Fingal's Cave to Firs

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

Fingal's Cave, Hebrides, n. (1)

    ET1 5.22 11 [Wordsworth] had just returned from a visit to Staffa, and within three days had made three sonnets on Fingal's Cave...

finger, n. (15)

    AmS 1.83 17 The state of society is one in which the members...strut about so many walking monsters, - a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.
    SR 2.70 4 Who has more obedience than I masters me, though he should not raise his finger.
    SL 2.155 13 ...now, every thing [the great man] did, even to the lifting of his finger...looks large...
    Exp 3.53 4 ...[physicians] esteem each man the victim of another, who winds him round his finger by knowing the law of his being;...
    Exp 3.81 24 A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he give so much as a leg or a finger they will drown him.
    Mrs1 3.145 25 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout...whoso touched his finger, drew after it his whole body.
    NER 3.266 27 ...in a celebrated experiment, by expiration and respiration exactly together, four persons lift a heavy man from the ground by the little finger only...
    UGM 4.24 4 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, and the sufferer goes joyfully through life, ignorant of the ruin and incapable of seeing it, though all the world point their finger at it every day.
    MoS 4.185 25 [The world-spirit] snaps his finger at laws...
    NMW 4.248 8 The world treated [Napoleon's] novelties just as it treats everybody's novelties...mustered all the impediments; but he snapped his finger at their objections.
    Civ 7.22 15 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran and picked him up with her finger and thumb...
    SMC 11.356 11 ...when the Border raids were let loose on [Kansas] villages, these people, who turned pale at home if called to dress a cut finger...were so beside themselves with rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined avengers.
    EdAd 11.392 27 The health which we call Virtue...resembles those rocking stones which a child's finger can move, and a weight of many hundred tons cannot overthrow.
    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 I cut my finger;...
    MAng1 12.230 14 Every one of these pieces [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling]...every hand and foot and finger, is a study of anatomy and design.

finger, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.419 15 True, I [Mary Moody Emerson] must finger the very farthing candle-ends...

fingering, n. (2)

    Schr 10.267 12 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth to beneficent and as yet incalculable ends. Yes, but not a petty fingering and running...
    Schr 10.267 14 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth to beneficent and as yet incalculable ends. Yes, but not...a senseless repeating of yesterday's fingering and running;...

finger-pointing, n. (1)

    Pow 6.70 6 ...[the people's] instincts are a finger-pointing of Providence...

finger-ring, n. (1)

    MoS 4.176 3 ...a book...or only the sound of a name, shoots a spark through the nerves, and we suddenly believe in will: my finger-ring shall be the seal of Solomon;...

fingers, n. (24)

    AmS 1.82 22 It is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods...divided Man into men...just as the hand was divided into fingers...
    MN 1.206 16 ...when the genius comes, it makes fingers...
    Con 1.297 26 [Conservatism's] fingers clutch the fact...
    Hist 2.23 23 The primeval world...I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with researching fingers...
    Hist 2.37 18 Do not the constructive fingers of Watt, Fulton, Whittemore, Arkwright, predict the fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals, the properties of stone, water, and wood?
    Exp 3.49 20 I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.
    SwM 4.108 10 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over...into a ball, and forms the skull, with extremities again...the fingers and toes being represented this time by upper and lower teeth.
    NMW 4.258 3 [Napoleon's egotism] resembled the torpedo, which inflicts a succession of shocks on any one who takes hold of it, producing spasms which contract the muscles of the hand, so that the man can not open his fingers;...
    Pow 6.68 3 ...the energy for originating and executing work deforms itself by excess, and so our axe chops off our own fingers...
    CbW 6.262 4 ...we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism...
    Bty 6.281 10 The geologist lays bare the strata and can tell them all on his fingers;...
    DL 7.104 11 ...presently begins his use of his fingers, and [the nestler] studies power...
    Suc 7.283 21 Men are made each with some triumphant superiority, which, through some adaptation of fingers or ear or eye...enriches the community with a new art;...
    PI 8.31 11 ...[the amateur] draws the bow with his fingers and the [poet] with the strength of his body;...
    PerF 10.81 5 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...and learned that Papa had made it; that hidden deep in that thick skull was this gentle art and taste which the little fingers and caresses of his son had the power to draw out into day;...
    Chr2 10.109 1 When once Selden had said that the priests seemed to him to be baptizing their own fingers, the rite of baptism was getting late in the world.
    Edc1 10.134 1 We are not encouraged when the law touches [education] with its fingers.
    Prch 10.224 12 The human race are afflicted with a St. Vitus's dance; their fingers and toes, their members...are superfluously active...
    Schr 10.268 1 I do not wish to see you...taking hold of the world with the tips of your fingers...
    PLT 12.35 4 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave, massive, without hands or fingers or articulating lips or teeth or tongue;...
    PLT 12.48 21 Most men's minds do not grasp anything. All slips through their fingers...
    CL 12.145 22 [The apple trees] look as if they were arms and fingers...
    WSL 12.339 23 Before a well-dressed company [Landor] plunges his fingers into a cesspool...
    Let 12.393 24 ...Nature has set the sun and moon in plain sight and use, but laid them on the high shelf where her roystering boys may not in some mad Saturday afternoon pull them down or burn their fingers.

finical, adj. (1)

    ACri 12.286 8 Luther said, I preach coarsely; that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and Latin I spare, until we learned ones come together, and then we make it so curled and finical that God himself wondereth at us.

finish, n. (14)

    Hist 2.21 7 The mountain of granite [the Gothic cathedral] blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty.
    Pt1 3.9 23 The argument [in modern poetry] is secondary, the finish of the verses is primary.
    ET6 5.111 16 A sea-shell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish of the men.
    ET7 5.119 17 Plain rich clothes, plain rich equipage, plain rich finish throughout their house and belongings mark the English truth.
    ET14 5.251 25 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...
    ET14 5.256 24 ...the grave old [English] poets...heeded their designs, and less considered the finish.
    Bhr 6.175 11 Claverhouse is a fop, and under the finish of dress and levity of behavior hides the terror of his war.
    Aris 10.34 13 If one thinks of the interest which all men have in beauty of character and manners; that it is of the last importance to the imagination and affection, inspiring...that loyalty and worship so essential to the finish of character,-certainly, if culture, if laws...could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken...
    MoL 10.255 19 It is not enough that the work [of art] should show... admirable polish and finish;...
    LLNE 10.334 26 There was that finish about this person [Everett] which is about women...
    Wom 11.410 6 We commonly say that easy circumstances seem somehow necessary to the finish of the female character...
    CL 12.141 15 [The air] is the last finish of the work of the Creator.
    MAng1 12.230 16 Slighting the secondary arts of coloring, and all the aids of graceful finish, [Michelangelo] aimed exclusively [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes], as a stern designer, to express the vigor and magnificence of his conceptions.
    EurB 12.370 21 A critical friend of ours affirms that the vice which bereaved modern painters of their power is the ambition...to equal the masters in their exquisite finish, instead of their religious purpose.

finish, v. (14)

    Exp 3.60 5 To finish the moment...is wisdom.
    Exp 3.65 19 ...do thou, sick or well, finish that stint.
    NR 3.226 27 All persons exist to society by some shining trait of beauty or utility which they have. We borrow the proportions of the man from that one fine feature, and finish the portrait symmetrically;...
    ET11 5.187 16 On general grounds, whatever tends to form manners or to finish men, has a great value.
    Wth 6.106 20 ...for all that is consumed so much less remains in the basket and pot, but what is gone out of these is not wasted, but well spent, if it nourish [a man's] body and enable him to finish his task;...
    Wsp 6.225 26 In every variety of human employment...there are...those... who finish their task for its own sake;...
    SA 8.81 11 Though the person so clothed [in manners]...lodge in the same chamber, eat at the same table, he is yet a thousand miles off, and can at any moment finish with you.
    PC 8.222 14 We are told that in posting his books, after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian, when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that empirical one...he was so agitated that he was forced to call in an assistant to finish the computation.
    Imtl 8.336 13 Nature does not, like the Empress Anne of Russia, call together all the architectural genius of the Empire to build and finish and furnish a palace of snow...
    MMEm 10.424 5 [Time] Hasten to finish thy motley work...
    Thor 10.485 1 It seems an injury that [Thoreau] should leave in the midst his broken task which none else can finish...
    Wom 11.409 16 [Women] finish society, manners, language.
    II 12.70 14 ...Goethe, Fourier, Schelling, Coleridge, they all begin: we, credulous bystanders, believe, of course, that they can finish as they begun.
    Mem 12.94 6 You say the first words of the old song, and I finish the line and stanza.

