Kine to Knotty

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

kine, n. (1)

    Aris 10.56 19 Rather let us be alone whilst we live, than encounter these lean kine.

King, Frederick, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.395 13 My classmate at Cambridge, Frederick King, told me...that in college [Ezra Ripley] was called Holy Ripley.

King, God Save the [Georg (1)

    ET13 5.218 27 Another part of the same service [at York Minster] on this occasion was not insignificant. Handel's coronation anthem, God save the King, was played by Dr. Camidge on the organ, with sublime effect.

King Lear [Shakespeare, Ki (1)

    PI 8.28 13 Lear, mad with his affliction, thinks every man who suffers must have the like cause with his own.

King Lear [William Shakesp [King] (5)

    OS 2.289 19 The inspiration which uttered itself in Hamlet and Lear could utter things as good from day to day for ever.
    OS 2.289 21 Why...should I make account of Hamlet and Lear, as if we had not the soul from which they fell as syllables from the tongue?
    NR 3.233 5 Shakspeare's passages of passion (for example, in Lear and Hamlet) are in the very dialect of the present year.
    PI 8.25 15 Lear and Macbeth and Richard III. [people] know pretty well without guide.
    PI 8.30 24 See how Shakspeare grapples at once with the main problem of the tragedy, as in Lear...

king, n. (121)

    Nat 1.72 22 This is such a resumption of power as if a banished king should buy his territories inch by inch...
    LE 1.160 13 I will say with the warlike king, God gave me this crown...
    LE 1.180 9 ...[Napoleon] had a sublime confidence...in the sallies of courage...which, at the right moment...demolished cavalry, infantry, king, and kaisar...
    MN 1.202 11 When we...look into this court of Louis Quatorze, and see the game that is played there...a gambling table...where the end is ever...to... ruin [your rival] with this solemn fop in wig and stars,-the king;-one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    MR 1.252 25 ...we enact the part of the selfish noble and king from the foundation of the world.
    LT 1.267 20 To-day is a king in disguise.
    LT 1.267 25 Let us unmask the king as he passes.
    Con 1.312 9 The king on the throne governs for thee...
    YA 1.376 18 The king is compelled to call in the aid of his brothers and cousins and remote relations...
    YA 1.386 9 If any man has a talent...for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him...put up his sign-board...Mr. Johnson, Working king.
    YA 1.386 18 Where is he who seeing a thousand men...making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?
    Hist 2.5 6 We, as we read, must become...priest and king...
    Hist 2.6 21 All that Shakspeare says of the king, yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself.
    SR 2.63 14 The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king...to walk among them by a law of his own...was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified...the right of every man.
    Comp 2.106 15 [Jupiter] is made as helpless as a king of England.
    SL 2.159 14 [A man's] vice...writes O fool! fool! on the forehead of a king.
    OS 2.292 2 [Simple souls] must always be a godsend to princes, for they confront them, a king to a king...
    Chr1 3.114 16 ...the mind requires...a force of character which will convert judge, jury, soldier and king;...
    Mrs1 3.136 25 I like that every chair should be a throne, and hold a king.
    Mrs1 3.154 12 The king of Schiraz could not afford to be so bountiful as the poor Osman who dwelt at his gate.
    Nat2 3.178 10 If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls.
    Pol1 3.216 5 That which...which freedom, cultivation, intercourse, revolutions, go to form and deliver, is character; that is the end of Nature, to reach unto this coronation of her king.
    NER 3.270 24 You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice, which Philip refused: the woman exclaimed, I appeal: the king, astonished, asked to whom she appealed...
    PPh 4.51 23 These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many. One is...king; the other, democracy...
    PNR 4.88 23 Intellect, [Plato] said, is king of heaven and of earth;...
    ShP 4.192 1 ...as we could not hope to suppress newspapers now...neither then [in Shakespeare's time] could king, prelate, or puritan, alone or united, suppress an organ which was ballad, epic, newspaper, caucus, lecture, Punch and library, at the same time.
    ShP 4.192 4 Probably king, prelate and puritan, all found their own account in [the Elizabethan theatre].
    ShP 4.209 18 One can discern, in [Shakespeare's] ample pictures of the gentleman and the king, what forms and humanities pleased him;...
    ShP 4.210 3 What king has [Shakespeare] not taught state...
    NMW 4.232 27 The weavers strike for bread, and the king and his ministers...meet them with bayonets.
    NMW 4.240 12 ...[Napoleon] exists as captain and king only as far as the Revolution, or the interest of the industrious masses, found an organ and a leader in him.
    NMW 4.245 5 Seventeen men in [Napoleon's] time were raised from common soldiers to the rank of king, marshal, duke, or general;...
    NMW 4.245 10 When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.
    GoW 4.268 27 A master likes a master, and does not stipulate whether it be orator, artist, craftsman, or king.
    GoW 4.272 11 One looks at a king with reverence;...
    ET4 5.57 8 In Norway, no Persian masses fight and perish to aggrandize a king...
    ET4 5.58 4 A king among these [Norse] farmers has a varying power...
    ET4 5.58 6 A [Norse] king was maintained, much as in some of our country districts a winter-schoolmaster is quartered...
    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;...
    ET4 5.58 13 ...[going into guest-quarters] was the only way in which, in a poor country, a poor king with many retainers could be kept alive when he leaves his own farm to collect his dues through the kingdom.
    ET4 5.59 6 The sight of a tent-cord or a cloak-string puts [Norsemen] on hanging somebody...best of all, a king.
    ET7 5.118 5 To be king of their word is [the Englishmen's] pride.
    ET7 5.121 1 On the king's birthday, when each bishop was expected to offer the king a purse of gold, Latimer gave Henry VIII. a copy of the Vulgate, with a mark at the passage, Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge;...
    ET7 5.121 5 On the king's birthday, when each bishop was expected to offer the king a purse of gold, Latimer gave Henry VIII. a copy of the Vulgate, with a mark at the passage, Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge; and [the English] so honor stoutness in each other that the king passed it over.
    ET7 5.122 17 In February, 1848, [the English] said, Look, the French king and his party fell for want of a shot;...
    ET8 5.140 11 Haldor...told his opinion bluntly and was obstinate and hard: and this could not please the king...
    ET8 5.140 13 Haldor remained a short time with the king...
    ET9 5.144 5 The king cannot step on an acre [in England] which the peasant refuses to sell.
    ET10 5.164 16 The [English] house is a castle which the king cannot enter.
    ET10 5.164 17 The Bank [of England] is a strong box to which the king has no key.
    ET10 5.165 21 [The Englishman] is a king in a plain coat.
    ET11 5.175 15 Of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, the Emperor told Henry V. that no Christian king had such another knight for wisdom, nurture and manhood...
    ET11 5.191 9 Grammont, Pepys and Evelyn show the kennels to which the king and court went in quest of pleasure.
    ET11 5.191 17 No man who valued his head might do what these pot-companions familiarly did with the king.
    ET11 5.191 19 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced...
    ET11 5.192 2 ...the English Channel was swept and London threatened by the Dutch fleet, manned too by English sailors, who, having been cheated of their pay for years by the king, enlisted with the enemy.
    ET15 5.262 9 ...said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words;...these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles and possessions, and the country out of its king.
    ET15 5.263 26 In 1820, [the London Times] adopted the cause of Queen Caroline, and carried it against the king.
    F 6.15 24 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...her first misshapen animals...rude forms... concealing under these unwieldy monsters the fine type of her coming king.
    F 6.22 27 ...here they are, side by side...king and conspirator...
    F 6.34 11 The opinion of the million was the terror of the world, and it was attempted...to pile it over with strata of society,-a layer of soldiers...and a king on the top;...
    Ctr 6.151 2 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes of some great man passing incognito, as a king in gray clothes;...
    Ctr 6.152 27 Mr. Pitt, like Mr. Pym, thought the title of Mister good against any king in Europe.
    Bhr 6.196 1 [Beautiful manners] must always show self-control; you shall... be...king over your word;...
    Wsp 6.206 26 King Richard taunts God with forsaking him. ...in sooth not through any cowardice of my warfare art thou thyself, my king and my God, conquered this day...
    Wsp 6.233 7 It is related of William of Orange, that whilst he was besieging a town on the continent, a gentleman...learning that the king was before the walls...ventured to go where he was.
    Wsp 6.233 11 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners, and...the king said, Do you not know, sir, that every moment you spend here is at the risk of your life?
    Wsp 6.233 15 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners, and...the king said, Do you not know, sir, that every moment you spend here is at the risk of your life? I run no more risk, replied the gentleman, than your Majesty. Yes, said the king, but my duty brings me here, and yours does not.
    Wsp 6.239 5 The son of Antiochus asked his father when he would join battle. Dost thou fear, replied the king, that thou only in all the army wilt not hear the trumpet?
    Bty 6.285 7 Why should not priests, lodged and fed comfortably in the temples, also amuse themselves [said Tisso]? Returning home, he imparted this reflection to the king.
    Bty 6.285 8 The king, on the next day, conferred the sovereignty on [Tisso]...
    Bty 6.285 12 At the end of the seventh day the king inquired [of Tisso], From what cause hast thou become so emaciated?
    SS 7.10 19 The king lived and ate in his hall with men, and understood men, said Selden.
    Elo1 7.73 3 ...Thucydides, when Archidamus, king of Sparta, asked him which was the best wrestler, Pericles or he, replied, When I throw him, he says he was never down, and he persuades the very spectators to believe him.
    Elo1 7.82 23 ...[Columbus] can say nothing to one party or to the other, but he can show how all Europe can be diminished and reduced under the king, by annexing to Spain a continent as large as six or seven Europes.
    WD 7.160 24 The old Hebrew king said, He makes the wrath of man to praise him.
    WD 7.168 8 He only is rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.
    Clbs 7.235 20 In the old time conundrums were sent from king to king by ambassadors.
    Cour 7.258 12 The Norse Sagas relate that when Bishop Magne reproved King Sigurd for his wicked divorce, the priest who attended the bishop, expecting every moment when the savage king would burst with rage and slay his superior, said that he saw the sky no bigger than a calf-skin.
    Cour 7.267 5 Swedenborg has left this record of his king...
    Suc 7.284 3 ...Olaf, King of Norway, could run round his galley on the blades of the oars of the rowers when the ship was in motion;...
    Suc 7.298 14 [The city boy in the October woods] is the king he dreamed he was;...
    PI 8.62 20 ...said Merlin...salute for me the king and the queen and all the barons...
    PI 8.62 22 You will find the king at Carduel in Wales [said Merlin];...
    SA 8.85 27 Eat at your table as you would eat at the table of the king, said Confucius.
    SA 8.88 1 ...a king or a general does not need a fine coat...
    SA 8.95 15 Politics, war, party, luxury, avarice, fashion, are all asses with loaded panniers to serve the kitchen of Intellect, the king.
    PC 8.217 14 [Culture] raises a rival royalty in a monarchy. 'T is king against king.
    PC 8.218 9 If [a man] has...administrative faculty...he is the king's king.
    PC 8.220 16 How much more are...the wise and good souls...Alfred the king, Shakspeare the poet, Newton the philosopher...than the foolish and sensual millions aroun them!
    PPo 8.240 19 [Solomon's] counsellor was Simorg, king of birds...
    PPo 8.263 17 Ferideddin Attar wrote the Bird Conversations, a mystical tale, in which the birds, coming together to choose their king, resolve on a pilgrimage to Mount Kaf...
    Grts 8.314 14 Napoleon commands our respect by...the habit of seeing with his own eyes, never the surface, but to the heart of the matter, whether it was a road, a cannon, a character, an officer, or a king...
    Grts 8.316 26 Henry VII. of England was a wise king.
    Imtl 8.323 2 ...when Edwin, the Anglo-Saxon king, was deliberating on receiving the Christian missionaries, one of his nobles said to him: The present life of man, O king, compared with that space of time beyond... reminds me of one of your winter feasts...
    Imtl 8.323 5 ...one of [King Edwin's] nobles said to him: The present life of man, O king, compared with that space of time beyond...reminds me of one of your winter feasts...
    Imtl 8.325 6 Every [Egyptian] palace was a door to a pyramid: a king or rich man was a pyramidaire.
    Imtl 8.350 15 [Yama said] Be a king, O Nachiketas!
    Aris 10.41 12 ...the effect of freer institutions in England and America, has robbed the title of king of all its romance...
    Aris 10.41 20 In simple communities, in the heroic ages, a man was chosen for his knack;...and the best of the best was the aristocrat or king.
    Aris 10.44 8 ...the philosopher may well say, Let me see his brain, and I will tell you if he shall be poet, king...
    Edc1 10.143 8 Let [the youth]...read Tom Brown at Oxford,-better yet, read Hodson's Life-Hodson who took prisoner the king of Delhi.
    Plu 10.298 15 ...eminently social, [Plutarch] was a king in his own house...
    HDC 11.30 3 Man's life, said the Witan to the Saxon king, is the sparrow that enters at a window...
    HDC 11.71 13 In September [1774]...the inhabitants [of Concord]...forbade the justices to open the court of sessions. This little town then assumed the sovereignty. It was judge and jury and council and king.
    EWI 11.109 14 During the next sixteen years, ten times...the attempt [to abolish West Indian slavery] was renewed by Mr. Wilberforce, and ten times defeated by the planters. The king, and all the royal family but one, were against it.
    War 11.159 10 ...in 1705, Vaudreuil sent [Assacombuit] to France, where he was introduced to the king.
    War 11.159 15 When [Assacombuit] appeared at court, he lifted up his hand and said, This hand has slain a hundred and fifty of your majesty's enemies within the territories of New England. This so pleased the king that he knighted him...
    SMC 11.348 16 Yea, many a tie, through iteration sweet,/ Strove to detain their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half they chose,/ Whose choice decides a man life's slave or king,/ The invisible things of God before the seen and known:/ Therefore their memory inspiration blows/ With echoes gathering on from zone to zone;/...
    Koss 11.396 6 God said, I am tired of kings,/ I suffer them no more;/ Up to my ear the morning brings/ The outrage of the poor./ My angel,-his name is Freedom,-/ Choose him to be your king;/ He shall cut pathways east and west,/ And fend you with his wing./
    Shak1 11.453 11 I could name in this very company...very good types [of men who live well in and lead any society], but in order to be parliamentary, Franklin, Burns and Walter Scott are examples of the rule; and king of men, by this grace of God also, is Shakspeare.
    PLT 12.6 1 [When I look at the tree or the river] I feel as if I stood by an ambassador charged with the message of his king...
    CInt 12.114 1 Hiero the king reproached [Archimedes] with his barren studies.
    CW 12.173 1 Linnaeus...took the occasion of a public ceremony to say, I thank God, who has...so ordered [my fate] that I live happier than the king of the Persians.
    Milt1 12.271 20 [Milton] maintained that a nation may try, judge and slay their king, if he be a tyrant.
    Milt1 12.272 24 [Milton] defends the slaying of the king, because a king is a king no longer than he governs by the laws;...
    Milt1 12.272 27 [Milton] defends the slaying of the king, because a king is a king no longer than he governs by the laws; It would be right to kill Philip of Spain making an inroad into England, and what right the king of Spain hath to govern us at all, the same hath the king Charles to govern tyranically.
    Milt1 12.273 1 [Milton] defends the slaying of the king, because a king is a king no longer than he governs by the laws; It would be right to kill Philip of Spain making an inroad into England, and what right the king of Spain hath to govern us at all, the same hath the king Charles to govern tyranically.
    ACri 12.281 4 To clothe the fiery thought/ In simple words succeeds,/ For still the craft of genius is/ To mask a king in weeds./
    MLit 12.322 22 ...chemist, king, radical...all worked for [Goethe]...
    MLit 12.327 10 [Goethe] is the king of all scholars.

