Five to Floweth

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

five, adj. (98)

    Hist 2.24 3 What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history...in all its periods from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later?
    SR 2.48 11 ...one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.
    SL 2.148 20 [A man] is like a quincunx of trees, which counts five,--east, west, north, or south;...
    Int 2.334 4 If you...hoe corn, and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the corn-flags, and this for five or six hours afterwards.
    Pt1 3.38 11 If I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading now and then in Chalmers's collection of five centuries of English poets.
    Exp 3.60 13 Five minutes of to-day are worth as much to me as five minutes in the next millennium.
    Exp 3.60 14 Five minutes of to-day are worth as much to me as five minutes in the next millennium.
    NER 3.259 13 Four or five persons I have seen who read Plato.
    NER 3.262 25 If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment I could never stay there five minutes.
    PPh 4.66 13 Of the five orders of things [said Plato], only four can be taught to the generality of men.
    PNR 4.80 20 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result.
    PNR 4.80 21 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result.
    SwM 4.98 23 ...[Swedenborg] seemed...to be a composition of several persons,--like the giant fruits which are matured in gardens by the union of four or five single blossoms.
    SwM 4.99 19 [Swedenborg] performed a notable feat of engineering in 1718, at the siege of Frederikshald, by hauling two galleys, five boats and a sloop, some fourteen English miles overland...
    SwM 4.117 20 The earth had fed its mankind through five or six millenniums...
    MoS 4.165 14 There is no man, in [Montaigne's] opinion, who has not deserved hanging five or six times;...
    MoS 4.165 15 Five or six as ridiculous stories, too, [Montaigne] says, can be told of me, as of any man living.
    GoW 4.266 14 It is believed...the running up and down to procure a company of subscribers to set a-going five or ten thousand spindles...is practical and commendable.
    ET2 5.27 3 ...[the good ship] has reached the Banks;...gulls, haglets, ducks, petrels, swim, dive and hover around; no fishermen; she has passed the Banks, left five sail behind her far on the edge of the west at sundown...
    ET2 5.28 2 Our ship was registered 750 tons, and weighed perhaps, with all her freight, 1500 tons.
    ET4 5.44 16 Blumenbach reckons five races;...
    ET4 5.44 23 The British Empire is reckoned...to comprise a territory of 5, 000,000 square miles.
    ET4 5.66 18 The anecdote of the handsome captives which Saint Gregory found at Rome, A. D. 600, is matched by the testimony of the Norman chroniclers, five centuries later...
    ET5 5.86 23 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;...
    ET5 5.91 17 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board.
    ET5 5.95 15 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been drained...
    ET6 5.110 13 Wordsworth says of the small freeholders of Westmoreland, Many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land which they tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of the same name and blood.
    ET6 5.113 17 ...[the English] would sooner give five or six ducats to provide an entertainment for a person, than a groat to assist him in any distress.
    ET10 5.157 21 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...announced (as if looking from his lofty cell, over five centuries, into ours) that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do;...
    ET10 5.160 11 The steam-pipe has added to [England's] population and wealth the equivalent of four or five Englands.
    ET11 5.182 21 An agriculturist bought lately the island of Lewes, in Hebrides, containing 500,000 acres.
    ET11 5.183 15 I was surprised to observe the very small attendance usually in the House of Lords. Out of five hundred and seventy-three peers, on ordinary days only twenty or thirty.
    ET11 5.193 23 [English noblemen]...keep [their houses] empty, aired, and the grounds mown and dressed, at a cost of four or five thousand pounds a year.
    ET12 5.205 9 At Cambridge, 750 dollars a year is economical, and 1500 dollars not extravagant.
    ET12 5.205 27 The number of fellowships at Oxford is 540...
    ET12 5.211 7 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic. With a hardier habit and resolute gymnastics, with five miles more walking, or five ounces less eating...the American would arrives at as robust exegesis...
    ET12 5.211 8 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic. With a hardier habit and resolute gymnastics, with five miles more walking, or five ounces less eating...the American would arrives at as robust exegesis...
    ET14 5.251 21 [Englishmen]...respect the five mechanic powers even in their song.
    ET15 5.265 27 The old press [the London Times] were then using printed five or six thousand sheets per hour;...
    ET16 5.289 22 The length of line [of Winchester Cathedral] exceeds that of any other English church; being 556 feet, by 250 in breadth of transept.
    ET18 5.307 5 ...[England] has yielded more able men in five hundred years than any other nation;...
    F 6.3 4 ...four or five noted men were each reading a discourse...on the Spirit of the Times.
    F 6.14 14 ...if, after five hundred years you get a better observer or a better glass, he finds, within the last [egg] observed, another [vesicle].
    Wth 6.92 2 ...wise men...will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
    Wth 6.114 1 A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.
    Ctr 6.137 15 ...Thor's house had five hundred and forty floors;...
    Ctr 6.137 16 ...man's house has five hundred and forty floors.
    Ctr 6.162 13 Fear not a revolution which will constrain you to live five years in one.
    CbW 6.274 1 It makes no difference, in looking back five years, how you have been dieted or dressed;...
    Civ 7.31 8 Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots?--he got five millions from the love of brandy...
    DL 7.101 5 Five rosy boys with morning light/ Had leaped from one fair mother's arms/...
    Farm 7.149 27 The selectmen [of Concord] have once in every five years perambulated the boundaries...
    Boks 7.194 26 Dr. Johnson said...read anything five hours a day, and you will soon be learned.
    Boks 7.197 9 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare...
    Boks 7.209 27 The bid [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] stood at five hundred guineas.
    Boks 7.210 24 The tap of [the auctioneer's] hammer was heard in the libraries of Rome, Milan and Venice. Boccaccio stirred in his sleep of five hundred years...
    Suc 7.306 5 The very law of averages might have assured you that there will be in every hundred heads, say ten or five good heads.
    SA 8.94 14 ...[Madame de Stael] said...I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.
    SA 8.102 3 I have been often impressed at our country town-meetings with the accumulated virility, in each village, of five or six or eight or ten men...
    PPo 8.237 6 [Hammer-Purgstall] has translated into German...specimens of two hundred [Persian] poets who wrote during a period of five and a half centuries...
    PPo 8.263 19 From this poem [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations], written five hundred years ago, we cite the following passage...
    Imtl 8.335 6 The mind delights in immense time;...delights in architecture, whose building lasts so long,-A house, says Ruskin, is not in its prime until it is five hundred years old...
    Aris 10.48 21 In the South a slave was bluntly but accurately valued at five hundred to a thousand dollars, if a good field-hand;...
    PerF 10.75 11 [Labor] is massed and blocked away in that stone house, for five hundred years.
    Chr2 10.101 22 ...to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him...
    LLNE 10.330 16 Germany had created criticism in vain for us until 1820, when Edward Everett returned from his five years in Europe...
    LLNE 10.345 16 [The pilgrim]...explained with simple warmth the belief of himself and five or six young men with whom he agreed in opinion, of the vast mischief of our insidious coin.
    EzRy 10.382 6 Always inclined to notice ministers, and frequently attempting, when only five or six years old, to imitate them by preaching... [Ezra Ripley] had an ardent desire to be preacher of the gospel.
    EzRy 10.383 3 [Ezra Ripley] married, November 16, 1780, Mrs. Phebe (Bliss) Emerson, then a widow of thirty-nine, with five children.
    MMEm 10.413 3 I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked yesterday five or more miles...
    Thor 10.468 3 [Thoreau] seemed a little envious of the Pole, for the coincident sunrise and sunset, or five minutes' day after six months...
    Thor 10.470 5 On the day I speak of [Thoreau] looked for the Menyanthes, detected it across the wide pool, and, on examination of the florets, decided that it had been in flower five days.
    HDC 11.50 7 Tell [the Continental nations] the Union has twenty-four States, and Massachusetts is one. Tell them...that in Concord are five hundred ratable polls, and every one has an equal vote.
    HDC 11.54 11 ...in 1676, there were five hundred and sixty-seven praying Indians...
    HDC 11.79 6 In June [1776], the General Assembly of Massachusetts resolved to raise 5000 militia for six months...
    HDC 11.79 20 The taxes [in Concord], which, before the [Revolutionary] war, had not much exceeded 200 pounds per annum, amounted, in the year 1782, to 9544 dollars, in silver.
    HDC 11.82 16 The public expenses [of Concord], for the last year, amounted to 4290 dollars; for the present year, 5040 dollars.
    EWI 11.110 19 ...Slave ships] carried five, six, even seven hundred stowed in a ship built so narrow as to be unsafe...
    EWI 11.110 23 In attempting to make its escape from the pursuit of a man-of- war, one ship flung five hundred slaves alive into the sea.
    EWI 11.113 12 The Ministers, having estimated the slave products of the colonies...at 1,500,000 pounds per annum, estimated the total value of the slave property [in the West Indies] at 30,000,000 pounds sterling...
    AsSu 11.250 9 [Sumner's enemies] have fastened their eyes like microscopes for five years on every act, word, manner and movement, to find a flaw...
    JBS 11.277 17 When [John Brown] was five years old his father emigrated to Ohio...
    JBS 11.278 20 ...[John Brown's] enterprise to go into Virginia and run off five hundred or a thousand slaves was not a piece of spite or revenge...
    ALin 11.330 20 All of us remember-it is only a history of five or six years-the surprise and disappointment of the country at [Lincoln's] first nomination by the convention at Chicago.
    SMC 11.363 19 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they set themselves to use the time to the wisest advantage...
    SMC 11.371 18 On the twelfth [of May], at Laurel Hill, the [Thirty-second] regiment had twenty-one killed and seventy-five wounded, including five officers.
    SMC 11.372 22 June fourth is marked in [George Prescott's] diary as An awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command; and not until the fifth of June comes at last a respite for a short space, during which...the officers were able to send to the wagons and procure a change of clothes, for the first time in five weeks.
    ChiE 11.472 26 ...what we call the GOLDEN RULE of Jesus, Confucius had uttered in the same terms five hundred years before.
    PLT 12.8 1 ...the course of things makes the scholars either egotists or worldly and jocose. In so many hundreds of superior men hardly ten or five or two from whom one can hope for a reasonable word.
    II 12.71 17 How incomparable beyond all price seems to us a new poem... or true work of literary genius! In five hundred years we shall not have a second.
    CInt 12.131 16 When the great painter was told by a dauber, I have painted five pictures whilst you have made one, he replied, Pingo in aeternitatem.
    CL 12.143 24 [In Illinois] You can distinguish from the cows a horse feeding, at the distance of five miles, with the naked eye.
    MAng1 12.226 16 [The Pons Palatinus] fell, five years after it was built...
    MAng1 12.243 19 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Look at these bronze gates of the Baptistery...cast by Ghiberti five hundred years ago. Michael Angelo said, they were fit to be the gates of Paradise.
    ACri 12.285 10 ...if I were asked how many masters of English idiom I know, I shall be perplexed to count five.
    Let 12.394 20 By the slightest possible concert, persevered in through four or five years, [the correspondents] think that a neighborhood might be formed of friends who would provoke each other to the best activity.
    Let 12.403 3 A friend of ours went five years ago to Illinois to buy a farm for his son.
    Let 12.403 7 ...after five years [my friend] has just been [to Illinois] to visit the young farmer...

Five Forks, Virginia, n. (1)

    SMC 11.374 8 On the first of April, the [Thirty-second] regiment connected with Sheridan's cavalry, near the Five Forks...

five-act, adj. (1)

    PI 8.45 4 ...I doubt if the best poet has yet written any five-act play that can compare in thoroughness of invention with this unwritten play in fifty acts, composed by the dullest snorer on the floor of the watch-house.

five-and-twenty, adj. (1)

    Grts 8.316 1 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, and so raised five-and-twenty louis to save his famishing lampooner alive.

fix, v. (24)

    YA 1.382 25 At least an economical success seemed certain for the enterprise [the Associations], and that agricultural association must, sooner or later, fix the price of bread...
    Hsm1 2.263 6 Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the youth may freely bring home to his mind...and inquire how fast he can fix his sense of duty...
    Art1 2.355 2 This rhetoric, or power to fix the momentary eminency of an object...the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone.
    Pt1 3.38 9 If I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading now and then in Chalmers's collection of five centuries of English poets.
    Exp 3.52 19 ...the individual texture holds its dominion, if not to bias the moral judgments, yet to fix the measure of activity and of enjoyment.
    Pol1 3.205 23 The boundaries of personal influence it is impossible to fix...
    SwM 4.129 10 ...I am repelled if you fix your eye on me and demand love.
    MoS 4.181 13 ...[some minds'] sensual habit would fix the believer to his last position...
    NMW 4.249 24 On the voyage to Egypt [Napoleon] liked, after dinner, to fix on three or four persons to support a proposition, and as many to oppose it.
    ET5 5.74 3 The Saxon and the Northman are both Scandinavians. History does not allow us to fix the limits of the application of these names with any accuracy...
    ET6 5.110 23 As soon as [the English] have rid themselves of some grievance and settled the better practice, they make haste to fix it as a finality...
    F 6.17 13 'T is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions.
    Wth 6.91 13 [A man] may fix his inventory of necessities and of enjoyments on what scale he pleases...
    Wth 6.122 24 [The citizen from Dock Square] proceeds at once...to fix the spot for his corner-stone.
    Bhr 6.177 21 Man cannot fix his eye on the sun...
    Bhr 6.178 13 When a thought strikes us, the eyes fix and remain gazing at a distance;...
    Elo1 7.89 17 [The orator's] expressions fix themselves in men's memories...
    OA 7.329 24 We have a heroic speech from Rome or Greece, but cannot fix it on the man who said it.
    SA 8.91 10 A universal etiquette should fix an iron limit after which a moment should not be allowed without explicit leave granted on request of either the giver or receiver of the visit.
    LLNE 10.358 7 One merchant to whom I described the Fourier project, thought it must not only succeed, but that agricultural association must presently fix the price of bread...
    MMEm 10.403 15 My opinion, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, [is]...that the fiery depths of Calvinism...would have alone been fitted to fix [Byron' s] imagination.
    LS 11.7 26 Without presuming to fix precisely the purpose in the mind of Jesus, you will see that many opinions may be entertained of his intention, all consistent with the opinion that he did not design a perpetual ordinance [in the Lord's Supper].
    EPro 11.323 26 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of drawing a line and rallying the free states to fix it impassably...
    Mem 12.100 27 Apprehension of the whole sentence aids to fix the precise meaning of a particular word...

fixation, n. (4)

    MN 1.222 25 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character...as...the gnarled oak to live a thousand years is the arrest and fixation of the most volatile and ethereal currents.
    QO 8.200 8 ...every individual is only a momentary fixation of what was yesterday another's...
    PLT 12.27 22 An individual body is the momentary arrest or fixation of certain atoms...
    PLT 12.27 26 An individual mind...is a fixation or momentary eddy in which certain services and powers are taken up...

fixed, adj. (23)

