Ground to Gyved

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

ground, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.30 26 The moment our discourse rises above the ground line of familiar facts...it clothes itself in images.
    Farm 7.149 10 As [the farmer] nursed his Thanksgiving turkeys on bread and milk, so he will pamper his peaches and grapes on the viands they like best. If they have an appetite for...ground bones...he will indulge them.

ground, n. (195)

    Nat 1.10 6 Standing on the bare ground...all mean egotism vanishes.
    Nat 1.51 27 By a few strokes [the poet] delineates...the sun, the mountain... lifted from the ground and afloat before the eye.
    Nat 1.55 9 The problem of philosophy...is, for all that exists conditionally, to find a ground unconditioned and absolute.
    Nat 1.59 13 I only wish to indicate the true position of nature in regard to man...as the ground which to attain is the object of human life...
    AmS 1.85 22 ...[the young mind] goes on...discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.
    AmS 1.106 8 ...I have already shown the ground of my hope...
    AmS 1.107 24 Here are the materials strewn along the ground.
    DSA 1.144 2 The remedy is already declared in the ground of our complaint of the Church.
    LE 1.155 17 [The scholar's] duties lead him directly into the holy ground...
    MR 1.230 3 We thought [the money-catcher] had some semblance of ground to stand upon...
    MR 1.231 12 ...nothing is left [the young man] but to begin the world anew, as he does who puts the spade into the ground for food.
    MR 1.254 25 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom...manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...
    MR 1.256 23 ...the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain...
    LT 1.269 1 The actors constitute that great army of martyrs who...occupy the ground which Calvinism occupied in the last age...
    Con 1.303 12 ...[the existing world] is the ground on which you stand...
    Con 1.305 3 ...you cannot jump from the ground without using the resistance of the ground...
    Con 1.305 4 ...you cannot jump from the ground without using the resistance of the ground...
    Con 1.306 20 ...[the youth] says, If I am born in the earth...have the goodness, gentlemen of this world, to show me...my pleasant ground where to build my cabin.
    Con 1.320 17 The cause of education is urged in this country with the utmost earnestness,-on what ground?
    Con 1.322 17 How will every strong and generous mind choose its ground...
    YA 1.380 27 These [Communities] proceeded...in great part from a feeling that the true offices of the State, the State had let fall to the ground;...
    Hist 2.10 5 Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,--must go over the whole ground.
    Hist 2.25 6 After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia, there fell much snow, and the troops lay miserably on the ground covered with it.
    SR 2.46 18 ...no kernel of nourishing corn can come to [man] but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
    Comp 2.98 26 There is always some levelling circumstance that puts down...the fortunate, substantially on the same ground with all others.
    Comp 2.116 5 Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge...
    SL 2.158 27 Never a magnanimity fell to the ground, but there is some heart to greet and accept it unexpectedly.
    Fdsp 2.205 4 [Friendship] must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults over the moon.
    Fdsp 2.209 23 To a great heart [your friend] will still be a stranger in a thousand particulars, that he may come near in the holiest ground.
    Prd1 2.238 23 If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan...meet on what common ground remains...
    Hsm1 2.255 4 Better still is the temperance of King David, who poured out on the ground unto the Lord the water which three of his warriors had brought him to drink...
    Hsm1 2.258 2 The Jerseys were handsome ground enough for Washington to tread...
    OS 2.267 14 What is the ground of this uneasiness of ours;...
    OS 2.291 6 The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written, yet are they so cheap and so things of course, that in the infinite riches of the soul it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground...
    Int 2.344 24 I were a fool not to sacrifice a thousand Aeschyluses to my intellectual integrity. Especially take the same ground in regard to abstract truth...
    Pt1 3.4 5 Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to talk of the spiritual meaning...of a city or a contract, but they prefer to come again to the solid ground of historical evidence;...
    Pt1 3.12 25 ...I, being myself a novice, am slow in perceiving that [the poet]...is merely bent that I should admire his skill to rise like a fowl or a flying fish, a little way from the ground or the water;...
    Chr1 3.102 9 We shall still postpone our existence, nor take the ground to which we are entitled, whilst it is only a thought and not a spirit that incites us.
    Nat2 3.169 11 There are days which occur in this climate...when...the cattle that lie on the ground seem to have great and tranquil thoughts.
    Nat2 3.171 8 ...as water to our thirst, so is the rock, the ground, to our eyes and hands and feet.
    Nat2 3.173 25 He who knows the most; he who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments,--is the rich and royal man.
    Nat2 3.181 24 ...the trees...seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
    Pol1 3.208 23 Our quarrel with [political parties] begins when they quit this deep natural ground at the bidding of some leader...
    Pol1 3.209 10 Ordinarily our parties are parties of circumstance, and not of principle;...parties which...can easily change ground with each other in the support of many of their measures.
    Pol1 3.216 12 [The wise man] needs...no vantage ground, no favorable circumstance.
    Pol1 3.221 11 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature.
    NR 3.248 17 ...I endeavored to show my good men...that I revered saints, but woke up glad that the old pagan world stood its ground and died hard;...
    NER 3.260 2 ...the self-made men took even ground at once with the oldest of the regular graduates...
    NER 3.266 27 ...in a celebrated experiment, by expiration and respiration exactly together, four persons lift a heavy man from the ground by the little finger only...
    NER 3.268 17 ...the ground on which eminent public servants urge the claims of popular education is fear;...
    PPh 4.43 4 Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.
    PPh 4.70 11 This faith in the Divinity...and constitutes the ground of all [Plato's] dogmas.
    SwM 4.105 7 What was left for a genius of the largest calibre but to go over [his predecessors'] ground and verify and unite?
    SwM 4.131 13 ...a bird does not more readily weave its nest, or a mole bore into the ground, than this seer of the souls [Swedenborg] substructs a new hell and pit...round each new crew of offenders.
    SwM 4.137 20 ...he does not know what evil is, or what good is, who thinks any ground remains to be occupied, after saying that evil is to be shunned as evil.
    MoS 4.155 1 The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely.
    MoS 4.156 19 [The skeptic says] If there is a wish for immortality, and no evidence, why not say just that? If there are conflicting evidences, why not state them? If there is not ground for a candid thinker to make up his mind, yea or nay,--why not suspend the judgment?
    MoS 4.159 19 This then is the right ground of the skeptic,--this of consideration, of self-containing;...
    MoS 4.162 5 ...some stark and sufficient man...is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation.
    MoS 4.169 6 [Montaigne]...likes to feel solid ground and the stones underneath.
    MoS 4.172 3 The ground occupied by the skeptic is the vestibule of the temple.
    MoS 4.173 5 It stands in [the wise skeptic's] mind that our life in this world is not of quite so easy interpretation as churches and school-books say. He does not wish to take ground against these benevolences...
    MoS 4.182 25 [The wise and magninimous] will exult in [the spiritualist's] far-sighted good-will that can abandon to the adversary all the ground of tradition and common belief...
    ShP 4.194 2 The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work...
    NMW 4.227 23 There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics...
    NMW 4.256 20 ...both parties [democrat and conservative] stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property...
    GoW 4.261 17 Not a foot steps into the snow or along the ground, but prints...a map of its march.
    GoW 4.269 6 ...the writer does not stand with us on any commanding ground.
    ET1 5.3 7 ...I remember the pleasure of that first walk on English ground...
    ET1 5.24 9 ...[Wordsworth] led me into the enclosure of his clerk, a young man to whom he had given this slip of ground...
    ET4 5.56 22 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy. ... Of course they come into the fight from a higher ground of power than the land-nations;...
    ET4 5.62 9 Konghelle, the town where the kings of Norway, Sweden and Denmark were wont to meet, is now rented to a private English gentleman for a hunting ground.
    ET5 5.77 12 Each vagabond that arrived [in England] bent his neck to the yoke of gain, or found the air too tense for him. The strong survived, the weaker went to the ground.
    ET6 5.103 15 A terrible machine has possessed itself of the ground, the air, the men and women [in England]...
    ET11 5.178 26 This long descent of [English] families and this cleaving through ages to the same spot of ground, captivates the imagination.
    ET12 5.201 16 Here indeed [at Oxford] was the Olympia of all Antony Wood's and Aubrey's games and heroes, and every inch of ground has its lustre.
    ET12 5.202 9 I do not know...whether [at Oxford] the Ptolemaic astronomy does not still hold its ground against the novelties of Copernicus.
    ET13 5.216 5 [The priest...translated the sanctities of old hagiology into English virtues on English ground.
    ET14 5.248 3 The critic [in England] hides his skepticism under the English cant of practical. To convince the reason, to touch the conscience, is romantic pretension. The fine arts fall to the ground.
    ET14 5.252 17 [The English] exert every variety of talent on a lower ground...
    ET15 5.267 9 The tone of [the London Times's] articles has often been the occasion of comment from the official organs of the continental courts, and sometimes the ground of diplomatic complaint.
    ET16 5.285 19 ...I had been more struck with [a cathedral] of no fame, at Coventry, which rises three hundred feet from the ground...
    ET18 5.299 10 ...[the English] have earned their vantage ground and held it through ages of adverse possession.
    ET18 5.305 10 There is cramp limitation in [Englishmen's] habit of thought...and a tortoise's instinct to hold hard to the ground with his claws...
    F 6.15 12 Nature is the tyrannous circumstance...the conditions of a tool, like...skates, which are wings on the ice but fetters on the ground.
    F 6.43 25 Iron was deep in the ground and well combined with stone, but could not hide from [man's] fires.
    F 6.44 6 The races of men rise out of the ground preoccupied with a thought which rules them...
    Pow 6.79 2 Men whose opinion is valued on 'Change are only such as have a special experience, and off that ground their opinion is not valuable.
    Wth 6.86 23 Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood...
    Wth 6.87 13 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 6.94 14 ...one tree keeps down another in the forest, that it may not absorb all the sap in the ground.
    Wth 6.122 25 ...the man who is to level the ground thinks it will take many hundred loads of gravel to fill the hollow to the road.
    Ctr 6.160 25 The orator who has once seen things in their divine order... will come to affairs as from a higher ground...
    Bhr 6.167 10 ...Graceful women, chosen men/ Dazzle every mortal:/ Their sweet and lofty countenance/ His enchanting food;/ He need not go to them, their forms/ Beset his solitude./ He looketh seldom in their face,/ His eyes explore the ground/...
    Bhr 6.178 4 The jockeys say of certain horses that they look over the whole ground.
    Bhr 6.193 12 ...[simple and noble persons]...meet on a better ground than the talents and skills they may chance to possess...
    CbW 6.254 18 Wars, fires, plagues...clear the ground of rotten races and dens of distemper...
    Bty 6.298 13 Mirabeau had an ugly face on a handsome ground;...
    Civ 7.27 15 ...see [the carpenter] on the ground, dressing his timber under him.
    Elo1 7.71 24 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear child, who is that man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks broader in his shoulders and breast. His arms lie on the ground...
    Elo1 7.72 19 ...when the wise Ulysses arose and stood...fixing his eyes on the ground...you would say it was some angry or foolish man;...
    Elo1 7.94 20 If you would lift me you must be on higher ground.
    DL 7.123 7 Every one was eager to try [the fairy cloak] on, but it would fit nobody: for one it was a world too wide, for the next it dragged on the ground...
    Farm 7.144 16 The plant is all suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might.
    Farm 7.145 9 The plants imbibe the materials which they want from the air and the ground.
    Boks 7.206 18 If now the relations of England to European affairs bring [the scholar] to British ground, he is arrived at the very moment when modern history takes new proportions.
    Clbs 7.232 7 ...it is only on natural ground that conversation can be rich.
    Clbs 7.232 9 Let [conversation] keep the ground...
    Clbs 7.234 14 ...the ground of our indignation is our conviction that [yonder man's] dissent is some wilfulness he practises on himself.
    Cour 7.269 6 The judge...squarely accosts the question, and by not being afraid of it...he sees presently that common arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair. Perseverance...ranges it on the same ground as other business.
    Suc 7.290 6 ...war, cannons and executions are used to clear the ground of bad, lumpish, irreclaimable savages, but always to the damage of the conquerors.
    PI 8.27 10 ...as a talent [poetry] is a magnetic tenaciousness of an image, and by the treatment demonstrating that this pigment of thought is as palpable and objective to the poet as is the ground on which he stands...
    PI 8.55 13 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/ A sigh that piercing mortifies,/ A look that 's fastened to the ground/...
    Elo2 8.111 10 ...all can see and understand the means by which a battle is gained...they see...the character and advantages of the ground...
    Elo2 8.123 9 ...[John Quincy Adams] took such ground in the debates of the following session as to lose the sympathy of many of his constituents in Boston.
    Res 8.142 1 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha...obtain, by merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the mineral oil will burn till the tube is decomposed...
    Res 8.144 27 See how Nature keeps the lakes warm by tucking them up under a blanket of ice, and the ground under a cloak of snow.
    Res 8.149 18 In the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, the torches which each traveller carries...serve no purpose but to see the ground.
    QO 8.178 18 Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest or private addition so rare and insignificant,-and this commonly on the ground of other reading or hearing,-that...one would say there is no pure originality.
    PC 8.222 17 ...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an apple to the ground, the fall of the earth to the sun...that perception was accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a fact more immense still...
    PPo 8.246 10 Harems and wine-shops only give [Hafiz] a new ground of observation...
    PPo 8.262 24 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 8.269 24 The hunter on the prairie, at the right season, has no need of choosing his ground;...
    Insp 8.290 17 Certain localities, as...natural parks of oak and pine, where the ground is smooth and unencumbered, are excitants of the muse.
    Grts 8.304 10 A sensible man...is content with putting his fact or theme simply on its ground.
    Imtl 8.333 9 The ground of hope is in the infinity of the world;...
    Dem1 10.5 13 The very landscape and scenery in a dream seem...like a coat or cloak of some other person to overlap and encumber the wearer; so is the ground, the road, the house, in dreams, too long or too short...
    Dem1 10.14 26 The augur showed [Masollam] a bird, and told him, If that bird remained where he was, it would be better for them all to remain; if he flew on, they might proceed; but if he flew back, they must return. The Jew said nothing, but bent his bow and shot the bird to the ground.
    Aris 10.63 22 Let [the man of honor]...say...the music and the dance of liberty will come up to bright and holy ground and will take me in also.
    Aris 10.65 14 ...it suffices...that [the man of generous spirit] comes into what is called fine society from higher ground...
    PerF 10.77 4 Our stock in life, our real estate, is that amount of thought which we have had,-and which we have applied and so domesticated. The ground we have thus created is forever a fund for new thoughts.
    Chr2 10.107 17 ...it by no means follows, because those [earlier religious] offices are much disused, that the men and women are irreligious;...but only...that they see that they can omit the form without loss of real ground;...
    Chr2 10.111 16 Even the Jeremy Taylors, Fullers, George Herberts, steeped all of them, in Church traditions, are only using their fine fancy to emblazon their memory. 'T is Judaea, not England, which is the ground.
    Edc1 10.130 18 If Newton come and...perceive that not alone certain bodies fall to the ground at a certain rate, but that all bodies in the Universe...fall always, and at one rate;...he extends the power of his mind... over every cubic atom of his native planet...
    Supl 10.176 5 The firmest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth;...
    Supl 10.176 7 The firmest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth;...a ground on which nothing is assumed...
    Supl 10.177 4 The ground of Paradise, said Mohammed, is extensive, and the plants of it are hallelujahs.
    SovE 10.191 7 Humanity sits at the dread loom and throws the shuttle and fills it with joyful rainbows, until the sable ground is flowered all over with a woof of human industry and wisdom...
    SovE 10.194 17 A man should be...a guest in his own thought. He is there to speak for truth; but who is he? Some clod the truth has snatched from the ground, and with fire has fashioned to a momentary man.
    Prch 10.229 13 The opinions of men lose all worth to him who perceives that they are accurately predictable from the ground of their sect.
    Prch 10.233 9 The essential ground of a new book or a new sermon is a new spirit.
    SlHr 10.445 12 It is singular that [Samuel Hoar's] character should make so deep an impression, standing and working as he did on so common a ground.
    Thor 10.464 1 One day, walking with a stranger, who inquired where Indian arrow-heads could be found, [Thoreau] replied, Everywhere, and, stooping forward, picked one on the instant from the ground.
    Thor 10.469 18 [Thoreau] knew every track in the snow or on the ground...
    Thor 10.474 25 ...[Thoreau's] judgment on poetry was to the ground of it.
    Thor 10.482 4 Thank God, [Thoreau] said, they cannot cut down the clouds! All kinds of figures are drawn on the blue ground with this fibrous white paint.
    HDC 11.34 19 [Food the pilgrims] attain with sore travail, every one that can lift a hoe to strike into the earth...tearing up the roots and bushes from the ground...
    HDC 11.49 4 ...so be [the town-meeting] an everlasting testimony for [the settlers of Concord], and so much ground of assurance of man's capacity for self-government.
    HDC 11.73 21 This little battalion [of minute-men], though in their hasty council some were urgent to stand their ground, retreated before the enemy to the high land on the other bank of the river...
    HDC 11.74 21 Major Buttrick leaped from the ground, and gave the command to fire...
    EWI 11.134 26 If the managers of our political parties are too prudent and too cold;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    EWI 11.136 5 Lord Chancellor Northington is the author of the famous sentence, As soon as any man puts his foot on English ground, he becomes free.
    EWI 11.137 19 Every one of these [arguments against emancipation in the West Indies] was built on the narrow ground of interest...
    EWI 11.139 7 The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground.
    FSLC 11.184 6 What is the use of admirable law-forms, and political forms, if a hurricane of party feeling and a combination of monied interests can beat them to the ground?
    FSLC 11.187 25 [Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law] is not going crusading into Virginia and Georgia after slaves, who, it is alleged, are very comfortable where they are:-that amiable argument falls to the ground...
    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...
    FSLC 11.208 15 Why not end this dangerous dispute [over slavery] on some ground of fair compensation on one side, and satisfaction on the other to the conscience of the free states?
    FSLN 11.232 5 Each [party] wishes to cover the whole ground;...
    AKan 11.262 10 A bit of ground [in California] that your hand could cover was worth one or two hundred dollars...
    SMC 11.352 7 ...after the quarrel [American Revolution] began, the Americans took higher ground, and stood for political independence.
    SMC 11.369 19 Another incident [reported by George Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with respect, inasmuch as we did not send it home. I think we were very fortunate to save it at all, for in ten minutes after he was killed the rebels occupied the ground...
    SMC 11.370 24 Being informed that he misunderstood the order, which was only to inform him how to retire when it became necessary, [George Prescott] was satisfied, and he and his command held their ground manfully.
    Wom 11.414 26 When a daughter is born, says the Shiking, the old Sacred Book of China, she sleeps on the ground...
    SHC 11.428 16 Learn from the loved one's rest serenity;/ To-morrow that soft bell for thee shall sound,/ And thou repose beneath the whispering tree,/ One tribute more to this submissive ground;-/...
    SHC 11.429 5 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, having proceeded so far as to enclose the ground, and cut the necessary roads...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together...
    SHC 11.429 8 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, to show you the ground...
    SHC 11.431 3 A simultaneous movement has, in a hundred cities and towns in this country, selected some convenient piece of undulating ground with pleasant woods and waters;...and we lay the corpse in these leafy colonnades.
    SHC 11.432 11 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...
    SHC 11.432 14 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...making together a large block of public ground...
    SHC 11.432 27 This ground [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] is happily so divided by Nature as to admit of this relation between the Past and the Present.
    SHC 11.434 24 The ground [Sleepy Hollow] has the peaceful character that belongs to this town [Concord];...
    FRep 11.526 4 ...the best civilization yet is only valuable as a ground of hope.
    PLT 12.16 3 The grandeur of the impression the stars and heavenly bodies make on us is surely more valuable than our exact perception of a tub or a table on the ground.
    PLT 12.24 25 The plant absorbs much nourishment from the ground...
    PLT 12.32 12 A hunter finds plenty of game on the ground you have sauntered over with idle gun.
    PLT 12.36 2 [Pan's] habit was to dwell in mountains, lying on the ground...
    PLT 12.36 24 ...[Instinct] has a range as wide as human nature, running over all the ground of morals, of intellect and of sense.
    II 12.81 13 ...the races of men rise out of the ground preoccupied with a thought which rules them...
    Mem 12.102 26 The poet, the philosopher, lamed, old, blind, sick, yet disputing the ground inch by inch against fortune, finds a strength against the wrecks and decays sometimes more invulnerable than the heyday of youth and talent.
    CL 12.136 3 As the increasing population finds new values in the ground, the nomad life is given up for settled homes.
    CL 12.146 3 It seems to me much that I have brought a skilful chemist into my ground...for an art he has, out of all kinds of refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels...
    CL 12.146 16 I know a whole district...where the apple-trees strive with and hold their ground against the native forest-trees...
    CL 12.147 4 ...there was a contest between the old orchard and the invading forest-trees, for the possession of the ground...
    CL 12.159 6 Those who persist [in walking] from year to year...and...know the lakes, the hills, where grapes, berries and nuts, where the rare plants are; where the best botanic ground;...these we call professors.
    CW 12.177 21 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches in the sea, in the ground, in barren moors, in the night even...
    CW 12.178 9 We knew the root was sucking juices from the ground. But the top of the tree is also a tap-root thrust into the public pocket of the atmosphere.
    Bost 12.191 6 The colony of 1620 had landed at Plymouth. It was December, and the ground was covered with snow.
    Bost 12.198 21 By this [religious] instinct we are lifted to higher ground.
    Milt1 12.272 5 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of domestic liberty, or the liberty of divorce, on the ground that unfit disposition of mind was a better reason for the act of divorce than infirmity of body...
    Milt1 12.272 8 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of domestic liberty, or the liberty of divorce, on the ground that unfit disposition of mind was a better reason for the act of divorce than infirmity of body, which was good ground in law.
    Trag 12.408 9 Destiny properly is...an immense whim; and this the only ground of terror and despair in the rational mind...
    Trag 12.414 20 As the west wind...combs out the matted and dishevelled grass as it lay in night-locks on the ground, so we let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which are dark and wet and low bent.