King, n. (3)

    ET5 5.101 14 ...the [English] sailor times his oars to God save the King!
    Wsp 6.209 23 In Italy, Mr. Gladstone said of the late King of Naples, It has been a proverb that he has erected the negation of God into a system of government.
    Bost 12.207 12 With all their love of his person, [the people of Boston] took immense pleasure in...contravening the counsel of the clergy; as they had come so far for the sweet satisfaction of resisting the Bishops and the King.

King of England, n. (1)

    ET2 5.32 16 It has been said that the King of England would consult his dignity by giving audience to foreign ambassadors in the cabin of a man-of-war.

King of Spain, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.149 17 Fuller says that William, Earl of Nassau, won a subject from the King of Spain, every time he put off his hat.
    Bhr 6.194 18 There is a stroke of magnanimity in the correspondence of Bonaparte with his brother Joseph, when the latter was King of Spain...

King, Petitions to the, n. (1)

    Bost 12.201 21 There is a little formula...I 'm as good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence. And this...could be heard (by an acute ear) in the Petitions to the King...

King Regnar Lodbrok, n. (1)

    PI 8.57 26 An intrepid magniloquence appears in all the bards, as:--The whole ocean flamed as one wound. King Regnar Lodbrok.

Kingdom, Animal [Emanuel S (4)

    SwM 4.105 25 ...the Economy of the Animal Kingdom is one of those books which...is an honor to the human race.
    SwM 4.111 25 The Animal Kingdom [by Swedenborg] is a book of wonderful merits.
    SwM 4.115 24 Was it strange that a genius so bold [as Swedenborg]... should conceive that he might attain the science of all sciences, to unlock the meaning of the world? In the first volume of the Animal Kingdom, he broaches the subject in a remarkable note...
    SwM 4.130 21 In his Animal Kingdom [Swedenborg] surprised us by declaring that he loved analysis, and not synthesis;...

kingdom, n. (51)