    Nat 1.65 6 [The world] is a fixed point whereby we may measure our departure.
    Nat 1.76 1 Nature is not fixed but fluid.
    LT 1.267 7 ...only a few are the fixed stars which have no parallax, or none for us.
    Hist 2.13 16 Genius detects...through countless individuals the fixed species;...
    Prd1 2.226 9 The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitant of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.
    OS 2.274 3 The things we now esteem fixed shall...detach themselves like ripe fruit from our experience...
    Chr1 3.98 22 ...rectitude is a perpetual victory, celebrated not by cries of joy but by serenity, which is joy fixed or habitual.
    PNR 4.80 6 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...gives us an occasion to take hastily a few more notes of the elevation and bearings of this fixed star;...
    SwM 4.130 17 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend...on a due proportion...of moral and mental power, which perhaps obeys the law of those chemical ratios which make a proportion in volumes necessary to combination, as when gases will combine in certain fixed rates, but not at any rate.
    MoS 4.178 12 ...we may come to accept it as the fixed rule and theory of our state of education, that God is a substance, and his method is illusion.
    ET1 5.18 24 The baker's boy brings muffins to the window at a fixed hour every day, and that is all the Londoner knows or wishes to know on the subject.
    ET13 5.230 26 Electricity cannot be made fast...so that you shall...keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore;...
    ET18 5.301 19 England keeps open doors, as a trading country must, to all nations. It is one of their fixed ideas...
    F 6.17 7 It is a rule that the most casual and extraordinary events, if the basis of population is broad enough, become matter of fixed calculation.
    Ill 6.318 3 Since our tuition is through emblems and indirections, it is well to know that there is method in it, a fixed scale and rank above rank in the phantasms.
    Civ 7.20 15 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth, as we say...is made by tribes. ... It implies...the ceasing from fixed ideas.
    PI 8.49 19 A right ode (however nearly it may adopt conventional metre, as the...one of the fixed lyric metres) will by any sprightliness be at once lifted out of conventionality...
    PI 8.55 11 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes/...
    QO 8.193 16 We admire that poetry which no man wrote...which is to be read...in the effect of a fixed or national style of pictures...on us.
    Aris 10.33 25 ...I notice also that [the finer qualities] may become fixed and permanent in any stock...
    PLT 12.54 4 ...without the violence of direction that men have, without bigots, without men of fixed idea, no excitement, no efficiency.
    Bost 12.199 23 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...
    ACri 12.294 9 ...the only check on the detail of each of [Shakespeare's] portraits is his own universality, which made bias or fixed ideas impossible...

fixed, v. (28)

    SL 2.154 25 The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort...
    Hsm1 2.253 18 When I was in Sogd I saw a great building, like a palace, the gates of which were...fixed back to the wall with large nails.
    Cir 2.303 15 An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture...to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.
    Cir 2.314 3 ...we now and then detect in nature slight dislocations which apprise us that this surface on which we now stand is not fixed, but sliding.
    Art1 2.365 7 ...true art is never fixed...
    Chr1 3.87 3 Fixed on the enormous galaxy,/ Deeper and older seemed his eye:/...
    Mrs1 3.127 11 These forms [manners] very soon become fixed...
    NER 3.258 11 One of the traits of the new spirit is the inquisition it fixed on our scholastic devotion to the dead languages.
    SwM 4.132 7 It is dangerous to sculpture these evanescing images of thought. True in transition, they become false if fixed.
    ET6 5.113 25 The guests [at dinner in London] are expected to arrive within half an hour of the time fixed by card of invitation...
    ET7 5.118 13 ...the cause is damaged in the [English] public opinion, on which any paltering can be fixed.
    ET8 5.127 11 This trait of gloom has been fixed on [the English] by French travellers...
    ET13 5.217 8 All maxims of prudence or shop or farm are fixed and dated by the [English] church.
    ET16 5.277 27 The temple [Stonehenge] is circular and uncovered, and the situation fixed astronomically...
    F 6.12 6 At last these hints and tendencies are fixed in one or in a succession.
    Wth 6.117 6 ...after expense has been fixed at a certain point, then new and steady rills of income, though never so small, being added, wealth begins.
    Bhr 6.192 7 We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], step by step, [the boy's] climbing, until at last...the wedding day is fixed...
    Wsp 6.216 14 ...when poems were made,--the human soul...had fixed its thoughts on spiritual verities...
    Civ 7.29 9 ...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and his second...
    Art2 7.50 13 A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being...
    OA 7.326 3 It has been long already fixed what [the old lawyer] can do...
    SovE 10.203 15 Far be it from me to underrate the men or the churches that have fixed the hearts of men...
    CSC 10.373 15 In March [1841]...a three-day' session [of the Chardon Street Convention] was holden in the same place, on the subject of the Church, and a third meeting fixed for the following November...
    MMEm 10.427 23 ...if it were in the nature of things possible He could withdraw himself,-I [Mary Moody Emerson] would hold on to the faith... that...my death, too, however long and tediously delayed to prayer,-was decreed, was fixed.
    EWI 11.112 19 ...the praedials [in the West Indies] should owe three fourths of the profits of their labor to their masters for six years, and the non-praedials for four years. The other fourth of the apprentice's time was to be his own, which he might sell to his master, or to other persons; and at the end of the term of years fixed, he should be free.
    II 12.86 21 See the poor flies, lately so wanton, now fixed to the wall or the tree, exhausted and presently blown away.
    MLit 12.313 1 ...[the poet] now revolves...what are the birds to me? and what is Hardiknute to me? and what am I? And this is called subjectiveness, as the eye is withdrawn from the object and fixed on the subject or mind.
    Trag 12.412 5 The Egyptian sphinxes, which sit to-day...with their stony eyes fixed on the East and on the Nile, have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...

fixedness, n. (1)

    Bty 6.292 12 Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms. Any fixedness...is the reverse of flowing, and therefore deformed.

fixes, v. (6)

    LE 1.175 3 Pindar, Raphael...dwell in crowds it may be, but the instant thought comes...their eye fixes on the horizon...
    SwM 4.129 14 You love the worth in me; then I am your husband; but it is not me, but the worth, that fixes the love;...
    Ctr 6.144 11 Each class fixes its eyes on the advantages it has not;...
    Ill 6.325 1 In a crowded life of many parts and performers...the same elements offer the same choices to each new comer, and, according to his election, he fixes his fortune in absolute Nature.
    Aris 10.33 22 Some qualities [Nature] carefully fixes and transmits...
    LVB 11.91 24 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting...to drag [the Cherokees]...to a wilderness at a vast distance beyond the Mississippi. And a paper purporting to be an army order fixes a month from this day as the hour for this doleful removal.

fixing, v. (2)

    Elo1 7.72 18 ...when the wise Ulysses arose and stood...fixing his eyes on the ground...you would say it was some angry or foolish man;...
    Mem 12.101 3 ...what familiarity has been acquired with the genius of the language, and the writer, helps in fixing the exact meaning of the sentence.

fixity, n. (1)

    ET4 5.49 17 The fixity or inconvertibleness of races as we see them is a weak argument for the eternity of these frail boundaries...

fixture, n. (2)

    Cir 2.303 13 An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture...to a citizen;...
    Cir 2.318 20 ...this incessant movement and progression which all things partake could never become sensible to us but by contrast to some principle of fixture or stability in the soul.

fixtures, n. (2)

    Cir 2.302 1 There are no fixtures in nature.
    Cir 2.306 9 There are no fixtures to men, if we appeal to consciousness.

flag, n. (9)

    YA 1.381 15 All this drudgery...to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag...
    Art1 2.349 10 Let statue, picture, park and hall,/ Ballad, flag and festival,/ The past restore, the day adorn/ And make each morrow a new morn./
    ET9 5.151 21 ...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.
    Edc1 10.150 21 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals; you must lower your flag and reef your sails to wait for the dull sailors;...
    EWI 11.129 8 ...an honest tenderness for the poor negro...combined with the national pride, which refused to give the support of English soil or the protection of the English flag to these disgusting violations of nature [slavery in the West Indies].
    FSLN 11.241 15 I wish to see the instructed class here know their own flag...
    SMC 11.367 13 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at last...to an excellent reputation, attested by the names of the thirty battles they were authorized to inscribe on their flag...
    SMC 11.374 14 On the ninth, [the Thirty-second Regiment] marched in support of the cavalry, and were advancing in a grand charge, when the white flag of General Lee appeared.
    FRep 11.530 27 Our national flag is not affecting...because it does not represent the population of the United States, but some...caucus;...

flagellated, v. (1)

    ET5 5.88 16 [The Englishmen's] drowsy minds need to be flagellated by war and trade and politics and persecution.

flageolets, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.247 23 We have a great many flutes and flageolets, but not often the sound of any fife.

flagging, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.223 10 If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium and wine.

flagitious, adj. (2)

    ET13 5.229 8 The popular press is flagitious in the exact measure of its sanctimony...
    FSLC 11.195 26 A wicked law cannot be executed by good men, and must be by bad. Flagitious men must be employed...

flagon, n. (1)

    Gts 3.163 8 I say to [the donor], How can you give me this pot of oil or this flagon of wine when all your oil and wine is mine, which belief of mine this gift seems to deny?

flagrant, adj. (5)

    DSA 1.133 10 The injustice of the vulgar tone of preaching is not less flagrant to Jesus than to the souls which it profanes.
    MR 1.247 24 ...we must not cease to tend to the correction of flagrant wrongs...
    LT 1.274 18 ...the compromise made with the slaveholder...every day appears more flagrant mischief to the American constitution.
    UGM 4.33 2 No man, in all the procession of famous men, is reason or illumination or that essence we were looking for; but is an exhibition, in some quarter, of new possibilities. Could we one day complete the immense figure which these flagrant points compose!
    HDC 11.82 13 [Concord] has suffered neither from war, nor pestilence, nor famine, nor flagrant crime.

flags, n. (5)

    Cour 7.259 12 [Political parties] can do...the flags...
    Cour 7.264 25 ...the drums, flags...of the soldier have conquered you long before his sword or bayonet reaches you.
    LLNE 10.367 20 The children from six to eight [said Fourier], organized into companies with flags and uniforms, shall do this last function of civilization [the dirty work].
    EWI 11.110 9 The [slave] trade, under false flags, went on as before.
    War 11.163 19 This vast apparatus of artillery,...this waving of national flags...seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.

flake, n. (1)

    QO 8.175 3 The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both [old and new]. The present moment gives the motion and the color of the flake, Antiquity its form and properties.

flakes, n. (4)

    Nat 1.17 23 The western clouds divided and subdivided themselves into pink flakes...
    Ill 6.313 22 There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm.
    SMC 11.350 20 ...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.
    II 12.66 6 'T is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in that habitual first look which he casts on all objects. Here alone is the field... of every religion and civil order that has been or shall be. All that we know is flakes and grains detached from this mountain.

flamboyant, adj. (2)

    ACri 12.290 19 A good writer must convey the feeling of a flamboyant witness, and at the same time of chemic selection...
    ACri 12.293 14 A list might be made of showy words that tempt young writers: asphodel, harbinger, chalice, flamboyant...

flame, n. (35)

    Nat 1.18 3 The leafless trees become spires of flame in the sunset...
    AmS 1.90 22 ...cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame.
    AmS 1.93 25 ...[colleges] can only highly serve us...when they...set the hearts of their youth on flame.
    MN 1.195 14 The flame of life flickers feebly in human breasts.
    Tran 1.357 23 [The Transcendentalists'] heart is the ark in which the fire is concealed which shall burn in a broader and universal flame.
    Comp 2.100 18 If the government is a terrific democracy, the pressure is resisted by an over-charge of energy in the citizen, and life glows with a fiercer flame.
    SL 2.129 10 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ .../ And, by the famous might that lurks/ In reaction and recoil,/ Makes flame to freeze and ice to boil;/...
    Hsm1 2.254 8 These [magnanimous] men fan the flame of human love...
    Cir 2.310 21 ...let us enjoy the cloven flame [of conversation] whilst it glows on our walls.
    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!
    ET4 5.59 24 The wind blew off the land, the ship flew, burning in clear flame, out between the islets into the ocean, and there was the right end of King Hake.
    ET8 5.140 19 The slow, deep English mass smoulders with fire, which at last sets all its borders in flame.
    Wsp 6.232 7 A poor, tender, painful body, [man] can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.
    Bty 6.279 6 Beauty chased [Seyd] everywhere,/ In flame, in storm, in clouds of air./
    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;...
    Civ 7.33 18 ...a purer morality...casts backward all that we held sacred into the profane, as the flame of oil throws a shadow when shined upon by the flame of the Bude-light.
    Civ 7.33 19 ...a purer morality...casts backward all that we held sacred into the profane, as the flame of oil throws a shadow when shined upon by the flame of the Bude-light.
    Clbs 7.225 5 The flame of life burns too fast in pure oxygen...
    Cour 7.255 10 The third excellence is courage, the perfect will...which is attracted by frowns or threats or hostile armies, nay, needs these to awake and fan its reserved energies into a pure flame...
    Cour 7.264 6 ...the farmer is skilful to fight [the forest fire]. The neighbors run together; with pine boughs they can mop out the flame...
    Suc 7.311 4 ...to help the young soul...and blow the coals into a useful flame;...that is not easy...
    SA 8.104 24 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart...
    SA 8.105 7 No matter what the object is, so it be good, this flame of desire makes life sweet and tolerable.
    Elo2 8.111 17 Who knows before the debate begins...what the means are of the combatants? The facts, the reasons, the logic,--above all, the flame of passion and the continuous energy of will which is presently to be let loose on this bench of judges...all are invisible and unknown.
    PC 8.225 4 Look out into the July night and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven...
    Insp 8.268 10 ...if with bended head I grope/ Listening behind me for my wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More anxious to keep back than forward it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/ Unto the flame my heart has lit,/ Then will the verse forever wear,/ Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
    Insp 8.275 8 The moth flies into the flame of the lamp;...
    Grts 8.317 18 The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it;...
    Schr 10.288 5 ...[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...
    EWI 11.111 26 ...these missionaries [to the West Indies] were persecuted by the planters...and the negroes furiously forbidden to go near them. These outrages rekindled the flame of British indignation.
    TPar 11.289 4 ...it was complained...that [Theodore Parker's] zeal burned with too hot a flame.
    PLT 12.35 3 Ever at intervals leaps a word or fact to light which is no man' s invention, but the common instinct, making the revolutions that never go back. This is Instinct, and Inspiration is only this power...breaking its silence; the spark bursting into flame.
    II 12.69 23 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? That force or flame is alone to be considered;...
    II 12.86 10 His art shall suffice this artist, his flame this lover...
    Milt1 12.262 25 Among so many contrivances as the world has seen to make holiness ugly, in Milton at least it was so pure a flame that the foremost impression his character makes is that of elegance.

flamed, v. (3)

    PI 8.57 25 An intrepid magniloquence appears in all the bards, as:--The whole ocean flamed as one wound.
    PPo 8.257 14 With unrelated glance/ I looked the rose in the eye:/ The rose in the hour of gloaming/ Flamed like a lamp hard-by./
    HCom 11.343 17 Here...in this little nest of New England republics [enthusiasm] flamed out when the guilty gun was aimed at Sumter.

flamens, n. (1)

    Shak1 11.447 8 We seriously endeavored, besides our brothers and our seniors...to draw out of their retirements a few rarer lovers of the muse- seld-seen flamens...

flames, n. (11)

    Nat 1.16 8 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them, as...flames...
    Lov1 2.170 20 ...[love] is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom...glows and enlarges until it warms and beams... and so lights up the whole world and all nature with its generous flames.
    Cir 2.322 11 ...[men] ask the aid of wild passions...to ape in some manner these flames and generosities of the heart.
    Exp 3.52 15 ...temper...is inconsumable in the flames of religion.
    Nat2 3.172 20 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.
    Nat2 3.189 14 ...perhaps the discovery...that though we should hold our peace the truth would not the less be spoken, might check injuriously the flames of our zeal.
    ET12 5.202 2 Here [at Oxford]...John Milton's Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio and Iconoclastes were committed to the flames.
    ET14 5.246 25 Bulwer...appeals to the worldly ambition of the student. His romances tend to fan these low flames.
    Wsp 6.199 9 ...Bound to the stake, no flames appalled,/ But arched o'er him an honoring vault./
    PPo 8.245 7 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./
    Milt1 12.250 5 We could be well content if the flames to which [Milton's Defence of the English People] was condemned at Paris, at Toulouse, and at London, had utterly consumed it.

flames, v. (1)

    AmS 1.82 7 ...the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star...

flaming, adj. (5)

    LE 1.183 20 ...the youth has lost a star out of his new flaming firmament.
    Lov1 2.187 4 [Lovers'] once flaming regard is sobered by time in either breast...
    PPo 8.257 17 [The rose] was of her beauty proud,/ And prouder of her youth,/ The while unto her flaming heart/ The bulbul gave his truth./
    War 11.168 23 A man does not come the length of the spirit of martyrdom without...some flaming love.
    PPr 12.385 6 The wit [of Carlyle's Past and Present] has eluded all official zeal; and yet...this flaming sword of Cherubim waved high in air...shows to the eyes of the universe every wound it inflicts.

flaming, v. (2)

    AmS 1.108 17 [The universal mind] is one central fire, which, flaming now out of the lips of Etna, lightens the capes of Sicily...
    Ill 6.310 16 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars...and even what seemed a comet flaming among them.