finished, adj. (12)

    Tran 1.344 27 So many promising youths, and never a finished man!
    Fdsp 2.213 11 We may congratulate ourselves that...when we are finished men we shall grasp heroic hands in heroic hands.
    Ctr 6.162 17 The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.
    Ctr 6.165 15 Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men.
    Elo1 7.88 20 [Lord Mansfield's] sentences are not always finished to the eye, but are finished to the mind.
    Boks 7.198 14 You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in Homer...as if Homer were the youth and Plato the finished man;...
    PC 8.208 13 I will not say that American institutions have given a new enlargement to our idea of a finished man...
    Aris 10.34 16 ...if primogeniture, if heraldry, if money could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken...
    FSLC 11.202 19 Simply [Webster] was the one eminent American of our time, whom we could produce as a finished work of Nature.
    FSLN 11.240 18 [The free man] is a finished man;...
    Wom 11.409 16 I like women, said a clear-headed man of the world; they are so finished.
    FRep 11.537 14 The flowering of civilization is the finished man...

finished, v. (22)

    AmS 1.105 5 It is a mischievous notion that...the world was finished a long time ago.
    PPh 4.59 10 [Plato] has finished his thinking before he brings it to the reader...
    ET1 5.6 3 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities,--the genius of the master imparting his design to his friends, and inflaming them with it, and when his strength was spent, a new hand with equal heat continued the work; and so by relays, until it was finished in every part with equal fire.
    ET3 5.34 10 ...[English] fields have been combed and rolled till they appear to have been finished with a pencil instead of a plough.
    ET5 5.91 5 Sir John Herschel...expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope, finished his inventory of the southern heaven...
    ET6 5.111 17 The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex.
    ET16 5.285 15 The [Salisbury] Cathedral, which was finished six hundred years ago, has even a spruce and modern air...
    Pow 6.58 18 ...Thorwaldsen's statue is finished by stone-cutters;...
    Elo1 7.88 19 [Lord Mansfield's] sentences are not always finished to the eye...
    DL 7.116 5 Aristides was made general receiver of Greece, to collect the tribute which each state was to furnish against the barbarian. Poor, says Plutarch, when he set about it, poorer when he had finished it.
    WD 7.181 14 I dare not go out of doors and see the moon and stars, but they seem...to ask how many lines or pages are finished since I saw them last.
    WD 7.183 3 ...his memoir finished and read and printed, [the savant] retreats into his routinary existence...
    Elo2 8.117 9 [The orator] is put together...like a locomotive just finished at the Tredegar works.
    QO 8.188 25 In every kind of parasite, when Nature has finished an aphis, a teredo or a vampire bat...the self-supplying organs wither and dwindle...
    Supl 10.166 20 I...am content that [my eyes] should see the real world, always geometrically finished without blur or halo.
    Plu 10.305 23 Many of [Plutarch's discourses] are mere sketches or notes for chapters in preparation, which were never digested or finished.
    SHC 11.434 11 Sleepy Hollow. In this quiet valley...we shall sleep well when we have finished our day.
    PLT 12.35 25 ...what else [than Instinct] was it they represented in Pan... who was not yet completely finished in godlike form...
    II 12.70 11 Even those we call great men build substructures, and, like Cologne Cathedral, these are never finished.
    MAng1 12.228 1 [Michelangelo] finished the gigantic painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in twenty months...
    MAng1 12.231 18 Very slowly came [Michelangelo], after months and years, to the dome [of St. Peter's]. At last he began to model it very small in wax. When it was finished, he had it copied larger in wood, and by this model it was built.
    Let 12.398 2 There is...a paralysis of the active faculties, which falls on young men of this country as soon as they have finished their college education...

finishers, n. (2)

    Wsp 6.226 1 In every variety of human employment...there are...those... who finish their task for its own sake; and the state and the world is happy that has the most of such finishers.
    Wsp 6.226 2 In every variety of human employment...there are...those... who finish their task for its own sake; and the state and the world is happy that has the most of such finishers. The world will always do justice at last to such finishers; it cannot otherwise.

finishes, v. (3)

    Cir 2.304 24 The man finishes his story,--how good! how final!...
    ShP 4.213 23 [Shakespeare]...finishes an eyelash or a dimple as firmly as he draws a mountain;...
    OA 7.328 18 ...age...finishes its works...

finishing, adj. (1)

    ET12 5.209 12 These seminaries [English public schools] are finishing schools for the upper classes...

finishing, v. (1)

    OA 7.331 16 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...the agriculturist his experiments, and all old men in finishing their houses...

finite, adj. (11)

    Nat 1.44 27 Words are finite organs of the infinite mind.
    LE 1.165 8 ...what hinders [men] in the particular is the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth.
    MN 1.210 21 ...the wish to be recognized as individuals,-is finite, comes of a lower strain.
    Lov1 2.188 20 ...the warm loves and fears, that swept over us as clouds, must lose their finite character and blend with God, to attain their own perfection.
    Hsm1 2.264 4 Who does not sometimes...await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?
    OS 2.284 12 ...the man in whom [the soul] is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite, to a future which would be finite.
    Pt1 3.22 24 Genius is the activity which repairs the decays of things, whether wholly or partly of a material and finite kind.
    F 6.28 27 There is a bribe possible for any finite will.
    Chr2 10.94 2 The antagonist nature is the individual, formed into a finite body of exact dimensions...
    MMEm 10.426 26 Never do the feelings of the Infinite and the consciousness of finite frailty and ignorance harmonize so well as at this mystic season in the deserts of life.
    MAng1 12.221 23 ...reflection discloses evermore a closer analogy between the finite [human] form and the infinite inhabitant.

finite, n. (6)

    Nat 1.64 17 ...we learn that man...is himself the creator in the finite.
    DSA 1.147 23 There are...persons...to whom all we call art and artist, seems too nearly allied...to the exaggeration of the finite and selfish...
    MN 1.198 23 Statements of the infinite are usually felt to be unjust to the finite...
    SL 2.132 1 ...it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered;...
    OS 2.275 4 With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite...
    MMEm 10.427 2 Never do the feelings of the Infinite and the consciousness of finite frailty and ignorance harmonize so well as at this mystic season in the deserts of life. Contradictions, the modern German says, of the Infinite and finite.

Finite, n. (1)

    MoS 4.149 22 This head and this tail [Sensation and Morals] are called, in the language of philosophy, Infinite and Finite;...

Finnmark [Finmark], Norway, (1)

    CL 12.155 15 [Says Linnaeus] Not without admiration, I have watched my two Lap companions, in my journey to Finmark, one, my conductor, the other, my interpreter.

fins, n. (4)

    Hist 2.36 15 ...the fins of the fish foreshow that water exists...
    F 6.37 14 Eyes are found in light;...fins in water;...
    Civ 7.25 19 In the snake, all the organs are sheathed; no hands, no feet, no fins, no wings.
    MAng1 12.220 19 Granacci, a painter's apprentice, having lent [Michelangelo], when a boy, a print of Saint Antony beaten by devils, together with some colors and pencils, he went to the fish-market to observe the form and color of fins and of the eyes of fish.

fiord, n. (1)

    ET4 5.58 4 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] fish in the fiord and hunt the deer.

fiords, n. (1)

    ET10 5.162 19 Scandinavian Thor, who once...built galleys by lonely fiords, in England has advanced with the times...

fir, n. (2)

    LE 1.169 5 ...the deep, echoing, aboriginal woods, where the living columns of the oak and fir tower up...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    Hist 2.21 1 Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder, and that his chisel, his saw and plane still reproduced...its locust, elm, oak, pine, fir and spruce.

fir-bough, n. (1)

    CL 12.149 19 ...what countless uses [of the forest] that we know not! How an Indian helps himself...making his bow of hickory, birch, or even a fir-bough, at a pinch;...

Firdousi, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.151 11 Was it Hafiz or Firdousi that said of his Persian Lilla, She was an elemental force...

