Hung to Hysterical

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

hung, v. (18)

    Tran 1.351 22 The martyrs were...hung alive on meat-hooks.
    Hist 2.5 20 ...crabs, goats, scorpions, the balance and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac...
    SR 2.80 9 ...the luminaries of heaven seem to [the unbalanced mind] hung on the arch their master built.
    Pt1 3.42 19 ...Wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds or sown with stars...there is Beauty...shed for thee [O poet]...
    Mrs1 3.136 19 When [Montaigne] leaves any house in which he has lodged for a few weeks, he causes his arms to be painted and hung up as a perpetual sign...
    ET6 5.107 18 ...within, [the Englishman's house] is...hung with pictures...
    ET8 5.135 24 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...and when he saw that the splendor of one of his pictures in the Exhibition dimmed his rival's that hung next it, secretly took a brush and blackened his own.
    Wth 6.83 4 Who shall tell what did befall,/ Far away in time, when once,/ Over the lifeless ball,/ Hung idle stars and suns?/
    Ill 6.315 20 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hung it round with frippery romance...
    SS 7.1 4 ...[Seyd] Loved harebells nodding on a rock,/ A cabin hung with curling smoke/...
    OA 7.331 5 Many of [Goethe's] works hung on the easel from youth to age...
    Res 8.146 9 ...[Tissenet] opened his shirt a little and showed to each of the savages in turn the reflection of his own eyeball in a small pocket-mirror which he had hung next to his skin.
    QO 8.187 1 The popular incident of Baron Munchausen, who hung his bugle up by the kitchen fire and the frozen tune thawed out, is found in Greece in Plato's time.
    PPo 8.262 17 A painter in China once painted a hall;/ Such a web never hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush with rich colors did run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the sun;/...
    Mem 12.102 2 The experienced and cultivated man is lodged in a hall hung with pictures which every new day retouches...
    Bost 12.192 21 ...the awe [of the Massachusetts colonists] was real and overpowering in the superstition with which every new object was magnified. The superstition which hung over the new ocean had not yet been scattered;...
    MAng1 12.224 17 ...the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist [Michelangelo] hung mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the attack...
    Milt1 12.274 13 [Milton] beholds [man] as he walked in Eden:-His fair large front and eye sublime declared/ Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks/ Round from his parted forelock manly hung/ Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad./

Hungarian, adj. (1)

    NMW 4.238 5 At Montebello, [Napoleon said,] I ordered Kellermann to attack with eight hundred horse, and with these he separated the six thousand Hungarian grenadiers...

Hungary, n. (5)

    ET8 5.141 14 ...[The English] think humanely on the affairs of France...of Hungary...
    ET18 5.301 13 ...[the foreign policy of England] betrayed Genoa, Sicily, Parma, Greece, Turkey, Rome and Hungary.
    FSLN 11.239 23 In 1825 Greece found America deaf...Italy and Hungary found her deaf.
    FSLN 11.239 25 England maintains trade, not liberty; stands against Greece; against Hungary;...
    Koss 11.401 9 ...when the crisis arrives it will find us all instructed beforehand in the rights and wrongs of Hungary...

hunger, adj. (1)

    Boks 7.212 19 ...in this rag-fair neither the Imagination...nor the Morals... are addressed. But though orator and poet be of this hunger party, the capacities remain.

hunger, n. (27)

    MR 1.238 11 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies, as...a stock of cattle by hunger;...
    Con 1.306 6 ...when this great tendency [conservatism]...is challenged by young men, to whom it is...a fact of hunger, distress, and exclusion from opportunities, it must needs seem injurious.
    Prd1 2.224 22 ...our existence...so fond of splendor and so tender to hunger and cold and debt, reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
    Exp 3.73 15 This vigor accords with and assists justice and reason, and leaves no hunger.
    Nat2 3.190 8 Hunger and thirst lead us on to eat and to drink;...
    Nat2 3.190 14 The hunger for wealth...fools the eager pursuer.
    UGM 4.10 10 ...hunger and food...circle us round in a wreath of pleasures...
    SwM 4.114 21 Hunger is an aggregate of very many little hungers...
    MoS 4.155 24 The studious class are their own victims;...the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption,--pallor, squalor, hunger and egotism.
    MoS 4.180 13 Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit may...want a rougher instruction, want men, labor, trade, farming, war, hunger, plenty, love, hatred, doubt and terror to make things plain to him;...
    MoS 4.184 8 [The divine Providence] has shown the heaven and earth to every child and filled him with a desire for the whole;...a hunger, as of space to be filled with planets;...
    ET14 5.248 22 Coleridge, a catholic mind, with a hunger for ideas;...is one of those who save England from the reproach of no longer possessing the capacity to appreciate what rarest wit the island has yielded.
    ET16 5.285 27 I know not why in real architecture the hunger of the eye for length of line is so rarely gratified.
    Wth 6.102 18 In California, the country where [the dollar] grew,--what would it buy? A few years since, it would buy a shanty, dysentery, hunger, bad company and crime.
    Wsp 6.202 6 If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out...in hunger and need...let us not be so nice that we cannot write these facts down coarsely...
    CbW 6.261 8 A rich man was never in danger from cold, or hunger...
    Civ 7.17 16 ...The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood, the fire:/ All the fierce enemies, ague, hunger, cold,/ This thin spruce roof, this clayed log wall,/ This wild plantation will suffice to chase./
    Cour 7.278 18 ...They see two grizzly bears/ With hunger fierce and fell/ Rush at them unawares/ Right down the narrow dell./
    Suc 7.290 25 ...excellence is lost sight of in the hunger for sudden performance and praise.
    OA 7.324 27 To secure strength, [Nature] plants cruel hunger and thirst...
    SA 8.91 3 The hunger for company is keen...
    Comc 8.170 13 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun...of the gay Rameau of Diderot, who believes in nothing but hunger...
    Insp 8.280 26 A man must be able to escape from his cares and fears, as well as from hunger and want of sleep;...
    Aris 10.55 13 ...the thought has...no hunger...
    War 11.152 2 ...in the infancy of society...when hunger, thirst, ague and frozen limbs universally take precedence of the wants of the mind and the heart, the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...
    FRep 11.517 13 ...hunger, thirst, cold...are always holding the masses hard to the essential duties.
    Bost 12.191 9 ...the weariness of the sea, the shrinking from cold weather and the pangs of hunger must justify [the Plymouth colonists].

Hunger, n. (1)

    Aris 10.56 17 I know nothing which induces so base and forlorn a feeling as when we are treated for our utilities...starving the imagination and the sentiment. In this impoverishing animation, I seem to meet a Hunger, a wolf.

hunger, v. (2)

    AmS 1.97 14 I will not...transplant an oak into a flower-pot, there to hunger and pine;...
    Pray 12.352 13 I hunger with strong hope and affection for thee...

hungers, n. (2)

    SwM 4.114 22 Hunger is an aggregate of very many little hungers...
    Wsp 6.208 9 In our large cities the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers and appetites walking.

hungers, v. (1)

    Art2 7.37 21 The child...not only hungers, but eats.

hungry, adj. (23)