Flammock, Rose [W. Scott, (1)

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

Flamsteed, John, n. (3)

    AmS 1.100 21 Flamsteed and Herschel...may catalogue the stars with the praise of all men...
    MMEm 10.433 3 Shall we not keep Flamsteed and Herschel in the observatory, though it should even be proved that they neglected to rectify their own kitchen clock?
    Mem 12.108 5 I have several times forgotten the name of Flamsteed, never that of Newton;...

Flanders, adj. (1)

    ET5 5.83 13 The bias of the nation [England] is a passion for utility. They love the lever...the Flanders draught-horse...

Flanders, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.82 17 The audience [if there be personality in the orator]...follows like a child its preceptor, and hears what he has to say. It is as if, amidst the king's council at Madrid...Mendoza [urged] that Flanders might be kept down...

flank, n. (4)

    LE 1.180 17 ...everything [was] expected from the valor and discipline of every platoon, in flank and centre [in Napoleon's army]...
    LT 1.260 10 Here is this great fact of Conservatism, entrenched in its immense redoubt, with Himmaleh for its front, and Atlas for its flank, and Andes for its rear...
    Cir 2.308 24 There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow;...
    Cir 2.309 8 Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned...

flanked, v. (1)

    Prch 10.235 6 Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid! As for position, the position is always the same...flanked, I may say, by the resolute...

flanks, n. (1)

    SMC 11.368 22 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.

flannel, n. (1)

    Bost 12.196 16 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of the year, and then again shuttng up the body in flannel and leather, defrauds the human being in some degree of his relations to external nature;...

flannels, n. (1)

    Con 1.319 12 The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and...his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels...

flash, n. (11)

    Cir 2.311 9 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys. Then cometh the god...and by a flash of his eye burns up the veil which shrouded all things...
    MoS 4.166 8 ...[Montaigne] will talk with sailors and gipsies, use flash and street ballads;...
    Cour 7.263 8 It is the veteran soldier, who, seeing the flash of the cannon, can step aside from the path of the ball.
    Insp 8.273 1 'T is with us a flash of light, then a long darkness, then a flash again.
    Insp 8.273 2 'T is with us a flash of light, then a long darkness, then a flash again.
    Insp 8.273 14 ...this quick ebb of power,-as if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand,-tantalizes us.
    PerF 10.70 23 Faraday said, A grain of water is known to have electric relations equivalent to a very powerful flash of lightning.
    PLT 12.53 1 'T is with us a flash of light, then a long darkness, then a flash again.
    PLT 12.53 2 'T is with us a flash of light, then a long darkness, then a flash again.
    CInt 12.113 12 ...it were a compounding of all gradation and reverence to suffer the flash of swords and the boyish strife of passion and feebleness of military strength to intrude [in the college] on this sanctity and omnipotence of Intellectual Law.
    ACri 12.302 18 [Channing] thinks...England a flash in the pan;...

flash, v. (3)

    DSA 1.132 10 [The divine bards] admonish me that the gleams which flash across my mind are not mine...
    LE 1.162 5 No more will I dismiss, with haste, the visions which flash and sparkle across my sky;...
    QO 8.204 12 ...the hints which flash from [thought]...are trustworthy and fertile when obeyed...

flashed, v. (1)

    SovE 10.197 5 I have not discovered, until this blessed ray flashed just now through my soul, that there dwelt any power in Nature that would relieve me of my load.

flashes, n. (3)

    Exp 3.71 14 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, as it were in flashes of light...
    Chr1 3.105 10 ...character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before new flashes of moral worth.
    Cour 7.272 16 The charm of the best courages is that they are...flashes of genius.

flashes, v. (4)

    Hist 2.4 22 Each new fact in [a man's] private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done...
    SR 2.45 19 A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within...
    Int 2.334 9 So lies the whole series of natural images with which your life has made you acquainted, in your memory, though you know it not; and a thrill of passion flashes light on their dark chamber...
    PC 8.225 4 Look out into the July night and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven...

flashing, v. (2)

    EWI 11.124 27 ...you could not get any poetry, any wisdom, and beauty in woman, any strong and commanding character in man, but these absurdities would still come flashing out,-these absurdities of a demand for justice, a generosity for the weak and oppressed.
    Wom 11.411 25 The far-fetched diamond finds its home/ Flashing and smouldering in [woman's] hair./

flash-of-lightning, adj. (1)

    Tran 1.352 27 I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight...

flashy, adj. (1)

    ET8 5.140 17 The national temper [of England], in the civil history, is not flashy or whiffling.

flask, n. (1)

    PI 8.14 6 The return of the soul to God was described as a flask of water broken in the sea.

flat, adj. (9)

    Pt1 3.37 22 ...Methodism and Unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people...
    Gts 3.163 12 This giving is flat usurpation...
    NR 3.236 7 ...[the divine man] sees [persons] as...a fleet of ripples which the wind drives over the surface of the water. But this is flat rebellion.
    ET14 5.240 12 [Bacon] held this element [prima philosophia] essential... believing that no perfect discovery can be made in a flat or level, but you must ascend to a higher science.
    Wsp 6.203 27 The stern old faiths have all pulverized. ... 'T is as flat anarchy in our ecclesiastic realms as that which existed in Massachusetts in the Revolution...
    QO 8.197 13 ...Mr. Hallam is reported as mentioning at dinner one of his friends who had said, I don't know how it is, a thing that falls flat from me seems quite an excellent joke when given at second hand by Sheridan.
    Prch 10.220 8 In proportion to a man's want of goodness...the Deity becomes more objective, until finally flat idolatry prevails.
    SlHr 10.442 17 ...what Middlesex jury, containing any God-fearing men in it, would hazard an opinion in flat contradiction to what Squire Hoar believed to be just?
    MLit 12.328 8 What [Goethe] said of Lavater, may truelier said of him, that it was fearful to stand in the presence of one before whom all the boundaries within which Nature has circumscribed our being were laid flat.

flatboatman, n. (1)

    ALin 11.330 14 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...a flatboatman, a captain in the Black Hawk War, a country lawyer...

Flathead Indian, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.7 9 ...in varieties of our own species where organization seems to predominate over the genius of man, in Kalmuck or Malay or Flathead Indian, we are sometimes pained by the same feeling [of the similarity between man and animal];...

flatly, adv. (1)

    FSLC 11.194 19 This dreadful English Speech is saturated with songs, proverbs and speeches that flatly contradict and defy every line of Mr. Mason's statute [the Fugitive Slave Law].

flatness, n. (1)

    FRep 11.536 2 [The class of which I speak] complain of the flatness of American life;...

flattened, v. (1)

    YA 1.372 10 The sphere is flattened at the poles and swelled at the equator;...

flatter, v. (8)

    Tran 1.337 22 The Buddhist...who says, Do not flatter your benefactors...is a Transcendentalist.
    OS 2.291 22 ...what rebuke [simple souls'] plain fraternal bearing casts on the mutual flattery with which authors solace each other and wound themselves! These flatter not.
    Gts 3.164 1 It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally wishes to give you a slap. A golden text for these gentlemen is that which I so admire in the Buddhist, who never thanks, and who says, Do not flatter your benefactors.
    ET4 5.49 26 ...we flatter the self-love of men and nations by the legend of pure races...
    ET11 5.172 19 The estates, names and manners of the [English] nobles flatter the fancy of the people...
    Suc 7.298 20 ...the leaves twinkle and pique and flatter [the city boy in the October woods];...
    EWI 11.123 19 The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter...
    Bost 12.210 18 The [American] heroes only shared this power of a sentiment, which, if it now breathes into us, will make it easy to us to understand them, and we shall no longer flatter them.

flattered, adj. (3)

    PI 8.9 15 Nature gives [the student], sometimes in a flattered likeness, sometimes in caricature, a copy of every humor and shade in his character and mind.
    Prch 10.221 3 ...this examination [of religion] resulting in the constant detection of errors, the flattered understanding assumes to judge all things...
    MMEm 10.414 15 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] prospered in life, what a proud, excited being, even to feverishness, I might have been. Loving to shine, flattered and flattering...

flattered, v. (9)

    LE 1.186 16 Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry.
    Chr1 3.106 25 How captivating is [children's] devotion to their favorite books...as feeling that they have a stake in that book;...and especially the total solitude of the critic, the Patmos of thought from which he writes, in unconsciousness of any eyes that shall ever read this writing. Could they dream on still, as angels, and not wake to comparisons and to be flattered!
    NER 3.273 22 What is it we heartily wish of each other? Is it to be pleased and flattered?
    ET15 5.271 25 [The London Times's] existence honors the people who...do not wish to be flattered by hiding the extent of the public disaster.
    CbW 6.249 8 Masses...need not to be flattered but to be schooled.
    Elo1 7.82 8 ...the commonest populace is flattered by hearing its low mind returned to it with every ornament which happy talent can add.
    WD 7.172 16 We are coaxed, flattered and duped from morn to eve...
    FRep 11.518 24 The people are feared and flattered.
    MLit 12.314 2 ...in all ages, and now more, the narrow-minded have no interest in anything but its relation to their personality. What will help them to be...flattered or pardoned or enriched;...

flatterer, n. (1)

    OS 2.295 18 [The soul] is no flatterer...

flatterers, n. (1)

    SA 8.81 25 ...trying experiments, and at perfect leisure with these posture-masters and flatterers all day, [the babe] throws himself into all the attitudes that correspond to theirs.

flatteries, n. (2)

    Pow 6.74 7 Friends, books, pictures, lower duties, talents, flatteries, hopes,-- all are distractions...
    Plu 10.293 16 [Plutarch] has been represented...as having been appointed by [Trajan] the governor of Greece. He was a man whose real superiority had no need of these flatteries.

flattering, adj. (3)

    NR 3.233 9 I find the most pleasure in reading a book in a manner least flattering to the author.
    NMW 4.254 22 [Napoleon's] theory of influence is not flattering.
    MMEm 10.414 15 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] prospered in life, what a proud, excited being, even to feverishness, I might have been. Loving to shine, flattered and flattering...

flatters, v. (3)

    SwM 4.93 15 Then, also, the philosopher has his value, who flatters the intellect of this laborer by engaging him with subtleties which instruct him in new faculties.
    WD 7.163 12 Man flatters himself that his command over Nature must increase.
    Grts 8.312 18 The great man loves the conversation or the book that convicts him, not that which soothes or flatters him.

flattery, n. (13)

    OS 2.291 20 ...what rebuke [simple souls'] plain fraternal bearing casts on the mutual flattery with which authors solace each other...
    OS 2.292 8 Souls like these make us feel that sincerity is more excellent than flattery.
    OS 2.292 13 [Men's] highest praising, said Milton, is not flattery...
    Gts 3.160 1 Men use to tell us that we love flattery...because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
    Nat2 3.192 9 There is in woods and waters a certain enticement and flattery...
    Nat2 3.193 17 What shall we say...of this flattery and balking of so many well-meaning creatures?
    NER 3.273 16 [Men] like flattery for the moment...
    ET3 5.40 14 The old Venetians pleased themselves with the flattery that Venice was in 45 degrees, midway between the poles and the line;...
    SA 8.81 23 The babe meets such courting and flattery as only kings receive when adult;...
    Dem1 10.22 16 The deepest flattery...is the flattery of omens.
    Dem1 10.22 17 The deepest flattery...is the flattery of omens.
    MMEm 10.405 23 When [Mary Moody Emerson] met a young person who interested her, she made herself acquainted and intimate with him or her at once, by sympathy, by flattery, by raillery...
    MLit 12.329 26 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] To a profound soul is not austere truth the sweetest flattery??

flatulency, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.26 8 These adepts [in occult facts] have mistaken flatulency for inspiration.

Flavel, John, n. (1)

    Bost 12.193 17 [The Massachusetts colonists] read Milton, Thomas a Kempis, Bunyan and Flavel with religious awe and delight...

flavor, n. (2)

    Prd1 2.240 23 ...strawberries lose their flavor in garden-beds.
    CL 12.145 11 The American sun paints itself in these glowing balls [apples] amid the green leaves, the social fruit, in which Nature has deposited every possible flavor;...

flavor, v. (2)

    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.
    ACri 12.287 6 Into the exquisite refinement of his Academy, [Plato] introduces the low-born Socrates, relieving the purple diction by his perverse talk...and steadily kept this coarseness to flavor a dish else too luscious.

flavors, n. (5)

    Ill 6.314 19 ...I remember the quarrel of another youth with the confectioners, that when he racked his wit to choose the best comfits in the shops, in all the endless varieties of sweetmeat he could find only three flavors, or two.
    Farm 7.149 14 [Peaches and grapes]...never tell on your table whence they drew their sunset complexion or their delicate flavors.
    PerF 10.75 22 [Labor] is...in every spectacle, in odors, in flavors...
    Edc1 10.137 12 The charm of life is...these contrasts and flavors by which Heaven has modulated the identity of truth...
    EdAd 11.387 10 ...the grape on two sides of the same fence has new flavors;...

flaw, n. (3)

    Tran 1.345 6 ...this masterpiece is the result of such an extreme delicacy that the most unobserved flaw in the boy will neutralize the most aspiring genius, and spoil the work.
    MoS 4.151 6 Picture, statue, temple, railroad, steam-engine, existed first in an artist's mind, without flaw, mistake, or friction...
    AsSu 11.250 10 [Sumner's enemies] have fastened their eyes like microscopes for five years on every act, word, manner and movement, to find a flaw...

flaws, n. (2)

    ET14 5.237 9 ...the Greek art wrought many a vase or column, in which too long or too lithe, or nodes, or pits and flaws are made a beauty of;...
    Insp 8.288 4 Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in the woods in summer, and saw where little flaws of wind whip spots or patches of still water into fleets of ripples...

flax, n. (2)

    Nat 1.3 17 There is more wool and flax in the fields.
    HDC 11.27 3 Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Merriam, Flint,/ Possessed the land which rendered to their toil/ Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood./

flax-cotton, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.210 18 ...granting...that these evils [of slavery] are to be relieved only by the wisdom of God working in ages,-and by what instrument, whether Liberia, whether flax-cotton...none can tell...still the question recurs, What must we do?