Ground, New Burial, n. (1)

    SHC 11.432 12 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground, to the New Burial Ground...

ground, v. (6)

    PPh 4.43 19 If [Plato] had lover, wife, or children, we hear nothing of them. He ground them all into paint.
    F 6.42 17 [Man] looks like a piece of luck, but is...the mosaic, angulated and ground to fit into the gap he fills.
    F 6.47 18 ...when a man...is ground to powder by the vice of his race;-he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...
    Art2 7.41 15 [Our works] must be conformed to [Nature's] law, or they will be ground to powder by her omnipresent activity.
    Imtl 8.346 11 A conclusion, an inference, a grand augury [of immortality], is ever hovering, but attempt to ground it, and the reasons are all vanishing and inadequate.
    MAng1 12.227 16 ...in painting, [Michelangelo] not only mixed but ground his colors himself...

grounded, v. (9)

    SR 2.63 26 What is the aboriginal Self, on which a universal reliance may be grounded?
    Mrs1 3.144 26 Another mode [of winning a place in fashion] is to pass through all the degrees...being...perfumed, and dined, and introduced, and properly grounded in all the biography and politics and anecdotes of the boudoirs.
    MoS 4.155 14 You believe yourselves rooted and grounded on adamant;...
    Elo1 7.93 21 Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.
    Imtl 8.337 4 ...the wish for sleep, for society, for knowledge, are...grounded in the structure of the creature...
    Imtl 8.344 12 The doctrine [of immortality]...is grounded in the necessities and forces we possess.
    MAng1 12.227 19 ...not only was this discoverer of Beauty [Michelangelo]...rooted and grounded in those severe laws of practical skill, which genius can never teach...but he was one of the most industrious men that ever lived.
    Trag 12.407 22 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]...a several penalty, nowise grounded in the nature of the thing, but on an arbitrary will.
    Trag 12.413 17 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...

ground-floor, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.242 25 There was a time when in France...the houses of the nobility, which, up to that time, had been constructed on feudal necessities, in a hollow square,--the ground-floor being resigned to offices and stables, and the floors above to rooms of state and to lodging-rooms,--were rebuilt with new purpose.

ground-juniper, n. (1)

    PLT 12.55 3 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours, this immense ground-juniper falling abroad and not gathered up into any columnar tree, is to substitute realism for sentimentalism;...

groundless, adj. (2)

    Prd1 2.237 16 Let [a man] front the object of his worst apprehension, and his stoutness will commonly make his fear groundless.
    Nat2 3.187 4 The excess of fear with which the animal frame is hedged round...protects us, through a multitude of groundless alarms, from some one real danger at last.

ground-nuts, n. (1)

    HDC 11.60 21 ...it was only a great thaw in January, that melting the snow and opening the earth, enabled [King Philip's] poor followers to come at the ground-nuts, else they had starved.

ground-plan, n. (4)

    Art2 7.44 19 Just as much better as is the polished statue of dazzling marble than the clay model, or as much more impressive as is the granite cathedral or pyramid than the ground-plan or profile of them on paper, so much more beauty owe they to Nature than to Art.
    Suc 7.293 17 It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the house in the ground-plan;...
    Suc 7.308 24 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...
    SlHr 10.446 1 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability...that it was admirable...

grounds, n. (54)

    Con 1.305 24 On these and the like grounds of general statement, conservatism plants itself without danger of being displaced.
    Tran 1.330 8 [The idealist]...asks the materialist for his grounds of assurance that things are as his senses represent them.
    Tran 1.332 19 ...ask [the materialist]...on what grounds he founds his faith in his figures...
    YA 1.384 22 These rising grounds which command the champaign below, seem to ask for lords...
    SR 2.54 25 Do I not know that with all this ostentation of examining the grounds of the institution [the preacher] will do no such thing?
    Hsm1 2.245 16 ...there is in [the elder English dramatists'] plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...wherein the speaker is...on such deep grounds of character, that the dialogue, on the slightest additional incident in the plot, rises naturally into poetry.
    OS 2.285 7 Who can tell the grounds of his knowledge of the character of the several individuals in his circle of friends?
    Cir 2.303 12 An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture...to a citizen;...
    Pol1 3.209 20 The vice of our leading parties in this country...is that they do not plant themselves on the deep and necessary grounds to which they are respectively entitled...
    PPh 4.49 3 ...each [Unity and Variety] so fast slides into the other that we can never say what is one, and what it is not. The Proteus is as nimble in the highest as in the lowest grounds;...
    SwM 4.111 24 The admirable preliminary discourses with which Mr. Wilkinson has enriched these volumes [by Swedenborg]...leave me nothing to say on their proper grounds.
    GoW 4.283 12 ...men distinguished for wit and learning, in England and France...are not understood to be very deeply engaged, from grounds of character, to the topic or the part they espouse...
    GoW 4.284 2 I dare not say that Goethe ascended to the highest grounds from which genius has spoken.
    ET7 5.122 21 [The English] attack their own politicians every day, on the same grounds, as adventurers.
    ET8 5.136 17 There is an English hero superior to the French, the German, the Italian, or the Greek. When he is brought to the strife with fate, he sacrifices a richer material possession, and on more purely metaphysical grounds.
    ET8 5.136 20 On deliberate choice and from grounds of character, [the English hero] has elected his part to live and die for...
    ET10 5.163 13 Whatever is excellent and beautiful...in fountain, garden, or grounds,--the English noble crosses sea and land to see and to copy at home.
    ET10 5.165 3 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds...
    ET10 5.170 2 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.
    ET11 5.187 15 On general grounds, whatever tends to form manners or to finish men, has a great value.
    ET11 5.193 22 [English noblemen]...keep [their houses] empty, aired, and the grounds mown and dressed, at a cost of four or five thousand pounds a year.
    ET15 5.270 11 [The London Times's] editors know better than to defend... English vested rights, on abstract grounds.
    ET16 5.285 2 I had not seen more charming grounds [than at Wilton Hall].
    ET18 5.306 23 ...the feudal system can be seen with less pain on large historical grounds.
    Ctr 6.137 23 We must...meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.
    Ctr 6.158 21 ...[Bonaparte] could criticise...a character, on universal grounds...
    Bhr 6.189 23 ...go into the house; if the proprietor is constrained and deferring, 't is of no importance...how beautiful his grounds...
    Elo1 7.97 26 ...[the moral sentiment] conveys a hint of our eternity, when [the hearer] feels himself addressed on grounds which will remain when everything else is taken...
    DL 7.109 13 There should be...the genius and love of the man so conspicuously marked in all his estate that the eye that knew him should read his character...in his grounds...
    Clbs 7.241 22 ...the simple lover of truth, especially on very high grounds... finds himself a stranger and alien.
    OA 7.323 12 ...the chief evil of life is taken away in removing the grounds of fear.
    SA 8.102 16 ...in every town or city is always to be found a certain number of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a great amount of hard work in the interest of the churches, of schools, of public grounds...
    Res 8.151 7 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds...
    Imtl 8.326 15 [The doctrine of the resurrection] was an affair of the body, and narrowed again by the fury of sect; so that grounds were sprinkled with holy water to receive only orthodox dust;...
    Imtl 8.343 19 On these grounds I think that wherever man ripens, this audacious belief [in immortality] presently appears...
    Imtl 8.346 3 I mean that I am a better believer, and all serious souls are better believers in the immortality, than we can give grounds for.
    MoL 10.244 25 There is much criticism, not on deep grounds, but an affirmative philosophy is wanting.
    MMEm 10.417 8 [Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and offered marriage by a man...whom she respected. The proposal gave her pause...but after consideration she refused it, I know not on what grounds...
    Thor 10.453 23 [Surveying] had the advantage for [Thoreau] that it led him continually into new and secluded grounds...
    LS 11.11 24 ...if we had found [washing of the feet] an established rite in our churches, on grounds of mere authority, it would have been impossible to have argued against it.
    HDC 11.27 6 Where are these men? asleep beneath their grounds:/ And strangers, fond as they, their furrows plough./
    HDC 11.62 13 Alas! for [the Indians]-their day is o'er,/ Their fires are out from hill and shore,/ No more for them the wild deer bounds,/ The plough is on their hunting grounds;/...
    EWI 11.109 16 These debates [on West Indian slavery] are instructive, as they show on what grounds the trade was assailed and defended.
    FSLC 11.182 26 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] showed the shallowness of leaders; the divergence of parties from their alleged grounds;...
    FSLN 11.233 3 [Official papers] are all declaratory of the will of the moment, and are passed with more levity and on grounds far less honorable than ordinary business transactions of the street.
    AKan 11.257 16 I know that lawyers hesitate on technical grounds, and wonder what method of relief [for Kansas] the legislature will apply.
    SHC 11.431 25 In cultivated grounds one sees the picturesque and opulent effect of the familiar shrubs...
    SHC 11.432 18 I suppose all of us will readily admit the value of parks and cultivated grounds to the pleasure and education of the people...
    Scot 11.464 1 ...when we reopen these old books [of Scott's] we all consent to be boys again. We tread over our youthful grounds with joy.
    FRep 11.529 20 The men, the women, all over this land shrill their exclamations of impatience and indignation at what is short-coming or is unbecoming in the government...ever on broad grounds of general justice...
    II 12.66 23 I know, of course, all the grounds on which any man affirms the immortality of the Soul.
    CL 12.145 2 The privilege of the countryman is...the laying out of grounds and gardens...
    EurB 12.369 6 ...the spirit of literature and the modes of living and the conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question [by Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...
    Let 12.393 8 ...when our correspondent proceeds to flying-machines, we... must speak on a priori grounds.

ground-swell, n. (1)

    ET15 5.270 17 Sympathizing with, and speaking for the class that rules the hour, yet being apprised of every ground-swell...[the editors of the London Times] detect the first tremblings of change.

ground-tone, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.9 20 We hear, through all the varied music [of modern poetry], the ground-tone of conventional life.

groundwork, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.175 17 That [the rich] have some high-fenced grove which they call a park; that they...go in coaches...to watering-places and to distant cities,-- these make the groundwork from which [the poor young poet] has delineated estates of romance...

ground-worms, n. (1)

    NER 3.253 5 ...a society for the protection of ground-worms, slugs and mosquitos was to be incorporated without delay.

group, n. (6)

    SL 2.157 13 It was this conviction which Swedenborg expressed when he described a group of persons in the spiritual world endeavoring in vain to articulate a proposition which they did not believe;...
    Pt1 3.25 22 A rhyme in one of our sonnets should not be less pleasing than...the resembling difference of a group of flowers.
    NR 3.225 18 ...a society of men will cursorily represent well enough a certain quality and culture, for example, chivalry or beauty of manners; but separate them and there is no gentleman and no lady in the group.
    ET16 5.276 12 On the broad downs...not a house was visible, nothing but Stonehenge, which looked like a group of brown dwarfs in the wide expanse...
    SS 7.8 23 ...the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve;...
    MAng1 12.229 2 At near eighty years, [Michelangelo] began in marble a group of four figures for a dead Christ...

group, v. (1)

    Int 2.337 24 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious states]...can design well and group well;...

grouped, v. (2)

    ET11 5.186 9 ...[English nobility] see things so grouped and amassed as to infer easily the sum and genius...
    PPo 8.264 19 [The birds] saw themselves all as Simorg,/ Themselves in the eternal Simorg./ When to the Simorg up they looked,/ They beheld him among themselves;/ And when they looked on each other,/ They saw themselves in the Simorg./ A single look grouped the two parties,/ The Simorg emerged, the Simorg vanished,/ This in that and that in this, As the world has never heard./

grouping, n. (1)

    Nat 1.15 9 ...the primary forms...give us...a pleasure arising from outline, color, motion, and grouping.

grouping, v. (4)

    Lov1 2.184 1 ...things are ever grouping themselves according to higher or more interior laws.
    ET14 5.243 24 The later English want the faculty of Plato and Aristotle, of grouping men in natural classes by an insight of general laws...
    F 6.34 19 The Fultons and Watts of politics...through a different disposition of society,-grouping it on a level instead of piling it into a mountain...have contrived to make of this terror the most...energetic form of a State.
    Art2 7.46 5 [The temple] is exalted by..its grouping with the houses, trees and towers in its vicinity.

