Freres to Fry, Elizabeth

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

Freres, n. (1)

    ET15 5.262 21 Hundreds of clever Praeds and Freres and Froudes and Hoods and Hooks and Maginns and Mills and Macaulays, make poems, or short essays for a journal, as they make speeches in Parliament and on the hustings...

fresco, n. (4)

    Pow 6.72 18 When Michel Angelo was forced to paint the Sistine Chapel in fresco...he went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow...
    DL 7.131 6 ...in the Sistine Chapel I see the grand sibyls and prophets, painted in fresco by Michel Angelo...
    Aris 10.34 6 ...I take this inextinguishable persuasion in men's minds [of hereditary transmission of qualities] as a hint from the outward universe to man to inlay as many virtues and superiorities as he can into this swift fresco of the day...
    MAng1 12.230 12 [The Sistine Chapel ceiling] is [Michelangelo's] capital work painted in fresco.

frescoes, n. (2)

    Art1 2.356 7 A dog, drawn by a master...is a reality not less than the frescoes of Angelo.
    SwM 4.137 5 [Swedenborg] is like Michael Angelo, who, in his frescoes, put the cardinal who had offended him to roast under a mountain of devils;...

fresh, adj. (37)

    DSA 1.126 12 The sentences of the oldest time, which ejaculate this piety, are still fresh and fragrant.
    Hist 2.23 5 ...perhaps [the healthy man's] facility is deeper seated, in the increased range of his faculties of observation, which yield him points of interest wherever fresh objects meet his eyes.
    Int 2.338 7 ...a good sentence or verse remains fresh and memorable for a long time.
    Chr1 3.106 12 They are a relief from literature,--these fresh draughts from the sources of thought and sentiment;...
    Mrs1 3.146 13 Even the line of heroes is not utterly extinct. ... And these are the centres of society, on which it returns for fresh impulses.
    Mrs1 3.147 8 ...as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth/ In form and shape compact and beautiful;/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads/...
    Nat2 3.194 5 [Nature's] mighty orbit vaults like the fresh rainbow into the deep...
    NR 3.236 9 ...[nature]...insults the philosopher in every moment with a million of fresh particulars.
    UGM 4.14 3 I cannot even hear of...great power of performance, without fresh resolution.
    ET12 5.204 21 The reading men [at Oxford]...two days before the examination...lounge, ride, or run, to be fresh on the college doomsday.
    ET13 5.218 16 It was strange to hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with circumstantiality in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848, to the decorous English audience, just fresh from the Times newspaper and their wine...
    ET16 5.279 10 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked in and out and took again and again a fresh look at the uncanny stones [of Stonehenge].
    Pow 6.64 23 ...conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
    Wth 6.109 2 A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire farm, with its hard fare still fresh in his remembrance, boards at a first-class hotel...
    Wth 6.122 14 When a citizen fresh from Dock Square or Milk Street comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...
    Civ 7.17 27 Twirl the old wheels! Time takes fresh start again,/ On for a thousand years of genius more./
    Civ 7.25 3 ...I watched, in crossing the sea, the beautiful skill whereby the engine in its constant working was made to produce two hundred gallons of fresh water out of salt water, every hour...
    Civ 7.25 13 The skill that pervades complex details;...the very prison compelled to maintain itself...and better still, made a reform school and a manufactory of honest men out of rogues, as the steamer made fresh water out of salt,--these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms... which is the index of high civilization.
    Elo1 7.95 14 ...wherever the fresh moral sentiment, the instinct of freedom and duty, come in direct opposition to fossil conservatism and the thirst of gain, the spark will pass.
    Boks 7.198 25 ...every fresh suggestion of modern humanity, is there [in Plato].
    Boks 7.210 12 Earl Spencer...had paused a quarter of a minute, when Lord Althorp with long steps came to his side, as if to bring his father a fresh lance to renew the fight.
    Suc 7.305 12 ...our tenderness for youth and beauty gives a new and just importance to their fresh and manifold claims...
    Res 8.149 11 ...when the mind has exhausted its energies for one employment, it is still fresh and capable of a different task.
    PC 8.225 5 Look out into the July night and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies.
    PerF 10.68 3 No ray is dimmed, no atom worn,/ My oldest force is good as new,/ And the fresh rose on yonder thorn/ Gives back the bending heavens in dew./
    Schr 10.285 27 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true...which...do daily declare fresh war against all falsehood and custom...
    Plu 10.295 13 [Henry IV wrote] Plutarch always delights me with a fresh novelty.
    Plu 10.305 4 The paths of life are large, but few are men directed by the Daemons. When Theanor had said this, he looked attentively on Epaminondas, as if he designed a fresh search into his nature and inclinations.
    CSC 10.375 5 The still-living merit of the oldest New England families... encountered [at the Chardon Street Convention] the founders of families, fresh merit...
    MMEm 10.416 10 Later [Mary Moody Emerson writes]: Could I have those hours in which in fresh youth I said, To obey God is joy, though there were no hereafter, I should rejoice, though returning to dust.
    Thor 10.452 10 At this time, a strong, healthy youth, fresh from college, whilst all his companions were choosing their profession...it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question...
    Carl 10.493 20 The literary, the fashionable, the political man, each fresh from triumphs in his own sphere, comes eagerly to see this man [Carlyle], whose fun they have heartily enjoyed...and are struck with despair at the first onset.
    FSLN 11.218 22 [The newsboy] unfolds his magical sheets,-twopence a head his bread of knowledge costs-and instantly the entire rectangular assembly [in the railway car], fresh from their breakfast, are bending as one man to their second breakfast.
    PLT 12.26 23 ...no wine, music or exhilarating aids, neither warm fireside nor fresh air, walking or riding, avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association.
    CL 12.154 15 We may well yield us for a time to [the sea's] lessons. But the nomad instinct...persists to drive us to fresh fields and pastures new.
    Milt1 12.272 9 The tracts [Milton] wrote on these topics [divorce and freedom of the press] are, for the most part, as fresh and pertinent to-day as they were then.
    WSL 12.337 3 We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an erect, muscular man, with fresh complexion and a smooth hat, whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English traveller;...

fresher, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.141 5 [The scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul] must be fresher than rainbows...

freshest, adj. (2)

    UGM 4.31 26 Fair play and an open field and freshest laurels to all who have won them!
    Trag 12.414 14 Time the consoler...dries the freshest tears by obtruding new figures...on our eye, new voices on our ear.

freshet, n. (2)

    MR 1.239 7 ...rust, mould, vermin, rain, sun, freshet, fire, all seize their own...
    ET2 5.26 18 ...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.

freshets, n. (1)

    MR 1.238 12 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies, as...a bridge by freshets.

freshly, adv. (2)

    Cour 7.269 24 When a confident man comes into a company magnifying this or that author he has freshly read, the company grow silent and ashamed of their ignorance.
    QO 8.203 12 Landsmen and sailors freshly come from the most civilized countries...healthily receive and report what they saw...

freshman, n. (1)

    DL 7.106 9 What entertainments make every day bright and short for the fine freshman!

Freshman, n. (2)

    ET12 5.205 17 ...the known sympathy of entire Britain in what is done there [at the universities], justify a dedication to study in the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in America, where his college is half suspected by the Freshman to be insignificant in the scale beside trade and politics.
    OA 7.334 5 [John Adams] talked of Whitefield, and remembered when he was a Freshman in College to have come into town to the Old South church (I think) to hear him...

freshman's, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.142 15 ...if it is from eternity a settled fact that [the solitary man] and society shall be nothing to each other, why need he...make wry faces to keep up a freshman's seat in the fine world?

freshness, n. (2)

    Nat 1.53 14 The freshness of youth and love dazzles [Shakspeare] with its resemblance to morning;...
    WD 7.165 20 I believe they have ceased to publish the Newgate Calendar and the Pirate's Own Book since the family newspapers...have quite superseded them in the freshness as well as the horror of their records of crime.

fresh-water, adj. (1)

    Thor 10.483 15 How did these beautiful rainbow-tints get into the shell of the fresh-water clam...

fret, n. (2)

    ET5 5.76 16 ...to set [the Saxon] at work and to begin to draw his monstrous values out of barren Britain, all dishonor, fret and barrier must be removed...
    QO 8.187 22 ...if we learn how old are...the fret, the beads, and other ornaments on our walls...we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.

fret, v. (5)

    SL 2.135 18 Nature will not have us fret and fume.
    Exp 3.74 22 Why should I fret myself because a circumstance has occurred which hinders my presence where I was expected?
    MoS 4.154 6 Why should we fret and drudge?
    F 6.45 22 A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves.
    Grts 8.312 15 A man will say: I am born to this position; I must take it, and neither you nor I can help or hinder me. Surely, then, I need not fret myself to guard my own dignity.

fretful, adj. (1)

    ACiv 11.301 17 ...there is no one owner of the state, but a good many small owners. ... It is clearly a vast inconvenience to each of these to make any change, and they are fretful and talkative...

fretted, adj. (1)

    Ill 6.309 18 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...saw every form of stalagmite and stalactite in the sculptured and fretted chambers;...

fretted, v. (1)

    Elo2 8.119 13 The most...thought-paralyzing companion sometimes turns out in a public assembly to be a fluent, various and effective orator. Now you find what all that excess of power which so chafed and fretted you in a tete-a-tete with him was for.

fretting, v. (1)

    F 6.41 23 In age we put out another sort of perspiration...fretting and avarice.

friable, adj. (2)

    Farm 7.150 16 [The farmer's tiles] drain the land, make it sweet and friable;...
    FSLC 11.210 5 Is it not time to do something besides...making the earth mellow and friable?

Friar Bernard, n. (2)

    Con 1.314 25 The Friar Bernard lamented in his cell on Mount Cenis the crimes of mankind...
    Con 1.316 2 ...the Friar Bernard went home swiftly...

fribbles, n. (1)

    CbW 6.248 13 What quantities of fribbles, paupers, invalids, epicures, antiquaries, politicians, thieves and triflers of both sexes might be advantageously spared!

friction, adj. (1)

    Supl 10.178 18 Our modern improvements have been in the invention of friction matches;...

friction, n. (11)

    Nat 1.13 23 To diminish friction, [man] paves the road with iron bars...
    Con 1.318 23 Under pretence of allowing for friction, [the conservative party] makes so many additions and supplements to the machine of society that it will play smoothly and softly, but will no longer grind any grist.
    Con 1.319 6 ...[the radical's] theory is right, but he makes no allowance for friction;...
    Exp 3.48 3 [Disaster] shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction...
    Nat2 3.191 2 ...trade to all the world, country-house and cottage by the waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual! Could it not be had as well by beggars on the highway? No, all these things came from successive efforts of these beggars to remove friction from the wheels of life...
    Nat2 3.191 17 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue...could lose good time whilst the room was getting warm in winter days. Unluckily, in the exertions necessary to remove these inconveniences...to remove friction has come to be the end.
    MoS 4.151 6 Picture, statue, temple, railroad, steam-engine, existed first in an artist's mind, without flaw, mistake, or friction...
    ET5 5.83 5 This [English] common-sense is a perception...of laws that can be stated, and of laws than cannot be stated, or that are learned only by practice, in which allowance for friction is made.
    Pow 6.79 5 The friction in nature is so enormous that we cannot spare any power.
    CbW 6.259 13 ...[an absorbing passion] is the heat which...overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds and first addresses in society...
    SS 7.13 5 ...this genial heat [of animal spirits]...is disengaged only by the friction of society.

friction-matches, n. (1)

    MoS 4.153 9 [The men of the senses] believe...that pepper is hot, friction-matches incendiary...

Friday [Defoe, Robinson Cr (1)

    CPL 11.497 7 Robinson Crusoe, could he have had a shelf of our books, could almost have done without his man Friday...

Friday, n. (7)

    ET1 5.8 10 [Landor] invited me to breakfast on Friday.
    ET1 5.8 11 [Landor] invited me to breakfast on Friday. On Friday I did not fail to go...
    ET2 5.26 11 ...I took my berth in the packet-ship Washington Irving and sailed from Boston on Tuesday, 5th October, 1847. On Friday at noon we had only made one hundred and thirty-four miles.
    ET16 5.273 16 On Friday, 7th July, we [Emerson and Carlyle] took the South Western Railway through Hampshire to Salisbury...
    Bty 6.297 9 Walpole says, The concourse was so great, when the Duchess of Hamilton was presented at court, on Friday, that even the noble crowd in the drawing-room clambered on chairs and tables to look at her.
    Supl 10.165 25 ...there is an inverted superlative...which...wants fan and parasol on the cold Friday;...
    EWI 11.115 18 The first of August [1834] came on Friday, and a release was proclaimed from all work [in the West Indies] until the next Monday.

friend, adj. (1)

    War 11.168 15 In reply to this charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that such deductions consider only one half of the fact. They look only at the passive side of the friend of peace...they quite omit to consider his activity.

friend, n. (236)