Flaxman, John, n. (2)

    FRep 11.511 17 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel...
    FRep 11.511 22 Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood];...

Flaxman's, John, n. (1)

    Exp 3.82 12 In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the threshold.

flayed, v. (1)

    EWI 11.104 7 ...if we saw men's backs flayed with cowhides...we too should wince.

flea, n. (2)

    LLNE 10.350 9 The hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea, were all beneficent parts of the system;...
    CSC 10.375 21 ...there was no want of female speakers [at the Chardon Street Convention];...that flea of Conventions, Mrs. Abigail Folsom, was but too ready with her interminable scroll.

Fleas, Industrious, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.139 13 The hardiest skeptic...who has visited...the exhibition of the Industrious Fleas, will not deny the validity of education.

fleas, n. (2)

    UGM 4.4 17 ...enormous populations, if they be beggars, are disgusting... like hills of ants or of fleas...
    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.

flecks, n. (1)

    Cir 2.302 12 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.

fled, v. (10)

    SR 2.82 2 I...at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is...the sad self...that I fled from.
    Comp 2.105 16 If [the unwise man] has escaped [the conditions of life] in form and in the appearance, it is because he has...fled from himself...
    Fdsp 2.189 5 ...The world uncertain comes and goes,/ The lover rooted stays./ I fancied he was fled,/ And, after many a year,/ Glowed unexhausted kindliness/ Like daily sunrise there./
    Mrs1 3.154 21 Osman had a humanity so broad and deep that although his speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to disgust all the dervishes, yet was there never...some fool...who...had a pet madness in his brain, but fled at once to him;...
    Wsp 6.211 3 Kossuth fled hither across the ocean to try if he could rouse the New World to a sympathy with European liberty.
    HDC 11.60 22 Hunted by Captain [Benjamin] Church, [King Philip] fled from one swamp to another;...
    HDC 11.60 26 ...[King Philip] was at last shot down by an Indian deserter, as he fled alone in the dark of the morning...
    War 11.159 21 This valuable person [Assacombuit]...took to killing his own neighbors and kindred, with such appetite that his tribe...would have killed him had he not fled his country forever.
    FSLC 11.188 7 ...this man who has run the gauntlet of a thousand miles for his freedom, the statute says, you men of Massachusetts shall hunt, and catch, and send back again to the dog-hutch he fled from.
    FSLN 11.215 6 All else is gone; from those great eyes/ The soul has fled:/ When faith is lost, when honor dies,/ The man is dead!/ Whittier, Ichabod!

flee, v. (10)

    Tran 1.355 15 ...we are tempted to smile, and we flee from the working to the speculative reformer, to escape that same slight ridicule.
    SR 2.57 16 Leave your theory...and flee.
    Lov1 2.187 4 If there be virtue, all the vices are known as such; they confess and flee.
    Art1 2.366 15 Men are not well pleased with the figure they make in their own imaginations, and they flee to art...
    Nat2 3.179 12 ...let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature... the quick cause before which all forms flee as the driven snows;...
    SwM 4.125 23 [To Swedenborg] Such as have deprived themselves of charity, wander and flee...
    F 6.46 25 ...what we flee from flees from us;...
    Civ 7.17 1 We flee away from cities, but we bring/ The best of cities with us/...
    Boks 7.213 14 The novel is that allowance and frolic the imagination finds. Everything else pins it down, and men flee for redress to Byron, Scott...
    PLT 12.54 11 Nonsense will not keep its unreason if you come into the humorist's point of view, but unhappily we find it is fast becoming sense, and we must flee again into the distance if we would laugh.

fleece, n. (3)

    Pol1 3.197 3 All earth's fleece and food/ For their like are sold./
    ET16 5.282 19 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was the compass...
    Wsp 6.221 24 ...the colors are fast, because they are the native colors of the fleece;...

fleecy, adj. (1)

    OA 7.322 5 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them: as at My Cid, with the fleecy beard, in Toledo;...

fleeing, adj. (1)

    PI 8.21 10 [The poet's] own body is a fleeing apparition...

fleeing, v. (4)

    Nat 1.21 2 When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America; - before it the beach lined with savages, fleeing out of all their huts of cane;... can we separate the man from the living picture?
    SR 2.47 24 ...we are...not cowards fleeing before a revolution...
    Ill 6.307 12 House you were born in,/ Friends of your spring-time,/ Old man and young maid,/ Day's toil and its guerdon, /They are all vanishing, / Fleeing to fables,/ Cannot be moored./
    MLit 12.318 6 [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...

flees, v. (5)

    MR 1.230 5 ...[the money-catcher] trembles and flees.
    MR 1.244 13 Give [any man's] mind a new image, and he flees into a solitary garden...to enjoy it...
    Fdsp 2.212 11 You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house. If unlike, his soul only flees the faster from you...
    F 6.46 25 ...what we flee from flees from us;...
    PPo 8.255 17 Once flees [the phoenix] upward, he will perch/ On Tuba's golden bough;/ His home is on that fruited arch/ Which cools the blest below.

fleet, adj. (1)

    Res 8.151 10 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds, and mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in the country...wants...no fleet horse that a man cannot hold...

fleet, n. (7)

    NR 3.236 5 ...[the divine man] sees [persons] as...a fleet of ripples which the wind drives over the surface of the water.
    ET2 5.29 18 In our graveyards we scoop a pit, but this aggressive water... makes a mouthful of a fleet.
    ET4 5.56 2 Charlemagne, halting one day in a town of Narbonnese Gaul, looked out of a window and saw a fleet of Northmen cruising in the Mediterranean.
    ET4 5.62 4 It was a tardy recoil of these invasions [of Northmen], when...in 1807, Lord Cathcart, at Copenhagen, took the entire Danish fleet...
    ET6 5.102 19 ...Sydney Smith had made it a proverb that little Lord John Russell, the minister, would take command of the Channel fleet to-morrow.
    ET11 5.191 27 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper at his council table...and the baker will not bring bread any longer. Meantime the English Channel was swept and London threatened by the Dutch fleet...
    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 fleet of ships...

fleeting, adj. (4)

    Hist 2.14 1 Nothing is so fleeting as form;...
    Imtl 8.352 1 Thinking the soul as unbodily among bodies, firm among fleeting things, the wise man casts off all grief.
    MMEm 10.422 6 We call [Time] by every name of fleeting, dreaming, vaporing imagery.
    FRep 11.532 6 See how fast [our people] extend the fleeting fabric of their trade...

fleeting, n. (1)

    MoS 4.186 5 Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting;...

fleetness, n. (1)

    HCom 11.340 10 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness/...

fleets, n. (4)

    Con 1.311 23 ...for thee...fleets of floating palaces...swim by sail and by steam through all the waters of this world.
    Insp 8.288 5 Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in the woods in summer, and saw where little flaws of wind whip spots or patches of still water into fleets of ripples...
    War 11.163 16 This vast apparatus of artillery, of fleets...this incessant patrolling of sentinels;...seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.
    War 11.165 9 ...when a truth appears...it will build fleets;...

Flemings, n. (1)

    ET5 5.96 18 [The English] make ponchos for the Mexican...laces for the Flemings...

flesh, n. (51)

    Nat 1.69 2 Herbs gladly cure our flesh, because that they/ Find their acquaintance there./
    Nat 1.69 13 All things unto our flesh are kind/...
    MN 1.197 8 [Nature] is flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bone.
    MN 1.197 9 [Nature] is flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bone.
    MR 1.251 15 [The Arabs] were Temperance troops. There was neither brandy nor flesh needed to feed them.
    SR 2.58 3 Pythagoras was misunderstood...and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.
    SR 2.76 21 Let a Stoic...tell men...that a man is the word made flesh...
    SR 2.85 1 ...strike the savage with a broad-axe and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal...
    Comp 2.104 5 The soul says, The man and woman shall be one flesh and one soul; the body would join the flesh only.
    Comp 2.104 6 The soul says, The man and woman shall be one flesh and one soul; the body would join the flesh only.
    Fdsp 2.213 2 The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood.
    Hsm1 2.247 17 By Romulus, [Sophocles] is all soul, I think;/ He hath no flesh, and spirit cannot be gyved,/ Then we have vanquished nothing; he is free,/ And Martius walks now in captivity./
    Exp 3.72 15 The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body;...
    Chr1 3.108 24 I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood.
    Mrs1 3.138 14 To the leaders of men, the brain as well as the flesh and the heart must furnish a proportion.
    NER 3.283 8 ...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who...shall not take counsel of flesh and blood...
    PPh 4.58 18 Horsed on these winged steeds [poetry, prophecy, high insight], [Plato]...visits worlds which flesh cannot enter;...
    NMW 4.229 16 ...men saw in [Bonaparte] combined the natural and the intellectual power, as if the sea and land had taken flesh and begun to cipher.
    NMW 4.245 15 The Revolution entitled...every horse-boy and powder-monkey in the army, to look on Napoleon as flesh of his flesh...
    ET4 5.71 15 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...a little overloaded by his flesh.
    ET13 5.228 9 England accepts this ornamented national church, and it glazes the eyes, bloats the flesh, gives the voice a stertorous clang...
    F 6.46 9 ...our flesh hath no might/ To understand it aright/ For it is warned too derkely./
    Pow 6.73 4 Michel [Angelo] was wont to draw his figures first in skeleton, then to clothe them with flesh...
    Wsp 6.206 14 Hengist had verament/ A daughter both fair and gent,/ But she was heathen Sarazine,/ And Vortigern for love fine/ Her took to fere and to wife,/ And was cursed in all his life;/ For he let Christian wed heathen,/ And mixed our blood as flesh and mathen./
    SS 7.1 24 ...As if in [Seyd] the welkin walked,/ The winds took flesh, the mountains talked/...
    DL 7.103 23 [The child's] flesh is angel's flesh, all alive.
    DL 7.103 24 [The child's] flesh is angel's flesh, all alive.
    DL 7.104 22 Mistrusting the cunning of his small legs, [the young American] wishes to ride on the necks and shoulders of all flesh.
    Farm 7.151 20 ...[the first planter]...has no road but the trail of the moose or bear; he lives on their flesh when he can kill one, on roots and fruits when he cannot.
    WD 7.170 10 There are days which are the carnival of the year. The angels assume flesh...
    Suc 7.309 2 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton. ... She weaves her tissues and integuments of flesh and skin and hair and beautiful colors of the day over it...
    PI 8.58 7 ...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;/...
    Edc1 10.132 3 The truth takes flesh in forms that can express it;...
    MoL 10.244 20 In Puritanism, how the whole Jewish history became flesh and blood in those men, let Bunyan show.
    Schr 10.276 2 We cannot eat the granite nor drink hydrogen. They must be decompounded and recompounded into corn and water before they can enter our flesh.
    LLNE 10.356 14 ...Thoreau gave in flesh and blood and pertinacious Saxon belief the purest ethics.
    Thor 10.454 9 ...[Thoreau] ate no flesh, he drank no wine, he never knew the use of tobacco;...
    Carl 10.495 6 [Carlyle] is eaten up with indignation against such as desire to make a fair show in the flesh.
    LS 11.10 19 [Jesus] there [at Capernaum] tells the Jews, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
    LS 11.11 1 [Jesus] closed his discourse [at Capernaum] with these explanatory expressions: The flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life.
    HDC 11.34 26 For flesh, [the pilgrims] looked not for any, in those times, unless they could barter with the Indians for venison and raccoons.
    HDC 11.79 10 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...
    FRO2 11.486 20 ...St. Augustine writes: That which is now called the Christian religion...never did not exist from the planting of the human race until Christ came in the flesh...
    PLT 12.22 16 If we go through...any cabinet where is some representation of all the kingdoms of Nature...we feel as if looking at our bone and flesh through coloring and distorting glasses.
    PLT 12.33 2 A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated.
    II 12.74 18 ...I believe it is true in the experience of all men...that, for the memorable moments of life, we were in them, and not they in us. How they entered into me, let them say if they can; for I have gone over all the avenues of my flesh, and cannot find by which they entered, said Saint Augustine.
    II 12.79 24 The thoughts which wander through our mind, we do not absorb and make flesh of...
    CL 12.165 23 ...[Nature] is bone of our bone, flesh of our flesh...
    Milt1 12.256 20 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.
    Pray 12.354 26 I feel that without thy love in me I should be alone here in the flesh.
    Pray 12.356 14 [I, Augustine, entered my soul and saw] Not this vulgar light which all flesh may look upon...

flesh-eating, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.254 21 It seems not worth [the hero's] while to...denounce with bitterness flesh-eating or wine-drinking...

flesh-pots, n. [fleshpots,] (2)

    Nat 1.58 21 [The Manichean and Plotinus] distrusted in themselves any looking back to these flesh-pots of Egypt.
    ET5 5.88 14 Heavy fellows, steeped in beer and fleshpots, [the English] are hard of hearing and dim of sight.

Fletcher, John, n. (10)

    Hsm1 2.245 2 In the elder English dramatists, and mainly in the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, there is a constant recognition of gentility...
    ShP 4.192 15 The best proof of [the Elizabethan theatre's] vitality is the crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field; Kyd, Marlow, Greene, Jonson, Chapman, Decker, Webster, Heywood, Middleton, Peele, Ford, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher.
    ET1 5.7 16 ...[Landor]...talked of Wordsworth, Byron, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher.
    Boks 7.207 7 Here [in the Elizabethan era the scholar] has Shakspeare... Fletcher...
    Boks 7.218 3 The Greek fables...the English drama of Shakspeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Ford...have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
    Clbs 7.243 22 We know well the Mermaid Club...of Shakspeare... Beaumont and Fletcher;...
    PI 8.55 3 Try this strain of Beaumont and Fletcher...
    QO 8.190 4 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine? Cannot they...call their poem Beaumont and Fletcher...
    LLNE 10.358 26 Talents supplement each other. Beaumont and Fletcher and many French novelists have known how to utilize such partnerships.
    MLit 12.311 19 How can the age be a bad one which gives me...Beaumont and Fletcher, Donne and Sir Thomas Browne, beside its own riches?