groupings, n. (1)

    ET16 5.277 2 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked round the stones [at Stonehenge] and clambered over them, to wont ourselves with their strange aspect and groupings...

groups, n. (5)

    OS 2.277 12 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware that the thought rises to an equal level in all bosoms...
    Art1 2.357 25 No mannerist made these varied groups and diverse original single figures.
    ShP 4.194 16 [Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece] was the ornament of the temple wall: at first a rude relief carved on pediments, then the relief became bolder and a head or arm was projected from the wall; the groups being still arranged with reference to the building...
    Dem1 10.3 19 Within the sweep of yon encircling wall/ How many a large creation of the night,/ Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea,/ Peopled with busy, transitory groups,/ Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd./
    CW 12.172 9 I did not know [when I bought my farm] what groups of interesting school-boys and fair school-girls were to greet me in the highway...

groups, v. (1)

    PPr 12.379 8 [Carlyle's Past and Present] grapples honestly with the facts lying before all men, groups and disposes them with a master's mind...

grouse, n. (1)

    ET3 5.39 5 The land [in England] naturally abounds with game; immense heaths and downs are paved with quails, grouse and woodcock...

grouse's, n. (2)

    PPo 8.261 24 While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The nightingale to the falcon said/... ...sitt'st thou on the hand of princes,/ And feedest on the grouse's breast,/ Whilst I, who hundred thousand jewels/ Squander in a single tone,/ Lo! I feed myself with worms,/ And my dwelling is the thorn./
    PPo 8.262 8 The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be all ear:/ I, experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/ But thee the people prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./ To me, appointed to the chase,/ The king's hand gives the grouse's breast;/ Whilst a chatterer like thee/ Must gnaw worms in the thorn. Farewell!/

Grout, Jenkin, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.145 19 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age...
    Mrs1 3.145 20 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;...

grove, n. (14)

    LE 1.168 15 The man who...rambles in the woods, seems to be the first man that ever...entered a grove...
    YA 1.368 4 A little grove, which any farmer can find or cause to grow near his house, will in a few years make cataracts...quite unnecessary to his scenery;...
    Hist 2.20 16 No one can walk in a road cut through pine woods, without being struck with the architectural appearance of the grove...
    Nat2 3.174 12 ...we knew of [the rich man's] villa, his grove, his wine and his company...
    Nat2 3.175 13 That [the rich] have some high-fenced grove which they call a park; that they live in larger and better-garnished saloons than he has visited...these make the groundwork from which [the poor young poet] has delineated estates of romance...
    NR 3.240 24 We want the great genius only...for one tree more in our grove.
    Farm 7.141 7 He who...plants a grove of trees by the roadside...makes a fortune...which is useful to his country long afterwards.
    Farm 7.147 15 ...Nature drops a pine-cone in Mariposa, and it...grows in a grove of giants...
    PPo 8.257 8 By breath of beds of roses drawn,/ I found the grove in the morning pure,/ In the concert of the nightingales/ My drunken brain to cure./
    Insp 8.286 3 Vigorous, I spring from my couch,/ Seek the beloved Muses,/ Find them in the beech grove,/ Pleased to receive me;/...
    Prch 10.226 13 ...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland... deforming every consecrated grove, [Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-In spite of all that Beauty may disown/ In your harsh features, Nature doth embrace/ Her lawful offspring in man's art/...
    Schr 10.265 8 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...
    SHC 11.431 6 A grove of trees,-what benefit or ornament is so fair and great?...
    II 12.80 25 Plant the pitch-pine in a sand-bank, where is no food, and it thrives, and presently makes a grove...

groves, n. (9)

    Lov1 2.177 1 Fountain-heads and pathless groves,/ Places which pale passion loves,/ Moonlight walks, when all the fowls/ Are safely housed, save bats and owls,/ A midnight bell, a passing groan,--/ These are the sounds we [lovers] feed upon./
    Pt1 3.41 6 O poet! a new nobility is conferred in groves and pastures...
    Ctr 6.148 24 In the country [a man] can find...groves for devotion.
    Farm 7.147 20 [The tree]...defended itself from the sun by growing in groves...
    PI 8.55 15 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/...Fountain-heads and pathless groves/...
    LS 11.2 3 ...The word by seers or sibyls told,/ In groves of oak, or fanes of gold,/ Still floats upon the morning wind,/ Still whispers to the willing mind./
    CL 12.157 6 Can you bring home...the Savin groves of Middlesex?...
    Bost 12.189 24 [John Smith writes (1624)] Here [in New England] are many isles planted with corn, groves, mulberries, salvage gardens and good harbours.
    MLit 12.312 20 The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a certain philosophic turn, which discriminates them from the works of earlier times. The poet is not content to see...What music a sunbeam awoke in the groves...

grow, v. (79)

    AmS 1.89 11 Meek young men grow up in libraries...
    AmS 1.94 4 ...our American colleges will recede in their public importance, whilst they grow richer every year.
    DSA 1.132 27 ...only by coming again to themselves, or to God in themselves, can [the simple] grow forevermore.
    DSA 1.133 8 ...the gift of God to the soul is...a goodness...that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow.
    LE 1.176 7 ...out of our shallow and frivolous way of life, how can greatness ever grow?
    MN 1.202 27 To questions of this sort, Nature replies, I grow.
    MR 1.229 5 It is when your facts and persons grow unreal and fantastic by too much falsehood, that the scholar flies for refuge to the world of ideas...
    MR 1.231 5 Has [the young man] genius and virtue? the less does he find [the employments of commerce] fit for him to grow in...
    MR 1.246 27 ...the more odious [infirm people] grow, the sharper is the tone of their complaining and craving.
    Tran 1.351 8 We will wait. How long? Until the Universe beckons and calls us to work. But whilst you wait, you grow old and useless.
    YA 1.366 19 ...the farmer who is not wanted by others can yet grow his own bread...
    YA 1.368 5 A little grove, which any farmer can find or cause to grow near his house, will in a few years make cataracts...quite unnecessary to his scenery;...
    SR 2.49 24 These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.
    SR 2.55 25 The muscles...grow tight about the outline of the face...
    SR 2.61 13 ...millions of minds so grow and cleave to [Christ's] genius that he is confounded with virtue...
    SR 2.68 1 We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of...tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents...they chance to see...
    Comp 2.103 11 Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
    SL 2.143 20 Let [a man] regard no good as solid but that...which must grow out of him as long as he exists.
    Lov1 2.170 11 ...this passion of which we speak [love]...suffers no one who is its servant to grow old...
    Fdsp 2.209 11 Leave to the diamond its ages to grow...
    Prd1 2.234 17 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only...the thrift of the agriculturist, to stick a tree between whiles, because it will grow whilst he sleeps;...
    Prd1 2.240 13 Let us suck the sweetness of those affections and consuetudes that grow near us.
    Cir 2.319 12 Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.
    Nat2 3.195 22 ...man's life is but seventy salads long, grow they swift or grow they slow.
    Pol1 3.205 5 Corn will not grow unless it is planted and manured;...
    NR 3.228 10 ...as we grow older we value total powers and effects...
    NR 3.234 19 Lively boys write to their ear and eye, and the cool reader finds nothing but sweet jingles in it. When they grow older, they respect the argument.
    UGM 4.25 20 It is observed in old couples...that they grow like...
    UGM 4.28 19 ...every individual strives to grow and exclude and to exclude and grow, to the extremities of the universe...
    UGM 4.28 20 ...every individual strives to grow and exclude and to exclude and grow, to the extremities of the universe...
    ET4 5.65 25 It is the fault of their forms that [the English] grow stocky...
    ET13 5.214 7 ...English life...does not grow out of the Athanasian creed...
    ET14 5.252 16 The tone of colleges and of scholars and of literary society [in England] has this mortal air. I seem to walk on a marble floor, where nothing will grow.
    ET16 5.277 15 Within the enclosure [of Stonehenge] grow buttercups, nettles...
    F 6.41 4 Thus events grow on the same stem with persons;...
    Pow 6.60 11 A good tree that agrees with the soil will grow in spite of blight...
    Pow 6.62 2 We prosper with such vigor that like thrifty trees, which grow in spite of ice, lice, mice and borers, so we do not suffer from the profligate swarms that fatten on the national treasury.
    Wth 6.107 26 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for he knows that the weeds will grow with the potatoes...
    Ctr 6.164 21 ...these boys who now grow up are caught not only years too late, but two or three births too late, to make the best scholars of.
    Bhr 6.174 17 Manners...grow out of circumstance as well as out of character.
    Bhr 6.186 9 Society...if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked; the second... is not to be resisted, as the date of the transaction is not easily found. People grow up and grow old under this infliction, and never suspect the truth...
    Wsp 6.218 10 If your eye is on the eternal, your intellect will grow...
    Wsp 6.227 12 As we grow older we value total powers and effects...
    Wsp 6.231 4 The Buddhists say, No seed will die: every seed will grow.
    CbW 6.248 11 In the streets we grow cynical.
    CbW 6.259 20 ...there is...no plant that is not fed from manures. We only insist...that the plant grow upward and convert the base into the better nature.
    DL 7.113 26 ...the love of wealth seems to grow chiefly out of the root of the love of the Beautiful.
    Farm 7.139 14 ...[the farmer] must wait for his crop to grow.
    Farm 7.144 7 The good rocks...say to [the farmer]: We have the sacred power as we received it. We have not failed of our trust, and now...take the gas we have hoarded, mingle it with water, and let it be free to grow in plants and animals and obey the thought of man.
    Farm 7.147 17 [The tree] did not grow on a ridge, but in a basin...
    Cour 7.269 25 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.
    Res 8.152 12 If I go into the woods in winter, and am shown the thirteen or fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that they quietly expand in the warmer days...
    PC 8.216 21 We grow free with [Michelangelo's] name, and find it ornamental now;...
    PPo 8.254 23 Give me what you will; I eat thistles as roses,/ And according to my food I grow and I give./
    Grts 8.311 27 The scholar's courage should be as terrible as the Cid's, though it grow out of spiritual nature, not out of brawn.
    PerF 10.69 3 The hero in the fairy-tales has a servant who can eat granite rocks, another who can hear the grass grow...
    PerF 10.86 10 All our political disasters grow as logically out of our attempts in the past to do without justice, as the sinking of some part of your house comes of defect in the foundation.
    Chr2 10.112 18 Our religion has got on as far as Unitarianism. But all the forms grow pale.
    Edc1 10.150 22 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals;...you grow departmental, routinary, military almost with your discipline and college police.
    SovE 10.198 9 ...as we send to England for shrubs which grow as well in our own door-yards and cow-pastures.
    Prch 10.222 16 [Religion] does not grow thin or robust with the health of the votary.
    Schr 10.259 5 For thought, and not praise,/ Thought is the wages/ For which I sell days,/ Will gladly sell ages,/ And willing grow old,/ Deaf and dumb, blind and cold/...
    Schr 10.272 8 Gold and silver, says one of the Platonists, grow in the earth from the celestial gods...
    LLNE 10.326 26 People grow philosophical about native land and parents and relations.
    Thor 10.468 24 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord did not grow out of any ignorance or depreciation of other longitudes or latitudes...
    SHC 11.431 13 ...[trees] grow when we sleep...
    SHC 11.433 19 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted...every tree that is native to Massachusetts, or will grow in it;...
    FRO1 11.481 1 I wish...that within this little band that has gathered here to-day [Free Religious Association], should grow friendship.
    FRO1 11.481 2 The interests that grow out of a meeting like this [of the Free Religious Association] should bind us with new strength to the old eternal duties.
    PLT 12.25 9 The fine tree continues to grow.
    Mem 12.98 26 ...you have lost something for everything you have gained, and cannot grow.
    Mem 12.104 1 At this hour the stream is still flowing, though you hear it not; the plants are still drinking their accustomed life and repaying it with their beautiful forms. But you need not wander thither. It flows for you, and they grow for you, in the returning images of former summers.
    CInt 12.120 16 [Demosthenes said] If it please you to note it, my counsels to you are not such whereby I should grow great among you...
    CL 12.139 3 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts...we were better patriots and happier men.
    CW 12.177 25 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches...in winter, because, remove the snow a little, a multitude of plants live and grow...
    CW 12.178 14 ...[trees] grow, when you wake and when you sleep, at nobody's cost...
    Bost 12.199 20 What should hinder that this America, so long kept in reserve from the intellectual races until they should grow to it...should have its happy ports...
    MLit 12.329 19 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] ...out of many vices and misfortunes [in Wilhelm Meister], I have let a great success grow, as I had known in my own and many other examples.
    AgMs 12.362 23 The way in which men who have farms grow rich is either by other resources, or by trade...

growed, v. (1)

    PLT 12.35 10 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave...Behemoth... aboriginal...and saying, like poor Topsy, never was born; growed.

growing, adj. (14)

    YA 1.365 12 ...scientific agriculture is an object of growing attention;...
    NER 3.260 17 I conceive...the indication of growing trust in the private self-supplied powers of the individual, to be the affirmative principle of the recent philosophy...
    ShP 4.191 19 The Puritans, a growing and energetic party...would supress [dramatic entertainments].
    ShP 4.201 24 Elated with success and piqued by the growing interest of the problem, [the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...
    ET1 5.7 27 [Landor]...shares the growing taste for Perugino and the early masters.
    F 6.30 17 We can afford to allow the limitation, if we know it is the meter of the growing man.
    Wth 6.117 20 Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
    WD 7.172 27 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship, and Nature employed certain illusions as her ties and straps...skates, a river, a boat, a horse, a gun, for the growing boy;...
    Suc 7.283 7 ...we read our growing valuations...
    Elo2 8.118 8 ...the great and daily growing interests at stake in this country must pay proportional prices to their spokesmen and defenders.
    Insp 8.291 13 ...the wise student will remember the prudence of Sir Tristram in Morte d' Arthur, who, having received from the fairy an enchantment of six hours of growing strength every day, took care to fight in the hours when his strength increased;...
    SovE 10.187 5 The geologic world is chronicled by the growing ripeness of the strata from lower to higher...
    GSt 10.506 1 [George Stearns] had been...through all his years devoted to the growing details of his prospering manufactory.
    MLit 12.320 15 The fame of Wordsworth is a leading fact in modern literature, when it is considered...with what limited poetic talents his great and steadily growing dominion has been established.

growing, v. (32)

    LE 1.179 13 ...[Napoleon] belonged to a class fast growing in the world...
    MN 1.203 8 ...total nature is growing like a field of maize in July;...
    LT 1.274 21 The more intelligent are growing uneasy on the subject of Marriage.
    Tran 1.331 20 ...how easy it is to show [the materialist]...that he need only ask a question or two beyond his daily questions to find his solid universe growing dim and impalpable before his sense.
    Pt1 3.31 6 ...Timaeus...affirms a man to be a heavenly tree, growing with his root, which is his head, upward;...
    SwM 4.138 8 Another dogma, growing out of this pernicious theologic limitation, is [Swedenborg's] Inferno.
    MoS 4.182 2 These particular griefs and crimes are the foliage and fruit of such trees as we see growing.
    ET10 5.155 26 During the war from 1789 to 1815...the English were growing rich every year faster than any people ever grew before.
    ET11 5.183 1 These large [private English] domains are growing larger.
    ET16 5.290 21 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted them affectionately, for he rightly values the brave man who built Windsor and this Cathedral and the School here and New College at Oxford. But it was growing late in the afternoon.
    Farm 7.147 20 [The tree]...defended itself from the sun by growing in groves...
    Suc 7.298 25 The owner of the wood-lot finds only a number of discolored trees, and says...they are n't growing any better;...
    Schr 10.268 7 I should wish your energy to run in works and emergencies growing out of your personal character.
    MMEm 10.399 20 I report some of the thoughts and soliloquies of a country girl [Mary Moody Emerson]...growing from youth to age amid slender opportunities and usually very humble company.
    MMEm 10.401 3 [Mary Moody Emerson's] mother had married again... and had now a young family growing up around her.
    MMEm 10.402 6 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's] attachment to the youths and maidens growing up in those families [of her brothers and sisters] was secure for any trait of talent or of character.
    MMEm 10.427 6 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...growing out of her respect to the Revelation...
    Thor 10.453 13 A natural skill for mensuration, growing out of his mathematical knowledge...and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
    GSt 10.501 22 ...[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics, then growing more anxious year by year, engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.
    LVB 11.90 2 The interest always felt in the aboriginal population-an interest naturally growing as that decays,-has been heightened in regard to this tribe [Cherokee].
    EWI 11.110 15 In consequence of the dangers of the [slave] trade growing out of the act of abolition, ships were built sharp for swiftness...
    FSLN 11.241 5 ...when one sees how fast the rot [of slavery] spreads,-it is growing serious,-I think we demand of superior men that they be superior in this,-that the mind and the virtue shall give their verdict in their day...
    Koss 11.399 13 We [people of Concord] are afraid that you [Kossuth] are growing popular...
    SHC 11.433 20 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted...every tree that is native to Massachusetts...so that every child may be shown growing, side by side, the eleven oaks of Massachusetts;...
    CPL 11.497 18 ...I always remember with satisfaction that I saw that venerable plant [Papyrus] in 1833, growing wild at Syracuse, in Sicily...
    FRep 11.533 26 Life is grown and growing so costly that it threatens to kill us.
    CL 12.146 17 I know a whole district...where the apple-trees strive with and hold their ground against the native forest-trees: the apple growing with profusion that mocks the pains taken by careful cockneys...
    CL 12.147 20 ...I recommend [a walk in the woods] to people who are growing old, against their will.
    Bost 12.188 9 London now for a thousand years...has not stopped growing.
    Bost 12.200 4 America is growing like a cloud...
    MLit 12.324 24 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation of the Italian mode of reckoning the hours of the day, as growing out of the Italian climate;...
    MLit 12.324 26 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the obelisk of Egypt, as growing out of a common natural fracture in the granite parallelopiped in Upper Egypt;...

