET11 5.191 9 Grammont, Pepys and Evelyn show the kennels to which the king and court went in quest of pleasure.
    ET13 5.217 5 [The English Church]...has coupled itself with the almanac, that no court can be held, no field ploughed, no horse shod, without some leave from the church.
    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...
    Bhr 6.184 12 The theatre in which this science of manners has a formal importance is not with us a court, but dress-circles...
    CbW 6.261 17 ...perhaps [the rich man] can give wise counsel in a court of law.
    Bty 6.297 8 Walpole says, The concourse was so great, when the Duchess of Hamilton was presented at court, on Friday, that even the noble crowd in the drawing-room clambered on chairs and tables to look at her.
    Elo1 7.85 21 In a court of justice the audience are impartial;...
    Elo1 7.86 2 ...the court and the county have really come together to arrive at these three or four memorable expressions which betrayed the mind and meaning of somebody.
    Elo1 7.87 4 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was.
    Elo1 7.87 5 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was. The court, thus pushed, tried words...
    Elo1 7.87 14 ...the horrible shark of the district attorney being still there, grimly awaiting with his The court must define,--the poor court pleaded its inferiority.
    Elo1 7.87 15 ...the horrible shark of the district attorney being still there, grimly awaiting with his The court must define,--the poor court pleaded its inferiority.
    Elo1 7.87 16 The superior court must establish the law for this...
    DL 7.123 3 In the old fables we used to read of a cloak brought from fairy-land as a gift for the fairest and purest in Prince Arthur's court.
    Clbs 7.240 3 What can you do with an eloquent man? No rules of debate, no contempt of court...can be contrived that his first syllable will not set aside...
    Clbs 7.240 13 What can you do with Beaumarchais, who converts the censor whom the court has appointed to stifle his play into an ardent advocate?
    Clbs 7.240 15 What can you do with Beaumarchais, who converts the censor whom the court has appointed to stifle his play into an ardent advocate? The court appoints another censor, who shall crush it this time. Beaumarchais persuades him to defend it.
    Clbs 7.240 17 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.
    PI 8.60 16 After the disappearance of Merlin from King Arthur's court he was seriously missed...
    PI 8.60 19 ...many knights set out in search of [Merlin]. Among others was Sir Gawain, who pursued his search till it was time to return to the court.
    PI 8.61 7 [The voice said to Sir Gawaine] You were wont to know me well, but...thus the proverb says true, Leave the court and the court will leave you.
    PI 8.61 10 [The voice said to Sir Gawaine] Whilst I served King Arthur, I was well known by you, and by other barons, but because I have left the court, I am known no longer...
    PI 8.72 26 The inexorable rule in the muses' court, either inspiration or silence, compels the bard to report only his supreme moments.
    Elo2 8.111 13 ...[an anecdote of eloquence] has a beautiful and prodigious surprise in it. For all can see and understand the means by which a battle is gained...they see...the character and advantages of the ground, so that the result is often predicted by the observer with great certainty before the charge is sounded. Not so in a court of law, or in a legislature.
    Elo2 8.130 20 [Eloquence] leads us to...the men of character, who bring an overpowering personality into court...
    Aris 10.50 5 When the lawyer tries his case in court he himself is also on trial...
    PerF 10.80 18 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play...and the prisoner was by general consent of court and officers allowed to go his way without any money.
    Edc1 10.147 25 By many steps...the hesitating collegian, in the school debate...in mock court, comes at last to full, secure, triumphant unfolding of his thought in the popular assembly...
    Edc1 10.153 14 ...the gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth...knows as much vice as the judge of a police court...
    SovE 10.187 20 In the court of law the judge sits over the culprit, but in the court of life in the same hour the judge also stands as culprit before a true tribunal.
    SovE 10.187 21 In the court of law the judge sits over the culprit, but in the court of life in the same hour the judge also stands as culprit before a true tribunal.
    Plu 10.298 26 ...[Plutarch] has a taste for common life, and knows the court, the camp and the judgment-hall...
    Thor 10.449 3 A queen rejoices in her peers,/ And wary Nature knows her own,/ By court and city, dale and down,/ And like a lover volunteers/...
    HDC 11.71 10 In September [1774]...the inhabitants [of Concord]...forbade the justices to open the court of sessions.
    EWI 11.128 19 The extent of the [British] empire, and the magnitude and number of other questions crowding into court, keep this one [slavery] in balance...
    FSLC 11.192 4 Those governors of places who bravely refused to execute the barbarous orders of Charles IX. for the famous Massacre of St. Bartholomew, have been universally praised; and the court did not dare to punish them, at least openly.
    AKan 11.261 7 ...of Kansas, the President says; Let the complainants go to the courts; though he knows that when the poor plundered farmer comes to the court, he finds the ringleader who has robbed him dismounting from his own horse, and unbuckling his knife to sit as his judge.
    JBB 11.269 6 [John Brown's] own speeches to the court have interested the nation in him.
    EPro 11.318 7 ...when we see how the great stake which foreign nations hold in our affairs has recently brought every European power as a client into this court...one can hardly say the deliberation [on Emancipation] was too long.
    ALin 11.334 5 [The Gettyburg Address] and one other American speech, that of John Brown to the court that tried him, and a part of Kossuth's speech at Birmingham, can only be compared with each other...
    FRep 11.512 3 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...
    FRep 11.517 7 ...a court or an aristocracy, which must always be a small minority, can more easily run into follies than a republic...
    ACri 12.302 26 ...this is the ball that is tossed in every court of law, in every legislature and in literature...by sovereignty of thought to make facts and men obey our present humor or belief.
    MLit 12.317 26 There are...sentiments, which find no aliment or language for themselves on the wharves, in court, or market...
    MLit 12.327 7 ...in the court and law to which we ordinarily speak...we claim for [Goethe] the praise of truth...

Court, n. (4)

    Hist 2.9 19 This life of ours is stuck round with...Church, Court and Commerce, as with so many flowers...
    ET3 5.42 7 When James the First declared his purpose of punishing London by removing his Court, the Lord Mayor replied that in removing his royal presence from his lieges, they hoped he would leave them the Thames.
    ET11 5.192 23 Under the present reign the perfect decorum of the Court is thought to have put a check on the gross vices of the [English] aristocracy;...
    HDC 11.79 8 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...

Court of Appeals, n. (1)

    PerF 10.76 27 If we were truly to take account of stock before the last Court of Appeals,-that were an inventory!

Court of Common Pleas, n. (1)

    HDC 11.81 8 In 1786...a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...to hinder the sitting of the Court of Common Pleas.

Court of Nero, n. (1)

    Plu 10.312 1 Seneca...by his conversation with the Court of Nero...learned to temper his philosophy with facts.

Court Street, Boston, Mass (1)

    YA 1.386 7 If any man has a talent...for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him...in Court Street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...

Court, Supreme, n. (4)

    Elo1 7.87 18 ...[the court] read away piteously the decisions of the Supreme Court...
    OA 7.325 24 A lawyer argued a cause yesterday in the Supreme Court...
    EzRy 10.382 24 There were an unusually large number of distinguished men in this [Harvard] class of 1776...George Thatcher, Judge of the Supreme Court;...
    FSLN 11.233 13 You relied on the Supreme Court. The law was right...

Court, United States, n. (1)

    JBB 11.272 19 Is any man in Massachusetts so simple as to believe that when a United States Court in Virginia, now, in its present reign of terror, sends to Connecticut...for a witness, it wants him for a witness?

court, v. (11)

    MN 1.212 16 Ever [the stars] woo and court the eye of every beholder.
    MN 1.222 8 ...the solicitations of this spirit, as long as there is life, are never forborne. Tenderly, tenderly, they woo and court us from every object in nature...
    SR 2.49 8 You must court [the boy]; he does not court you.
    SL 2.150 25 We foolishly think in our days of sin that we must court friends by compliance to the customs of society...
    Fdsp 2.202 25 Sincerity is the luxury allowed...only to the highest rank; that being permitted to speak truth, as having none above it to court or conform unto.
    Exp 3.48 10 There are moods in which we court suffering...
    Mrs1 3.127 25 Napoleon...never ceased to court the Faubourg St. Germain;...
    DL 7.128 26 A verse of the old Greek Menander remains, which runs in translation:--Not on the store of sprightly wine,/ Nor plenty of delicious meats,/ Though generous Nature did design/ To court us with perpetual treats,--/ 'T is not on these we for content depend,/ So much as on the shadow of a Friend./
    Dem1 10.3 4 The name Demonology covers dreams, omens, coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic and other experiences which shun rather than court inquiry...
    War 11.159 11 When [Assacombuit] appeared at court, he lifted up his hand and said, This hand has slain a hundred and fifty of your majesty's enemies within the territories of New England.
    PLT 12.14 6 I observe with curiosity [the Intellect's] risings and settings... that I may learn to...court its aid...

courted, v. (6)

    Gts 3.160 4 Men use to tell us that we love flattery...because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
    NMW 4.241 21 [Napoleon's] real strength lay in [the people's] conviction that he was their representative in his genius and aims, not only when he courted, but when he controlled...them.
    Bhr 6.175 5 A prince who is accustomed every day to be courted and deferred to by the highest grandees, acquires a corresponding expectation...
    SovE 10.186 12 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that...of Nathaniel Carpenter, an Oxford Fellow. It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity).
    FRep 11.518 15 No [legislative] measure is attempted for itself, but the opinion of the people is courted in the first place...
    MLit 12.318 8 [The educated and susceptible] betray this impatience [with the poverty of our dogmas of religion and philosophy] by fleeing for resource to a conversation with Nature, which is courted in a certain moody and exploring spirit...

courteous, adj. (9)

    Chr1 3.93 12 In his parlor I see very well that [the natural merchant] has been at hard work this morning, with that knitted brow and that settled humor, which all his desire to be courteous cannot shake off.
    Mrs1 3.148 9 There must be romance of character, or the most fastidious exclusion of impertinencies will not avail. It must be genius which takes that direction: it must be not courteous, but courtesy.
    ET1 5.7 4 I found [Landor] noble and courteous...
    ET15 5.266 4 Our entertainer [at the London Times] confided us to a courteous assistant to show us the establishment...
    Pow 6.59 12 When a new boy comes into school...there is at once a trial of strength...and it is settled thenceforth which is the leader. So now, there is a measuring of strength, very courteous but decisive, and an acquiescence thenceforward when these two meet.
    Bhr 6.196 10 We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture...
    PI 8.14 18 ...our proverb of the courteous soldier reads: An iron hand in a velvet glove.
    Plu 10.316 3 This courteous, gentle and benign disposition and behavior is not so acceptable, so obliging or delightful to any of those with whom we converse, as it is to those who have it.
    SlHr 10.439 19 The severity of [Samuel Hoar's] logic might have inspired fear, had it not been restrained by his natural reverence, which made him modest and courteous...

courteously, adv. (3)

    Con 1.315 5 ...[Friar Bernard] encountered many travellers who greeted him courteously...
    ET1 5.21 24 ...[Wordsworth] courteously promised to look at [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] again.
    Clbs 7.235 10 However courteously we conceal it, it is social rank and spiritual power that are compared;...

courtesies, n. (5)

    Tran 1.349 24 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found that...from the courtesies of the academy and the college to the conventions of the cotillon-room and the morning call, there is a spirit of cowardly compromise...
    ET8 5.135 14 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...who never gave a dinner to any man and disdained all courtesies;...
    Wth 6.113 23 Let [the realist] delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life.
    SS 7.9 20 We have a fine right...to taunt men of the world with superficial and treacherous courtesies!
    PPo 8.260 8 [Hafiz's ingenuity]...plays in a thousand pretty courtesies...

courtesy, n. (40)

    Hist 2.18 4 The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy.
    Comp 2.99 6 Is a man...a morose ruffian...Nature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters...and love and fear for them smooths his grim scowl to courtesy.
    Lov1 2.184 19 From exchanging glances, [lovers] advance to acts of courtesy...
    Fdsp 2.202 18 [Before a friend] I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought...
    Prd1 2.231 17 We call partial half-lights, by courtesy, genius;...
    Prd1 2.238 17 It is a proverb that courtesy costs nothing;...
    Pt1 3.41 20 Others shall be thy gentlemen and shall represent all courtesy and worldly life for thee [O poet];...
    Mrs1 3.122 17 The point of distinction in all this class of names, as courtesy, chivalry, fashion, and the like, is that the flower and fruit, not the grain of the tree, are contemplated.
    Mrs1 3.125 3 My gentleman...will...outshine all courtesy in the hall.
    Mrs1 3.136 5 ...the first point of courtesy must always be truth...
    Mrs1 3.138 9 The flower of courtesy does not very well bide handling...
    Mrs1 3.142 23 We may easily seem ridiculous in our eulogy of courtesy...
    Mrs1 3.143 2 ...I will neither be driven from some allowance to Fashion as a symbolic institution, nor from the belief that love is the basis of courtesy.
    Mrs1 3.147 16 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle, concentration of its light, and flower of courtesy...
    Mrs1 3.148 2 ...although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage [of the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe], in particulars we should detect offence.
    Mrs1 3.148 9 There must be romance of character, or the most fastidious exclusion of impertinencies will not avail. It must be genius which takes that direction: it must be not courteous, but courtesy.
    Mrs1 3.151 2 ...are there not women...who inspire us with courtesy;...
    Mrs1 3.153 13 Everything that is called fashion and courtesy humbles itself before...the heart of love.
    NR 3.228 1 The men of fine parts protect themselves by solitude, or by courtesy...
    NER 3.257 4 I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury.
    MoS 4.181 23 It is the rule of mere comity and courtesy to agree where you can...
    ET1 5.7 11 ...certainly on this May day [Landor's] courtesy veiled that haughty mind...
    ET17 5.293 13 Nor am I insensible to the courtesy which frankly opened to me some noble mansions [in England]...
    ET18 5.302 4 ...this [English] shop-rule had one magnificent effect. It extends its cold unalterable courtesy to political exiles of every opinion...
    ET19 5.311 24 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes...which stands in strong contrast with the superficial attachments of other races, their excessive courtesy and short-lived connection.
    Bhr 6.184 8 ...[of every two persons who meet on any affair],--one instantly perceives...that his will comprehends the other's will...and he has only to use courtesy and furnish good-natured reasons to his victim to cover up the chain,lest he be shamed into resistance.
    SS 7.7 7 One protects himself [from society] by solitude, and one by courtesy...
    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;...
    DL 7.119 14 Honor to the house where they are simple to the verge of hardship, so that there...honor and courtesy flow into all deeds.
    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.
    SA 8.85 19 Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
    SovE 10.211 26 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice...from courtesy to love...
    EzRy 10.389 2 [Ezra Ripley] had...the patient, continuing courtesy...
    SlHr 10.439 19 The severity of [Samuel Hoar's] logic might have inspired fear, had it not been restrained by his natural reverence, which made him modest and courteous, though his courtesy had a grave and almost military air.
    SlHr 10.440 1 ...[Samuel Hoar] had a strong, unaffected interest in...the common incidents of rural life. It was just as easy for him to meet on the same floor, and with the same plain courtesy, men of distinction and large ability.
    SlHr 10.446 16 [Samuel Hoar] had a childlike innocence...which...enabled him to meet every comer with a free and disengaged courtesy that had no memory in it Of wrong and outrage with which the earth is filled./
    SlHr 10.448 23 [Samuel Hoar] was as if on terms of honor with those nearest him, nor did he think a lifelong familiarity could excuse any omission of courtesy from him.
    Thor 10.472 26 ...as [Thoreau] discovered everywhere among doctors some leaning of courtesy, it discredited them.
    FSLN 11.230 7 ...it is...the essence of courtesy...to prefer another...
    Milt1 12.265 17 [Milton's native honor] engaged his interest in chivalry, in courtesy...