    Nat 1.10 12 The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental...
    Nat 1.11 16 Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend.
    Nat 1.46 13 When much intercourse with a friend has supplied us with a standard of excellence...it is a sign to us that his office is closing...
    AmS 1.97 7 ...friend and relative...must also soar and sing.
    AmS 1.107 27 The private life of one man shall be...more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history.
    DSA 1.130 23 ...by this eastern monarchy of a Christianity...the friend of man is made the injurer of man.
    DSA 1.133 17 ...when I see among my contemporaries...a dear friend...I see beauty that is to be desired.
    DSA 1.146 17 ...when you meet one of these men or women...let their timid aspirations find in you a friend;...
    MR 1.232 23 [The general system of our trade] is not that which a man delights to unlock to a noble friend;...
    MR 1.240 1 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...who...is forced to spend so much time in guarding them, that he has quite lost sight of their original use, namely, to help him...to the helping of his friend...
    MR 1.244 19 We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend...
    MR 1.250 3 Now if I talk with a sincere wise man, and my friend...I see at once how paltry is all this generation of unbelievers...
    Tran 1.347 16 [Transcendentalists] feel that they are never so fit for friendship as when they have quitted mankind and taken themselves to friend.
    Tran 1.348 8 The philanthropists...had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a Transcendentalist;...
    YA 1.387 15 I think I see place and duties for a nobleman in every society; but it is...to guide and adorn life for the multitude...by perseverance, self-devotion, and the remembrance of the humble old friend...
    Hist 2.30 21 [Prometheus] is the friend of man;...
    SR 2.50 19 ...my friend suggested,--But these impulses may be from below...
    SR 2.71 24 Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife... because they sit around our hearth...
    SR 2.72 6 Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door...
    SR 2.72 25 ...O father, O mother, O wife, O brother, O friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto.
    SR 2.89 27 ...the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event raises your spirits...
    Comp 2.126 14 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius;...
    SL 2.145 13 That mood into which a friend can bring us is his dominion over us.
    SL 2.151 1 ...only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march...
    SL 2.160 18 If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him...
    SL 2.160 23 ...why need you torment yourself and friend by secret self-reproaches that you have not assisted him...heretofore?
    Fdsp 2.189 10 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ Through thee alone the sky is arched,/...
    Fdsp 2.192 3 ...it is necessary to write a letter to a friend,--and forthwith troops of gentle thoughts invest themselves...with chosen words.
    Fdsp 2.193 25 Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.
    Fdsp 2.195 24 We over-estimate the conscience of our friend.
    Fdsp 2.197 15 I cannot deny it, O friend, that the vast shadow of the Phenomenal includes thee also in its pied and painted immensity...
    Fdsp 2.198 13 ...Dear Friend, If I was sure of thee...I should never think again of trifles in relation to thy comings and goings.
    Fdsp 2.199 10 We seek our friend not sacredly...
    Fdsp 2.200 27 ...let us approach our friend with an audacious trust in the truth of his heart...
    Fdsp 2.201 23 Happy is the house that shelters a friend!
    Fdsp 2.202 14 A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
    Fdsp 2.204 2 ...a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.
    Fdsp 2.204 3 My friend gives me entertainment without requiring any stipulation on my part.
    Fdsp 2.204 5 A friend...is a sort of paradox in nature.
    Fdsp 2.204 11 ...a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
    Fdsp 2.207 15 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. No partialities of friend to friend...are there pertinent...
    Fdsp 2.208 16 Let me be alone to the end of the world, rather than that my friend should overstep...his real sympathy.
    Fdsp 2.208 24 Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
    Fdsp 2.209 15 Treat your friend as a spectacle.
    Fdsp 2.209 20 Are you the friend of your friend's buttons, or of his thought?
    Fdsp 2.209 24 Leave it to girls and boys to regard a friend as property...
    Fdsp 2.210 4 Why insist on rash personal relations with your friend?
    Fdsp 2.210 13 Should not the society of my friend be to me poetic...
    Fdsp 2.211 2 To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter.
    Fdsp 2.212 9 ...the only way to have a friend is to be one.
    Fdsp 2.212 27 Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.
    Fdsp 2.214 19 A friend is Janus-faced;...
    Fdsp 2.214 23 [A friend] is the child of all my foregoing hours...and the harbinger of a greater friend.
    Fdsp 2.215 2 I cannot afford to speak much with my friend.
    Hsm1 2.259 27 ...O friend, never strike sail to a fear!
    OS 2.290 15 The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...the brilliant friend they know;...
    OS 2.293 16 You are running to seek your friend.
    OS 2.294 6 Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace.
    Cir 2.307 9 ...if I have a friend I am tormented by my imperfections.
    Cir 2.307 14 For every friend whom he loses for truth, [a man] gains a better.
    Cir 2.314 19 Not through subtle subterranean channels need friend and fact be drawn to their counterpart...
    Art1 2.362 16 The sweet and sublime face of Jesus [in Raphael's Transfiguration] is beyond praise, yet how it disappoints all florid expectations! This familiar, simple, home-speaking countenance is as if one should meet a friend.
    Chr1 3.103 2 If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it...
    Chr1 3.107 7 I remember the indignation of an eloquent Methodist at the kind admonitions of a Doctor of Divinity,--My friend, a man can neither be praised or insulted.
    Chr1 3.110 25 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and... the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to betray must be yielded;...the entrance of a friend adds grace, boldness and eloquence to him;...
    Chr1 3.111 13 I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding which can subsist...between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself and sure of his friend.
    Chr1 3.112 7 Could we not pay our friend the compliment of truth, of silence, of forbearing?
    Chr1 3.113 7 ...if suddenly we encounter a friend, we pause;...
    Chr1 3.113 13 ...a friend is the hope of the heart.
    Mrs1 3.142 1 Parliamentary history has few better passages than the debate in which Burke and Fox separated in the House of Commons; when Fox urged on his old friend the claims of old friendship with such tenderness that the house was moved to tears.
    Mrs1 3.142 16 ...friend of the Hindoo, friend of the African slave, [Charles James Fox] possessed a great personal popularity;...
    Mrs1 3.145 21 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout, who loved his friend and persuaded his enemy;...
    Mrs1 3.146 5 ...there is still...some friend of Poland;...
    Gts 3.164 9 The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him...
    Gts 3.164 10 The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him...
    Gts 3.164 12 The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also.
    Gts 3.164 13 Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.
    Nat2 3.171 10 Ever an old friend...comes in this honest face [of nature], and takes a grave liberty with us...
    Nat2 3.171 11 ...ever like a dear friend and brother when we chat affectedly with strangers, comes in this honest face [of nature], and takes a grave liberty with us...
    Nat2 3.172 25 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river...
    Nat2 3.188 18 Each young and ardent person writes a diary, in which, when the hours of prayer and penitence arrive, he inscribes his soul. The pages thus written are to him burning and fragrant;...too good for the world, and hardly yet to be shown to the dearest friend.
    Nat2 3.188 22 After some time has elapsed, [the young person] begins to wish to admit his friend to this hallowed experience [of keeping a diary]...
    Nat2 3.188 25 The friend coldly turns [the pages of a young person's diary] over, and passes from the writing to conversation...
    Nat2 3.189 6 [The young person] suspects the intelligence or the heart of his friend.
    Nat2 3.189 7 [The young person] suspects the intelligence or the heart of his friend. Is there then no friend?
    NR 3.244 22 Love shows me the opulence of nature, by disclosing to me in my friend a hidden wealth...
    NR 3.244 28 ...I would have...no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.
    NER 3.261 26 Alas! my good friend, there is no part of society or of life better than any other part.
    NER 3.278 5 If...we start objections to your project, O friend of the slave, or friend of the poor...understand well that it is because we wish to drive you to drive us into your measures.
    PPh 4.49 17 The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff;...
    PPh 4.55 23 ...our enlarged powers at the approach and at the departure of a friend;...this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    MoS 4.174 7 ...San Carlo, my subtle and admirable friend...finds that all direct ascension...leads to this ghastly insight...
    ET1 5.7 1 Greenough brought me, through a common friend, an invitation from Mr. Landor...
    ET1 5.19 1 ...[Carlyle] named certain individuals, especially one man of letters, his friend...whom London had well served.
    ET1 5.20 17 My [Wordsworth's] friend Colonel Hamilton, at the foot of the hill, who was a year in America, assures me that the newspapers are atrocious...
    ET4 5.57 11 In Norway...the actors are bonders or landholders, every one of whom is named and personally and patronymically described, as the king's friend and companion.
    ET11 5.183 22 ...with such interests at stake, how can these men [English peers] afford to neglect them? O, replied my friend, why should they work for themselves when every man in England works for them...
    ET11 5.194 3 [English noblemen] might be little Providences on earth, said my friend, and they are, for the most part, jockeys and fops.
    ET11 5.194 13 A man of wit [in England]...confessed to his friend that he could not enter [noblemen's] houses without being made to feel that they were great lords, and he a low plebeian.
    ET12 5.199 13 ...I availed myself of some repeated invitations to Oxford, where I had introductions to Dr. Daubeny...and to the Regius Professor of Divinity, as well as to a valued friend [Arthur Hugh Clough]...
    ET12 5.199 15 I was the guest of my friend [Arthur Hugh Clough] in Oriel [College, Oxford]...
    ET12 5.202 17 My friend Doctor J. gave me the following anecdote.
    ET15 5.265 12 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office...
    ET16 5.273 1 It had been agreed between my friend Mr. Carlyle and me, that before I left England we should make an excursion together to Stonehenge...
    ET16 5.277 19 Over us [at Stonehenge], larks were soaring and singing;-- as my friend [Carlyle] said, the larks which were hatched last year, and the wind which was hatched many thousand years ago.
    ET16 5.280 18 At the inn [at Amesbury], there was only milk for one cup of tea. When we called for more, the girl brought us three drops. My friend [Carlyle] was annoyed...
    ET16 5.284 11 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall...the frequent home of Sir Philip Sidney...where he conversed with Lord Brooke...who caused to be engraved on his tombstone, Here lies Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, the friend of Sir Philip Sidney.
    ET16 5.284 15 My friend [Carlyle] had a letter from Mr. [Sidney] Herbert to his housekeeper,and the house [Wilton Hall] was shown.
    ET16 5.286 8 Whilst we listened to the organ [at Salisbury Cathedral], my friend [Carlyle] remarked, the music is good, and yet not quite religious...
    ET17 5.297 6 ...[in London] you will hear from different literary men that Wordsworth had no personal friend...
    F 6.31 5 [Men] are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent...
    F 6.49 7 Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity, which secures that all is made of one piece; that...friend and enemy...are of one kind.
    Pow 6.60 21 ...the torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost...by friend or by fiend...
    Pow 6.75 15 During the whole period of his administration [Pericles] never dined at the table of a friend.
    Pow 6.78 21 A humorous friend of mine thinks that the reason why Nature is so perfect in her art, and gets up such inconceivably fine sunsets, is that she has learned how, at last, by dint of doing the same thing so very often.
    Ctr 6.155 26 Solitude...is, to genius, the stern friend...
    Wsp 6.236 10 Benedict went out to seek his friend, and met him on the way;...
    Wsp 6.236 13 ...if [Benedict] called at the door of his friend and he was not at home, he did not go again;...
    Wsp 6.241 22 [The new church founded on moral science] shall...make [man] know that much of the time he must have himself to his friend.
    CbW 6.244 6 A day for toil, an hour for sport,/ But for a friend is life too short./
    CbW 6.269 2 When joy or calamity or genius shall show [the youth his purpose]...then city shopmen and cabdrivers, indifferently with prophet or friend, will mirror back to him its unfathomable heaven...
    CbW 6.272 22 Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend.
    CbW 6.273 3 ...He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,/ And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere./
    Bty 6.300 20 It was said of Hooke, the friend of Newton, He is the most, and promises the least, of any man in England.
    Ill 6.312 10 [The boy] has no better friend or influence than Scott, Shakspeare, Plutarch and Homer.
    Ill 6.314 10 ...a friend of mine complained that all the varieties of fancy pears in our orchard seem to have been selected by somebody who had a whim for a particular kind of pear...
    SS 7.3 8 In the conversation that followed, my new friend made some extraordinary confessions.
    SS 7.4 7 For himself [my new friend] declared that he could not get enough alone to write a letter to a friend.
    SS 7.14 19 I know that my friend can talk eloquently;...
    DL 7.122 20 I honor that man whose ambition it is...to administer the offices...of husband, father and friend.
    Boks 7.190 20 A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible...but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us...
    Boks 7.195 1 Nature is much our friend in this matter [of reading].
    Clbs 7.228 21 How sweet those hours when the day was not long enough to communicate and compare our intellectual jewels...the delicious verses we had hoarded! What a motive had then our solitary days! How the countenance of our friend still left some light after he had gone!
    Cour 7.254 24 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes of men, knows how to come at their end; whispers to this friend, argues down that adversary...
    Suc 7.299 19 Is...the house in which your dearest friend lived, only a piece of real estate...
    Suc 7.304 10 What was on [the lover's] lips to say is uttered by his friend.
    Suc 7.304 13 If in his walk [the lover] chanced to look back, his friend was walking behind him.
    OA 7.317 13 ...in our old British legends of Arthur and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise, is a babe found exposed in a basket by the river-side...
    PI 8.62 3 How, Merlin, my good friend, said Sir Gawain, are you restrained so strongly...
    SA 8.89 18 Either death or a friend, is a Persian proverb.
    SA 8.91 24 ...in the effort to unfold our thought to a friend we make it clearer to ourselves...
    SA 8.92 9 The true friend must have an attraction to whatever virtue is in us.
    SA 8.104 27 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;--as the love...of the youth for his friend;...
    Comc 8.167 19 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend...
    Comc 8.167 22 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who... was in a dying condition, when I met his physician, who accosted me...with joy sparkling in his eyes. And how is my friend, the reverend Doctor? I inquired.
    QO 8.189 27 Our very abstaining to repeat and credit the fine remark of our friend is thievish.
    QO 8.190 10 The child quotes his father, and the man quotes his friend.
    PPo 8.258 22 Ibn Jemin writes thus:-Whilst I disdain the populace,/ I find no peer in higher place./ Friend is a word of royal tone,/ Friend is a poem all alone./
    PPo 8.258 23 Ibn Jemin writes thus:-Whilst I disdain the populace,/ I find no peer in higher place./ Friend is a word of royal tone,/ Friend is a poem all alone./
    PPo 8.259 2 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./
    PPo 8.262 22 In thee, friend, that Tyrian chamber is found;/ Thine the star-pointing- roof, and the base on the ground:/ Is one half depicted with colors less bright?/ Beware that the counterpart blazes with light!/
    Insp 8.281 20 ...in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise to a thought and to a cordial power of expression that costs no effort...
    Insp 8.289 10 ...our enlarged powers in the presence, or rather at the approach and at the departure of a friend...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    Insp 8.291 4 Allston rarely left his studio by day. An old friend took him, one fine afternoon, a spacious circuit into the country...
    Insp 8.292 17 ...in discourse with a friend, our thought...detaches itself...
    Imtl 8.329 23 A friend of Michel Angelo saying to him that his constant labor for art must make him think of death with regret,-By no means, he said;...
    Imtl 8.331 17 [Both men] were men of intellect, and one of them, at a later period, gave to a friend this anecdote.
    Imtl 8.331 24 When my friend at last left Congress, [the two men] parted...
    Imtl 8.332 8 Slowly [the two men]...at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially. At last his friend said, Any light, Albert? None, replied Albert.
    Aris 10.56 21 The nearer my friend, the more spacious is our realm...
    Aris 10.60 17 There is...no sentiment or thought that will not sometime embody itself in the form of a friend.
    Chr2 10.96 15 ...there is...many a man who does not hesitate to lay down his life...to save his son or his friend.
    Edc1 10.129 21 Is it not true that every landscape I behold, every friend I meet...leaves me a different being from that they found me?
    Edc1 10.144 6 Be...the friend of [the child's] friendship...
    Edc1 10.149 20 ...in literature,the young man who has taste...for noble thoughts...forgets all the world for the more learned friend...
    Supl 10.167 3 ...I remember that [William Ellery Channing's] best friend... said...I believe him capable of virtue.
    SovE 10.184 12 ...all the animals show the same good sense in their humble walk that the man who is their enemy or friend does;...
    SovE 10.210 25 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another...the respect he feels for one who thinks life is quite too coarse and frivolous, and that he...should like to be the friend of some man's virtue?...
    Plu 10.298 25 ...a good son, husband, father and friend,-[Plutarch] has a taste for common life...
    Plu 10.310 21 Knowing and not knowing is the affirmative or negative of the dog; knowing you is to be your friend; not knowing you, your enemy.
    Plu 10.315 19 There is no treasure, [Plutarch] says, parents can give to their children, like a brother; 't is a friend given by nature...
    LLNE 10.361 26 Theodore Parker, the near neighbor of [Brook] farm and the most intimate friend of Mr. Ripley, was a frequent visitor.
    LLNE 10.364 2 No friend who knew Margaret Fuller could recognize her rich and brilliant genius under the dismal mask which the public fancied was meant for her in that disagreeable story [Blithedale Romance].
    LLNE 10.366 14 No doubt there was in many [at Brook Farm] a certain strength drawn from the fury of dissent. Thus Mr. Ripley told Theodore Parker, There is your accomplished friend---: he would hoe corn all Sunday if I would let him, but all Massachusetts could not make him do it on Monday.
    MMEm 10.398 20 Lucy Percy...the friend of Strafford and of Pym, is thus described by Sir Toby Matthews.
    MMEm 10.406 19 [Mary Moody Emerson] tired presently of dull conversations, and asked to be read to, and so disposed of the visitor. If the voice or the reading tired her, she would ask the friend if he or she would do an errand for her, and so dismiss them.
    SlHr 10.447 9 It seemed as if the New England church had formed [Samuel Hoar] to be its friend and defender;...
    SlHr 10.447 10 It seemed as if the New England church had formed [Samuel Hoar] to be...the lover and assured friend of its parish by-laws...
    SlHr 10.448 19 Perfect in his private life, husband, father, friend, [Samuel Hoar] was severe only with himself.
    Thor 10.458 9 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail. A friend paid the tax for him, and he was released.
    Thor 10.467 26 [Thoreau] returned Kane's Arctic Voyage to a friend of whom he had borrowed it, with the remark, that Most of the phenomena noted might be observed in Concord.
    Thor 10.478 7 A truth-speaker [Thoreau]...a friend...almost worshipped by those few persons who resorted to him as their confessor and prophet...
    GSt 10.501 13 ...the painful surprise which the last week brought us, in the tidings of the death of Mr. [George] Stearns, opened all eyes to the just consideration of the singular merits of the citizen, the neighbor, the friend, the father and the husband, whom this assembly mourns.
    LS 11.7 17 I see natural feeling and beauty in the use of such language from Jesus, a friend to his friends;...
    LS 11.13 15 There was good reason for [Christ's] personal friends to remember their friend and repeat his words.
    LS 11.20 3 I will love [Jesus] as a glorified friend...
    HDC 11.31 2 The best friend the Massachusetts colony had...was Archbishop Laud in England.
    HDC 11.57 23 ...Major [Simon] Willard...incurred the censure of the Commissioners, who write to their loving friend Major Willard, that they leave to his consideration the inconveniences arising from his non-attendance to his commission.
    HDC 11.74 15 ...the British fired one or two shots up the river (our ancient friend here, Master Blood, saw the water struck by the first ball);...
    HDC 11.76 3 Captain Charles Miles, who was wounded in the pursuit of the enemy [at Concord bridge] told my venerable friend who sits by me, that he went to the services of that day, with the same seriousness and acknowledgment of God, which he carried to church.
    HDC 11.83 3 Concord has always been noted for its ministers. The living need no praise of mine. Yet it is among the sources of satisfaction and gratitude, this day, that the aged [Ezra Ripley]...our fathers' counsellor and friend, is spared to counsel and intercede for the sons.
    LVB 11.89 4 Sir [Van Buren]: The seat you fill places you in a relation of credit and nearness to every citizen. By right and natural position, every citizen is your friend.
    EWI 11.146 13 I doubt not that sometimes the negro's friend, in the face of scornful and brutal hundreds of traders and drivers, has felt his heart sink.
    War 11.169 13 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace embraced by a nation, we may be assured it will...be...one...which has a friend in the bottom of the heart of every man...
    FSLC 11.182 8 Just now a friend came into my house and said, If this [Fugitive Slave] law shall be repealed I shall be glad that I have lived; if not I shall be sorry that I was born.
    AsSu 11.251 27 Let [Charles Sumner] hear...that every friend of freedom thinks him the friend of freedom.
    AsSu 11.252 1 Let [Charles Sumner] hear...that every friend of freedom thinks him the friend of freedom.
    JBS 11.278 16 ...the colored boy had no friend, and no future.
    SMC 11.369 14 Another incident [reported by George Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with respect...
    SHC 11.428 12 ...shalt thou pause to hear some funeral-bell/ Slow stealing o'er the heart in this calm place,/ Not with a throb of pain, a feverish knell,/ But in its kind and supplicating grace,/ It says, Go, pilgrim, on thy march, be more/ Friend to the friendless than thou wast before;/...
    FRO1 11.477 16 I say again, in the phrase used by my friend, that we began [the Free Religious Association] many years ago...
    FRO2 11.485 2 Friends: I wish I could deserve anything of the kind expression of my friend, the President [of the Free Religious Association], and the kind good will which the audience signifies...
    FRO2 11.485 22 ...as my friend, your presiding officer [of the Free Religious Association], has asked me to take at least some small part in this day's conversation, I am ready to give...the first simple foundation of my belief...
    CPL 11.494 1 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library...
    CPL 11.503 23 Every one of us is always in search of his friend...
    CPL 11.507 6 ...the book is a sure friend...
    FRep 11.523 16 ...if [Americans] should come to be interested in themselves and in their career, they would no more stay away from the election than from...the house of their friend.
    PLT 12.30 22 When, moved by love, a man...spends himself for his friend... it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.
    PLT 12.37 10 If we could retain our early innocence, we might trust our feet uncommanded to take the right path to our friend in the woods.
    II 12.83 21 Many men are very slow in finding their vocation. It does not at once appear what they were made for. Nature has not made up her mind in regard to her young friend...
    CInt 12.115 21 ...even if we had no son or friend [in college], yet the college is part of the community...
    CInt 12.130 1 My friend, stretch a few threads over a common Aeolian harp, and put it in your window, and listen to what it says of times and the heart of Nature.
    CL 12.138 15 ...the curiosity to see [Kalm's] plants, restored [Linnaeus] instantly, and he found an old friend as good as the treatment by wood-strawberries.
    CL 12.158 14 The effect [of viewing the landscape upside down] is remarkable, and perhaps is not explained. An ingenious friend of mine suggested that it was because the upper part of the eye is little used...
    CW 12.176 19 There is so much...which a book cannot teach that an old friend can.
    Bost 12.182 16 Let the blood of [Boston's] hundred thousands/ Throb in each manly vein,/ And the wits of all her wisest/ Make sunshine in her brain./ And each shall care for other,/ And each to each shall bend,/ To the poor a noble brother,/ To the good an equal friend./
    MAng1 12.226 13 ...one day riding over [the Pons Palatinus] on horseback, with his friend Vasari, [Michelangelo] cried, George, this bridge trembles under us;...
    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 12.237 22 ...it seemed to [Michelangelo] that if a man gave him anything, he was always obligated to that individual. His friend Vasari mentions one occasion on which his scruples were overcome.
    MAng1 12.240 21 Condivi, his friend, has left this testimony; I have often heard Michael Angelo reason and discourse upon love, but never heard him speak otherwise than upon platonic love.
    MAng1 12.244 21 ...[Michelangelo] was a brother and a friend to all who acknowledge the beauty that beams in universal Nature...
    Milt1 12.254 9 There is something pleasing in the affection with which we can regard a man [Milton]...who...by an influence purely spiritual makes us jealous for his fame as for that of a near friend.
    Milt1 12.263 15 [Milton] acknowledges to his friend Diodati, at the age of twenty-one, that he is enamoured...of moral perfection...
    Milt1 12.273 19 [Milton] admonished his friend not to admire military prowess, or things in which force is of most avail.
    ACri 12.295 5 My friend thinks the reason why the French mind is so shallow...is because they do not read Shakspeare;...
    ACri 12.302 8 Here is my friend E., the model of opinionists.
    MLit 12.321 26 With the name of Wordsworth rises to our recollection the name of his contemporary and friend, Walter Savage Landor...
    WSL 12.341 9 In these busy days...a faithful scholar...is a friend and consoler of mankind.
    Pray 12.352 4 When my long-attached friend comes to me, I have pleasure to converse with him...
    Pray 12.353 23 I will know the joy of giving to my friend the dearest treasure I have.
    AgMs 12.364 1 I believe that my friend [Edmund Hosmer] is a little stiff and inconvertible in his own opinions...
    EurB 12.370 17 A critical friend of ours affirms that the vice which bereaved modern painters of their power is the ambition to begin where their fathers ended;...
    EurB 12.377 18 [The Vivian Greys] would quiz their father and mother and lover and friend.
    Let 12.393 11 Our friend suggests so many inconveniences from piracy out of the high air...that we have not the heart to break the sleep of the good public by the repetition of these details.
    Let 12.394 10 [The correspondents] want a friend to whom they can speak...
    Let 12.403 3 A friend of ours went five years ago to Illinois to buy a farm for his son.