    Hist 2.23 7 The pastoral nations were needy and hungry to desperation;...
    Exp 3.58 24 At Education Farm the noblest theory of life sat on the noblest figures of young men and maidens, quite powerless and melancholy. It would not rake or pitch a ton of hay;...and the men and maidens it left pale and hungry.
    Nat2 3.190 10 ...bread and wine, mix and cook them how you will, leave us hungry and thirsty...
    ET16 5.283 26 ...we [Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in our dog-cart over the downs for Wilton, Carlyle not suppressing some threats and evil omens on the proprietors, for keeping these broad plains a wretched sheep-walk when so many thousands of English men were hungry and wanted labor.
    Wth 6.86 21 The steam puffs and expands as before, but this time it is dragging all Michigan at its back to hungry New York and hungry England.
    Wth 6.86 22 The steam puffs and expands as before, but this time it is dragging all Michigan at its back to hungry New York and hungry England.
    Farm 7.151 24 ...when [the first planter] is hungry, he cannot always kill and eat a bear...
    OA 7.325 6 We live in youth amidst this rabble of passions, quite too tender, quite too hungry and irritable.
    PI 8.51 4 St. Augustine complains to God of his friends offering him the books of the philosophers:--And these were the dishes in which they brought to me, being hungry, The sun and the Moon instead of Thee.
    PI 8.70 13 O celestial Bacchus!--drive them mad,--this multitude of vagabonds, hungry for eloquence...
    PI 8.70 14 O celestial Bacchus!--drive them mad,--this multitude of vagabonds...hungry for poetry...
    Res 8.151 25 ...how hungry I found myself, the other day, at Agassiz's Museum, for [shells'] names!
    QO 8.189 15 The capitalist of either kind [mental or pecuniary] is as hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow;...
    PC 8.207 15 Was ever such coincidence of advantages in time and place as in America to-day?...the hungry cry for men which goes up from the wide continent;...
    Imtl 8.345 23 ...one abstains from writing or printing on the immortality of the soul, because, when he comes to the end of his statement, the hungry eyes that run through it will close disappointed;...
    Supl 10.165 15 Thousands of people live and die who were never...hungry or thirsty...
    Schr 10.288 3 ...[he that would sacrifice at the Muse's altar] may live on a heath without trees; sometimes hungry, sometimes rheumatic with cold.
    HDC 11.37 12 When you came over the morning waters, said one of the Sachems, we took you into our arms. We fed you with our best meat. Never went white man cold and hungry from Indian wigwam.
    EWI 11.126 20 ...the [slave] trade could not be abolished whilst this hungry West Indian market...cried, More, more, bring me a hundred a day;...
    Koss 11.397 7 ...[the people of Concord]...have been hungry to see the man whose extraordinary eloquence is seconded by the splendor and solidity of his actions [Kossuth].
    Wom 11.410 19 ...[the horse and ox] run...to the corn when hungry...
    PLT 12.62 24 ...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes. And meantime he shall be able continually to keep sight of his biographical Ego,-I have a desk...I am hungry...
    CW 12.174 14 In the arboretum you should have things...which people who read of them are hungry to see.

hungry, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.29 22 That spirit which suffices quiet hearts...comes forth to the poor and hungry...

Hunsdon, Lord [Henry Carey (1)

    War 11.158 10 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus to Lord Hunsdon...It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...

Hunt, Humphrey, n. (1)

    HDC 11.41 25 In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to Governor Winthrop... and Governor Winthrop selected as a building spot the land near the house of Captain Humphrey Hunt.

Hunt, Leigh, n. (3)

    MoS 4.163 24 Leigh Hunt relates of Lord Byron, that Montaigne was the only great writer of past times whom he read with avowed satisfaction.
    ET17 5.292 24 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...Leigh Hunt, D' Israeli, Helps...
    EurB 12.372 8 The poem of all the poetry of the present age for which we predict the longest term is Abou ben Adhem, of Leigh Hunt.

Hunt, n. (2)

    HDC 11.27 1 Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Merriam, Flint,/ Possessed the land which rendered to their toil/ Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood./
    HDC 11.30 18 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is...Stow, Hoar, Heywood, Hunt, Miles...

hunt, v. (9)

    NER 3.257 27 ...it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events...
    ET4 5.58 4 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] fish in the fiord and hunt the deer.
    ET4 5.70 26 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...all the game that is in nature.
    F 6.33 13 Man...stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.
    PC 8.216 23 ...in his own days [Michelangelo's] friends were few; and you would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era...
    PPo 8.251 14 Thy foes to hunt, thy enviers to strike down,/ Poises Arcturus aloft morning and evening his spear./
    FSLC 11.188 5 ...this man who has run the gauntlet of a thousand miles for his freedom, the statute says, you men of Massachusetts shall hunt, and catch...
    FSLN 11.228 26 There was an old fugitive law, but it had become, or was fast becoming...by the genius and laws of Massachusetts, inoperative. The new [Fugitive Slave] Bill...required me to hunt slaves...
    PLT 12.22 21 Is it not a little startling to see...with what genius some people fish,-what knowledge they still have of the creature they hunt?

hunted, adj. (1)

    AKan 11.255 15 We hear the screams of hunted wives and children answered by the howl of the butchers.

hunted, v. (14)

    Nat 1.19 12 The shows of day...if too eagerly hunted...mock us with their unreality.
    Chr1 3.113 5 ...we are hunted by some fear or command behind us.
    Mrs1 3.154 1 Are you...rich enough to make...the lame pauper hunted by overseers from town to town...feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
    F 6.45 16 ...as every man is hunted by his own daemon...this checks all his activity.
    Pow 6.58 14 ...the lawyer's authorities are hunted up by clerks;...
    PPo 8.259 2 Jami says,-A friend is he, who, hunted as a foe,/ So much the kindlier shows him than before;/ Throw stones at him, or ruder javelins throw,/ He builds with stone and steel a firmer floor./
    Prch 10.220 12 Of course the virtuous sentiment appears arrayed against the nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as unbelievers, and burned.
    HDC 11.36 9 Tahattawan, the Sachem [of the Massachusetts Indians]... lived near Nashawtuck, now Lee's Hill. Their tribe, once numerous, the epidemic had reduced. Here they planted, hunted and fished.
    HDC 11.58 16 ...[Simon Willard] fought with disadvantage against an enemy who must be hunted before every battle.
    HDC 11.60 21 Hunted by Captain [Benjamin] Church, [King Philip] fled from one swamp to another;...
    EWI 11.102 4 ...Herodotus, our oldest historian, relates that the Troglodytes hunted the Ethiopians in four-horse chariots.
    EWI 11.104 11 ...if we saw the runaways hunted with bloodhounds into swamps and hills;...we too should wince.
    JBB 11.270 11 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It comprises...the fugitives still hunted in the mountains of Virginia and Pennsylvania;...
    Wom 11.420 12 On the questions that are important...whether men shall be holden in bondage, or shall be roasted alive and eaten, as in Typee, or shall be hunted with bloodhounds, as in this country...[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.

Hunter, John, n. (2)

    ET14 5.253 21 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value. There are great exceptions, of John Hunter, a man of ideas;......
    PI 8.7 12 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science...

Hunter, Mr., n. (1)

    AKan 11.256 1 When pressed to look at the cause of the mischief in the Kansas laws, the President falters and declines the discussion; but his supporters in the Senate, Mr. Cass, Mr. Geyer, Mr. Hunter, speak out, and declare the intolerable atrocity of the code.

hunter, n. (27)

    Nat 1.38 27 The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take), teach that Nature's dice are always loaded;...
    MR 1.237 17 ...it is...the hunter, and the planter, who have intercepted the sugar of the sugar...
    Comp 2.117 7 ...when the hunter came, [the stag's] feet saved him...
    Pt1 3.15 22 The writer wonders what the coachman or the hunter values in riding, in horses and dogs.
    Bty 6.289 17 ...the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love...
    Ill 6.311 23 ...the fop in the street, the hunter in the woods...ascribe a certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it.
    Elo1 7.93 18 This terrible earnestness [of the eloquent man] makes good the ancient superstition of the hunter, that the bullet will hit its mark, which is first dipped in the marksman's blood.
    Farm 7.154 2 That uncorrupted behavior which we admire in animals and in young children belongs to [the farmer], to the hunter, the sailor...
    Cour 7.263 25 The hunter is not alarmed by bears, catamounts or wolves...
    Cour 7.278 2 In Californian mountains/ A hunter bold was he [George Nidiver]:/ Keen his eye and sure his aim/ As any you should see./
    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./
    Cour 7.279 5 The other [bear] on George Nidiver/ Came on with dreadful pace:/ The hunter stood unarmed,/ And met him face to face./
    Cour 7.279 15 Still firm the hunter stood,/ Although his heart beat high;/ Again the creature stopped,/ And gazed with wondering eye./
    Cour 7.279 19 The hunter met [the bear's] gaze,/ Nor yet an inch gave way;/ The bear turned slowly round,/ And slowly moved away./
    PI 8.10 16 The Indian, the hunter, the boy with his pets, have sweeter knowledge of these [animal forms] than the savant.
    PI 8.57 12 ...we listen to [the early bard] as we do to the Indian, or the hunter, or miner...
    Elo2 8.114 7 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has marked her son; and in that artificial and perhaps unworthy place and company [the Senate] shall remind you of the lessons taught him in earlier days...when he was...a hunter of the bear.
    Res 8.144 15 The Indian, the sailor, the hunter, only these know the power of the hands, feet, teeth, eyes and ears.
    Res 8.144 20 The hunter...rolls himself in his blanket, and the falling snow... is his eider-down...
    Insp 8.269 22 The hunter on the prairie, at the right season, has no need of choosing his ground;...
    SovE 10.184 10 Experiment shows that the bird and the dog reason as the hunter does...
    Thor 10.471 26 [Thoreau] confessed that he...if born among Indians, would have been a fell hunter.
    Thor 10.484 12 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...and which the hunter... climbs the cliffs to gather...
    PLT 12.22 24 How lately the hunter was the poor creature's organic enemy;...
    PLT 12.32 11 A hunter finds plenty of game on the ground you have sauntered over with idle gun.
    CL 12.161 11 The college is not so wise as the mechanic's shop, nor the quarter-deck as the forecastle. Witness the insatiable interest of the white man about...the hunter and sailor.
    CW 12.178 21 That uncorrupted behavior which we admire in the animals, and in young children, belongs also to the farmer, the hunter, the sailor, the man who lives in the presence of Nature.