Firdusi, n. (4)

    Farm 7.153 21 [The farmer] is a person whom a poet of any clime--Milton, Firdusi, or Cervantes--would appreciate as being really a piece of the old Nature...
    Boks 7.217 26 The Greek fables, the Persian history (Firdusi)...have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
    PPo 8.237 8 The seven masters of the Persian Parnassus-Firdusi, Enweri, Nisami, Jelaleddin, Saadi, Hafiz and Jami-have ceased to be empty names;...
    PPo 8.241 23 Firdusi, the Persian Homer, has written in the Shah Nameh the annals of the fabulous and heroic kings of the country...

fire, n. (190)

    Nat 1.11 14 To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.
    Nat 1.13 1 Beasts, fire, water, stones, and corn serve [man].
    Nat 1.72 18 [Man's] relation to nature, his power over it, is through the understanding, as by...the economic use of fire...
    Nat 1.74 21 ...when a faithful thinker...shall...kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew...
    AmS 1.108 17 [The universal mind] is one central fire...
    DSA 1.119 3 ...the meadow is spotted with fire and gold in the tint of flowers.
    DSA 1.138 17 The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people...life passed through the fire of thought.
    DSA 1.149 24 ...now let us do what we can to rekindle the smouldering, nigh quenched fire on the altar.
    MN 1.219 5 [Genius] is sun and moon and wave and fire in music...
    MR 1.239 7 ...rust, mould, vermin, rain, sun, freshet, fire, all seize their own...
    LT 1.277 12 [The Reforms] mix the fire of the moral sentiment with personal and party heats...
    Tran 1.357 22 [The Transcendentalists'] heart is the ark in which the fire is concealed which shall burn in a broader and universal flame.
    Tran 1.358 14 ...in society...there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character;...
    YA 1.383 24 One man...with [a dime]...buys...pen, ink, and paper, or a painter's brush, by which he can communicate himself to the human race as if he were fire;...
    Hist 2.26 23 The sun and moon, water and fire, met [the Greek's] heart precisely as they meet mine.
    Hist 2.31 6 ...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...
    SR 2.88 12 ...what the man acquires, is living property, which does not wait the beck of...fire...
    Comp 2.102 23 If you see smoke, there must be fire.
    Comp 2.116 19 The good man has absolute good, which like fire turns every thing to its own nature...
    Comp 2.119 24 ...[the mob] would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have [a principle, right, justice].
    SL 2.153 26 ...when the empty book has gathered all its praise...it still needs fuel to make fire.
    SL 2.166 15 We know the authentic effects of the true fire through every one of its million disguises.
    Lov1 2.170 14 ...[love] is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom...glows and enlarges...
    Lov1 2.175 22 ...the figures, the motions, the words of the beloved object are...as Plutarch said, enamelled in fire...
    Lov1 2.182 7 ...by this love [of beauty] extinguishing the base affection, as the sun puts out fire by shining on the hearth, [the lovers] become pure and hallowed.
    Fdsp 2.191 17 In poetry and in common speech the emotions of benevolence and complacency which are felt towards others are likened to the material effects of fire;...
    Prd1 2.237 21 Examples are cited by soldiers of men who have seen the cannon pointed and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from the path of the ball.
    Hsm1 2.253 13 ...the soul of a better quality...says, I will obey the God, and the sacrifice and the fire he will provide.
    Hsm1 2.263 3 Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the youth may freely bring home to his mind...
    OS 2.285 3 By the same fire...which burns until it shall dissolve all things into the waves and surges of an ocean of light, we see and know each other...
    Int 2.325 5 ...electric fire dissolves air...
    Int 2.325 6 ...the intellect dissolves fire, gravity, laws, method, and the subtlest unnamed relations of nature in its resistless menstruum.
    Art1 2.355 20 I should think fire the best thing in the world, if I were not acquainted with air, and water, and earth.
    Pt1 3.3 10 [The umpires of tastes'] cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire...
    Pt1 3.3 20 We were put into our bodies, as fire is put into a pan to be carried about;...
    Pt1 3.4 18 ...we are...children of the fire...
    Pt1 3.31 14 ...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in mean condition to fire...
    Exp 3.45 19 Did our birth fall in some fit of indigence and frugality in nature, that she was so sparing of her fire...that it appears to us that we lack the affirmative principle...
    Exp 3.49 13 The Indian who was laid under a curse that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all.
    Exp 3.70 9 The ancients...exalted Chance into a divinity; but that is to stay too long at the spark, which glitters truly at one point, but the universe is warm with the latency of the same fire.
    Exp 3.71 10 ...if at any time being alone I have good thoughts, I do not at once arrive at satisfactions, as when, being thirsty, I drink water; or go to the fire, being cold;...
    Exp 3.73 2 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this...ineffable cause, which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some emphatic symbol, as...Zoroaster by fire...
    Chr1 3.105 1 How death-cold is literary genius before this fire of life [character]!
    Mrs1 3.153 17 Everything that is called fashion and courtesy humbles itself before...the heart of love. This is the royal blood, this the fire, which...will work after its kind and conquer and expand all that approaches it.
    Gts 3.162 17 We arraign society if it do not give us, besides earth and fire and water, opportunity, love, reverence and objects of veneration.
    Nat2 3.179 1 The stream of zeal sparkles with real fire...
    Nat2 3.181 4 Compound it how [nature] will, star, sand, fire, water, tree, man, it is still one stuff...
    NR 3.237 9 We fetch fire and water...
    NR 3.246 19 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses;...
    NER 3.278 2 ...we desire to be touched with that fire which shall command this ice to stream, and make our existence a benefit.
    UGM 4.8 25 The inventors of fire, electricity...severally make an easy way for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.
    UGM 4.12 7 ...we sit by the fire and take hold on the poles of the earth.
    UGM 4.13 22 If you affect to give me bread and fire, I perceive that I pay for it the full price...
    UGM 4.15 23 This pleasure of full expression to that which, [in the people' s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed...is the secret of the reader's joy in literary genius. Nothing is kept back. There is fire enough to fuse the mountain of ore.
    PPh 4.47 15 Before Pericles came the Seven Wise Masters, and we have the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics and ethics: then the partialists,-- deducing the origin of things from flux or water, or from air, or from fire, or from mind.
    PPh 4.56 15 ...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world; the theory of atoms, of fire, of flux, of spirit;...
    PNR 4.87 19 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the centre that we see the sphere illuminated...
    SwM 4.98 1 Shall we say, that the economical mother disburses so much earth and so much fire...to make a man, and will not add a pennyweight...
    SwM 4.114 2 The principle of all things, entrails made/ Of smallest entrails; bone, of smallest bone;/ Blood, of small sanguine drops reduced to one;/ Gold, of small grains; earth, of small sands compacted;/ Small drops to water, sparks to fire contracted./
    SwM 4.135 22 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and chalcedony;...what with...chariots of fire...
    NMW 4.234 10 Sire, General Clarke can not combine with General Junot, for the dreadful fire of the Austrian battery.
    NMW 4.241 12 The best document of [Napoleon's] relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz, in which Napoleon promises the troops that he will keep his person out of reach of fire.
    NMW 4.245 8 When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field [said Napoleon], they have all one rank in my eyes.
    NMW 4.250 6 ...[Napoleon] proposed to consider the probability of the destruction of the globe, either by water or by fire...
    GoW 4.282 21 In England and America, one may be an adept in the writings of a Greek or Latin poet, without any poetic taste or fire.
    ET1 5.6 4 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities,--the genius of the master imparting his design to his friends, and inflaming them with it, and when his strength was spent, a new hand with equal heat continued the work; and so by relays, until it was finished in every part with equal fire.
    ET3 5.40 1 A gentleman in Liverpool told me that he found he could do without a fire in his parlor about one day in the year.
    ET4 5.59 22 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in battle, as long as he can stand, then orders his war-ship, loaded with his dead men and their weapons, to be taken out to sea, the tiller shipped and the sails spread; being left alone he sets fire to some tar-wood and lies down contented on deck.
    ET8 5.140 18 The slow, deep English mass smoulders with fire...
    ET12 5.204 1 No candle or fire is ever lighted in the Bodleian.
    ET13 5.215 14 ...plainly there has been great power of sentiment at work in this island [England], of which these [religious] buildings are the proofs; as volcanic basalts show the work of fire which has been extinguished for ages.
    ET13 5.215 17 England felt the full heat of the Christianity which fermented Europe, and drew, like the chemistry of fire, a firm line between barbarism and culture.
    ET14 5.249 24 ...Carlyle was driven by his disgust at the pettiness and the cant, into the preaching of Fate. In comparison with all this rottenness [in England], any check, any cleansing, though by fire, seemed desirable and beautiful.
    ET15 5.267 21 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers;...
    ET16 5.278 7 The sacrificial stone, as it is called, is the only one in all these blocks [at Stonehenge] that can resist the action of fire...
    F 6.24 18 Go face the fire at sea...knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny.
    F 6.31 26 Fate then is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought;...
    Pow 6.68 7 All the elements whose aid man calls in will sometimes become his masters, especially those of most subtle force. Shall he then renounce steam, fire and electricity...
    Pow 6.70 18 ...fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap.
    Pow 6.70 21 The luxury of fire is to have a little on our hearth;...
    Wth 6.89 19 Beware of me, [the sea] says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands. Fire offers, on its side, an equal power.
    Wth 6.89 20 Fire, steam, lightning, gravity...are [man's] natural playmates...
    Ctr 6.153 4 [The English] have piqued themselves on governing the whole world in the poor, plain, dark Committee-room which the House of Commons sat in, before the fire.
    Ctr 6.156 20 The high advantage of university life is often the mere mechanical one, I may call it, of a separate chamber and fire...
    Bhr 6.170 13 The power of manners is incessant,--an element as unconcealable as fire.
    Wsp 6.224 3 If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he meets know that he conceals somewhat, and usually know what he conceals. Is it otherwise if there be some belief or some purpose he would bury in his breast? 'T is as hard to hide as fire.
    CbW 6.258 8 Better, certainly, if we could secure the strength and fire which rude, passionate men bring into society, quite clear of their vices.
    Bty 6.283 5 ...[a man] is the flood of the flood and fire of the fire;...
    Bty 6.287 17 The ancients believed that a genius or demon took possession at birth of each mortal, to guide him; that these genii were sometimes seen as a flame of fire partly immersed in the bodies which they governed;...
    Bty 6.288 16 ...the beauty which certain objects have for [man] is the friendly fire which expands the thought...
    Civ 7.17 15 ...The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood, the fire:/ All the fierce enemies, ague, hunger, cold,/ This thin spruce roof, this clayed log wall,/ This wild plantation will suffice to chase./
    Civ 7.29 1 The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day...
    Elo1 7.63 9 No one can survey the face of an excited assembly, without being apprised of new opportunity for painting in fire human thought...
    DL 7.105 14 [The boy] walks daily among wonders: fire, light, darkness, the moon, the stars...
    DL 7.115 7 We owe to man higher succors than food and fire.
    Farm 7.145 17 Nations burn with internal fire of thought and affection...
    Farm 7.145 20 Intellect is a fire...
    Farm 7.147 2 At rare intervals [on the prairie] a thin oak-opening has been spared, and every such section has been long occupied. But the farmer manages to procure wood from far, puts up a rail-fence, and at once the seeds sprout and the oaks rise. It was only browsing and fire which had kept them down.
    Boks 7.197 12 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare: 1. Homer, who...has really the true fire...
    Cour 7.264 2 The hunter is not alarmed by bears, catamounts or wolves... nor a farmer by a fire in the woods.
    Cour 7.264 3 The forest on fire looks discouraging enough to a citizen...