Friend, n. (1)

    DL 7.128 28 A verse of the old Greek Menander remains, which runs in translation:--Not on the store of sprightly wine,/ Nor plenty of delicious meats,/ Though generous Nature did design/ To court us with perpetual treats,--/ 'T is not on these we for content depend,/ So much as on the shadow of a Friend./

Friend, The [Samuel Taylor (1)

    ET1 5.12 22 ...I proceeded to inquire [of Coleridge] if the extract from the Independent's pamphlet, in the third volume of the Friend, were a veritable quotation.

Friend, Universal, n. (1)

    FRO1 11.476 4 In many forms we try/ To utter God's infinity,/ But the Boundless has no form,/ And the Universal Friend/ Doth as far transcend/ An angel as a worm./

friendless, n. (1)

    SHC 11.428 12 ...shalt thou pause to hear some funeral-bell/ Slow stealing o'er the heart in this calm place,/ Not with a throb of pain, a feverish knell,/ But in its kind and supplicating grace,/ It says, Go, pilgrim, on thy march, be more/ Friend to the friendless than thou wast before;/...

friendliest, adj. (2)

    Comp 2.124 10 ...my brother is my guardian, acting for me with the friendliest designs...
    ET2 5.25 13 The request [to lecture in England] was urged...by friendliest parties in Manchester...

friendly, adj. (35)

    AmS 1.81 10 ...our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters...
    LE 1.174 25 Think alone, and all places are friendly and sacred.
    Con 1.310 14 ...[existing institutions] are really friendly to the good, unfriendly to the bad;...
    Con 1.314 18 ...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty...in the presence of friendly and generous persons, has also his gracious and relenting moments...
    YA 1.371 20 ...there is a sublime and friendly Destiny by which the human race is guided...
    YA 1.379 5 Trade is an instrument in the hands of that friendly Power which works for us in our own despite.
    YA 1.380 6 All this beneficent socialism is a friendly omen...
    Hist 2.12 20 ...to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred...
    Comp 2.126 22 The death of a dear friend...somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly...breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.
    SL 2.154 25 The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort, friendly or hostile...
    Mrs1 3.124 8 The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage...
    Mrs1 3.150 6 Our American institutions have been friendly to [woman]...
    NER 3.272 23 In the circle of the rankest tories...let...a man of great heart and mind act on them, and very quickly these frozen conservators will yield to the friendly influence...
    SwM 4.122 25 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him...into natural objects, and showed their origin and meaning, what are friendly, and what are hurtful;...
    ET11 5.196 18 Here [in England] at last were climate and condition friendly to the working faculty.
    ET17 5.291 21 At the landing in Liverpool, I found my Manchester correspondent awaiting me, a gentleman whose kind reception was followed by a train of friendly and effective attentions...
    F 6.31 21 The friendly power works on the same rules in the next farm and the next planet.
    Wsp 6.214 2 Even the fury of material activity has some results friendly to moral health.
    Wsp 6.231 18 The genius of life is friendly to the noble...
    Bty 6.288 15 ...the beauty which certain objects have for [man] is the friendly fire which expands the thought...
    Bty 6.301 15 This is the triumph of expression...charming us with a power so fine and friendly and intoxicating that it makes admired persons insipid...
    WD 7.168 13 [The days] come and go like muffled and veiled figures, sent from a distant friendly party;...
    PI 8.1 6 ...From blue mount and headland dim/ Friendly hands stretch forth to him/...
    PerF 10.69 5 The hero in the fairy-tales has a servant who can eat granite rocks...and a third who can run a hundred leagues in half an hour; so man in Nature is surrounded by a gang of friendly giants who can accept harder stints than these...
    LLNE 10.353 25 ...in a day of small, sour and fierce schemes, one is admonished and cheered by a project of such friendly aims [as Fourier's]...
    Thor 10.460 16 Before the first friendly word had been spoken for Captain John Brown, [Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown...
    HDC 11.37 14 The faithful dealing and brave good will, which, during the life of the friendly Massasoit, [the English] uniformly experienced at Plymouth and at Boston, went to their hearts.
    HDC 11.61 25 It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits...
    EWI 11.147 15 The genius of the Saxon race, friendly to liberty; the enterprise, the very muscular vigor of this nation, are inconsistent with slavery.
    SHC 11.429 16 ...this concourse of friendly company assures me that [the committee] have rightly interpreted your wishes.
    SHC 11.435 18 ...hither [to Sleepy Hollow] shall repair...every sweet and friendly influence;...
    PLT 12.26 20 ...no friendly attention and fostering kindness...avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association.
    CL 12.159 18 In [the Persians'] belief, wild beasts, especially gazelles, collect around an insane person, and live with him on a friendly footing.
    MLit 12.325 19 We are provoked with...the patronizing air with which [Goethe] vouchsafes to tolerate the genius and performances of other mortals, the good Hiller...the friendly Wieland...
    Trag 12.409 10 Hark! what sounds on the night wind, the cry of Murder in that friendly house;...

friends, n. (252)