Fletcher's, John, n. (2)

    SR 2.78 3 Caratach, in Fletcher's Bonduca, when admonished to inquire the mind of the god Audate, replies,-His hidden meaning lies in our endeavors;/...
    Hsm1 2.256 7 In Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage, Juletta tells the stout captain and his company,--Jul. Why, slaves, 't is in our power to hang ye./ Master. Very likely,/ 'T is in our powers, then, to be hanged, and scorn ye./

flew, v. (7)

    NMW 4.233 25 [Napoleon] knew what to do, and he flew to his mark.
    ET2 5.26 21 At last...the storm came, the winds blew, and we flew before a northwester which strained every rope and sail.
    ET4 5.59 24 The wind blew off the land, the ship flew, burning in clear flame, out between the islets into the ocean, and there was the right end of King Hake.
    Wth 6.84 10 ...Then flew the sail across the seas/ To feed the North from tropic trees;/...
    Dem1 10.14 24 The augur showed [Masollam] a bird, and told him, If that bird remained where he was, it would be better for them all to remain; if he flew on, they might proceed;...
    Dem1 10.14 25 The augur showed [Masollam] a bird, and told him, If that bird remained where he was, it would be better for them all to remain; if he flew on, they might proceed; but if he flew back, they must return.
    EWI 11.104 23 ...a good man or woman...once in a while saw these injuries [to West Indian slaves] and had the indiscretion to tell of them. The horrid story ran and flew;...

flexibility, n. (1)

    Con 1.310 16 [Existing institutions] really have so much flexibility as to afford your talent and character...the same chance of demonstration and success which they might have if there was no law and no property.

flexible, adj. (5)

    Nat 1.52 9 To [the poet], the refractory world is ductile and flexible;...
    DSA 1.150 26 ...[Christianity has given us] secondly, the institution of preaching...essentially the most flexible of all organs...
    Prch 10.237 2 The forms [of the creeds] are flexible, but the uses not less real.
    LS 11.21 23 [Christianity] has for its object simply to make men good and wise. Its institutions then should be as flexible as the wants of men.
    MAng1 12.232 21 ...such was [Michelangelo's] own mastery that men said, the marble was flexible in his hands.

flexibly, adv. (1)

    ACri 12.297 16 ...[Carlyle] talks flexibly...

flexile, adj. (1)

    WD 7.175 2 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols was not Persian, nor Memphian, nor Teutonic, nor local at all...

flickers, v. (1)

    MN 1.195 15 The flame of life flickers feebly in human breasts.

fliers, n. (1)

    Let 12.393 14 Our friend suggests so many inconveniences from piracy out of the high air to orchards and lone houses, and also to other high fliers... that we have not the heart to break the sleep of the good public by the repetition of these details.

flies, n. (12)

    AmS 1.107 1 [The poor and the low] are content to be brushed like flies from the path of a great person...
    LE 1.168 6 ...the fall of swarms of flies...the angry hiss of the wood-birds;... all, are alike unattempted [by poets].
    Comp 2.109 12 ...this law of laws [Compensation]...is hourly preached in all markets and workshops by flights of proverbs, whose teaching is as true and as omnipresent as that of birds and flies.
    SL 2.153 11 ...if the pages instruct you not, they will die like flies in the hour.
    Prd1 2.225 26 Do what we can, summer will have its flies;...
    ET1 5.8 26 A great man, [Landor] said, should...kill his hundred oxen without knowing whether they would be consumed by gods and heroes, or whether the flies would eat them.
    ET1 5.21 20 [Wordsworth] proceeded to abuse Goethe's Wilhelm Meister heartily. It was full of all manner of fornication. It was like the crossing of flies in the air.
    F 6.7 19 At Lisbon an earthquake killed men like flies.
    QO 8.177 2 Whoever looks...at flies, aphides, gnats and innumerable parasites...must have remarked the extreme content they take in suction...
    Edc1 10.138 18 I like...boys, who have the same liberal ticket of admission to all...town-meetings, caucuses, mobs, target-shootings, as flies have;...
    EWI 11.143 21 [Nature] appoints...no rescue for flies and mites but their spawning numbers...
    II 12.86 21 See the poor flies, lately so wanton, now fixed to the wall or the tree, exhausted and presently blown away.

flies, v. (24)

    Nat 1.53 4 ...The ornament of beauty is Suspect,/ A crow which flies in heaven's sweetest air./
    AmS 1.88 2 [Nature] now endures, it now flies...
    MR 1.229 7 It is when your facts and persons grow unreal and fantastic by too much falsehood, that the scholar flies for refuge to the world of ideas...
    Comp 2.110 14 ...[every opinion] is a harpoon hurled at the whale, unwinding, as it flies, a coil of cord in the boat...
    Pt1 3.39 14 [The artist] pursues a beauty, half seen, which flies before him.
    GoW 4.276 17 ...[Goethe] flies at the throat of this imp [the Devil].
    ET10 5.168 11 The machinery has proved, like the balloon, unmanageable, and flies away with the aeronaut.
    ET14 5.253 6 I fear the same fault [lack of inspiration] lies in [English] science, since they have known how to make it repulsive and bereave nature of its charm;--though perhaps the complaint flies wider...
    CbW 6.267 18 On experiment the horizon flies before us...
    Bty 6.303 6 [Beauty] instantly deserts possession, and flies to an object in the horizon.
    Civ 7.22 26 ...the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.
    PI 8.16 23 The bee flies among the flowers, and gets mint and marjoram, and generates a new product...
    PI 8.64 24 Bring us...poetry which tastes the world and reports of it, upbuilding the world again in the thought;--Not with tickling rhymes,/ But high and noble matter, such as flies/ From brains entranced, and filled with ecstasies./
    PPo 8.255 14 Round and round this heap of ashes/ Now flies the bird [the phoenix] amain,/ But in that odorous niche of heaven/ Nestles the bird again./
    Insp 8.275 7 The moth flies into the flame of the lamp;...
    Imtl 8.323 12 Driven by the chilling tempest, a little sparrow enters at one door, and flies delighted around us till it departs through the other.
    Chr2 10.118 5 The power that in other times inspired...the modern revivals, flies to the help of the deaf-mute and the blind...
    Edc1 10.152 8 Alas for the cripple Practice when it seeks to come up with the bird Theory, which flies before it.
    Thor 10.483 2 The tanager flies through the green foliage as if it would ignite the leaves.
    HDC 11.30 5 Man's life, said the Witan to the Saxon king, is the sparrow that enters at a window, flutters round the house, and flies out at another...
    Wom 11.412 4 The worm its golden woof presents./ Whatever runs, flies, dives or delves/ All doff for [woman] their ornaments,/ Which suit her better than themselves./
    Shak1 11.451 14 The unaffected joy of the comedy...contrasted with the grandeur of the tragedy, where...[Shakespeare] flies an eagle at the heart of the problem;...
    Mem 12.95 7 Never was truer fable than that of the Sibyl's writing on leaves which the wind scatters. The difference between men is that in one the memory with inconceivable swiftness flies after and recollects the flying leaves...
    Mem 12.95 8 Never was truer fable than that of the Sibyl's writing on leaves which the wind scatters. The difference between men is that in one the memory with inconceivable swiftness flies after and recollects the flying leaves,-flies on wing as fast as that mysterious whirlwind...

flight, n. (18)

    Hist 2.32 24 What is our life but an endless flight of winged facts or events?
    Prd1 2.237 11 ...in regard to disagreeable and formidable things, prudence does not consist in evasion or in flight, but in courage.
    Mrs1 3.139 11 The person who...converses with heat, puts whole drawing-rooms to flight.
    PPh 4.57 17 ...the birds of highest flight have the strongest alar bones.
    SwM 4.97 6 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints...the flight, Plotinus called it, of the alone to the alone;...
    GoW 4.273 26 [Goethe]...showed that the dulness and prose we ascribe to the age was only another of [Proteus's] masks:--His very flight is presence in disguise/...
    ET16 5.279 21 The spot, the gray blocks [of Stonehenge] and their rude order...suggested to [Carlyle] the flight of ages...
    Wsp 6.220 16 The curve of the flight of the moth is preordained...
    Bty 6.292 21 The interruption of equilibrium stimulates the eye to desire the restoration of symmetry, and to watch the steps through which it is attained. This is the charm of...the flight of birds...
    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./
    PI 8.5 10 Thin or solid, everything is in flight.
    PC 8.225 18 The highest flight to which the muse of Horace ascended was in that triplet of lines in which he described the souls which can calmly confront the sublimity of Nature...
    PPo 8.259 12 ...the celerity of flight and allusion which our colder muses forbid, is habitual to [Hafiz].
    PerF 10.88 20 ...as...the planet on space in its flight, so do nations of men and their institutions rest on thoughts.
    Prch 10.221 22 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;-no, the bird, as it hurried by him with its bold and perfect flight, would disclaim his sympathy...
    CPL 11.505 6 [Montesquieu writes] Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against the disgusts of life, never having had a chagrin which an hour of reading has not put to flight.
    CL 12.151 6 The next day the Hylas were piping in every pool, and a new activity among the hardy birds...and the first northward flight of the geese...
    Trag 12.411 2 A panic such as frequently in ancient or savage nations put a troop or an army to flight without an enemy; a fear of ghosts...are no tragedy...

flights, n. (7)

    DSA 1.125 26 In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted...
    Comp 2.109 10 ...this law of laws [Compensation]...is hourly preached in all markets and workshops by flights of proverbs...
    Pt1 3.23 24 The songs, thus flying immortal from their mortal parent, are pursued by clamorous flights of censures...
    PPh 4.59 7 In reading logarithms one is not more secure than in following Plato in his flights.
    PI 8.41 11 ...flights of painted moths are as old as the Alleghanies.
    Supl 10.167 19 Our customary and mechanical existence is not favorable to flights;...
    ACri 12.284 21 Goethe valued himself not on his learning or eccentric flights, but that he knew how to write German.

flighty, adj. (1)

    SS 7.3 23 There was some paralysis on [my new friend's] will, such that when he met men on common terms he spoke...from the point, like a flighty girl.

flimsy, adj. (2)

    LVB 11.93 23 We will not have this great and solemn claim upon national and human justice [the relocation of the Cherokees] huddled aside under the flimsy plea of its being a party act.
    War 11.165 1 This happens daily, yearly about us, with half thoughts, often with flimsy lies, pieces of policy and speculation. With good nursing they will last three or four years before they will come to nothing.

fling, v. (3)

    Nat 1.59 9 I do not wish to fling stones at my beautiful mother...
    Tran 1.339 8 ...[man] is balked when he tries to fling himself into this enchanted circle...
    Boks 7.204 8 The Italians have a fling at translators,--i traditori traduttori;...

flinging, v. (1)

    Mrs1 3.149 18 I have seen an individual...who exhilarated the fancy by flinging wide the doors of new modes of existence;...

flings, v. (4)

    CbW 6.272 24 How [a friend] flings wide the doors of existence!
    Elo1 7.96 17 [The sturdy countryman's] hard head went through, in childhood, the drill of Calvinism...so that he stands in the New England assembly a purer bit of New England than any, and flings his sarcasms right and left.
    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.
    Schr 10.285 15 ...[Genius]...flings itself on real elemental things...

Flint, Mr., n. (2)

    HDC 11.51 9 Early efforts were made to instruct [the Indians], in which Mr. Bulkeley, Mr. Flint, and Captain Willard, took an active part.
    HDC 11.54 24 In 1639, our first selectmen [from Concord], Mr. Flint, Lieutenant Willard, and Richard Griffin were appointed.

flint, n. (2)

    AmS 1.105 9 To ignorance and sin, [the world] is flint.
    Con 1.314 16 ...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty...has also his gracious and relenting moments...

Flint, n. (2)

    HDC 11.27 1 Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Merriam, Flint,/ Possessed the land which rendered to their toil/ Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood./
    HDC 11.30 15 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is Blood, Flint, Willard, Meriam...

flippancy, n. (2)

    LT 1.290 18 You will absolve me from the charge of flippancy...when you see that reality is all we prize...
    PPh 4.78 14 Let us not seem to treat with flippancy [Plato's] venerable name.

flippant, adj. (5)

    F 6.23 12 ...nothing is more disgusting than...the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble...by those who have never dared to think or to act...
    SA 8.102 25 With all our haste, and slipshod ways and flippant self-assertion, I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country.
    Chr2 10.104 24 ...sometimes also [the moral sentiment] is the source, in natures less pure, of sneers and flippant jokes of common people, who feel that the forms and dogmas are not true for them...
    TPar 11.287 12 ...I found some harshness in [Theodore Parker's] treatment both of Greek and of Hebrew antiquity...whilst I acquitted him, of course, of any wish to be flippant.
    Bost 12.205 12 ...when within our memory some flippant senator wished to taunt the people of this country by calling them the mudsills of society, he paid them ignorantly a true praise;...

flipper, n. (1)

    Nat 1.43 18 ...we detect the type of the human hand in the flipper of the fossil saurus...

flit, v. (2)

    DSA 1.145 2 See how nations and races flit by on the sea of time...
    Let 12.400 25 Full of love, talent and hope spring up the darlings of the muse among the Germans; some seven years later, and they flit about like ghosts...

flitted, v. (2)

    LT 1.265 15 Could we indicate the indicators...so that all witnesses should recognize a spiritual law as each well-known form flitted for a moment across the wall, we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours.
    LT 1.290 25 Let it not be recorded in our own memories that in this moment of the Eternity, when we who were named by our names flitted across the light, we were afraid of any fact...

flitting, adj. (3)

    Exp 3.65 18 ...know that thy life is a flitting state...
    CbW 6.268 20 ...there is a great dearth, this year, of friends;...they too are in the whirl of the flitting world...
    WD 7.183 20 We pierce to the eternity, of which time is the flitting surface;...

flitting, v. (1)

    Int 2.331 21 ...a man explores the basis of civil government. Let him intend his mind without respite, without rest, in one direction. His best heed long time avails him nothing. Yet thoughts are flitting before him.

float, v. (7)

    Nat 1.17 5 The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light.
    Prd1 2.230 8 This perpendicularity we demand of all the figures in this picture of life. Let them stand on their feet, and not float and swing.
    Prd1 2.235 27 When [a man] sees a folded and sealed scrap of paper float round the globe in a pine ship and come safe to the eye for which it was written...let him likewise feel the admonition to integrate his being across all these distracting forces...
    ET16 5.282 14 This cup or little boat, in which the magnet was made to float on water and so show the north, was probably [the compass's] first form...
    PI 8.18 27 Our indeterminate size is a delicious secret which [the act of imagination] reveals to us. The mountains begin to dislimn, and float in the air.
    PI 8.57 3 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise...up to the largeness of astronomy: at last that great heart will hear in the music beats like its own; the waves of melody will wash and float him also...
    PPr 12.390 25 How like an air-balloon or bird of Jove does [Carlyle] seem to float over the continent...

floated, v. (6)

    DSA 1.145 3 See how nations and races...leave no ripple to tell where they floated or sunk...
    LT 1.288 8 ...to what port are we bound? Who knows! There is no one to tell us but such poor weather-tossed mariners as ourselves...who have... floated to us some letter in a bottle from far.
    Int 2.328 8 I have been floated into this thought...
    ET1 5.15 15 [Carlyle] was...full of lively anecdote and with a streaming humor which floated every thing he looked upon.
    ET10 5.163 2 All things precious, or useful, or amusing, or intoxicating, are sucked into this commerce and floated to London.
    II 12.83 4 The dream which lately floated before the eyes of the French nation-that every man shall do that which of all things he prefers, and shall have three francs a day for doing that-is the real law of the world;...

floating, adj. (5)

    Con 1.311 23 ...for thee...fleets of floating palaces...swim by sail and by steam through all the waters of this world.
    ET2 5.26 16 ...we crept along through the floating drift of boards, logs and chips, which the rivers of Maine and New Brunswick pour into the sea after a freshet.
    ET8 5.141 1 ...if hereafter the war of races...should menace the English civilization, these sea-kings may take once again to their floating castles...
    ET10 5.160 16 A thousand million of pounds sterling are said to compose the floating money of commerce [of England].
    Prch 10.231 15 Buckminster, Channing, Dr. Lowell, Edward Taylor, Parker, Bushnell, Chapin,-it is they who have been necessary, and the opinions of the floating crowd of no importance whatever.

floating, v. (7)