growl, v. (2)

    SR 2.56 20 ...when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
    Bhr 6.173 5 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners...can reach: the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by...

grown, adj. (2)

    ET8 5.128 13 [The English] are...not so easily amused as the southerners, and are among them as grown people among children...
    Ctr 6.133 11 ...we have seen children who finding themselves of no account when grown people come in, will cough until they choke, to draw attention.

grown, v. (44)

    MR 1.227 9 ...some of those offices and functions for which we were mainly created are grown so rare in society that the memory of them is only kept alive in old books...
    MR 1.230 20 The ways of trade are grown selfish to the borders of theft...
    Con 1.319 19 ...leprosy has grown cunning, has got into the ballot-box;...
    YA 1.370 6 How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.
    YA 1.377 20 Feudalism...had grown mischievous...
    SR 2.80 2 It will happen for a time that the pupil will find his intellectual power has grown by the study of his master's mind.
    Lov1 2.176 22 The trees of the forest, the waving grass and the peeping flowers have grown intelligent;...
    Pt1 3.22 14 This expression or naming is not art, but a second nature, grown out of the first...
    Exp 3.61 21 I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental...
    Mrs1 3.146 8 ...there is still...some fanatic who plants...orchards when he is grown old;...
    Nat2 3.173 20 I am grown expensive and sophisticated.
    Nat2 3.195 17 They say that by electro-magnetism your salad shall be grown from the seed whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner;...
    PPh 4.66 21 Socrates declares that if some have grown wise by associating with him, no thanks are due to him;...
    PPh 4.73 4 ...it is certain that [Socrates] had grown to delight in nothing else than this conversation;...
    ET10 5.170 21 Who can propose to youth poverty and wisdom...when English success has grown out of the very renunciation of principles...
    ET12 5.210 2 ...no doubt their learning is grown obsolete;--but Oxford also has its merits...
    Ctr 6.146 17 The boy grown up on a farm...is said in the country to have had no chance...
    CbW 6.252 1 The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee. But the units whereof this mass is composed, are neuters, every one of which may be grown to a queen-bee.
    CbW 6.256 1 California gets peopled and subdued, civilized in this immoral way, and on this fiction a real prosperity is rooted and grown.
    Suc 7.311 22 We have grown to manhood and womanhood;...
    Res 8.143 19 ...it turns out that [the Chinaman] has sent home to China American food and tools and luxuries...and a new market has grown up for our commerce.
    PC 8.212 8 ...I say, Happy is the land wherein benefits like these have grown trite and commonplace.
    Insp 8.281 9 ...I fancy that my logs, which have grown so long in sun and wind by Walden, are a kind of muses.
    PerF 10.75 4 Where are the farmer's days gone? See, they are hid...in the harvest grown on what was shingle and pine-barren.
    Edc1 10.153 12 ...the gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth, is grown a martinet...
    Prch 10.227 24 ...my discontent is with [Cudworth's, More's, Bunyan's] limitations and surface and language. Their statement is grown as fabulous as Dante's Inferno.
    LLNE 10.329 9 Experiment is credible; antiquity is grown ridiculous.
    MMEm 10.408 19 ...the whim and petulance in which by diseased habit [Mary Moody Emerson] had grown to indulge without suspecting it, was burned up in the glow of her pure and poetic spirit, which dearly loved the Infinite.
    Thor 10.468 13 [Thoreau]...noticed, with pleasure, that the willow bean-poles of his neighbor had grown more than his beans.
    GSt 10.503 12 In 1862...[George Stearns] took the first steps for organizing the Freedman's Bureau,-a department which has since grown to great proportions.
    HDC 11.46 3 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies.
    War 11.157 15 Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to dismantle their castles...
    War 11.163 7 We have all grown up in the sight of frigates and navy-yards...
    FSLN 11.242 12 [American universities] have...grown worldly and political.
    SMC 11.348 7 Think you these felt no charms/ In their gray homesteads and embowered farms?/ ... In fields their boyish feet had known?/ In trees their fathers' hands had set,/ And which with them had grown,/ Widening each year their leafy coronet?/
    SMC 11.358 23 Our first company was led by an officer who had grown up in this village from a boy.
    FRep 11.533 26 Life is grown and growing so costly that it threatens to kill us.
    CL 12.151 20 In August, when the corn is grown to be a resort and protection to woodcocks and small birds...we observe already that the leaf is sere...
    Bost 12.188 14 [Boston] is...not...an army-barracks grown up by time and luck to a place of wealth;...
    Bost 12.211 13 [Boston] has grown great. She is filled with strangers, but she can only prosper by adhering to her faith.
    MAng1 12.241 15 Towards his end, there seems to have grown in [Michelangelo] an invincible appetite of dying...
    Milt1 12.251 10 [Milton's Areopagitica] is, as Luther said of one of Melancthon's writings...not like Erasmus's sentences, which were made, not grown.
    PPr 12.379 17 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a...thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful political signs in England for the last few years...until such daily and nightly meditation has grown into a great connection, if not a system of thoughts;...
    Let 12.402 22 It may easily happen that we are grown very idle, and must go to work...

grows, v. (64)

    Nat 1.42 15 ...this moral sentiment which...grows in the grain...is caught by man...
    AmS 1.85 1 ...ever the grass grows.
    DSA 1.119 2 The grass grows...
    LE 1.175 3 Pindar, Raphael...dwell in crowds it may be, but the instant thought comes the crowd grows dim to their eye;...
    MN 1.195 7 In the bottom of the heart it is said; I am, and by me, O child! this fair body and world of thine stands and grows.
    MN 1.210 5 ...if [a man's] eye is set...not on the truth that is still taught, and for the sake of which the things are to be done, then the voice grows faint...
    MR 1.236 16 The use of manual labor is one which never grows obsolete...
    Con 1.300 7 ...the superior beauty is with the oak which stands with its hundred arms against the storms of a century, and grows every year like a sapling;...
    YA 1.377 7 ...Trade, a plant which grows wherever there is peace...
    SR 2.81 18 He who travels...to get somewhat which he does not carry... grows old even in youth among old things.
    Comp 2.117 21 Our strength grows out of our weakness.
    SL 2.129 7 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ .../ Grows by decays/...
    Lov1 2.176 17 [Love] makes all things alive and significant. Nature grows conscious.
    Prd1 2.225 13 We eat of the bread which grows in the field.
    Prd1 2.226 12 ...wherever a wild date-tree grows, nature has...spread a table for [the islander's] morning meal.
    OS 2.296 16 [The soul]...feels that the grass grows and the stone falls by a law inferior to, and dependent on, its nature.
    Int 2.327 18 The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times...of that spontaneity.
    Pt1 3.40 17 Nothing walks, or creeps, or grows, or exists, which must not in turn arise and walk before [the poet] as exponent of his meaning.
    Mrs1 3.127 14 ...a fine sense of propriety is cultivated with the more heed that it becomes a badge of social and civil distinctions. Thus grows up Fashion...
    Nat2 3.195 3 All over the wide fields of earth grows the prunella or self-heal.
    UGM 4.6 3 Man is that noble endogenous plant which grows, like the palm, from within outward.
    UGM 4.11 14 ...the chemic lump arrives at the plant, and grows;...
    UGM 4.26 21 [The great] are the exceptions which we want, where all grows like.
    MoS 4.165 19 ...with all this really superfluous frankness [in Montaigne], the opinion of an invincible probity grows into every reader's mind.
    MoS 4.177 7 Fate...grows over us like grass.
    ET1 5.7 14 [Landor] praised the beautiful cyclamen which grows all about Florence;...
    ET4 5.49 7 ...the appetite for superiority grows by feeding.
    ET16 5.280 15 The grass grows rank and dark in the showery England.
    F 6.30 21 ...when the boy grows to man...he pulls down that wall...
    Wth 6.99 16 Man was born to be rich, or inevitably grows rich by the use of his faculties;...
    Wth 6.116 10 The smell of the plants has drugged [the land-owner] and robbed him of energy. He finds a catalepsy in his bones. He grows peevish and poor-spirited.
    Civ 7.19 21 Each nation grows after its own genius...
    Civ 7.26 1 Where the banana grows the animal system is indolent...
    DL 7.105 13 Fast--almost too fast for the wistful curiosity of the parents... the little talker grows to a boy.
    DL 7.107 3 [The little pilgrim] grows up the ornament and joy of the house...
    Farm 7.147 13 ...Nature drops a pine-cone in Mariposa, and it...grows three or four hundred feet high...
    Farm 7.147 15 ...Nature drops a pine-cone in Mariposa, and it...grows in a grove of giants...
    PI 8.19 3 In the presence and conversation of a true poet, teeming with images to express his enlarging thought, his person, his form, grows larger to our fascinated eyes.
    PI 8.60 8 [The Crusades brought out the genius of France, in the twelfth century, when] Pons de Capdeuil declares,--Since the air renews itself and softens, so must my heart renew itself, and what buds in it buds and grows outside of it.
    Res 8.153 4 ...[the willows'] gentle persistency...grows in the night and snow and cold.
    Aris 10.51 16 The day is darkened...when genius grows idle and wanton...
    Aris 10.64 22 ...a good head soon grows wise, and does not govern too much.
    PerF 10.75 17 ...[labor] grows in the corn;...
    Chr2 10.111 8 Duty grows everywhere...
    Schr 10.279 6 Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief and misleading;...
    Plu 10.310 24 [Plutarch] quotes Thucydides's saying that not the desire of honor only never grows old, but much less also the inclination to society and affection to the State...
    Thor 10.484 10 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...
    HDC 11.36 12 Of the pith elder, that still grows beside our brooks, [the Indians] made their arrow.
    FSLC 11.178 11 ...Fate's grass grows rank in valley clods,/ And rankly on the castled steep,-/ Speak it firmly, these [Eternal Rights] are gods,/ Are all ghosts beside./
    ACiv 11.309 2 ...justice satisfies everybody,-white man, red man, yellow man and black man. All like wages, and the appetite grows by feeding.
    SMC 11.351 14 ...whatever good grows to the country out of war...will go on clothing this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.
    CPL 11.497 15 ...though [Papyrus] hardly grows now in Egypt...I always remember with satisfaction that I saw that venerable plant in 1833...
    FRep 11.525 7 After every practical mistake out of which any disaster grows, the [American] people wake and correct it with energy.
    NHI 12.2 1 Power that by obedience grows,/ Knowledge that its source not knows,/ Wave which severs whom it bears/ From the things which he compares./
    PLT 12.25 20 The commonest remark, if the man could only extend it a little, would make him a genius; but the thought is prematurely checked, and grows no more.
    PLT 12.26 1 The botanist discovered long ago that Nature loves mixtures, and that nothing grows well on the crab-stock...
    PLT 12.58 20 ...[each talent] works for show and for the shop, and the greater it grows the more is the mischief and the misleading...
    Mem 12.106 14 [The bright school-girl] carries [what she has memorized] so carelessly, it seems like the profusion of hair on the shock heads of all the village boys and village dogs; it grows like grass.
    CInt 12.123 20 ...the greater [talent] grows, the more is the mischief and misleading...
    CInt 12.124 27 ...of necessity, a certain hostility and jealousy of genius grows up in the masters of routine...
    CL 12.139 3 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts...we were better patriots and happier men.
    CL 12.146 1 [The pear] grows like the ash Ygdrasil.
    CL 12.161 26 Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person who knows where arnica grows...
    Milt1 12.253 8 The opposition to [a masterpiece of art]...at last ends; and a new race grows up in the taste and spirit of the work...

growth, n. (69)

    Nat 1.40 24 ...every change of vegetation from the first principle of growth in the eye of a leaf...shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    LE 1.164 25 The growth of the intellect is strictly analogous in all individuals.
    MN 1.219 19 ...[the Puritans' motive for settlement] was the growth and expansion of the human race...
    LT 1.267 10 The change and decline of old reputations are the gracious marks of our own growth.
    Con 1.300 20 Each of the convolutions of the sea-shell...marks one year of the fish's life; what was the mouth of the shell for one season, with the addition of new matter by the growth of the animal, becoming an ornamental node.
    Hist 2.12 25 ...every animal in its growth, teaches the unity of cause...
    SR 2.70 23 I see the same law working in nature for conservation and growth.
    Comp 2.124 21 The changes which break up at short intervals the prosperity of men are advertisements of a nature whose law is growth.
    Comp 2.124 26 ...the shell-fish crawls out of its beautiful but stony case, because it no longer admits of its growth...
    Comp 2.125 16 ...to us...resisting, not cooperating with the divine expansion, this growth comes by shocks.
    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.
    Prd1 2.225 3 [Prudence] respects...the law of polarity, growth and death.
    OS 2.274 27 ...by every throe of growth the man expands there where he works...
    OS 2.275 24 Within the same sentiment is the germ of intellectual growth...
    OS 2.293 1 [God's presence] is...the infinite enlargement of the heart with a power of growth to a new infinity on every side.
    Cir 2.307 13 A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
    Int 2.327 17 The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion.
    Pt1 3.21 4 All the facts of...growth...are symbols of the passage of the world into the soul of man...
    Pt1 3.41 16 ...in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.
    Exp 3.70 11 In the growth of the embryo, Sir Everard Home I think noticed that the evolution was not from one central point...
    Exp 3.70 24 Bear with...with this coetaneous growth of the parts;...
    Chr1 3.102 14 These are properties of life, and another trait is the notice of incessant growth.
    Nat2 3.186 9 [Nature]...has secured the symmetrical growth of the [the child's] bodily frame by all these attitudes and exertions...
    Pol1 3.215 24 The antidote to this abuse of formal government is...the growth of the Individual;...
    NER 3.255 14 ...the country is full of kings. Hands off! let there be no control and no interference in the administration of the affairs of this kingdom of me. Hence the growth of the doctrine and of the party of Free Trade...
    NER 3.269 21 [The scholar]...became a showman, turning his gifts to a marketable use, and not to his own sustenance and growth.
    UGM 4.32 6 The heroes of the hour are relatively great; of a faster growth;...
    PPh 4.50 4 What is the great end of all [said Krishna], you shall now learn from me. It is soul...exempt from birth, growth and decay...
    PNR 4.80 12 Modern science...has learned to indemnify the student of man for the defects of individuals by tracing growth and ascent in races;...
    MoS 4.172 8 ...the interrogation of custom at all points is an inevitable stage in the growth of every superior mind...
    ET5 5.84 9 You dine with a gentleman [in England] on venison, pheasant, quail, pigeons, poultry, mushrooms and pine-apples, all the growth of his estate.
    ET6 5.111 8 Bacon told [the English], Time was the right reformer; Chatham, that confidence was a plant of slow growth;...
    ET10 5.157 16 It is a curious chapter in modern history, the growth of the machine-shop.
    ET12 5.207 5 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam...the atmosphere is loaded with Greek learning; the whole river has reached a certain height, and kills all that growth of weeds which this Castalian water kills.
    ET14 5.239 22 Locke is as surely the influx of decomposition and of prose, as Bacon and the Platonists of growth.
    F 6.42 14 As once [man] found himself among toys, so now...his growth is declared in his ambition...
    Wth 6.86 10 One man has stronger arms or longer legs; another sees by the course of streams and the growth of markets where land will be wanted, makes a clearing to the river, goes to sleep and wakes up rich.
    Wth 6.102 26 Forty years ago, a dollar would not buy much in Boston. Now it will buy a great deal more in our old town, thanks to...the contemporaneous growth of New York and the whole country.
    Civ 7.20 7 In other races [than the Indian and the negro] the growth is not arrested...
    Civ 7.20 20 The occasion of one of these starts of growth is always some novelty that astounds the mind and provokes it to dare to change.
    DL 7.112 23 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... ... If all are well attended, then must the master and mistress be studious of particulars at the cost of their own accomplishments and growth;...
    Farm 7.154 3 Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining...
    Suc 7.291 27 ...whilst this self-truth is essential to the exhibition of the world and to the growth and glory of each mind, it is rare to find a man who believes his own thought...
    OA 7.329 2 The best things are of secular growth.
    PI 8.48 19 ...rhyme soars and refines with the growth of the mind.
    QO 8.181 27 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society,-that every talker helps a story in repeating it, until, at last, from the slenderest filament of fact a good fable is constructed,-the same growth befalls mythology...
    QO 8.182 6 ...the psalms and liturgies of churches, are...of this slow growth...
    PPo 8.247 15 We absorb elements enough, but have not leaves and lungs for healthy perspiration and growth.
    Imtl 8.334 8 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive...the secret workman so transcendently skilful that it tasks successive generations of observers only to find out...the delicate contrivance and adjustment...of a moss, to its wants, growth and perpetuation;...and the contriver of it all forever hidden!
    Chr2 10.119 1 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects. Of course, each poor soul loses all his old stays;...no fagot, no penance, no fine, no rebuke. Is not this wrong? is not this dangerous? 'T is not wrong, but the law of growth.
    Prch 10.237 22 ...when we...come into the house of thought and worship, we come with the purpose...to see that life...is...a growth after immutable laws under beneficent influences the most immense.
    Thor 10.480 25 ...these foibles [of Thoreau], real or apparent, were fast vanishing in the incessant growth of a spirit so robust and wise...
    Carl 10.492 24 If you boast of the growth of the country, and show [Carlyle] the wonderful results of the census, he finds nothing so depressing as the sight of a great mob.
    HDC 11.56 6 Even this check which befell [the people of Concord] acquaints us with the rapidity of their growth...
    HDC 11.56 16 We have among us [says Peter Bulkeley] excess and...pride in apparel, daintiness in diet, and that in those who, in times past, would have been satisfied with bread. This is the sin of the lowest of the people. Better evidence could not be desired of the rapid growth of the settlement [Concord].
    HDC 11.57 12 ...a new and alarming public distress retarded the growth of [Concord], as of the sister towns...
    HDC 11.62 23 In the great growth of the country, Concord participated...
    HDC 11.84 25 Of late years, the growth of Concord has been slow.
    FSLC 11.203 3 ...as the activity and growth of slavery began to be offensively felt by [Webster's] constituents, the senator became less sensitive to these evils.
    CPL 11.495 14 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who cannot wait for the slow growth of the population to make these advantages adequate to the desires of the people...
    PLT 12.13 1 ...just in proportion to the activity of thoughts on the study of outward objects...in that proportion the faculties of the mind had a healthy growth;...
    PLT 12.24 20 What happens here in mankind is matched by what happens out there in the history of grass and wheat. This curious resemblance repeats, in the mental function, the germination, growth...in short, all the accidents of the plant.
    PLT 12.60 3 The history of mankind is the history of arrested growth.
    PLT 12.60 5 This premature stop, I know not how, befalls most of us in early youth; as if the growth of high powers...closed at two or three years in the child...
    CL 12.140 9 In summer, we have for weeks a sky of Calcutta, yielding the richest growth...
    CL 12.163 25 [The principle of levity] is related to the purest of the world, to gravity, the growth of grass, and the angles of crystals.
    CW 12.178 17 Lord Abercorn, when some one praised the rapid growth of his trees, replied, Sir, they have nothing else to do!
    CW 12.178 23 Cities force the growth and make [the man] talkative and entertaining...
    MLit 12.312 3 ...the prodigious growth and influence of the genius of Shakspeare, in the last one hundred and fifty years, is itself a fact of the first importance.