Hunterian, adj. (2)

    PI 8.8 5 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind; the lower pointing to the higher forms, the higher to the highest...as if the whole animal world were only a Hunterian museum to exhibit the genesis of mankind.
    Insp 8.270 21 The Hunterian law of arrested development is not confined to vegetable and animal structure...

Hunterian Museum, London, (1)

    ET17 5.293 23 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days...one at the Museum...and still another, on which Mr. [Richard] Owen accompanied my countryman Mr. H[illard]. and myself through the Hunterian Museum.

hunters, n. (10)

    Pt1 3.15 18 Is it only poets, and men of leisure and cultivation, who live with [nature]? No; but also hunters, farmers, grooms and butchers...
    Nat2 3.175 6 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...which converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp,--and this supernatural tiralira restores to him...Apollo, Diana, and all divine hunters and huntresses.
    Nat2 3.177 10 Men are naturally hunters and inquisitive of wood-craft...
    ET4 5.73 15 The severity of the [English] game-laws certainly indicates an extravagant sympathy of the nation with horses and hunters.
    F 6.41 2 Ducks take to the water...hunters to the forest...
    Prch 10.220 21 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of the intellect...we are like hunters on the scent...
    Thor 10.472 9 ...[Thoreau]...took the foxes under his protection from the hunters.
    HDC 11.51 3 Those [Indians] who dwelled by ponds and rivers had some tincture of civility, but the hunters of the tribe were found intractable at catechism.
    HDC 11.58 8 From Narragansett to the Connecticut River, the scene of war was shifted as fast as these red hunters could traverse the forest.
    War 11.153 24 [Alexander's conquest of the East] introduced the arts of husbandry among tribes of hunters and shepherds.

hunter's, n. (3)

    Cour 7.278 7 A little Indian boy/ Followed him [George Nidiver] everywhere,/ Eager to share the hunter's joy,/ The hunter's meal to share./
    Cour 7.278 8 A little Indian boy/ Followed him [George Nidiver] everywhere,/ Eager to share the hunter's joy,/ The hunter's meal to share./
    Cour 7.278 10 And when the bird or deer/ Fell by the hunter's skill,/ The boy was always near/ To help with right good will./

hunting, adj. (2)

    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.
    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;/...

hunting, n. (7)

    ET4 5.70 20 ...hunting is the fine art of every Englishman of condition.
    Edc1 10.128 1 The necessities imposed by this most irritable and all-related texture have taught Man hunting, pasturage...
    SovE 10.190 9 Community of property is tried, as when a Tartar horde or an Indian tribe roam over a vast tract for pasturage or hunting;...
    AsSu 11.247 15 In [the slave state]...man is an animal...spending his days in hunting and practising with deadly weapons to defend himself against his slaves and against his companions brought up in the same idle and dangerous way.
    ACiv 11.304 17 The war is welcome to the Southerner; a chivalrous sport to him, like hunting...
    PLT 12.22 19 Is it not a little startling to see with what genius some people take to hunting...
    Let 12.392 17 To the railway, we must say,-like the courageous lord mayor at his first hunting, when told the hare was coming,-Let it come, in Heaven's name, I am not afraid on 't.

hunting, v. (20)

    MR 1.241 24 ...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual...is better taught by a moderate and dainty exercise, such as...hunting, than by the downright drudgery of the farmer and the smith.
    YA 1.369 18 Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it...or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism.
    SR 2.70 19 ...hunting, whaling...are somewhat...
    OS 2.278 11 We owe many valuable observations to people...who say the thing without effort which we...have long been hunting in vain.
    Nat2 3.178 18 ...our hunting of the picturesque is inseparable from our protest against false society.
    ET8 5.132 10 [Young Englishmen]...cannot expend their quantities of waste strength on riding, hunting, swimming and fencing...
    Pow 6.68 19 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood] are made...for mining, hunting and clearing;...
    Pow 6.69 12 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...hunting lion, rhinoceros, elephant, in South Africa;...
    Bhr 6.178 4 The out-door life and hunting and labor give equal vigor to the human eye.
    Civ 7.22 9 Another step in civility is the change from war, hunting and pasturage, to agriculture.
    Farm 7.139 4 The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature;...
    Farm 7.152 1 Later [the first planter] learns that his planting is better than hunting;...
    PI 8.10 11 [Science] assumed to explain a reptile or mollusk, and isolated it,--which is hunting for life in graveyards.
    Res 8.150 19 Games, fishing, bowling, hunting, gymnastics, dancing,--are not these needful to you?
    Edc1 10.140 17 If [a boy] can turn his books to such picturesque account in his fishing and hunting, it is easy to see how his reading and experience... will interpenetrate each other.
    Edc1 10.140 25 [The boy's] hunting and campings-out have given him an indispensable base...
    SovE 10.201 3 You have perceived in the first fact of your conscious life here a miracle so astounding...as to...leave you no need of hunting here or there for any particular exhibitions of power.
    EWI 11.103 13 ...when [the negro] sank in the furrow...he went down to death with dusky dreams of African shadow-catchers and Obeahs hunting him.
    FSLC 11.199 16 There is...not a politician but is watching [slavery's] incalculable energy in the elections; not a jurist but is hunting up precedents;...
    JBS 11.281 17 ...our blind statesmen go up and down...hunting for the origin of this new heresy [abolition].

Huntington, Robert, n. (1)

    F 6.6 19 ...now and then an amiable parson, like...Robert Huntington, believes in a pistareen-Providence...

hunting-tramp, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.140 8 The young giant, brown from his hunting-tramp, tells his story well...

huntresses, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.175 6 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...which converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp,--and this supernatural tiralira restores to him...Apollo, Diana, and all divine hunters and huntresses.

hunts, v. (1)

    EWI 11.131 5 The poorest fishing-smack that...hunts whale in the Southern ocean, should be encompassed by [Massachusetts's] laws with comfort and protection...

hurl, v. (7)

    SR 2.60 21 Let us...hurl in the face of custom and trade and office, the fact which is the upshot of all history...
    Exp 3.55 1 The intellect, seeker of absolute truth, or the heart, lover of absolute good, intervenes for our succor, and at one whisper of these high powers we awake from ineffectual struggles with this nightmare [of science]. We hurl it into its own hell...
    Wsp 6.199 14 This is he men miscall Fate,/ Threading dark ways, arriving late,/ But ever coming in time to crown/ The truth, and hurl wrongdoers down./
    Elo1 7.64 13 Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians...when a proper opportunity offers, this same person...will hurl a sentence worthy of attention...
    PLT 12.39 16 ...this is the measure of all intellectual power among men... the power of genius to hurl a new individual into the world.
    CInt 12.119 18 I wish you to be eloquent, to grasp the bolt and to hurl it home to the mark.
    MAng1 12.229 21 In the Piazza del Gran Duca at Florence, stands, in the open air, [Michelangelo's] David, about to hurl the stone at Goliath.