    MN 1.196 12 ...if you come month after month to see what progress our reformer has made...you still find him...floating about in new parts of the same old vein or crust.
    Tran 1.332 2 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...lies floating in soft air...
    Comp 2.92 12 ...all that Nature made thy own,/ Floating in air or pent in stone,/ Will rive the hills and swim the sea/ And, like thy shadow, follow thee./
    Nat2 3.192 12 I have seen the softness and beauty of the summer clouds floating feathery overhead...
    Ill 6.320 18 With such volatile elements to work in, 't is no wonder if our estimates are loose and floating.
    PLT 12.16 15 In my thought I seem to stand on the bank of a river and watch the endless flow of the stream, floating objects of all shapes, colors and natures;...
    Bost 12.185 17 [Boston] is not a country of luxury or of pictures; of snows rather, of east winds and changing skies; visited by icebergs, which, floating by, nip with their cool breath our blossoms.

floats, v. (7)

    Nat 1.12 17 The misery of man appears like childish petulance, when we explore the steady and prodigal provision that has been made for his support and delight on this green ball which floats him through the heavens.
    SL 2.139 21 Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats...
    OS 2.284 25 The only mode of obtaining an answer to these questions of the senses is to...accepting the tide of being which floats us into the secret of nature, work and live...
    Int 2.326 13 The intellect...floats over its own personality...
    ShP 4.213 5 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort and by the same rule as she floats a bubble in the air...
    LS 11.2 4 ...The word by seers or sibyls told,/ In groves of oak, or fanes of gold,/ Still floats upon the morning wind,/ Still whispers to the willing mind./
    EWI 11.131 3 The poorest fishing-smack that floats under the shadow of an iceberg in the Northern seas...should be encompassed by [Massachusetts' s] laws with comfort and protection...

flock, n. (9)

    YA 1.373 23 Our condition is like that of the poor wolves: if one of the flock wound himself or so much as limp, the rest eat him up incontinently.
    Elo1 7.71 26 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear child, who is that man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks broader in his shoulders and breast. ... He seems to me like a stately ram, who goes as a master of the flock.
    HDC 11.40 5 There is no people, said [the settlers of Concord's] pastor to his little flock of exiles, but will strive to excel in something. What can we excel in, if not in holiness?
    EWI 11.99 6 We are met to exchange congratulations on the anniversary of an event singular in the history of civilization; a day of reason;...of that which makes us better than a flock of birds and beasts;...
    FSLC 11.205 20 The union of this people is a real thing, an alliance of men of one flock, one language, one religion, one system of manners and ideas.
    JBS 11.279 27 ...[John Brown] learned to drive his flock through thickets all but impassable;...
    ALin 11.328 13 How beautiful to see/ Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/ One whose meek flock the people joyed to be,/ Not lured by any cheat of birth,/ But by his clear-grained human worth,/ And brave old wisdom of sincerity!/
    CPL 11.498 6 There is no people, said [Peter Bulkeley] to his little flock of exiles, but will strive to excel in something. What can we excel in if not in holiness?
    Mem 12.105 20 Captain John Brown, of Ossawatomie, said he had in Ohio three thousand sheep on his farm, and could tell a strange sheep in his flock as soon as he saw its face.

flock, v. (5)

    LE 1.166 4 ...the moment [men] desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then ...virtue, learning, anecdote all flock to their aid.
    Tran 1.348 21 The good, the illuminated, sit apart from the rest...as if they thought that by sitting very grand in their chairs, the very brokers, attorneys, and congressmen would see the error of their ways, and flock to them.
    Bty 6.297 15 Such crowds, [Walpole] adds elsewhere, flock to see the Duchess of Hamilton, that seven hundred people sat up all night...to see her get into her post-chaise next morning.
    Plu 10.291 5 ...Be great, be true, and all the Scipios,/ The Catos, the wise patriots of Rome,/ Shall flock to you and tarry by your side/ And comfort you with their high company./
    LLNE 10.355 7 As soon as our people got wind of the doctrine of Marriage held by this master [Fourier], it would fall at once into the hands of a lawless crew who would flock in troops to so fair a game...

flocks, n. (11)

    Nat 1.42 24 Who can guess...how much tranquillity has been reflected to man from the azure sky, over whose unspotted deeps the winds forevermore drive flocks of stormy clouds...
    DSA 1.144 23 All men go in flocks to this saint or that poet...
    Hist 2.31 11 Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus, said the poets.
    Exp 3.71 19 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new...region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries...as if the clouds that covered it parted...and showed the approaching traveller the inland mountains, with the tranquil eternal meadows spread at their base, whereon flocks graze...
    Nat2 3.179 13 ...let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature... itself secret, its works driven before it in flocks and multitudes...
    Pol1 3.202 11 Laban, who has flocks and herds, wishes them looked after by an officer on the frontiers...
    Pol1 3.202 14 Jacob has no flocks or herds...and pays no tax to the officer.
    ET10 5.153 17 [The English] are under the Jewish law, and read with sonorous emphasis that...they shall have sons and daughters, flocks and herds, wine and oil.
    ET16 5.276 18 Far and wide a few shepherds with their flocks sprinkled the [Salisbury] plain...
    F 6.26 11 Those who share [the mind] not are flocks and herds.
    HDC 11.55 16 The [Concord] river, at this period, seems to have caused some distress now by its overflow, now by its drought. A cold and wet summer blighted the corn; enormous flocks of pigeons beat down and eat up all sorts of English grain;...

flog, v. (2)

    Wsp 6.205 14 ...some of the Pacific islanders flog their gods when things take an unfavorable turn.
    EWI 11.111 3 The [West Indian] boy was set to strip and flog his own mother to blood, for a small offence.

flogging, n. (1)

    EWI 11.103 9 For the negro...toil, famine, insult and flogging;...

flogging, v. (4)

    ET4 5.63 26 Such is the ferocity of the [English] army discipline that a soldier, sentenced to flogging, sometimes prays that his sentence may be commuted to death.
    ET4 5.64 1 Flogging, banished from the armies of Western Europe, remains here [in England] by the sanction of the Duke of Wellington.
    ET4 5.64 16 In the last session (1848), the House of Commons was listening to the details of flogging and torture practised in the jails.
    MoL 10.250 26 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage. So let his habits be formed, and all his economies heroic;...a stoic...not flogging his youthful wit with tobacco and wine;...

flood, n. (16)

    DSA 1.127 8 As is the flood, so is the ebb.
    LE 1.173 1 ...nothing is great,-not mighty Homer and Milton, beside the infinite Reason. It carries them away as a flood.
    MN 1.209 26 If [a man] listen with insatiable ears...he is borne away as with a flood...
    Tran 1.357 6 [The strong spirits'] thought and emotion comes in like a flood...
    OS 2.293 12 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. ... In the presence of law to his mind he is overflowed with a reliance so universal that it sweeps away all cherished hopes and the most stable projects of mortal condition in its flood.
    Bty 6.283 4 ...[a man] is the flood of the flood and fire of the fire;...
    Bty 6.283 5 ...[a man] is the flood of the flood and fire of the fire;...
    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./
    Elo1 7.68 4 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with...a hue-and-cry style of harangue, which inundates the assembly with a flood of animal spirits...
    Elo1 7.87 12 ...all this flood not serving the cuttle-fish to get away in, the horrible shark of the district attorney being still there...the poor court pleaded its inferiority.
    Farm 7.153 24 [The farmer] is a person whom a poet of any clime...would appreciate as being really a piece of the old Nature, comparable to... rainbow and flood;...
    Suc 7.307 1 ...the heart at the centre of the universe with every throb hurls the flood of happiness into every artery, vein and veinlet...
    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;/...
    PPo 8.258 3 Presently we have [in Hafiz's poetry],-All day the rain/ Bathed the dark hyacinths in vain,/ The flood may pour from morn to night/ Nor wash the pretty Indians white./
    II 12.74 2 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that?
    Pray 12.353 26 I know that sorrow comes not at once only. We cannot meet it and say, now it is overcome, but again, and yet again, its flood pours over us, and as full as at first.

Flood, n. (2)

    YA 1.395 4 This land too is as old as the Flood...
    Wth 6.86 23 Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood...

floodgates, n. (1)

    UGM 4.16 1 ...these unchoked channels and floodgates of expression [in Shakspeare] are only health or fortunate constitution.

floods, n. (4)

    Nat 1.3 10 Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us...why should we grope among the dry bones of the past...
    Boks 7.209 1 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Burke, shedding floods of light on his times;...
    Plu 10.310 13 The explanation of the rainbow, of the floods of the Nile, and of the remora, etc. [in Plutarch], are just;...
    HDC 11.62 15 Alas! for [the Indians]-their day is o'er,/ Their fires are out from hill and shore,/ No more for them the wild deer bounds,/ The plough is on their hunting grounds;/ The pale man's axe rings in their woods,/ The pale man's sail skims o'er their floods,/ Their pleasant springs are dry./

floods, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.199 20 [Fate] is Jove, who, deaf to prayers,/ Floods with blessings unawares./

floor, adj. (1)

    MR 1.244 21 [Our friend] is accustomed to carpets, and we have not sufficient character to put floor cloths out of his mind while he stays in the house...

floor, n. (25)

    Nat 1.13 3 The field is at once [man's] floor, his work-yard, his play-ground, his garden, and his bed.
    LE 1.162 12 ...you must come to know that each admirable genius is but a successful diver in that sea whose floor of pearls is all your own.
    MR 1.244 23 [Our friend] is accustomed to carpets...and so we pile the floor with carpets.
    Mrs1 3.132 8 ...good sense and character make their own forms every moment, and...sit in a chair or sprawl with children on the floor...in a new and aboriginal way;...
    UGM 4.17 19 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and...a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy, and instantly our heads are bathed with galaxies, and our feet tread the floor of the Pit.
    ET2 5.29 2 The floor of your room [at sea] is sloped at an angle of twenty or thirty degrees...
    ET14 5.252 15 The tone of colleges and of scholars and of literary society [in England] has this mortal air. I seem to walk on a marble floor, where nothing will grow.
    F 6.15 16 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...
    Wth 6.83 24 What oldest star the fame can save/ Of races perishing to pave/ The planet with a floor of lime?/
    CbW 6.274 3 It makes no difference, in looking back five years...whether you have been lodged on the first floor or the attic;...
    Ill 6.310 21 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars... ... ...I sat down on the rocky floor to enjoy the serene picture.
    Clbs 7.243 6 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who first got the horses out of and the scholars into the palaces, having constructed her hotel...with superb suites of drawing-rooms on the same floor...
    Suc 7.300 2 ...the sand floor is held by spheral gravity...
    PI 8.45 7 ...I doubt if the best poet has yet written any five-act play that can compare in thoroughness of invention with this unwritten play in fifty acts, composed by the dullest snorer on the floor of the watch-house.
    Res 8.136 3 Day by day for her darlings to her much [Nature] added more;/ In her hundred-gated Thebes every chamber was a door,/ A door to something grander,--loftier walls, and vaster floor./
    PPo 8.241 11 ...when the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon, he had built...a palace, of which the floor or pavement was of glass...
    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./
    Prch 10.233 17 ...if I had to counsel a young preacher, I should say: When there is any difference felt between the foot-board of the pulpit and the floor of the parlor, you have not yet said that which you should say.
    MMEm 10.401 19 Not far from [Mary Moody Emerson's] house was a brook running over a granite floor like the Franconia Flume...
    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.
    EWI 11.131 1 ...I thought the deck of a Massachusetts ship was as much the territory of Massachusetts as the floor on which we stand.
    FSLC 11.193 16 Will you blame the ball for rebounding from the floor...
    SMC 11.363 25 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they...wrote a daily or weekly newspaper, called it Stars and Stripes. It advertises, prayer-meeting at 7 o'clock, in cell No. 8, second floor...
    MAng1 12.227 7 Michael [Angelo]...constructed a movable platform to rest and roll upon the floor [of the Sistine Chapel]...
    Trag 12.407 20 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]:...if you spill the salt; if your fork sticks upright in the floor;...

floored, v. (3)

    Wth 6.95 14 The world is his who has money to go over it. He arrives at the seashore and a sumptuous ship has floored and carpeted for him the stormy Atlantic...
    WD 7.171 22 ...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...
    Res 8.141 25 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...floored with coal.

flooring, n. (1)

    Bost 12.205 17 ...good men are as the green plain of the earth is...the foundation and flooring and sills of the state.

floors, n. (8)

    Con 1.315 16 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers...who told him how much love they bore their children, and how they were perplexed...lest they should fail in their duty to them. What! he said, and this...on marble floors...
    SL 2.166 3 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...sweep chambers and scour floors...
    NER 3.274 15 ...Rousseau...Byron...they would know the worst, and tread the floors of hell.
    ET5 5.96 11 Gas-burners are cheaper than daylight in numberless floors in the cities [of England].
    Ctr 6.137 15 ...Thor's house had five hundred and forty floors;...
    Ctr 6.137 17 ...man's house has five hundred and forty floors.
    Clbs 7.242 26 There was a time when in France...the houses of the nobility, which, up to that time, had been constructed on feudal necessities, in a hollow square,--the ground-floor being resigned to offices and stables, and the floors above to rooms of state and to lodging-rooms,--were rebuilt with new purpose.
    PC 8.232 1 [Strong men] wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell...

Flora, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.180 8 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed; then before the rock is broken, and the first lichen race has disintegrated the thinnest external plate into soil, and opened the door for the remote Flora, Fauna, Ceres, and Pomona to come in.
    Thor 10.467 22 [Thoreau] remarked that the Flora of Massachusetts embraced almost all the important plants of America...

floral, adj. (1)

    PPo 8.257 6 We may open anywhere [in the poetry of Hafiz] on a floral catalogue.

Flora's chaplets, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.177 14 ...I suppose that such a gazetteer as wood-cutters and Indians should furnish facts for, would take place in the most sumptuous drawing-rooms of all the Wreaths and Flora's chaplets of the bookshops;...

floras, n. (1)

    Nat 1.28 4 Whole floras...are dry catalogues of facts;...