Court-Guide, n. (1)

    ET12 5.206 24 ...an Eton captain...can turn the Court-Guide into hexameters...

court-house, n. (8)

    Nat 1.14 8 [The private poor man] goes...to the court-house, and nations repair his wrongs.
    Elo1 7.86 14 That is what we go to the court-house for,--the statement of the fact...
    Clbs 7.238 15 The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin contended I in wise words. Thou must ever the wisest be. And still the gods and giants are so known, and still they play the same game in all the million mansions of heaven and of earth; at all tables, clubs and tete-a-tetes, the lawyers in the court-house...
    Elo2 8.115 11 ...I think every one of us can remember when our first experiences made us for a time the victim and worshipper of the first master of this art [of eloquence] whom we happened to hear in the court-house or in the caucus.
    Edc1 10.139 6 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company... so too the merits of every locomotive on the rails, and will coax the engineer to let them ride with him and pull the handles when it goes to the engine-house. They are there only for fun, and not knowing that they are at school, in the court-house, or the cattle-show, quite as much and more than they were, an hour ago, in the arithmetic class.
    SlHr 10.443 13 ...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained, as, for instance, when the county commissioners refused to rebuild the burned court-house...all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the Legislature...
    FSLC 11.199 7 [Webster's pacification] has brought United States swords into the streets, and chains round the court-house.
    JBB 11.272 16 ...a Wisconsin judge, who knows that laws are for the protection of citizens against kidnappers, is worth a court-house full of lawyers so idolatrous of forms as to let go the substance.

courtier, n. (11)

    Mrs1 3.155 2 ...I shall hear without pain that I play the courtier very ill...
    Nat2 3.182 20 The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature...
    NR 3.242 6 After taxing Goethe as a courtier...I took up this book of Helena, and found him an Indian of the wilderness...
    PPh 4.60 6 [Plato] has good-naturedly furnished the courtier and citizen with all that can be said against the schools.
    MoS 4.164 7 Though [Montaigne] had been a man of pleasure and sometimes a courtier, his studious habits now grew on him...
    ET5 5.79 3 Sir Kenelm Digby, a courtier of Charles and James...was a model Englishman in his day.
    ET11 5.177 17 The national tastes of the English do not lead them to the life of the courtier...
    F 6.1 7 Well might then the poet scorn/ To learn of scribe or courtier/ Hints writ in vaster character;/...
    Bhr 6.182 23 A calm and resolute bearing...and the art of hiding all uncomfortable feeling, are essential to the courtier;...
    Plu 10.301 16 ...[Plutarch] is no courtier, and no Boswell...
    HDC 11.63 13 ...I am sorry to find that the servile Randolph speaks of [Peter Bulkeley 2nd] with marked respect. It would seem that his visit to England had made him a courtier.

courtiers, n. (7)

    MoS 4.170 2 This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues and printing seventy-five editions of it in Europe; and that, too, a circulation somewhat chosen, namely among courtiers, soldiers, princes, men of the world and men of wit and generosity.
    ShP 4.202 23 A popular player;--nobody suspected [Shakespeare] was the poet of the human race; and the secret was kept as faithfully from poets and intellectual men as from courtiers and frivolous people.
    ET4 5.68 12 Clarendon says the Duke of Buckingham was so modest and gentle, that some courtiers attempted to put affronts on him...
    Comc 8.172 13 Timur saw himself in the mirror and found his face quite too ugly. Therefore he began to weep; Chodscha also set himself to weep; and so they wept for two hours. On this, some courtiers began to comfort Timur...
    Carl 10.490 21 They keep Carlyle as a sort of portable cathedral-bell, which they like to produce in companies where he is unknown, and set a-swinging, to the surprise and consternation of all persons,-bishops, courtiers, scholars, writers...
    PLT 12.9 11 ...'t is a great vice in all countries, the sacrifice of scholars to be courtiers and diners-out...
    Bost 12.202 2 [The Massachusetts colonists] could say to themselves, Well, at least this yoke of man, of bishops, of courtiers, of dukes, is off my neck.

courting, n. (1)

    SA 8.81 23 The babe meets such courting and flattery as only kings receive when adult;...

courting, v. (1)

    Bty 6.299 26 A Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty...

courtliness, n. (1)

    ET15 5.269 11 One bishop fares badly [in the London Times] for his rapacity, and another for his bigotry, and a third for his courtliness.

courtly, adj. (4)

    AmS 1.114 10 We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe.
    SS 7.1 11 ...nor loved [Seyd] less/ Stately lords in palaces/ Princely women hard to please,/ Fenced by form and ceremony,/ Decked by courtly rites and dress/...
    EzRy 10.390 15 [Ezra Ripley] was...courtly, hospitable, manly and public-spirited;...
    MMEm 10.427 4 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...

court-room, n. (4)

    SS 7.10 24 When a young barrister said to the late Mr. Mason, I keep my chamber to read law,--Read law! replied the veteran, 't is in the court-room you must read law.
    Elo1 7.86 20 ...it is the certainty with which...the truth stares us in the face... that makes the interest of a court-room to the intelligent spectator.
    Elo1 7.86 24 I remember long ago being attracted...into the court-room.
    DL 7.107 15 If a man wishes to acquaint himself...with the spirit of the age, he must not go first to the state-house or the court-room.

courts, n. (42)

    MR 1.252 10 The money we spend for courts and prisons is very ill laid out.
    Con 1.314 3 A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will. Then the principle of love and truth reappears in the strictest courts of fashion and property.
    Mrs1 3.153 11 ...we have lingered long enough in these painted courts.
    Pol1 3.204 23 The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of courts and statesmen, die and leave no wisdom to their sons.
    NER 3.255 27 ...the country is frequently affording solitary examples of resistance to the government, solitary nullifiers...who...embarrass the courts of law by non-juring...
    MoS 4.166 5 [Montaigne] has been in courts so long as to have conceived a furious disgust at appearances;...
    ShP 4.200 16 The nervous language of the Common Law, the impressive forms of our courts...are the contribution of all the sharp-sighted, strong-minded men who have lived in the countries where these laws govern.
    ET5 5.81 4 In the [English] courts the independence of the judges and the loyalty of the suitors are equally excellent.
    ET5 5.81 8 ...when [English] courts and parliament are both deaf, the plaintiff is not silenced.
    ET15 5.267 9 The tone of [the London Times's] articles has often been the occasion of comment from the official organs of the continental courts...
    Wth 6.110 19 The cost of the crime and the expense of courts and of prisons we must bear...
    Bhr 6.175 22 We had in Massachusetts an old statesman who had sat all his life in courts...without overcoming an extreme irritability of face, voice and bearing;...
    Bhr 6.182 19 The maxim of courts is that manner is power.
    Art2 7.55 9 It would be easy to show of many fine things in the world,--in... the etiquette of courts...the origin in quite simple local necessities.
    DL 7.108 3 Is it not plain that not in senates, or courts...but in the dwelling-house must the true character and hope of the time be consulted?
    Farm 7.138 9 All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum...or a solitude, if they do not succeed in society. And who knows how many glances of remorse are turned this way...from mortified pleaders in courts and senates...
    Clbs 7.235 12 However courteously we conceal it, it is social rank and spiritual power that are compared; whether in...the courts...or the chamber of science...
    Suc 7.292 12 The gravest and learnedest courts in this country shudder to face a new question...
    OA 7.320 4 Age is comely...in courts of justice and historical societies.
    PI 8.39 9 Men in the courts or in the street think themselves logical and the poet whimsical.
    Elo2 8.113 18 The orator is he whom every man is seeking when he goes into the courts...
    PPo 8.258 26 Wisdom is like the elephant,/ Lofty and rare inhabitant:/ He dwells in deserts or in courts;/ With hucksters he has no resorts./
    Imtl 8.331 3 ...what is called great and powerful life-the administration of large affairs, in commerce, in the courts, in the state,-is prone to develop narrow and special talent;...
    PerF 10.87 24 ...the courts snatch at any precedent...to rule [the moral sentiment] out;...
    Plu 10.321 14 [The language of the 1718 edition of Plutarch] runs through the whole scale of conversation in...the coffee-house, the law courts...
    LLNE 10.328 3 In the law courts, crimes of fraud have taken the place of crimes of force.
    SlHr 10.441 2 [Samuel Hoar] returned from courts or congresses to sit down, with unaltered humility, in the church or in the town-house...
    SlHr 10.443 13 ...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained, as, for instance, when the county commissioners refused to rebuild the burned court-house, on the belief that the courts would be transferred from Concord to Lowell,-all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the Legislature...
    SlHr 10.448 10 ...I find an elegance in [Samuel Hoar's] quiet but firm withdrawal from all business in the courts which he could drop without manifest detriment to the interests involved...
    EWI 11.111 6 Looking in the face of his master by the negro was held to be violence by the [West Indian] island courts.
    FSLC 11.184 6 What is the use of courts, if judges only quote authorities...
    FSLC 11.190 8 A few months ago, in my dismay at hearing that the Higher Law was reckoned a good joke in the courts, I took pains to look into a few law-books.
    FSLN 11.225 20 Who doubts the power of any fluent debater to defend... any client in our courts?
    FSLN 11.233 20 You relied on State sovereignty in the Free States to protect their citizens. They are driven with contempt out of the courts and out of the territory of the Slave States...
    AKan 11.261 6 ...of Kansas, the President says; Let the complainants go to the courts;...
    Wom 11.410 24 ...[man] invented majesty and the etiquette of courts and drawing-rooms;...
    Wom 11.411 13 There is...no style adopted into the etiquette of courts, but was first the whim and the mere action of some brilliant woman...
    Shak1 11.450 4 ...Shakspeare, by his transcendant reach of thought, so unites the extremes, that, whilst he...like a street-bible, furnishes sayings to the market, courts of law, the senate, and common discourse,-he is yet to all wise men the companion of the closet.
    Shak1 11.450 20 ...it was not history, courts and affairs that gave [Shakespeare] lessons...
    Shak1 11.450 24 There never was a writer who, seeming to draw every hint from outward history, the life of cities and courts, owed them so little [as Shakespeare].
    Bost 12.203 16 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some John Adams and Josiah Quincy and Governor Andrew to undertake and carry the defence of patriots in the courts against the uproar of all the province;...
    WSL 12.341 27 A charm attaches to the most inferior names which have in any manner got themselves enrolled in the registers of the House of Fame, even as porters and grooms in the courts;...

Courts, n. (1)

    ET18 5.301 10 [The foreign policy of England] has a principal regard to the interest of trade, checked however by the aristocratic bias of the ambassador, which usually puts him in sympathy with the continental Courts.

court's, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.161 26 Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--Get him the time's long grudge, the court's ill-will,/ And, reconciled, keep him suspected still./ Make him lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed Poverty./

Courts of Law, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.329 8 Authority falls, in Church, College, Courts of Law, Faculties, Medicine.

courts, v. (1)

    Wth 6.111 4 We cannot get rid of these [immigrant] people, and we cannot get rid of their will to be supported. That has become an inevitable element of our politics; for their votes, each of the dominant parties courts and assists them to get it executed.

courtship, n. (2)

    ET6 5.108 17 ...nothing [can be] more firm and based in nature and sentiment than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes [in England].
    DL 7.124 7 ...it is pitiful to date and measure all the facts and sequel of an unfolding life from such a youthful and generally inconsiderate period as the age of courtship and marriage.

court-suit, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.149 16 I have seen an individual...who did not need the aid of a court-suit but carried the holiday in his eye;...

cousin, n. (7)

    Tran 1.344 5 Love me, [Transcendentalists] say, but do not ask who is my cousin and my uncle.
    SR 2.74 16 Consider whether you have satisfied your relations to...cousin...
    Fdsp 2.208 7 A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle.
    Prd1 2.233 2 A man of genius...self-indulgent, becomes presently...a discomfortable cousin...
    ShP 4.207 20 The forest of Arden...the antres vast and desarts idle of Othello's captivity,--where is the third cousin, or grand-nephew...that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?
    Wth 6.123 25 Not less within doors a system settles itself paramount and tyrannical over master and mistress...cousin and acquaintance.
    Elo1 7.94 15 The preacher enumerates his classes of men and I do not find my place therein; I suspect then that no man does. Everything is my cousin;...

Cousin, Victor, n. (7)

    LE 1.171 8 Take for example the French Eclecticism, which Cousin esteems so conclusive; there is an optical illusion in it.
    LE 1.172 12 ...the first word [a man of genius] utters, sets all your so-called knowledge afloat and at large. Then Plato, Bacon, Kant, and the Eclectic Cousin condescend instantly to be men and mere facts.
    Int 2.343 25 A new doctrine seems at first a subversion of all our opinions, tastes, and manner of living. Such has Swedenborg...such has Hegel or his interpreter Cousin seemed to many young men in this country.
    ET1 5.21 12 Of Cousin...[Wordsworth] knew only the name.
    Clbs 7.238 24 The same thing took place when Leibnitz came to visit Newton;...when Hegel was the guest of Victor Cousin in Paris;...
    Edc1 10.133 7 If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism...some Schelling or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events...
    MMEm 10.402 15 [Mary Moody Emerson's] early reading was Milton, Young, Akenside, Samuel Clarke, Jonathan Edwards, and always the Bible. Later...Stewart, Coleridge, Cousin...

cousins, n. (3)

    YA 1.376 20 The king is compelled to call in the aid of his brothers and cousins and remote relations...
    PPh 4.43 12 Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them.
    SA 8.81 21 Who teaches manners...of grace, of humility,--who but the adoring aunts and cousins that surround a young child?

couthe, adj. (1)

    CL 12.136 11 Chaucer notes of the month of April, Than longen folk to goon on pilgrymages,/ And palmers for to seken straunge strondes,/ To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes./

coutume, n. (1)

    ET8 5.128 18 [The English] sported sadly; ils s'amusaient tristement, selon la coutume de leur pays, said Froissart;...

covenant, n. (17)

    LT 1.274 23 The more intelligent are growing uneasy on the subject of Marriage. They wish to see the character represented also in that covenant.
    Fdsp 2.201 27 He who offers himself a candidate for that covenant [of friendship] comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games where the first-born of the world are the competitors.
    Fdsp 2.210 7 Why be visited by [your friend] at your own [house]? Are these things material to our covenant?
    Cir 2.320 2 No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.
    GoW 4.267 8 The fiery reformer embodies his aspiration in some rite or covenant...
    ET11 5.197 4 All the [noble English] families are new, but the name is old, and they have made a covenant with their memories not to disturb it.
    CbW 6.272 19 Add [to conversation] the consent of will and temperament, and there exists the covenant of friendship.
    DL 7.128 4 Happy will that house be...in which character marries... Then shall marriage be a covenant to secure to either party the sweetness and honor of being a calm, continuing, inevitable benefactor to the other.
    LS 11.7 8 When hereafter, [Jesus] says to [his disciples], you shall keep the Passover, it will have an altered aspect to your eyes. It is now a historical covenant of God with the Jewish nation.
    LS 11.7 10 When hereafter, [Jesus] says to [his disciples], you shall keep the Passover, it will have an altered aspect to your eyes. It is now a historical covenant of God with the Jewish nation. Hereafter it will remind you of a new covenant sealed with my blood.
    HDC 11.37 20 It is said that the covenant made with the Indians...was made under a great oak, formerly standing near the site of the Middlesex Hotel [Concord].
    HDC 11.45 8 Members of a church before whose searching covenant all rank was abolished, [the settlers of Concord] stood in awe of each other, as religious men.
    HDC 11.70 23 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant...
    EWI 11.133 1 ...the Union already is at an end when the first citizen of Massachusetts is thus outraged. Is it an union and covenant in which the State of Massachusetts agrees to be imprisoned, and the State of Carolina to imprison?
    FSLN 11.234 6 I fear there is no reliance to be put on any kind or form of covenant...
    FRep 11.539 4 Here is the post where the patriot should plant himself; here the altar where virtuous young men, those to whom friendship is the dearest covenant, should bind each other to loyalty;...
    Milt1 12.268 9 The memorable covenant, which in his youth...[Milton] makes with God and his reader, expressed the faith of his old age.

covenanted, v. (1)

    Hsm1 2.261 5 Has nature covenanted with me that I should never appear to disadvantage...

covenants, n. (7)

    SR 2.73 2 I will have no covenants but proximities.
    Lov1 2.185 19 [Love] makes covenants with Eternal Power in behalf of this dear mate.
    NER 3.267 2 ...this union [of men] must be inward, and not one of covenants...
    SS 7.9 24 Such is the tragic necessity which strict science finds underneath our domestic and neighborly life...making our warm covenants sentimental and momentary.
    MMEm 10.408 10 [Mary Moody Emerson] is...a Bible...wherein are sentences of condemnation, promises and covenants of love that make foolish the wisdom of the world with the power of God.
    FSLN 11.234 17 These things show that no forms, neither constitutions, nor laws, nor covenants...are of any use in themselves.
    FSLN 11.234 21 Covenants are of no use without honest men to keep them;...