hurled, v. (8)

    MN 1.207 13 A link was wanting between two craving parts of nature, and [man] was hurled into being as the bridge over that yawning need...
    Comp 2.110 13 ...[every opinion] is a harpoon hurled at the whale, unwinding, as it flies, a coil of cord in the boat...
    NR 3.239 25 Hence the immense benefit of party in politics, as it reveals faults of character in a chief, which the intellectual force of the persons... not hurled into aphelion by hatred, could not have seen.
    ET5 5.90 26 Private persons [in England] exhibit...the same pertinacity as the nation showed in the coalitions in which it yoked Europe against the empire of Bonaparte, one after the other defeated, and still renewed, until the sixth hurled him from his seat.
    ET14 5.236 22 The more hearty and sturdy [English] expression may indicate that the savageness of the Norseman was not all gone. Their dynamic brains hurled off their words as the revolving stone hurls off scraps of grit.
    WD 7.171 12 This miracle [of Nature] is hurled into every beggar's hands.
    Suc 7.301 23 ...I am more interested to know that when at last [Aristotle or Bacon or Kant] have hurled out their grand word, it is only some familiar experience of every man in the street.
    Insp 8.278 18 Herrick said: 'T is not every day that I/ Fitted am to prophesy;/ No, but when the spirit fills/ The fantastic panicles,/ Full of fire, then I write/ As the Godhead doth indite./ Thus enraged, my lines are hurled,/ Like the Sibyl's, through the world;/...

hurling, v. (1)

    PLT 12.17 25 ...the sun is conceived to have made our system by hurling out from itself the outer rings of diffuse ether...

hurls, v. (4)

    Int 2.332 9 It seems as if the law of the intellect resembled that law of nature...by which the heart now draws in, then hurls out the blood...
    ET14 5.236 23 The more hearty and sturdy [English] expression may indicate that the savageness of the Norseman was not all gone. Their dynamic brains hurled off their words as the revolving stone hurls off scraps of grit.
    Suc 7.307 1 ...the heart at the centre of the universe with every throb hurls the flood of happiness into every artery, vein and veinlet...
    SA 8.80 12 The staple figure in novels is the man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates...and, never sharing their affections or debilities, hurls his word like a bullet when occasion requires...

hurrah, n. (3)

    CbW 6.249 21 Away with this hurrah of masses...
    Prch 10.231 18 I do not love sensation preaching...the hurrah for our side...
    War 11.170 19 ...[public meetings] vote and vote, cry hurrah on both sides...

hurrahs, n. (3)

    NMW 4.255 22 ...[Napoleon]...listened after the hurrahs and the compliments of the street...
    Supl 10.170 17 [The guest's] health was drunk with some acknowledgment of his distinguished services to both countries, and followed by nine cold hurrahs.
    Supl 10.170 24 ...the great official...declared that he should remember this honor to the latest moment of his existence. He was answered again by officials. Pity, thought I, they should lie so about their keen sensibility to the nine cold hurrahs...

hurras, n. (1)

    Cour 7.259 12 [Political parties] can do the hurras...

hurricane, n. (2)

    Cour 7.263 24 To [the sailor] a leak, a hurricane, or a water-spout is so much work,--no more.
    FSLC 11.184 4 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?

hurricanes, n. (1)

    Supl 10.167 26 [People of English stock's] houses are...not designed to... blow about through the air much in hurricanes...

hurried, adj. (3)

    SA 8.85 14 ...youth in America is wont to be poor and hurried...
    SA 8.90 12 The life of these persons was conducted in the same calm and affirmative manner as their discourse. Life with them was...by no means the hot and hurried business which passes in the world.
    MoL 10.257 15 We do not often have a moment of grandeur in these hurried, slipshod lives...

hurried, v. (5)

    AmS 1.92 16 I would not be hurried by any love of system...to underrate the Book.
    LT 1.283 15 ...the current literature and poetry with perverse ingenuity draw us away from life to solitude and meditation. This could well be borne...if the men were ravished by their thought, and hurried into ascetic extravagances.
    NMW 4.233 19 To be hurried away by every event is to have no political system at all.
    Prch 10.221 21 Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is without God in the world. To...behold the horse, cow and bird, and to foresee an equal and speedy end to him and them;-no, the bird, as it hurried by him with its bold and perfect flight, would disclaim his sympathy...
    ALin 11.335 7 ...what an occasion was the whirlwind of the war. Here was place for...no fair-weather sailor; the new pilot was hurried to the helm in a tornado.

hurries, v. (1)

    Farm 7.139 1 Nature never hurries...

hurry, n. (10)

    Hist 2.3 15 Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty...which belongs to it, in appropriate events.
    Chr1 3.113 7 ...if suddenly we encounter a friend, we pause; our heat and hurry look foolish enough;...
    Mrs1 3.138 6 Let us leave hurry to slaves.
    PPh 4.79 5 ...when we praise the style, or the common sense, or arithmetic [of Plato], we speak as boys, and much of our impatient criticism of the dialectic, I suspect, is no better. The criticism is like our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry;...
    NMW 4.238 21 [Bonaparte's] instructions to his secretary at the Tuileries are worth remembering. During the night, enter my chamber as seldom as possible. Do not awake me when you have any good news to communicate; with that there is no hurry.
    Ctr 6.160 15 ...sculpture and painting have an effect to teach us manners and abolish hurry.
    Aris 10.37 9 ...[the common man's] whole life is a hurry.
    Edc1 10.154 23 ...in this world of hurry and distraction, who can wait for the returns of reason...
    Edc1 10.155 5 Leave this military hurry and adopt the pace of Nature.
    Pray 12.353 16 Shall we never ask the aim of all this hurry and foam...

hurry, v. (7)

    Comp 2.91 10 The lonely Earth amid the balls/ That hurry through the eternal halls,/ A makeweight flying to the void,/ Supplemental asteroid,/ Or compensatory spark,/ Shoots across the neutral Dark./
    Fdsp 2.198 26 Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions...
    Int 2.330 6 It is vain to hurry [the instinct].
    Exp 3.55 10 When at night I look at the moon and stars, I seem stationary, and they to hurry.
    Aris 10.45 10 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism. Men will need him, and he is rich and eminent by nature. That man cannot be too late or too early. Let him not hurry or hesitate.
    MMEm 10.398 5 On earth I dream;-I die to be:/ Time! shake not thy bald head at me./ I challenge thee to hurry past,/ Or for my turn to fly too fast./
    HDC 11.30 1 ...the little society of men who now, for a few years, fish in this river...shortly shall hurry from its banks as did their forefathers.

hurrying, v. (1)

    ET2 5.27 20 ...in hurrying over these abysses [of the sea], whatever dangers we are running into, we are certainly running out of the risks of hundreds of miles every day...

hurt, n. (5)

    Comp 2.105 26 ...when the disease began in the will, of rebellion and separation, the intellect is at once infected, so that the man...is able to see the sensual allurement of an object and not see the sensual hurt;...
    Int 2.326 3 The considerations...of profit and hurt, tyrannize over most men' s minds.
    Chr1 3.97 12 [The feeble souls] look at the profit or hurt of the action.
    Pow 6.61 10 ...if [children] have the buoyancy and resistance that preoccupies them with new interest in the new moment,--the wounds cicatrize and the fibre is the tougher for the hurt.
    FSLN 11.227 10 Here [in the Fugitive Slave Law] was the question, Are you for man and for the good of man; or are you for the hurt and harm of man?

hurt, v. (18)