Florence, Italy, n. (20)

    Con 1.311 18 For thee Naples, Florence, and Venice;...
    YA 1.367 9 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe; such as the Boboli in Florence...
    ET1 5.5 16 At Florence, chief among artists I found Horatio Greenough...
    ET1 5.7 14 [Landor] praised the beautiful cyclamen which grows all about Florence;...
    CInt 12.114 13 When the war came to his own city, [Michaelangelo]... defended Florence as long as he was obeyed.
    CW 12.173 15 ...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the costly gardens,-as the Boboli at Florence...
    Bost 12.185 25 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...
    MAng1 12.223 20 [Michelangelo's] Titanic handwriting in marble and travertine is to be found in every part of Rome and Florence;...
    MAng1 12.224 9 [Michelangelo] visited Bologna to inspect its celebrated fortifications, and, on his return, constructed a fortification on the heights of San Miniato, which commands the city and environs of Florence.
    MAng1 12.225 9 The news of [Michelangelo's] departure occasioned a general concern in Florence...
    MAng1 12.228 13 I have found, says [Michelangelo's] friend, some of his designs in Florence, where, whilst may be seen the greatness of his genius, it may also be known that when he wished to take Minerva from the head of Jove, there needed the hammer of Vulcan.
    MAng1 12.229 20 In the Piazza del Gran Duca at Florence, stands, in the open air, [Michelangelo's] David...
    MAng1 12.230 1 In the mausoleum of the Medici at Florence are the tombs of Lorenzo and Cosmo...
    MAng1 12.230 5 Several statues [by Michelangelo] of less fame, and bas-reliefs, are in Rome and Florence and Paris.
    MAng1 12.236 17 In answer to the importunate solicitations of the Duke of Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies that to leave Saint Peter's in the state in which it now was would be to ruin the structure, and thereby be guilty of a great sin;...
    MAng1 12.239 15 ...it is said that when [Michelangelo] left Florence to go to Rome...he turned his horse's head on the last hill from which the noble dome of the cathedral (built by Brunelleschi) was visible, and said, Like you, I will not build; better than you I cannot.
    MAng1 12.242 13 ...a nobler sentiment, uttered by [Michelangelo], is contained in his reply to a letter of Vasari, who had informed him of the rejoicings made at the house of his nephew Lionardo, at Florence, over the birth of another Buonarotti.
    MAng1 12.243 9 The city of Florence...still treasures the fame of this man [Michelangelo].
    MAng1 12.244 4 The innumerable pilgrims whom the genius of Italy draws to the city [Florence] duly visit this church [Santa Croce], which is to Florence what Westminster Abbey is to England.
    Milt1 12.259 17 In Paris, [Milton] became acquainted with Grotius; in Florence or Rome, with Galileo;...

Florentine, adj. (5)

    Suc 7.284 9 ...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini, the Florentine sculptor, architect, painter and poet...gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues...
    Bost 12.181 2 We are citizens of two fair cities, said the Genoese gentleman to a Florentine artist, and if I were not a Genoese, I should wish to be Florentine.
    Bost 12.181 3 We are citizens of two fair cities, said the Genoese gentleman to a Florentine artist, and if I were not a Genoese, I should wish to be Florentine.
    Bost 12.181 4 ...I, replied the artist, if I were not Florentine- You would wish to be Genoese, said the other. No, replied the artist, I should wish to be Florentine.
    Bost 12.181 6 ...I, replied the artist, if I were not Florentine- You would wish to be Genoese, said the other. No, replied the artist, I should wish to be Florentine.

Florentines, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.223 27 When the Florentines united themselves with Venice, England and France, to oppose the power of the Emperor Charles V., Michael Angelo was appointed Military Architect and Engineer, to superintend the erection of the necessary works.

florets, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.172 15 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the mimic waving of acres of houstonia, whose innumerable florets whiten and ripple before the eye;...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    Thor 10.470 4 On the day I speak of [Thoreau] looked for the Menyanthes, detected it across the wide pool, and, on examination of the florets, decided that it had been in flower five days.

Floriani, Lucrezia [George (1)

    Boks 7.214 12 Lucrezia Floriani, Le Peche de M. Antoine...are great steps from the novel of one termination...

florid, adj. (4)

    Art1 2.362 14 The sweet and sublime face of Jesus [in Raphael's Transfiguration] is beyond praise, yet how it disappoints all florid expectations!
    ET4 5.67 6 On the English face are combined decision and nerve with the fair complexion, blue eyes and open and florid aspect.
    Chr2 10.108 15 I suspect, that, when the theology was most florid and dogmatic, it was the barbarism of the people...
    LLNE 10.333 3 In the pulpit...[Everett] gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy.

Florida, Cape, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.201 3 [John Randolph's] words resounding...from Cape Florida to Cape Cod, come down now like the cry of Fate...

Florida Keys, n. (1)

    SS 7.12 10 ...if we recall the rare hours when we encountered the best persons, we then found ourselves, and then first society seemed to exist. That was society, though...on the Florida Keys.

Florida, n. (4)

    Nat2 3.169 9 There are days which occur in this climate...when, in these bleak upper sides of the planet...we bask in the shining hours of Florida and Cuba;...
    Wth 6.103 3 A dollar in Florida is not worth a dollar in Massachusetts.

Florio, John, n. (1)

    MoS 4.163 20 ...the duplicate copy of Florio...turned out to have the autograph of Ben Jonson in the fly-leaf.

Florio's, John, n. (1)

    MoS 4.163 16 I heard with pleasure that one of the newly-discovered autographs of William Shakspeare was in a copy of Florio's translation of Montaigne.

florist's, n. (1)

    EurB 12.371 20 Ben's [Jonson's] flowers are not in pots at a city florist's...

flour, n. (2)

    ShP 4.190 20 [A great man] finds two counties groping to bring coal, or flour, or fish, from the place of production to the place of consumption, and he hits on a railroad.
    EWI 11.111 8 [The West Indian slave] was worked sixteen hours, and his ration by law, in some islands, was a pint of flour and one salt herring a day.

flour-barrel, n. (1)

    Comc 8.159 3 Separate any object, as...a flour-barrel...from the connection of things...it becomes at once comic;...

flourish, n. (9)

    Hist 2.18 1 In the man, could we lay him open, we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work;...
    Chr1 3.107 3 ...some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.
    Mrs1 3.123 12 ...every man's name that emerged at all from the mass in the feudal ages rattles in our ear like a flourish of trumpets.
    ET10 5.165 25 ...[the Englishman's] English name and accidents are like a flourish of trumpets announcing him.
    Art2 7.56 17 Who cares, who knows what works of art our government have ordered to be made for the Capitol? They are a mere flourish to please the eye of persons who have associations with books and galleries.
    HDC 11.59 14 ...[the red man] may fire a farm-house, or a village; but...in the first blast of [the white men's] trumpet we already hear the flourish of victory.
    War 11.173 3 We are affected...by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping...and whose appearance is the arrival of so much life and virtue. In dangerous times they are presently tried, and therefore their name is a flourish of trumpets.
    War 11.173 21 ...the man who, without any flourish of trumpets...takes in solitude the right step uniformly...does not yield, in my imagination, to any man.
    FSLN 11.222 7 ...[Webster]...never indulged in a weak flourish...

flourish, v. (2)

    Art2 7.56 24 In this country, at this time...the arts, the daughters of enthusiasm, do not flourish.
    Plu 10.317 9 ...it was [Plutarch's] severe fate to flourish in those days of ignorance...

flourished, v. (1)

    SR 2.82 18 The soul created the arts wherever they have flourished.

flourishes, n. (1)

    PPo 8.253 16 ...we must try to give some of [Hafiz's] poetic flourishes the metrical form which they seem to require...

flourishes, v. (1)

    Elo2 8.112 4 [Debate] is eminently the art which only flourishes in free countries.

flourishing, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.58 16 Some flourishing towns were burned [by the Indians].

flout, v. (3)

    NR 3.235 22 Thus we settle it in our cool libraries, that...life will be simpler when we live at the centre and flout the surfaces.
    PC 8.219 17 The artist has always the masters in his eye, though he affect to flout them.
    MLit 12.309 5 When we flout all particular books as initial merely, we truly express the privilege of spiritual nature...

flouting, v. (1)

    PI 8.21 17 The mind delights in measuring itself thus with matter, with history, and flouting both.

flouts, v. (1)

    Nat 1.58 17 The devotee flouts nature.

flow, n. (17)

    AmS 1.98 21 That great principle of Undulation in nature, that shows itself...in the ebb and flow of the sea;..is known to us under the name of Polarity...
    DSA 1.148 15 ...we shall resist for truth's sake the freest flow of kindness...
    Comp 2.96 18 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...in the ebb and flow of waters;...
    Comp 2.97 12 There is somewhat that resembles the ebb and flow of the sea...in a single needle of the pine...
    Fdsp 2.196 4 ...the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love.
    Prd1 2.227 25 One might find argument for optimism in the abundant flow of this saccharine element of pleasure in every suburb and extremity of the good world.
    Prd1 2.239 15 ...in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes...
    Cir 2.307 2 Alas for...this will not strenuous, this vast ebb of a vast flow!
    F 6.24 15 [A man] shall have not less the flow, the expansion, and the resistance of [the river, the oak, the mountain].
    Wsp 6.202 24 Heaven kindly gave our blood a moral flow./
    Art2 7.42 19 ...we build a mill in such position as to set the north wind to play upon our instrument...or the ebb and flow of the sea.
    Clbs 7.229 9 Later, when books tire, thought has a more languid flow;...
    Clbs 7.234 16 ...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...
    PPo 8.247 24 ...quick perception and corresponding expression...this generosity of ebb and flow satisfies...
    MoL 10.250 1 Nature says to the American: I understand mensuration and numbers; I compute...the ebb and flow of waters...the balance of attraction and recoil. I have measured out to you by weight and tally the powers you need.
    LS 11.20 8 ...any act or meeting which tends to awaken a pure thought, a flow of love, an original design of virtue, I call a worthy, a true commemoration [of Jesus].
    PLT 12.16 14 In my thought I seem to stand on the bank of a river and watch the endless flow of the stream...

flow, v. (38)

    Nat 1.69 5 For us, the winds do blow,/ The earth does rest, heaven move, and fountains flow;/...
    LE 1.187 10 [Thought] will flow out of your actions...
    MN 1.199 24 ...insane persons are those who...do not flow with the course of nature.
    MN 1.221 27 [Man's] nobility needs the assurance of this inexhaustible reserved power. How great soever have been its bounties, they are a drop to the sea whence they flow.
    MR 1.253 21 Let our affection flow out to our fellows;...
    Con 1.324 14 Whatsoever streams of power and commodity flow to me, shall of me acquire healing virtue...
    Comp 2.120 27 Under all this running sea of circumstance, whose waters ebb and flow with perfect balance, lies the aboriginal abyss of real Being.
    Cir 2.317 10 ...when these waves of God flow into me I no longer reckon lost time.
    Int 2.336 25 [The imaginative vocabulary] does not flow from experience only or mainly...
    Pt1 3.34 7 ...the quality of the imagination is to flow, and not to freeze.
    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.
    NER 3.254 22 It is right and beautiful in any man to say, I will take this coat, or this book, or this measure of corn of yours,--in whom we see the act...to flow from the whole spirit and faith of him;...
    NER 3.277 27 ...we hold on to our little properties...although they confess that our being does not flow through them.
    SwM 4.96 24 ...by being assimilated to the original soul...the soul of man does then easily flow into all things...
    SwM 4.96 25 ...by being assimilated to the original soul...the soul of man does then easily flow into all things, and all things flow into it: they mix;...
    SwM 4.112 21 [Swedenborg] knows, if he only, the flowing of nature, and how wise was that old answer of Amasis to him who bade him drink up the sea, Yes, willingly, if you will stop the rivers that flow in.
    MoS 4.183 16 A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe; that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.
    ET8 5.134 19 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...a race to which their fortunes flow, as if they alone had the elastic organization at once fine and robust enough for dominion;...
    Pow 6.57 2 [A strong pulse] is like the opportunity of a city like New York or Constantinople, which needs no diplomacy to force capital or genius or labor to it. They come of themselves, as the waters flow to it.
    Pow 6.71 7 Everything good in nature and the world is in that moment of transition, when the swarthy juices still flow plentifully from nature, but their astringency or acridity is got out by ethics and humanity.
    Bty 6.283 20 From a great heart secret magnetisms flow incessantly to draw great events.
    Bty 6.292 11 Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.
    Ill 6.307 1 Flow, flow the waves hated,/ Accursed, adored,/ The waves of mutations:/ No anchorage is./
    Ill 6.308 2 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding.../ ...out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
    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.
    Clbs 7.229 17 [The student] seeks intelligent persons...who will give him provocation, and at once and easily the old motion begins in his brain: thoughts, fancies, humors flow;...
    Insp 8.269 20 In spring...the maple-trees flow with sugar...
    Insp 8.273 19 A fuller inspiration should cause the point to flow and become a line...
    PerF 10.74 9 No force but is [man's] force. He does not possess them, he is a pipe through which their currents flow.
    PerF 10.78 20 ...on the signal occasions in our career [our mental forces'] inspirations flow to us...
    HDC 11.28 10 I cause from every creature/ His proper good to flow:/ As much as he is and doeth,/ So much he shall bestow./
    War 11.175 11 ...if the rising generation...shall feel the generous darings of austerity and virtue, then war has a short day, and human blood will cease to flow.
    PLT 12.27 24 An individual body is the momentary arrest or fixation of certain atoms, which, after performing compulsory duty to this enchanted statue, are released again to flow in the currents of the world.
    PLT 12.33 15 In reckoning the sources of our mental power it were fatal to omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge have their fountains, and which, by its qualities and structure, determines both the nature of the waters and the direction in which they flow.
    II 12.65 7 In reckoning the sources of our mental power, it were fatal to omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge have their fountains, which by its qualities and structure determines both the nature of the waters, and the direction in which they flow.
    ACri 12.303 19 ...there is much in literature that draws us with a sublime charm-the superincumbent necessity by which each writer...is enriched by thoughts which flow from all past minds, shares the hopes of all existing minds;...
    MLit 12.315 27 Do gladness and hope and fortitude flow from [the writer' s] page into thy heart?
    EurB 12.374 18 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses our respect... because the power with which his hero is armed is a toy, inasmuch as the power does not flow from its legitimate fountains in the mind...

flowed, v. (10)

    Comp 2.108 11 That is the best part of each writer which has nothing private in it;...that which flowed out of his constitution and not from his too active invention;...
    SL 2.133 25 Timoleon's victories are the best victories, which ran and flowed like Homer's verses, Plutarch said.
    Nat2 3.178 26 ...if our own life flowed with the right energy, we should shame the brook.
    MoS 4.183 3 George Fox saw that there was an ocean of darkness and death; but withal an infinite ocean of light and love which flowed over that of darkness.
    F 6.28 20 ...when a strong will appears, it usually results from a certain unity of organization, as if the whole energy of body and mind flowed in one direction.
    Bty 6.279 16 [Seyd] heard a voice none else could hear/ From centred and from errant sphere./ The quaking earth did quake in rhyme,/ Seas ebbed and flowed in epic chime./
    Clbs 7.229 1 We remember the time...on a long journey in the old stage-coach, where...conversation naturally flowed...
    LLNE 10.343 17 From that time meetings were held for conversation...of people...watchful of all the intellectual light from whatever quarter it flowed.
    Milt1 12.258 3 ...[Milton] believed, his poetic vein only flowed from the autumnal to the vernal equinox;...
    Milt1 12.276 9 Shall we say that in our admiration and joy in these wonderful poems [of Homer and Shakespeare] we have even a feeling of regret...that [the men]...were channels through which streams of thought flowed from a higher source, which they did not appropriate...

flower, n. (51)