Covent Garden Theatre, Lon (1)

    ShP 4.206 15 Malone, Warburton, Dyce and Collier have wasted their oil. The famed theatres, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, the Park and Tremont have vainly assisted.

Coventry, Earl of [George (1)

    Bty 6.297 6 Not less in England in the last century was the fame of the Gunnings, of whom Elizabeth married the Duke of Hamilton, and Maria, the Earl of Coventry.

Coventry, England, n. (2)

    ET16 5.285 18 ...I had been more struck with [a cathedral] of no fame, at Coventry...
    Ctr 6.162 15 Be willing to go to Coventry sometimes...

Coventry, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.131 9 ...to exclude and mystify pretenders and send them into everlasting Coventry, is [fashion's] delight.

Coventry, William, n. (1)

    ET5 5.90 16 They are excellent judges in England of a good worker, and when they find one, like Clarendon, Sir Philip Warwick, Sir William Coventry...there is nothing too good or too high for him.

cover, n. (8)

    PPh 4.72 14 ...there was some story that under cover of folly, [Socrates] had, in the city government, when one day he chanced to hold a seat there, evinced a courage in opposing singly the popular voice, which had well-nigh ruined him.
    PPh 4.74 14 This hard-headed humorist [Socrates]...turns out...to be either insane, or at least, under cover of this play, enthusiastic in his religion.
    ET10 5.154 19 Malthus finds no cover laid at Nature's table for the laborer' s son.
    F 6.33 18 Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover...
    WD 7.172 12 ...the earth is the cup, the sky is the cover, of the immense bounty of Nature which is offered us for our daily aliment;...
    PerF 10.75 8 [The farmer] put his days into carting from the distant swamp the mountain of muck which has been trundled about until it now makes the cover of fruitful soil.
    SMC 11.370 14 ...Word was sent by General Barnes, that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods.
    Pray 12.353 13 Why should I feel reproved when a busy one enters the room? I am not idle, though I sit with folded hands, but instantly I must seek some cover.

cover, v. (31)

    Nat 1.45 1 [Words] cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth.
    Con 1.311 14 Would you have...preferred...the range of a planet which had no shed or boscage to cover you from sun and wind,-to this towered and citied world?...
    Comp 2.125 26 We linger in the ruins of the old tent...nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover, and nerve us again.
    Lov1 2.171 17 ...infinite compunctions embitter in mature life the remembrances of budding joy, and cover every beloved name.
    Fdsp 2.203 3 We cover up our thought from [our fellow-man] under a hundred folds.
    Prd1 2.231 27 We have found out fine names to cover our sensuality withal...
    Exp 3.72 22 Fortune, Minerva, Muse, Holy Ghost,--these are quaint names, too narrow to cover this unbounded substance.
    Mrs1 3.140 16 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners, so that they cover sense, grace and good-will...
    Pol1 3.205 11 Cover up a pound of earth never so cunningly...it will always weigh a pound;...
    PPh 4.61 21 [Plato] could prostrate himself on the earth and cover his eyes whilst he adored that which cannot be numbered...
    GoW 4.276 14 Goethe would have no word that does not cover a thing.
    ET2 5.25 17 The remuneration [for lectures in England] was equivalent to the fees at that time paid in this country for the like services. At all events it was sufficient to cover any travelling expenses...
    ET6 5.111 12 All [the Englishmen's] statesmen...have invented many fine phrases to cover this slowness of perception and prehensility of tail.
    Pow 6.69 2 The roisters who are destined for infamy at home, if sent to Mexico will cover you with glory...
    Wth 6.117 21 Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
    Bhr 6.184 9 ...[of every two persons who meet on any affair],--one instantly perceives...that his will comprehends the other's will...and he has only to use courtesy and furnish good-natured reasons to his victim to cover up the chain, lest he be shamed into resistance.
    Wsp 6.238 25 The race of mankind have always offered at least this implied thanks for the gift of existence,--namely...the terror of its being taken away... The whole revelation that is vouchsafed us is the gentle trust, which, in our experience, we find will cover also with flowers the slopes of this chasm.
    Suc 7.309 5 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton. ... She... forces death down underground, and makes haste to cover it up with leaves and vines...
    PI 8.11 14 [Natural objects'] value to the intellect appears only when I hear their meaning made plain in the spiritual truth they cover.
    Insp 8.272 19 ...villa, park, social considerations, cannot cover up real poverty and insignificance...
    Thor 10.478 23 [Thoreau] had a disgust at crime, and no worldly success would cover it.
    GSt 10.507 14 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember that there is... not a Southern State in which the freedmen will not learn to-day from their preachers that one of their most efficient benefactors has departed, and will cover his memory with benedictions;...
    FSLN 11.232 4 Each [party] wishes to cover the whole ground;...
    AKan 11.262 11 A bit of ground [in California] that your hand could cover was worth one or two hundred dollars...
    AKan 11.263 4 ...now, vast property...webs of party, cover the land with a network that immensely multiplies the dangers of war.
    SMC 11.364 11 ...I [George Prescott] took six poles, and went to the colonel, and told him I had got the poles for two tents, which would cover twenty-four men...
    FRep 11.528 5 All this [American] forwardness and self-reliance, cover self-government;...
    CInt 12.112 7 I know the mighty bards,/ I listen when they sing,/ And now I know/ The secret store/ Which these explore/ When they with torch of genius pierce/ The tenfold clouds that cover/ The riches of the universe/ From God's adoring lover./
    MAng1 12.223 3 Seeing these works [of art], we appreciate the taste which led Michael Angelo...to cover the walls of churches with unclothed figures...
    Milt1 12.265 8 ...[Milton] replies to the...calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...with...labors preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render...obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion and our country's liberty, when it shall require firm hearts in sound bodies to stand and cover their stations.
    ACri 12.297 27 ...I think of [Carlyle] when I read the famous inscription on the pyramid, I King Saib built this pyramid. I, when I had built it, covered it with satin. Let him who cometh after me, and says he is equal to me, cover it with mats.

covered, v. (27)

    Hist 2.25 6 After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia, there fell much snow, and the troops lay miserably on the ground covered with it.
    Comp 2.107 7 ...a leaf fell on [Siegfried's] back whilst he was bathing in the dragon's blood, and that spot which it covered is mortal.
    Pt1 3.17 6 ...we are apprised of the divineness of this superior use of things, whereby the world is a temple whose walls are covered with emblems...of the Deity,--in this, that there is no fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense of nature;...
    Exp 3.71 16 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries of its profound beauty and repose, as if the clouds that covered it parted at intervals...
    PPh 4.72 12 ...the rumor ran that on one or two occasions, in the war with Boeotia, [Socrates] had shown a determination which had covered the retreat of a troop;...
    GoW 4.261 23 ...the round is all memoranda and signatures, and every object covered over with hints which speak to the intelligent.
    ET16 5.290 13 The building [Abbey, Hyde, England] was destroyed at the Reformation, and what is left of Alfred's body now lies covered by modern buildings, or buried in the ruins of the old.
    Pow 6.57 4 So a broad, healthy, massive understanding seems to lie on the shore of unseen rivers, of unseen oceans, which are covered with barks that night and day are drifted to this point.
    Wth 6.95 18 The Persians say, 'T is the same to him who wears a shoe, as if the whole earth were covered with leather.
    Farm 7.143 2 Long before [the farmer] was born, the sun of ages... mellowed his land...covered it with vegetable film...
    Suc 7.297 20 ...[the youth] can read Plato, covered to his chin with a cloak in a cold upper chamber...
    Suc 7.299 20 Is...the house in which your dearest friend lived, only a piece of real estate, whose value is covered by the Hartford insurance?
    OA 7.332 13 The old President [John Adams] sat in a large stuffed arm-chair... a cotton cap covered his bald head.
    Res 8.141 24 When our population, swarming west, reached the boundary of arable land...on the face of the sterile waste beyond, the land was suddenly in parts found covered with gold and silver...
    SovE 10.190 22 Shall I say then it were truer to see Necessity...covered with ensigns of woe...
    LLNE 10.333 8 In the pulpit...[Everett] gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy. Then was exhibited all the richness of a rhetoric which we have never seen rivalled in this country. Wonderful how memorable were words made which...covered no new or valid thoughts.
    LLNE 10.346 5 ...[the pilgrim]...had learned to sleep...on a wagon covered with the buffalo buffalo-robe under the shed...
    MMEm 10.425 25 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo earth may give the idea of the Infinite far, far better than when dignified with arts and industry:-its oceans, when beating the symbols of ceaseless ages, than when covered with cargoes of war and oppression.
    Thor 10.461 12 [Thoreau] was...of light complexion, with strong, serious blue eyes, and a grave aspect,-his face covered in the late years with a becoming beard.
    EWI 11.103 3 For the negro, was the slave-ship to begin with...no property in the rags that covered him;...
    CPL 11.499 22 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Is the melancholy bird of night, covered with the dark foliage of the willow and cypress, less gratified than the gay lark...
    CL 12.145 7 In October, the country is covered with [the apple's] ornamental harvests.
    Bost 12.190 18 In our beautiful [Boston] bay, with its broad and deep waters covered with sails from every port...a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...
    Bost 12.191 6 The colony of 1620 had landed at Plymouth. It was December, and the ground was covered with snow.
    MAng1 12.230 7 [Michelangelo's paintings are in the Sistine Chapel, of which he first covered the ceiling with the story of the Creation...
    Milt1 12.256 21 The muscles, the nerves and the flesh with which this skeleton is to be filled out and covered exist in [Milton's] works and must be sought there.
    ACri 12.297 26 ...I think of [Carlyle] when I read the famous inscription on the pyramid, I King Saib built this pyramid. I, when I had built it, covered it with satin. Let him who cometh after me, and says he is equal to me, cover it with mats.

covering, n. (1)

    WD 7.171 13 The blue sky is a covering for a market and for the cherubim and seraphim.

covers, n. (2)

    DL 7.106 5 St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.
    MMEm 10.411 10 In her solitude of twenty years, with fewest books and those only sermons, and a copy of Paradise Lost, without covers or title-page...[ Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.

covers, v. (16)

    AmS 1.82 23 The old fable covers a doctrine ever new and sublime;...
    DSA 1.121 15 ...this homely game of life we play, covers...principles that astonish.
    Hist 2.6 4 Property...covers great spiritual facts...
    Wsp 6.208 2 Here are...even in the decent populations, idolatries wherein the whiteness of the ritual covers scarlet indulgence.
    Ill 6.320 22 The cloud is now as big as your hand, and now it covers a county.
    DL 7.103 3 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.
    Cour 7.268 20 The beautiful voice at church...covers up in its volume...all the defects of the choir.
    Suc 7.308 27 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton.
    PPo 8.246 16 Riot, [Hafiz] thinks, can snatch from the deeply hidden lot the veil that covers it...
    Dem1 10.3 1 The name Demonology covers dreams, omens, coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic and other experiences which shun rather than court inquiry...
    War 11.154 27 Is it not manifest that [war] covers a great and beneficent principle...
    FSLC 11.195 16 By law of Congress September, 1850, it is a high crime and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to resist the reenslaving a man on the coast of America. Off soundings, it is piracy and murder to enslave him. On soundings, it is fine and prison not to reenslave. What kind of legislation is this? What kind of constitution which covers it?
    ACiv 11.298 2 There is no interest in any country so imperative as that of labor; it covers all...
    II 12.80 25 Plant the pitch-pine in a sand-bank, where is no food, and it thrives, and presently makes a grove, and covers the sand with a soil by shedding its leaves.
    CL 12.135 16 The avarice of real estate native to us all covers instincts of great generosity...
    Trag 12.405 3 As the salt sea covers more than two thirds of the surface of the globe, so sorrow encroaches in man on felicity.

covert, adj. (3)

    ET14 5.232 6 [The English]...never are surprised into a covert or witty word...
    MoL 10.243 12 It is the perpetual tendency of wealth to draw on the spiritual class...in plausible and covert ways.
    ACri 12.289 11 ...George Sand finds a whole nation...in which [the Devil] is really the subject of a covert worship.

covertly, adv. (2)

    Pol1 3.205 19 ...the attributes of a person, his wit and his moral energy, will exercise, under any law or extinguishing tyranny, their proper force,--if not overtly, then covertly;...
    PI 8.6 5 The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment...

covet, v. (5)

    Pt1 3.18 6 Why covet a knowledge of new facts?
    Pol1 3.219 1 If a man found himself so rich-natured that he could...make life serene around him by the dignity and sweetness of his behavior, could he...covet relations so hollow and pompous as those of a politician?
    PNR 4.84 3 Plato affirms...that the sinner ought to covet punishment;...
    Wsp 6.216 19 It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district;...
    Aris 10.31 17 [The best young men] do not yet covet political power...

coveted, adj. (2)

    Mrs1 3.152 18 The constitution of our society makes it a giant's castle to the ambitious youth...whom it has excluded from its coveted honors and privileges.
    Ctr 6.155 6 ...a tender boy who wears his rusty cap and outgrown coat, that he may secure the coveted place in college...is educated to some purpose.

coveted, v. (1)

    SS 7.4 2 [My new friend] coveted Mirabeau's don terrible de la familiarite...

covetous, adj. (5)

    AmS 1.98 1 If it were only for a vocabulary, the scholar would be covetous of action.
    Con 1.325 19 To the intemperate and covetous person no love flows;...
    Wth 6.101 21 The farmer is covetous of his dollar, and with reason.
    Chr2 10.120 24 Ke Kang, distressed about the number of thieves in the state, inquired of Confucius how to do away with them. Confucius said, If you, sir, were not covetous, although you should reward them to do it, they would not steal.
    ChiE 11.473 7 ...to the governor who complained of thieves, [Confucius] said, If you, sir, were not covetous, though you should reward them for it, they would not steal.

covetous, n. (1)

    SwM 4.125 24 [To Swedenborg] The covetous seem to themselves to be abiding in cells where their money is deposited...

covetousness, n. (3)

    Pt1 3.29 24 If thou fill thy brain...with fashion and covetousness...thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pine woods.
    Chr1 3.98 17 The covetousness or the malignity which saddens me when I ascribe it to society, is my own.
    EWI 11.118 12 ...experience...shows the existence, beside the covetousness, of a bitterer element [in slavery], the love of power...

covets, v. (2)

    Comp 2.100 1 Has [the man of genius] all that the world loves and admires and covets?...
    PI 8.42 18 Anything, child, that the mind covets...thou mayest obtain, by keeping the law of thy members and the law of thy mind.

cow, n. (26)