    SR 2.73 16 ...if you are not [noble], I will not hurt you and myself by hypocritical attentions.
    MoS 4.177 5 The word Fate...expresses the sense of mankind...that the laws of the world...often hurt and crush us.
    F 6.31 24 ...where [men] have not experience they run against [the friendly power] and hurt themselves.
    Pow 6.61 2 When [children] are hurt by us...they have a serious check.
    Wsp 6.242 1 No good fame can help, no bad fame can hurt [man].
    Bty 6.297 23 It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.
    Cour 7.265 17 Bodily pain is superficial, seated usually in the skin and the extremities...not in the vitals, where the rupture that produces death is perhaps not felt, and the victim never knew what hurt him.
    SovE 10.195 25 Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt...never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders...
    SovE 10.196 7 Shall we attach ourselves violently to our teachers and historical personalities, and think the foundation shaken if any fault is shown in their record? But how is the truth hurt by their falling from it?
    SovE 10.196 8 The law of gravity is not hurt by every accident...
    EzRy 10.384 19 In March following [Joseph Emerson] notes: Had a safe and comfortable journey to York. But April 24th, we find: Shay overturned, with my wife and I in it, yet neither of us much hurt. Blessed be our gracious Preserver.
    EzRy 10.384 21 Part of the shay, as it lay upon one side, went over my wife, and yet she was scarcely anything hurt. How wonderful the preservation.
    EWI 11.117 5 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament...that now for ten months...only one black [in the West Indies] had been hurt in 800,000 negroes...
    EWI 11.144 7 ...if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him...
    FSLC 11.190 26 Blackstone admits the sovereignty antecedent to any positive precept, of the law of Nature, among whose principles are, that we should live on, should hurt nobody, and should render unto every one his due, etc.
    FSLN 11.229 11 The way in which the country was dragged to consent to this [Fugitive Slave Law]...was the darkest passage in the history. It showed that our prosperity had hurt us...
    ACri 12.300 24 Pindar when the victor in a race by mules offered him a trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on demi-asses.
    EurB 12.372 15 The Talking Oak, though a little hurt by its wit and ingenuity, is beautiful...

hurtful, adj. (12)

    DSA 1.127 11 Let this faith depart, and...the things it made become... hurtful.
    OS 2.294 26 Even [other men's] prayers are hurtful to [a man], until he have made his own.
    Exp 3.65 27 Each of these elements [power and form] in excess makes a mischief as hurtful as its defect.
    PNR 4.84 4 Plato affirms...that the lie was more hurtful than homicide;...
    SwM 4.122 26 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him...into natural objects, and showed their origin and meaning, what are friendly, and what are hurtful;...
    F 6.21 11 ...what is hurtful will sink.
    Wsp 6.233 2 ...[the will] penetrates the body and puts it in a state of activity which repels all hurtful influences;...
    CbW 6.269 10 Inestimable is he to whom we can say what we cannot say to ourselves. Others are involuntarily hurtful to us...
    Chr2 10.99 12 The aid which others give us is like that of the mother to the child...but on [a man's] arrival at a certain maturity, it...would be hurtful and ridiculous if prolonged.
    SovE 10.189 10 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...though we should fold our arms...the evils we suffer will at last end themselves through the incessant opposition of Nature to everything hurtful.
    FSLN 11.217 2 I do not often speak to public questions;-they are odious and hurtful...
    FSLN 11.237 2 ...that which is hurtful to the world will sink beneath all the opposing forces which it must exasperate.

hurting, v. (1)

    FSLN 11.236 17 The Persian Saadi said, Beware of hurting the orphan. When the orphan sets a-crying, the throne of the Almighty is rocked from side to side.

hurts, n. (5)

    Cir 2.302 27 You admire this tower of granite, weathering the hurts of so many ages.
    UGM 4.22 10 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...apprises me of my independence on any conditions of country, or time, or human body,--that man liberates me;... ... I am healed of my hurts.
    Cour 7.265 21 The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers. The torments are illusory. The first suffering is the last suffering, the later hurts being lost on insensibility.
    Schr 10.266 5 ...[Nature] has balsams for our hurts, and hellebores for our insanities.
    EPro 11.319 27 [The Emancipation Proclamation] makes a victory of our defeats. Our hurts are healed;...

hurts, v. (2)

    Pol1 3.214 12 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I...come into false relations to him. I may have so much more skill or strength than he that he cannot express adequately his sense of wrong, but it is a lie, and hurts like a lie both him and me.
    FSLC 11.186 8 There is always something in the very advantages of a condition which hurts it.

husband, n. (29)

    Tran 1.336 13 In the play of Othello, the expiring Desdemona absolves her husband of the murder, to her attendant Emilia.
    SR 2.73 4 I shall endeavor...to be the chaste husband of one wife...
    Fdsp 2.207 16 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. No partialities of friend to friend, no fondnesses...of wife to husband, are there pertinent...
    Prd1 2.227 12 The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed...as in Peninsular campaigns...
    Hsm1 2.245 23 The Roman Martius has conquered Athens,--all but the invincible spirits of Sophocles, the duke of Athens, and Dorigen, his wife. The beauty of the latter inflames Martius, and he seeks to save her husband;...
    UGM 4.26 14 We learn of our contemporaries what they know...almost through the pores of the skin. We catch it by sympathy, or as a wife arrives at the intellectual and moral elevations of her husband.
    SwM 4.129 13 You love the worth in me; then I am your husband;...
    ShP 4.205 17 ...[Shakespeare]...in all respects appears as a good husband...
    ET4 5.59 5 The sight of a tent-cord or a cloak-string puts [Norsemen] on hanging somebody, a wife, or a husband...
    ET4 5.64 4 The right of the husband to sell the wife has been retained [in England] down to our times.
    Wth 6.113 27 ...next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband.
    Wth 6.114 18 ...if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider...
    Wth 6.124 1 ...'t is very well that the poor husband reads in a book of a new way of living...let him go home and try it, if he dare.
    Ctr 6.164 27 ...in an old community a well-born proprietor is usually found, after the first heats of youth, to be a careful husband...
    Wsp 6.206 4 Christianity, in the romantic ages, signified European culture,--the grafted or meliorated tree in a crab forest. And to marry a pagan wife or husband was to marry Beast...
    Bty 6.283 22 ...we prize very humble utilities, a prudent husband, a good son...
    DL 7.111 20 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 husband, the wife, nor the child;...
    DL 7.122 20 I honor that man whose ambition it is...to administer the offices...of husband, father and friend.
    Plu 10.298 24 ...a good son, husband, father and friend,-[Plutarch] has a taste for common life...
    MMEm 10.400 13 [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt and her husband lived on a farm...
    MMEm 10.400 14 [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt and her husband...were getting old, and the husband a shiftless, easy man.
    MMEm 10.401 1 [Mary Moody Emerson's] mother had married again,- married the minister who succeeded her husband in the parish at Concord...
    SlHr 10.448 19 Perfect in his private life, husband, father, friend, [Samuel Hoar] was severe only with himself.
    GSt 10.501 14 ...the painful surprise which the last week brought us, in the tidings of the death of Mr. [George] Stearns, opened all eyes to the just consideration of the singular merits of the citizen, the neighbor, the friend, the father and the husband, whom this assembly mourns.
    HDC 11.38 1 Wibbacowet, the husband of Squaw Sachem, received a suit of cloth, a hat, a white linen band, shoes, stockings and a greatcoat;...
    HDC 11.52 5 At a meeting which Eliot gave to the squaws apart, the wife of Wampooas propounded the question, Whether do I pray when my husband prays, if I speak nothing as he doth, yet if I like what he saith?...
    Wom 11.407 19 Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson...who wrote the life of her husband, the Governor of Nottingham, says, If he esteemed her at a higher rate than she in herself could have deserved, he was the author of that virtue he doted on...
    MAng1 12.240 7 [Michelangelo] was deeply enamoured of the most accomplished lady of the time, Vittoria Colonna...who, after the death of her husband, devoted herself to letters...
    EurB 12.371 5 [Tennyson] is not the husband who builds the homestead after his own necessity...

husband, v. (3)

    Exp 3.60 13 Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.
    Pol1 3.216 21 [The wise man] has no personal friends, for he who has the spell to draw the prayer and piety of all men unto him needs not husband and educate a few to share with him a select and poetic life.
    Pow 6.56 5 ...[sickness] must husband its resources to live.

husbanded, v. (4)

    Pow 6.80 22 ...[spirit] may be husbanded or wasted;...
    Res 8.150 5 ...every power in energy...requires to be husbanded...
    PC 8.230 12 ...in this economical world, where every drop and every crumb is husbanded, the transcendent powers of mind were not meant to be disused.
    Insp 8.291 9 The times of force must be well husbanded...