    Cour 7.264 7 ...the farmer is skilful to fight [the forest fire]. The neighbors run together;...and by raking with the hoe a long but little trench, confine to a patch the fire which would easily spread over a hundred acres.
    Cour 7.274 21 The poor Puritan, Antony Parsons, at the stake, tied straw on his head when the fire approached him...
    Cour 7.275 12 ...the rack, the fire...appear trials beyond the endurance of common humanity;...
    PI 8.3 4 We must learn the homely laws of fire and water;...
    PI 8.11 21 ...the aptness with which a river, a flower, a bird, fire, day or night, can express [man's] fortunes, is as if the world were only a disguised man...
    PI 8.12 1 Note our incessant use of the word like,--like fire, like a rock...
    PI 8.22 18 In the ocean, in fire, in the sky, in the forest, [man] finds facts adequate and as large as he.
    PI 8.52 11 We ask for food and fire...in prose;...
    PI 8.58 25 In one of his poems [Taliessin] asks:--Is there but one course to the wind?/ But one to the water of the sea?/ Is there but one spark in the fire of boundless energy?/
    SA 8.106 8 Another cure [for the disease of sentimentalism] would be to fight fire with fire, to match a sentimentalist with a sentimentalist.
    SA 8.106 9 Another cure [for the disease of sentimentalism] would be to fight fire with fire, to match a sentimentalist with a sentimentalist.
    Res 8.146 14 ...taking from his portmanteau a small phial of white brandy, [Tissenet] poured it into a cup, and lighting a straw at the fire in the wigwam, he kindled the brandy (which [the Indians] believed to be water), and burned it up before their eyes.
    Res 8.146 18 ...taking up a chip of dry pine, [Tissenet] drew a burning-glass from his pocket and set the chip on fire.
    Res 8.148 25 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the pop-corn, and Christmas hemlock spurting in the fire.
    Comc 8.163 2 The peace of society and the decorum of tables seem to require that next to a notable wit should always be posted a phlegmatic bolt-upright man, able to stand without movement of muscle whole broadsides of this Greek fire.
    QO 8.187 1 The popular incident of Baron Munchausen, who hung his bugle up by the kitchen fire and the frozen tune thawed out, is found in Greece in Plato's time.
    QO 8.204 1 Only as braveries of too prodigal power can we pardon it, when the life of genius is so redundant that out of petulance it flings its fire into some old mummy, and, lo! it walks and blushes again here in the street.
    PPo 8.245 6 The rapidity of [Hafiz's] turns is always surprising us:-See how the roses burn!/ Bring wine to quench the fire!/ Alas! the flames come up with us,/ We perish with desire./
    PPo 8.248 23 [Hafiz] tells his mistress that...her glances can impart to him the fire and virtue needful for such self-denial [of the ascetic and the saint].
    PPo 8.250 11 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low rioter, he turns short on you...to ejaculate with equal fire the most unpalatable affirmations of heroic sentiment and contempt for the world.
    PPo 8.258 10 O'er the garden water goes the wind alone/ To rasp and to polish the cheek of the wave;/ The fire is quenched on the dear hearthstone,/ But it burns again on the tulips brave./
    Insp 8.274 24 Plato...notes that the perception is only accomplished by long familiarity with the objects of intellect, and a life according to the things themselves. Then a light, as if leaping from a fire, will on a sudden be enkindled...
    Insp 8.277 26 ...[Behmen said] though I could have written in a more accurate, fair and plain manner, the burning fire often forced forward with speed, and the hand and pen must hasten directly after it...
    Insp 8.278 16 Herrick said: 'T is not every day that I/ Fitted am to prophesy;/ No, but when the spirit fills/ The fantastic panicles,/ Full of fire, then I write/ As the Godhead doth indite./
    Insp 8.278 20 Herrick said: 'T is not every day that I/ Fitted am to prophesy;/ No, but when the spirit fills/ The fantastic panicles,/ Full of fire, then I write/ As the Godhead doth indite./ Thus enraged, my lines are hurled,/ Like the Sibyl's, through the world;/ Look how next the holy fire/ Either slakes, or doth retire;/...
    Insp 8.281 7 ...wine, no doubt, and all fine food, as of delicate fruits, furnish some elemental wisdom. And the fire, too, as it burns in the chimney;...
    Insp 8.289 26 ...the machine with which we are dealing is of such an inconceivable delicacy that whims also must be respected. Fire must lend its aid.
    Insp 8.292 27 We must be warmed by the fire of sympathy, to be brought into the right conditions...
    Grts 8.314 23 ...one fights with cannon as with fists; when once the fire is begun, the least want of ammunition renders what you have done already useless.
    Grts 8.315 12 It is difficult to find greatness pure. Well, I please myself with its diffusion; to find a spark of true fire amid much corruption.
    Imtl 8.335 20 A candle a mile long or a hundred miles long does not help the imagination; only a self-feeding fire, an inextinguishable lamp, like the sun and the star...
    Imtl 8.349 20 For the second boon, Nachiketas asks that the fire by which heaven is gained be made known to him;...
    Aris 10.29 9 Take fire and beare it into the derkest hous/ Betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it behold;/...
    Aris 10.29 12 Take fire and beare it into the derkest hous/ Betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it behold;/...
    Aris 10.29 19 Here may ye see wel, how that genterie/ Is not annexed to possession,/ Sith folk ne don their operation/ Alway, as doth the fire, lo, in his kind,/ For God it wot, men may full often find/ A lorde's son do shame and vilanie./
    Aris 10.35 10 ...neither...the Congress, nor the mob, nor the guillotine, nor fire...can avail to outlaw...or destroy the offence of superiority in persons.
    Aris 10.43 25 ...when the well-mixed man is born...with fire enough and earth enough...then no gift need be bestowed on him...
    PerF 10.71 18 The Vedas of India...are hymns to the winds, to the clouds, and to fire.
    PerF 10.84 20 [Men] wish to pocket land and water and fire and air and all fruits of these, for property...
    PerF 10.88 17 ...the iron of iron, the fire of fire, the ether and source of all the elements is moral force.
    Edc1 10.158 6 ...if a boy [in the school] runs from his bench, or a girl, because the fire falls...take away the medal from the head of the class and give it on the instant to the brave rescuer.
    Supl 10.173 26 ...these raptures of fire and frost, which indeed cleanse pedantry out of conversation...would cost me the days of well-being which are now so cheap to me, yet so valued.
    Supl 10.174 8 Children and thoughtless people...like to run to a house on fire...
    SovE 10.194 18 A man should be...a guest in his own thought. He is there to speak for truth; but who is he? Some clod the truth has snatched from the ground, and with fire has fashioned to a momentary man.
    SovE 10.209 19 [The moral law] has not yet its first hymn. But, that every line and word may be coals of true fire, ages must roll...
    Prch 10.216 2 The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,-life passed through the fire of thought.
    MoL 10.247 19 Air, water, fire, iron, gold, wheat, electricity, animal fibre, have not lost a particle of power...
    Schr 10.288 4 ...[he that would sacrifice at the Muse's altar] may live on a heath without trees; sometimes hungry, sometimes rheumatic with cold. The fire retreats and concentrates within into a pure flame...
    Plu 10.316 16 ...nothing so resembles an animal as fire.
    LLNE 10.356 5 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then...we suddenly find...that in the circumstances, the best wisdom were an auction or a fire.
    CSC 10.375 7 The still-living merit of the oldest New England families... encountered [at the Chardon Street Convention] the founders of families, fresh merit, emerging...and lighting a clownish face with sacred fire.
    Thor 10.482 27 Dead trees love the fire.
    Thor 10.483 9 Fire is the most tolerable third party.
    Thor 10.484 4 You can only ask of the metals that they be tender to the fire that melts them.
    Carl 10.494 1 [Carlyle's] talk often reminds you of what was said of Johnson: If his pistol missed fire, he would knock you down with the butt-end.
    GSt 10.501 5 High virtue has such an air of nature and necessity that to thank its possessor would be to praise...the fire for warming us.
    LS 11.15 5 Elsewhere [St. Paul] tells [the primitive Church] that at that time [the second coming of Christ], the world would be burnt up with fire...
    HDC 11.34 5 After [the pilgrims] have found a place of abode, they burrow themselves in the earth for their first shelter, under a hillside, and casting the soil aloft upon timbers, they make a fire against the earth, at the highest side.
    HDC 11.39 16 ...[the settlers of Concord] might say with Higginson...that New England may boast of the element of fire, more than all the rest; for all Europe is not able to afford to make so great fires as New England.
    HDC 11.39 20 A poor servant [in Concord], that is to possess but fifty acres, may afford to give more wood for fire as good as the world yields, than many noblemen in England.
    HDC 11.58 5 Philip...revenged his humiliation a few years after, by carrying fire and tomahawk into the English villages.
    EWI 11.137 6 All men remember the subtlety and the fire of indignation which the Edinburgh Review contributed to the cause [of emancipation in the West Indies];...
    War 11.152 10 ...in the first dawnings of the religious sentiment, that blends itself with [savages'] passions, and is oil to the fire.
    JBS 11.276 18 But though they slew him with the sword,/ And in the fire his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its undoings restored./
    EPro 11.322 22 [Lincoln] might look wistfully for what variety of courses lay open to him; every line but one was closed up with fire.
    EPro 11.323 13 If we had consented to a peaceable secession of the rebels... the slaves on the border...were an incessant fuel to rekindle the fire.
    SMC 11.353 22 ...when you replace the love of family or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line...
    SMC 11.368 21 On the second of July [the Thirty-second Regiment] had to cross the famous wheat-field, under fire from the rebels in front and on both flanks.
    SMC 11.370 17 ...Word was sent by General Barnes, that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods. This order was communicated to Colonel Prescott, whose regiment was then under the hottest fire.
    SMC 11.374 7 At Dabney's Mills...[the Thirty-second Regiment] lost seventy-four killed, wounded and missing. Here Major Shepard was taken prisoner. The lines were held until the tenth, with more than usual suffering from snow and hail and intense cold, added to the annoyance of the artillery fire.
    SMC 11.375 17 ...if danger should ever threaten the homes which you [veterans of the Civil War] guard, the knowledge of your presence will be a wall of fire for their protection.
    EdAd 11.382 13 The injured elements say, Not in us;/ And night and day, ocean and continent,/ Fire, plant and mineral say, Not in us;/ And haughtily return us stare for stare./
    Koss 11.398 11 We [people of Concord] please ourselves that in you [Kossuth] we meet one whose temper was long since tried in the fire...
    CPL 11.502 7 It was the symbolical custom of the ancient Mexican priests... to procure in the temple fire from the sun...
    PLT 12.23 15 ...it is the common remark of the student, Could I only have begun with the same fire which I had on the last day, I should have done something.
    II 12.69 21 Where is the yeast that will leaven this lump [Instinct]? Where the wine that will warm and open these silent lips? Where the fire that will light this combustible pile?
    CL 12.145 22 [The apple trees] look as if they were arms and fingers, holding out to you balls of fire and gold.
    CL 12.147 11 ...the wood-lot yields its gentle rent of six per cent....when the owner sleeps or travels, and it is subject to no enemy but fire.
    CL 12.149 7 The Hindoos called fire Agni, born in the woods...
    CL 12.164 10 Every new perception of the method and beauty of Nature gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure; and always for this double reason: first, because they are so excellent in their primary fact, as frost, or cloud, or fire, or animal;...
    CL 12.165 13 Swedenborg or Behman or Plato tried...to explain what rock, what sand, what wood, what fire signified in regard to man.
    MAng1 12.233 22 As from the fire, heat cannot be divided, no more can beauty from the eternal.
    MAng1 12.234 7 The fire and sanctity of [Michelangelo's] pencil breathe in his words.
    ACri 12.299 21 ...the secret interior wits and hearts of men take note of [Carlyle's History of Frederick II], not the less surely. They have said nothing lately in praise of the air, or of fire, or of the blessing of love, and yet, I suppose, they are sensible of these...
    MLit 12.316 13 The water we wash with never speaks of itself, nor does fire or wind or tree.
    MLit 12.319 22 ...imagination, the original, authentic fire of the bard, [Shelley] has not.
    WSL 12.343 8 ...if fire cheers us, we should bring wood and coals.
    Let 12.401 19 Where a people honors genius in its artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul...all hearts become pious and great, and it adds fire to heroes.
    Trag 12.412 22 There is a fire in some men which demands an outlet in some rude action;...