    Hist 2.14 6 ...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the imagination;...
    Pol1 3.207 1 Every man owns something, if it is only a cow...
    NER 3.257 21 We are afraid...of a cow...
    ET5 5.87 22 ...if you offer to lay hand on [the Englishman's] day's wages, on his cow...he will fight to the Judgment.
    ET5 5.95 5 The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses to order, and breeds in which every thing was omitted but what is economical. The cow is sacrificed to her bag, the ox to his sirloin.
    ET10 5.169 7 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England]...that the yeoman was forced to sell his cow and pig, his tools and his acre of land;...
    Wth 6.120 2 When Mr. Cockayne takes a cottage in the country, and will keep his cow, he thinks a cow is a creature that is fed on hay and gives a pail of milk twice a day.
    Wth 6.120 4 ...the cow that [Mr. Cockayne] buys gives milk for three months; then her bag dries up.
    Wth 6.120 6 ...the cow that [Mr. Cockayne] buys gives milk for three months; then her bag dries up. What to do with a dry cow?...
    Bhr 6.177 27 A cow can bid her calf...to run away...
    Clbs 7.234 17 ...the ground of our indignation is our conviction that [yonder man's] dissent is some wilfulness he practises on himself. He checks the flow of his opinion, as the cross cow holds up her milk.
    PI 8.26 4 ...a cow does not gaze at the rainbow...
    Res 8.153 1 ...the cow, the rabbit, the insect, bite the sweet and tender bark [of the willow];...
    PerF 10.75 19 ...[labor] keeps the cow out of the garden...
    Edc1 10.129 1 Every one has a trust of power,-every man, every boy a jurisdiction, whether it be over a cow or a rood of a potato-field...
    Prch 10.221 19 Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is without God in the world. To...behold the horse, cow and bird, and to foresee an equal and speedy end to him and them;...
    EzRy 10.393 2 [Ezra Ripley] watched with interest...the orchard, the house and the barn, horse, cow, sheep and dog...
    HDC 11.64 15 The public charity seems to have been bestowed in a manner now obsolete [in Concord]. The town...being informed of the great present want of Thomas Pellit, gave order to Stephen Hosmer to deliver a town cow...unto said Pellit, for his present supply.
    SMC 11.360 16 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or mothers may fall back; upon... the grass that can be sold, the old cow, or the heifer.
    Scot 11.466 19 From these originals [Scott] drew so genially his Jeanie Deans, his Dinmonts...making these, too, the pivots on which the plots of his stories turn; and meantime without one word of brag of...this extreme sympathy reaching down to every beggar and beggar's dog, and horse and cow.
    PLT 12.15 26 What but thought...makes us better than cow or cat?
    II 12.69 12 We ought to know the way to insight and prophecy as surely as the plant knows its way to the light; the cow and sheep to the running brook;...
    Mem 12.96 16 In the minds of most men memory is nothing but a farm-book or a pocket-diary. On such a day I paid my note; on the next day the cow calved;...
    Mem 12.105 23 One of my neighbors, a grazier, told me that he should know again every cow, ox, or steer that he ever saw.
    CL 12.148 9 ...a cow does not need so much land as the owner's eyes require between him and his neighbor.
    CL 12.148 27 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... The lightning roars like a parent cow that bellows for its calf, and the rain is set free by the Maruts.

Cow-apple, n. (1)

    CL 12.146 25 Here [on Estabrook Farm] are varieties of apple not found in Downing or Loudon. The Tartaric variety, and Cow-apple...

coward, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.543 9 Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone. No monopoly must be foisted in...no coward compromise conceded to a strong partner.

coward, n. (7)

    Comp 2.122 18 ...the brave man is greater than the coward;...
    SL 2.138 16 We side with the hero, as we read or paint, against the coward and the robber;...
    SL 2.138 18 ...we have been ourselves that coward and robber, and shall be again...
    Lov1 2.177 22 ...[love] makes the clown gentle and gives the coward heart.
    PI 8.59 6 [Taliessin says] Of an enemy,--The cauldron of the sea was bordered round by his land, but it would not boil the food of a coward./
    Supl 10.174 4 I am a coward at gambling.
    SMC 11.358 15 Before [the youth's] departure [to the Civil War] he confided to his sister that he was naturally a coward...

cowardice, n. (8)

    AmS 1.94 25 Inaction is cowardice...
    Hsm1 2.248 20 Each of [Plutarch's] Lives is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists.
    NER 3.273 18 It is a foolish cowardice which keeps us from trusting [men]...
    ET4 5.63 13 The coster-mongers of London streets hold cowardice in loathing...
    Wsp 6.206 25 King Richard taunts God with forsaking him. ...in sooth not through any cowardice of my warfare art thou thyself, my king and my God, conquered this day...
    Cour 7.258 19 Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin;...
    Comc 8.170 18 ...in the instance of cowardice or fear of any sort...the majesty of man is violated.
    War 11.174 6 The cause of peace is not the cause of cowardice.

cowardly, adj. (11)

    Tran 1.349 26 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found that from the liberal professions to the coarsest manual labor...there is a spirit of cowardly compromise...
    Fdsp 2.200 7 If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly.
    MoS 4.180 6 Is life to be led in a brave or in a cowardly manner?...
    NMW 4.247 17 To what heaps of cowardly doubts is not that man's [Napoleon's] life an answer.
    GoW 4.267 18 ...in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly...there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
    Wth 6.93 19 Columbus...looks on all kings and peoples as cowardly landsmen until they dare fit him out.
    Elo2 8.114 21 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside...a man who...speaks by the right of being the person in the assembly who has the most to say, and so makes all other speakers appear little and cowardly before his face.
    Grts 8.301 20 ...that which invites all, belongs to us all,-to which we are all sometimes untrue, cowardly, faithless, but of which we never quite despair...
    Schr 10.265 15 ...at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...the poet replaces all this cowardly Self-denial and God-denial of the literary class with the conviction that to one poetic success the world will surrender on its knees.
    FSLC 11.190 19 ...the great jurists...Mackintosh, Jefferson, do all affirm [the principle in law that immoral laws are void]. I have no intention to recite these passages I had marked:-such citation indeed seems to be something cowardly...
    AKan 11.261 1 In the free states, we give a snivelling support to slavery. The judges give cowardly interpretations to the law...

cowardly, adv. (2)

    Con 1.323 18 ...in peace and a commercial state...we cowardly lean on the virtue of others.
    Cour 7.273 27 As long as [the religious sentiment] is cowardly insinuated... it is not imparted...

cowards, n. (10)

    SR 2.47 5 ...God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
    SR 2.47 24 ...we are...not cowards fleeing before a revolution...
    Prd1 2.224 9 The spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards...
    OS 2.294 23 God will not make himself manifest to cowards.
    ET6 5.102 21 ...[the English] hate the practical cowards who cannot in affairs answer directly yes or no.
    F 6.29 21 As Voltaire said, 't is the misfortune of worthy people that they are cowards;...
    Cour 7.271 8 ...men who wish to inspire terror seem thereby to confess themselves cowards.
    OA 7.316 8 Wellington, in speaking of military men, said, What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!
    Schr 10.282 8 ...a true orator will make us feel that the states and kingdoms, the senators, lawyers and rich men are caterpillars' webs and caterpillars, when seen in the light of this despised and imbecile truth. Then we feel what cowards we have been.
    War 11.171 14 [The peace principle] can never be defended, it can never be executed, by cowards.

cowed, n. (1)

    AmS 1.105 3 ...we are the cowed, - we the trustless.

cowed, v. (2)

    SL 2.163 16 ...why should we be cowed by the name of Action?
    SS 7.15 22 ...most men are cowed in society...

cower, v. (1)

    SwM 4.128 20 The Eden of God is bare and grand: like the out-door landscape remembered from the evening fireside, it seems cold and desolate whilst you cower over the coals...

cowering, n. (1)

    PPr 12.387 18 The revelation of Reason is this of the unchangeableness of the fact of humanity under all its subjective aspects; that to the cowering it always cowers, to the daring it opens great avenues.

cowering, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.431 11 [Mary Moody Emerson] checks herself amid her passionate prayers for immediate communion with God;...I cowering in the nest of quiet for so many years;...

cowers, v. (1)

    PPr 12.387 18 The revelation of Reason is this of the unchangeableness of the fact of humanity under all its subjective aspects; that to the cowering it always cowers, to the daring it opens great avenues.

cowhage, n. (1)

    SovE 10.187 25 Montaigne kills off bigots as cowhage kills worms;...

cowhides, n. (1)

    EWI 11.104 8 ...if we saw men's backs flayed with cowhides...we too should wince.

cowl, n. (1)

    PPo 8.248 18 Let us draw the cowl through the brook of wine.

Cowley, Abraham, n. (3)

    ShP 4.203 15 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Abraham Cowley, Bellarmine...
    QO 8.196 8 It is a familiar expedient of brilliant writers...the device of ascribing their own sentence to an imaginary person...as Cicero, Cowley, Swift, Landor and Carlyle have done.
    PPo 8.252 15 ...this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy. We remember but two or three examples in English poetry...Cowley's,-The melancholy Cowley lay.

Cowley's, Abraham, n. (1)

    PPo 8.252 14 ...this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy. We remember but two or three examples in English poetry...Cowley's,-The melancholy Cowley lay.

cowls, n. (1)

    PPo 8.248 22 [Hafiz] tells his mistress that...certainly not [the monks' and the dervishes'] cowls and mummeries but her glances can impart to him the fire and virtue needful for such self-denial [of the ascetic and the saint].

cow-painter, n. (1)

    ShP 4.212 26 ...no veins, no curiosities; no cow-painter, no bird-fancier, no mannerist is [Shakespeare]...

cow-pastures, n. (1)

    SovE 10.198 10 ...as we send to England for shrubs which grow as well in our own door-yards and cow-pastures.

Cowper, William, n. (4)

    AmS 1.112 5 This idea [of Unity] has inspired the genius of Goldsmith, Burns, Cowper...
    ET5 5.100 16 ...[the English people's] language seems drawn from the Bible, the Common Law and the works of Shakspeare, Bacon, Milton, Pope, Young, Cowper, Burns and Scott.
    PI 8.43 10 I have heard that the Germans think the creator of Trim and Uncle Toby...a greater poet than Cowper...
    EWI 11.137 3 All the great geniuses of the British senate...ranged themselves on [emancipation's] side; the poet Cowper wrote for it...

cowries, n. (1)

    F 6.18 18 ...in every barrel of cowries brought to New Bedford there shall be one orangia...

cowry, n. (1)

    ET6 5.111 17 The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex.

cows, n. (9)

    ET4 5.58 2 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] have herds of cows, and malt, wheat, bacon, butter and cheese.
    ET5 5.95 3 The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses to order...
    Wth 6.122 6 We say the cows laid out Boston.
    Wth 6.122 9 Every pedestrian in our pastures has frequent occasion to thank the cows for cutting the best path through the thicket and over the hills;...
    Farm 7.137 23 ...the tranquillity and innocence of the countryman, his independence and his pleasing arts,--the care of bees...of cows...all men acknowledge.
    OA 7.323 26 When the pleuro-pneumonia of the cows raged, the butchers said that...there never was a time when this disease did not occur among cattle.
    PLT 12.59 18 Routine, the rut, is the path of indolence, of cows...
    CL 12.143 23 [In Illinois] You can distinguish from the cows a horse feeding, at the distance of five miles, with the naked eye.
    CL 12.148 8 Some English reformers thought...that, if there were no cows to pasture, less land would suffice.

coxcomb, adj. (1)

    CbW 6.251 23 The coxcomb and bully and thief class are allowed as proletaries...

coxcomb, n. (4)

    DSA 1.148 24 You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel.
    UGM 4.8 15 Mind thy affair, says the spirit:--coxcomb, would you meddle with the skies...
    PC 8.209 13 A great many full-blown conceits have burst [in America]. The coxcomb goes to the wall.
    FRep 11.536 7 The felon is the logical extreme of the epicure and coxcomb.

coxcombs, n. (2)

    MoS 4.161 23 Men do not confide themselves to...coxcombs...
    ET8 5.131 14 Wellington said of the young coxcombs of the Life-Guards, delicately brought up, But the puppies fight well;...

coy, adj. (2)

    II 12.75 2 ...what we call Inspiration is coy and capricious;...
    CL 12.166 13 I know that the imagination...is a coy, capricious power...

crab, adj. (2)

    Wsp 6.206 3 Christianity, in the romantic ages, signified European culture,--the grafted or meliorated tree in a crab forest.
    Wsp 6.214 12 Religion must always be a crab fruit;...

crab, n. (6)

    Con 1.326 11 [Man's hope]...grew here on the wild crab of conservatism.
    ET4 5.67 2 [The blonde race] is not a final race, once a crab always crab...
    ET4 5.67 3 [The blonde race] is not a final race, once a crab always crab...
    F 6.16 22 Detach a colony from the race, and it deteriorates to the crab.
    LLNE 10.352 14 [Fourier] treats man...as a vegetable, from which, though now a poor crab, a very good peach can by manure and exposure be in time produced...
    FRep 11.537 8 Columbus was no backward-creeping crab...

Crabbe, George, n. (1)

    MLit 12.318 27 Scott and Crabbe, who formed themselves on the past, had none of this [subjective] tendency;...

crabbed, adj. (1)

    Bty 6.298 27 Saadi describes a schoolmaster so ugly and crabbed that a sight of him would derange the ecstasies of the orthodox.

crabs, n. (2)

    Hist 2.5 18 ...crabs, goats, scorpions, the balance and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac...
    CbW 6.250 15 Nature...shakes down a tree full of gnarled, wormy, unripe crabs, before you can find a dozen dessert apples;...

crab-stock, n. (1)

    PLT 12.26 2 The botanist discovered long ago that Nature loves mixtures, and that nothing grows well on the crab-stock...

crack, n. (5)

    AmS 1.102 26 Let [the scholar] not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.
    Tran 1.345 4 ...every piece has a crack.
    Comp 2.107 8 There is a crack in every thing God has made.
    SwM 4.98 27 ...it is easier to see the reflection of the great sphere in large globes, though defaced by some crack or blemish, than in drops of water...
    LLNE 10.325 21 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following. It seemed...a crack in Nature...

crack, v. (2)

    SR 2.80 18 If [unbalanced minds] are honest and do well, presently their neat new pinfold...will crack...
    Aris 10.45 14 It never troubles the Senator what multitudes crack the benches and bend the galleries to hear.

cracked, adj. (3)

    Pow 6.54 7 [All successful men] believed...that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.
    OA 7.316 12 Nature lends herself to these illusions [of time], and adds dim sight...cracked voice...
    Elo2 8.122 19 ...the wonders [John Quincy Adams] could achieve with that cracked and disobedient organ [his voice] showed what power might have belonged to it in early manhood.

cracked, v. (2)

    Bhr 6.175 25 ...when [the old Massachusetts statesman] spoke, his voice would not serve him; it cracked, it broke, it wheezed, it piped;...
    PPo 8.242 19 The gripe of [Rustem's] hand cracked the sinews of an enemy.

cracker, n. (1)

    SMC 11.367 27 [George Prescott's] next note is, cracker for a day and a half,-but all right.

cracking, n. (1)

    CL 12.148 20 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Because they drive the clouds, they have harnessed the spotted deer to their chariot; they are coming with weapons, war-cries and decorations. I hear the cracking of the whips in their hands.

cracking, v. (1)

    WD 7.173 8 Hume's doctrine was...that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot;...had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.

crackle, n. (1)

    F 6.7 5 ...the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda,- these are in the system...

crackling, n. (2)

    Thor 10.482 25 I put on some hemlock-boughs, and the rich salt crackling of their leaves was like mustard to the ear...
    Thor 10.482 26 I put on some hemlock-boughs, and the rich salt crackling of their leaves was like mustard to the ear, the crackling of uncountable regiments.

crackling, v. (1)

    Nat2 3.172 19 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.

cracks, v. (1)

    ET5 5.101 12 ...the [English] postilion cracks his whip for England...

cradle, n. (5)

    AmS 1.97 2 Cradle and infancy...are gone already;...
    PI 8.3 3 [The perception of matter] was the cradle...of the human child.
    MMEm 10.409 7 As a traveller enters some fine palace and finds all the doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some avenues and passages, so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over the apartments of social affections...
    Shak1 11.448 16 We say to the young child in the cradle, Happy, and defended against Fate! for here is Nature, and here is Shakspeare, waiting for you!
    CL 12.154 2 ...what strength and fecundity [in the sea], from the sea-monsters, hugest of animals, to the primary forms of which it is the immense cradle...