husbanding, v. (3)

    Prd1 2.234 18 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only...the the prudence which consists in husbanding little strokes of the tool...
    MoS 4.159 27 [The skeptic] is the considerer...husbanding his means...
    Elo2 8.119 19 Those whom we admire--the great orators--have some habit of heat, and moreover...an art of husbanding it...

husbandman, n. (3)

    ET4 5.55 13 [The Celts] had no violent feudal tenure, but the husbandman owned the land.
    Civ 7.22 13 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field.
    WD 7.167 12 Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works and Days... instructing the husbandman at the rising of what constellation he might safely sow...

husbandman's, n. (1)

    MR 1.240 22 ...the husbandman's is the oldest and most universal profession...

husbandmen, n. (1)

    PPh 4.66 6 Such as were fit to govern, into their composition the informing Deity mingled gold;...iron and brass for husbandmen and artificers.

husbandry, n. (12)

    MR 1.242 22 ...if a man find in himself any strong bias to poetry, to art... drawing him to these things with a devotion incompatible with good husbandry, that man...ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in his habits.
    Con 1.299 3 Reform has...no husbandry.
    YA 1.386 5 If any man has a talent...for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry...let him in the county-town...put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...
    SR 2.70 19 Commerce, husbandry...are somewhat...
    Mrs1 3.119 5 The husbandry of the modern inhabitants of Gournou...is philosophical to a fault.
    ET5 5.92 18 [The English] have approved...their British birth, by husbandry and immense wheat harvests;...
    Pow 6.81 1 If these forces [of spirit] and this husbandry are within reach of our will, and the laws of them can be read, we infer that all success and all conceivable benefit for man, is also, first or last, within his reach...
    Wth 6.124 9 Good husbandry finds wife, children and household.
    Res 8.150 11 I should like to have the statistics of bold experimenting on the husbandry of mental power.
    PerF 10.72 22 The husbandry learned in the economy of heat or light or steam or muscular fibre applies precisely to the use of wit.
    War 11.153 24 [Alexander's conquest of the East] introduced the arts of husbandry among tribes of hunters and shepherds.
    JBS 11.280 2 ...[John Brown] had all the skill of a shepherd by choice of breed and by wise husbandry to obtain the best wool...

husbands, n. (11)

    Con 1.315 24 ...our husbands and brothers discoursed sadly on what we could save and give in the hard times.
    Exp 3.47 10 Every roof is agreeable to the eye until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women and hard-eyed husbands...
    ET5 5.84 9 [The English] are neat husbands for ordering all their tools pertaining to house and field.
    Elo2 8.122 10 What must have been the discourse of St. Bernard, when... wives [hid] their husbands...lest they should be led by his eloquence to join the monastery.
    EWI 11.140 3 ...the strong and healthy yeomen and husbands of the land... fear no competition or superiority.
    FSLC 11.185 3 I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law. And yet here are upright men...husbands, fathers, trustees, friends...who can see nothing in this claim for bare humanity...but canting fanaticism...
    Wom 11.407 1 ...the general voice of mankind has agreed...that the same mental height which [women's] husbands attain by toil, they attain by sympathy with their husbands.
    Wom 11.407 2 ...the general voice of mankind has agreed...that the same mental height which [women's] husbands attain by toil, they attain by sympathy with their husbands.
    Wom 11.407 15 ...[women]...lose themselves eagerly in the glory of their husbands and children.
    Wom 11.426 5 ...there are always a certain number of passionately loving fathers, brothers, husbands and sons who put their might into the endeavor to make a daughter, a wife, or a mother happy in the way that suits best.
    MLit 12.325 4 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 Venetian music of the gondolier, originating in the habit of the fishers' wives of the Lido singing on shore to their husbands on the sea;...

husbands, v. (1)

    PLT 12.51 22 Nature having for capital this rill [of thought]...she husbands and hives...

hush, v. (4)

    DSA 1.135 13 ...the man who aims to speak as books enable...babbles. Let him hush.
    Con 1.321 26 [The sagacious] detect the falsehood of the preaching, but when they say so, all good citizens cry, Hush;...
    Elo1 7.63 20 All other fames must hush before [the successful orator's].
    Edc1 10.158 13 If a child [in the school] happens to show that he knows any fact...that interests him and you, hush all the classes and encourage him to tell it so that all may hear.

hushed, v. (3)

    Ill 6.312 26 ...the din of life is never hushed.
    EWI 11.130 15 ...if the shipmaster fails to pay the costs of this official arrest and the board in jail, these citizens [free negroes] are to be sold for slaves, to pay that expense. This man, these men, I see, and no law to save them. Fellow citizens, this crime will not be hushed up any longer.
    EdAd 11.392 12 ...this hour when the jangle of contending churches is hushing or hushed, will seem only the more propitious to those who believe that man need not fear the want of religion, because they know his religious constitution...

hushing, v. (1)

    EdAd 11.392 11 ...this hour when the jangle of contending churches is hushing or hushed, will seem only the more propitious to those who believe that man need not fear the want of religion, because they know his religious constitution...

husk, n. (2)

    Fdsp 2.200 14 Bashfulness and apathy are a tough husk in which a delicate organization is protected from premature ripening.
    Fdsp 2.201 22 ...the sweet sincerity of joy and peace which I draw from this alliance with my brother's soul is the nut itself whereof all nature and all thought is but the husk and shell.

huskily, adv. (1)

    Schr 10.274 20 [The thoughtful man] is not there to defend himself, but to deliver his message; if his voice is...husky, then huskily;...

husks, n. (2)

    Bhr 6.172 19 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to slough [people's] animal husks and habits;...
    DL 7.103 4 The care which covers the seed of the tree under tough husks and stony cases provides for the human plant the mother's breast and the father's house.

husky, adj. (3)

    NER 3.276 4 ...instead of avoiding these men who make his fine gold dim, [a man] will cast all behind him and seek their society only, woo and embrace this his humiliation and mortification, until he shall know why... his voice is husky...in this presence.
    Schr 10.274 20 [The thoughtful man] is not there to defend himself, but to deliver his message; if his voice is...husky, then huskily;...
    ACri 12.298 3 What [Carlyle] has said shall be proverb, nobody shall be able to say it otherwise. No book can any longer be tolerable in the old husky Neal-on-the-Puritans model.

Huss, John, n. (2)

    Civ 7.33 5 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...
    Cour 7.274 9 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Huss, Paul...

hussy, n. (1)

    CbW 6.276 2 Few people discern that it rests with the master or the mistress what service comes from the man or the maid; that this identical hussy was a tutelar spirit in one house and a haridan in the other.

hustings, n. (3)

    ET5 5.78 21 You shall trace these Gothic touches [in England]...at the hustings and in parliament.
    ET5 5.81 26 ...is it a boxer in the ring, is it a candidate on the hustings, the universe of Englishmen will suspend their judgment until the trial can be had.
    ET15 5.262 25 Hundreds of clever Praeds and Freres and Froudes and Hoods and Hooks and Maginns and Mills and Macaulays, make poems, or short essays for a journal, as they make speeches in Parliament and on the hustings...

hustled, v. (1)

    Boks 7.212 14 Men are ever lapsing into a beggarly habit, wherein everything that is not ciphering, that is, which does not serve the tyrannical animal, is hustled out of sight.

hut, n. (6)

    MoS 4.158 18 It is from the poor man's hut alone that strength and virtue come...
    ET16 5.276 8 We [Emerson and Carlyle]...took a carriage to Amesbury, passing by Old Sarum, a bare, treeless hill, once containing the town which sent two members to Parliament,--now, not a hut;...
    Wth 6.88 22 ...will a man content himself with a hut and a handful of dried pease?
    Civ 7.21 23 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier.
    WD 7.175 27 In the Norse legend of our ancestors, Odin dwells in a fisher' s hut...
    Koss 11.401 3 You [Kossuth] have got your story told in every palace and log hut and prairie camp, throughout the continent.

hutch, n. (1)

    Farm 7.151 19 ...[the first planter]...lives in a cave or a hutch...