    Nat 1.20 7 ...[man] may...abdicate his kingdom...
    Nat 1.67 7 It is not so pertinent to man to know all the individuals of the animal kingdom...
    Nat 1.77 7 The kingdom of man over nature...he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.
    AmS 1.107 27 The private life of one man shall be...more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history.
    MR 1.228 25 ...not a kingdom, town, statute, rite, calling, man, or woman, but is threatened by the new spirit.
    Hist 2.4 4 ...camp, kingdom, empire...are merely the application of [the first man's] manifold spirit to the manifold world.
    Hist 2.17 19 There is nothing but is related to us...kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron shoe...
    SR 2.62 23 Kingdom and lordship...are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward...
    Comp 2.97 18 ...in the animal kingdom the physiologist has observed that no creatures are favorites...
    Lov1 2.171 22 In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place-- dwell care and canker and fear.
    Prd1 2.230 16 The men we call greatest are least in this kingdom [of prudence].
    Int 2.338 12 ...the kingdom of thought has no inclosures...
    Art1 2.365 22 A true announcement of the law of creation...would carry art up into the kingdom of nature...
    Pt1 3.23 17 ...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs,--a fearless, sleepless, deathless progeny, which is not exposed to the accidents of the weary kingdom of time;...
    Exp 3.67 4 How easily, if fate would suffer it, we might...adjust ourselves, once for all, to the perfect calculation of the kingdom of known cause and effect.
    Exp 3.68 23 ...the moral sentiment is well called the newness, for it is never other;...the kingdom that cometh without observation.
    Exp 3.77 5 The great and crescive self...ruins the kingdom of mortal friendship and love.
    NER 3.255 13 ...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.
    NER 3.261 5 ...in the assault on the kingdom of darkness [many reformers] expend all their energy on some accidental evil...
    SwM 4.93 9 A higher class...are the poets, who, from the intellectual kingdom, feed the thought and imagination with ideas and pictures...
    SwM 4.94 27 [The moral sentiment] is the kingdom of the will...
    GoW 4.274 5 ...in the solidest kingdom of routine and the senses, [Goethe] showed the lurking daemonic power;...
    ET3 5.42 1 ...to make these [commercial] advantages avail, the river Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the kingdom...
    ET4 5.58 15 ...[going into guest-quarters] was the only way in which, in a poor country, a poor king with many retainers could be kept alive when he leaves his own farm to collect his dues through the kingdom.
    ET4 5.64 7 Henry III. mortgaged all the Jews in the kingdom to his brother the Earl of Cornwall...
    ET5 5.75 7 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom.
    ET5 5.94 5 The climate and geography [of England], I said, were factitious, as if the hands of man had arranged the conditions. The same character pervades the whole kingdom.
    ET13 5.224 25 The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in 1753) was resisted by petitions from all parts of the kingdom...
    ET13 5.225 2 The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in 1753) was resisted...by petition from the city of London, reprobating this bill, as...extremely injurious to the interests and commerce of the kingdom in general...
    ET17 5.293 12 ...my recollections of the best hours go back to private conversations in different parts of the kingdom [England]...
    Bhr 6.170 16 The nobility cannot in any country be disguised, and no more in a republic or a democracy than in a kingdom.
    Wsp 6.219 6 ...to [man]...the lures of passion and the commandments of duty are opened; and the next lesson taught is the continuation of the inflexible law of matter into the subtile kingdom of will and of thought;...
    Wsp 6.224 7 A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, namely, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination...
    Wsp 6.226 20 ...the divine assessors who came up with [a man] into life... walk with him, step for step, through all the kingdom of time.
    Bty 6.301 3 If a man can raise a small city to be a great kingdom...'t is no matter whether his nose is parallel to his spine...
    Ill 6.315 25 Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion.
    Ill 6.322 18 In this kingdom of illusions we grope eagerly for stays and foundations.
    Art2 7.52 22 Herein we have an explanation of the necessity that reigns in all the kingdom of Art. Arising out of eternal Reason...whatever is beautiful rests on the foundation of the necessary.
    Elo1 7.78 24 With a serene face, [Caesar] subverts a kingdom.
    PerF 10.77 27 In proportion to the depth of the insight is the power and reach of the kingdom [a man] controls.
    Supl 10.177 16 The [Oriental] diver dives a beggar, and rises with the price of a kingdom in his hand.
    SovE 10.193 13 He that plants his foot here [on belief in Divine justice] passes at once out of the kingdom of illusions.
    Schr 10.281 2 [Idealistic views] threaten the validity of contracts, but do not prevail so far as to establish the new kingdom which shall supersede contracts, oaths and property.
    LS 11.15 10 Elsewhere [St. Paul] tells [the primitive Church] that at that time [the second coming of Christ], the world would be burnt up with fire... so slow were the disciples...to receive the idea which we receive, that his second coming was a spiritual kingdom...
    LS 11.20 19 ...the Apostle well assures us that the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
    EWI 11.107 6 We cannot say the cause set forth by this return is allowed or approved of by the laws of this kingdom [England];...
    War 11.172 1 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a man]...should be himself a kingdom and a state;...
    PLT 12.4 13 ...at last, it is only that exceeding and universal part [of Nature] which interests us, when we shall read in a true history what befalls in that kingdom where a thousand years is as one day...
    PLT 12.27 2 The mechanical laws might as easily be shown pervading the kingdom of mind as the vegetative.
    II 12.79 10 It is not less the rule of this kingdom [of thought] that you shall not speak of the mount except on the mount;...
    Pray 12.351 22 Wacic the Caliph...ended his life...with these words: O thou whose kingdom never passes away, pity one whose dignity is so transient.

Kingdom of God, n. (1)

    LS 11.3 1 The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.-Romans xiv. 17.

kingdoms, n. (25)

    Nat 1.40 7 [Nature] offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful.
    Nat 1.61 10 Through all its kingdoms...[nature] is faithful to the cause whence it had its origin.
    MN 1.201 9 There is no revolt in all the kingdoms from the commonweal...
    Hist 2.13 18 Genius detects...through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity.
    SR 2.70 25 Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself.
    SL 2.165 22 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...and a heart...which on the waves of its love and hope can uplift all that is reckoned solid and precious in the world,-- palaces, gardens, money, navies, kingdoms...these all are his...
    Lov1 2.185 2 Night, day, studies, talents, kingdoms, religion, are all contained in [the lover's] form full of soul, in this soul which is all form.
    Pt1 3.22 24 Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.
    Gts 3.165 2 I fear to breathe any treason against the majesty of love, which is the genius and god of gifts, and to whom we must not affect to prescribe. Let him give kingdoms of flower-leaves indifferently.
    UGM 4.10 6 ...a sober grace adheres to the mineral and botanic kingdoms, which, in the highest moments, comes up as the charm of nature...
    GoW 4.272 9 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures, in the encyclopaedical manner in which modern erudition... researches into...geology, chemistry, astronomy; and every one of these kingdoms assuming a certain aerial and poetic character, by reason of the multitude.
    GoW 4.285 19 [Goethe] can not hate anybody; his time is worth too much. Temperamental antagonisms may be suffered, but like feuds of emperors, who fight dignifiedly across kingdoms.
    ET14 5.241 17 A few generalizations always circulate in the world... which...appear to be avenues to vast kingdoms of thought...
    ET18 5.304 26 The English designate the kingdoms emulous of free institutions, as the sentimental nations.
    Wsp 6.218 24 We have learned the manners...of the mineral and elemental kingdoms...
    Elo1 7.83 18 ...let Bacon speak and wise men would rather listen though the revolution of kingdoms was on foot.
    WD 7.155 6 To each [the days] offer gifts after his will,/ Bread, kingdoms, stars and sky that holds them all./
    PC 8.207 23 [Men] come from crowded, antiquated kingdoms to the easy sharing of our simple forms.
    SovE 10.188 6 It is the same fact existing as sentiment and as will in the mind, which works in Nature as irresistible law, exerting influence...down in the kingdoms of brute or of chemical atoms.
    Schr 10.263 4 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...expressors themselves of that firm and cheerful temper...which reigns through the kingdoms of chemistry, vegetation and animal life.
    Schr 10.282 4 ...a true orator will make us feel that the states and kingdoms, the senators, lawyers and rich men are caterpillars' webs and caterpillars...
    RBur 11.439 17 At the first announcement...that the 25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race, in all its kingdoms, colonies and states...to keep the festival.
    PLT 12.22 14 If we go through...any cabinet where is some representation of all the kingdoms of Nature, we are surprised with occult sympathies;...
    II 12.80 20 Whence came all these tools, inventions, books, laws, parties, kingdoms?
    CL 12.139 1 [Linnaeus]...distributed the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms.

King's College Chapel, Cam (2)

    ET12 5.199 6 I regret that I had but a single day wherein to see King's College Chapel [Cambridge]...
    F 6.36 24 Christopher Wren said of the beautiful King's College chapel, that if anybody would tell him where to lay the first stone, he would build such another.

kings, n. (69)