craft, n. (26)

    Nat 1.16 21 ...the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again.
    AmS 1.83 27 The tradesman...is ridden by the routine of his craft...
    MN 1.192 9 ...I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also.
    MR 1.236 18 A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture.
    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;...
    SL 2.140 18 We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession.
    OS 2.286 4 We do not read [men] by learning or craft.
    Cir 2.314 9 Has the naturalist or chemist learned his craft...who has not yet discerned the deeper law whereof this is only a partial or approximate statement...
    Nat2 3.180 27 ...so poor is nature with all her craft, that from the beginning to the end of the universe she has but one stuff...
    Nat2 3.187 10 ...the craft with which the world is made, runs also into the mind and character of men.
    ET5 5.78 15 [The English] hate craft and subtlety.
    ET9 5.144 4 Property is so perfect [in England] that it seems the craft of that race...
    Wth 6.87 13 The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing from where it abounds to where it is costly.
    Wth 6.89 17 The sea...offers its perilous aid and the power and empire that follow it...to [man's] craft and audacity.
    Wsp 6.219 8 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and projection keep their craft...a secreter gravitation, a secreter projection rule not less tyrannically in human history...
    Clbs 7.246 23 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see...how long the conversation lasts! They have come from many zones;... they know each his own arts, and the cunning artisans of his craft;...
    Suc 7.283 23 Men are made each with some triumphant superiority, which, through some adaptation of...ciphering or pugilistic or musical or literary craft, enriches the community with a new art;...
    Suc 7.285 12 ...leaving the coast [of Panama], the ship full of one hundred and fifty skilful seamen,--some of them...with too much experience of their craft and treachery to him,--the wise admiral [Columbus] kept his private record of his homeward path.
    PI 8.39 26 Michel Angelo is largely filled with the Creator that made and makes men. How much of the original craft remains in him, and he a mortal man!
    Edc1 10.147 19 ...as mechanics say, when one has learned the use of tools, it is easy to work at a new craft.
    Schr 10.277 6 These shrewd faculties belong to man. I love...to see them trained:...the craft of mathematical combination...
    Thor 10.451 17 [Thoreau's] father was a manufacturer of lead-pencils, and Henry applied himself for a time to this craft...
    Thor 10.452 24 [Thoreau] declined to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession...
    CL 12.135 10 The land, the care of land, seems to be the calling of the people of this new country, of those, at least, who have not some decided bias, driving them to a particular craft...
    ACri 12.281 3 To clothe the fiery thought/ In simple words succeeds,/ For still the craft of genius is/ To mask a king in weeds./
    ACri 12.297 20 ...[Carlyle] talks flexibly...in loud emphasis, in undertones, then laughs till the walls ring, then calmly moderates, then hints, or raises an eyebrow. He has gone nigher to the wind than any other craft.

Craft, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.197 9 Fear, Craft and Avarice/ Cannot rear a State./

craftsman, n. (2)

    GoW 4.268 27 A master likes a master, and does not stipulate whether it be orator, artist, craftsman, or king.
    Ctr 6.157 18 The poet, as a craftsman, is only interested in the praise accorded to him...

crag, n. (2)

    Con 1.308 18 I cannot occupy the bleakest crag of the White Hills or the Alleghany Range, but some man or corporation steps up to me to show me that it is his.
    ET11 5.180 11 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle...the clays of Stafford...know the man who...like the long line of his fathers, had carried that crag, that shore, dale, fen, or woodland, in his blood and manners.

craggy, adj. (4)

    ET14 5.233 23 Byron liked something craggy to break his mind upon.
    Ctr 6.163 4 Steep and craggy, said Porphyry, is the path of the gods.
    Civ 7.17 11 Witness the mute all hail/ The joyful traveller gives, when on the verge/ Of craggy Indian wilderness he hears/ From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes/ On the piano, played with master's hand./
    Elo1 7.72 2 [Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove, This is the wise Ulysses...who was reared in the state of craggy Ithaca...

crags, n. (4)

    LE 1.170 3 ...not less is there a relation of beauty between my soul and the dim crags of Agiochook up there in the clouds.
    ET11 5.180 6 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle, the kail of Cornwall...are neither forgetting nor forgotten...
    EPro 11.314 11 O North! give [the slave] beauty for rags,/ And honor, O South! for his shame;/ Nevada! coin thy golden crags/ With freedom's image and name./
    SHC 11.434 25 The ground [Sleepy Hollow] has the peaceful character that belongs to this town [Concord];-no lofty crags, no glittering cataracts;...

Craigenputtock, Scotland, n. (1)

    ET1 5.14 25 ...being intent on delivering a letter which I had brought from Rome, inquired for Craigenputtock.

crammed, v. (2)

    GoW 4.279 16 ...[Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is so crammed with wisdom... that we must...be willing to get what good from it we can...
    WSL 12.337 20 ...[John Bull] wonders that [Americans] do not make elder-wine and cherry-bounce, since here are cherries, and every mile is crammed with elder-bushes.

cramming, adj. (1)

    ET12 5.210 6 ...whether by cramming tutor or by examiners with prizes and foundational scholarships, education, according to the English notion of it, is arrived at [at Oxford].

cramp, adj. (3)

    ET18 5.305 8 There is cramp limitation in [Englishmen's] habit of thought...
    Pow 6.62 22 The very word 'commerce'...is pinched to the cramp exigencies of English experience.
    ACri 12.290 24 ...there must be [in writing] no cramp insufficiency, but the superfluous must be omitted.

cramp, n. (4)

    SwM 4.137 16 Under the same theologic cramp, many of [Swedenborg's] dogmas are bound.
    F 6.47 15 ...when a man is the victim of his fate, has...cramp in his mind;... he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...
    Suc 7.298 6 What is it we look for...in the sea and the firmament? what but a compensation for the cramp and pettiness of human performances?
    ACri 12.290 21 A good writer must convey the feeling...as if in his densest period was no cramp...

cramped, adj. (2)

    ET5 5.83 7 ...in high departments [the English] are cramped and sterile.
    FSLN 11.217 17 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation. For they...affirm these...only from their cramped position of standing for their teacher.

cramped, v. (5)

    Nat 1.16 18 To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal...
    NER 3.267 8 Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished in his proportion;...
    UGM 4.15 20 This pleasure of full expression to that which, [in the people' s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed, runs...much higher...
    Boks 7.213 4 We must have...some swing and verge for the creative power lying coiled and cramped here...
    CL 12.153 7 The freedom [of the sea] makes the observer feel as a slave. Our expression is so thin and cramped!

cramp-fish, n. (1)

    PPh 4.74 6 ...Meno has discoursed a thousand times, at length, on virtue... and very well, as it appeared to him; but at this moment he cannot even tell what it is,--this cramp-fish of a Socrates has so bewitched him.

cramping, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.28 19 The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child... is a familiar fact...

cramping, v. (1)

    Chr2 10.107 18 ...it by no means follows, because those [earlier religious] offices are much disused, that the men and women are irreligious;...but only...perhaps that they find some violence, some cramping of their freedom of thought, in the constant recurrence of the form.

crams, v. (1)

    ShP 4.212 22 [A man of talents] crams this part and starves that other part...

cranberry-meadow, n. (1)

    Aris 10.44 19 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the...land fit for...pasturage, wood-lot, cranberry-meadow;...

craniology, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.10 23 We doubt not a man's fortune may be read...in the outlines of the skull, by craniology...

crank, n. (1)

    Pow 6.57 22 Import into any stationary district...a colony of hardy Yankees, with...heads full of steam-hammer, pulley, crank and toothed wheel,--and everything begins to shine with values.

cranked, v. (1)

    ACri 12.294 22 Shakespeare's] loom is better toothed, cranked and pedalled than other people's...

Cranmer, Thomas, n. (1)

    SovE 10.203 21 The Church of Rome had its saints, and inspired the conscience of Europe...the piety of the English Church in Cranmer, and Herbert, and Taylor;...

Cranmers, n. (1)

    ET13 5.220 14 ...the age...of the Latimers, Mores, Cranmers;...is gone.

cranny, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.223 9 Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol solidly...and lastly, whilst he pitches his tent on this sacred volcanic isle of nature, does not offer to build houses and barns thereon,--reverencing the splendor of the God which he sees bursting through each chink and cranny.

crape, n. (1)

    AKan 11.258 6 ...the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas], or else should resign their seats to those who can. But first let them hang the halls of the state-house with black crape...

crash, n. (1)

    CL 12.159 27 ...the speculators who rush for investment...are all more or less mad,-I need not say it now in the crash of bankruptcy;...

Crashaw, Richard, n. (2)

    ET14 5.238 18 ...Britain had many disciples of Plato;...Chapman, Milton, Crashaw...
    QO 8.195 25 Hallam...is...able to appreciate poetry unless it becomes deep, being always blind and deaf to imaginative and analogy-loving souls...like Donne, Herbert, Crashaw and Vaughan;...

crass, adj. (1)

    Cir 2.306 5 Does the fact look crass and material...

craters, n. (3)

    Pow 6.69 18 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...peeping into craters on the equator;...
    Wth 6.98 2 Every man wishes to see...the mountains and craters in the moon; yet how few can buy a telescope!...
    CL 12.160 22 ...[the earthquake] wrought to purpose in craters, and we borrowed the hint in crucibles.

cravat, n. (1)

    ET1 5.10 16 [Coleridge] took snuff freely, which presently soiled his cravat and neat black suit.

crave, v. (11)

    AmS 1.108 12 ...we crave a better and more abundant food.
    MR 1.246 15 Sofas, ottomans...theatre, entertainments,-all these [infirm people] want, they need, and whatever can be suggested more than these they crave also...
    Con 1.309 24 What you do not want for use, you crave for ornament...
    YA 1.384 19 ...the landscape seems to crave Government.
    Int 2.341 8 ...though we make [the new thought] our own we instantly crave another;...
    NER 3.274 1 We crave a sense of reality...
    WD 7.161 24 When Europe is over-populated, America and Australia crave to be peopled;...
    MMEm 10.430 13 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] the highest place of acquisition and diffusing virtue here, the principle of human sympathy would be too strong for that rapt emotion, that severe delight which I crave;...
    LVB 11.89 13 ...at the instance of a few of my friends and neighbors, I crave of your [Van Buren's] patience a short hearing for their sentiments and my own...
    Koss 11.400 1 ...you [Kossuth], the foremost soldier of freedom in this age, it is for us [the people of Concord] to crave your judgment;...
    Trag 12.409 24 There are people who have an appetite for grief, pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain...

craved, v. (1)

    Comc 8.166 15 ...The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy,/ Complaining loudly of the breach/ Of league held forth by Brother Patch,/ Against the articles in force/ Between both churches, his and ours,/ For which he craved the saints to render/ Into his hands, or hang the offender;/...

cravers, n. (1)

    CbW 6.265 27 When the political economist reckons up the unproductive classes, he should put at the head this class of...cravers of sympathy...

craves, v. (3)

    MN 1.217 23 ...if the object [beloved] be not itself a living and expanding soul, [the lover] presently exhausts it. But the love remains in his mind, and the wisdom it brought him; and it craves a new and higher object.
    SR 2.77 15 Prayer that craves a particular commodity...is vicious.
    Chr2 10.94 10 The [interest of the individual] craves a private benefit, which [the dictate of the universal mind] requires him to renounce out of respect to the absolute good.

craveth, v. (1)

    OS 2.294 8 Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace.

craving, adj. (2)

    MN 1.207 12 A link was wanting between two craving parts of nature...
    Edc1 10.127 22 This apparatus of wants and faculties, this craving body... educate the wondrous creature which they satisfy with light, with heat...

craving, n. (3)

    OA 7.319 9 ...especially, [the cup of time] creates a craving for larger draughts of itself.
    OA 7.327 23 ...at the end of fifty years, [a man's] soul is appeased by seeing some sort of correspondence between his wish and his possession. This makes...the satisfaction [age] slowly offers to every craving.
    MLit 12.333 24 ...all the hints of omnipresence and energy which we have caught, this man [the poet] should unfold, and constitute facts. And this is the insatiable craving which alternately saddens and gladdens men at this day.

craving, v. (4)

    MR 1.247 1 ...the more odious [infirm people] grow, the sharper is the tone of their complaining and craving.
    Lov1 2.186 5 The soul which is in the soul of each [lover], craving a perfect beatitude, detects incongruities, defects and disproportion in the behaviour of the other.
    Ctr 6.133 4 One of [egotism's] annoying forms is a craving for sympathy.
    II 12.88 3 It seems to me, as if men stood craving a more stringent creed than any of the pale and enervating systems to which they have had recourse.

cravings, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.191 5 ...wealth was good as it appeased the animal cravings...

crawfish, n. (1)

    F 6.20 12 ...Vishnu follows Maya through all her ascending changes, from insect and crawfish up to elephant;...

crawl, v. (2)

    Pol1 3.218 22 Like one class of forest animals, [senators and presidents] have nothing but a prehensile tail; climb they must, or crawl.
    Schr 10.274 23 [The thoughtful man] is not there to defend himself, but to deliver his message;...cut off his hands and feet, he can still crawl towards his object on his stumps.

crawled, v. (1)

    LT 1.284 26 The canker worms have crawled to the topmost bough of the wild elm...

crawls, v. (2)

    Comp 2.124 24 ...the shell-fish crawls out of its beautiful but stony case...
    Res 8.145 7 ...[the old forester] draws his boat ashore, turns it over in a twinkling against a clump of alders with cat-briers, which keep up the lee-side, crawls under it with his comrade, and lies there till the shower is over, happy in his stout roof.

crayon-sketch, n. (1)

    Exp 3.62 25 A collector peeps into all the picture-shops of Europe for...a crayon-sketch of Salvator;...

craze, v. (1)

    Exp 3.59 15 Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.

crazed, v. (2)

    MN 1.199 22 If anything could stand still, it would be crushed and dissipated by the torrent it resisted, and if it were a mind, would be crazed;...
    Insp 8.275 10 ...Swedenborg must solve the problems that haunt him, though he be crazed or killed.

creak, v. (2)

    SwM 4.112 7 [Swedenborg] saw nature wreathing through an everlasting spiral, with wheels that never dry, on axles that never creak...
    MLit 12.309 18 We go musing into the vault of day and night;...frogs pipe, mice cheep, and wagons creak along the road.

creaking, adj. (2)

    DSA 1.140 20 If no heart warm this rite [the Lord's Supper], the hollow, dry, creaking formality is too plain...
    Nat2 3.191 6 ...wealth was good as it...silenced the creaking door...

cream, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.129 13 If [aristocracy and fashion] provoke anger in the least favored class, and the excluded majority revenge themselves on the excluding minority by the strong hand and kill them, at once a new class finds itself at the top, as certainly as cream rises in a bowl of milk...
    EWI 11.101 7 If there be any man...who would not so much as part with his ice-cream, to save [a race of men] from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.

creari, v. (1)

    SwM 4.113 20 Ossa videlicet e pauxillis atque minutis/ Ossibus sic et de pauxillis atque minutis/ Visceribus viscus gigni, sanguenque creari/ Sanguinis inter se multis coeuntibus guttis;/...

creases, n. (2)

    ET8 5.132 16 [Young Englishmen] chew hasheesh; cut themselves with poisoned creases;...
    Pow 6.69 19 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...running on the creases of Malays in Borneo.

create, v. (41)