Hutchinson, Ann, n. (1)

    Bost 12.207 1 From...Ann Hutchinson...down to Abner Kneeland...there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.

Hutchinson, Anne, n. (1)

    Cour 7.273 21 The pious Mrs. Hutchinson says of some passages in the defence of Nottingham against the Cavaliers, It was a great instruction that the best and highest courages are beams of the Almighty.

Hutchinson, Judge, n. (1)

    JBB 11.272 12 A Vermont judge, Hutchinson, who has the Declaration of Independence in his heart;...is worth a court-house full of lawyers so idolatrous of forms as to let go the substance.

Hutchinson, Lucy, n. (2)

    ET6 5.108 24 The romance does not exceed the height of noble passion in Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson, or in Lady Russell, or even as one discerns through the plain prose of Pepys's Diary, the sacred habit of an English wife.
    Wom 11.407 17 Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson...who wrote the life of her husband, the Governor of Nottingham, says, If he esteemed her at a higher rate than she in herself could have deserved, he was the author of that virtue he doted on...

huts, n. (6)

    Nat 1.21 2 When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America; - before it the beach lined with savages, fleeing out of all their huts of cane;... can we separate the man from the living picture?
    CbW 6.261 2 He [who is to be wise for many] must know the huts where poor men lie...
    SS 7.1 7 ...[Seyd] Loved harebells nodding on a rock,/ A cabin hung with curling smoke,/ Ring of axe or hum of wheel/ Or gleam which use can paint on steel,/ And huts and tents;.../
    EWI 11.115 6 Some American captains left the shore and put to sea [at the announcement of emancipation in the West Indies], anticipating insurrection and general murder. With far different thoughts, the negroes spent the hour in their huts and chapels.
    FSLC 11.196 9 No government ever found it hard to pick up tools for base actions. If you cannot find them in the huts of the poor, you shall find them in the palaces of the rich.
    SMC 11.373 25 On the first of January, 1865, the Thirty-second Regiment made itself comfortable in log huts...

Hutton, James, n. (1)

    ET5 5.100 22 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata...

Hutton, William, n. (1)

    SR 2.79 14 If [a new mind] prove a mind of uncommon activity and power...a Hutton...it imposes its classification on other men...

Huxley, Thomas Henry, n. (1)

    PC 8.219 21 Agassiz and Owen and Huxley...are really writing to each other.

huzzas, n. (1)

    Koss 11.397 22 [The people of Concord] set no more value than you [Kossuth] do on cheers and huzzas.

hyacinthine, adj. (1)

    Milt1 12.274 12 [Milton] beholds [man] as he walked in Eden:-His fair large front and eye sublime declared/ Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks/ Round from his parted forelock manly hung/ Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad./

hyacinths, n. (1)

    PPo 8.258 2 Presently we have [in Hafiz's poetry],-All day the rain/ Bathed the dark hyacinths in vain,/ The flood may pour from morn to night/ Nor wash the pretty Indians white./

hyaena, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.350 8 The hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea, were all beneficent parts of the system;...

hybernation, n. (1)

    SwM 4.110 10 ...the circles of intellect relate to those of the heavens. Each law of nature has the like universality; eating, sleep or hybernation...

hybrid, n. (1)

    UGM 4.7 14 A sound apple produces seed,--a hybrid does not.

hybrids, n. (1)

    F 6.16 20 Nature respects race, and not hybrids.

Hyde, Edward [Earl of Clar [Hyde,] (4)

    UGM 4.14 6 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden...of Falkland...
    ET4 5.68 10 Clarendon says the Duke of Buckingham was so modest and gentle, that some courtiers attempted to put affronts on him...
    ET5 5.90 15 They are excellent judges in England of a good worker, and when they find one, like Clarendon, Sir Philip Warwick, Sir William Coventry...there is nothing too good or too high for him.
    Boks 7.208 27 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Lord Clarendon;...

Hyde, Edward [Lord Clarend (2)

    Elo1 7.84 3 Pepys says of Lord Clarendon...I did never observe how much easier a man do speak when he knows all the company to be below him, than in him;...
    DL 7.121 26 Nor can I resist the temptation of quoting so trite an instance as the noble housekeeping of Lord Falkland in Clarendon...

Hyde, England, n. (1)

    ET16 5.290 9 Sharon Turner...says, Alfred was buried at Winchester, in the Abbey he had founded there, but his remains were removed by Henry I. to the new Abbey in the meadows at Hyde, on the northern quarter of the city...

Hyde, Lawrence [Earl of Ro (1)

    Clbs 7.239 14 Hyde, Earl of Rochester, asked Lord-Keeper Guilford, Do you not think I could understand any business in England in a month?

hydrant, n. (2)

    SwM 4.121 15 In the transmission of the heavenly waters, every hose fits every hydrant.
    PLT 12.20 14 It is necessary to suppose that every hose in Nature fits every hydrant;...

hydras, n. (1)

    SovE 10.188 10 Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops-but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.

hydraulic, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.511 12 The manufacturers rely on turbines of hydraulic perfection;...

hydraulics, n. (3)

    Cir 2.302 23 See the investment of capital in aqueducts, made useless by hydraulics;...
    PI 8.16 9 Chemistry, geology, hydraulics, are secondary science.
    FRep 11.511 2 It is a rule that holds in economy as well as in hydraulics that you must have a source higher than your tap.

Hydraulics, n. (1)

    PI 8.49 5 Astronomy, Botany, Chemistry, Hydraulics and the elemental forces have their own periods and returns...

hydrogen, n. (4)

    Prd1 2.241 2 I do not know if all matter will be found to be made of one element, as oxygen or hydrogen...
    Wth 6.94 19 ...the supply in nature of railroad-presidents...fire-annihilators, etc., is limited by the same law which keeps the proportion in the supply of carbon, of alum, and of hydrogen.
    PI 8.16 26 ...the chemist mixes hydrogen and oxygen to yield a new product, which is not these, but water;...
    Schr 10.275 27 We cannot eat the granite nor drink hydrogen.

hydropathy, n. (1)

    NER 3.253 7 With these [reformers] appeared the adepts of homoeopathy, of hydropathy...

hydrophobia, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.249 10 A lock-jaw that bends a man's head back to his heels; hydrophobia that makes him bark at his wife and babes;...indicate a certain ferocity in nature...

hydrostatic, adj. (1)

    NER 3.280 9 The familiar experiment called the hydrostatic paradox, in which a capillary column of water balances the ocean, is a symbol of the relation of one man to the whole family of men.

hyena, n. (1)

    CbW 6.269 20 A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

hygeia, n. (1)

    NR 3.235 1 Homoeopathy is...of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

hygiene, n. (1)

    Insp 8.296 26 I value literary biography for the hints it furnishes from so many scholars...of what hygiene, what ascetic...their experience suggested and approved.

hygienic, adj. (2)

    ET12 5.211 6 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic.
    ET14 5.236 14 There is a hygienic simpleness...even in the second and third class of [English] writers;...

hyla, n. (2)

    Thor 10.467 3 ...the turtle, frog, hyla and cricket, which make the banks [of the Concord River] vocal,-were all known to [Thoreau]...
    SHC 11.436 2 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...and in the grass, and by the pond, the locust, the cricket and the hyla, shall shrilly play.