    Nat 1.46 6 We are associated in adolescent and adult life with some friends...
    AmS 1.115 18 Is it not the chief disgrace in the world...to be reckoned in the gross...of the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brothers and friends, - please God, ours shall not be so.
    DSA 1.128 9 The truth contained in [the Christian church], you, my young friends, are now setting forth to teach.
    DSA 1.132 8 The divine bards are the friends of my virtue...
    DSA 1.143 16 My friends, in these two errors, I find the causes of a decaying church...
    DSA 1.145 21 Friends enough you shall find who will hold up to your emulation Wesleys and Oberlins...
    DSA 1.148 12 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...an independence of friends...
    DSA 1.149 4 O my friends, there are resources in us on which we have not drawn.
    MR 1.253 6 In every knot of laborers the rich man does not feel himself among his friends...
    LT 1.263 15 ...somebody shocked a circle of friends of order here in Boston...by declaring that an eloquent man...would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches.
    LT 1.279 7 ...the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the sanctuary of the heart.
    LT 1.291 4 Have you leisure, power, property, friends?
    Con 1.325 6 Sooner or later all men will be my friends...
    Tran 1.346 20 We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not;...
    Tran 1.347 2 ...if [these youths] only stand fast in this watch-tower, and persist in demanding unto the end, and without end, then are they terrible friends...
    SR 2.73 27 ...so may you give these friends pain.
    SR 2.76 4 If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges and is not installed in an office within one year afterwards...it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in being disheartened...
    SR 2.81 26 I...embrace my friends...
    SR 2.88 27 Not so, O friends! will the God deign to enter and inhabit you...
    Comp 2.116 23 ...the royal armies sent against Napoleon, when he approached cast down their colors and from enemies became friends...
    Comp 2.124 23 Every soul is by this intrinsic necessity quitting its whole system of things, its friends and home and laws and faith...
    Comp 2.125 17 We cannot part with our friends.
    Comp 2.126 11 ...a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable.
    SL 2.150 25 We foolishly think in our days of sin that we must court friends by compliance to the customs of society...
    Lov1 2.175 18 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when no place is too solitary...for him who has richer company and sweeter conversation in his new thoughts than any old friends...can give him;...
    Lov1 2.178 25 [The lover's] friends find in [his mistress] a likeness to her mother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood.
    Lov1 2.185 12 ...adding up costly advantages, friends, opportunities, properties, [lovers] exult in discovering that...they would give all as a ransom for the beautiful, the beloved head...
    Fdsp 2.194 2 I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends...
    Fdsp 2.194 16 My friends have come to me unsought.
    Fdsp 2.197 23 Is it not that the soul puts forth friends as the tree puts forth leaves...
    Fdsp 2.198 1 The soul environs itself with friends that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude;...
    Fdsp 2.200 2 It makes no difference how many friends I have...if there be one to whom I am not equal.
    Fdsp 2.200 8 If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly. I should hate myself, if then I made my other friends my asylum...
    Fdsp 2.209 13 We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.
    Fdsp 2.209 14 ...friends are self-elected.
    Fdsp 2.212 26 Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends...
    Fdsp 2.213 3 Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables.
    Fdsp 2.214 14 Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell...
    Fdsp 2.214 24 I do then with my friends as I do with my books.
    Fdsp 2.215 11 In the great days, presentiments hover before me in the firmament. ... Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own.
    Fdsp 2.215 26 ...I will owe to my friends this evanescent intercourse.
    Prd1 2.240 7 Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
    Prd1 2.240 17 Every man's imagination hath its friends;...
    Hsm1 2.257 23 ...friends, angels and the Supreme Being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.
    OS 2.285 9 Who can tell the grounds of his knowledge of the character of the several individuals in his circle of friends?
    OS 2.290 21 ...the soul that ascends to worship the great God...has...no fine friends...
    Cir 2.307 14 A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
    Cir 2.307 17 I thought as I...mused on my friends, why should I play with them this game of idolatry?
    Pt1 3.42 5 ...thou [O poet] shalt not be able to rehearse the names of thy friends in thy verse, for an old shame before the holy ideal.
    Exp 3.56 25 Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas which they never pass or exceed.
    Exp 3.61 27 I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe...
    Exp 3.74 20 [Just persons] believe...that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends...
    Chr1 3.103 18 Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through;...
    Chr1 3.107 1 ...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.
    Chr1 3.112 14 Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity;...
    Chr1 3.114 25 I do not forgive in my friends the failure to know a fine character...
    Mrs1 3.132 27 A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,--not bodily, the whole circle of his friends, but atmospherically.
    Mrs1 3.135 9 We call together many friends who keep each other in play...
    Gts 3.161 4 ...the rule for a gift, which one of my friends prescribed, is that we might convey to some person that which properly belonged to his character...
    Nat2 3.171 4 We come to our own [in the woods], and make friends with matter...
    Nat2 3.191 6 ...wealth was good as it...brought friends together in a warm and quiet room...
    Pol1 3.216 11 [The wise man] needs...no bribe, or feast, or palace, to draw friends to him;...
    Pol1 3.216 19 [The wise man] has no personal friends...
    Pol1 3.220 4 Are our methods now so excellent that all competition is hopeless? could not a nation of friends even devise better ways?
    Pol1 3.221 27 ...there are now men...to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends...
    NER 3.258 2 ...it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow-men.
    NER 3.267 5 [The union of men] is the union of friends who live in different streets or towns.
    NER 3.281 2 Let a clear, apprehensive mind, such as every man knows among his friends, converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear that there was no inequality such as men fancy, between them;...
    PPh 4.72 21 [Socrates]...he is hardy as a soldier, and can live...usually, in the strictest sense, on bread and water, except when entertained by his friends.
    SwM 4.136 16 The parish disputes in the Swedish church between the friends and foes of Luther and Melancthon...intrude themselves into [Swedenborg's] speculations...
    SwM 4.143 27 Was [Swedenborg] like Saadi, who, in his vision, designed to fill his lap with the celestial flowers, as presents for his friends;...
    MoS 4.158 14 Remember the open question between the present order of competition and the friends of attractive and associated labor.
    MoS 4.167 13 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] I...think...old friends who do not constrain me...the most suitable.
    ShP 4.199 7 ...there were fountains around Homer, Menu, Saadi, or Milton, from which they drew;--friends, lovers, books, traditions, proverbs,--all perished...
    ShP 4.209 19 One can discern, in [Shakespeare's] ample pictures of the gentleman and the king...his delight in troops of friends...
    NMW 4.243 22 ...[Napoleon] said to one of his oldest friends, Men deserve the contempt with which they inspire me.
    NMW 4.244 2 [Napoleon's] impatience at levity was...an oblique tribute of respect to those able persons who commanded his regard not only when he found them friends and coadjutors but also when they resisted his will.
    NMW 4.255 4 For my part [said Napoleon] I know very well that I have no true friends.
    NMW 4.255 6 As long as I continue to be what I am [said Napoleon], I may have as many pretended friends as I please.
    GoW 4.267 9 The fiery reformer embodies his aspiration in some rite or covenant, and he and his friends cleave to the form and lose the aspiration.
    ET1 5.5 27 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities,--the genius of the master imparting his design to his friends...
    ET1 5.8 4 I could not make [Landor] praise Mackintosh, nor my more recent friends;...
    ET2 5.25 21 ...the proposal [to lecture in England] offered an excellent opportunity of seeing the interior of England and Scotland, by means of a home and a committee of intelligent friends awaiting me in every town.
    ET5 5.78 18 ...when [the English] have pounded each other to a poultice, they will shake hands and be friends for the remainder of their lives.
    ET7 5.121 14 Whilst I was in London, M. Guizot arrived there on his escape from Paris, in February, 1848. Many private friends called on him.
    ET9 5.145 5 Swedenborg...notes the similitude of minds among the English, in consequence of which they contract familiarity with friends who are of that nation...
    ET11 5.190 22 ...often [English nobles] have been the friends and patrons of genius and learning...
    ET12 5.199 17 My new friends [at Oxford] showed me their cloisters...
    ET12 5.202 24 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds, when, among other friends, they called on Lord Eldon.
    ET16 5.286 23 My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?--any with an American idea...
    ET16 5.288 10 On the way to Winchester...my friends asked many questions respecting American landscape, forests, houses...
    ET16 5.289 2 ...I put off my [English] friends with very inadequate details [about America], as best I could.
    ET17 5.291 11 My journeys [in England] were cheered by so much kindness from new friends, that my impression of the island is bright with agreeable memories...
    ET17 5.291 17 ...what is nowhere better found than in England, a cultivated person fitly surrounded by a happy home, with Honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,/ is of all institutions the best.
    ET17 5.296 18 ...in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and plainest fare;...
    ET19 5.310 4 The arguments of the League and its leader are known to all the friends of free trade.
    F 6.41 25 A man's friends are his magnetisms.
    Pow 6.67 6 ...[Boniface] made good friends of the selectmen...
    Pow 6.68 26 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood's] friends and governors must see that some vent for their explosive complexion is provided.
    Pow 6.74 2 ...the one evil [in life] is dissipation; and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are...friends and a social habit...or music, or feasting.
    Pow 6.74 6 Friends, books, pictures, lower duties, talents, flatteries, hopes,-- all are distractions...
    Wth 6.88 12 ...[nature]...takes away warmth, laughter, sleep, friends and daylight, until [a man] has fought his way to his own loaf.
    Ctr 6.147 4 As many languages as [a man] has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
    Ctr 6.156 27 We four, wrote Neander to his sacred friends, will enjoy at Halle the inward blessedness of a civitas Dei...
    Ctr 6.161 23 We must know our friends under ugly masks.
    Ctr 6.161 24 The calamities are our friends.
    Ctr 6.162 1 Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--...Make him lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed Poverty./
    Ctr 6.162 20 [The finished man of the world] has neither friends nor enemies...
    Wsp 6.201 1 Some of my friends have complained...that we discussed Fate, Power and Wealth on too low a platform;...
    Wsp 6.231 19 The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and in the dark brings them friends from far.
    Wsp 6.235 3 [Benedict said] I seem to fail in my friends and clients, too.
    Wsp 6.236 6 If [the thought] can spare me [said Benedict], I am sure I can spare it. It shall be the same with my friends.
    CbW 6.257 5 ...the friends of a gentleman brought to his notice the follies of his sons...
    CbW 6.264 5 I knew a wise woman who said to her friends, When I am old, rule me.
    CbW 6.268 16 The youth aches for solitude. When he comes to the house he passes through the house. That does not make the deep recess he sought. Ah! now I perceive, he says, it must be deep with persons; friends only can give depth.
    CbW 6.268 18 ...there is a great dearth, this year, of friends;...
    CbW 6.273 3 ...He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,/ And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere./
    CbW 6.273 24 ...who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all,--friends?
    Bty 6.287 26 ...every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so.
    Ill 6.307 8 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./
    Ill 6.310 18 ...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. ... Our musical friends sung with much feeling a pretty song, The stars are in the quiet sky...
    Ill 6.323 11 At the top or at the bottom of all illusions, I set the cheat which still leads us to work and live for appearances; in spite of our conviction, in all sane hours, that it is what we really are that avails with friends, with strangers, and with fate or fortune.
    SS 7.8 24 ...the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.
    Civ 7.26 24 There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name, but sometimes...the cabalism or esprit de corps of a masonic or other association of friends.
    Art2 7.48 17 The artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired, not by his friends...but by all men...must disindividualize himself...
    Elo1 7.63 14 The Welsh Triads say, Many are the friends of the golden tongue.
    DL 7.112 15 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer; friends are less carefully bestowed...
    DL 7.117 4 [The reform that applies itself to the household] must come in connection with a true acceptance by each man of his vocation,--not chosen by his parents or friends...
    DL 7.126 27 Our friends are not their own highest form.
    DL 7.128 13 The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
    DL 7.130 14 Why should we owe our power of attracting our friends to pictures and vases...
    DL 7.131 11 I wish to bring home to my children and my friends copies of these admirable forms [Michelangelo's sibyle and prophets]...
    Boks 7.191 26 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends...
    Clbs 7.248 21 Herrick's verses to Ben Jonson no doubt paint the fact:-- When we such clusters had/ As made us nobly wild, not mad;/ And yet, each verse of thine/ Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine./ Such friends make the feast satisfying;...
    Cour 7.261 13 Each [new soldier] whispers to himself:...only will the benignant Heaven save me from disgracing myself and my friends and my State.
    Suc 7.305 17 An Englishman of marked character and talent, who had brought with him hither one or two friends and a library of mystics, assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England...
    OA 7.319 20 We had a judge in Massachusetts who at sixty proposed to resign...he was dissuaded by his friends, on account of the public convenience at that time.
    OA 7.327 12 [Man] wants friends, employment, knowledge...
    PI 8.51 1 St. Augustine complains to God of his friends offering him the books of the philosophers...
    SA 8.79 5 Much ill-natured criticism has been directed on American manners. I do not think it is to be resented. Rather, if we are wise, we shall listen and mend. Our critics will then be our best friends...
    SA 8.89 25 One of my friends said in speaking of certain associates, There is not one of them but I can offend at any moment.
    SA 8.97 11 ...there are...swainish, morose people...and though their odd wit may have some salt for you, your friends would not relish it.
    SA 8.99 3 Lovers abstain from caresses and haters from insults whilst they sit in one parlor with common friends.
    Elo2 8.113 6 ...[the eloquent man]...of enemies makes friends...
    Elo2 8.122 11 What must have been the discourse of St. Bernard, when... companions [hid] their friends, lest they should be led by his eloquence to join the monastery.
    Elo2 8.123 7 I remember, when, long after, I entered college, hearing the story of the numbers of coaches in which his friends came from Boston to hear [John Quincy Adams].
    Elo2 8.123 15 When, on his return from Washington, [John Quincy Adams] resumed his lectures in Cambridge...many of his political friends deserted him.
    Elo2 8.123 20 [John Quincy Adams's] last lecture...contained some nervous allusions to the treatment he had received from his old friends...
    Elo2 8.124 13 ...in your struggles with the world...seek refuge, my unfailing friends...in the precepts and example of Him whose law is love...
    QO 8.187 3 Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends, laughingly compared his writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they were pronounced...
    QO 8.190 8 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, or the Theban Phalanx's? The city will for nine days or nine years make differences and sinister comparisons: there is a new and more excellent public that will bless the friends.
    QO 8.194 26 Every one...remembers his friends by their favorite poetry or other reading.
    QO 8.197 11 ...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.
    PC 8.216 23 ...in his own days [Michelangelo's] friends were few;...
    Aris 10.45 13 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism. Men will need him, and he is rich and eminent by nature. That man cannot be too late or too early. Let him not hurry or hesitate. Though millions are already arrived, his seat is reserved. Though millions attend, they only multiply his friends and agents.
    Aris 10.48 11 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs, that...I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life;... what it would be I could not determine yet; I must look round me a little and consult my friends...
    PerF 10.79 16 [The manufacturer's] friends dissuaded him, advised him to give up the work...
    PerF 10.80 12 [The prisoner] had no money, he had no friends...
    Chr2 10.120 7 But I, father, says the wise Prahlada, in the Vishnu Purana, know neither friends nor foes, for I behold Kesava in all beings as in my own soul.
    Chr2 10.120 10 [Character] sees that a man's friends and his foes are of his own household, of his own person.
    Edc1 10.135 19 A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike...and all men, though his enemies, are made his friends and obey it as their own.
    Edc1 10.141 4 That stormy genius of [the boy's] needs a little direction to... a correspondence year by year with his wisest and best friends.
    Edc1 10.153 5 ...[the teacher] cannot delight in personal relations with young friends, when his eye is always on the clock...
    Prch 10.221 25 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action, warm-hearted... loving their friends...what are they to...the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation?
    Schr 10.261 18 ...in coming among strange faces we find that the love of letters makes us friends...
    Plu 10.294 3 ...though [Plutarch] found or made friends at Rome...he did not know or learn the Latin language there;...
    Plu 10.294 4 ...though [Plutarch] found or made friends at Rome, and read lectures to some friends or scholars, he did not know or learn the Latin language there;...
    Plu 10.298 17 ...eminently social, [Plutarch]...surrounded himself with select friends...
    Plu 10.313 16 [Plutarch] reminds his friends that the Delphic oracles have given several answers the same in substance as that formerly given to Corax the Naxian: It sounds profane impiety/ To teach that human souls e'er die./
    Plu 10.319 13 If Plutarch...held the balance between the severe Stoic and the indulgent Epicurean, his humanity shines not less in his intercourse with his personal friends.
    LLNE 10.341 10 Some time afterwards Dr. Channing opened his mind to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, and with some care they invited a limited party of ladies and gentlemen. I had the honor to be present. Though I recall the fact, I do not retain...any connection between [this attempt] and the new zeal of the friends who at that time began to be drawn together by sympathy of studies and of aspiration.
    LLNE 10.343 10 ...perhaps those persons who were mutually the best friends were the most private...
    LLNE 10.351 20 The ability and earnestness of the advocate [Fourier] and his friends...commanded our attention and respect.
    LLNE 10.352 3 ...in spite of the assurances of [Fourierism's] friends that it was new and widely discriminated from all other plans for the regeneration of society, we could not exempt it from the criticism which we apply to so many project for reform...
    LLNE 10.362 9 Margaret Fuller...was often a guest [at Brook Farm], and always in correspondence with her friends.
    LLNE 10.369 11 The yeoman [at Brook Farm] saw refined manners in persons who were his friends;...
    EzRy 10.387 9 [Ezra Ripley] used to tell the story of one of his old friends, the minister of Sudbury...
    EzRy 10.390 25 [Ezra Ripley's] friends were his study...
    EzRy 10.393 20 An eminent skill [Ezra Ripley] had...in delivering to a man or a woman that which all their other friends had abstained from saying...
    MMEm 10.398 14 [Lucy Percy] prefers the conversation of men to that of women; not but she can talk on the fashions with her female friends...
    MMEm 10.404 9 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... If I had been in aught but dreary deserts, I should have idolized my friends, despised the world and been haughty.
    MMEm 10.420 11 In 1830...[Mary Moody Emerson] reproaches herself with some sudden passion she has for visiting her old home and friends in the city...
    MMEm 10.420 23 The difficulty of getting places of low board for a lady, is obvious. And, at moments, I [Mary Moody Emerson] am tired out. Yet how independent, how better than to hang on friends!
    MMEm 10.432 10 [Mary Moody Emerson's] friends used to say to her, I wish you joy of the worm.
    MMEm 10.432 14 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's] friends feared they might, at her funeral, not dare to look at each other, lest they should forget the serious proprieties of the hour.
    SlHr 10.438 3 At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to South Carolina...he was repeatedly warned that it was not safe for him...to take his daily walk... unattended by his friends...
    SlHr 10.438 5 [Samuel Hoar] was advised to withdraw to private lodgings [in Charleston], which were eagerly offered him by friends.
    Thor 10.451 24 After completing his experiments [on lead-pencils], [Thoreau] exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston, and having obtained their certificates to its excellence...he returned home contented. His friends congratulated him that he had now opened his way to fortune.
    Thor 10.452 18 ...whilst all his companions were...eager to begin some lucrative employment, it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question, and it required rare decision to...keep his solitary freedom at the cost of disappointing the natural expectations of his family and friends...
    Thor 10.456 15 I love Henry, said one of [Thoreau's] friends, but I cannot like him;...
    Thor 10.458 12 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail. A friend paid the tax for him, and he was released. The like annoyance was threatened the next year. But as his friends paid the tax, notwithstanding his protest, I believe he ceased to resist.
    Thor 10.465 21 Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own cost to the Yellowstone River...
    Thor 10.481 2 [Thoreau's] study of Nature...inspired his friends with curiosity to see the world through his eyes...
    GSt 10.503 25 For himself or his friends [George Stearns] asked no reward;...
    LS 11.7 17 I see natural feeling and beauty in the use of such language from Jesus, a friend to his friends;...
    LS 11.13 1 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than...that what was done with peculiar propriety by them, his personal friends, with less propriety should come to be extended to their companions also.
    LS 11.13 14 There was good reason for [Christ's] personal friends to remember their friend and repeat his words.
    LS 11.14 3 The end which [St. Paul] has in view...is not to enjoin upon his friends to observe the [Lord's] Supper, but to censure their abuse of it.
    LS 11.20 18 My friends, the Apostle well assures us that the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
    HDC 11.50 17 ...this design [the conversion of the Indians] is named first in the printed Considerations, that inclined Hampden, and determined Winthrop and his friends, to come hither [to New England].
    LVB 11.89 13 ...at the instance of a few of my friends and neighbors, I crave of your [Van Buren's] patience a short hearing for their sentiments and my own...
    LVB 11.95 18 ...a letter addressed as mine is [to Van Buren], and suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain obligations of man, has a burlesque character in the apprehensions of some of my friends.
    EWI 11.99 1 Friends and Fellow Citizens: We are met to exchange congratulations on the anniversary of an event singular in the history of civilization;...
    EWI 11.100 2 ...whether by the wisdom of its friends, or by the folly of its adversaries;...[emancipation] goes forward.
    EWI 11.104 25 ...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; the winds blew it all over the world. They who heard it asked their rich and great friends if it was true...
    EWI 11.108 1 [The English Quakers] made friends and raised money for the slave;...
    EWI 11.119 13 ...[Sir Lionel Smith] defended the Baptist preachers and the stipendiary magistrates, who are the negroes' friends [in Jamaica], from the power of the planter.
    EWI 11.130 2 ...I see very poor, very ill-clothed, very ignorant men, not surrounded by happy friends...yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...
    EWI 11.137 24 This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies].
    War 11.163 24 This vast apparatus of artillery,...this martial music and endless playing of marches and singing of military and naval songs 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 11.166 21 ...bayonet and sword must...quite hide themselves...inviting the attendance only of relations and friends;...
    War 11.172 19 I do not wonder at the dislike some of the friends of peace have expressed at Shakspeare.
    FSLC 11.185 3 I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law. And yet here are upright men...husbands, fathers, trustees, friends...who can see nothing in this claim for bare humanity...but canting fanaticism...
    FSLC 11.193 8 ...it is absurd...to accuse the friends of freedom in the North with being the occasion of the new stringency of the Southern slave-laws.
    AsSu 11.248 1 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was challenged in Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends came forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be thought of;...
    AsSu 11.248 4 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was challenged in Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends came forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be thought of; Mr. Webster's life was the property of his friends and of the whole country...
    AsSu 11.249 7 ...in the long time when [Charles Sumner's] election was pending, he refused to take a single step to secure it. He would not so much as go up to the state house to shake hands with this or that person whose good will was reckoned important by his friends.
    AsSu 11.249 11 His friends, I remember, were told that they would find Sumner a man of the world like the rest;...
    AsSu 11.249 25 [Charles Sumner] has gone beyond the large expectation of his friends in his increasing ability and his manlier tone.
    AsSu 11.249 27 I have heard that some of [Charles Sumner's] political friends tax him with indolence or negligence in refusing to make electioneering speeches...
    JBB 11.268 9 [John Brown] is a man to make friends wherever on earth courage and integrity are esteemed...
    JBB 11.269 11 You remember [John Brown's] words: If I had interfered in behalf of...the intelligent, the so-called great, or any of their friends, parents, wives or children, it would all have been right.
    JBB 11.273 1 ...your habeas corpus is, in any way in which it has been, or, I fear, is likely to be used, a nuisance, and not a protection; for it takes away [a man's] right reliance on himself, and the natural assistance of his friends and fellow citizens...
    TPar 11.285 11 In Plutarch's lives of Alexander and Pericles, you have the secret whispers of their confidence to their lovers and trusty friends.
    TPar 11.289 11 One fault [Theodore Parker] had, he overestimated his friends...
    ACiv 11.301 18 ...there is no one owner of the state, but a good many small owners. ... It is clearly a vast inconvenience to each of these to make any change, and they are fretful and talkative, and all their friends are;...
    HCom 11.343 8 ...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite-God knows they had no fury for killing their old friends and countrymen-had its signal and lasting effect.
    SMC 11.350 1 ...it is a piece of nature and the common sense that the throbbing chord that holds us to our kindred, our friends and our town, is not to be denied or resisted...
    SMC 11.361 27 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first point, he...urges their correspondence with their friends;...
    EdAd 11.393 3 ...a few friends of good letters have thought fit to associate themselves for the conduct of a new journal.
    EdAd 11.393 23 We rely on the talents and industry of good men known to us, but much more on the magnetism of truth, which is multiplying and educating advocates for itself and friends for us.
    SHC 11.429 1 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together...
    ChiE 11.474 7 [Asian immigrants] send back to their friends, in China, money, new products of art...
    FRO1 11.479 27 What strikes me in the sudden movement which brings together to-day so many separated friends...was some practical suggestions by which we were to reanimate and reorganize for ourselves the true Church...
    CPL 11.503 18 There is no hour of vexation which on a little reflection will not find diversion and relief in the library. His companions are few: at the moment, he has none: but, year by year, these silent friends supply their place.
    CPL 11.503 21 Many times the reading of a book has made the fortune of the man,-has decided his way of life. It makes friends.
    FRep 11.516 6 ...when the adventurers [to America] have planted themselves and looked about, they send back all the money they can spare to bring their friends.
    II 12.67 27 Objection and loud denial not less prove the reality and conquests of an idea than the friends and advocates it finds.
    II 12.88 7 The Buddhist who finds gods masked in all his friends and enemies...is calm.
    Mem 12.91 11 [Memory] holds us to our family, to our friends.
    CInt 12.120 24 You, gentlemen, are...set apart through some strong persuasion of your own, or of your friends, that you were capable of the high privilege of thought.
    CInt 12.131 12 ...the men and women of your time, the circle of your friends and employers...are the interrogators.
    CL 12.156 25 The mountains in the horizon acquaint us with finer relations to our friends than any we sustain.
    MAng1 12.242 3 In conversing upon this subject [death] with one of his friends, that person remarked that Michael [Angelo] might well grieve that one who was incessant in his creative labors should have no restoration.
    Pray 12.352 16 When I go to visit my friends, I must put on my best garments...
    Pray 12.354 11 And next in value, which thy kindness lends,/ That I may greatly disappoint my friends,/ Howe'er they think or hope that it may be,/ They may not dream how thou'st distinguished me./
    Let 12.394 13 [The correspondents] are willing to work, so it be with friends.
    Let 12.394 22 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 12.396 19 ...it would be unjust not to remind our younger friends that whilst this aspiration [to improve society] has always made its mark in the lives of men of thought, in vigorous individuals it does not remain a detached object...
    Let 12.397 3 The loneliest man, after twenty years, discovers that he stood in a circle of friends...
    Trag 12.408 26 After we have enumerated...mutilation, rack, madness and loss of friends, we have not yet included the proper tragic element, which is Terror...
    Trag 12.416 12 Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature seems to have calculated that I should have great reverses to endure, for she has given me a temperament like a block of marble.