growths, n. (6)

    OS 2.274 22 The growths of genius are of a certain total character...
    Cir 2.320 13 ...the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universal movements of the soul, he hideth;...
    ET5 5.77 19 All the admirable expedients or means hit upon in England must be looked at as growths or irresistible offshoots of the expanding mind of the race.
    PI 8.9 10 ...[all things in Nature's] growths, decays, quality and use so curiously resemble [the student], in parts and in wholes, that he is compelled to speak by means of them.
    SMC 11.349 18 We are thankful...that the heroes of old and of recent date, who made and kept America free and united, were not rare or solitary growths...
    Wom 11.424 15 All events of history are to be regarded as growths and offshoots of the expanding mind of the race...

grub, adj. (1)

    AmS 1.96 22 In its grub state, [the new deed] cannot fly...

grub, n. (6)

    AmS 1.92 15 ...[insects] lay up food before death for the young grub they shall never see.
    AmS 1.96 23 In its grub state...[the new deed] is a dull grub.
    Hist 2.13 14 Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual;...
    PI 8.5 15 I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the old form; and in animal transformation not less, as in grub and fly...
    SovE 10.184 23 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part...
    PLT 12.59 26 The same course continues itself in the mind which we have witnessed in Nature, namely the carrying-on and completion of the metamorphosis from grub to worm, from worm to fly.

Grub Street, London, Engla (1)

    Boks 7.196 16 Now and then, by rarest luck, is some foolish Grub Street is the gem we want.

grubbing, v. (1)

    SwM 4.99 7 Such a boy [as Swedenborg]...goes grubbing into mines and mountains...

grudge, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.161 26 Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--Get him the time's long grudge, the court's ill-will,/ And, reconciled, keep him suspected still./ Make him lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed Poverty./
    HDC 11.47 20 In these assemblies [New England town-meetings]...every local feeling, every private grudge, every suggestion of petulance and ignorance, were not less faithfully produced.

grudge, v. (6)

    SR 2.52 8 ...I grudge the dollar...I give to such men as do not belong to me...
    UGM 4.29 17 Serve the great. ... Grudge no office thou canst render.
    ET3 5.43 2 I [Nature] will not grudge a competition of the roughest males.
    Art2 7.47 4 We grudge to Homer the wide human circumspection his commentators ascribe to him.
    Suc 7.286 25 Neither do we grudge to each of these benefactors the praise or the profit which accrues from his industry.
    HCom 11.339 10 We grudge them not, our dearest, bravest, best,-/ Let but the quarrel's issue stand confest:/ 'T is Earth's old slave-God battling for his crown/ And Freedom fighting with her visor down./ Holmes.

grudged, v. (1)

    CbW 6.263 8 No...poverty, nor exercise, that can gain [health], must be grudged.

grudges, v. (1)

    AmS 1.95 25 The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by...

gruel, n. (1)

    WD 7.159 10 Why need I speak of steam...which is made in hospitals to bring a bowl of gruel to a sick man's bed...

gruffness, n. (1)

    ET8 5.130 25 ...you shall find in the common [English] people a surly indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper;...

grumbling, adj. (1)

    CbW 6.265 14 ...I find the gayest castles in the air that were ever piled, far better for comfort and for use than the dungeons in the air that are daily dug and caverned out by grumbling, discontented people.

grunt, n. (1)

    F 6.36 12 The whole circle of animal life...a yelp of pain and a grunt of triumph ...pleases at a sufficient perspective.

grunting, adj. (1)

    SL 2.134 3 When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful and pleasant as roses, we must...not...say, Crump is a better man with his grunting resistance to all his native devils.

Guadaloupe, n. (1)

    Bost 12.187 12 In...the farthest colonies,-in Guiana, in Guadaloupe,-a middle-aged gentleman is just embarking with all his property to fulfil the dream of his life and spend his old age in Paris;...

guano, n. (2)

    YA 1.381 25 On one side is agricultural chemistry...offering, by means of a teaspoonful of artificial guano, to turn a sandbank into corn;...
    F 6.16 24 The German and Irish millions...have a great deal of guano in their destiny.

guarantee, n. (1)

    MLit 12.334 9 The very depth of the sentiment...is guarantee for the riches of science and of song in the age to come.

guaranteeing, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.232 15 Life is hardly respectable...if it has no generous, guaranteeing task...

guarantees, v. (1)

    FSLN 11.240 27 ...the inconsistency of slavery with the principles on which the world is built guarantees its downfall...

guaranties, n. (4)

    UGM 4.19 3 ...[a wise man] would...calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guaranties of condition.
    FSLC 11.184 12 ...what is the use of constitutions, if all the guaranties provided by the jealousy of ages for the protection of liberty are made of no effect, when a bad act of Congress finds a willing commissioner?
    FSLC 11.213 24 It is very certain from the perfect guaranties in the constitution...that there is sufficient margin in the statute and the law for the spirit of the Magistrate to show itself...
    FSLN 11.233 24 ...now you relied on these dismal guaranties infamously made in 1850; and, before the body of Webster is yet crumbled, it is found that they have crumbled.

guaranty, n. (7)

    Comp 2.119 5 The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfilment of every contract...
    MoS 4.176 16 ...what guaranty for the permanence of [a man's] opinions?
    Bhr 6.190 24 Self-reliance...is the guaranty that the powers are not squandered in too much demonstration.
    Grts 8.315 13 ...I please myself with [greatness's] diffusion; to find a spark of true fire amid much corruption. It is some guaranty, I hope, for the health of the soul which has this generous blood.
    FSLN 11.234 1 [Official papers] are no guaranty to the free states.
    FSLN 11.234 2 [Official papers] are a guaranty to the slave states that, as they have hitherto met with no repulse, they shall meet with none.
    ChiE 11.474 21 It appears that the ambassadors [from the United States and from England to China] were emulous in their magnanimity. It is certainly the best guaranty for the interests of China and of humanity.

guard, adj. (1)

    SMC 11.366 3 This [old artillery] company...was later embodied in the Forty-Seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers...and sent to New Orleans, where they were employed in guard duty during their term of service.

Guard, Imperial, n. (2)

    DSA 1.149 1 The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause. Such souls...are the Imperial Guard of Virtue...
    LE 1.180 20 ...always remained [Napoleon's] total trust in the prodigious revolutions of fortune which his reserved Imperial Guard were capable of working...

guard, n. (14)

    MN 1.213 5 ...man must be on his guard against this cup of enchantments...
    YA 1.390 23 It is for us to confide in the beneficent Supreme Power, and not to rely on our money, and on the state because it is the guard of money.
    ET4 5.65 17 I remarked the stoutness [of the English] on my first landing at Liverpool; porter, drayman, coachman, guard...
    ET11 5.187 18 Every one who has tasted the delight of friendship will respect every social guard which our manners can establish...
    Bhr 6.182 11 ...[Balzac] says, The look, the voice, the respiration, and the attitude or walk, are identical. But, as it has not been given to man the power to stand guard at once over these four different simultaneous expressions of his thought, watch that one which speaks out the truth, and you will know the whole man.
    Bhr 6.185 2 The aspect of that man is repulsive; I do not wish to deal with him. The other is irritable, shy and on his guard.
    Elo1 7.80 12 ...among our cool and calculating people, where every man mounts guard over himself...there is a good deal of skepticism as to extraordinary influence.
    Cour 7.265 14 Bodily pain is superficial, seated usually in the skin and the extremities, for the sake of giving us warning to put us on our guard;...
    OA 7.333 5 ...[John Adams]...added, My son has more political prudence that any man that I know who has existed in my time; he never was put off his guard;...
    SA 8.92 24 If you are suspiciously and dryly on your guard, so is he or she.
    Edc1 10.138 22 I like...boys...putting nobody on his guard, but seeing the inside of the show...
    Supl 10.173 17 The expressors are the gods of the world, but the men whom these expressors revere are the solid, balanced, undemonstrative citizens, who make the reserved guard, the central sense, of the world.
    EzRy 10.383 14 ...[Ezra Ripley] and his coevals seemed the rear guard of the great camp and army of the Puritans...
    SlHr 10.446 9 ...whilst [Samuel Hoar's] talent and his profession led him to guard the material wealth of society, a more disinterested person did not exist.

guard, v. (19)

    LE 1.159 23 If any person have...less jealousy to guard his integrity, shall he therefore dictate to you and me?
    Fdsp 2.210 23 Guard [your friend] as thy counterpart.
    Mrs1 3.135 11 ...by luxuries and ornaments we...guard our retirement.
    Mrs1 3.137 14 Lovers should guard their strangeness.
    Pol1 3.202 19 It seemed fit...that Laban and not Jacob should elect the officer who is to guard the sheep and cattle.
    ET6 5.109 5 The motive and end of [Englishmen's] trade and empire is to guard the independence and privacy of their homes.
    ET11 5.187 21 The jealousy of every class to guard itself is a testimony to the reality they have found in life.
    Civ 7.22 26 ...the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.
    Cour 7.272 8 The troop of Virginian infantry that had marched to guard the prison of John Brown ask leave to pay their respects to the prisoner.
    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.
    Aris 10.65 6 ...for the day that now is, a man of generous spirit...will use a high prudence in the conduct of life to guard himself from being dissipated on many things.
    Chr2 10.115 7 Jesus...knew how to guard the integrity of his brother's soul from himself also;...
    HDC 11.73 27 The British following [the minute-men] across the bridge, posted two companies...to guard the bridge...
    LVB 11.88 4 Say, what is honour? 'T is the finest sense/ Of justice which the human mind can frame,/ Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim,/ And guard the way of life from all offence/...
    EWI 11.143 19 [Nature] appoints no police to guard the lion but his teeth and claws;...
    FSLC 11.192 16 The practitioners [of law] should guard this dogma [that immoral laws are void] well...
    SMC 11.375 16 ...if danger should ever threaten the homes which you [veterans of the Civil War] guard, the knowledge of your presence will be a wall of fire for their protection.
    SHC 11.430 16 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles...
    CW 12.179 5 What alone possesses interest for us is the naturel of each... and this is that which the conversation with Nature goes to cherish and to guard.

guarded, adj. (4)

    OS 2.279 2 ...[men] resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses...and reserve all their display of wealth for their interior and guarded retirements.
    Mrs1 3.131 19 A sainted soul is always elegant, and, if it will, passes unchallenged into the most guarded ring.
    Mrs1 3.147 25 If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review...we might find no gentleman and no lady;...
    Supl 10.167 3 ...[William Ellery Channing's] best friend, a man of guarded lips...said...I believe him capable of virtue.

guarded, v. (13)

    DSA 1.126 27 ...[this moral truth] is guarded by one stern condition; this, namely; it is an intuition.
    MR 1.239 20 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...
    UGM 4.28 25 Nothing is more marked than the power by which individuals are guarded from individuals...
    NMW 4.237 6 [Napoleon's] vigor was guarded and tempered by the coldest prudence and punctuality.
    ET11 5.197 9 ...the analysis of the [English] peerage and gentry shows the rapid decay and extinction of old families, the continual recruiting of these from new blood. The doors, though ostentatiously guarded, are really open...
    ET18 5.307 27 Every man [in England]...is guarded in the indulgence of his whim.
    F 6.24 21 Go face...what danger lies in the way of duty,-knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny.
    Civ 7.22 24 Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy... guarded by a certain religious sentiment in mankind;...
    OA 7.322 27 We still feel the force...of Fontenelle, that precious porcelain vase laid up in the centre of France to be guarded with the utmost care for a hundred years;...
    HDC 11.63 25 ...to satisfy [the country people] [Governor Andros] was guarded by them to the fort.
    FSLC 11.210 21 ...granting...that these evils [of slavery] are to be relieved only by the wisdom of God working in ages,-and by what instrument... none can tell, or by what sources God has guarded his law; still the question recurs, What must we do?
    PLT 12.44 7 ...the gods have guarded this privilege [of sensibility] with costly penalty.
    II 12.84 7 This determination of Genius in each is so strong that, if it were not guarded with powerful checks, it would have made society impossible.

guardian, adj. (4)

    UGM 4.29 5 We rightly speak of the guardian angels of children.
    Dem1 10.15 13 ...the faith in peculiar and alien power takes another form in the modern mind, much more resembling the ancient doctrine of the guardian genius.
    Dem1 10.22 6 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that he has a guardian angel;...
    Mem 12.92 25 Memory is...a guardian angel set there within you to record your life;...

guardian, n. (3)

    Comp 2.124 10 ...my brother is my guardian...
    Wom 11.426 9 Woman should find in man her guardian.
    Wom 11.426 12 ...when [man] is [woman's] guardian, fulfilled with all nobleness, knows and accepts his duties as her brother, all goes well for both.

guardians, n. (8)

    Tran 1.356 18 ...these old guardians never change their minds;...
    Exp 3.43 15 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Little man, least of all,/ Among the legs of his guardians tall,/ Walked about with puzzled look:--/...
    SA 8.93 21 Coleridge esteems cultivated women as the depositaries and guardians of English undefiled;...
    Elo2 8.128 19 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...that I wish [a boy's] guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
    PerF 10.78 18 ...not less [than Memory, Fancy, Imagination, Eloquence], method, patience, self-trust, perseverance, love, desire of knowledge, the passion for truth. These are the angels that take us by the hand, these our immortal, invulnerable guardians.
    Chr2 10.118 1 The churches already indicate the new spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent activities,-as in...appointing... guardians of foundlings and orphans.
    LLNE 10.363 3 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment...with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;...yet was he the chosen counsellor to whom the guardians [at Brook Farm] would repair on any hitch or difficulty that occurred...
    EWI 11.119 16 The power of the [Jamaican] planters...to oppress, was greater than the power of the apprentice and of his guardians to withstand.

guardianship, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.326 11 The modern mind believed that the nation existed...for the guardianship and education of every man.

guarding, v. (3)

    MR 1.239 25 ...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 his ends...
    UGM 4.29 23 Serve the great. ... Never mind the taunt of Boswellism: the devotion may easily be greater than the wretched pride which is guarding its own skirts.
    SovE 10.185 3 The man down in Nature occupies himself in guarding, in feeding, in warming and multiplying his body...

guards, n. (12)

    SR 2.87 23 Men...have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property...
    Comp 2.118 21 The same guards which protect us from disaster, defect and enmity, defend us, if we will, from selfishness and fraud.
    Pol1 3.204 19 We are kept by better guards than the vigilance of such magistrates as we commonly elect.
    PNR 4.84 18 ...the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay [affirms Plato], is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls...
    Wth 6.109 8 [The New Hampshire youth in the city] has lost what guards! what incentives!
    Suc 7.304 4 ...it occurs to [the lover] that [he and his beloved] might somehow meet independently of time and place. How delicious the belief that he could elude all guards, precautions, ceremonies, means and delays...
    Grts 8.316 14 ...in the lives of soldiers, sailors and men of large adventure, many of the stays and guards of our household life are wanting...
    Edc1 10.128 20 ...here [in the household] the secrets of character are told, the guards of man, the guards of woman......
    SovE 10.205 15 ...freedom has its own guards...
    SovE 10.205 17 ...freedom has its own guards, and, as soon as in the vulgar it runs to license, sets all reasonable men on exploring those guards.
    War 11.173 22 ...the man who, without any...titles of lordship or train of guards...takes in solitude the right step uniformly...does not yield, in my imagination, to any man.
    PLT 12.11 2 The wonder of the science of Intellect is that the substance with which we deal is of that subtle and active quality that it intoxicates all who approach it. Gloves on the hands, glass guards over the eyes...are no defence against this virus...

guards, v. (4)

    Pow 6.66 11 The most amiable of country gentlemen has a certain pleasure in the teeth of the bull-dog which guards his orchard.
    SS 7.6 12 To the culture of the world an Archimedes, a Newton is indispensable; so [nature] guards them by a certain aridity.
    Farm 7.154 10 What possesses interest for us is...[each man's] constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.
    Mem 12.92 25 Memory is...a living instructor, with a prophetic sense of the values which he guards;...

guardsmen, n. (1)

    PI 8.3 8 Poverty, frost, famine, disease, debt, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to common sense.