    AmS 1.105 14 They are the kings of the world who give the color of their present thought to all nature and all art...
    Con 1.311 6 The ages have not been idle, nor kings slack...
    YA 1.375 26 Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.
    YA 1.377 18 Feudalism...had broken the power of the kings...
    YA 1.386 19 We must have kings, and we must have nobles.
    Hist 2.8 19 [Each man] must...not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires...
    SR 2.63 8 When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
    SR 2.63 9 The world has been instructed by its kings...
    SR 2.70 10 ...a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all...kings...who are not.
    SL 2.143 12 In our estimates let us take a lesson from kings.
    OS 2.291 26 I do not wonder that these [simple] men go to see Cromwell and Christina and Charles the Second and James the First and the Grand Turk. For they are, in their own elevation, the fellows of kings...
    Art1 2.349 15 So shall the drudge in dusty frock/ Spy behind the city clock/ Retinues of airy kings,/ Skirts of angels, starry wings/...
    Chr1 3.110 3 John Bradshaw, says Milton, appears like a consul...so that not on the tribunal only, but throughout his life, you would regard him as sitting in judgment upon kings.
    Mrs1 3.148 13 Certainly, kings and queens, nobles and great ladies, had some right to complain of the absurdity that had been put in their mouths before the days of Waverley;...
    Gts 3.161 24 This is fit for kings, and rich men who represent kings...to make presents of gold and silver stuffs, as a kind of symbolical sin-offering...
    Nat2 3.174 9 These bribe and invite; not kings, not palaces, not men, not women, but these tender and poetic stars, eloquent of secret promises.
    Nat2 3.174 26 A boy hears a military band play on the field at night, and he has kings and queens and famous chivalry palpably before him.
    NER 3.252 4 [The Sabbath and Bible Conventions] defied each other, like a congress of kings...
    NER 3.255 11 ...the country is full of kings.
    SwM 4.133 21 All [Swedenborg's] interlocutors Swedenborgize. Be they who they may, to this complexion must they come at last. This Charon ferries them all over in his boat; kings, counsellors, cavaliers, doctors...
    NMW 4.232 24 History is full...of the imbecility of kings and governors.
    NMW 4.233 6 Here was a man who in each moment and emergency knew what to do next. It is an immense comfort and refreshment to the spirits, not only of kings, but of citizens.
    NMW 4.239 6 There have been many working kings...
    NMW 4.239 17 ...[Napoleon]...made no secret of his contempt for the born kings...
    NMW 4.246 23 Perhaps it is a little puerile, the pleasure [Napoleon] took in making these contrasts glaring; as when he pleased himself with making kings wait in his antechambers...
    GoW 4.272 12 ...if one should chance to be at a congress of kings, the eye would take liberties with the peculiarities of each.
    ET4 5.58 24 A pair of [Norse] kings, after dinner, will divert themselves by thrusting each his sword through the other's body...
    ET4 5.59 9 King Ingiald finds it vastly amusing to burn up half a dozen kings in a hall...
    ET4 5.62 7 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 5.75 12 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...forced the baron to dictate Saxon terms to Norman kings;...
    ET5 5.75 23 The power of the Saxon-Danes...so vivacious as to extort charters from the kings, stood on the strong personality of these people.
    ET5 5.96 20 [The English] make...telescopes for astronomers, cannons for kings.
    ET8 5.142 16 [The English] wish...to be kings in their own houses.
    ET10 5.161 14 ...[the Bank of England] refuses loans, and...kings are dethroned.
    ET11 5.198 l8 ...the rich Englishman goes over the world at the present day, drawing more than all the advantages which the strongest of his kings could command.
    ET16 5.289 26 I think I prefer this church [Winchester Cathedral] to all I have seen, except Westminster and York. Here was Canute buried, and here Alfred the Great was crowned and buried, and here the Saxon kings;...
    Wth 6.93 19 Columbus...looks on all kings and peoples as cowardly landsmen until they dare fit him out.
    Wth 6.95 19 Kings are said to have long arms...
    Bhr 6.182 26 ...it is a point of pride with kings to remember faces and names.
    Bty 6.302 2 The lives of the Italian artists, who established a despotism of genius amidst the dukes and kings and mobs of their stormy epoch, prove how loyal men in all times are to a finer brain, a finer method than their own.
    SS 7.4 5 [My new friend] coveted Mirabeau's don terrible de la familiarite, believing that he whose sympathy goes lowest is the man from whom kings have the most to fear.
    Elo1 7.63 22 ...they are not kings who sit on thrones, but they who know how to govern.
    Elo1 7.70 25 ...who does not remember in childhood some white or black or yellow Scheherezade, who, by that talent of telling endless feats of fairies and magicians and kings and queens, was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now?
    Elo1 7.79 16 It is easy to illustrate this overpowering personality by these examples of soldiers and kings;...
    WD 7.175 24 Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes...
    SA 8.81 14 Balzac finely said: Kings themselves cannot force the exquisite politeness of distance to capitulate...
    SA 8.81 23 The babe meets such courting and flattery as only kings receive when adult;...
    PC 8.209 10 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...all... teaching nations the taking of government into their own hands, and superseding kings.
    PC 8.218 15 Popes and kings and Councils of Ten are very sharp with their censorships and inquisitions...
    PC 8.218 20 Some...Erasmus, Beranger, Bettine von Arnim...is always allowed. Kings feel that this is that which they themselves represent;...
    PC 8.231 10 We wish...to ordain...universal suffrage, believing that it will not carry us to mobs, or back to kings again.
    PC 8.232 3 Bad kings and governors help us, if only they are bad enough.
    PPo 8.241 25 Firdusi, the Persian Homer, has written in the Shah Nameh the annals of the fabulous and heroic kings of the country...
    PPo 8.260 15 They strew in the path of kings and czars/ Jewels and gems of price:/ But for thy head I will pluck down stars,/ And pave thy way with eyes./
    Insp 8.269 2 It was Watt who told King George III. that he dealt in an article of which kings were said to be fond,-Power.
    PerF 10.69 8 ...man in Nature is surrounded by a gang of friendly giants who can...help him in every kind. Each by itself has a certain omnipotence, but all, like contending kings and emperors, in the presence of each other, are antagonized and kept polite...
    SovE 10.187 12 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...bargains of kings with peoples of certain rights to certain classes, then of rights to masses...
    SovE 10.211 7 'T is very shallow to say that cotton, or iron, or silver and gold are kings of the world;...
    Schr 10.278 7 These iron personalities, such as in Greece and Italy...were formed to strike fear into kings...rarely appear [in America].
    EzRy 10.392 13 We remember the remark of a gentleman who listened with much delight to [Ezra Ripley's] conversation...that a man who could tell a story so well was company for kings and John Quincy Adams.
    SlHr 10.441 14 ...[Samuel Hoar]...might easily suggest Milton's picture of John Bradshaw, that he...in private seemed ever sitting in judgment on kings.
    EWI 11.102 1 In the oldest temples of Egypt, negro captives are painted on the tombs of kings, in such attitudes as to show that they are on the point of being executed;...
    ALin 11.335 23 Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies is engraved under those who have suffered at the block, adds a certain lofty charm to the picture.
    ALin 11.337 1 Nations, like kings, are not good by facility and complaisance.
    ALin 11.337 2 The kindness of kings consists in justice and strength.
    Koss 11.396 1 God said, I am tired of kings,/ I suffer them no more;/ Up to my ear the morning brings/ The outrage of the poor./
    Wom 11.425 27 The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
    Shak1 11.450 26 You shall never find in this world the barons or kings [Shakespeare] depicted.
    FRep 11.528 20 We began well. No inquisition here, no kings, no nobles, no dominant church.

Kings, n. (3)

    LE 1.160 5 ...neither Greece nor Rome...nor the three Kings of Cologne... is to command any longer.
    Wth 6.96 8 Ages derive a culture from the wealth of...magnificent Kings of France...or whatever great proprietors.
    Aris 10.41 14 We shall come to add Kings in the Contents of the Directory, as we do Physicians, Brokers, etc.

king's, n. [kings',] (14)

    YA 1.377 17 [Traders'] information, their wealth, their correspondence, have made them quite other men than left their native shore. They are nobles now, and by another patent than the king's.
    ShP 4.211 23 ...all the sweets and all the terrors of human lot lay in [Shakespeare's] mind as truly but as softly as the landscape lies on the eye. And the importance of this wisdom of life sinks the form...out of notice. 'T is like making a question concerning the paper on which a king's message is written.
    ET4 5.57 11 In Norway...the actors are bonders or landholders, every one of whom is named and personally and patronymically described, as the king's friend and companion.
    ET7 5.120 27 On the king's birthday, when each bishop was expected to offer the king a purse of gold, Latimer gave Henry VIII. a copy of the Vulgate, with a mark at the passage, Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge;...
    ET7 5.123 4 When Castlereagh dissuaded Lord Wellington from going to the king's levee until the unpopular Cintra business had been explained, he replied, You furnish me a reason for going.
    ET7 5.123 7 When Castlereagh dissuaded Lord Wellington from going to the king's levee until the unpopular Cintra business had been explained, he replied, You furnish me a reason for going. I will go to this, or I will never go to a king's levee.
    ET11 5.191 14 Prostitutes taken from the theatres were made duchesses, their bastards dukes and earls. The young men sat uppermost, the old serious lords were out of favor. The discourse that the king's companions had with him was poor and frothy.
    Elo1 7.82 15 The audience [if there be personality in the orator]...follows like a child its preceptor, and hears what he has to say. It is as if, amidst the king's council at Madrid, Ximenes urged that an advantage might be gained of France...
    SA 8.80 22 I think Hans Andersen's story of the cobweb cloth woven so fine that it was invisible--woven for the king's garment--must mean manners...
    PC 8.218 9 If [a man] has...administrative faculty...he is the king's king.
    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!/
    Edc1 10.126 6 All the fairy tales of Aladdin...or the talisman that opens kings' palaces...are only fictions to indicate the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.
    EWI 11.104 27 The richest and greatest, the prime minister of England, the king's privy council were obliged to say that [the story of West Indian slaves] was too true.
    War 11.158 26 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of ships, small and great. All the villages and towns that ever I landed at, I burned and spoiled. And had I not been discovered upon the coast, I had taken great quantity of treasure. The matter of most profit to me was a great ship of the king's...

King's, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.235 6 Cromwell said, We can only resist the superior training of the King's soldiers, by enlisting godly men.

Kings of Norway, Sagas of, (1)

    ET4 5.57 1 The Heimskringla, or Sagas of the Kings of Norway, collected by Snorro Sturleson, is the Iliad and Odyssey of English history.

kingship, n. (3)

    PC 8.218 23 Some...Erasmus, Beranger, Bettine von Arnim...is always allowed. Kings feel that this is that which they themselves represent; this is no red-kerchiefed, red-shirted rebel, but loyalty, kingship.
    PC 8.218 23 Some...Erasmus, Beranger, Bettine von Arnim...is always allowed. Kings feel that this is that which they themselves represent; this is no red-kerchiefed, red-shirted rebel, but loyalty, kingship. This is real kingship, and their own only titular.
    Aris 10.34 23 The old French Revolution attracted to its first movement all the liberality, virtue, hope and poetry in Europe. By the abolition of kingship and aristocracy, tyranny, inequality and poverty would end.

Kinsale, Ireland, n. (1)

    ET2 5.33 14 Yesterday every passenger had measured the speed of the ship by watching the bubbles over the ship's bulwarks. To-day...we measure by Kinsale, Cork, Waterford and Ardmore.

kinsfolk, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.193 2 For long hours we can continue a series of sincere, graceful, rich communications [with a commended stranger]...so that they who sit by, of our own kinsfolk and acquaintance, shall feel a lively surprise at our unusual powers.

kinsman, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.144 7 Be...the lover of [the child's] virtue,-but no kinsman of his sin.

kinsmen, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.22 12 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...when he dies, banshees will announce his fate to kinsmen in foreign parts.

kirk, n. (1)

    ET1 5.18 15 ...[Carlyle]...saw how every event affects all the future. Christ died on the tree; that built Dunscore kirk yonder; that brought you and me together.