Friends, n. (1)

    FRO2 11.485 1 Friends: I wish I could deserve anything of the kind expression of my friend, the President [of the Free Religious Association], and the kind good will which the audience signifies...

friend's, n. (4)

    SR 2.56 4 The by-standers look askance on [the nonconformist]...in the friend's parlor.
    Fdsp 2.209 20 Are you the friend of your friend's buttons, or of his thought?
    ET16 5.273 20 The fine weather and my friend's [Carlyle's] local knowledge of Hampshire...made the way short.
    F 6.24 19 Go face...the cholera in your friend's house...knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny.

Friends of Universal Reform (1)

    CSC 10.373 2 In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled in the Chardon Street Chapel in Boston...

friendship, n. (89)

    DSA 1.131 3 ...the language that describes Christ...is not the style of friendship...
    Con 1.303 21 ...[the existing world] has...a long friendship and cohabitation with the powers of nature.
    Tran 1.346 19 ...in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense.
    Tran 1.347 15 [Transcendentalists] feel that they are never so fit for friendship as when they have quitted mankind...
    Hist 2.6 10 Property also holds of the soul... The obscure consciousness of this fact is...the foundation of friendship and love...
    Lov1 2.179 11 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? ... It is destroyed for the imagination by any attempt to refer it to organization. Nor does it point to any relations of friendship or love known and described in society...
    Fdsp 2.189 20 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ .../ The fountains of my hidden life/ Are through thy friendship fair./
    Fdsp 2.196 5 Friendship...is too good to be believed.
    Fdsp 2.196 9 ...in the golden hour of friendship we are surprised with shades of suspicion and unbelief.
    Fdsp 2.198 10 ...every man passes his life in the search after friendship...
    Fdsp 2.199 3 The laws of friendship are austere and eternal...
    Fdsp 2.199 25 After interviews have been compassed with long foresight we must be tormented presently...by epilepsies of wit and of animal spirits, in the heydey of friendship and thought.
    Fdsp 2.202 11 There are two elements that go to the composition of friendship...
    Fdsp 2.204 13 The other element of friendship is tenderness.
    Fdsp 2.205 2 I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence.
    Fdsp 2.205 18 I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.
    Fdsp 2.205 24 The end of friendship is a commerce the most strict and homely that can be joined;...
    Fdsp 2.206 12 Friendship may be said to require natures so rare and costly... that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured.
    Fdsp 2.207 1 ...I find this law of one to one peremptory for conversation, which is the practice and consummation of friendship.
    Fdsp 2.208 12 Friendship requires that rare mean betwixt likeness and unlikeness that piques each with the presence of power and of consent in the other party.
    Fdsp 2.208 25 The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
    Fdsp 2.209 12 Friendship demands a religious treatment.
    Fdsp 2.211 23 What is so great as friendship, let us carry with what grandeur of spirit we can.
    Fdsp 2.213 1 The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood.
    Fdsp 2.213 14 Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons...
    Fdsp 2.213 15 Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be.
    Fdsp 2.216 8 It has seemed to me lately more possible than I knew, to carry a friendship greatly, on one side, without due correspondence on the other.
    Fdsp 2.217 2 The essence of friendship is entireness...
    Prd1 2.237 5 ...frankness...puts the parties on a convenient footing and makes their business a friendship.
    Exp 3.56 20 ...thou wert born to a whole and this story is a particular? The reason of the pain this discovery causes us...is the plaint of tragedy which murmurs from it in regard to persons, to friendship and love.
    Exp 3.74 26 If I am not at the meeting, my presence where I am should be as useful to the commonwealth of friendship and wisdom, as would be my presence in that place.
    Exp 3.77 6 The great and crescive self...ruins the kingdom of mortal friendship and love.
    Chr1 3.111 20 ...when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor...it should be a festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol...
    Mrs1 3.142 2 Parliamentary history has few better passages than the debate in which Burke and Fox separated in the House of Commons; when Fox urged on his old friend the claims of old friendship with such tenderness that the house was moved to tears.
    Mrs1 3.153 8 ...the advantages which fashion values are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets namely. Out of this precinct they...are of no use...in friendship...
    NER 3.264 25 Friendship and association are very fine things...
    NER 3.265 3 [One man], in his friendship...doubles or multiplies himself;...
    UGM 4.15 3 What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?
    SwM 4.101 1 ...[Swedenborg] seems to have kept the friendship of men in power.
    ShP 4.209 12 Who ever read the volume of [Shakespeare's] Sonnets without finding that the poet had there revealed...the lore of friendship and of love;...
    NMW 4.254 24 Friendship is but a name [said Napoleon].
    ET6 5.106 5 If [an Englishman] give you his private address on a card, it is like an avowal of friendship;...
    ET11 5.187 17 Every one who has tasted the delight of friendship will respect every social guard which our manners can establish...
    ET19 5.311 15 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that habit of friendship...running through all classes...
    Wth 6.124 8 Friendship buys friendship;...
    Ctr 6.157 2 We four, wrote Neander to his sacred friends, will enjoy at Halle the inward blessedness of a civitas Dei, whose foundations are forever friendship.
    Bhr 6.187 14 Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects...
    Bhr 6.187 16 Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
    Bhr 6.192 19 'T is a French definition of friendship, rien que s'entendre, good understanding.
    Bhr 6.193 16 ...it is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character.
    Bhr 6.194 26 I am sorry, replies Napoleon [to his brother Joseph], you think you shall find your brother again only in the Elysian Fields. It is natural that at forty he should not feel toward you as he did at twelve. But his feelings toward you have greater truth and strength. His friendship has the features of his mind.
    Wsp 6.236 7 If [the thought] can spare me [said Benedict], I am sure I can spare it. It shall be the same with my friends. I will never woo the loveliest. I will not ask any friendship or favor.
    CbW 6.247 9 Sydney Smith said, A few yards in London cement or dissolve friendship.
    CbW 6.272 19 Add [to conversation] the consent of will and temperament, and there exists the covenant of friendship.
    CbW 6.273 8 ...few writers have said anything better to this point [of friendship] than Hafiz...Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship...
    CbW 6.273 10 Neither is life long enough for friendship.
    CbW 6.273 14 There is a pudency about friendship as about love...
    CbW 6.273 16 With the first class of men our friendship or good understanding goes quite behind all accidents of estrangement...
    Ill 6.323 6 I prefer...to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry and art.
    DL 7.122 1 [Lord Falkland's] house being within little more than ten miles from Oxford, he contracted familiarity and friendship with the most polite and accurate men of that University...
    DL 7.129 17 ...he will have learned the lesson of life who is skilful in the ethics of friendship.
    Boks 7.219 12 Friendship should give and take...[the communications of the sacred books].
    SA 8.89 4 ...we want friendship;...
    Elo2 8.124 9 ...in your struggles with the world, should a crisis ever occur when even friendship may deem it prudent to desert you...seek refuge...in the precepts and example of Him whose law is love...
    Elo2 8.124 14 ...in your struggles with the world...seek refuge...in the friendship of Laelius and Scipio...
    PPo 8.258 12 Friendship is a favorite topic of the Eastern poets...
    PPo 8.258 16 Hafiz says,-Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship...
    Chr2 10.103 10 [The moral sentiment] is not only insight...or an entertainment, as friendship and poetry are; but it is a sovereign rule...
    Edc1 10.141 4 Friendship is an order of nobility;...
    Edc1 10.144 6 Be...the friend of [the child's] friendship...
    SovE 10.213 1 To [innocence] alone comes true friendship;...
    LLNE 10.341 23 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation. With them was always...a man quite too cold and contemplative for the alliances of friendship...
    LLNE 10.343 27 ...[The Dial] was rather a work of friendship among the narrow circle of students than the organ of any party.
    MMEm 10.398 8 [Lucy Percy] is of too high a mind and dignity not only to seek, but almost to wish, the friendship of any creature.
    MMEm 10.408 1 [Mary Moody Emerson's] nephew [C. C. Emerson] wrote of her: I am glad the friendship with Aunt Mary is ripening.
    MMEm 10.419 10 It was His will that gives my [Mary Moody Emerson's] superiors to shine in wisdom, friendship, and ardent pursuits...
    MMEm 10.420 8 Better anything than dishonest dependence, which... despoils friendship of equal connection.
    Thor 10.478 8 A truth-speaker [Thoreau]...a friend, knowing not only the secret of friendship, but almost worshipped by those few persons who resorted to him as their confessor and prophet...
    LS 11.20 3 I will love [Jesus] as a glorified friend, after the free way of friendship...
    HDC 11.31 22 Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.
    EdAd 11.390 11 As soon as men have tasted the enjoyment of learning, friendship and virtue, for which the State exists, the prizes of office appear polluted...
    SHC 11.432 3 What work of man will compare with the plantation of a park? It dignifies life. It is a seat for friendship, counsel, taste and religion.
    SHC 11.432 22 ...I have heard it said here that we would gladly spend for a park for the living, but not for a cemetery; a garden for the living, a home of thought and friendship.
    SHC 11.436 17 Life is not long enough for art, nor long enough for friendship.
    FRO1 11.481 1 I wish...that within this little band that has gathered here to-day [Free Religious Association], should grow friendship.
    FRO2 11.489 27 ...in sound frame of mind, we read or remember the religious sayings and oracles of other men, whether Jew or Indian, or Greek or Persian, only for friendship...
    FRep 11.536 19 ...it is in the interest of civilization and good society and friendship, that I dread to hear of well-born, gifted and amiable men, that they have this indifference, disposing them to this despair.
    FRep 11.539 3 Here is the post where the patriot should plant himself; here the altar where virtuous young men, those to whom friendship is the dearest covenant, should bind each other to loyalty;...
    Let 12.396 26 To live solitary and unexpressed is...painful in proportion to one's consciousness of ripeness and equality to the offices of friendship.

Friendship, n. (3)

    MN 1.214 9 Does the sunset landscape seem to you the place of Friendship... It is that.
    Prd1 2.221 22 ...it would be hardly honest in me not to balance these fine lyric words of Love and Friendship with words of coarser sound...
    DL 7.129 11 ...perhaps Love is only the highest symbol of Friendship...

Friendship [Plutarch], n. (1)

    Plu 10.315 15 [Plutarch] has a tenderness almost to tears when he writes on Friendship...

friendships, n. (15)

    LE 1.187 11 [Thought] will bring you friendships.
    MN 1.220 16 How our friendships and the complaisances we use, shame us now!
    Fdsp 2.198 26 Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions...
    Fdsp 2.201 10 I do not wish to treat friendships daintily...
    OS 2.285 23 The intercourse of society...its friendships...is one wide judicial investigation of character.
    SwM 4.128 6 ...of progressive souls, all loves and friendships are [to Swedenborg] momentary.
    Ctr 6.160 9 ...the presence of mountains...elevates our friendships.
    SS 7.8 18 We begin with friendships...
    DL 7.110 25 The household, the calling, the friendships, of the citizen are not homogeneous.
    Plu 10.300 12 Montaigne, whilst he grasps Etienne de la Boece with one hand, reaches back the other to Plutarch. These distant friendships charm us...
    LLNE 10.343 7 As these persons became in the common chances of society acquainted with each other, there resulted certainly strong friendships...
    LLNE 10.363 1 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment not with the elders or his exact contemporaries so much as with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting; forming the closest friendships with such...
    LLNE 10.364 20 There is agreement in the testimony that [Brook Farm] was...to many, the most important period of their life, the birth of valued friendships...
    FRO1 11.480 9 What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred friendships between heroes...
    WSL 12.346 13 [Landor] has no clanship, no friendships that warp him.

friends's, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.195 20 I must feel pride in my friends's accomplishments...