Guelphs, n. (1)

    Aris 10.38 1 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those Merovingians, Guelphs...of the old warlike ages!

Guercino, Giovanni Francesc (1)

    MLit 12.335 11 In the gay saloon [man] laments that these figures are not what Raphael and Guercino painted.

guerdon, n. (2)

    Ill 6.307 10 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./
    HCom 11.340 3 Many loved Truth, and lavished life's best oil/ Amid the dust of books to find her,/ Content at last, for guerdon of their toil,/ With the cast mantle she hath left behind her./

Guerin, Eugenie de, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.399 9 [Mary Moody Emerson's life] has to me a value like that which many readers find in Madame Guyon, in Rahel, in Eugenie de Guerin...

guernsey, adj. (1)

    RBur 11.441 13 ...how true a poet is [Burns]! And the poet, too, of poor men, of gray hodden and the guernsey coat and the blouse.

Guernsey, adj. (1)

    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...

Guernsey, Isle of, n. (1)

    Thor 10.451 3 Henry David Thoreau was the last male descendant of a French ancestor who came to this country from the Isle of Guernsey.

Guesclin, Bertrand du, n. (2)

    Bty 6.300 23 Since I am so ugly, said Du Guesclin, it behooves that I be bold.
    Cour 7.255 18 There is a Hercules...or a Cid in the mythology of every nation; and in authentic history, a Leonidas...a Bertrand de Guesclin...

Guesclins, n. (1)

    Aris 10.38 2 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those...Burgundies and Guesclins of the old warlike ages!

guess, n. (11)

    Nat 1.66 20 ...a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation...
    SL 2.133 8 We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value.
    Cir 2.320 16 I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess...
    Exp 3.56 9 A deduction must be made from the opinion which even the wise express on a new book or occurrence. Their opinion gives me...some vague guess at the new fact...
    CbW 6.262 24 ...when you pay for your ticket and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.
    Bty 6.286 24 ...we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
    Ill 6.320 20 We must work and affirm, but we have no guess of the value of what we say or do.
    OA 7.328 9 What to the youth is only a guess or a hope, is in the veteran a digested statute.
    Dem1 10.14 1 Euripides said...he is not the wisest man whose guess turns out well in the event...
    PerF 10.74 19 Look at [man]; you can give no guess at what power is in him
    SMC 11.354 4 As long as we debate in council, both sides may form their private guess what the event may be, or which is the strongest.

guess, v. (10)

    Nat 1.42 20 Who can guess how much firmness the sea-beaten rock has taught the fisherman?...
    Hist 2.38 6 No man can...guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock...
    Cir 2.320 8 We do not guess to-day the mood...of to-morrow...
    Nat2 3.196 27 ...wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood;...it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after a long time.
    Bty 6.287 22 ...[the ancients] pretended to guess the pilot by the sailing of the ship.
    Cour 7.279 26 What thoughts were in [the bear's] mind/ It would be hard to spell:/ What thoughts were in George Nidiver/ I rather guess than tell./
    Aris 10.61 13 Give up, once for all, the hope of approbation from the people in the street, if you are pursuing great ends. How can they guess your designs?
    PerF 10.71 9 Take up a spadeful or a buck-load of loam, who can guess what it holds?
    Plu 10.304 27 ...asking Epaminondas about the manner of Lysis's burial, I found that Lysis had taught him as far as the incommunicable mysteries of our sect, and that the same Daemon that waited on Lysis, presided over him, if I can guess at the pilot from the sailing of the ship.
    CW 12.171 4 When I bought my farm...as little did I guess what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying...

guessed, v. (4)

    Exp 3.43 12 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Some to see, some to be guessed,/ They marched from east to west/...
    EWI 11.143 16 Eaters and food are in the harmony of Nature; and there too is the germ forever protected, unfolding...a richer fruit, in every period, yet its next product is never to be guessed.
    JBS 11.276 23 But though they slew him with the sword,/ And in the fire his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its undoings restored./ And when, to stop all future harm,/ They strewed its ashes to the breeze,/ They little guessed each grain of these/ Conveyed the perfect charm./ William Allingham.
    Bost 12.193 3 The divine will descends into the barbarous mind in some strange disguise; its pure truth not to be guessed from the rude vizard under which it goes masquerading.

guesses, n. (6)

    GoW 4.274 13 [Goethe] had an extreme impatience of conjecture and of rhetoric. I have guesses enough of my own; if a man write a book, let him set down only what he knows.
    Ctr 6.161 5 A man who stands on a good footing with the heads of parties at Washington, reads...the guesses of provincial politicians with a key to the right and wrong in each statement, and sees well enough where all this will end.
    Res 8.139 26 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations!...in humanity...millions of lives to add only sentiments and guesses, which at last, gathered in by an ear of sensibility, make the furniture of the poet.
    Plu 10.310 8 You may cull from [Plutarch's] record of barbarous guesses of shepherds and travellers, statements that are predictions of facts established in modern science.
    Plu 10.310 14 The explanation of the rainbow, of the floods of the Nile, and of the remora, etc. [in Plutarch], are just; and the bad guesses are not worse than many of Lord Bacon's.
    MMEm 10.405 16 ...the minister found quickly that [Mary Moody Emerson] knew all his books and many more, and made shrewd guesses at his character and possibilities...

guesses, v. (1)

    Dem1 10.13 26 Euripides said, He is not the best prophet who guesses well...

guessing, v. (1)

    Pol1 3.215 8 ...if, without carrying [my child] into the thought, I look over into his plot, and, guessing how it is with him, ordain this or that, he will never obey me.

guest, n. (28)

    Nat 1.9 27 ...the guest sees not how he should tire of [these plantations of God] in a thousand years.
    LT 1.274 15 Religion...was a holiday guest.
    Hsm1 2.257 9 If we dilate in beholding...the Roman pride, it is that we are already domesticating the same sentiment. Let us find room for this great guest in our small houses.
    Chr1 3.115 17 Nature is indulged by the presence of this guest [the holy sentiment].
    Mrs1 3.135 3 Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books...and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest.
    Mrs1 3.135 8 It were unmerciful, I know, quite to abolish the use of these screens, which are of eminent convenience, whether the guest is too great or too little.
    NER 3.273 6 Lord Bathurst told [Thomas Warton] that the members of the Scriblerus Club being met at his house at dinner, they agreed to rally Berkeley, who was also his guest, on his scheme at Bermudas.
    ET7 5.120 16 At a St. George's festival, in Montreal, where I happened to be a guest since my return home, I observed that the chairman complimented his compatriots, by saying, they confided that wherever they met an Englishman, they found a man who would speak the truth.
    ET7 5.121 22 ...the Englishman is not fickle. He had really made up his mind now for years as he read his newspaper, to hate and despise M. Guizot; and the altered position of the man as an illustrious exile and a guest in the country, makes no difference to him...
    ET12 5.199 14 I was the guest of my friend [Arthur Hugh Clough] in Oriel [College, Oxford]...
    ET17 5.294 9 At Ambleside in March, 1848, I was for a couple of days the guest of Miss Martineau...
    DL 7.111 21 The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops, where we get sweetmeats and wine; the houses of the poor are imitations of these to the extent of their ability. With these ends...[housekeeping] cheers and raises... neither the host nor the guest;...
    Clbs 7.238 23 The same thing took place when Leibnitz came to visit Newton;...when Hegel was the guest of Victor Cousin in Paris;...
    Clbs 7.238 25 The same thing took place when Leibnitz came to visit Newton;...when Linnaeus was the guest of Jussieu.
    Clbs 7.239 5 ...an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...and was coolly enough received by the doctor in the laboratory where he was engaged. Only Dr. Dalton scratched a formula on a scrap of paper and pushed it towards the guest,--Had he seen that?
    OA 7.313 19 ...if it be to [clouds] allowed/ To fool me with a shining cloud,/ So only new griefs are consoled/ By new delights, as old by old,/ Frankly I will be your guest,/ Count your change and cheer the best./
    PC 8.211 4 Every one who was in Italy thirty-five years ago will remember the caution with which his host or guest in any house looked around him, if a political topic were broached.
    Supl 10.170 13 I once attended a dinner given to a great state functionary by functionaries,-men of law, state and trade. The guest was a great man in his own country and an honored diplomatist in this.
    SovE 10.194 14 A man should be a guest in his own house...
    SovE 10.194 15 A man should be a guest in his own house, and a guest in his own thought.
    Plu 10.309 20 ...[Plutarch]...despises the Epicharmian disputations: as, that...he that was yesterday invited to supper, the next night comes an unbidden guest, for that he is quite another person.
    Plu 10.319 14 [Plutarch] was a genial host and guest...
    Plu 10.319 21 The guests not invited to a private board by the entertainer, but introduced by a guest as his companions, the Greek called shadows;...
    LLNE 10.362 8 Margaret Fuller...was often a guest [at Brook Farm]...
    CL 12.149 9 The Hindoos called fire Agni...the guest of man;...
    CW 12.175 24 I admire the taste which makes the avenue to the house... through a wood;-as it disposes the mind of the inhabitant and of his guest to the deference due to each.
    ACri 12.289 26 Goethe...professed to point his guest to his Walpurgis Sack...in which, he said, he put all his dire hints and images...
    EurB 12.375 21 Had...one sentiment from the heart of God been spoken by [the novel of costume or of circumstance]......[the reader] too had been an invited and eternal guest;...

guest-quarters, n. (1)

    ET4 5.58 11 A [Norse] king was maintained, much as in some of our country districts a winter-schoolmaster is quartered...on all the farms in rotation. This the king calls going into guest-quarters;...

guests, n. (16)

    Exp 3.76 12 ...the fop contrived to dress his bailiffs in his livery and make them wait on his guests at table...
    ET1 5.9 13 ...Mr. H[are], one of the guests, told me that Mr. Landor gives away his books...
    ET6 5.113 24 The guests [at dinner in London] are expected to arrive within half an hour of the time fixed by card of invitation...
    ET19 5.309 4 A few days after my arrival at Manchester, in November, 1847, the Manchester Athenaeum gave its annual Banquet in the Free-Trade Hall. With other guests, I was invited to be present and to address the company.
    Pow 6.78 20 The rule for hospitality and Irish 'help' is to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessy learns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it, and the guests are well served.
    Elo1 7.69 9 The traveller in Sicily needs no gayer melodramatic exhibition [of eloquence] than the table d'hote of his inn will afford him in the conversation of the joyous guests.
    DL 7.114 6 ...we desire at least to put no stint or limit on our parents, relatives, guests or dependents;...
    Clbs 7.248 24 ...it was when things went prosperously, and the company was full of honor, at the banquet of the Cid, that the guests all were joyful...
    SA 8.98 21 The law of the table is...a respect to the common soul of all the guests.
    PPo 8.245 19 The earth is a host who murders his guests.
    Plu 10.316 13 When the guests are gone, [Plutarch] would leave one lamp burning, only as a sign of the respect he bore to fires...
    Plu 10.319 20 The guests not invited to a private board by the entertainer, but introduced by a guest as his companions, the Greek called shadows;...
    Plu 10.319 27 ...[Plutarch]...concludes:...when I make an invitation...I give my guests leave to bring shadows;...
    Shak1 11.447 10 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment that Bryant and Whittier as guests, and our own Hawthorne,-with the best will to come,-should have found it impossible at last;...
    CL 12.148 4 I admire the taste which makes the avenue to a house... through a wood; besides the beauty...it disposes the mind of the inhabitant and of his guests to the deference due to each.
    Trag 12.413 8 We must walk as guests in Nature;...

Guiana, British, n. (1)

    EWI 11.120 2 ...the great island of Jamaica...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838. In British Guiana, in Dominica, the same resolution had been earlier taken with more good will;...

Guiana, n. (1)

    Bost 12.187 11 In...the farthest colonies,-in Guiana, in Guadaloupe,-a middle-aged gentleman is just embarking with all his property to fulfil the dream of his life and spend his old age in Paris;...

guidance, n. (16)

    MR 1.227 23 ...we ought to seek to establish ourselves in such disciplines and courses as will deserve that guidance and clearer communication with the spiritual nature.
    YA 1.381 4 These [Communities] proceeded...in great part from a feeling... that in the scramble of parties for the public purse the main duties of government were omitted,-the duty to instruct the ignorant, to supply the poor with work and with good guidance.
    YA 1.385 2 How gladly would each citizen pay a commission for the support and continuation of good guidance.
    SL 2.139 11 There is guidance for each of us...
    SwM 4.110 21 ...[Swedenborg] must be reckoned a leader in that revolution, which, by giving to science an idea, has given to an aimless accumulation of experiments, guidance and form and a beating heart.
    MoS 4.158 11 Shall [the young man] then, cutting the stays that hold him fast to the social state, put out to sea with no guidance but his genius?
    ET14 5.256 14 ...if I should count the poets who have contributed to the Bible of existing England sentences of guidance and consolation which are still glowing and effective,--how few!
    ET15 5.272 1 I wish I could add that this journal [the London Times] aspired to deserve the power it wields, by guidance of the public sentiment to the right.
    Pow 6.76 22 The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who...rules something intelligible for the guidance of suitors.
    Wsp 6.233 20 Thus can the faithful student reverse all the warnings of his early instinct, under the guidance of a deeper instinct.
    MoL 10.250 21 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage.
    Schr 10.284 24 Happy for more than yourself, a benefactor of men, if you can answer [life's questions] in works of wisdom, art or poetry; bestowing on the general mind of men organic creations, to be the guidance and delight of all who know them.
    FRep 11.543 2 Happily we are under better guidance than of statesmen.
    FRep 11.543 22 Our helm is given up to a better guidance than our own;...
    FRep 11.544 6 In seeing this guidance of events...I find new confidence for the future.
    II 12.67 10 ...we must form the habit of preferring in all cases this guidance [of instinct], which is given as it is used.

guide, n. (24)