Kirk, Scottish, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.117 24 A worthy gentleman...listening to the debates of the General Assembly of the Scottish Kirk in Edinburgh...went to [Dr. Hugh Blair] and offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in public.

kiss, v. (4)

    Hsm1 2.246 31 Kiss thy lord,/ And live with all the freedom you were wont./
    ET4 5.68 4 Nelson, dying at Trafalgar...like an innocent schoolboy that goes to bed, says Kiss me, Hardy, and turns to sleep.
    ET5 5.81 24 [The English] kiss the dust before a fact.
    PPo 8.260 7 [Hafiz's] ingenuity never sleeps:-Ah, could I hide me in my song,/ To kiss thy lips from which it flows!/

kissed, v. (2)

    Wsp 6.199 8 ...Thrown to lions for their meat,/ The crouching lion kissed his feet/...
    MAng1 12.229 26 In the church called the Minerva, at Rome, is [Michelangelo's] Christ; an object of so much devotion to the people that the right foot has been shod with a brazen sandal to prevent it from being kissed away.

kisses, n. (1)

    DL 7.105 18 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...the faces that claim his kisses...

kissing, n. (2)

    LLNE 10.354 15 The Fourier marriage was a calculation how to secure the greatest amount of kissing that the infirmity of human constitution admitted.
    EzRy 10.389 9 [Ezra Ripley] claimed privilege of years, was much addicted to kissing;...

kitchen, adj. (8)

    LE 1.170 1 Undoubtedly the changes of geology have a relation to the prosperous sprouting of the corn and peas in my kitchen garden;...
    Prd1 2.227 6 The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock...has solaces which others never dream of.
    PI 8.7 6 ...as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to;...and goes whirling off...in a direction self-chosen, by law of thought and not by law of kitchen clock or county committee.
    PI 8.37 9 There is no subject that does not belong to [the poet],--politics, economy, manufactures and stock-brokerage...only these things...displaced, or put in kitchen order, they are unpoetic.
    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.
    PC 8.212 24 The old six thousand years of chronology become a kitchen clock...
    MMEm 10.433 5 Shall we not keep Flamsteed and Herschel in the observatory, though it should even be proved that they neglected to rectify their own kitchen clock?
    HDC 11.73 4 ...the farmers [of Concord] snatched down their rusty firelocks from the kitchen walls...

kitchen, n. (5)

    Nat2 3.190 22 ...these servants, this kitchen, these stables, horses and equipage...all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual!
    Clbs 7.246 7 The girl deserts the parlor for the kitchen;...
    Suc 7.286 12 We have seen an American woman write a novel...which... was read with equal interest to three audiences, namely, in the parlor, in the kitchen and in the nursery of every house.
    SA 8.95 15 Politics, war, party, luxury, avarice, fashion, are all asses with loaded panniers to serve the kitchen of Intellect, the king.
    Plu 10.298 27 ...[Plutarch] has a taste for common life, and knows...the forge, farm, kitchen and cellar...

kitchen-clock, n. (1)

    ET4 5.54 6 The kitchen-clock is more convenient than sidereal time.

kitchen-garden, n. (1)

    Farm 7.148 26 ...[the farmer] will concentrate his kitchen-garden into a box of one or two rods square...

kitchens, n. (2)

    Dem1 10.25 26 Mesmerism is...Momus playing Jove in the kitchens of Olympus.
    EWI 11.145 15 The civility of the world has reached that pitch that...the quality of this [black] race is to be honored for itself. For this, they have been preserved...in kitchens and shoe-shops, so long...

kite, n. (1)

    Insp 8.274 7 ...where is the Franklin with kite or rod for this fluid [inspiration]?...

kites, n. (1)

    ET2 5.27 11 Our good master keeps his kites up to the last moment...

kitten, n. (1)

    Exp 3.80 12 Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail?

Kleber, Jean Baptiste, n. (1)

    NMW 4.244 10 ...ample acknowledgements are made by [Napoleon] to... Kleber, Dassaix...

knack, n. (6)

    OS 2.288 8 Among the multitude of scholars and authors...we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than inspiration;...
    NER 3.281 11 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think...the poet would confess...that his advantage was a knack...
    F 6.11 26 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain,-an architectural, a musical, or a philological knack;...
    WD 7.166 18 Look up the inventors. Each has his own knack;...
    Suc 7.295 9 ...it is sanity to know that, over my talent or knack...is the central intelligence...
    Aris 10.41 18 In simple communities, in the heroic ages, a man was chosen for his knack;...

knapsack, n. (3)

    Nat2 3.169 23 The knapsack of custom falls off [the man of the world's] back with the first step he takes into these precincts [of the forest].
    Res 8.144 22 The hunter, the soldier, rolls himself in his blanket, and the falling snow, which he did not have to bring in his knapsack, is his eider-down...
    War 11.157 2 Wherever there is no property, the people will put on the knapsack for bread;...

knapsacks, n. (1)

    SMC 11.364 17 [George Prescott writes] We only had about twelve men... and some of them have their heavy knapsacks and guns to carry...

knave, n. (3)

    Comp 2.122 20 ...the true, the benevolent, the wise, is more a man and not less, than the fool and knave.
    ET9 5.152 11 ...this precious knave [George of Cappadocia] became, in good time, Saint George of England...
    Pow 6.67 2 I knew a burly Boniface who for many years kept a public-house in one of our rural capitals. He was a knave whom the town could ill spare.

knaves, n. (4)

    Hsm1 2.243 1 Ruby wine is drunk by knaves/...
    Hsm1 2.246 20 ...[To die] is to leave/ Deceitful knaves for the society/ Of gods and goodness..../
    MoS 4.185 14 ...by knaves as by martyrs the just cause is carried forward.
    MoS 4.185 15 Although knaves win in every political struggle...yet, general ends are somehow answered.

knee, n. (6)

    MR 1.233 6 The sins of our trade belong...to no individual. One plucks, one distributes, one eats. Every body partakes, every body confesses,-with cap and knee volunteers his confession...
    Con 1.312 5 ...to thy industry and thrift and small condescension to the established usage,-scores of servants are swarming...with cap and knee to thy command;...
    Boks 7.219 8 ...[the sacred books] are...to be read on the bended knee.
    OA 7.323 24 ...it will not add a pang to the prisoner marched out to be shot, to assure him that the pain in his knee threatens mortification.
    Edc1 10.148 20 The whole theory of the school is on the nurse's or mother' s knee.
    SMC 11.361 2 Some of these [Civil War] letters are...written on the knee, in the mud, with pencil...

kneel, v. (3)

    Hsm1 2.246 26 ...Now I'll kneel,/ But with my back toward thee: 't is the last duty/ This trunk can do the gods./
    Exp 3.72 24 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this cause...
    ET13 5.228 3 ...you, who are an honest man in other particulars [than conformity], know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also that he shall not kneel to false gods...

Kneeland, Abner, n. (1)

    Bost 12.207 3 From Roger Williams...down to Abner Kneeland...there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.

kneeling, v. (2)

    SR 2.77 26 The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers...
    SR 2.78 1 The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers...

knees, n. (13)

    OS 2.271 7 ...the soul, whose organ [what we commonly call man] is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.
    Nat2 3.188 14 Each young and ardent person writes a diary, in which, when the hours of prayer and penitence arrive, he inscribes his soul. The pages thus written are to him burning and fragrant; he reads them on his knees by midnight...
    SwM 4.140 23 We should have listened on our knees to any favorite, who, by stricter obedience, had brought his thoughts into parallelism with the celestial currents...
    MoS 4.174 20 In the mount of vision, ere they have yet risen from their knees, [the saints] say, We discover that this our homage and beatitude is partial and deformed...
    ET15 5.270 1 One would think the world was on its knees to The [London] Times office for its daily breakfast.
    Cour 7.262 7 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to attack...my knees shook...
    Chr2 10.108 25 ...the stern determination...to be chaste and humble, was substantially the same, whether under a self-respect, or under a vow made on the knees at the shrine of Madonna.
    Supl 10.165 20 ...much of the rhetoric of terror,-It froze my blood, It made my knees knock, etc.-most men have realized only in dreams and nightmares.
    Schr 10.265 18 ...at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...the poet replaces all this cowardly Self-denial and God-denial of the literary class with the conviction that to one poetic success the world will surrender on its knees.
    HDC 11.33 8 Sometimes passing through thickets...and [the pilgrims'] feet clambering over the crossed trees, which when they missed, they sunk into an uncertain bottom in water, and wade up to their knees...
    HDC 11.39 25 [The settlers of Concord] were fain to make use of their knees for a table, but their limbs were their own.
    EWI 11.114 24 On the night of the 31st July [1834], [the negroes of the West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and chapels, and at midnight...on their knees, the silent, weeping assembly became men;...
    Trag 12.411 8 ...a terror of freezing to death that seizes a man in a winter midnight on the moors; a fright at uncertain sounds heard by a family at night in the cellar or on the stairs,-are terrors that make the knees knock... but are no tragedy...

knell, n. (3)

    ET6 5.112 1 There is a prose in certain Englishmen which exceeds in wooden deadness all rivalry with other countrymen. There is a knell in the conceit and externality of their voice, which seems to say, Leave all hope behind.
    SHC 11.428 9 ...shalt thou pause to hear some funeral-bell/ Slow stealing o' er the heart in this calm place,/ Not with a throb of pain, a feverish knell,/ But in its kind and supplicating grace,/ It says, Go, pilgrim, on thy march, be more/ Friend to the friendless than thou wast before;/...
    FRep 11.524 20 Whilst each cabal...at last brings...men whose names are a knell to all hope of progress, the good and wise are hidden in their active retirements...

Kneller, Godfrey, n. (2)

    MoS 4.152 22 Spence relates that Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day...
    MoS 4.152 23 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.

knew, v. (241)