    AmS 1.86 18 ...to this schoolboy under the bending dome of day, is suggested that he and [nature] proceed from one root; one is leaf and one is flower;...
    MN 1.203 23 ...my [Nature's] aim is the health of the whole tree,-root, stem, leaf, flower, and seed...
    MN 1.214 1 You will not understand [the Intelligible] as when understanding some particular thing, but with the flower of the mind.
    MN 1.218 1 ...what is Genius but finer love...a love of the flower and perfection of things...
    Tran 1.342 3 ...it would not misbecome us to inquire...what these companions and contemporaries of ours think and do, at least so far as these thoughts and actions appear to be...the inevitable flower of the Tree of Time.
    YA 1.368 21 ...the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns...
    Hist 2.21 6 The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower...
    Hist 2.21 14 ...the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm...
    Hist 2.36 13 A man is...a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world.
    SR 2.67 11 Before a leaf-bud has burst, [the rose's] whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more;...
    Comp 2.103 13 Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens with the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.
    SL 2.166 10 ...lo! suddenly the great soul has enshrined itself in some other form and done some other deed, and that is now the flower and head of all living nature.
    Lov1 2.178 13 The lover cannot paint his maiden to his fancy poor and solitary. Like a tree in flower, so much soft, budding, informing loveliness is society for itself;...
    Fdsp 2.199 17 ...the very flower and aroma of the flower of each of the beautiful natures disappears as they approach each other.
    Fdsp 2.211 11 Respect so far the holy laws of this fellowship [of friends] as not to prejudice its perfect flower...
    Pt1 3.27 4 The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he speaks somewhat wildly, or with the flower of the mind;...
    Pt1 3.31 11 ...Orpheus speaks of hoariness as that white flower which marks extreme old age;...
    Pt1 3.42 1 ...thou [O poet] must pass for a fool and a churl for a long season. This is the screen and sheath in which Pan has protected his well-beloved flower...
    Chr1 3.115 12 Is there any religion but this, to know that wherever in the wide desert of being the holy sentiment we cherish has opened into a flower, it blooms for me?...
    Mrs1 3.122 18 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 3.138 9 The flower of courtesy does not very well bide handling...
    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...
    Gts 3.160 7 ...[fruits] are the flower of commodities...
    Nat2 3.186 21 The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed...
    NR 3.236 27 Everything must have its flower or effort at the beautiful...
    ShP 4.196 19 A great poet who appears in illiterate times, absorbs into his sphere all the light which is any where radiating. Every intellectual jewel, every flower of sentiment it is his fine office to bring to his people;...
    ShP 4.214 4 Daguerre learned how to let one flower etch its image on his plate of iodine...
    GoW 4.272 18 This reflective and critical wisdom makes the poem [Goethe's Helena] more truly the flower of this time.
    GoW 4.275 14 The plant goes from knot to knot, closing at last with the flower and the seed [wrote Goethe].
    ET12 5.208 17 ...at the universities, it is urged that all goes to form what England values as the flower of its national life,--a well-educated gentleman.
    Bty 6.290 27 The tint of the flower proceeds from its root...
    Suc 7.299 4 Wordsworth writes of the delights of the boy in Nature:--For never will come back the hour/ Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower./
    Suc 7.303 25 ...[the lover] reads omens on the flower...
    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 8.33 27 If your subject do not appear to you the flower of the world at this moment, you have not rightly chosen it.
    Dem1 10.4 4 ...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...
    Edc1 10.141 9 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school which...requires of each only the flower of his nature and experience;...
    Thor 10.470 5 On the day I speak of [Thoreau] looked for the Menyanthes, detected it across the wide pool, and, on examination of the florets, decided that it had been in flower five days.
    Thor 10.471 5 [Thoreau's] interest in the flower or the bird lay very deep in his mind...
    Thor 10.484 7 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...
    Thor 10.484 16 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...and which the hunter... climbs the cliffs to gather, and is sometimes found dead at the foot, with the flower in his hand.
    HDC 11.38 25 The little flower which at this season stars our woods and roadsides with its profuse blooms, might attract even eyes as stern as [the settlers of Concord's] with its humble beauty.
    EWI 11.143 15 Eaters and food are in the harmony of Nature; and there too is the germ forever protected, unfolding...a newer flower...
    Wom 11.408 23 Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization...
    PLT 12.21 3 There is no solitary flower and no solitary thought.
    II 12.79 14 ...there are certain problems one would not willingly open, except when the irresistible oracles broke silence. He needs all his health and the flower of his faculties for that.
    CL 12.150 11 ...I admire that perennial four-petalled flower, which has one gray petal, one green, one red, and one white.
    CL 12.150 26 [The man] went forth again after the rain; in the cold swamp, the buds are swollen, the ictodes prepares its flower...
    Bost 12.183 11 An aerial fluid streams all day, all night, from every flower and leaf...
    Milt1 12.269 19 ...[Milton] threw himself, the flower of elegancy, on the side of the reeking conventicle;...
    ACri 12.297 2 [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. This flower of speech is accompanied with an assurance of fame.

Flower, The [George Herber (1)

    Insp 8.282 15 One of the best facts I know in metaphysical science is Neibuhr's joyful record that after his genius for interpreting history had failed him for several years, this divination returned to him. As this rejoiced me, so does Herbert's poem The Flower.

flower, v. (1)

    AmS 1.85 24 ...[the young mind] goes on...discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.

flower-bed, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.25 11 The sea...and every flower-bed, pre-exist or super-exist, in pre-cantations...
    PerF 10.75 18 ...[labor] delights us in the flower-bed;...

flowered, v. (3)

    Con 1.326 9 [The boldness of the hope men entertain] calms and cheers them with the picture of a simple and equal life of truth and piety. And this hope flowered on what tree?
    ET14 5.235 21 To the images from this twin source (of Christianity and art), the mind became fruitful as by the incubation of the Holy Ghost. The English mind flowered in every faculty.
    SovE 10.191 7 Humanity sits at the dread loom and throws the shuttle and fills it with joyful rainbows, until the sable ground is flowered all over with a woof of human industry and wisdom...

flowerets, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.424 22 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or feel he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow,- labors, rather-evanescent efforts, which will wear like flowerets in brighter soils;...

flower-gardens, n. (1)

    Bty 6.304 26 The poets are quite right in decking their mistresses with the spoils of the landscape, flower-gardens, gems...

flowering, adj. (1)

    AmS 1.104 13 It is a shame to [the scholar]...if he seek a temporary peace by the diversion of his thoughts from politics or vexed questions, hiding his head like an ostrich in the flowering bushes...

flowering, n. (2)

    Con 1.316 22 ...the plant Man does not require for his most glorious flowering this pomp of preparation and convenience...
    FRep 11.537 14 The flowering of civilization is the finished man...

flowering, v. (4)

    Lov1 2.179 3 The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.
    Pow 6.54 2 ...the education of the will is the flowering and result of all this geology and astronomy.
    Wsp 6.204 23 ...the whole state of man is a state of culture; and its flowering and completion may be described as Religion...
    PerF 10.81 8 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; he was no peasant after all. So near to us is the flowering of Fine Art in the rudest population.

flower-leaves, n. (1)

    Gts 3.165 2 I fear to breathe any treason against the majesty of love, which is the genius and god of gifts, and to whom we must not affect to prescribe. Let him give kingdoms of flower-leaves indifferently.

flower-pot, n. (1)

    AmS 1.97 13 I will not...transplant an oak into a flower-pot...

flowers, n. (72)

    Nat 1.8 5 The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of [the wise spirit's] best hour...
    Nat 1.18 5 ...the stars of the dead calices of flowers...contribute something to the mute music.
    Nat 1.26 21 ...flowers express to us the delicate affections.
    Nat 1.52 26 ...the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers [Shakspeare] finds to be the shadow of his beloved;...
    Nat 1.67 20 I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details, so long as there is...no ray...to show the relation of the forms of flowers, shells, animals, architecture, to the mind...
    DSA 1.119 4 ...the meadow is spotted with fire and gold in the tint of flowers.
    DSA 1.137 7 The faith should blend...with...the breath of flowers.
    LE 1.167 16 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature,-flowers, birds, mountains, sun, and moon;...
    LE 1.174 8 ...set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within, like forest trees and field flowers;...
    LT 1.289 23 The granite is curiously concealed...under fertile soils, and grasses, and flowers....
    Hist 2.9 20 This life of ours is stuck round with...Church, Court and Commerce, as with so many flowers...
    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... spikes of flowers...
    SL 2.136 15 We [country folk] have not dollars, merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn;...the children will bring flowers.
    Lov1 2.174 16 ...a beauty overpowering all analysis or comparison and putting us quite beside ourselves we can seldom see after thirty years, yet the remembrance of these visions...is a wreath of flowers on the oldest brows.
    Lov1 2.176 11 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when...the stars were letters and the flowers ciphers...
    Lov1 2.176 21 The trees of the forest, the waving grass and the peeping flowers have grown intelligent;...
    Lov1 2.185 26 Not always can flowers...content the awful soul that dwells in clay.
    Pt1 3.21 13 [The poet] knows why the plain or meadow of space was strown with these flowers we call suns and moons and stars;...
    Pt1 3.25 22 A rhyme in one of our sonnets should not be less pleasing than...the resembling difference of a group of flowers.
    Chr1 3.106 11 It was only this morning that I sent away some wild flowers of these wood-gods.
    Mrs1 3.151 7 ...are there not women...who anoint our eyes and we see? We say things we never thought to have said;...we were children playing with children in a wide field of flowers.
    Gts 3.159 14 Flowers and fruits are always fit presents;...
    Gts 3.159 15 ...flowers...are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
    Gts 3.159 23 ...these delicate flowers look like the frolic and interference of love and beauty.
    Gts 3.160 5 Men use to tell us that we love flattery...because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted. Something like that pleasure, the flowers give us...
    Nat2 3.172 16 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes;...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    Nat2 3.182 3 Flowers so strictly belong to youth that we adult men soon come to feel that their beautiful generations concern not us...
    Nat2 3.182 7 The flowers jilt us...
    Nat2 3.192 19 The pine-tree, the river, the bank of flowers before [the poet] does not seem to be nature.
    Pol1 3.216 25 [The wise man's] relation to men is angelic; his memory is myrrh to them; his presence, frankincense and flowers.
    SwM 4.138 22 ...the carrion in the sun will convert itself to grass and flowers;...
    SwM 4.141 6 [The scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul] must be...stabler than mountains, agreeing with flowers...
    SwM 4.143 26 Was [Swedenborg] like Saadi, who, in his vision, designed to fill his lap with the celestial flowers, as presents for his friends;...
    ET1 5.22 20 [Wordsworth's] third [sonnet on Fingal's Cave] is addressed to the flowers...
    F 6.11 27 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain...some stray taste or talent for flowers...
    F 6.48 17 There is no need for foolish amateurs to fetch me to admire a garden of flowers...
    Wth 6.98 12 Every man may have occasion to consult books which he does not care to possess...pictures also of birds, beasts, fishes, shells, trees, flowers, whose names he desires to know.
    Wth 6.119 23 So is it with granite streets or timber townships as with fruit or flowers.
    Wsp 6.232 1 ...when flowers reach their ripeness, incense exhales from them...
    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.
    Bty 6.282 5 The boy had juster views when he gazed at the shells on the beach or the flowers in the meadow, unable to call them by their names, than the man in the pride of his nomenclature.
    Bty 6.300 4 ...petulant old gentlemen...who have seen cut flowers to some profusion...affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
    Bty 6.303 21 Every natural feature--sea, sky, rainbow, flowers, musical tone--has in it somewhat which is not private but universal...
    Ill 6.314 8 Amid the joyous troop who give in to the charivari, comes now and then a sad-eyed boy...who is afflicted with a tendency to trace home the glittering miscellany of fruits and flowers to one root.
    Art2 7.57 8 ...as far as [popular institutions] accelerate the end of political freedom and national education, they are preparing the soil of man for fairer flowers and fruits in another age.
    Elo1 7.59 13 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ .../ In his every syllable/ Lurketh nature veritable;/ .../ The forest waves, the morning breaks,/ The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,/ Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be/ And life pulsates in rock or tree./
    DL 7.105 24 ...the garden full of flowers is Eden over again to the small Adam;...
    Suc 7.298 17 [The city boy in the October woods] is the king he dreamed he was; he walks...through bowers of crimson, porphyry and topaz... garlanded with vines, flowers and sunbeams...
    PI 8.16 23 The bee flies among the flowers, and gets mint and marjoram, and generates a new product...
    PI 8.41 2 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere...[the poet] is permitted to dip his brush into the old paint-pot with which birds, flowers... were painted.
    Res 8.152 20 ...long before anything else is ready, these osiers hang out their joyful flowers in contrast to all the woods.
    QO 8.192 1 ...Poesy, drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew.
    PPo 8.240 5 Elsewhere [Layard] adds, Poetry and flowers are the wine and spirits of the Arab;...
    PPo 8.257 2 The cedar, the cypress, the palm, the olive and fig-tree, the birds that inhabit them, and the garden flowers, are never wanting in these musky verses [of Hafiz]...
    Grts 8.319 25 The good botanist will find flowers between the street pavements...
    Aris 10.36 21 ...all the deference of modern society to this idea of the Gentleman...is a secret homage to reality and love which ought to reside in every man. This is the steel that is hid...under flowers and spangles.
    Supl 10.165 27 ...there is an inverted superlative...which...hates birds and flowers.
    SovE 10.185 16 A thought is embosomed in a sentiment, and the attempt to detach and blazon the thought is like a show of cut flowers.
    Schr 10.287 26 He that would sacrifice at [the Muse's] altar must not leave a few flowers...
    MMEm 10.414 27 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out this afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me...I weary of my pilgrimage,-tired that I must again be clothed in the grandeurs of winter, and anon be bedizened in flowers and cascades.
    HDC 11.27 8 Earth laughs in flowers, to see her boastful boys/ Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs.
    HCom 11.339 6 Old classmate, say/ Do you remember our Commencement Day?/ Were we such boys as these at twenty? Nay,/ God called them to a nobler task than ours,/ And gave them holier thoughts and manlier powers,-/ This is the day of fruits and not of flowers!/
    EdAd 11.382 1 The old men studied magic in the flowers,/ And human fortunes in astronomy,/ And an omnipotence in chemistry,/ Preferring things to names, for these were men/...
    Wom 11.411 19 Society...flowers, dances...are [women's] homes and attendants.
    SHC 11.428 18 ...Prison thy soul from malice, bar out pride,/ Nor these pale flowers nor this still field deride:/...
    CPL 11.499 24 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Is the melancholy bird of night...less gratified than the gay lark amid the flowers and suns?
    PLT 12.26 25 ...no wine, music or exhilarating aids...avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association. Genius is mute, is dull; there is no genius. Ask of your flowers to open when you have let in on them a freezing wind.
    PLT 12.32 11 Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers.
    CL 12.137 5 ...the Professor [Linnaeus] was generally attended by two hundred students, and, when they returned, they marched through the streets of Upsala in a festive procession, with flowers in their hats...
    CL 12.162 23 ...sometimes [my naturalist] brought [the farmers] ostentatiously gifts of flowers, fruit or rare shrubs they would gladly have paid a price for...
    Bost 12.194 26 These ancient men, like great gardens with great banks of flowers, send out their perfumed breath across the great tracts of time.
    EurB 12.371 19 Ben's [Jonson's] flowers are not in pots at a city florist's...

flower-seeds, n. (1)

    RBur 11.438 6 Praise to the bard! his words are driven,/ Like flower-seeds by the far winds sown,/ Where'er, beneath the sky of heaven,/ The birds of fame have flown./ Halleck.

flower-stand, n. (1)

    EurB 12.371 20 Ben's [Jonson's] flowers are not in pots at a city florist's, arranged on a flower-stand...

flowery, adj. (2)

    MMEm 10.424 20 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or feel he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow,- labors, rather...
    ACri 12.302 11 [Channing] is the April day incarnated and walking...sour east wind and flowery southwest...

floweth, v. (2)

    Pt1 3.4 23 ...the fountains whence all this river of Time and its creatures floweth are intrinsically ideal and beautiful...
    NR 3.242 3 ...rightly every man is a channel through which heaven floweth...

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