    AmS 1.89 1 ...the guide is a tyrant.
    Tran 1.357 9 ...[the strong spirits] surrender themselves with glad heart to the heavenly guide...
    Comp 2.126 16 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius;...
    Pt1 3.13 3 I...have lost my faith in the possibility of any guide who can lead me thither where I would be.
    Mrs1 3.146 4 ...there is still...some guide and comforter of runaway slaves;...
    PPh 4.62 18 There is a scale; and the correspondence...of the part to the whole, is our guide.
    SwM 4.113 8 ...it is necessary to take science as a guide in pursuing [nature' s] steps.
    ET14 5.255 27 What did Walter Scott write without stint? a rhymed traveller's guide to Scotland.
    F 6.40 12 Alas! till now I had not known,/ My guide and fortune's guide are one./
    Wsp 6.232 8 A poor, tender, painful body, [man] can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.
    Bty 6.289 24 In the true mythology Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide...
    Ill 6.310 12 On arriving at what is called the Star-Chamber [in the Mammoth Cave], our lamps were taken from us by the guide...
    Civ 7.17 4 We praise the guide, we praise the forest life/...
    Elo1 7.86 8 In every company the man with the fact is like the guide you hire to lead your party up a mountain...
    Boks 7.206 27 Hume will serve [the scholar] for an intelligent guide...
    PI 8.25 16 Lear and Macbeth and Richard III. [people] know pretty well without guide.
    Res 8.149 21 ...the guide kindled a Roman candle, and held it here and there shooting its fireballs successively into each crypt of the groined roof [of the Mammoth Cave]...
    PPo 8.245 23 Alas! till now I had not known/ My guide and Fortune's guide are one./
    Dem1 10.14 3 Euripides said...he is not the wisest man whose guess turns out well in the event, but he who, whatever the event be, takes reason and probability for his guide.
    Thor 10.469 20 [Thoreau] knew every track in the snow or on the ground, and what creature had taken this path before him. One must submit abjectly to such a guide...
    Thor 10.474 8 In his last visit to Maine [Thoreau] had great satisfaction from Joseph Polis, an intelligent Indian of Oldtown, who was his guide for some weeks.
    FSLN 11.219 27 In ordinary, the supposed sense of [Senators'] district and State is their guide...
    FRep 11.538 11 It is not a question whether we shall be a multitude of people. No...but whether we shall be...the guide and lawgiver of all nations...

guide, v. (17)

    AmS 1.91 19 ...when the sun is hid and the stars withdraw their shining, - we repair to the lamps...to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is.
    AmS 1.100 19 The office of the scholar is...to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
    DSA 1.122 3 ...let me guide your eye to the precise objects of the sentiment [of virtue]...
    YA 1.387 12 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 forethought...
    Chr1 3.90 20 When I beheld Theseus, I desired that I might...at least guide his horses in the chariot-race;...
    UGM 4.15 18 [The people] delight in a man. Here is a head and a trunk! What a front! what eyes! Atlantean shoulders, and the whole carriage heroic, with equal inward force to guide the great machine!
    ET10 5.168 17 The machinist has wrought and watched, engineers and firemen without number have been sacrificed in learning to tame and guide the monster [steam].
    Bhr 6.197 12 Who dare assume to guide a youth, a maid, to perfect manners?...
    Wsp 6.240 24 The religion which is to guide and fulfil the present and coming ages...must be intellectual.
    Bty 6.287 15 The ancients believed that a genius or demon took possession at birth of each mortal, to guide him;...
    WD 7.180 2 That interpreter [of time] shall guide us from a menial and eleemosynary existence into riches and stability.
    PC 8.230 17 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...amidst insanity, to calm and guide it;...
    PerF 10.73 11 The animal instincts guide the animal as gravity governs the stone...
    Chr2 10.99 25 There are...men who instruct and guide.
    MoL 10.245 9 ...those who would check and guide have a dreary feeling that in the change and decay of the old creeds and motives there was no offset to supply their place.
    PLT 12.7 2 ...if [the student] finds at first with some alarm how impossible it is to accept many things which the hot or the mild sectarian may insist on his believing, he will be armed by his insight and brave to meet all inconvenience and all resistance it may cost him. He from whose hand it came will guide and direct it.
    CW 12.174 26 As Linnaeus made a dial of plants, so shall you of all the objects that guide your walks.

guided, adj. (2)

    Dem1 10.21 1 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this kind.
    PerF 10.85 16 [A survey of cosmical powers] shows us the world alive, guided, incorruptible;...

guided, v. (13)

    YA 1.371 21 ...there is a sublime and friendly Destiny by which the human race is guided...
    Art1 2.353 17 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand...
    Chr1 3.90 2 [Character] is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force... by whose impulses the man is guided...
    NER 3.285 21 May [the heart] not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently...
    PPh 4.64 2 ...the fairest fortune that can befall man is to be guided by his daemon to that which is truly his own.
    MoS 4.169 22 [Montaigne says] Most of my actions are guided by example, not choice.
    NMW 4.248 12 If [the land-commander] allows himself to be guided by the commissaries [Napoleon remarks] he will never stir...
    ET15 5.271 13 [Punch's] sketches are...the delight of every class, because uniformly guided by that taste which is tyrannical in England.
    PI 8.42 11 ...guided by [thoughts and laws], [the poet] is ascending from an interest in in visible things to an interest in that which they signify...
    Res 8.137 4 We are...each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart...
    QO 8.191 5 If we are fired and guided by these [inspiring lessons], we know [the author] as a benefactor...
    PLT 12.34 18 [Instinct] is that glimpse of inextinguishable light by which men are guided;...
    MLit 12.335 20 [The Genius of the time] will write in a higher spirit and a wider knowledge and with a grander practical aim than ever yet guided the pen of poet.

guides, n. (11)

    SR 2.47 25 ...we are...guides, redeemers and benefactors...
    Pol1 3.208 14 Parties...have better guides to their own humble aims than the sagacity of their leaders.
    Boks 7.203 13 These guides [the Platonists] speak of the gods with such depth and with such pictorial details...
    PI 8.38 14 ...Milton, Hafiz, Ossian, the Welsh Bards;--these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols, and not as ends. With such guides [men] begin to see that what they had called pictures are realities...
    SovE 10.192 5 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven.
    MoL 10.254 22 The clerisy, the spiritual guides...have been false to their trust.
    CPL 11.506 21 With [books] many of us spend the most of our life,-these silent guides...
    PLT 12.11 11 Let me have your attention to this dangerous subject [the laws and powers of the Intellect], which we will cautiously approach on different sides of this dim and perilous lake, so attractive, so delusive. We have had so many guides and so many failures.
    PLT 12.61 15 ...the clear-headed thinker complains of souls led hither and thither by affections, which, alone, are blind guides and thriftless workmen...
    CL 12.149 4 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Maruts, as you have vigor, invigorate mankind! Aswins (Waters), long-armed, good-looking Aswins!...guides of men, harness your car!
    Let 12.396 2 But to be...prudent to secure to ourselves an injurious society, temptations to folly and despair, degrading examples, and enemies; and only abstinent when it is proposed to provide ourselves with guides, examples, lovers!

guides, v. (6)

    DSA 1.135 12 ...the man who aims to speak...as the fashion guides... babbles.
    Wth 6.112 7 ...[each man's] native determination guides his labor and his spending.
    Clbs 7.241 6 ...it is not this class, whom the splendor of their accomplishment almost inevitably guides into the vortex of ambition... whom we now consider.
    SovE 10.196 18 The ship of heaven guides itself...
    PLT 12.62 14 Knowledge is plainly to be preferred before power, as being that which guides and directs its blind force and impetus;...
    II 12.74 27 ...the ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

guiding, adj. (4)

    Nat2 3.183 12 This guiding identity [in nature] runs through all the surprises and contrasts of the piece...
    PI 8.48 9 A little onward lend thy guiding hand,/ To these dark steps a little farther on./ Samson.
    SovE 10.189 7 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...though we should fold our arms,-which we cannot do, for out duty requires us to be the very hands of this guiding sentiment...the evils we suffer will at last end themselves through the incessant opposition of Nature to everything hurtful.
    Carl 10.495 22 [Carlyle's] guiding genius is his moral sense...

guiding, n. (1)

    FRep 11.530 4 ...if the prosperity of this country has been merely the obedience of man to the guiding of Nature...yet is there fate above fate, if we choose to spread this language;...

Guidi's, Tommaso [Masaccio] (1)

    MAng1 12.239 6 Michael Angelo said of Masaccio's pictures that when they were first painted they must have been alive.

Guido da Colonna, n. (1)

    ShP 4.197 23 Chaucer, it seems, drew continually...from Guido di Colonna...

Guido Reni's, n. (1)

    Hist 2.16 11 What is Guido's Rospigliosi Aurora but a morning thought...

guild, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.209 27 Let us buy our entrance to this guild [of friendship] by a long probation.

guilds, n. (2)

    NR 3.232 13 The world is full...of guilds...
    ET3 5.37 22 The innumerable details [in England]...the number and power of the trades and guilds...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.

guile, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.239 7 There has come, too, one to whom lurking warfare is dear, Retribution...guileful without the guilt of guile;...

guileful, adj. (1)

    FSLN 11.239 7 There has come, too, one to whom lurking warfare is dear, Retribution...guileful without the guilt of guile;...

guileless, adj. (1)

    Thor 10.456 14 ...no equal companion stood in affectionate relations with one so pure and guileless [as Thoreau].

Guilford, Lord-Keeper [Fra (1)

    Clbs 7.239 15 Hyde, Earl of Rochester, asked Lord-Keeper Guilford, Do you not think I could understand any business in England in a month?

guillotine, n. (1)

    Aris 10.35 10 ...neither...the Congress, nor the mob, nor the guillotine...can avail to outlaw...or destroy the offence of superiority in persons.

guillotine, v. (1)

    SS 7.3 14 Do you not see, [my new friend] said...that each of these scholars whom you have met at S---, though he were to be the last man, would, like the executioner in Hood's poem, guillotine the last but one?

guilt, n. (7)

    LE 1.161 22 ...in spite of slumber and guilt...have been these glorious manifestations of the mind;...
    Grts 8.299 3 No fate, save by the victim's fault, is low,/ For God hath writ all dooms magnificent,/ So guilt not traverses his tender will./
    Dem1 10.27 1 [The demonologic] is a lawless world. ...no guilt and no virtue...
    MMEm 10.397 16 On this altar God hath built/ I lay my vanity and guilt;/...
    War 11.176 3 Not in an obscure corner...is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope; but in this broad America...where the forest is only now falling, or yet to fall, and the green earth opened to the inundation of emigrant men from all quarters of oppression and guilt;...
    FSLN 11.239 7 There has come, too, one to whom lurking warfare is dear, Retribution...guileful without the guilt of guile;...
    AKan 11.259 16 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...and we free statesmen, as accomplices to the guilt, ever in the power of the grand offender.

guiltless, n. (1)

    Comc 8.165 26 Our brethren of New England use/ Choice malefactors to excuse,/ And hang the guiltless in their stead,/ Of whom the churches have less need;/...

guilty, adj. (8)

    LT 1.287 1 I do not wish to be guilty of the narrowness and pedantry of inferring the tendency and genius of the Age from a few and insufficient facts or persons.
    Insp 8.280 3 Plato thought exercise would almost cure a guilty conscience.
    Chr2 10.95 2 High instincts, before which our mortal nature/ Doth tremble like a guilty thing surprised,-/...
    MMEm 10.410 11 By and by [Mary Moody Emerson] said, Mrs. Thoreau, I don't know whether you have observed that my eyes are shut. Yes, Madam, I have observed it. Perhaps you would like to know the reasons? Yes, I should. I don't like to see a person of your age guilty of such levity in her dress.
    EWI 11.108 20 The shipmasters in [the slave] trade were...guilty of every barbarity to their own crews.
    HCom 11.343 17 Here...in this little nest of New England republics [enthusiasm] flamed out when the guilty gun was aimed at Sumter.
    CL 12.142 3 ...Plato said of exercise that it would almost cure a guilty conscience.
    MAng1 12.236 20 In answer to the importunate solicitations of the Duke of Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies that to leave Saint Peter's in the state in which it now was would be to ruin the structure, and thereby be guilty of a great sin;...

Guinea, adj. (2)

    MoS 4.152 22 Spence relates that Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in.
    MoS 4.152 26 Spence relates that Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. Nephew, said Sir Godfrey, you have the honor of seeing the two greatest men in the world. I don't know how great men you may be, said the Guinea man, but I don't like your looks.

Guinea, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.94 25 Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea should take on board a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of Toussaint L'Ouverture...

guineas, n. (11)

    Exp 3.63 8 A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakspeare;...
    Mrs1 3.142 6 A tradesman who had long dunned [Charles James Fox] for a note of three hundred guineas, found him one day counting gold, and demanded payment.
    MoS 4.153 2 Spence relates that Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. Nephew, said Sir Godfrey, you have the honor of seeing the two greatest men in the world. I don't know how great men you may be, said the Guinea man, but I don't like your looks. I have often bought a man much better than both of you, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas.
    ET1 5.9 10 One room was full of pictures, which [Landor] likes to show, especially one piece, standing before which he said he would give fifty guineas to the man that would swear it was a Domenichino.
    ET7 5.124 17 ...as [Englishmen's] own belief in guineas is perfect, they readily, on all occasions, apply the pecuniary argument as final.
    ET12 5.205 2 The whole expense, says Professor Sewel, of ordinary college tuition at Oxford, is about sixteen guineas a year.
    Wth 6.117 17 In England...I was assured...that great lords and ladies had no more guineas to give away than other people;...
    Boks 7.209 17 For an autograph of Shakspeare one hundred and fifty-five guineas were given.
    Boks 7.209 27 The bid [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] stood at five hundred guineas.
    Boks 7.210 1 The bid [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] stood at five hundred guineas. A thousand guineas, said Earl Spencer.
    PC 8.229 10 Men say, Ah! if a man could impart his talent, instead of his performance, what mountains of guineas would be paid!

guise, n. (3)

    Exp 3.43 3 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise/...
    Wom 11.403 6 ...there in the parlor sits/ Some figure in noble guise,-/ Our Angel in a stranger's form;/ Or Woman's pleading eyes./
    Let 12.400 20 It is heartrending to see your [German] poet, your artist, and all who still revere genius, who love and foster the Beautiful. The Good! They...are like the patient Ulysses whilst he sat in the guise of a beggar at his own door...

Guizot, Francois Pierre, n. (8)

    ET7 5.121 12 Whilst I was in London, M. Guizot arrived there on his escape from Paris...
    ET7 5.121 16 Whilst I was in London, M. Guizot arrived there on his escape from Paris, in February, 1848. Many private friends called on him. His name was immediately proposed as an honorary member of the Athenaeum. M. Guizot was blackballed.
    ET7 5.121 20 ...the Englishman is not fickle. He had really made up his mind now for years as he read his newspaper, to hate and despise M. Guizot;...
    F 6.39 23 The times, the age, what is that but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?--...Guizot...and the rest.
    Civ 7.19 8 Mr. Guizot, writing a book on the subject [Civilization], does not [attempt a definition].
    Elo2 8.128 8 ...the French say of Guizot, what Guizot learned this morning he has the air of having known from all eternity.
    Carl 10.494 11 ...if, after Guizot had been a tool of Louis Philippe for years, he is now to come and write essays on the character of Washington, on The Beautiful...[Carlyle] thinks that nothing.
    FSLN 11.240 12 ...all the statesmen, Guizot, Palmerston, Webster, Calhoun, are sure to be found befriending liberty with their words, and crushing it with their votes.

gulf, n. (15)

    MN 1.208 23 ...darest thou think meanly of thyself whom the stalwart Fate brought forth...to shoot the gulf...
    Con 1.309 17 Your want is a gulf which the possession of the broad earth would not fill.
    SR 2.69 18 Power...resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf...
    Exp 3.77 18 There will be the same gulf between every me and thee as between the original and the picture.
    MoS 4.167 23 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the best I can, this dancing balloon? So, at least, I...can shoot the gulf at last with decency.
    MoS 4.183 22 [The man of thought] can behold with serenity the yawning gulf between the ambition of man and his power of performance...
    NMW 4.246 14 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!...wading in the gulf of the Isthmus of Suez.
    Elo2 8.109 11 ...[The patriot] bridged the gulf from th' alway good and wise/ To that within the vision of small eyes./
    Imtl 8.340 6 I know not whence we draw the assurance...of a life which shoots the gulf we call death...by so many claims as from our intellectual history.
    Schr 10.270 8 ...such is the gulf between our perception and our painting... that all the human race have agreed to value a man according to his power of expression.
    Wom 11.411 4 ...how should we better measure the gulf between the best intercourse of men in old Athens, in London, or in our American capitals,- between this and the hedgehog existence of diggers of worms, and the eaters of clay and offal,-than by signalizing just this department of taste or comeliness?
    PLT 12.45 4 ...if [we converse] with high things...the interval becomes a gulf and we cannot enter into the highest good.
    PLT 12.57 13 Wide is the gulf between genius and talent.
    PLT 12.59 6 ...we behold [the universe] shooting the gulf from the past to the future.
    CL 12.157 15 The gulf between our seeing and our doing is a symbol of that between faith and experience.

Gulf of Mexico, n. (2)

    ACiv 11.298 15 In every house, from Canada to the Gulf, the children ask the serious father,-What is the news of the war to-day...
    ACiv 11.306 13 There does exist, perhaps, a popular will...that our trade, and therefore our laws, must have the whole breadth of the continent, and from Canada to the Gulf.

gulfs, n. (3)

    CbW 6.260 22 ...by gulfs of disparity, learn a wider truth and humanity than that of a fine gentleman.
    SS 7.8 25 ...the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.
    PLT 12.42 9 The universe is traversed by paths or bridges or stepping-stones across the gulfs of space in every direction.