    DSA 1.129 20 ...[Jesus] knew that this daily miracle shines as the character ascends.
    DSA 1.147 5 We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had...with souls...that told us what we knew;...
    LE 1.167 23 Further inquiry will discover...that not these chanting poets themselves, knew anything sincere of these handsome natures they so commended;...
    MN 1.191 4 The land we live in has no interest so dear, if it knew its want, as the fit consecration of days of reason and thought.
    MN 1.222 14 Emanuel Swedenborg affirmed that it was opened to him that the spirits who knew truth in this life, but did it not, at death shall lose their knowledge.
    MR 1.251 9 Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. The victories of the Arabs after Mahomet...is an example. They did they knew not what.
    Tran 1.338 14 ...we have yet no man...who, working for universal aims, found himself fed, he knew not how;...
    Tran 1.338 16 ...we have yet no man...who, working for universal aims, found himself...clothed, sheltered, weaponed, he knew not how...
    Hist 2.16 25 I knew a draughtsman employed in a public survey who found that he could not sketch the rocks until their geological structure was first explained to him.
    Comp 2.93 5 ...it seemed to me when very young that on this subject [Compensation]...the people knew more than the preachers taught.
    SL 2.155 7 The great man knew not that he was great.
    SL 2.164 16 Byron says of Jack Bunting,--He knew not what to say, and so he swore.
    SL 2.164 18 I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.
    SL 2.165 6 Bonaparte knew but one merit...
    Fdsp 2.200 16 [A delicate organization] would be lost if it knew itself before any of the best souls were yet ripe enough to know and own it.
    Fdsp 2.203 4 We cover up our thought from [our fellow-man] under a hundred folds. I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy cast off this drapery...
    Fdsp 2.216 8 It has seemed to me lately more possible than I knew, to carry a friendship greatly, on one side, without due correspondence on the other.
    OS 2.285 11 In that man, though he knew no ill of him, [one] put no trust.
    Cir 2.299 5 Nature centres into balls,/ And her proud ephemerals,/ Fast to surface and outside,/ Scan the profile of the sphere;/ Knew they what that signified,/ A new genesis were here./
    Int 2.333 6 I knew...a person who always deferred to me;...
    Int 2.334 6 If you...hoe corn, and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the corn-flags, and this for five or six hours afterwards. There lie the impressions on the retentive organ, though you knew it not.
    Art1 2.361 4 ...in my younger days...I fancied the great pictures would be... a foreign wonder, barbaric pearl and gold... I was to see and acquire I knew not what.
    Art1 2.361 12 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius...was the plain you and me I knew so well...
    Pt1 3.10 15 I remember when I was young how much I was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table. He had left his work and gone rambling none knew whither...
    Pt1 3.24 9 I knew in my younger days the sculptor who made the statue of the youth which stands in the public garden.
    Pt1 3.37 15 We have yet had no genius in America...which knew the value of our incomparable materials...
    Exp 3.46 7 If any of us knew what we were doing, or where we are going, then when we think we best know!
    Exp 3.51 15 I knew a witty physician who found the creed in the biliary duct...
    Exp 3.72 9 Since neither now nor yesterday began/ These thoughts, which have been ever, nor yet can/ A man be found who their first entrance knew./
    Chr1 3.101 21 I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a practical reform...
    Mrs1 3.138 4 I pray my companion...if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate as if I knew already.
    Nat2 3.174 12 ...we knew of [the rich man's] villa, his grove, his wine and his company...
    Nat2 3.180 2 Geology has...taught us to...exchange our Mosaic and Ptolemaic schemes for her large style. We knew nothing rightly, for want of perspective.
    PPh 4.71 23 [Socrates]...knew the old characters...
    PPh 4.73 24 [Socrates] always knew the way out; knew it, yet would not tell it.
    PPh 4.73 25 [Socrates] always knew the way out; knew it, yet would not tell it.
    PPh 4.77 9 [Plato's Platonism] shall be the world passed through the mind of Plato,--nothing less. Every atom shall have the Platonic tinge; every atom, every relation or quality you knew before, you shall know again and find here, but now ordered;...
    SwM 4.96 11 The soul having been often born...having beheld the things which are here, those which are in heaven and those which are beneath, there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge: no wonder that she is able to recollect, in regard to any one thing, what formerly she knew.
    SwM 4.112 22 Few knew as much about nature and her subtle manners [as Swedenborg]...
    SwM 4.116 27 The fact [of Correspondence] thus explicitly stated [by Swedenborg] is implied...in the structure of language. Plato knew it...
    SwM 4.143 22 [Swedenborg] knew the grammar and rudiments of the Mother-Tongue,--how could he not read off one strain into music?
    MoS 4.154 19 I knew a philosopher of this kidney who was accustomed briefly to sum up his experience of human nature in saying, Mankind is a damned rascal...
    ShP 4.196 10 Shakspeare knew that tradition supplies a better fable than any invention can.
    ShP 4.211 15 ...[Shakespeare] knew the laws of repression which make the police of nature...
    ShP 4.216 26 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had another use than for apples...
    NMW 4.229 21 [Bonaparte] knew the properties of gold and iron...
    NMW 4.233 4 ...Napoleon understood his business. Here was a man who in each moment and emergency knew what to do next.
    NMW 4.233 24 [Napoleon] knew what to do, and he flew to his mark.
    NMW 4.234 3 Horrible anecdotes may no doubt be collected from [Napoleon's] history, of the price at which he bought his successes; but he must not therefore be set down as cruel, but only as one who knew no impediment to his will;...
    NMW 4.239 15 ...[Napoleon] knew his debt to his austere education...
    NMW 4.240 15 In the social interests, [Napoleon] knew the meaning and value of labor...
    NMW 4.241 23 [Napoleon] knew...how to philosophize on liberty and equality;...
    NMW 4.247 26 ...it is at all times the belief of society that the world is used up. But Bonaparte knew better than society;...
    NMW 4.247 26 ...Bonaparte knew better than society; and moreover knew that he knew better.
    NMW 4.247 27 ...Bonaparte knew better than society; and moreover knew that he knew better.
    NMW 4.255 19 ...[Napoleon]...rubbed his hands with joy when he had intercepted some morsel of intelligence concerning the men and women about him, boasting that he knew every thing;...
    GoW 4.263 15 ...if we knew the genesis of fine strokes of eloquence, they might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in the muscles of the neck.
    GoW 4.287 18 This lawgiver of art [Goethe] is not an artist. Was it that he knew too much...
    GoW 4.288 10 I suppose the worldly tone of [Goethe's] tales grew out of the calculations of self-culture. It was the infirmity of an admirable scholar...who knew where libraries, galleries, architecture, laboratories, savans and leisure were to be had...
    ET1 5.10 17 [Coleridge] asked whether I knew Allston...
    ET1 5.10 18 [Coleridge]...spoke warmly of [Allston's] merits and doings when he knew him in Rome;...
    ET1 5.11 27 He (Coleridge) knew all about Unitarianism perfectly well...
    ET1 5.12 2 He (Coleridge) knew all about Unitarianism perfectly well, because he had once been a Unitarian and knew what quackery it was.
    ET1 5.16 18 The best thing [Carlyle] knew of that country [America] was that in it a man can have meat for his labor.
    ET1 5.19 1 ...[Carlyle] named certain individuals, especially one man of letters, his friend, the best mind he knew, whom London had well served.
    ET1 5.21 14 Of Cousin...[Wordsworth] knew only the name.
    ET5 5.90 7 Sir Robert Peel knew the Blue Books by heart.
    ET5 5.100 22 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata...
    ET7 5.121 17 Certainly [the English] knew the distinction of [Guizot's] name.
    ET7 5.125 10 I knew a very worthy man...who went to the opera to see Malibran.
    ET7 5.126 1 Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says of them,--In close intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know, they speak,/...
    ET9 5.148 22 ...an ex-governor of Illinois, said to me, If the man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest;...
    ET11 5.173 5 ...we take sides as we read for the loyal England, and King Charles's return to his right with his Cavaliers,--knowing what a heartless trifler he is, and what a crew of Godforsaken robbers they are. The people of England knew as much.
    ET13 5.225 21 [Religion] is endogenous, like the skin and other vital organs. A new statement every day. The prophet and apostle knew this...
    ET14 5.237 3 The country gentlemen [in England] had a posset or drink they called October; and the poets, as if by this hint, knew how to distil the whole season into their autumnal verses...
    ET15 5.261 7 The celebrated Lord Somers knew of no good law proposed and passed in his time, to which the public papers had not directed his attention.
    ET16 5.277 23 We [Emerson and Carlyle] counted and measured by paces the biggest stones [at Stonehenge], and soon knew as much as any man can suddenly know of the inscrutable temple.
    ET16 5.280 24 I engaged the local antiquary, Mr. Brown, to go with us [Emerson and Carlyle] to Stonehenge...and show us what he knew of the astronomical and sacrificial stones.
    ET17 5.295 17 I told [Wordsworth] it was not creditable that no one in all the country knew anything of Thomas Taylor...
    ET17 5.296 22 [Harriet Martineau] said that in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and plainest fare; if they wanted anything more, they must pay him for their board. It was the rule of the house. I replied that it evinced English pluck more than any anecdote I knew.
    Pow 6.59 16 The weaker party finds that none of his information or wit quite fits the occasion. He thought he knew this or that; he finds that he omitted to learn the end of it.
    Pow 6.59 20 ...if [the weaker party] knew all the facts in the encyclopedia, it would not help him;...
    Pow 6.63 22 The senators who dissented from Mr. Polk's Mexican war were not those who knew better...
    Pow 6.66 27 I knew a burly Boniface who for many years kept a public-house in one of our rural capitals.
    Pow 6.72 18 When Michel Angelo was forced to paint the Sistine Chapel in fresco, of which art he knew nothing, he went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow...
    Wth 6.83 10 ...well the primal pioneer/ Knew the strong task to it assigned,/ Patient through Heaven's enormous year/ To build in matter home for mind./
    Ctr 6.144 15 I knew a leading man in a leading city, who, having set his heart on an education at the university and missed it, could never quite feel himself the equal of his own brothers who had gone thither.
    Bhr 6.175 27 ...when [the old Massachusetts statesman] spoke, his voice would not serve him; it cracked, it broke, it wheezed, it piped;--little cared he; he knew that it had got to pipe, or wheeze, or screech his argument and his indignation.
    Wsp 6.201 20 I have no sympathy with a poor man I knew, who, when suicides abounded, told me he dared not look at his razor.
    Wsp 6.235 21 When I went abroad [said Benedict], I kept company with every man on the road, for I knew that my evil and my good did not come from these...
    CbW 6.245 12 ...[the priest] walked to the church without any assurance that he knew the distemper [of the soul], or could heal it.
    CbW 6.249 18 If government knew how, I should like to see it check...the population.
    CbW 6.252 17 To say then, the majority are wicked, means...simply that the majority...do not yet know their opinion. That, if they knew it, is an oracle for them and for all.
    CbW 6.257 8 ...[the gentleman] replied that he knew so much mischief when he was a boy...that he was not alarmed by the dissipation of boys;...
    CbW 6.264 5 I knew a wise woman who said to her friends, When I am old, rule me.
    Ill 6.314 24 I knew a humorist who in a good deal of rattle had a grain or two of sense.
    Elo1 7.83 13 Poor Tom never knew the time when the present occurrence was so trivial that he could tell what was passing in his mind without being checked for unseasonable speech;...
    DL 7.109 12 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 property...
    WD 7.161 26 ...every chance is timed, as if Nature, who made the lock, knew where to find the key.
    WD 7.177 14 I knew a man in a certain religious exaltation who thought it an honor to wash his own face.
    WD 7.182 10 The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them.
    WD 7.184 1 There are people who...after years of activity, say, We knew all this before;...
    Clbs 7.231 18 Among the men of wit and learning, [the lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety... But when he came home, his brave sequins were dry leaves. He found either that the fact they had thus dizened and adorned was of no value, or that he already knew all and more than all they had told him.
    Clbs 7.242 6 I have known persons of rare ability who were heavy company to good social men who knew well enough how to draw out others of retiring habit;...
    Clbs 7.246 10 I knew a scholar...who said that he liked, in a barroom, to tell a few coon stories...
    Cour 7.261 19 I knew a young soldier who died in the early campaign...
    Cour 7.265 16 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.
    Cour 7.278 26 The hunter raised his gun,--/ He knew one charge was all,--/ And through the boy's pursuing foe/ He sent his only ball./
    Suc 7.285 27 Hippocrates in Greece knew how to stay the devouring plague which ravaged Athens in his time...
    Suc 7.286 6 Leverrier...knew where to look for the new planet.
    Suc 7.299 16 Is...the college where you first knew the dreams of fancy and joys of thought, only boards or brick and mortar?
    OA 7.318 18 How many men habitually believe that each chance passenger with whom they converse is of their own age, and presently find it was his father and not his brother whom they knew!
    PI 8.62 8 ...said Merlin...I well knew that all this would befall me...
    SA 8.92 4 A wise man once said to me that all whom he knew, met...
    SA 8.93 26 Madame de Stael, by the unanimous consent of all who knew her, was the most extraordinary converser that was known in her time...
    SA 8.94 2 ...[Madame de Stael] knew all distinguished persons in letters or society in England, Germany and Italy...
    SA 8.94 25 The party in the second coach, on arriving, heard this story with surprise;--of thunder-storm, of steeps, of mud, of danger, they knew nothing;...
    Elo2 8.114 14 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside...a man who never knew the looking-glass or the critic;...
    Elo2 8.117 3 [The orator] knew very well beforehand that [the people] were looking behind and that he was looking ahead...
    Elo2 8.127 8 Something which any boy would tell with color and vivacity [some men] can only...say it in the very words they heard, and no other. This fault is very incident to men of study,--as if the more they had read the less they knew.
    QO 8.180 8 There is imitation, model and suggestion, to the very archangels, if we knew their history.
    QO 8.181 1 ...if we knew Rabelais's reading we should see the rill of the Rabelais river.
    QO 8.183 26 ...when [Webster] opened a new book, he turned to the table of contents, took a pen, and sketched a sheet of matters and topics, what he knew and what he thought...
    QO 8.184 24 So the sarcasm attributed to Baron Alderson upon Brougham, What a wonderful versatile mind has Brougham!...if he only knew a little of law, he would know a little of everything.
    QO 8.197 10 We...could express ourselves in other people's phrases to finer purpose than they knew.
    QO 8.198 5 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper.
    PPo 8.236 1 God only knew how Saadi dined;/ Roses he ate, and drank the wind./
    PPo 8.259 23 The Moon thought she knew her own orbit well enough;...