Fire, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.140 17 There are people who...remain literalists, after hearing the music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years. ... But even these can understand pitchforks and the cry of Fire!...

fire, v. (14)

    OS 2.292 25 When we have...ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence.
    NMW 4.234 21 You are losing time, [Napoleon] cried; fire upon those masses;...
    NMW 4.234 22 You are losing time, [Napoleon] cried; fire upon those masses; they must be engulfed: fire upon the ice!
    ET5 5.86 22 Lord Collingwood was accustomed to tell his men that if they could fire three well-directed broadsides in five minutes, no vessel could resist them;...
    Insp 8.276 12 [Inspiration] seems a semi-animal heat; as if...a genial companion, or a new thought suggested in book or conversation could fire the train...
    Dem1 10.8 5 We call the phantoms that rise [in dreams], the creation of our fancy, but they act like mutineers, and fire on their commander;...
    Carl 10.493 6 If a tory takes heart at [Carlyle's] hatred of stump-oratory and model republics, he replies, Yes, the idea of a pig-headed soldier who will obey orders, and fire on his own father at the command of his officer, is a great comfort to the aristocratic mind.
    Carl 10.497 1 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe, when...no man was found with conscience enough to fire a gun for his crown...one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire...
    HDC 11.59 10 ...[the red man] may fire a farm-house, or a village;...
    HDC 11.73 24 This little battalion [of minute-men]...retreated before the enemy to the high land on the other bank of the river, to wait for reinforcement. Colonel Barrett ordered the troops not to fire, unless fired upon.
    HDC 11.74 22 Major Buttrick leaped from the ground, and gave the command to fire...
    FSLN 11.241 16 I wish to see the instructed class here...not fire on their comrades.
    AKan 11.260 8 ...our poor people, led by the nose by these fine words [Union and Democracy]...ring bells and fire cannon, with every new link of the chain which is forged for their limbs by the plotters in the Capitol.
    SMC 11.367 27 At Fredericksburg we lay eleven hours in one spot without moving, except to rise and fire.

fire-annihilators, n. (1)

    Wth 6.94 17 ...the supply in nature of railroad-presidents...fire-annihilators, etc., is limited by the same law which keeps the proportion in the supply of carbon, of alum, and of hydrogen.

fireballs, n. (1)

    Res 8.149 22 ...the guide kindled a Roman candle, and held it here and there shooting its fireballs successively into each crypt of the groined roof [of the Mammoth Cave]...

fire-bearers, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.4 17 ...we are not pans and barrows, nor even porters of the fire and torch-bearers...

firebell, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.391 17 ...all will remember that even in [Ezra Ripley's] old age, if the firebell was rung, he was instantly on horseback with his buckets, and bag.

fire-club, n. (3)

    Mrs1 3.130 10 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man... ... Here are associations whose ties go over and under and through it, a meeting of merchants...a fire-club...
    ET9 5.151 23 ...to wave our own flag at the dinner table or in the University is to carry the boisterous dulness of a fire-club into a polite circle.
    SS 7.9 15 ...though there be for heroes this moral union, yet they too are as far off as ever from an intellectual union, and the moral union is for comparatively low and external purposes, like the cooperation of...a fire-club.