Fries, Elias Magnus, n. (1)

    UGM 4.9 6 Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of nature, whose agent and interpreter he is; as...Fries, of lichens;...

Friese, Captain, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.144 5 ...here is Captain Friese, from Cape Turnagain;...

friezes, n. (1)

    Hist 2.16 8 There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

frigate, n. (1)

    Tran 1.358 22 ...the storm-tossed vessel at sea speaks the frigate or line packet to learn its longitude...

frigates, n. (2)

    ET8 5.131 20 [The English] are good...at boarding frigates...
    War 11.163 8 We have all grown up in the sight of frigates and navy-yards...

Frigga, n. (2)

    Wom 11.406 4 Among our Norse ancestors, Frigga was worshipped as the goddess of women.
    Wom 11.406 6 Weirdes all, said the Edda, Frigga knoweth, though she telleth them never.

fright, n. (2)

    Res 8.147 5 When a man is once possessed with fear, said the old French Marshal Montluc, and loses his judgment, as all men in a fright do, he knows not what he does.
    Trag 12.411 5 ...a terror of freezing to death that seizes a man in a winter midnight on the moors; a fright at uncertain sounds heard by a family at night in the cellar or on the stairs...are no tragedy...

fright, v. (1)

    Exp 3.78 20 ...[murder] does not unsettle [the murderer] or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles;...

frighted, v. (2)

    Ctr 6.161 1 The orator who has once seen things in their divine order...will come to affairs as from a higher ground, and...he will have...an incapableness of being dazzled or frighted...
    EzRy 10.385 13 16th May [1735] [Joseph Emerson wrote]: My wife and I rode together to Rumney Marsh. The beast frighted several times.

frighten, v. (2)

    NMW 4.249 12 You see [said Napoleon] that two armies are two bodies which meet and endeavor to frighten each other;...
    Schr 10.286 24 Dissuade all you can from the lists [of scholarship]. Sift the wheat, frighten away the lighter souls.

frightened, v. (3)

    Cour 7.258 17 ...I remember when a pair of Irish girls who had been run away with in a wagon by a skittish horse, said that when he began to rear, they were so frightened that they could not see the horse.
    EzRy 10.384 24 Then again, May 5th [1735, Joseph Emerson writes]: Went to the beach with three of the children. The beast, being frightened when we were all out of the shay, overturned and broke it.
    Carl 10.491 3 Forster of Rawdon described to me a dinner at the table d' hote of some provincial hotel where he carried Carlyle, and where an Irish canon had uttered something. Carlyle began to talk, first to the waiters, and then to the walls, and then, lastly, unmistakably to the priest, in a manner that frightened the whole company.

frightful, adj. (14)

    Tran 1.349 27 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found that from the liberal professions to the coarsest manual labor...there is a spirit of cowardly compromise and seeming which intimates a frightful skepticism...
    Hsm1 2.250 16 ...pleasantly and as it were merrily [the hero] advances to his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.
    ET5 5.90 11 The high civil and legal offices [in England] are...posts which exact frightful amounts of mental labor.
    ET13 5.229 25 George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies] the Apostles' Creed in Romany. When I had concluded, he says, I looked around me. The features of the assembly were twisted, and the eyes of all turned upon me with a frightful squint;...
    Farm 7.151 1 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma...that men multiply in a geometrical ratio, whilst corn multiplies only in an arithmetical; and hence that, the more prosperous we are, the faster we approach these frightful limits...
    Cour 7.274 18 ...the rack is not frightful...
    Cour 7.279 8 I say unarmed [the hunter] stood./ Against those frightful paws/ The rifle butt, or club of wood,/ Could stand no more than straws./
    Dem1 10.8 24 In dreams I see [Rupert] engaged in certain actions which seem...out of all fitness. He is hostile...he is frightful...
    Edc1 10.130 15 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark, a luminous patch...but because he acquires thereby a majestic sense of power;...and finding and carrying their law in his mind, can, as it were, see his simple idea realized up yonder in...frightful periods of duration.
    Edc1 10.153 23 ...there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind and to govern by steam. But it is at frightful cost.
    Prch 10.221 15 Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is without God in the world.
    MMEm 10.424 6 [Time] Hasten to finish thy motley work, on which frightful Gorgons are at play...
    EWI 11.110 17 In consequence of the dangers of the [slave] trade growing out of the act of abolition, ships were built...with a frightful disregard of the comfort of the victims they were destined to transport.
    CL 12.137 17 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle, which died by some frightful distemper...

frightfully, adv. (2)

    ET10 5.170 3 A part of the money earned [in England] returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists with; and a part to repair the wrongs of this intemperate weaving, by hospitals, savings-banks, Mechanics' Institutes, public grounds, and other charities and amenities. But the antidotes are frightfully inadequate...
    Wth 6.91 10 ...when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic capitals, the habit of expense...he feels that when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished;...

frigid, adj. (1)

    OS 2.288 26 [Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, Milton] seem frigid and phlegmatic to those who have been spiced with the frantic passion and violent coloring of inferior but popular writers.

frigidities, n. (1)

    Suc 7.310 2 ...I seek one who shall make me forget or overcome the frigidities and imbecilities into which I fall.

fringe, n. (2)

    YA 1.365 7 The task of surveying, planting, and building upon this immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate thereto. A consciousness of this fact is beginning to take the place of the purely trading spirit and education which sprang up whilst all the population lived on the fringe of sea-coast.
    Grts 8.315 5 Depth of intellect relieves even the ink of crime with a fringe of light.

frippery, adj. (1)

    Ill 6.315 20 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hung it round with frippery romance...

frippery, n. (1)

    Mem 12.106 21 [The bright school-girl's] is a bushel-basket memory of all unchosen knowledge...so that an old scholar, who knows what to do with a memory, is full of wonder and pity that this magical force should be squandered on such frippery.

Frisians, n. (1)

    ET4 5.52 3 ...[the English character] is not so much a history of one or of certain tribes of Saxons, Jutes, or Frisians...

frisks, v. (1)

    Pt1 3.12 18 Oftener it falls that this winged man, who will carry me into the heaven...leaps and frisks about with me as it were from cloud to cloud...

frivolities, n. (1)

    YA 1.392 2 ...after all the deduction is made for our frivolities and insanities, there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...

frivolity, n. (6)

    Tran 1.347 9 With this passion for what is great and extraordinary, it cannot be wondered at that [Transcendentalists] are repelled by vulgarity and frivolity in people.
    Exp 3.82 9 A preoccupied attention is the only answer to the importunate frivolity of other people;...
    Nat2 3.177 19 Frivolity is a most unfit tribute to Pan...
    NER 3.279 6 ...in spite of selfishness and frivolity, the general purpose in the great number of persons is fidelity.
    Art2 7.51 27 The galleries of ancient sculpture in Naples and Rome strike no deeper conviction into the mind than the contrast of the purity, the severity expressed in these fine old heads, with the frivolity and grossness of the mob that exhibits and the mob that gazes at them.
    Schr 10.287 8 [The scholar] has not consented to the frivolity, nor to the dispersion.

frivolous, adj. (48)

    Nat 1.4 16 ...speculative men are esteemed unsound and frivolous.
    DSA 1.143 22 Literature becomes frivolous.
    LE 1.176 6 ...out of our shallow and frivolous way of life, how can greatness ever grow?
    LT 1.280 6 ...how frivolous is your war against circumstances.
    Con 1.312 18 It is frivolous to say you have no acre, because you have not a mathematically measured piece of land.
    Tran 1.346 3 We easily predict a fair future to each new candidate who enters the lists, but we are frivolous and volatile...
    Fdsp 2.205 22 I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter by a frivolous display...
    Fdsp 2.212 4 There are innumerable degrees of folly and wisdom, and for you to say aught is to be frivolous.
    OS 2.297 11 [Man] will cease from what is base and frivolous in his life...
    Art1 2.364 21 ...there is a moment when [the art gallery] becomes frivolous.
    Exp 3.82 11 A preoccupied attention is the only answer to the importunate frivolity of other people; an attention, and to an aim which makes their wants frivolous.
    Chr1 3.99 18 Society is frivolous...
    Mrs1 3.121 4 Frivolous and fantastic additions have got associated with the name [gentleman]...
    Mrs1 3.127 15 Thus grows up Fashion...the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous...
    Mrs1 3.130 18 The objects of fashion may be frivolous, or fashion may be objectless, but the nature of this union and selection can be neither frivolous nor accidental.
    Mrs1 3.130 20 The objects of fashion may be frivolous, or fashion may be objectless, but the nature of this union and selection can be neither frivolous nor accidental.
    Nat2 3.177 21 I would not be frivolous before the admirable reserve and prudence of time...
    NER 3.268 7 We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people who make up society, are organic...
    ShP 4.202 23 A popular player;--nobody suspected [Shakespeare] was the poet of the human race; and the secret was kept as faithfully from poets and intellectual men as from courtiers and frivolous people.
    ET7 5.122 14 [Englishmen] hate the French, as frivolous;...
    ET8 5.128 15 [The English] are...not so easily amused as the southerners, and are among them as grown people among children, requiring war, or trade...instead of frivolous games.
    ET11 5.187 20 Every one who has tasted the delight of friendship will respect every social guard which our manners can establish, tending to secure from the intrusion of frivolous and distasteful people.
    F 6.17 13 'T is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions.
    Bhr 6.172 26 Society is infested with rude, cynical, restless and frivolous persons...
    Bhr 6.173 14 I have seen...the frivolous Asmodeus, who relies on you to find him in ropes of sand to twist;...
    CbW 6.264 2 ...as far as I had observed [the sick and dying] were as frivolous as the rest...
    CbW 6.264 3 ...as far as I had observed [the sick and dying] were as frivolous as the rest, and sometimes much more frivolous.
    CbW 6.269 19 What is incurable but a frivolous habit?
    Bty 6.283 1 We are just so frivolous and skeptical.
    Civ 7.33 9 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which...elevate the rule of life. In the presence of these agencies it is frivolous to insist on the invention of printing or gunpowder...
    PI 8.56 19 Newton may be permitted...to wonder at the frivolous taste for rhymers...
    Grts 8.311 12 He can toil terribly, said Cecil of Sir Walter Raleigh. These few words sting and bite and lash us when we are frivolous.
    Imtl 8.348 10 How ill agrees this majestical immortality of our religion with the frivolous population!
    Chr2 10.109 9 Mankind at large always resemble frivolous children;...
    SovE 10.203 25 ...our later generation appears ungirt, frivolous, compared with the religions of the last or Calvinist age.
    SovE 10.210 24 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another...the respect he feels for one who thinks life is quite too coarse and frivolous...
    MoL 10.244 22 Now it is agreed...that we are skeptical, frivolous;...
    MoL 10.255 23 We should see in [the work of art] the great belief of the artist, which caused him to make it so as he did, and not otherwise; nothing frivolous...
    Schr 10.267 4 Young men, I warn you against the clamors of these self-praising frivolous activities,-against these busy-bodies;...
    MMEm 10.432 22 It is frivolous to ask,-And was [Mary Moody Emerson] ever a Christian in practice?
    MMEm 10.432 24 Cassandra uttered, to a frivolous, skeptical time, the arcana of the Gods...
    LS 11.3 8 Without considering the frivolous questions which have been lately debated as to the posture in which men should partake of [the Lord's Supper];...the questions have been settled differently in every church...
    AsSu 11.247 14 In [the slave state]...man is an animal, given to pleasure, frivolous, irritable...
    TPar 11.292 5 Ah, my brave brother [Theodore Parker]! it seems as if, in a frivolous age, our loss were immense...
    ALin 11.330 12 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...no frivolous accomplishments...
    SMC 11.350 3 ...it is a piece of nature and the common sense that the throbbing chord that holds us to our kindred, our friends and our town, is not to be denied or resisted,-no matter how frivolous or unphilosophical its pulses...
    CL 12.165 22 If we believed that Nature was...some rock on which souls wandering in the Universe were shipwrecked, we should think all exploration of it frivolous waste of time.
    MLit 12.336 2 Religion will bind again these that were sometime frivolous, customary, enemies...

frivolous, n. (5)

    Nat 1.48 11 The frivolous make themselves merry with the Ideal theory...
    Exp 3.61 13 The coarse and frivolous have an instinct of superiority...
    Bhr 6.188 13 People masquerade before us...as...senators, or professors, or great lawyers, and impose on the frivolous...by these fames.
    Clbs 7.237 5 ...though they know that there is in the speaker a degree...of insincerity and of talking for victory, yet...habitual reverence for principles over talent or learning, is felt by the frivolous.
    Chr2 10.98 10 ...I may easily speak of that adorable nature, there where only I behold it in my dim experiences, in such terms as shall seem to the frivolous...as profane.

fro, adv. (2)

    Lov1 2.176 14 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when all business seemed an impertinence, and all the men and women running to and fro in the streets, mere pictures.
    EzRy 10.386 10 [Ezra Ripley's] prayers...against sickness and insanity; that we have not been tossed to and fro until the dawning of the day...are well remembered...

frock, n. (3)

    Art1 2.349 13 So shall the drudge in dusty frock/ Spy behind the city clock/ Retinues of airy kings,/ Skirts of angels, starry wings/...
    ET2 5.30 17 ...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port... having no money and wishing to go to England. The sailors have dressed him in Guernsey frock, with a knife in his belt...
    AgMs 12.358 9 This man [Edmund Hosmer] always impresses me with respect, he is...so disdainful of all appearances; excellent and reverable in his old weather-worn cap and blue frock...

frocks, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.217 13 The gladiators in the lists of power feel, through all their frocks of force and simulation, the presence of worth.

frog, n. (1)

    Thor 10.467 3 ...the turtle, frog, hyla and cricket, which make the banks [of the Concord River] vocal,-were all known to [Thoreau]...

Frog Pond, Boston Massachu [Frog] (2)

    Elo2 8.127 15 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned...
    Elo2 8.127 23 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed, and in his prayer he hesitated...he implored the Divine Being to--to--to bless to them all the boy that was this morning drowned in Frog Pond.

frogs, n. (2)

    Fdsp 2.216 18 ...thou art enlarged by thy own shining, and no longer a mate for frogs and worms, dost soar and burn with the gods of the empyrean.
    MLit 12.309 17 We go musing into the vault of day and night;...frogs pipe, mice cheep, and wagons creak along the road.

Froissart, Jean, n. (2)

    ET8 5.127 12 This trait of gloom has been fixed on [the English] by French travellers, who, from Froissart, Voltaire, Le Sage, Mirabeau, down to the lively journalists of the feuilletons, have spent their wit on the solemnity of their neighbors.
    ET8 5.128 19 [The English] sported sadly; ils s'amusaient tristement, selon la coutume de leur pays, said Froissart;...