    PPo 8.264 11 The sun from near-by beamed/ Clearest light into [the birds'] soul;/ The resplendence of the Simorg beamed/ As one back from all three./ They knew not, amazed, if they/ Were either this or that./
    Insp 8.269 14 Our money is only a second best. We would jump to buy power with it, that is, intellectual perception moving the will. That is first best. But we don't know where the shop is. If Watt knew, he forgot to tell us the number of the street.
    Insp 8.274 5 In June the morning is noisy with birds; in August they are already getting old and silent. Hence arises the question, Are these moods in any degree within control? If we knew how to command them!
    Insp 8.278 2 [Behmen said] In one quarter of an hour I saw and knew more than if I had been many years together at an university.
    Grts 8.314 9 It is easy to draw traits [of greatness] from Napoleon, who... was intellectual and knew the law of things.
    Grts 8.315 23 [Diderot's] humanity knew no bounds.
    Grts 8.317 9 William Blake the artist frankly says, I never knew a bad man in whom there was not something very good.
    Imtl 8.328 27 The name of death was never terrible/ To him that knew to live./
    Imtl 8.331 13 Many years ago, there were two men in the United States Senate, both of whom are now dead. I have seen them both; one of them I personally knew.
    PerF 10.70 5 Ah, if you knew what was in the air.
    PerF 10.79 10 I knew a manufacturer who found his property invested in chemical works which were depreciating in value.
    PerF 10.80 24 I knew a stupid young farmer, churlish, living only for his gains...
    Chr2 10.110 25 Voltaire was an apostle of Christian ideas; only the names were hostile to him, and he never knew it otherwise.
    Chr2 10.115 7 Jesus...knew how to guard the integrity of his brother's soul from himself also;...
    Supl 10.174 10 I knew a grave man who, being urged to go to a church where a clergyman was newly ordained, said he liked him very well, but he would go when the interesting Sundays were over.
    MoL 10.242 5 [The scholar]...is born one or two centuries too early for the rough and sensual population into which he is thrown. But the Heaven which sent him hither knew that well enough...
    Schr 10.263 8 A celebrated musician was wont to say, that men knew not how much more he delighted himself with his playing than he did others;...
    Schr 10.263 10 A celebrated musician was wont to say, that men knew not how much more he delighted himself with his playing than he did others; for if they knew, his hearers would rather demand of him than give him a reward.
    Schr 10.272 5 The scholar has a deep ideal interest in the moving show around him. He knew the motley system in its egg.
    Schr 10.283 12 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does...a mother-wit which does not learn by experience or by books, but knew it all already;...
    Plu 10.298 12 Plutarch was...a self-respecting, amiable man, who knew how to better a good education by travels...
    Plu 10.298 17 ...eminently social, [Plutarch]...knew the high value of good conversation;...
    Plu 10.313 13 [Plutarch] cites...the memorable words of Antigone, in Sophocles, concerning the moral sentiment:-For neither now nor yesterday began/ These thoughts, which have been ever, nor yet can/ A man be found who their first entrance knew./
    Plu 10.319 16 [Plutarch] knew the laws of conversation and the laws of good-fellowship quite as well as Horace...
    LLNE 10.329 14 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages, mightier than it knew...all gone;...
    LLNE 10.336 16 Astronomy...showed that our sacred as our profane history had been written in gross ignorance of the laws, which were far grander than we knew;...
    LLNE 10.347 2 Robert Owen knew Fourier in his old age.
    LLNE 10.350 10 The hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea, were all beneficent parts of the system; the good Fourier knew what those creatures should have been...
    LLNE 10.358 18 It chanced that here in one family were two brothers, one a brilliant and fertile inventor, and close by him his own brother, a man of business, who knew how to direct his faculty and make it instantly and permanently lucrative.
    LLNE 10.364 2 No friend who knew Margaret Fuller could recognize her rich and brilliant genius under the dismal mask which the public fancied was meant for her in that disagreeable story [Blithedale Romance].
    EzRy 10.387 24 We presently arrived [at the funeral], and the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] addressed each of the mourners separately: Sir, I condole with you. Madam, I condole with you. Sir, I knew your great-grandfather.
    EzRy 10.389 14 ...[Ezra Ripley] knew nothing beyond the columns of his weekly religious newspaper, the tracts of his sect, and perhap the Middlesex Yeoman.
    EzRy 10.391 7 ...[Ezra Ripley] knew the value of a dollar as well as another man...
    EzRy 10.393 5 [Ezra Ripley]...knew the weather like a sea-captain.
    EzRy 10.394 1 Was a man a sot...or was there any cloud or suspicious circumstances in his behavior, the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...
    EzRy 10.394 9 [Ezra Ripley] knew everybody's grandfather...
    MMEm 10.404 12 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I never expected connections and matrimony. My taste was formed in romance, and I knew I was not destined to please.
    MMEm 10.405 14 ...the minister found quickly that [Mary Moody Emerson] knew all his books and many more...
    MMEm 10.406 2 None but was attracted or piqued by [Mary Moody Emerson's] interest and wit and wide acquaintance with books and with eminent names. She said she gave herself full swing in these sudden intimacies, for she knew she should disgust them soon...
    MMEm 10.406 15 ...if [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion was dull, her impatience knew no bounds.
    MMEm 10.411 13 In her solitude of twenty years, with fewest books and those only sermons, and a copy of Paradise Lost, without covers or title-page, so that later, when she heard much of Milton and sought his work, she found it was her very book which she knew so well,-[Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.
    MMEm 10.415 12 'T was I who soothed your thorny childhood, though you knew me not...
    MMEm 10.432 13 ...the event of [Mary Moody Emerson's] death had really such a comic tinge in the eyes of every one who knew her, that her friends feared they might, at her funeral, not dare to look at each other, lest they should forget the serious proprieties of the hour.
    SlHr 10.441 14 Everybody knew where to find [Samuel Hoar].
    Thor 10.450 3 It seemed as if the breezes brought him,/ It seemed as if the sparrows taught him/ As if by secret sign he knew/ Where in far fields the orchis grew./
    Thor 10.454 10 ...[Thoreau] ate no flesh, he drank no wine, he never knew the use of tobacco;...
    Thor 10.454 14 [Thoreau]...knew how to be poor without the least hint of squalor or inelegance.
    Thor 10.458 2 No one who knew [Thoreau] would tax him with affectation.
    Thor 10.466 10 The river on whose banks [Thoreau] was born and died he knew from its springs to its confluence with the Merrimack.
    Thor 10.467 13 As [Thoreau] knew the river, so the ponds in this region.
    Thor 10.469 8 [Thoreau] knew how to sit immovable...
    Thor 10.469 15 [Thoreau] knew the country like a fox or a bird...
    Thor 10.469 17 [Thoreau] knew every track in the snow or on the ground...
    Thor 10.471 18 ...none knew better than [Thoreau] that it is not the fact that imports...
    Thor 10.473 6 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon discovered...his knowledge of their lands...which enabled him to tell every farmer more than he knew before of his own farm;...
    Thor 10.474 4 ...[Thoreau] well knew that asking questions of Indians is like catechizing beavers and rabbits.
    Thor 10.475 5 ...[Thoreau] would have detected every live stanza or line in a volume [of poetry] and knew very well where to find an equal poetic charm in prose.
    Thor 10.475 23 [Thoreau] knew the worth of the Imagination for the uplifting and consolation of human life...
    Thor 10.476 5 [Thoreau]...knew well how to throw a poetic veil over his experience.
    Thor 10.477 7 I hearing get, who had but ears,/ And sight, who had but eyes before;/ I moments live, who lived but years,/ And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore./
    Thor 10.478 10 A truth-speaker [Thoreau]...a friend...almost worshipped by those few persons who...knew the deep value of his mind and great heart.
    HDC 11.33 19 Much time was lost in travelling [the pilgrims] knew not whither, when the sun was hidden by clouds;...
    HDC 11.44 7 [The colonists'] wants, their poverty, their manifest convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General Court...to certain purposes, sovereign powers. The townsmen's words were heard and weighed, for all knew that it was a petitioner that could not be slighted;...
    HDC 11.53 5 ...[Tahattawan] was asked, why he desired a town so near, when there was more room for them up in the country? The sachem replied that he knew if the Indians dwelt far from the English, they would not so much care to pray...
    FSLC 11.200 18 The words of John Randolph, wiser than he knew, have been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in the heat of the Missouri debate.
    FSLC 11.212 24 It was the praise of Athens, She could not lead countless armies into the field, but she knew how with a little band to defeat those who could.
    FSLN 11.221 19 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill. There was the Monument, and here was Webster. He knew well that a little more or less of rhetoric signified nothing...
    FSLN 11.222 8 ...[Webster] knew perfectly well how to make such exordiums, episodes and perorations as might give perspective to his harangues without in the least embarrassing his march or confounding his transitions.
    FSLN 11.222 14 Though [Webster] knew very well how to present his own personal claims, yet in his argument he was intellectual,-stated his fact pure of all personality...
    FSLN 11.230 27 [Reasonably men] answered...that they knew Cuba would be had, and Mexico would be had...
    AsSu 11.251 13 ...I think I may borrow the language which Bishop Burnet applied to Sir Isaac Newton, and say that Charles Sumner has the whitest soul I ever knew.
    JBS 11.279 24 A shepherd and herdsman, [John Brown]...knew the secret signals by which animals communicate.
    TPar 11.289 14 One fault [Theodore Parker] had, he...sometimes vexed [his friends] with the importunity of his good opinion, whilst they knew better the ebb which follows unfounded praise.
    ACiv 11.301 14 Here is a woman who has no other property [but slaves],- like a lady in Charleston I knew of, who owned fifteen sweeps and rode in her carriage.
    ALin 11.328 17 [The people] knew that outward grace is dust;/ They could not choose but trust/ In that sure-footed mind's [Lincoln's] unfaltering skill./ And supple-tempered will/ That bent, like perfect steel, to spring again and thrust./
    HCom 11.340 12 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness:/ Their higher instinct knew/ Those love her best who to themselves are true;/ And what they dare to dream of, dare to do;/...
    HCom 11.344 3 ...when I see how irresistible the convictions of Massachusetts are in these swarming populations,-I think the little state bigger than I knew.
    HCom 11.344 10 A single company in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard. You all know as well as I the story of these dedicated men, who knew well on what duty they went...
    SMC 11.358 12 I doubt not many of our soldiers could repeat the confession of a youth whom I knew in the beginning of the [Civil] war...
    SMC 11.359 12 ...[George Prescott] knew that his men had found out, first that he was captain, then that he was colonel...
    SMC 11.364 7 It looked very much like a severe thunder-storm, writes the captain [George Prescott] and I knew the men would all have to sleep out of doors, unless we carried [tent-poles].
    SMC 11.371 23 The [Thirty-second] regiment has been in the front and centre since the battle begun...and is now building breastworks on the Fredericksburg road. This has been the hardest fight the world ever knew.
    Koss 11.397 13 ...as Concord is one of the monuments of freedom; we knew beforehand that you [Kossuth] could not go by us;...
    RBur 11.442 3 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of middle-class Nature. Not like...Moore, in the luxurious East, but in the homely landscape which the poor see around them...birds, hares, field-mice, thistles and heather, which he daily knew.
    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.
    ChiE 11.472 22 When Socrates heard that the oracle declared that he was the wisest of men, he said, it must mean that other men held that they were wise, but that he knew that he knew nothing.
    ChiE 11.472 23 When Socrates heard that the oracle declared that he was the wisest of men, he said, it must mean that other men held that they were wise, but that he knew that he knew nothing.
    FRO2 11.488 23 George Fox, the Quaker, said that, though he read of Christ and God, he knew them only from the like spirit in his own soul.
    CPL 11.505 21 One curious witness [to the value of reading] was that of a Shaker who, when showing me the houses of the Brotherhood, and a very modest bookshelf, said there was Milton's Paradise Lost, and some other books in the house, and added that he knew where they were, but he took up a sound cross in not reading them.
    PLT 12.8 11 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor hastens to inform us that he knew it all twenty years ago...
    PLT 12.8 13 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor...is ready to prove that he knew so much [twenty years ago] that all further investigation was quite superfluous;...
    II 12.78 5 Truth indeed! We talk as if we...knew anything about it,-that terrified re-agent.
    II 12.78 18 ...[the writer]...should write nothing that will not help somebody,-as I knew of a good man who held conversations, and wrote on the wall, that every person might speak to the subject, but no allusion should be made to the opinions of other speakers;...
    II 12.88 16 Our books are full of generous biographies of Saints, who knew not that they were such;...
    Mem 12.94 5 On hearing a fact told I am aware that I knew it already.
    Mem 12.96 3 We are told that Boileau having recited to Daguesseau one day an epistle or satire he had just been composing, Daguesseau tranquilly told him he knew it already...
    Mem 12.98 9 The more [the orator] is heated, the wider he sees; he seems to remember all he ever knew;...
    Mem 12.105 24 Abel Lawton knew every horse that went up and down through Concord...
    CL 12.162 21 My naturalist knew what was on [the sparrows' and tortoises'] land, and the farmers did not...
    CW 12.178 8 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 12.205 1 [The people of Massachusetts] knew, as God knew, that command of Nature comes by obedience to Nature;...
    MAng1 12.219 21 [Michelangelo] knew well that only by an understanding of the internal mechanism can the outside be faithfully delineated.
    MAng1 12.241 17 ...[Michelangelo] knew that his spirit could only enjoy contentment after death.
    Milt1 12.261 20 ...[Milton] knew that this mastery of language was a secondary power...
    Milt1 12.276 6 Shall we say that in our admiration and joy in these wonderful poems [of Homer and Shakespeare] we have even a feeling of regret that the men knew not what they did;...
    ACri 12.284 22 Goethe valued himself not on his learning or eccentric flights, but that he knew how to write German.
    ACri 12.288 11 ...some men swear with genius. I knew a poet in whose talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only graceful verses were pretty blasphemies.
    ACri 12.296 16 [Herrick was] Like Montaigne in this, that...he knew what he spake of...
    ACri 12.296 20 ...[Herrick] took what he knew, and took it easy, as we say.
    MLit 12.320 23 The Excursion awakened in every lover of Nature the right feeling. We saw stars shine...and knew again the ineffable secret of solitude.
    MLit 12.329 2 [All great men] knew that the intelligent reader would come at last...
    Pray 12.356 27 Thee [God] when I first knew, thou liftedst me up that I might see, there was what I might see, and that I was not yet such as to see.
    EurB 12.375 27 Except in the stories of Edgeworth and Scott, whose talent knew how to give to the book a thousand adventitious graces, the novels of costume are all one...