Fire-Club, n. (1)

    ACri 12.286 1 Whitman is our American master, but has not got out of the Fire-Club...

fire-company, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.138 25 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company...

fired, v. (17)

    Hist 2.27 1 ...when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more.
    Prd1 2.232 21 ...[Goethe's] Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other. One living after the maxims of this world and consistent and true to them, the other fired with all divine sentiments, yet grasping also at the pleasures of sense, without submitting to their law. That is a grief we all feel...
    SwM 4.145 25 ...ascending by just degrees from events to their summits and causes, [Swedenborg] was fired with piety at the harmonies he felt...
    ET9 5.149 26 ...at last it was agreed that [the Frenchman and the Englishman] should fight alone, in the dark, and with pistols: the candles were put out, and the Englishman, to make sure not to hit any body, fired up the chimney,--and brought down the Frenchman.
    F 6.3 20 We are fired with the hope to reform men.
    F 6.35 2 Who likes to believe that he has, hidden in his...pelvis, all the vices of a...Celtic race, which will be sure to pull him down,-with what grandeur of...resolve he is fired,-into a selfish...animal?
    Pow 6.77 20 [Colonel Buford] fired a piece of ordnance some hundred times in swift succession, until it burst.
    Bty 6.296 24 French memoires of the sixteenth century celebrate the name of Pauline de Viguier, a...maiden who so fired the enthusiasm of her contemporaries by her enchanting form, that the citizens of her native city of Toulouse obtained the aid of the civil authorities to compel her to appear publicly on the balcony at least twice a week...
    QO 8.191 5 If we are fired and guided by these [inspiring lessons], we know [the author] as a benefactor...
    HDC 11.73 13 Eight hundred British soldiers...at Lexington had fired upon the brave handful of militia...
    HDC 11.73 24 This little battalion [of minute-men]...retreated before the enemy to the high land on the other bank of the river, to wait for reinforcement. Colonel Barrett ordered the troops not to fire, unless fired upon.
    HDC 11.74 13 ...the British fired one or two shots up the river...
    HDC 11.74 23 Major Buttrick leaped from the ground, and gave the command to fire, which was repeated in a simultaneous cry by all his men. The Americans fired, and killed two men and wounded eight.
    FSLC 11.184 19 Who could have believed it, if foretold that a hundred guns would be fired in Boston on the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill?
    JBB 11.266 7 ...There [John Brown] spoke aloud for Freedom, and the Border strife grew warmer/ Till the Rangers fired his dwelling, in his absence, in the night;/...
    II 12.78 8 [Truth] is a gun with a recoil which will knock down the most nimble artillerists, and therefore is never fired.
    Milt1 12.277 9 Milton, fired with dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of good things into others, tasked his giant imagination...for an end beyond, namely, to teach.

fire-engines, n. (1)

    Comp 2.119 27 [The mob] resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.

fire-fly's, n. (1)

    Ill 6.307 21 Know, the stars yonder,/ The stars everlasting,/ Are fugitive also,/ And emulate, vaulted,/ The lambent heat-lightning,/ And fire-fly's flight./

fire-grate, n. (1)

    Cour 7.262 21 The child is as much in danger from...the fire-grate...as the soldier from a cannon...

fire-light, n. (1)

    SMC 11.360 27 Some of these [Civil War] letters are...written by fire-light, making the short night shorter;...

firelocks, n. (1)

    HDC 11.73 4 ...the farmers [of Concord] snatched down their rusty firelocks from the kitchen walls...

fireman, n. (1)

    WD 7.165 11 Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer,--unteaches him. Once it took Archimedes; now it only needs a fireman, and a boy to know the coppers...

firemen, n. (3)

    ET10 5.168 15 The machinist has wrought and watched, engineers and firemen without number have been sacrificed in learning to tame and guide the monster [steam].
    CbW 6.261 18 ...perhaps [the rich man] can give wise counsel in a court of law. Now plant him down among farmers, firemen, Indians and emigrants.
    OA 7.320 22 Universal convictions are not to be shaken by the whimseys of overfed butchers and firemen...

fireplace, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.40 25 All the creatures by pairs and by tribes pour into [the poet's] mind as into a Noah's ark, to come forth again to people a new world. This is like the stock of air for our respiration or for the combustion of our fireplace;...

fires, n. (20)

    AmS 1.93 24 ...[colleges] can only highly serve us...when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.
    OS 2.281 25 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul]. The character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy...to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion, in which form it warms, like our household fires, all the families and associations of men...
    Pt1 3.11 5 I had fancied that...nature had spent her fires;...
    Pt1 3.28 1 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize... fires...
    SwM 4.112 9 [Swedenborg]...sometimes sought to uncover those secret recesses where Nature is sitting at the fires in the depths of her laboratory;...
    ShP 4.219 9 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...and life became...a probation...with doomsdays and purgatorial and penal fires before us;...
    F 6.43 26 Iron was deep in the ground and well combined with stone, but could not hide from [man's] fires.
    CbW 6.254 17 Wars, fires, plagues, break up immovable routine...
    Farm 7.140 8 ...[the farmer] has...wood to burn great fires...
    Suc 7.303 16 ...the genial man is interested in every slipper that comes into the assembly. The passion, alike everywhere, creeps under the snows of Scandinavia, under the fires of the equator...
    Plu 10.316 15 When the guests are gone, [Plutarch] would leave one lamp burning, only as a sign of the respect he bore to fires...
    EzRy 10.391 15 The late Dr. Gardiner, in a funeral sermon on some parishioner whose virtues did not readily come to mind, honestly said, He was good at fires.
    HDC 11.39 18 ...[the settlers of Concord] might say with Higginson...that... all Europe is not able to afford to make so great fires as New England.
    HDC 11.62 11 Alas! for [the Indians]-their day is o'er,/ Their fires are out from hill and shore,/ No more for them the wild deer bounds,/ The plough is on their hunting grounds;/...
    SMC 11.350 22 ...as we have learned that the upheaved mountain, from which these discs or flakes were broken, was once a glowing mass at white heat, slowly crystallized, then uplifted by the central fires of the globe: so the roots of events [the Concord Monument] appropriately marks are in the heart of the universe.
    Shak1 11.447 18 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that a well-known and honored compatriot...whose American devotion through forty or fifty years to the affairs of a bank, has not been able to bury the fires of his genius,-Mr. Charles Sprague,- pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.
    FRO2 11.484 5 ...Thou ask'st in fountains and in fires,/ He is the essence that inquires./
    CPL 11.502 6 It was the symbolical custom of the ancient Mexican priests, after the annual extinction of the household fires of their land, to procure in the temple fire from the sun...
    FRep 11.539 5 Here is the post where the patriot should plant himself; here the altar...where genius should kindle its fires...
    MLit 12.333 18 What is Austria? What is England? What is our graduated and petrified social scale of ranks and employments? Shall not a poet redeem us from these idolatries, and pale their legendary lustre before the fires of the Divine Wisdom which burn in his heart?

fires, v. (6)

    Hist 2.27 2 ...when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more.
    Lov1 2.180 11 ...of poetry the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavors after the unattainable.
    SS 7.11 14 Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.
    Prch 10.227 20 Augustine, a Kempis, Fenelon, breathe the very spirit which now fires you.
    CInt 12.115 27 [The college] is essentially the most radiating and public of agencies, like, but better than...the sentinel who fires a signal-cannon...
    MLit 12.334 3 [The Doctrine of the Life of Man] is that which tunes the tongue and fires the eye...