Froissart's, Jean, n. (1)

    Boks 7.208 23 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles; Southey's Chronicle of the Cid;...

frolic, adj. (7)

    Tran 1.356 26 [The Transcendentalist] is braced-up and stilted;...all sallies of wit and frolic nature are quite out of the question;...
    Hist 2.34 12 All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve.
    ET1 5.4 23 The conditions of literary success...do not leave that frolic liberty which only can encounter a companion on the best terms.
    Ctr 6.164 5 Who wishes to resist the eminent and polite, in behalf of the poor, and low, and impolite? And who that dares do it can keep...his frolic spirits?
    Clbs 7.248 20 Herrick's verses to Ben Jonson no doubt paint the fact:-- When we such clusters had/ As made us nobly wild, not mad;/ And yet, each verse of thine/ Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine./
    Suc 7.306 13 ...the oracles are never silent; but the receiver must by a happy temperance be brought to...that frolic health, that he can easily take and give these fine communications.
    PI 8.40 11 [The writer's] work needs a frolic health;...

frolic, n. (4)

    Nat 1.11 10 ...the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs is overspread with melancholy to-day.
    Gts 3.159 24 ...these delicate flowers look like the frolic and interference of love and beauty.
    ET4 5.58 27 Another pair [of Norse kings] ride out on a morning for a frolic, and finding no weapon near, will take the bits out of their horses' mouths and crush each other's heads with them...
    Boks 7.213 13 The novel is that allowance and frolic the imagination finds.

frolic, v. (1)

    Pt1 3.11 15 Talent may frolic and juggle;...

frolicking, v. (1)

    Hsm1 2.256 25 Simple hearts...would appear, could we see the human race assembled in vision, like little children frolicking together...

frolics, n. (2)

    YA 1.377 3 ...[the nobles'] frolics turn out to be insulting and degrading to the commoner.
    ET8 5.132 11 [Young Englishmen]...run into absurd frolics with the gravity of the Eumenides.

front, n. (24)

    LT 1.260 9 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...
    Comp 2.115 25 The league between virtue and nature engages all things to assume a hostile front to vice.
    Hsm1 2.249 3 Seen from the nook and chimney-side of prudence, [life] wears a ragged and dangerous front.
    Mrs1 3.135 5 Does it not seem as if man...dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?
    UGM 4.15 16 [The people] delight in a man. Here is a head and a trunk! What a front!...
    MoS 4.177 11 What front can we make against these unavoidable, victorious, maleficent forces?
    ET1 5.3 18 ...the public and private buildings wore a more native and wonted front.
    ET2 5.32 20 ...I think the white path of an Atlantic ship the right avenue to the palace front of this seafaring people [the English]...
    ET4 5.67 9 The fair Saxon man, with open front and honest meaning...is not the wood out of which cannibal, or inquisitor, or assassin is made...
    ET13 5.215 8 In seeing old castles and cathedrals, I sometimes say, as to-day in front of Dundee Church tower...This was built by another and a better race than any that now look on it.
    CbW 6.253 13 In front of these sinister facts, the first lesson of history is the good of evil.
    Cour 7.252 2 Peril around, all else appalling,/ Cannon in front and leaden rain,/ Him duty, through the clarion calling/ To the van, called not in vain./
    MoL 10.244 12 See the activity of the imagination in the Crusades: the front of morn was full of fiery shapes;...
    MoL 10.253 11 There is a proverb that Napoleon, when the Mameluke cavalry approached the French lines, ordered the grenadiers to the front, and the asses and the savans to fall into the hollow square.
    MMEm 10.401 17 Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm] was sold, and its price invested in a share of a farm in Maine, where she lived as a boarder with her sister, for many years. It was...within sight of the White Mountains, with a little lake in front at the foot of a high hill called Bear Mountain.
    HCom 11.344 18 These [Harvard] men...were always in the front and always employed.
    SMC 11.368 21 On the second of July [the Thirty-second Regiment] had to cross the famous wheat-field, under fire from the rebels in front and on both flanks.
    SMC 11.371 19 The [Thirty-second] regiment has been in the front and centre since the battle begun...
    SMC 11.373 2 Early in the morning of the eighteenth [the Thirty-second Regiment] went to the front...
    SMC 11.373 8 ...[George Prescott] was struck, in front of his command, by a musket-ball...
    PLT 12.15 19 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...carrying its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes. To this sea every human house has a water front.
    PLT 12.57 3 If a man show...bold front in the forum or senate, people clap their hands without asking more.
    CW 12.173 22 ...there is happiness all the year round to be had from the square fruit-gardens which we plant in the front or rear of every farmhouse.
    Milt1 12.274 11 [Milton] beholds [man] as he walked in Eden:-His fair large front and eye sublime declared/ Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks/ Round from his parted forelock manly hung/ Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad./

front, v. (6)

    Prd1 2.237 14 Let [a man] front the object of his worst apprehension...
    OS 2.297 13 [Man] will calmly front the morrow in the negligency of that trust which carries God with it...
    ET13 5.228 17 The English Church, undermined by German criticism...was led logically back to Romanism. But that was an element which only hot heads could breathe: in view of the educated class, generally, it was not a fact to front the sun;...
    MMEm 10.397 4 The yesterday doth never smile,/ To-day goes drudging through the while,/ Yet in the name of Godhead, I/ The morrow front and can defy;/ Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed,/ Cannot withhold his conquering aid./
    EWI 11.102 10 ...the secrets of slaughter-houses and infamous holes that cannot front the day, must be ransacked, to tell what negro slavery has been.
    EdAd 11.390 21 Can [a journal] front this matter of Socialism...and dispose of that question?

fronted, v. (1)

    DL 7.101 7 Five rosy boys with morning light/ Had leaped from one fair mother's arms,/ Fronted the sun with hope as bright,/ And greeted God with childhood's psalms./

frontier, adj. (1)

    TPar 11.290 1 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over...the robbery of frontier nations...it is a hypocrisy...

frontier, n. (3)

    F 6.41 4 Ducks take to the water...soldiers to the frontier.
    Civ 7.21 23 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier.
    SovE 10.183 22 ...this self-help and self-creation [in plants and animals] proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design,-works in a lobster or a mite-worm as a wise man would if imprisoned in that poor form. 'T is the effort of God...in the extremest frontier of his universe.

frontiers, n. (2)

    Pol1 3.202 12 Laban, who has flocks and herds, wishes them looked after by an officer on the frontiers...
    QO 8.186 25 There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers, Gyge's Ring...whose omnipresence only indicates how easily a good story crosses all frontiers.

frontiersman, n. (2)

    Cour 7.257 27 A large majority of men...never come to the rough experiences that make the Indian, the soldier or frontiersman self-subsistent and fearless.
    Cour 7.263 18 ...the frontiersman [loses fear], when he has a perfect rifle and has acquired a sure aim.

fronting, v. (2)

    Chr1 3.92 16 In the new objects we recognize the old game, the habit of fronting the fact...
    ALin 11.328 23 Nothing of Europe here,/ Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward still,/ Ere any names of Serf and Peer/ Could Nature's equal scheme deface;/...

frontispiece, n. (1)

    ET10 5.158 16 The Life of Sir Robert Peel...very properly has, for a frontispiece, a drawing of the spinning-jenny...

Fronto, Marcus Cornelius, n (1)

    CbW 6.260 2 Marcus Antoninus says that Fronto told him that the so-called high-born are for the most part heartless;...

fronts, v. (1)

    Mrs1 3.134 17 I may go into a cottage, and find a farmer who feels that he is the man I have come to see, and fronts me accordingly.

Frost, Barzillai, n. (2)

    EzRy 10.388 20 When Put Merriam...had the effrontery to call on the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] as an old acquaintance, in the midst of general conversation Mr. Frost came in...
    EzRy 10.388 22 ...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam, my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me.

frost, n. (28)

    Nat 1.18 6 ...every withered stem and stubble rimed with frost, contribute something to the mute music.
    MN 1.197 12 ...our arm is no more as strong as the frost...
    MR 1.238 12 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies, as...a road by rain and frost;...
    Pol1 3.208 18 We might as wisely reprove the east wind or the frost, as a political party...
    MoS 4.174 16 Bad as was to me this detection by San Carlo [that all direct ascension leads to ghastly insight], this frost in July...there was still a worse, namely the cloy or satiety of the saints.
    ET2 5.31 7 The water-laws, arctic frost, the mountain, the mine, only shatter cockneyism;...
    F 6.7 26 The cholera, the small-pox, have proved as mortal to some tribes as a frost to the crickets...
    F 6.19 3 Famine, typhus, frost, war, suicide and effete races must be reckoned calculable parts of the system of the world.
    Wth 6.101 26 [The farmer] knows how much land [his dollar] represents;-- how much rain, frost and sunshine.
    Ctr 6.154 13 To a man at work, the frost is but a color;...
    CbW 6.254 14 The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvests of a century...
    Civ 7.21 18 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay. He is safe from the teeth of wild animals, from frost, sun-stroke and weather;...
    Art2 7.54 21 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any stone wall, on a fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone which have resisted the action of frost and water which has decomposed the rest.
    Elo1 7.79 20 ...there are men of the most peaceful way of life and peaceful principle, who are felt wherever they go, as sensibly as a July sun or a December frost...
    DL 7.105 25 ...the rain, the ice, the frost, make epochs in [the child's] life.
    Farm 7.135 9 [Farmers] turn the frost upon their chemic heap/...
    Farm 7.142 26 Who are the farmer's servants? Not the Irish...but...the quarry of the air...the plough of the frost.
    PI 8.3 7 Poverty, frost, famine, disease, debt, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to common sense.
    Res 8.151 21 [The art of taking a walk] will draw the sting out of frost...
    PerF 10.73 26 It is curious to see how a creature so feeble and vulnerable as a man, who, unarmed, is no match for the wild beasts...none for the frost...is yet able to subdue to his will these terrific [natural] forces...
    Supl 10.167 19 ...long nights and frost hold us pretty fast to realities.
    Supl 10.173 26 ...these raptures of fire and frost, which indeed cleanse pedantry out of conversation...would cost me the days of well-being which are now so cheap to me, yet so valued.
    SovE 10.195 4 The fiery soul said: Let me be a blot on this fair world, the obscurest, the loneliest sufferer, with one proviso,-that I know it is his agency. I will love him, though he shed frost and darkness on every way of mine.
    MMEm 10.428 14 Constantly offer myself [Mary Moody Emerson] to continue the obscurest and loneliest thing ever heard of, with one proviso,- [God's] agency. Yes, love Thee, and all Thou dost, while Thou sheddest frost and darkness on every path of mine.
    HDC 11.39 9 Many [of the settlers of Concord] were forced to go barefoot and bareleg, and some in time of frost and snow...
    CL 12.164 10 Every new perception of the method and beauty of Nature gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure; and always for this double reason: first, because they are so excellent in their primary fact, as frost, or cloud, or fire, or animal;...
    ACri 12.294 12 [Shakespeare's] fun is as wise as his earnest, its foundations are below the frost.
    EurB 12.370 16 ...amidst velvet and glory, we long for rain and frost.

frosted, adj. (1)

    ET14 5.255 26 Pope and his school wrote poetry fit to put round frosted cake.

frosts, n. (1)

    CL 12.151 27 The world has nothing to offer more rich or entertaining than the days which October always brings us, when, after the first frosts, a steady shower of gold falls in the strong south wind from the chestnuts, maples and hickories;...

frostwork, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.201 12 When [friendships] are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork...

frosty, adj. (4)

    MR 1.254 24 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom...manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...
    Farm 7.141 3 The men in cities who are the centres of energy...and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows...
    HDC 11.39 2 The useful pine lifted its cones into the frosty air.
    Bost 12.183 19 There is the climate of the Sahara...where is day after day, sunstroke after sunstroke, with a frosty shadow between.

froth, n. (1)

    OA 7.323 21 The humorous thief who drank a pot of beer at the gallows blew off the froth because he had heard it was unhealthy;...

Frothingham, Nathaniel L., (1)

    LLNE 10.335 20 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham...had already made us acquainted...with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic criticism.

frothy, adj. (1)

    ET11 5.191 15 Prostitutes taken from the theatres were made duchesses, their bastards dukes and earls. The young men sat uppermost, the old serious lords were out of favor. The discourse that the king's companions had with him was poor and frothy.

Froudes, n. (1)

    ET15 5.262 21 Hundreds of clever Praeds and Freres and Froudes and Hoods and Hooks and Maginns and Mills and Macaulays, make poems, or short essays for a journal, as they make speeches in Parliament and on the hustings...

frown, n. (2)

    LT 1.278 7 You have set your heart and face against society when you thought it wrong, and returned it frown for frown.
    WD 7.170 6 There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow...

frown, v. (1)

    ET8 5.131 2 ...you shall find in the common [English] people a surly indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper; and in minds of more power, magazines of inexhaustible war, challenging The ruggedest hour that time and spite dare bring/ To frown upon the enraged Northumberland./

frowning, v. (1)

    Schr 10.286 4 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true...which society cannot dispose of or forget, but which...stand frowning and formidable...

frowns, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.163 8 Open your Marcus Antoninus. In the opinion of the ancients he was the great man...who contested the frowns of fortune.
    Cour 7.255 8 The third excellence is courage, the perfect will...which is attracted by frowns or threats or hostile armies...

frowns, v. (2)

    Con 1.319 25 If any man resist and set up a foolish hope he has entertained as good against the general despair, Society frowns on him...
    II 12.80 1 ...[the secret Power] frowns on moths and puppets...

frowzy, adj. (1)

    OA 7.321 27 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the frowzy, timorous, peevish dotards who are falsely old...

froze, v. (3)

    Con 1.297 11 ...[Saturn] feared again; and nature froze...
    QO 8.187 5 Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends, laughingly compared his writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they were pronounced...
    Supl 10.165 19 ...much of the rhetoric of terror,-It froze my blood, It made my knees knock, etc.-most men have realized only in dreams and nightmares.

frozen, adj. (7)

    Nat 1.43 21 ...architecture is called frozen music, by De Stael and Goethe.
    NER 3.272 22 In the circle of the rankest tories...let...a man of great heart and mind act on them, and very quickly these frozen conservators will yield to the friendly influence...
    QO 8.185 19 Madame de Stael's Architecture is frozen music is borrowed from Goethe's dumb music...
    QO 8.187 2 The popular incident of Baron Munchausen, who hung his bugle up by the kitchen fire and the frozen tune thawed out, is found in Greece in Plato's time.
    PC 8.228 23 Great love is the inventor and expander of the frozen powers...
    LLNE 10.349 22 The Desert of Sahara, the Campagna di Roma, the frozen Polar circles...accuse man.
    War 11.152 3 ...in the infancy of society...when hunger, thirst, ague and frozen limbs universally take precedence of the wants of the mind and the heart, the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...

frozen, v. (3)

    NR 3.237 17 ...if we saw the real from hour to hour, we should...have been burned or frozen long ago.
    PC 8.228 23 Great love is the inventor and expander of the frozen powers, the feathers frozen to our sides.
    SMC 11.371 9 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service...crossing the Rapidan, and suffering from such extreme cold, a few days later, at Mine Run, that the men were compelled to break rank and run in circles to keep themselves from being frozen.

frugal, adj. (5)

    NR 3.237 23 ...the frugal farmer takes care that his cattle shall eat down the rowen...
    HDC 11.84 10 Frugal our fathers were,-very frugal...
    Bost 12.197 3 ...the necessity, which always presses the Northerner, of providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against the long winter, makes him anxiously frugal...
    Bost 12.204 8 Nature is a frugal mother...
    Milt1 12.255 18 Franklin's man is a frugal, inoffensive, thrifty citizen...

frugality, n. (6)

    MR 1.246 5 ...parched corn and a house with one apartment...that I may be...girt and road-ready for the lowest mission of knowledge or goodwill, is frugality for gods and heroes.
    Comp 2.112 17 ...a man often pays dear for a small frugality.
    Exp 3.45 18 Did our birth fall in some fit of indigence and frugality in nature...
    Wth 6.96 27 We are all richer for the measurement of a degree of latitude on the earth's surface. Our navigation is safer for the chart. How intimately our knowledge of the system of the Universe rests on that!--and a true economy in a state or an individual will forget its frugality in behalf of claims like these.
    HDC 11.80 7 [Concord's] instructions to their representatives are full of loud complaints of...the excess of public expenditure. They may be pardoned, under such distress, for the mistakes of an extreme frugality.
    MLit 12.323 14 To read [Goethe's] record is a frugality of time...

fruit, n. (87)