    Nat 1.64 23 This [spiritual] view...animates me to create my own world...
    Nat 1.77 2 As when the summer comes...the face of the earth becomes green before it, so shall the advancing spirit create its ornaments along its path...
    AmS 1.90 20 Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his;...
    AmS 1.93 22 ...[colleges] can only highly serve us when they aim not to drill, but to create;...
    DSA 1.135 4 ...he only can create, who is.
    MR 1.233 7 [The individual] did not create the abuse;...
    MR 1.243 8 ...he who can create works of art needs not collect them.
    SR 2.66 4 It must be that when God speaketh he should...new date and new create the whole.
    SR 2.83 3 ...if the American artist will study...the precise thing to be done by him...he will create a house in which [beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought] will find themselves fitted...
    Cir 2.318 25 Forever [the central life] labors to create a life and thought as large and excellent as itself...
    Art1 2.363 15 Art is the need to create;...
    Art1 2.367 11 [Men] reject life as prosaic, and create a death which they call poetic.
    Pol1 3.203 8 ...property passes through donation or inheritance to those who do not create it.
    UGM 4.18 24 If a wise man should appear in our village he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth...
    PNR 4.82 5 The mind does not create what it perceives...
    ShP 4.195 5 This balance-wheel, which the sculptor found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found in the accumulated dramatic materials...which had a certain excellence which no single genius...could hope to create.
    ET6 5.114 22 ...the range of nations from which London draws, and the steep contrasts of condition, create the picturesque in society...
    ET9 5.150 27 The English dislike the American structure of society, whilst yet trade, mills, public education and Chartism are doing what they can to create in England the same social condition.
    ET10 5.157 1 The ambition to create value evokes every kind of ability [in England];...
    ET10 5.159 7 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...Mr. Roberts of Manchester undertook to create this peaceful fellow...
    ET13 5.226 10 Like the Quakers, [the wise legislator] may resist the separation of a class of priests, and create opportunity and expectation in the society to run to meet natural endowment in this kind.
    ET13 5.229 12 ...the religion of the day is a theatrical Sinai, where the thunders are supplied by the property-man. The fanaticism and hypocrisy create satire.
    ET17 5.297 21 Who reads [Wordsworth] well will know that in following the strong bent of his genius, he was...self-assured that he should create the taste by which he is to be enjoyed.
    Bhr 6.188 2 Strong will and keen perception overpower old manners and create new;...
    Wsp 6.224 27 The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.
    DL 7.118 1 The diet of the house does not create its order...
    Farm 7.137 2 The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create.
    Cour 7.274 4 As long as [the religious sentiment] is cowardly insinuated... it is not imparted, and cannot inspire or create.
    PI 8.44 24 In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama;...
    PC 8.229 17 ...when we see creation we also begin to create.
    Aris 10.43 7 When Nature goes to create a national man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers.
    PerF 10.70 27 ...the strata were deposited and uptorn and bent back, and Chaos moved from beneath, to create and flavor the fruit on your table to-day.
    SovE 10.193 19 ...the habit of respecting that great order which certainly contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from the heart. It did itself create and distribute all that is created and distributed...
    Schr 10.275 21 Nature could not leave herself without a seer and expounder. But he could not see or teach without organs. The same necessity then that would create him reappears in his splendid gifts.
    AKan 11.261 18 A very remarkable speech from a Democratic President to his fellow citizens, that they are not to concern themselves with institutions which they alone are to create and determine.
    ACiv 11.302 9 In this national crisis, it is not argument that we want, but that rare courage which dares commit itself to a principle, believing that Nature...will create the instruments it requires...
    ACiv 11.303 2 I wish I saw in the people that inspiration which, if government would not obey the same, would...create on the moment the means and executors it wanted.
    Wom 11.410 8 ...[women] create [easy circumstances] with all their might.
    CW 12.172 23 ...there are many who can enjoy to one that can create [a good garden].
    MAng1 12.216 20 It is a happiness to find...a soul at intervals born to behold and create only Beauty.
    Milt1 12.278 4 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry... seeks...to create an ideal world better than the world of experience.

created, adj. (5)

    Lov1 2.183 1 ...separating in each soul that which is divine from the taint which it has contracted in the world, the lover ascends...to the love and knowledge of the Divinity, by steps on this ladder of created souls.
    Pt1 3.41 5 ...the rich poets, as Homer, Chaucer, Shakspeare, and Raphael... resemble a mirror carried through the street, ready to render an image of every created thing.
    UGM 4.9 16 Each plant has its parasite, and each created thing its lover and poet.
    PI 8.58 9 ...[The wind] has no fear, nor the rude wants of created things./
    MMEm 10.421 23 In a religious contemplative public [our civilization] would have less outward variety, but simpler and grander means; a few pulsations of created beings...

created, v. (45)

    Nat 1.30 8 When...duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth...new imagery ceases to be created...
    Nat 1.30 18 Hundreds of writers may be found...who feed unconsciously on the language created by the primary writers of the country...
    AmS 1.115 13 Is it not the chief disgrace in the world...not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear...
    MR 1.227 8 ...some of those offices and functions for which we were mainly created are grown so rare in society that the memory of them is only kept alive in old books...
    Con 1.296 9 Saturn...created an oyster.
    SR 2.82 17 The soul created the arts wherever they have flourished.
    Lov1 2.175 3 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain, which created all things anew;...
    OS 2.289 14 ...we...feel that the splendid works which [Shakspeare] has created...take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock.
    Cir 2.302 14 The Greek sculpture is all melted away, as if it had been statues of ice; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining, as we see flecks and scraps of snow left in cold dells and mountain clefts in June and July. For the genius that created it creates now somewhat else.
    Cir 2.303 11 A rich estate appears to women a firm and lasting fact; to a merchant, one easily created out of any materials, and easily lost.
    Art1 2.359 25 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets...that each [work] came out of the solitary workshop of one artist, who...created his work without other model save life...
    SwM 4.94 26 In the language of the Koran, God said, The heaven and the earth and all that is between them, think ye that we created them in jest, and that ye shall not return to us?
    ShP 4.217 27 One remembers again the trumpet-text in the Koran,--The heavens and the earth and all that is between them, think ye we have created them in jest?
    ET5 5.95 3 The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses to order...
    ET5 5.96 2 The markets created by the manufacturing population [in England] have erected agriculture into a great thriving and spending industry.
    ET13 5.215 23 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...created the religious architecture...
    ET13 5.215 27 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...created the religious architecture...works to which the key is lost, with the sentiment which created them;...
    ET14 5.251 24 The voice of [Englishmen's] modern muse has a slight hint of the steam-whistle, and the poem is created as an ornament and finish of their monarchy...
    Wth 6.104 23 The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
    Wth 6.112 26 ...society can never prosper but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.
    Wsp 6.222 27 Nature created a police of many ranks.
    Bty 6.295 3 The fine arts...spring from the instincts of the nations that created them.
    WD 7.170 3 The scholar must look long for the right hour for Plato's Timaeus. At last the elect morning arrives, the early dawn,--a few lights conspicuous in the heaven, as of a world just created and still becoming...
    Suc 7.292 2 ...it is rare to find a man...who speaks that which he was created to say.
    Elo2 8.125 10 That something which each man was created to say and do, he only or he best can tell you...
    PC 8.210 9 In this country the prodigious mass of work that must be done has either made new divisions of labor or created new professions.
    PPo 8.250 24 A saint might lend an ear to the riotous fun of Falstaff; for it is not created to excite the animal appetites...
    Grts 8.311 6 The world was created as an audience for [the scholar];...
    PerF 10.77 5 Our stock in life, our real estate, is that amount of thought which we have had,-and which we have applied and so domesticated. The ground we have thus created is forever a fund for new thoughts.
    Chr2 10.118 8 The power that in other times inspired...the modern revivals, flies...to the reform of convicts and harlots,-as the war created the Hilton Head and Charleston missions...
    Edc1 10.129 8 No dollar of property can be created without some direct communication with Nature...
    SovE 10.193 19 ...the habit of respecting that great order which certainly contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from the heart. It did itself create and distribute all that is created and distributed...
    LLNE 10.330 14 Germany had created criticism in vain for us until 1820...
    EWI 11.124 17 [The negroes] seemed created by Providence to bear the heat and the whipping, and make these fine articles.
    FSLC 11.194 13 ...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;...necessitated to express first or last every feeling of the heart. ... You can commit no crime, for they are created in their sentiments conscious of and hostile to it;...
    FSLN 11.237 16 A man who commits a crime defeats the end of his existence. He was created for benefit, and he exists for harm;...
    EPro 11.316 12 These measures [for liberty]...are received into a sympathy so deep as to apprise us that mankind are greater and better than we know. At such times it appears as if a new public were created to greet the new event.
    EPro 11.322 12 If [taxes] go to fill up this yawning Dismal Swamp, which engulfed armies and populations, and created plague...then this taxation...is the best investment in which property-holder ever lodged his earnings.
    Wom 11.413 6 The instincts of mankind have drawn the Virgin Mother- Created beings all in lowliness/ Surpassing, as in height above them all./
    PLT 12.42 10 To every soul that is created is its path, invisible to all but itself.
    PLT 12.48 2 Somewhat is to come to the light, and one [talent] was created to fetch it...
    II 12.80 27 Plant the pitch-pine in a sand-bank, where is no food, and it thrives, and presently makes a grove, and covers the sand with a soil by shedding its leaves. Not less are the arts and institutions of men created out of thought.
    Bost 12.204 22 [Liberty] was to be built on Religion, the Emancipator; Religion which teaches equality of all men in view of the spirit which created man.
    MLit 12.320 4 When we read poetry, the mind asks,-Was this verse one of twenty which the author might have written as well; or is this what that man was created to say?
    Pray 12.355 5 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;...

creates, v. (38)

    Nat 1.63 27 ...spirit creates;...
    AmS 1.90 8 The soul active sees absolute truth and utters truth, or creates.
    AmS 1.90 19 ...genius creates.
    DSA 1.126 2 This [religious] sentiment...successively creates all forms of worship.
    LE 1.186 5 It is this domineering temper of the sensual world that creates the extreme need of the priests of science;...
    MN 1.207 5 When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
    Con 1.318 2 ...an army encamps in a desert, and...creates a white city in an hour...
    SL 2.141 24 By doing his work [a man]...creates the taste by which he is enjoyed.
    Cir 2.302 14 The Greek sculpture is all melted away, as if it had been statues of ice; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining, as we see flecks and scraps of snow left in cold dells and mountain clefts in June and July. For the genius that created it creates now somewhat else.
    UGM 4.5 16 Our affection towards others creates a sort of vantage or purchase which nothing will supply.
    PPh 4.51 13 Nature opens and creates.
    PNR 4.82 6 The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
    SwM 4.143 22 It is remarkable that this man [Swedenborg], who, by his perception of symbols, saw the poetic construction of things...remained entirely devoid of the whole apparatus of poetic expression, which that perception creates.
    NMW 4.248 9 What creates great difficulty, [Napoleon] remarks, in the profession of the land-commander, is the necessity of feeding so many men and animals.
    ET7 5.116 9 Add to this hereditary [German] rectitude the punctuality and precise dealing which commerce creates, and you have the English truth and credit.
    ET8 5.132 3 Of that constitutional force which yields the supplies of the day, [the English] have more than enough; the excess which creates courage on fortitude...
    ET10 5.162 7 ...the engineer [in England] sees that every stroke of the steam-piston...creates new measures and new necessities for the culture of [the duke's] children.
    ET14 5.245 16 ...[Hallam's] eye does not reach to the ideal standards...all new thought must be cast into the old moulds. The expansive element which creates literature is steadily denied.
    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.
    F 6.1 14 ...the foresight that awaits/ Is the same Genius that creates./
    Ctr 6.132 2 If [nature] creates a policeman like Fouche, he is made up of suspicions and of plots to circumvent them.
    Bty 6.296 7 Wherever [the human form] goes it creates joy and hilarity...
    Ill 6.311 15 The same interference from our organization creates the most of our pleasure and pain.
    Civ 7.33 14 ...it is frivolous to insist on the invention...of...percussion-caps and rubber-shoes, which are toys thrown off from that security, freedom and exhilaration which a healthy morality creates in society.
    Farm 7.148 13 ...this shelter creates a new climate.
    OA 7.319 9 ...especially, [the cup of time] creates a craving for larger draughts of itself.
    PI 8.30 10 The right poetic mood...shows a sharper insight: and the perception creates the strong expression of it...
    PI 8.43 21 ...the poet creates his persons, and then watches and relates what they do and say.
    Elo2 8.113 16 ...[the orator]...creates a higher appetite than he satisfies.
    QO 8.201 15 The divine never quotes, but is, and creates.
    QO 8.204 18 The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates...
    PC 8.217 16 [Culture] creates a personal independence which the monarch cannot look down...
    Supl 10.176 21 ...[Nature] creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning to escape from limitation into the vast and boundless;...
    SovE 10.211 24 The credence of men it is that moulds them, and creates at will one or another surface.
    MoL 10.250 19 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas, the subtle force which creates Nature and men and states;...
    ALin 11.337 26 [Providence]...creates the man for the time...
    ChiE 11.470 1 Nature creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning to escape from limitation into the vast and boundless...
    PLT 12.14 19 ...the metaphysician...puts himself out of the way of inspiration; loses that which is the miracle and creates the worship.

creating, adj. (3)

    Art2 7.43 15 ...in each [of the fine arts] the creating intellect is crippled in some degree by the stuff on which it works.
    PI 8.10 15 The metaphysician, the poet, only sees each animal form as an inevitable step in the path of the creating mind.
    FRep 11.538 19 ...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of religious...obeyers of duty...

creating, v. (16)

    Con 1.296 11 Saturn...created an oyster. Then he would act again, but he... went on creating the race of oysters.
    YA 1.364 8 ...I hasten to speak of the utility of these improvements in creating an American sentiment.
    OS 2.274 10 The soul looketh steadily forwards, creating a world before her...
    NER 3.259 2 ...the Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Latin, Greek and Mathematics, it...was now creating and feeding other matters at other ends of the world.
    Wsp 6.210 26 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 6.250 22 The more difficulty there is in creating good men, the more they are used when they come.
    Civ 7.23 8 The division of labor...fills the State with useful and happy laborers; and they, creating demand by the very temptation of their productions, are rapidly and surely rewarded by good sale...
    PI 8.39 23 We cannot look at works of art but they teach us how near man is to creating.
    PI 8.44 9 Vast is the difference between writing clean verses for magazines, and creating these new persons and situations...
    SA 8.100 7 [The consideration the rich possess] is the approval given by the human understanding to the act of creating value by knowledge and labor.
    Chr2 10.117 26 The churches already indicate the new spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent activities,-as in creating hospitals...
    SlHr 10.446 27 [Samuel Hoar]...spent all his energy in creating purity of manners and careful education.
    PLT 12.15 19 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...carrying its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes. To this sea every human house has a water front. But this force, creating nature...is no fee or property of man or angel.
    PLT 12.17 3 ...I believe the mind is the creator of the world, and is ever creating;...
    PLT 12.64 11 [The hints of the Intellect] overcome us like perfumes from a far-off shore of sweetness, and their meaning is...that by casting ourselves on it and being its voice it rushes each moment to positive commands, creating men and methods...
    Mem 12.95 15 He who calls what is vanished back again into being enjoys a bliss like that of creating, says Neibuhr.