Gulistan [Saadi], n. (2)

    Boks 7.208 16 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies]...are those which may be called Table-Talks: of which the best are Saadi's Gulistan; Luther's Table-Talk;...
    Boks 7.219 1 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius. Also such other books as have acquired a semi-canonical authority in the world, as expressing the highest sentiment and hope of nations. Such are the Hermes Trismegistus...the Gulistan of Saadi;...

gulls, n. (1)

    ET2 5.26 27 ...[the good ship] has reached the Banks;...gulls, haglets, ducks, petrels, swim, dive and hover around;...

gum, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.120 11 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man serves himself with metals, wood, stone, glass, gum, cotton, silk and wool;...

gums, n. (2)

    ET18 5.300 24 In Irish districts [of England], men deteriorated in size and shape, the nose sunk, the gums were exposed...
    F 6.43 27 Wood...gums, were dispersed over the earth and sea, in vain.

gun, n. (28)

    LE 1.179 3 Napoleon...walked up to a soldier, took his gun, and himself went through the motions in the French mode.
    Comp 2.107 13 It would seem there is always this vindictive circumstance... this kick of the gun, certifying that the law is fatal;...
    ET4 5.70 20 As soon as he can handle a gun, hunting is the fine art of every Englishman of condition.
    ET4 5.70 26 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury by gun, by trap, by harpoon, by lasso...all the game that is in nature.
    ET14 5.233 6 [The Englishman] loves the axe, the spade, the oar, the gun, the steam-pipe;...
    ET16 5.287 18 ...'t is certain as God liveth, the gun that does not need another gun, the law of love and justice alone, can effect a clean revolution.
    ET16 5.287 19 ...'t is certain as God liveth, the gun that does not need another gun, the law of love and justice alone, can effect a clean revolution.
    Ctr 6.142 24 Archery, cricket, gun and fishing-rod, horse and boat, are all educators, liberalizers;...
    Ctr 6.144 3 ...the gun, fishing-rod, boat and horse, constitute, among all who use them, secret freemasonries.
    Bhr 6.178 8 An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun...
    CbW 6.248 22 A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die,--quantities...of cases for a gun.
    Ill 6.318 12 You play with...bowls, horse and gun, estates and politics; but there are finer games before you.
    WD 7.172 27 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship, and Nature employed certain illusions as her ties and straps...skates, a river, a boat, a horse, a gun, for the growing boy;...
    Cour 7.260 19 An old farmer...when I ask him if he is not going to town-meeting, says: No, 't is no use balloting, for it will not stay; but what you do with the gun will stay so.
    Cour 7.278 25 The hunter raised his gun,--/ He knew one charge was all,--/ And through the boy's pursuing foe/ He sent his only ball./
    PC 8.231 17 The great heart will no more complain of the obstructions that make success hard, than of the iron walls of the gun which hinder the shot from scattering.
    Schr 10.274 8 Is a man only the breech of a gun or the haft of a bowie-knife?
    Schr 10.285 11 The gun [men of talent] have pointed can defend nothing but itself...
    Thor 10.454 11 ...though a naturalist, [Thoreau] used neither trap nor gun.
    Carl 10.497 1 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe, when...no man was found with conscience enough to fire a gun for his crown...one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire...
    HDC 11.74 16 ...the British fired one or two shots up the river...then a single gun...
    War 11.163 19 This vast apparatus of artillery,...this reveille and evening gun;...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.
    HCom 11.342 24 Many of [our young men] had never handled a gun.
    HCom 11.343 17 Here...in this little nest of New England republics [enthusiasm] flamed out when the guilty gun was aimed at Sumter.
    SMC 11.362 22 [George Prescott writes] This lieutenant seems to think that these men, who never saw a gun, can drill as well as he, who has been at West Point four years.
    SHC 11.435 26 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...red-eyed warbler, the heron, the bittern, will find out the hospitality and protection from the gun of this asylum...
    PLT 12.32 13 A hunter finds plenty of game on the ground you have sauntered over with idle gun.
    II 12.78 6 [Truth] is a gun with a recoil which will knock down the most nimble artillerists...

gun-barrel, n. (1)

    FRep 11.513 16 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...on that one compound,-all is an extension of a gun-barrel...

gun-barrels, n. (1)

    ET10 5.161 5 [Steam] can...make sword-blades that will cut gun-barrels in two.

gunboats, n. (1)

    Wom 11.422 13 ...one [man] wishes schools, another armies, one gunboats, another public gardens.

gun-carriages, n. (1)

    Suc 7.284 18 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon, which I cannot do by my own hands. ... The gun-carriages I know how to construct.

gun-cotton, n. (1)

    WD 7.161 20 The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon.

gunners, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.233 9 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners...

Gunning, Elizabeth [Duchess (4)

    Bty 6.297 5 Not less in England in the last century was the fame of the Gunnings, of whom Elizabeth married the Duke of Hamilton...
    Bty 6.297 8 Walpole says, The concourse was so great, when the Duchess of Hamilton was presented at court, on Friday, that even the noble crowd in the drawing-room clambered on chairs and tables to look at her.
    Bty 6.297 16 Such crowds, [Walpole] adds elsewhere, flock to see the Duchess of Hamilton, that seven hundred people sat up all night...to see her get into her post-chaise next morning.
    Bty 6.297 21 ...why need we console ourselves with the fames of Helen of Argos...or the Duchess of Hamilton?

Gunning, Maria, n. (1)

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

Gunnings, n. (1)

    Bty 6.297 4 Not less in England in the last century was the fame of the Gunnings...

gun-powder, n. [gunpowder,] (16)

    Cir 2.302 23 See the investment of capital in aqueducts, made useless by hydraulics; fortifications, by gun-powder;...
    UGM 4.17 15 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder...
    ET10 5.157 20 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...invented gunpowder;...
    Civ 7.33 10 ...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...
    Suc 7.284 17 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon, which I cannot do by my own hands. If there is nobody to make gunpowder, I can manufacture it.
    PI 8.6 10 The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment: our little sir...suspects that some one is doing him, and at this alarm everything is compromised; gun-powder is laid under every man's breakfast-table.
    Res 8.140 25 By his machines man...can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder;...
    PC 8.214 21 ...[The Middle Ages']...mariner's compass, gunpowder, glass, paper and clocks;...are the delight and tuition of ours.
    Aris 10.40 7 If the finders of glass, gunpowder, printing, electricity...should keep their secrets...must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?
    MoL 10.248 16 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature,-as Roger Bacon, with his secret of gunpowder...
    War 11.157 25 ...the art of war, what with gunpowder and tactics, has made...battles less frequent and less murderous.
    FSLC 11.186 11 There is always something in the very advantages of a condition which hurts it. Africa has its malformation;...France its love of gunpowder;...
    ChiE 11.472 5 ...China had the magnet centuries before Europe;...and lithography, and gunpowder, and vaccination, and canals;...
    FRep 11.513 12 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...on that one compound...
    PLT 12.21 12 The retrospective value of each new thought is...like a torch applied to a long train of gunpowder.
    EurB 12.378 1 [The Vivian Greys]...could write an Iliad any rainy morning, if fame were not such a bore. Men, women...are stupid things; but a rifle, and a mild pleasant gunpowder, a spaniel, and a cheroot, are themes for Olympus.

guns, n. (13)

    LE 1.179 2 Napoleon...putting aside the guns of those nearest him, walked up to a soldier, took his gun, and himself went through the motions in the French mode.
    ET5 5.87 9 ...[the English] fundamentally believe that the best strategem in naval war is to lay your ship close alongside of the enemy's ship and bring all your guns to bear on him...
    Ctr 6.142 20 [Your boy] hates the grammar and Gradus, and loves guns, fishing-rods, horses and boats.
    Ctr 6.163 12 [The ancients] preferred the noble vessel...dismantled and unrigged, to her companion borne into harbor with colors flying and guns firing.
    Ill 6.309 16 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...plied with music and guns the echoes in these alarming galleries;...
    HDC 11.58 2 In 1670, the Wampanoags began to...mend their guns...
    HDC 11.58 3 Philip surrendered seventy guns to the Commissioners in Taunton Meeting-house...
    FSLC 11.184 18 Who could have believed it, if foretold that a hundred guns would be fired in Boston on the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill?
    AsSu 11.248 20 ...men's bodily strength, or skill with knives and guns, is not usually in proportion to their knowledge and mother-wit...
    SMC 11.364 18 [George Prescott writes] We only had about twelve men... and some of them have their heavy knapsacks and guns to carry...
    SMC 11.370 9 When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth [Regiment], came to him the next day to tell him that folks are just beginning to appreciate the Thirty-second Regiment...Colonel Prescott notes in his journal,-Pity they have not found it out before it was all gone. We have a hundred and seventy-seven guns this morning.
    FRep 11.540 7 America should affirm and establish that in no instance shall the guns go in advance of the present right.
    CL 12.150 23 In March, the thaw...and the splendor of the icicles. On the pond there is a cannonade of a hundred guns...

Gurney, Colonel, n. (1)

    SMC 11.370 2 When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth [Regiment], came to him the next day to tell him that folks are just beginning to appreciate the Thirty-second Regiment...Colonel Prescott notes in his journal,-Pity they have not found it out before it was all gone.

Gurney, Joseph John, n. (1)

    EWI 11.142 11 The recent testimonies...of Gurney, of Philippo, are very explicit on this point, the capacity and the success of the colored and the black population [in the West Indies]...

gushes, n. (1)

    ET8 5.133 4 The Saxon melancholy in the vulgar rich and poor appears as gushes of ill-humor...

gushing, adj. (1)

    PI 8.43 25 The gushing fulness of speech belongs to the poet...

Gushtasp, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.109 12 When the Yunani sage arrived at Balkh...Gushtasp appointed a day on which the Mobeds of every country should assemble...

gust, n. (1)

    Insp 8.287 24 Did you never observe, says Gray, while rocking winds are piping loud, that pause, as the gust is recollecting itself...

Gustavus [Charles X, of Sw (2)

    SR 2.63 2 Why all this deference to Alfred and Scanderbeg and Gustavus?
    Aris 10.57 13 It was objected to Gustavus that he did not better distinguish between the duties of a carabine and a general...

gusto, n. (1)

    Carl 10.491 17 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they will eat vegetables and drink water, and he...describes with gusto the crowds of people who gaze at the sirloins in the dealer's shop-window...

gusty, adj. (1)

    Farm 7.148 5 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps.

Guthrie, Samuel (?), n. (1)

    Res 8.141 26 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha...obtain, by merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the mineral oil will burn till the tube is decomposed...

gutta-percha, adj. (1)

    ET5 5.95 14 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been drained...

gutta-percha, n. (2)

    WD 7.160 7 What of this dapper caoutchouc and gutta-percha...
    WD 7.161 18 No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found.

gutter, n. (1)

    SA 8.94 9 When they showed [Madame de Stael] the beautiful Lake Leman, she exclaimed, O for the gutter of the Rue de Bac!...

guttis, n. (1)

    SwM 4.113 21 Ossa videlicet e pauxillis atque minutis/ Ossibus sic et de pauxillis atque minutis/ Visceribus viscus gigni, sanguenque creari/ Sanguinis inter se multis coeuntibus guttis;/...

Guttorm, n. (1)

    ET7 5.117 26 The Northman Guttorm said to King Olaf, It is royal work to fulfil royal words.

Guy, n. (2)

    SL 2.149 23 Gertrude is enamored of Guy;...
    SL 2.149 27 ...Gertrude has Guy;...

Guy of Warwick, n. (1)

    ET14 5.236 6 The ardor and endurance of [English] study...and, generally, the easy exertion of power,--astonish, like the legendary feats of Guy of Warwick.

Guyon, Jeanne de la Motte, (1)

    SwM 4.97 11 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Guyon...will readily come to mind.

guzzle, n. (1)

    ACri 12.301 18 Where is the town [New City]? Was there not, I asked, a river and a harbor there? Oh, yes, there was a guzzle out of a sand-bank.

Gyges, n. (1)

    PNR 4.83 7 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves;... the ring of Gyges;...

Gyges [Plato, Republic], n. (1)

    SS 7.5 2 [My friend] would have given his soul for the ring of Gyges.

Gyges [Plato, The Republic (1)

    Dem1 10.20 21 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous.

Gyges, [Plato, Republic], n (1)

    Edc1 10.126 5 All the fairy tales of Aladdin or the invisible Gyges...are only fictions to indicate the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

Gyges's Ring, n. (1)

    QO 8.186 20 There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers, Gyges's Ring...

Gylfi's [Sturluson, Young (1)

    ll 6.313 15 Yoganidra, the goddess of illusion, Proteus, or Momus, or Gylfi' s Mocking,--for the Power has many names,--is stronger than the Titans...

Gylippus, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.79 12 [The Grecian States] did not send to Lacedaemon for troops, but they said, Send us a commander; and Pausanias, or Gylippus...was despatched by the Ephors.

gymnasium, n. (4)

    UGM 4.16 21 We go to the gymnasium and the swimming-school to see the power and beauty of the body;...
    UGM 4.17 4 ...we thus [through the acts of the intellect] enter a new gymnasium...
    Ctr 6.148 16 In town [a man] can find the swimming-school, the gymnasium...
    SA 8.80 25 In the gymnasium or on the sea-beach [the well-mannered man' s] superiority does not leave him.

gymnastic, adj. (4)

    LT 1.270 6 The Temperance-question...is a gymnastic training to the casuistry and conscience of the time.
    Ctr 6.142 23 ...you are not fit to direct [your boy's] bringing-up if your theory leaves out his gymnastic training.
    CL 12.142 5 ...Plato said of exercise that it would almost cure a guilty conscience. For the living out of doors, and simple fare, and gymnastic exercises, and the morals of companions, produce the greatest effect on the way of virtue and of vice.
    CL 12.156 1 ...beside their sanitary and gymnastic benefit, mountains are silent poets...

gymnastic, n. (2)

    PPh 4.65 4 What value [Plato] gives to the art of gymnastic in education;...
    Insp 8.296 26 I value literary biography for the hints it furnishes from so many scholars...of...what gymnastic, what social practices their experience suggested and approved.

gymnastics, n. (9)

    Nat 1.38 1 ...[property] is the gymnastics of the understanding...
    Art1 2.357 19 ...painting and sculpture are gymnastics of the eye...
    NER 3.256 26 Am I not defrauded of my best culture in the loss of those gymnastics which manual labor and the emergencies of poverty constitute?
    MoS 4.174 24 In the mount of vision, ere they have yet risen from their knees, [the saints] say...we must fly for relief...to the Understanding, the Mephistopheles, to the gymnastics of talent.
    ET12 5.211 7 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic. With a hardier habit and resolute gymnastics...the American would arrives at as robust exegesis...
    PI 8.15 4 I think Hindoo books the best gymnastics for the mind...
    Elo2 8.126 10 ...all these are the gymnastics, the education of eloquence, and not itself.
    Res 8.150 19 Games, fishing, bowling, hunting, gymnastics, dancing,--are not these needful to you?
    CL 12.141 19 Walking has the best value as gymnastics for the mind.

Gymnosophist, n. (1)

    Plu 10.308 24 'T is a temperance, not an eclecticism, which makes [Plutarch] adverse to the severe Stoic, or the Gymnosophist, or Diogenes, or any other extremist.

gypsies, n. (7)

    Pt1 3.31 26 ...the gypsies say of themselves it is in vain to hang them, they cannot die.
    WD 7.176 20 We owe to genius always the same debt, of...showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and pedlers.
    Clbs 7.246 6 [A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense] said the fact was incontestable that the society of gypsies was more attractive than that of bishops.
    RBur 11.442 24 ...Burns knew how to take from fairs and gypsies, blacksmiths and drovers, the speech of the market and street, and clothe it with melody.
    Scot 11.466 7 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class, with whom he established the best relation,- small farmers and tradesmen, shepherds, fishermen, gypsies...
    ACri 12.285 15 You know the history of the eminent English writer on gypsies, George Borrow;...
    ACri 12.285 18 [George Borrow]...mastered the patois of the gypsies...

Gypsies, n. (1)

    ET13 5.229 19 George Borrow summons the Gypsies to hear his discourse on the Hebrews in Egypt...

gypsy, adj. (1)

    Dem1 10.19 18 The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or evaded by this gypsy principle...

Gypsy, adj. (1)

    ET13 5.230 1 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...not an individual present but squinted;...the Gypsy jockey squinted worst of all.

gypsy, n. (2)

    DL 7.107 22 Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear from the wise gypsy who could tell straight on the real fortunes of the man;...
    SA 8.84 9 In Borrow's Lavengro, the gypsy instantly detects, by his companion's face and behavior, that some good fortune has befallen him...

gypsying, v. (1)

    Pow 6.69 13 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...gypsying with Borrow in Spain and Algiers;...

gyrate, v. (1)

    Pol1 3.199 18 ...society is fluid;...any particle may suddenly become the centre of the movement and compel the system to gyrate round it;...

gyrates, v. (1)

    SwM 4.110 6 The globule of blood gyrates around its own axis in the human veins...

gyved, v. (1)

    Hsm1 2.247 17 By Romulus, [Sophocles] is all soul, I think;/ He hath no flesh, and spirit cannot be gyved,/ Then we have vanquished nothing; he is free,/ And Martius walks now in captivity./

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