    Nat 1.28 13 The seed of a plant, - to what affecting analogies in the nature of man is that little fruit made use of...
    Nat 1.53 5 [Shakspeare's] passion is not the fruit of chance;...
    AmS 1.96 16 In some contemplative hour [the new deed] detaches itself from the life like a ripe fruit...
    AmS 1.115 12 Is it not the chief disgrace in the world...not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear...
    LE 1.160 22 Any history of philosophy fortifies my faith, by showing me that what high dogmas I had supposed were the...fruit of a cumulative culture...were the prompt improvisations of the earliest inquirers;...
    MN 1.192 20 That splendid results ensue from the labors of stupid men, is the fruit of higher laws than their will...
    MN 1.206 1 An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen.
    MN 1.216 24 From the poisonous tree, the world, say the Brahmins, two species of fruit are produced, sweet as the waters of life;...
    MR 1.252 26 ...we enact the part of the selfish noble and king from the foundation of the world. See, this tree always bears one fruit.
    LT 1.271 22 Nature, literature, science, childhood, appear to us beautiful; but not...the ripe fruit and considered labors of man.
    Con 1.304 7 ...[the system of property and law] is the fruit of the same mysterious cause as the mineral or animal world.
    Tran 1.341 4 ...many intelligent and religious persons...betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.
    YA 1.380 6 The time is full of good signs. Some of them shall ripen to fruit.
    Comp 2.103 12 Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens with the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.
    Comp 2.103 15 ...seed and fruit, cannot be severed;...
    Comp 2.103 17 ...seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for...the fruit [preexists] in the seed.
    Comp 2.127 4 ...the man or woman who would have remained a sunny garden-flower...by the falling of the walls and the neglect of the gardener is made the banian of the forest, yielding shade and fruit to wide neighborhoods of men.
    SL 2.137 11 When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
    SL 2.137 12 When the fruit is despatched, the leaf falls.
    Lov1 2.184 14 Little think the youth and maiden who are glancing at each other...of the precious fruit long hereafter to proceed from this new, quite external stimulus.
    Fdsp 2.195 18 I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy...yields no fruit.
    Fdsp 2.199 8 We snatch at the slowest fruit in the whole garden of God...
    Prd1 2.233 27 Is it not better that a man should accept the first pains and mortifications of this sort...as hints that he must expect no other good than the just fruit of his own labor and self-denial?
    OS 2.274 4 The things we now esteem fixed shall...detach themselves like ripe fruit from our experience...
    Int 2.330 4 You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit.
    Pt1 3.31 21 ...John saw, in the Apocalypse...the stars fall from heaven as the fig tree casteth her untimely fruit;...
    Exp 3.83 14 Let who will ask, Where is the fruit? I find a private fruit sufficient.
    Exp 3.83 15 This is a fruit,--that I should not ask for a rash effect from meditations, counsels and the hiving of truths.
    Chr1 3.97 27 ...prosperity belongs to a certain mind, and will introduce that power and victory which is its natural fruit, into any order of events.
    Mrs1 3.121 20 Comme il faut, is the Frenchman's description of good society: as we must be. It is a spontaneous fruit of talents and feelings of precisely that class who have most vigor...
    Mrs1 3.122 19 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.
    Pol1 3.220 1 We must not...doubt that roads can be built, letters carried, and the fruit of labor secured, when the government of force is at an end.
    NR 3.223 4 In thousand far-transplanted grafts/ The parent fruit survives;/...
    SwM 4.108 27 In the brain are male and female faculties; here is marriage, here is fruit.
    MoS 4.182 2 These particular griefs and crimes are the foliage and fruit of such trees as we see growing.
    ET4 5.61 17 The continued draught of the best men in Norway, Sweden and Denmark to these piratical expeditions exhausted those countries, like a tree which bears much fruit when young...
    ET5 5.94 19 The French Comte de Lauraguais said, No fruit ripens in England but a baked apple;...
    ET10 5.154 17 A natural fruit of England is the brutal political economy.
    ET14 5.247 9 The brilliant Macaulay...explicitly teaches...that the glory of modern philosophy is its direction on fruit;...
    ET18 5.307 25 The English have given importance to individuals, a principal end and fruit of every society.
    F 6.37 10 [The animal] becomes torpid when the fruit or prey it lives on is not in season...
    F 6.40 27 Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.
    F 6.41 24 A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character.
    Wth 6.87 12 When the farmer's peaches are taken from under the tree and carried into town, they have a new look and a hundredfold value over the fruit which grew on the same bough and lies fulsomely on the ground.
    Wth 6.119 22 So is it with granite streets or timber townships as with fruit or flowers.
    Ctr 6.147 11 ...nature has put fruits apart in latitudes, a new fruit in every degree...
    Ctr 6.162 27 Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.
    Wsp 6.214 12 Religion must always be a crab fruit;...
    Wsp 6.220 24 ...[a man] does not see...that fortunes are not exceptions but fruit;...
    Wsp 6.231 15 He is great whose eyes are opened to see that the reward of actions cannot be escaped, because he is transformed into his action, and taketh its nature, which bears its own fruit...
    CbW 6.269 5 ...the best fruit [travel] finds, when it finds it, is conversation.
    Art2 7.57 2 Popular institutions...and the immense harvest of economical inventions, are the fruit of the equality and the boundless liberty of lucrative callings.
    Farm 7.147 4 Plant fruit-trees by the roadside, and their fruit will never be allowed to ripen.
    Farm 7.147 7 Plant fruit-trees by the roadside, and their fruit will never be allowed to ripen. Draw a pine fence about them, and for fifty years they mature for the owner their delicate fruit.
    Farm 7.148 6 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps.
    Boks 7.206 16 Ximenes...Henry IV. of France, are [Charles V's] contemporaries. It is a time of seeds and expansions, whereof our recent civilization is the fruit.
    Boks 7.216 14 Nature has a magic by which she fits the man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
    QO 8.190 9 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, or the Theban Phalanx's? The city will for nine days or nine years make differences and sinister comparisons: there is a new and more excellent public that will bless the friends. Nay, it is an inevitable fruit of our social nature.
    PPo 8.244 9 Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of Meru:-Color, taste and smell, smaragdus, sugar and musk,/ Amber for the tongue, for the eye a picture rare,/ If you cut the fruit in slices, every slice a crescent fair,/ If you leave it whole, the full harvest moon is there./
    PerF 10.70 23 The ripe fruit is dropped at last without violence...
    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.
    PerF 10.71 14 ...a gardener knows that [the loam] is full of peaches, full of oranges, and he drops in a few seeds by way of keys to unlock and combine its virtues;...and by and by it has lifted into the air its full weight in golden fruit.
    PerF 10.75 15 [Labor] surprises in the perfect form and condition of trees... loaded with grafted fruit.
    Plu 10.319 4 What a fruit and fitting monument of [Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria...
    LLNE 10.338 14 The German poet Goethe...proposed...in Botany, his simple theory of metamorphosis;...every part of the plant from root to fruit is only a modified leaf...
    LLNE 10.357 20 I regard these philanthropists as themselves the effects of the age in which we live, and...the efflorescence of the period and predicting a good fruit that ripens.
    MMEm 10.399 11 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's life] is a fruit of Calvinism and New England...
    LS 11.9 14 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it, using this formula...Blessed be Thou, O Lord, our God, who givest us the fruit of the vine...
    HDC 11.35 6 ...let no man, writes our pious chronicler [Edward Johnson]... make a jest of pumpkins, for with this fruit the Lord was pleased to feed his people until their corn and cattle were increased.
    HDC 11.67 20 The planting of the [Massachusetts Bay] colony was the effect of religious principle. The Revolution was the fruit of another principle,-the devouring thirst for justice.
    HDC 11.68 15 ...We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those...rights, that we are obliged to no power, under heaven, for the enjoyment of; as they are the fruit of the heroic enterprises of the first settlers of these American colonies.
    EWI 11.143 15 Eaters and food are in the harmony of Nature; and there too is the germ forever protected, unfolding...a richer fruit...
    FSLN 11.240 6 ...that is the stern edict of Providence, that liberty shall be no hasty fruit...
    ACiv 11.297 18 ...standing on this doleful experience [slavery], these people have endeavored to reverse the natural sentiments of mankind, and to pronounce...the well-being of a man to consist in eating the fruit of other men's labor.
    EPro 11.315 13 Liberty is a slow fruit.
    FRO1 11.480 5 Pure doctrine always bears fruit in pure benefits.
    CPL 11.505 9 Patience is the chiefest fruit of study.
    FRep 11.539 19 ...liberty, like religion, is a short and hasty fruit...
    FRep 11.542 12 As the tree exists for its fruit, so a man for his work.
    PLT 12.26 3 ...the blood of two trees being mixed a new and excellent fruit is produced.
    II 12.76 7 ...Van Mons of Belgium, after all his experiments at crossing and refining his fruit, arrived at last at the most complete trust in the native power.
    CL 12.145 6 The apple is our national fruit.
    CL 12.145 9 The American sun paints itself in these glowing balls [apples] amid the green leaves, the social fruit...
    CL 12.152 14 The leaf in our dry climate gets fully ripe, and, like the fruit when fully ripe, acquires fine color...
    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...
    MAng1 12.236 27 A natural fruit of the nobility of [Michelangelo's] spirit is his admiration for Dante...
    EurB 12.374 26 ...Mr. Bulwer's recent stories have given us who do not read novels occasion to think of this department of literature, supposed to be the natural fruit and expression of the age.

fruitage, n. (1)

    Hist 2.36 13 A man is...a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world.

fruited, adj. (1)

    PPo 8.255 19 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.

fruitful, adj. (19)

    Nat 1.66 21 ...a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation...
    AmS 1.91 22 ...A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful.
    AmS 1.112 15 This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries.
    DSA 1.119 22 In its fruitful soils;...[the world] is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.
    SwM 4.114 17 This fruitful idea [that nature exists entire in leasts] furnishes a key to every secret.
    ET5 5.98 12 The manners and customs of [English] society are artificial;... and we have a nation whose existence is a work of art;--a cold, barren, almost arctic isle being made the most fruitful, luxurious and imperial land in the whole earth.
    ET14 5.235 20 To the images from this twin source (of Christianity and art), the mind became fruitful as by the incubation of the Holy Ghost.
    CbW 6.275 2 ...life would be twice or ten times life if spent with wise and fruitful companions.
    Elo1 7.95 18 The resistance to slavery in this country has been a fruitful nursery of orators.
    Grts 8.301 12 [Greatness] is a fruitful study.
    Dem1 10.18 11 ...this demonic element appears most fruitful when it shows itself as the determining characteristic in an individual.
    PerF 10.75 8 [The farmer] put his days into carting from the distant swamp the mountain of muck which has been trundled about until it now makes the cover of fruitful soil.
    LLNE 10.339 15 I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Channing, one on Milton and one on Napoleon, which were the first specimens in this country of that large criticism which in England had given power and fame to the Edinburgh Review. They were...immediately fruitful in provoking emulation which lifted the style of Journalism.
    LS 11.3 4 In the history of the Church no subject has been more fruitful of controversy than the Lord's Supper.
    EPro 11.315 12 Every step in the history of political liberty...is fruitful in heroic anecdotes.
    Shak1 11.452 1 There are periods fruitful of great men;...
    II 12.85 27 What you have learned and done, is safe and fruitful.
    CL 12.152 20 We know the healing effect on the sick of change of air,- the action of new scenery on the mind is not less fruitful.
    CW 12.172 6 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through...and...other men not known widely but known at home, farmers... skilled in turning a swamp or a sand-bank into a fruitful field...

fruitfulness, n. (1)

    Pow 6.74 18 ...the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. 'T is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.

fruit-gardens, n. (1)

    CW 12.173 21 ...there is happiness all the year round to be had from the square fruit-gardens which we plant in the front or rear of every farmhouse.

fruition, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.12 16 This day shall be better than my birthday: then I became an animal; now I am invited into the science of the real. Such is the hope, but the fruition is postponed.
    SwM 4.127 8 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to be the Hymn of Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet; the love...which, as rightly celebrated, in its genesis, fruition and effect, might well entrance the souls...

fruitless, adj. (6)

    Tran 1.334 24 Do not cumber yourself with fruitless pains to mend and remedy remote effects;...
    SL 2.138 25 ...our painful labors are unnecessary and fruitless;...
    Prd1 2.233 22 ...who has not seen the tragedy of imprudent genius struggling for years with paltry pecuniary difficulties, at last sinking, chilled, exhausted and fruitless...
    ET7 5.120 21 ...one cannot think this festival [of St. George in Montreal] fruitless, if, all over the world, on the 23d of April, wherever two or three English are found, they meet to encourage each other in the nationality of veracity.
    MoL 10.253 16 Bonaparte himself deserted [the Egpytian campaign], and the army got home as it could, all fruitless;...
    FRep 11.542 13 A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does not stand in the universe.

fruits, n. (31)

    MR 1.251 27 ...when [Caliph Omar] left Medina to go to the conquest of Jerusalem, he rode on a red camel...with a bottle of water and two sacks, one holding barley and the other dried fruits.
    Con 1.312 17 Now can your children be educated, your labor turned to their advantage, and its fruits secured to them after your death.
    Prd1 2.227 14 The good husband finds method as efficient...in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns...
    Gts 3.159 14 Flowers and fruits are always fit presents;...
    Gts 3.160 6 Fruits are acceptable gifts...
    SwM 4.98 22 ...[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.
    GoW 4.270 11 ...[the nineteenth century's] poet, is Goethe, a man quite domesticated in the century...enjoying its fruits...
    GoW 4.273 15 [Goethe] was the soul of his century. If that...had become... one great Exploring Expedition, accumulating a glut of facts and fruits too fast for any hitherto-existing savans to classify,--this man's mind had ample chambers for the distribution of all.
    ET3 5.43 17 With [England's] fruits, and wares, and money, must its civil influence radiate.
    ET4 5.49 24 Any the least and solitariest fact in our natural history, such as the melioration of fruits and animal stocks, has the worth of a power in the opportunity of geologic periods.
    F 6.43 27 Wood...fruits...were dispersed over the earth and sea, in vain.
    Wth 6.89 22 ...fruits of all climates;...are [man's] natural playmates...
    Ctr 6.147 10 ...nature has put fruits apart in latitudes...
    CbW 6.244 2 Cleave to thine acre; the round year/ Will fetch all fruits and virtues here/...
    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 4 Popular institutions...and the immense harvest of economical inventions, are the fruit of the equality and the boundless liberty of lucrative callings. These are superficial wants; and their fruits are these superficial institutions.
    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.
    Farm 7.137 24 ...the tranquillity and innocence of the countryman, his independence and his pleasing arts,--the care of bees...the care...of fruits... all men acknowledge.
    Farm 7.151 21 ...[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.
    PI 8.7 19 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science, of which the theories...of Agassiz and Owen and Darwin in zoology and botany, are the fruits...
    PI 8.41 5 These fine fruits of judgment, poesy and sentiment...know as well as coarser how to feed and replenish themselves;...
    PPo 8.238 9 The rich [in the East] feed on fruits and game,-the poor, on a watermelon's peel.
    Insp 8.281 6 ...wine, no doubt, and all fine food, as of delicate fruits, furnish some elemental wisdom.
    Insp 8.291 6 Allston rarely left his studio by day. An old friend took him, one fine afternoon, a spacious circuit into the country, and he painted two or three pictures as the fruits of that drive.
    PerF 10.84 20 [Men] wish to pocket land and water and fire and air and all fruits of these, for property...
    HDC 11.35 3 All kinds of garden fruits grew well...
    HDC 11.56 18 The check [to Concord] was but momentary. The earth teemed with fruits.
    FSLC 11.188 24 ...whilst animals have to do with eating the fruits of the ground, men have to to with rectitude, with benefit, with truth...
    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!/
    Bost 12.195 23 Many and rich are the fruits of that simple statute [establishing schools in Massachusetts].
    PPr 12.383 6 It requires great courage in a man of letters to handle the contemporary practical questions;...because of...the waste of strength in gathering unripe fruits.

fruit-ships, n. (1)

    ET14 5.247 21 [Macaulay] thinks...that, solid advantage, as he calls it, meaning always sensual benefit, is the only good. The eminent benefit of astronomy is the better navigation it creates to enable the fruit-ships to bring home their lemons and wine to the London grocer.

fruit-tree, n. (1)

    Wth 6.88 16 ...every fruit-tree...opens a new want to [a man]...

fruit-trees, n. (1)

    Farm 7.147 3 Plant fruit-trees by the roadside, and their fruit will never be allowed to ripen.

frustrated, adj. (1)

    Comc 8.157 23 The balking of the intellect, the frustrated expectation...is comedy;...

frustrated, v. (2)

    Edc1 10.130 1 [Is it not true] That...sickness, sorrow, success, all...unlock for us the concealed faculties of the mind? Whatever private or petty ends are frustrated, this end is always answered.
    MAng1 12.224 14 On the 24th of October, 1529, the Prince of Orange, general of Charles V., encamped on the hills surrounding the city [Florence], and his first operation was to throw up a rampart to storm the bastion of San Miniato. His design was frustrated by the providence of Michael Angelo.

Fry, Elizabeth, n. (1)

    CbW 6.256 21 What is the benefit done by a good King Alfred...or Elizabeth Fry...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish capitalists who built the Illinois...roads;...

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