Creation [John Martin], n. (1)

    PPr 12.386 11 Every object [in Carlyle] attitudinizes...and instead of the common earth and sky, we have a Martin's Creation or Judgment Day.

creation, n. (96)

    Nat 1.3 22 We must trust the perfection of the creation...
    Nat 1.4 13 We have...scarcely yet a remote approach to an idea of creation.
    Nat 1.23 8 The beauty of nature re-forms itself in the mind...for new creation.
    Nat 1.23 14 The creation of beauty is Art.
    Nat 1.25 11 ...the use of outer creation [is] to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.
    Nat 1.25 13 ...the use of outer creation [is] to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.
    Nat 1.31 10 [This imagery] is proper creation.
    Nat 1.34 27 The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
    Nat 1.39 7 What noble emotions dilate the mortal as he enters into the councils of the creation...
    Nat 1.52 16 [Shakspeare's] imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand...
    Nat 1.74 23 ...when a faithful thinker...shall...kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into the creation.
    AmS 1.88 21 The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation...is transferred to the record.
    DSA 1.121 10 When...[man] attains to say...Virtue, I am thine;...thee will I serve...that I may be not virtuous, but virtue; - then is the end of the creation answered...
    LE 1.176 6 We...talk of muse and prophet, of art and creation.
    Con 1.308 23 ...I am very peaceable, and on my private account could well enough die, since it appears there was some mistake in my creation...
    Con 1.320 14 [Conservatism's] social and political action has no better aim;...not to sink the memory of the past in the glory of a new and more excellent creation;...
    Tran 1.334 21 All that you call the world is...the perpetual creation of the powers of thought...
    Tran 1.347 19 ...a favorite spot in the hills or the woods which they can people with the fair and worthy creation of the fancy, can give [Transcendentalists] often forms so vivid that these for the time shall seem real, and society the illusion.
    YA 1.373 13 ...Nature...uses a grinding economy, working up all that is wasted to-day into to-morrow's creation;...
    Hist 2.3 24 The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn...
    Hist 2.18 20 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 2.61 4 Character, reality...takes place of the whole creation.
    Fdsp 2.194 15 ...as many thoughts in succession substantiate themselves, we shall by and by stand in a new world of our own creation...
    Cir 2.302 17 The Greek letters...are already...tumbling into the inevitable pit which the creation of new thought opens for all that is old.
    Cir 2.318 23 That central life is somewhat superior to creation...
    Int 2.327 26 In the period of infancy [the mind] accepted and disposed of all impressions from the surrounding creation after its own way.
    Art1 2.351 8 ...in our fine arts, not imitation but creation is the aim.
    Art1 2.351 9 In landscapes the painter should give the suggestion of a fairer creation than we know.
    Art1 2.363 19 Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is [art's] end.
    Art1 2.364 14 ...in the works of our plastic arts and especially of sculpture, creation is driven into a corner.
    Art1 2.365 20 A true announcement of the law of creation...would carry art up into the kingdom of nature...
    Art1 2.369 6 When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.
    Exp 3.45 23 Did our birth fall in some fit of indigence and frugality in nature, that...though we have health and reason, yet we have no superfluity of spirit for new creation?
    Chr1 3.105 15 It is of no use to ape [character] or to contend with it. Somewhat is possible of resistance, and of persistence, and of creation, to this power, which will foil all emulation.
    Mrs1 3.120 23 What fact more conspicuous in modern history than the creation of the gentleman?
    PPh 4.47 2 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that man, at that instant...with his feet still planted on the immense forces of night, converses by his eyes and brain with solar and stellar creation.
    PNR 4.82 24 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His perception of the generation of contraries, of death out of life and life out of death,--that law by which, in nature...putrefaction and cholera are only signals of a new creation;...
    SwM 4.95 9 The Koran makes a distinct class of those...whose goodness has an influence on others, and pronounces this class to be the aim of creation...
    SwM 4.141 27 [Swedenborg's spiritual world] is...very like...to the phenomena of dreaming, which nightly turns many an honest gentleman... into a wretch, skulking like a dog about the outer yards and kennels of creation.
    ShP 4.207 16 Did Shakspeare confide to any...sacristan, or surrogate in Stratford, the genesis of that delicate creation [A Midsummer Night's Dream]?
    ShP 4.212 3 For executive faculty, for creation, Shakspeare is unique.,
    NMW 4.237 2 ...as much life is needed for conservation as for creation.
    GoW 4.262 19 ...besides the universal joy of conversation, some men are born with exalted powers for this second creation. Men are born to write.
    ET5 5.98 24 The nation [England] is accustomed to the instantaneous creation of wealth.
    ET6 5.106 25 The power and possession which surround [the English] are their own creation...
    ET8 5.142 14 ...the calm, sound and most British Briton...respects an economy founded on agriculture, coal-mines, manufactures or trade, which secures an independence through the creation of real values.
    ET10 5.157 13 [The English] have reinforced their own productivity by the creation of that marvellous machinery which differences this age from any other age.
    ET10 5.159 11 After a few trials, [Richard Roberts] succeeded, and in 1830 procured a patent for his self-acting mule; a creation, the delight of mill-owners...
    ET10 5.162 24 The creation of wealth in England in the last ninety years is a main fact in modern history.
    ET10 5.164 7 With this power of creation and this passion of independence, property [in England] has reached an ideal perfection.
    ET10 5.165 17 ...the proudest result of this creation [of English property rights] has been the great and refined forces it has put at the disposal of the private citizen.
    ET11 5.178 20 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival...to mark the day when the dukedom should have remained three hundred years in their house, since its creation by Richard III.
    ET14 5.250 2 ...[Carlyle's] imagination, finding no nutriment in any creation, avenged itself by celebrating the majestic beauty of the laws of decay.
    ET14 5.253 10 The eye of the naturalist must have...a susceptibility...alive to the heart as well as to the logic of creation.
    ET18 5.307 23 The power of performance [in England] has not been exceeded,--the creation of value.
    Wth 6.86 3 ...the mind acts...in the creation of finer values by fine art...
    Wth 6.126 24 The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest...that he may spend in spiritual creation...
    Wsp 6.202 25 The whole creation is made of hooks and eyes...
    Art2 7.39 21 ...the Spirit, in its creation, aims at use or at beauty...
    WD 7.170 14 Yesterday...the world was barren, peaked and pining: to-day ' t is inconceivably populous; creation swarms and meliorates.
    Cour 7.272 26 The statue, the architecture, were the later and inferior creation of the same [Greek] genius.
    Suc 7.293 20 It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the house in the ground-plan; the working, in the model of the projector. Whilst it is a thought, though it were...the creation of agriculture...it is a chimera;...
    Suc 7.299 10 We live among gods of our own creation.
    Suc 7.309 6 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton. ... She... forces death down underground...and wipes carefully out every trace by new creation.
    PI 8.4 13 ...the creation is on wheels...
    PI 8.27 26 I assert for myself [wrote Blake] that I do not behold the outward creation...
    PI 8.38 26 ...there is a third step which poetry takes...namely, creation...
    PI 8.43 23 ...the poet creates his persons, and then watches and relates what they do and say. Such creation is poetry...
    PI 8.63 4 We are sometimes apprised that there is a mental power and creation more excellent that anything which is commonly called philosophy and literature;...
    PI 8.65 11 ...every creation is omen of every other.
    Res 8.143 7 The creation of power had never any parallel [to that in America].
    Comc 8.170 9 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...as if truth and virtue should be bowed out of creation by the clothes they wore, is the secret of all the fun that circulates concerning eminent fops and fashionists...
    PC 8.229 17 ...when we see creation we also begin to create.
    PPo 8.248 4 What is pent and smouldered in the dumb actor, is not pent in the poet, but passes over into new form, at once relief and creation.
    Grts 8.302 14 'T is...not Alexander, or Bonaparte or Count Moltke surely, who represent the highest force of mankind; not the strong hand, but...the creation of laws, institutions, letters and art.
    Dem1 10.3 17 Within the sweep of yon encircling wall/ How many a large creation of the night,/ Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea,/ Peopled with busy, transitory groups,/ Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd./
    Dem1 10.4 3 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we should...become the theatre of delirious shows...a delicate creation outdoing the prime and flower of actual Nature...
    Dem1 10.8 4 We call the phantoms that rise [in dreams], the creation of our fancy...
    Dem1 10.11 9 All life, all creation, is telltale and betraying.
    Aris 10.40 22 Every survey of the dignified classes...establishes a nobility of a prouder creation.
    Chr2 10.92 5 [Man] chooses,-as the rest of the creation does not.
    Edc1 10.137 4 Nature, when she sends a new mind into the world, fills it beforehand with a desire for that which she wishes it to know and do. Let us wait and see what is this new creation...
    Supl 10.173 21 ...the luminous object...is luminous because it is burning up; and if the powers are disposed for display, there is all the less left for use and creation.
    SovE 10.197 19 How came this creation so magically woven that nothing can do me mischief but myself...
    SovE 10.197 23 If I will stand upright, the creation cannot bend me.
    Prch 10.222 2 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action...what are they to...the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation?
    Prch 10.222 3 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action...what are they to...the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation? To him, it is no creation;...
    LLNE 10.337 21 On the heels of this intruder [Phrenology] came Mesmerism, which...attempted the explanation of miracle and prophecy, as well as of creation.
    MMEm 10.404 13 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I never expected connections and matrimony. My taste was formed in romance, and I knew I was not destined to please. I love God and his creation as I never else could.
    MMEm 10.414 1 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...When I get a glimpse of the revolutions of nations,-that retribution which seems forever going on in this part of creasion,-I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things...
    MMEm 10.421 15 Alone, feeling strongly, fully, that I [Mary Moody Emerson] have deserved nothing;...yet joying in existence, perhaps striving to beautify one individual of God's creation.
    EdAd 11.386 25 ...who can see the continent...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which...this sudden creation of enormous values is made?
    PLT 12.4 10 ...in the order of Nature [the higher laws] lie higher and are nearer to the mysterious seat of power and creation.
    PLT 12.4 21 Every creation...is on the method and by the means which our mind approves as soon as it is thoroughly acquainted with the facts;...
    CW 12.178 3 I admire in trees the creation of property so clean of tears, or crime, or even care.
    MLit 12.332 16 ...the ambition of creation [Goethe] refused.

Creation, n. (5)

    PI 8.38 24 Creation.--But there is a third step which poetry takes...namely, creation...
    MMEm 10.412 15 ...when Nature beams with such excess of beauty, when the heart thrills with hope in its Author, feels that it is related to him more than by any ties of Creation,-it exults, too fondly perhaps for a state of trial.
    MMEm 10.416 19 ...the simple principle which made me [Mary Moody Emerson] say...that, should He make me a blot on the fair face of his Creation, I should rejoice in His will, has never been equalled...
    FRO2 11.486 23 ...Christianity is as old as the Creation...
    MAng1 12.230 8 [Michelangelo's paintings are in the Sistine Chapel, of which he first covered the ceiling with the story of the Creation...

Creation, Vestiges of... [R (1)

    EdAd 11.391 16 Here is the standing problem of Natural Science, and the merits of her great interpreters to be determined; the encyclopaedical Humboldt, and the intrepid generalizations collected by the author of the Vestiges of Creation [Robert Chambers].

creations, n. (11)

    LE 1.177 1 ...literary men...dealing with the organ of language,-the subtlest...of man's creations...learn to enjoy the pride of playing with this splendid engine...
    LE 1.177 14 ...[human life] is also the richest material for [the scholar's] creations.
    Con 1.321 22 ...men are misled into a reliance on institutions, which, the moment they cease to be the instantaneous creations of the devout sentiment, are worthless.
    Hist 2.30 11 The beautiful fables of the Greeks, being proper creations of the imagination and not of the fancy, are universal verities.
    ET8 5.135 17 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed, and profusely pouring over the cold mind of his countrymen creations of grace and truth...
    CbW 6.262 19 Nature...works up every shred and ort and end into new creations;...
    DL 7.130 4 ...let the creations of the plastic arts be collected with care in galleries by the piety and taste of the people...
    PI 8.43 7 ...the fascination of genius for us is this awful nearness to Nature' s creations.
    PC 8.212 21 The oldest empires...now that we have true measures of duration [in Geology], show like creations of yesterday.
    Schr 10.284 24 Happy for more than yourself, a benefactor of men, if you can answer [life's questions] in works of wisdom, art or poetry; bestowing on the general mind of men organic creations...
    Milt1 12.277 6 The creations of Shakspeare are cast into the world of thought to no further end than to delight.

creative, adj. (36)

    AmS 1.90 22 There are creative manners...
    AmS 1.90 23 ...there are creative actions, and creative words;...
    AmS 1.93 2 There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
    LT 1.272 15 [The moral sentiment] is new and creative.
    Hist 2.9 24 I can find...the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.
    Int 2.338 21 ...the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative...
    Art1 2.352 3 What is that abridgment and selection we observe in all spiritual activity, but itself the creative impulse?...
    Pt1 3.39 25 ...an admirable creative power exists in these intellections [of the poet]...
    Exp 3.54 21 ...it is impossible that the creative power should exclude itself.
    Exp 3.76 1 Perhaps these subject-lenses have a creative power;...
    NER 3.281 8 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think...the poet would confess that his creative imagination gave him no deep advantage...
    PPh 4.52 17 ...the genius of Europe is active and creative...
    SwM 4.109 9 Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...
    MoS 4.150 24 The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design?--he will presently undervalue the actual object.
    ShP 4.208 1 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art...the Genius draws up the ladder after him, when the creative age goes up to heaven...
    ET10 5.166 20 The English are so rich...because they are constitutionally fertile and creative.
    ET11 5.176 5 A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.
    F 6.25 7 ...there are also the noble creative forces.
    Pow 6.58 2 ...in both men and women [there is] a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.
    Pow 6.60 7 Health is good,--power, life, that...is conservative as well as creative.
    Art2 7.39 16 Art, universally, is the spirit creative.
    Boks 7.212 17 ...in this rag-fair neither the Imagination...nor the Morals, creative of genius and of men, are addressed.
    Boks 7.213 3 We must have...some swing and verge for the creative power lying coiled and cramped here...
    PI 8.34 21 'T is easy to repaint the mythology...of...the martyrdoms of mediaeval Europe; but to point out where the same creative force is now working in our own houses and public assemblies;...requires a subtile and commanding thought.
    PI 8.35 2 'T is boyish in Swedenborg to cumber himself with the dead scurf of Hebrew antiquity, as if the Divine creative energy had fainted in his own century.
    PI 8.42 7 There was as much creative force then as now...
    Elo2 8.119 15 What is peculiar in [eloquence] is a certain creative heat...
    Imtl 8.336 2 ...what are these delights in the vast and permanent and strong, but approximations and resemblances of what is entire and sufficing, creative and self-sustaining life?
    Dem1 10.27 5 [The demonologic] is a lawless world. ...a droll bedlam, where...the actors and spectators have no conscience or reflection, no police, no foot-rule, no sanity,-nothing but whim and whim creative.
    Chr2 10.111 19 ...with every repeater something of creative force is lost...
    Edc1 10.157 13 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].
    Wom 11.410 17 [Man] is as much raised above the beast by this creative faculty [taste] as by any other.
    II 12.85 16 Each must be rich, but not only in money or lands, he may have instead the riches of riches,-creative supplying power.
    CInt 12.113 10 Here [in the college], is, or should be, the majesty of reason and the creative cause;...
    CInt 12.116 10 If the colleges...really...had the power of imparting... creative principles...we should all rush to their gates;...
    MAng1 12.242 5 In conversing upon this subject [death] with one of his friends, that person remarked that Michael [Angelo] might well grieve that one who was incessant in his creative labors should have no restoration.

creativeness, n. (2)

    PPh 4.55 23 ...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other...this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    Insp 8.289 11 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic creativeness...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].

creator, n. (13)

    Nat 1.64 17 ...we learn that man...is himself the creator in the finite.
    AmS 1.86 27 ...[the scholar] shall look forward to an ever expanding knowledge as to a becoming creator.
    Pt1 3.7 11 ...Beauty is the creator of the universe.
    Pt1 3.38 21 Art is the path of the creator to his work.
    Exp 3.54 23 Into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed, through which the creator passes.
    Mrs1 3.153 15 Everything that is called fashion and courtesy humbles itself before the...creator of titles and dignities, namely the heart of love.
    Pol1 3.216 18 [The wise man] needs...no experience, for the life of the creator shoots through him...
    Art2 7.40 16 The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful;...
    PI 8.43 8 I have heard that the Germans think the creator of Trim and Uncle Toby...a greater poet than Cowper...
    PerF 10.76 1 ...surprising and admirable effects follow [man] like a creator.
    CPL 11.508 5 Instantly, when the mind itself wakes, all books, all past acts are...huddled aside as impertinent in the august presence of the creator.
    PLT 12.17 2 ...I believe the mind is the creator of the world...
    MLit 12.332 6 That Goethe had not a moral perception proportionate to his other powers...is the cardinal fact of health or disease; since, lacking this, he failed in the high sense to be a creator...