fireside, adj. (1)

    EzRy 10.391 20 [Ezra Ripley] showed even in his fireside discourse traits of that pertinency and judgment...which make the distinction of the scholar...

fireside, n. (9)

    Hsm1 2.253 9 Citizens...consider the inconvenience of receiving strangers at their fireside...
    SwM 4.128 14 I know how delicious is this cup of love...but it is a child's clinging to his toy; an attempt to eternize the fireside and nuptial chamber;...
    SwM 4.128 19 The Eden of God is bare and grand: like the out-door landscape remembered from the evening fireside, it seems cold and desolate...
    Elo1 7.61 23 The eloquence of one [man] stimulates...all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return to the fireside.
    DL 7.126 8 One is struck...at every fireside, with the riches of Nature...
    Clbs 7.227 15 The physician helps [people] mainly...by healthy talk giving a right tone to the patient's mind. The dinner, the walk, the fireside, all have that for their main end.
    Suc 7.300 19 ...the affections make some little web of cottage and fireside populous, important...
    SMC 11.357 1 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...the village politician, who could now...amass what a stock of adventures to retail hereafter at the fireside...
    PLT 12.26 22 ...no wine, music or exhilarating aids, neither warm fireside nor fresh air, walking or riding, avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association.

firesides, n. (1)

    Scot 11.464 9 [Scott's] own ear had been charmed by old ballads crooned by Scottish dames at firesides...

fire-wood, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.227 13 The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed...as in Peninsular campaigns...

fireworks, n. [fire-works,] (3)

    ShP 4.217 19 [Shakespeare] was master of the revels to mankind. Is it not as if one should have...the comets given into his hand...and should draw them from their orbits to glare with the municipal fireworks on a holiday night...
    ET7 5.120 7 If war do not bring in its sequel new trade, better agriculture and manufactures, but only games, fireworks and spectacles,--no prosperity could support it;...
    WD 7.168 25 Remember what boys think in the morning...of Thanksgiving or Christmas. The very stars in their courses wink to them of...bonbons, presents and fire-works.

firing, n. (1)

    HDC 11.75 2 The British retreated immediately towards the village [Concord], and were joined by two companies of grenadiers, whom the noise of the firing had hastened to the spot.

firing, v. (3)

    NER 3.258 7 ...the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.
    Ctr 6.163 12 [The ancients] preferred the noble vessel...dismantled and unrigged, to her companion borne into harbor with colors flying and guns firing.
    Bost 12.197 9 As an antidote to the spirit of commerce and of economy, the religious spirit-always enlarging, firing man...was especially necessary to the culture of New England.

firkin, n. (1)

    AmS 1.111 15 The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan;...show me the ultimate reason of these matters;...

firm, adj. (54)

    Nat 1.26 19 ...a firm man is a rock...
    LE 1.185 20 If...God have called any of you to explore truth and beauty, be bold, be firm, be true.
    SR 2.56 12 It is easy enough for a firm man who knows the world to brook the rage of the cultivated classes.
    SR 2.59 13 If I can be firm enough to-day to do right and scorn eyes, I must have done so much right before as to defend me now.
    SR 2.89 7 ...thou only firm column must presently appear the upholder of all that surrounds thee.
    Fdsp 2.193 15 What [is] so delicious as a just and firm encounter of two, in a thought...
    Cir 2.303 10 A rich estate appears to women a firm and lasting fact;...
    Pt1 3.37 3 He is the poet and shall draw us with love and terror, who sees through the flowing vest the firm nature, and can declare it.
    Chr1 3.93 13 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. I see plainly how many firm acts have been done;...
    Nat2 3.171 9 ...as water to our thirst, so is the rock, the ground, to our eyes and hands and feet. It is firm water; it is cold flame; what health, what affinity!
    PPh 4.66 13 Those of you who were the worthy ones in the state of ignorance, will be the worthy ones in the state of faith, as soon as you embrace it. Plato was not less firm.
    ShP 4.216 4 ...the true bards have been noted for their firm and cheerful temper.
    NMW 4.233 13 [Napoleon] is firm, sure, self-denying, self-postponing...
    NMW 4.248 20 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains. The snow is then firm...
    NMW 4.255 8 ...men should be firm in heart and purpose [said Napoleon], or they should have nothing to do with war and government.
    ET4 5.50 7 It need not puzzle us that...Saxon and Tartar should mix, when we...know that the barriers of races are not so firm but that some spray sprinkles us from the antediluvian seas.
    ET6 5.108 16 ...nothing [can be] more firm and based in nature and sentiment than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes [in England].
    ET11 5.192 14 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title;...the splendor of the titles, and the apathy of the nation; are instructive, and make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
    ET12 5.200 27 Chaucer found [Oxford] as firm as if it had always stood;...
    ET13 5.215 18 England felt the full heat of the Christianity which fermented Europe, and drew, like the chemistry of fire, a firm line between barbarism and culture.
    F 6.5 19 The Hindoo under the wheel is as firm.
    Wth 6.115 4 ...with firm intent, the pale scholar leaves his desk to draw a freer breath...in the garden-walk.
    Bhr 6.176 5 ...underneath all [the old Massachusetts statesman's] irritability was a puissant will, firm and advancing...
    Art2 7.40 14 I hasten to state the principle which prescribes...its firm law to the useful and the beautiful arts.
    Elo1 7.64 1 No man has a prosperity so high or firm but two or three words can dishearten it.
    Boks 7.215 12 ...'t is pity [people] should not read novels a little more, to import the fine generosities and the clear, firm conduct, which are as becoming in the unions and separations which love effects under shingle roofs as in palaces and among illustrious personages.
    Suc 7.311 5 ...to redeem defeat by new thought, by firm action, that is not easy...
    PI 8.33 10 We detect at once by [style] whether the writer has a firm grasp on his fact or thought...
    SA 8.88 14 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably.
    SA 8.107 13 ...I believe that with all liberal and hopeful men there is a firm faith in the beneficent results which we really enjoy;...
    PPo 8.244 24 [Hafiz] says to the Shah, Thou who rulest after words and thoughts which no ear has heard and no mind has thought, abide firm until thy young destiny tears off his blue coat from the old graybeard of the sky.
    Insp 8.280 21 Sleep is like death, and after sleep/ The world seems new begun;/ White thoughts stand luminous and firm,/ Like statues in the sun;/...
    Imtl 8.351 14 [Yama said to Nachiketas] I know worldly happiness is transient, for that firm one is not to be obtained by what is not firm.
    Imtl 8.351 15 [Yama said to Nachiketas] I know worldly happiness is transient, for that firm one is not to be obtained by what is not firm.
    Imtl 8.352 1 Thinking the soul as unbodily among bodies, firm among fleeting things, the wise man casts off all grief.
    Chr2 10.100 5 ...the Deity does not break his firm laws in respect to imparting truth, more than in imparting material heat and light.
    Supl 10.174 24 Nor is there in Nature itself any swell, any brag, any strain or shock, but a firm common sense through all her elephants and lions...
    Schr 10.263 2 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...expressors themselves of that firm and cheerful temper...which reigns through the kingdoms of chemistry, vegetation and animal life.
    LLNE 10.344 20 ...[Theodore Parker's] character appeared in the last moments with the same firm control as in the midday of strength.
    SlHr 10.448 9 ...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...
    Carl 10.493 24 [Carlyle's] firm, victorious, scoffing vituperation strikes [literary, fashionable, political men] with chill and hesitation.
    FSLC 11.212 10 Let the attitude of the states be firm.
    EPro 11.317 10 ...so fair a mind...so reticent...the firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
    ALin 11.337 14 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius... which...carried forward the fortunes of certain chosen houses...securing at last the firm prosperity of the favorites of Heaven.
    HCom 11.342 20 ...it is the gentle soul that makes the firm hero after all.
    Wom 11.406 18 'T is [women's] mood and tone that is important. Does their mind misgive them, or are they firm and cheerful?
    PLT 12.50 16 When pace is increased it will happen that the control is in a degree lost. Reason does not keep her firm seat.
    CL 12.137 13 [Linnaeus] discovered that the arundo arenaris, or beach-grass, had long firm roots...
    Bost 12.199 22 What should hinder that this America...the firm shore hid until science and art should be ripe to propose it as a fixed aim...should have its happy ports...
    Milt1 12.265 7 ...[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.
    Milt1 12.266 17 His firm grasp of this truth [of Christian humility] is [Milton's] weapon against the prelates.
    ACri 12.297 1 [Herrick] has, and knows that he has...a perfect, plain style, from which he can soar to a fine, lyric delicacy, or descend to coarsest sarcasm, without losing his firm footing.
    Pray 12.354 14 That my weak hand may equal my firm faith,/ And my life practise more than my tongue saith;/ That my low conduct may not show,/ Nor my relenting lines,/ That I thy purpose did not know,/ Or overrated thy designs./
    Trag 12.413 5 When two strangers meet in the highway, what each demands of the other is that the aspect should show a firm mind...