Hylas, n. (1)

    CL 12.151 3 The next day the Hylas were piping in every pool...

hymn, n. (10)

    Fdsp 2.195 1 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers, who...enlarge the meaning of all my thoughts. These are...hymn, ode and epic, poetry still flowing...
    Civ 7.21 26 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar,--and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday.
    PI 8.26 13 Who has heard our hymn in the churches without accepting the truth,--As o'er our heads the seasons roll,/ And soothe with change of bliss the soul/?
    Elo2 8.121 4 In the church I call him only a good reader who can read sense and poetry into any hymn in the hymn-book.
    SovE 10.209 18 [The moral law] has not yet its first hymn.
    LLNE 10.340 2 We could not then spare a single word [Channing] uttered in public, not so much as the reading a lesson in Scripture, or a hymn...
    Thor 10.475 14 ...[Thoreau] said that Aeschylus and the Greeks, in describing Apollo and Orpheus, had given no song, or no good one. They ought...to have chanted to the gods such a hymn as would have sung all their old ideas out of their heads, and new ones in.
    Thor 10.477 2 [Thoreau's] habitual thought makes all his poetry a hymn to the Cause of causes...
    LS 11.9 16 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it...and then to give the cup to all. Among the modern Jews...a hymn is also sung after this ceremony...
    FRO1 11.476 12 The great Idea baffles wit,/ Language falters under it,/ It leaves the learned in the lurch;/ Nor art, nor power, nor toil can find/ The measure of the eternal Mind,/ Nor hymn nor prayer nor church./

Hymn of Love, n. (1)

    SwM 4.127 4 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to be the Hymn of Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet;...

hymn, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.397 19 ...Nor me can Hope or Passion urge,/ Hearing as now the lofty dirge/ Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn,/ Nature's funeral high and dim,-/ Sable pageantry of clouds,/ Mourning summer laid in shrouds./

hymn-book, n. (2)

    Elo2 8.121 4 In the church I call him only a good reader who can read sense and poetry into any hymn in the hymn-book.
    CPL 11.498 20 The religious bias of our founders had its usual effect to secure an education to read their Bible and hymn-book...

hymn-books, n. (1)

    Mem 12.106 10 ...I come to a bright school-girl who...carries thousands of nursery rhymes and all the poetry in all the readers, hymn-books, and pictorial ballads in her mind;...

hymns, n. (8)

    GoW 4.269 9 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person: he wrote...the first hymns...
    PI 8.53 24 Outside of the nursery the beginning of literature is the prayers of a people, and they are always hymns...
    PPo 8.249 14 Love is a leveller, and Allah becomes a groom, and heaven a closet, in [Hafiz's] daring hymns to his mistress or to his cupbearer.
    PerF 10.71 15 The earliest hymns of the world were hymns to these natural forces.
    PerF 10.71 17 The Vedas of India...are hymns to the winds, to the clouds, and to fire.
    Prch 10.220 2 Art will embody this vanishing Spirit in temples, pictures, sculptures and hymns.
    EzRy 10.383 25 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old...meeting-house... with Watts's hymns...
    EdAd 11.385 16 Where is...the voice of aboriginal nations opening new eras with hymns of lofty cheer?

hyperbole, n. (2)

    Nat 1.53 21 The wild beauty of this hyperbole...it would not be easy to match in literature.
    Supl 10.167 14 The English mind...stigmatizes any heat or hyperbole as Irish, French, Italian...

hyperbolic, adj. (1)

    PI 8.71 7 Facts are not foreign, as they seem, but related. Wait a little and we see the return of the remote hyperbolic curve.

Hyperboreans, n. (1)

    Insp 8.294 26 Neither by sea nor by land, said Pindar, canst thou find the way to the Hyperboreans;...

Hyperboreus, Daedalus [Eman (1)

    SwM 4.99 23 [Swedenborg] published in 1716 his Daedalus Hyperboreus...

Hyperion [Frederic Holderli (1)

    Let 12.399 20 ...in Theodore Mundt's account of Frederic Holderlin's Hyperion, we were not a little struck with the following Jeremiad of the despair of Germany...

Hyperion [John Keats], n. (1)

    PI 8.55 23 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill;...

hypernomian, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.79 4 ...there is no crime to the intellect. That is antinomian or hypernomian, and judges law as well as fact.

hypocrisy, n. (15)

    Con 1.299 20 ...[reform] runs...to unnatural refining and elevation which ends in hypocrisy and sensual reaction.
    Tran 1.354 14 ...it will please us to reflect that though we had few virtues or consolations, we bore with our indigence, nor once strove to repair it with hypocrisy or false heat of any kind.
    Fdsp 2.202 27 Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
    Pol1 3.204 22 The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of courts and statesmen, die and leave no wisdom to their sons.
    NER 3.261 18 ...society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good in some particular but negligent or narrow in the rest; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result.
    NMW 4.227 24 There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
    ET13 5.229 11 ...the religion of the day is a theatrical Sinai, where the thunders are supplied by the property-man. The fanaticism and hypocrisy create satire.
    Wsp 6.222 1 ...there is no room for hypocrisy...
    PPo 8.248 17 Hypocrisy is the perpetual butt of [Hafiz's] arrows...
    Grts 8.317 8 It is noted of some scholars...that they pretended to vices which they had not, so much did they hate hypocrisy.
    Prch 10.218 14 Scorn of hypocrisy, pride of personal character...all these [persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] have;...
    Carl 10.495 11 In proportion to the peals of laughter amid which [Carlyle] strips the plumes of a pretender, and shows the lean hypocrisy to every vantage of ridicule, does he worship whatever enthusiasm, fortitude, love or other sign of a good nature is in a man.
    TPar 11.290 4 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions...it is a hypocrisy...
    CInt 12.115 1 ...either science and literature is a hypocrisy, or it is not.
    CInt 12.115 9 ...if the intellectual interest be, as I hold, no hypocrisy, but the only reality,-then it behooves us to enthrone it, obey it;...

hypocrite, n. (1)

    Prch 10.228 16 Of course a hero so attractive to the hearts of millions [as Jesus] drew the hypocrite and the ambitious into his train...

hypocrites, n. (2)

    MoL 10.250 13 [Nature says to the American] Other things you have begun to do,-to strike off the chains which snuffling hypocrites had bound on a weaker race.
    EPro 11.321 18 With this blot [slavery] removed from our national honor... we shall not fear henceforward to show our faces among mankind. We shall cease to be hypocrites and pretenders...

hypocritic, adj. (1)

    WD 7.155 1 Daughters of Time, the hypocritic days,/ Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,/ And marching single in an endless file,/ Bring diadems and fagots in their hands./

hypocritical, adj. (9)

    SR 2.73 17 ...if you are not [noble], I will not hurt you and myself by hypocritical attentions.
    Prd1 2.239 2 What low, poor, paltry, hypocritical people an argument on religion will make of the pure and chosen souls!
    Art1 2.358 6 ...except to open your eyes to the masteries of eternal art, [oil and easels, marble and chisels] are hypocritical rubbish.
    PPh 4.73 5 ...under his hypocritical pretence of knowing nothing, [Socrates] attacks and brings down all the fine speakers...
    Wsp 6.229 11 When the parent...puts them off with a traditional or a hypocritical answer, the children perceive that it is traditional or hypocritical.
    Wsp 6.229 13 When the parent...puts them off with a traditional or a hypocritical answer, the children perceive that it is traditional or hypocritical.
    CbW 6.249 5 Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses.
    PPo 8.249 20 We do not wish to...try to make mystical divinity out of the Song of Solomon, much less out of the erotic and bacchanalian songs of Hafiz. Hafiz himself is determined to defy all such hypocritical interpretation...
    LLNE 10.327 12 The association of the time is accidental and momentary and hypocritical...

hypocritically, adv. (1)

    Let 12.400 6 Let every man mind his own, you say, and I say the same. Only let him mind it with all his heart, and not with this cold study,- literally, hypocritically, to appear that which he passes for...

hypotheses, n. (1)

    PPh 4.69 3 You will have, for one of the sections of the visible world, images...for the other section, the objects of these images, that is, plants, animals, and the works of art and nature. Then divide the intelligible world in like manner; the one section will be of opinions and hypotheses, and the other section of truths.

hypothesis, n. (3)

    Nat 1.48 21 The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature.
    Nat 1.63 1 Idealism is a hypothesis to account for nature by other principles than those of carpentry and chemistry.
    Nat 1.63 16 Let [the ideal theory] stand then...merely as a useful introductory hypothesis...

hypothetical, adj. (1)

    Ill 6.320 10 ...what avails it that science has come to treat...the material world as hypothetical...

hypothetically, adv. (1)

    PNR 4.83 3 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...beautiful definitions of ideas, of time, of form, of figure, of the line, sometimes hypothetically given, as his defining of virtue, courage, justice, temperance;...

hysterical, n. (1)

    PLT 12.24 7 ...the nervous and hysterical and animalized will produce a like series of symptoms in you...

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