Creator, n. (19)

    Nat 1.27 15 Spirit is the Creator.
    Nat 1.35 3 Material objects...are necessarily kinds of scoriae of the substantial thoughts of the Creator...
    Nat 1.64 16 ...we learn that man has access to the entire mind of the Creator...
    LT 1.286 7 It almost seems as if what was aforetime spoken fabulously and hieroglyphically, was now spoken plainly, the doctrine, namely, of the indwelling of the Creator in man.
    Hist 2.31 7 ...where [the story of Prometheus]...exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which...seems the self-defence of man against...a feeling that the obligation of reverence is onerous. It would steal if it could the fire of the Creator...
    Pt1 3.28 22 ...the great calm presence of the Creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.
    ET14 5.253 17 The poet only sees [the reptile or the mollusk] as an inevitable step in the path of the Creator.
    Cour 7.273 18 There is a persuasion in the soul of man...that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him...
    PI 8.39 24 Michel Angelo is largely filled with the Creator that made and makes men.
    Imtl 8.334 23 ...the naturalist works...for the believing mind, which... receives [his discoveries] as private tokens of the grand good will of the Creator.
    Imtl 8.336 3 ...the Creator keeps his word with us.
    Imtl 8.338 2 All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
    Imtl 8.339 15 Every really able man...considers his work...as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?
    PerF 10.73 22 ...we see the causes of evils and learn to parry them and use them as instruments, by knowledge, being inside of them and dealing with them as the Creator does.
    SovE 10.201 15 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree. ... Let him know by your security that...if he were Paul himself, you also are here, and with your Creator.
    Prch 10.225 19 All wise men regard [the moral sentiment] as the voice of the Creator himself.
    MMEm 10.425 13 The wonderful inhabitant of the building to which unknown ages were the mechanics, is left out [of Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology] as to that part where the Creator had put his own lighted candle...
    MMEm 10.427 14 ...Were it possible that the Creator was not virtually present with the spirits and bodies which He has made...
    CL 12.141 15 [The air] is the last finish of the work of the Creator.

Creator of Men, n. (1)

    Prch 10.225 12 [The moral sentiment] is that, which being...strongest in the best and most gifted men, we know to be implanted by the Creator of Men.

creator-creature, n. (1)

    NR 3.245 16 All the universe over, there is but one thing, this old Two-Face, creator-creature...of which any proposition may be affirmed or denied.

creators, n. (5)

    LE 1.160 3 ...now will we live...as the upholders and creators of our age;...
    SR 2.50 6 [Society] loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
    Mrs1 3.146 14 Even the line of heroes is not utterly extinct. ... These are the creators of Fashion...
    ET8 5.142 20 ...not creators in art, [the English] value its refinement.
    LLNE 10.357 20 [The Fourierists] were not the creators they believed themselves...

creature, n. (69)

    Nat 1.9 8 Nature says, - [man] is my creature...
    Nat 1.20 4 Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate.
    Nat 1.44 10 Each creature is only a modification of the other;...
    MN 1.203 20 ...Nature seems further to reply, I have ventured so great a stake as my success, in no single creature.
    MN 1.212 11 ...[all things] seek to penetrate and overpower each the nature of every other creature...
    Con 1.300 16 Throughout nature the past combines in every creature with the present.
    Hist 2.32 3 I can symbolize my thought by using the name of any creature, of any fact...
    Hist 2.32 4 ...every creature is man agent or patient.
    Comp 2.97 23 A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature.
    Comp 2.101 24 Eyes, ears, taste, smell, motion, resistance, appetite, and organs of reproduction that take hold on eternity,--all find room to consist in the small creature.
    Pt1 3.20 25 ...[the poet]...perceives...that within the form of every creature is a force impelling it to ascend into a higher form;...
    Chr1 3.104 7 A man is a poor creature if he is to be measured [by a list of specifications of benefit].
    Nat2 3.185 1 Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality.
    Nat2 3.185 4 ...to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path...
    NR 3.246 25 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...and...we admire and love her...and say, Lo! a genuine creature of the fair earth...
    UGM 4.23 26 Nature never spares the opium or nepenthe, but wherever she mars her creature with some deformity or defect, lays her poppies plentifully on the bruise...
    UGM 4.24 13 Is it not a rare contrivance that lodged the due inertia in every creature...
    UGM 4.28 22 ...every individual strives...to impose the law of its being on every other creature...
    UGM 4.32 1 ...heaven reserves an equal scope for every creature.
    PPh 4.69 9 ...every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good.
    NMW 4.232 2 Again [Bonaparte] said, speaking of his son, My son can not replace me; I could not replace myself. I am the creature of circumstances.
    NMW 4.245 15 The Revolution entitled...every horse-boy and powder-monkey in the army, to look on Napoleon as...the creature of his party...
    ET4 5.71 13 If in every efficient man there is first a fine animal, in the English race it is of the best breed, a wealthy, juicy, broad-chested creature...
    F 6.36 18 ...observe how far the roots of every creature run...
    F 6.37 15 Eyes are found in light;...and each creature where it was meant to be...
    F 6.37 27 There are more belongings to every creature than his air and his food.
    F 6.38 13 ...nature makes every creature do its own work...
    F 6.38 16 Every creature, wren or dragon, shall make its own lair.
    F 6.41 15 Each creature puts forth from itself its own condition and sphere...
    Pow 6.67 4 [Boniface] was a social, vascular creature...
    Wth 6.104 14 An apple-tree, if you take out every day for a number of days a load of loam and put in a load of sand about its roots, will find it out. An apple-tree is a stupid kind of creature, but if this treatment be pursued for a short time I think it would begin to mistrust something.
    Wth 6.120 3 ...[Mr. Cockayne] thinks a cow is a creature that is fed on hay and gives a pail of milk twice a day.
    Ctr 6.146 12 ...if...nature has aimed to make a legged and winged creature, framed for locomotion, we must follow her hint...
    Ctr 6.166 2 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 6.204 12 The builder of heaven has not so ill constructed his creature as that the religion, that is, the public nature, should fall out...
    Wsp 6.224 22 To every creature is his own weapon...
    Civ 7.24 26 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts... No use can lessen the wonder of this control by so weak a creature of forces so prodigious.
    Civ 7.30 4 A puny creature, walled in on every side, as Daniel wrote,-- Unless above himself he can/ Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!/...
    Farm 7.151 17 [The first planter] is a poor creature;...
    Boks 7.212 11 Poetry...must be well allowed for an imaginative creature.
    Boks 7.213 8 Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature.
    Cour 7.270 6 Every creature has a courage of his constitution fit for his duties...
    Cour 7.279 17 Still firm the hunter stood,/ Although his heart beat high;/ Again the creature stopped,/ And gazed with wondering eye./
    Suc 7.308 24 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...
    PI 8.58 6 ...Discover thou what it is,/ The strong creature from before the flood,/ Without flesh, without bone, without head, without feet,/ It will neither be younger nor older than at the beginning;/...
    SA 8.103 23 ...I said to myself, How little this man [an American to be proud of] suspects...that he is not likely, in any company, to meet a man superior to himself. And I think this is a good country that can bear such a creature as he is.
    Res 8.140 27 By his machines man...can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature...has involuntarily dropped of its existence;...
    Res 8.141 4 Ah! what a plastic little creature [man] is!...
    Comc 8.158 27 The perpetual game of humor is to look with considerate good nature at every object in existence...enjoying the figure which each self-satisfied particular creature cuts in the unrespecting All...
    PC 8.223 26 Nature is an enormous system, but in mass and in particle curiously available to the humblest need of the little creature that walks on the earth!
    Insp 8.270 18 We must take [the aboriginal man] as we find him...in all our knowledge of him, an interesting creature...
    Grts 8.315 27 A poor scribbler who had written a lampoon against him... came with it in his poverty to Diderot, and Diderot, pitying the creature, wrote the dedication for him...
    Imtl 8.337 2 The implanting of a desire indicates that the gratification of that desire is in the constitution of the creature that feels it;...
    Imtl 8.337 5 ...the wish for sleep, for society, for knowledge, are...grounded in the structure of the creature...
    PerF 10.73 23 It is curious to see how a creature so feeble and vulnerable as a man...is yet able to subdue to his will these terrific [natural] forces...
    Edc1 10.127 24 This apparatus of wants and faculties, this craving body... educate the wondrous creature which they satisfy with light, with heat...
    MMEm 10.398 8 [Lucy Percy] is of too high a mind and dignity not only to seek, but almost to wish, the friendship of any creature.
    MMEm 10.427 13 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...really veiling and betraying her organic dislike to any interference, any mediation between her and the Author of her being, assurance of whose direct dealing with her she incessantly invokes: for example, the parenthesis Saving thy presence, Priest and Medium of all this approach for a sinful creature!.
    MMEm 10.431 24 What a timid, ungrateful creature!
    Thor 10.467 11 [Thoreau] liked to speak of the manners of the river, as itself a lawful creature...
    Thor 10.469 18 [Thoreau] knew every track in the snow or on the ground, and what creature had taken this path before him.
    HDC 11.28 9 I cause from every creature/ His proper good to flow:/ As much as he is and doeth,/ So much he shall bestow./
    War 11.155 7 Nature implants with life...perpetual struggle...to attain to a mastery and the security of a permanent, self-defended being; and to each creature these objects are made so dear that it risks its life continually in the struggle for these ends.
    War 11.155 11 ...whilst this principle [of self-help], necessarily, is inwrought into the fabric of every creature, yet it is but one instinct;...
    PLT 12.21 18 ...having accepted this law of identity pervading the universe, we next perceive that whilst every creature represents and obeys it, there is diversity...
    PLT 12.22 21 Is it not a little startling to see...with what genius some people fish,-what knowledge they still have of the creature they hunt?
    II 12.71 8 The divine energy...casts its old garb, and reappears, another creature;...
    Mem 12.93 7 As every creature is furnished with teeth to seize and eat, and with stomach to digest its food, so the memory is furnished with a perfect apparatus.
    Milt1 12.274 15 [Milton] beholds [man] as he walked in Eden:-His fair large front and eye sublime declared/ Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks/ Round from his parted forelock manly hung/ Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad./ And the soul of this divine creature is excellent as his form.

creatures, n. (49)

    Nat 1.32 10 Did it need such noble races of creatures...to furnish man with the dictionary and grammar of his municipal speech?
    Nat 1.38 17 ...[the wise man's] scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature.
    DSA 1.119 15 The corn and the wine have been freely dealt to all creatures...
    LE 1.177 9 ...the world revenges itself by exposing, at every turn, the folly of these...ghostly creatures.
    MN 1.205 16 See the play of thoughts! what nimble gigantic creatures are these!...
    YA 1.372 23 Remark the unceasing effort throughout nature at somewhat better than the actual creatures...
    Hist 2.39 26 Hear the rats in the wall, see the lizard on the fence, the fungus under foot, the lichen on the log. ... As old as the Caucasion man,--perhaps older,--these creatures have kept their counsel beside him...
    Comp 2.97 19 ...in the animal kingdom the physiologist has observed that no creatures are favorites...
    SL 2.139 8 [The soul] has so infused its strong enchantment into nature that...when we struggle to wound its creatures our hands are glued to our sides...
    Hsm1. 2.252 16 What joys has kind nature provided for us dear creatures!
    Int 2.341 12 ...the profound genius will cast the likeness of all creatures into every product of his wit.
    Pt1 3.4 23 ...the fountains whence all this river of Time and its creatures floweth are intrinsically ideal and beautiful...
    Pt1 3.13 11 Nature offers all her creatures to [the poet] as a picture-language.
    Pt1 3.40 21 All the creatures by pairs and by tribes pour into [the poet's] mind as into a Noah's ark...
    Exp 3.52 4 In truth [men] are all creatures of given temperament...
    Mrs1 3.155 15 Minerva said...[men] were only ridiculous little creatures...
    Nat2 3.179 16 [Efficient Nature] publishes itself in creatures...
    Nat2 3.181 12 Space exists to divide creatures;...
    Nat2 3.183 6 The cool disengaged air of natural objects makes them enviable to us, chafed and irritable creatures with red faces...
    Nat2 3.184 25 That famous aboriginal push propagates itself...through all the races of creatures...
    Nat2 3.193 18 What shall we say...of this flattery and balking of so many well-meaning creatures?
    NR 3.229 15 We are amphibious creatures...
    UGM 4.9 20 The mass of creatures and of qualities are still hid and expectant.
    ShP 4.212 10 [Shakespeare] clothed the creatures of his legend with form and sentiments as if they were people who had lived under his roof;...
    GoW 4.290 4 Man is the most composite of all creatures;...
    Bhr 6.187 11 ...[Aspasia] adds good-humoredly, the movers and masters of our souls have surely a right to throw out their limbs as carelessly as they please...before the creatures they have animated.
    Ill 6.322 15 Like sick men in hospitals, we change only from bed to bed, from one folly to another; and it cannot signify much what becomes of such...wailing, stupid, comatose creatures...
    Ill 6.324 15 Dispel, O Lord of all creatures! the conceit of knowledge which proceeds from ignorance.
    Elo1 7.90 2 We are such imaginative creatures that nothing so works on the human mind...as a trope.
    WD 7.171 20 ...could a power open our eyes to behold millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on which they moved floored beneath and arched above with the same web of blue depth which weaves itself over me now...
    WD 7.178 2 ...though many creatures eat from one dish, each, according to its constitution, assimilates from the elements what belongs to it...
    Cour 7.257 5 Cut off [the snapping-turtle's] head, and the teeth will not let go the stick. Break the egg of the young, and the little embryo...bites fiercely; these vivacious creatures contriving--shall we say?--not only to bite after they are dead, but also to bite before they are born.
    Comc 8.158 6 Unconscious creatures do the whole will of wisdom.
    PC 8.205 5 ...as through dreams in watches of the night,/ So through all creatures in their form and ways/ Some mystic hint accosts the vigilant/...
    Insp 8.286 7 ...I thank the annoying insect/ For many a golden hour./ Stand, then, for me, ye tormenting creatures,/ Highly praised by the poet/ As the true Musagetes./
    Dem1 10.18 19 ...a monstrous force goes out from [demonic individuals], and they exert an incredible power over all creatures...
    PerF 10.73 8 See how trivial is the use of the world by any other of its creatures.
    Edc1 10.155 15 These creatures [in nature] have no value for their time...
    Supl 10.173 4 We are a garrulous, demonstrative kind of creatures...
    Prch 10.222 3 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action...what are they to...the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation? To him, it is no creation; to him, these fair creatures are hapless spectres...
    LLNE 10.350 11 The hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea, were all beneficent parts of the system; the good Fourier knew what those creatures should have been...
    MMEm 10.407 25 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] was offended here by the phlegm of all her fellow creatures...
    MMEm 10.410 23 [Mary Moody Emerson] exclaimed, God has given you a voice that you might use it in the service of your fellow creatures.
    MMEm 10.415 8 Vital, I feel not: not active, but passive, and cannot aid the creatures which seem my progeny,-myself.
    Thor 10.467 5 ...the turtle, frog, hyla and cricket, which make the banks [of the Concord River] vocal,-were all known to [Thoreau], and, as it were, townsmen and fellow creatures;...
    EWI 11.141 16 In 1791, Mr. Wilberforce announced to the House of Commons, We have already gained one victory: we have obtained for these poor creatures [West Indian negroes] the recognition of their human nature...
    War 11.151 23 As far as history has preserved to us the slow unfoldings of any savage tribe, it is not easy to see how war could be avoided by such wild, passionate, needy, ungoverned, strong-bodied creatures.
    PLT 12.32 21 Perhaps creatures live with us which we never see, because their motion is too swift for our vision.
    Milt1 12.257 27 In the midst of London, [Milton] seems, like the creatures of the field and the forest, to have been tuned in concord with the order of the world;...

creature's, n. (1)

    PLT 12.22 24 How lately the hunter was the poor creature's organic enemy;...

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