firm, adv. (5)

    Prd1 2.229 17 This property [which gives life to the figures in a painting] is the hitting, in all the figures we draw, the right centre of gravity. I mean the placing the figures firm upon their feet...
    UGM 4.23 7 I like a master standing firm on legs of iron...
    Ctr 6.164 9 What forests of laurel we bring...to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!
    Cour 7.279 15 Still firm the hunter stood,/ Although his heart beat high;/ Again the creature stopped,/ And gazed with wondering eye./
    WSL 12.349 7 Of many of Mr. Landor's sentences we are fain to remember what was said of those of Socrates; that they are cubes, which will stand firm, place them how or where you will.

firmament, n. (23)

    Nat 1.12 20 What angels invented...this ocean of air above, this ocean of water beneath, this firmament of earth between?...
    Nat 1.27 6 Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life, wherein, as in a firmament, the natures of Justice, Truth, Love, Freedom, arise and shine.
    Nat 1.47 19 ...what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?
    AmS 1.105 11 ...in proportion as a man has any thing in him divine, the firmament flows before him...
    LE 1.183 20 ...the youth has lost a star out of his new flaming firmament.
    MN 1.205 21 The great Pan of old...the firmament, his coat of stars,-was but the representative of thee, O rich and various Man!...
    MN 1.212 22 It is not enough that [the stars] are Jove, Mars, Orion, and the North Star, in the gravitating firmament;...
    Hist 2.7 25 Praise is looked...from the mountains and the lights of the firmament.
    SR 2.45 20 A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.
    Lov1 2.180 23 ...personal beauty is then first charming and itself...when... [the beholder] cannot feel more right to it than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset.
    Fdsp 2.215 5 In the great days, presentiments hover before me in the firmament.
    Art1 2.349 24 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part,/ Man in Earth to acclimate/ And bend the exile to his fate,/ And, moulded of one element/ With the days and firmament,/ Teach him on these as stairs to climb/ And live on even terms with Time;/...
    UGM 4.11 13 The gases gather to the solid firmament...
    SwM 4.141 4 [The scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul] must not be inferior in tone to the already known works of the artist who sculptures the globes of the firmament and writes the moral law.
    ET2 5.29 19 To the geologist the sea is the only firmament;...
    Ctr 6.147 19 ...there is in every constitution a certain solstice when the stars stand still in our inward firmament...
    Ill 6.321 19 Instead of the firmament of yesterday, which our eyes require, it is to-day an egg-shell which coops us in;...
    Ill 6.325 10 The young mortal enters the hall of the firmament; there is he alone with [the gods] alone...
    Clbs 7.250 18 Discourse...when it lifts us into that mood out of which thoughts come that remain as stars in our firmament, is between two.
    Suc 7.298 5 What is it we look for...in the sea and the firmament?...
    MMEm 10.421 24 ...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us to talk of Time...
    EPro 11.320 14 The first condition of success is secured in putting ourselves right. We have...planted ourselves on a law of Nature:-If that fail,/ The pillared firmament is rottenness,/ And earth's base built on stubble./
    PLT 12.19 13 ...when we have come, by a divine leading, into the inner firmament, we are apprised of the unreality or representative character of what we esteemed final.

firmaments, n. (1)

    MN 1.202 1 When we have spent our wonder in computing this wasteful hospitality with which boon Nature turns off new firmaments without end into her wide common...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.

firmer, adj. (3)

    Mrs1 3.130 7 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man, where too it has not the least countenance from the law of the land. Not in Egypt or in India a firmer or more impassable line.
    ET14 5.246 5 ...in Hallam, or in the firmer intellectual nerve of Mackintosh, one still finds the same type of English genius.
    PPo 8.259 5 Jami says,-A friend is he, who, hunted as a foe,/ So much the kindlier shows him than before;/ Throw stones at him, or ruder javelins throw,/ He builds with stone and steel a firmer floor./

firmer, adv. (3)

    Exp 3.60 24 ...I settle myself ever the firmer in the creed that we should... do broad justice where we are...
    Chr2 10.116 27 The orthodox clergymen hold a little firmer to [their traditions]...
    SovE 10.181 4 These rules were writ in human heart/ By Him who built the day;/ The columns of the universe/ Not firmer based than they./

firmest, adj. (1)

    Supl 10.176 5 The firmest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth;...

firmest, adv. (1)

    ET6 5.102 2 I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.

firmly, adv. (14)

    Tran 1.355 9 Our virtue totters and trips, does not yet walk firmly.
    Exp 3.81 12 We must hold hard to this poverty...and by more vigorous self-recoveries, after the sallies of action, possess our axis more firmly.
    ShP 4.213 23 [Shakespeare]...finishes an eyelash or a dimple as firmly as he draws a mountain;...
    ET7 5.125 15 I knew a very worthy man...who went to the opera to see Malibran. In one scene, the heroine was to rush across a ruined bridge. Mr. B. arose and mildly yet firmly called the attention of the audience and the performers to the fact that, in his judgment, the bridge was unsafe!
    ET11 5.179 23 ...the English are those barbarians of Jamblichus, who... firmly continue to employ the same words, which are also dear to the gods.
    F 6.4 24 ...by firmly stating all that is agreeable to experience on one [topic], and doing the same justice to the opposing facts in the others, the true limitations will appear.
    Wth 6.104 7 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the judge will sit less firmly on the bench...
    Dem1 10.23 16 ...to hit the mark with a stone [a man] has only to fasten his eye firmly on the mark and his arm will swing true...
    Thor 10.461 10 [Thoreau] was of short stature, firmly built...
    FSLC 11.178 13 ...Fate's grass grows rank in valley clods,/ And rankly on the castled steep,-/ Speak it firmly, these [Eternal Rights] are gods,/ Are all ghosts beside./
    ALin 11.331 25 ...[Lincoln]...was excellent...in arguing his case and convincing you fairly and firmly.
    FRep 11.538 13 It is not a question whether we shall be a multitude of people. No...but whether we shall be...the guide and lawgiver of all nations, as having clearly chosen and firmly held the simplest and best rule of political society.
    PLT 12.42 12 Each soul...walking in its own path walks firmly;...
    PPr 12.380 11 The book [Carlyle's Past and Present]...firmly holds up to daylight the absurdities still tolerated in the English and European system.

firmness, n. (14)

    Nat 1.42 20 Who can guess how much firmness the sea-beaten rock has taught the fisherman?...
    LT 1.282 17 We do not find the same trait [of perplexity]...in the Greek, Roman, Norman, English periods; no, but in other men a natural firmness.
    Mrs1 3.150 20 ...by the firmness with which she treads her upward path, [woman] convinces the coarsest calculators that another road exists than that which their feet know.
    Nat2 3.188 23 After some time has elapsed, [the young person] begins to wish to admit his friend to this hallowed experience [of keeping a diary], and with hesitation, yet with firmness, exposes the pages to his eye.
    Bhr 6.195 11 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and gravity, defended himself in this manner...
    CbW 6.263 20 In dealing with the drunken, we do not affect to be drunk. We must treat the sick with the same firmness...
    SA 8.101 14 That method [of hereditary nobility] secured...firmness of customs...
    Imtl 8.328 16 Death is seen as a natural event, and is met with firmness.
    Aris 10.37 18 We like cool people...who can face death with firmness.
    Aris 10.54 22 The manners of course must have that depth and firmness of tone to attest their centrality in the nature of the man.
    PerF 10.87 15 ...the most quiet and protected life is at any moment exposed to incidents which test your firmness.
    ACiv 11.303 23 It looks as if we held the fate of the fairest possession of mankind in our hands, to be saved by our firmness or to be lost by hesitation.
    EPro 11.320 25 ...we are assuming the firmness of the policy thus declared [in the Emancipation Proclamation].
    ALin 11.337 6 Easy good nature has been the dangerous foible of the Republic, and it was necessary that its enemies should...drive us to unwonted firmness, to secure the salvation of this country in the next ages.

firs, n. (1)

    SHC 11.433 24 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted...every tree that is native to Massachusetts...and here the vast firs of California and Oregon.

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