knewest, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.415 17 ...I [Nature]...fed thee with my mallows, on the first young day of bread failing. More, I led thee when thou knewest not a syllable of my active Cause...to that Cause;...

knife, n. (9)

    MR 1.235 12 ...will you...set every man to make his own shoes, bureau, knife, wagon, sails, and needle?
    Comp 2.114 4 What we buy in a broom, a mat, a wagon, a knife, is some application of good sense to a common want.
    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...
    Chr2 10.120 14 That which I hate and fear is really in myself, and no knife is long enough to reach to its heart.
    EzRy 10.393 22 An eminent skill [Ezra Ripley] had...in uncovering the bandage from a sore place, and applying the surgeon's knife with a truly surgical spirit.
    AKan 11.257 26 ...I submit that, in a case like this, where...the whole world knows that this is...a systematic war to the knife...I submit that the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...
    AKan 11.261 10 ...of Kansas, the President says; Let the complainants go to the courts; though he knows that when the poor plundered farmer comes to the court, he finds the ringleader who has robbed him dismounting from his own horse, and unbuckling his knife to sit as his judge.
    AKan 11.262 14 Every man throughout the country [California] was armed with knife and revolver...
    Mem 12.97 19 A knife with a good spring, a forceps whose lips accurately meet and match...describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...

knife-worms, n. (1)

    F 6.45 23 Such an one [a strong, astringent, billious nature] has curculios, borers, knife-worms;...

knight, n. (4)

    ET11 5.175 7 ...I make no doubt that...baron, knight and tenant often had their memories refreshed, in regard to the service by which they held their lands.
    ET11 5.175 15 Of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, the Emperor told Henry V. that no Christian king had such another knight for wisdom, nurture and manhood...
    Aris 10.55 8 What is it that makes the true knight? Loyalty to his thought.
    Milt1 12.264 8 His mind gave him, [Milton] said, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath of chastity, ought to be born a knight;...

knighted, v. (1)

    War 11.159 15 When [Assacombuit] appeared at court, he lifted up his hand and said, This hand has slain a hundred and fifty of your majesty's enemies within the territories of New England. This so pleased the king that he knighted him...

knighthood, n. (6)

    YA 1.390 6 That is [the hero's] nobility, his oath of knighthood, to succor the helpless and oppressed;...
    ET18 5.302 20 ...what facility and plenteousness of knighthood, lordship, ladyship, royalty, loyalty;...is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years!
    PC 8.234 11 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...I cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
    Aris 10.57 6 I will not protract this discourse by describing the duties of the brave and generous. And yet I will venture to name one, and the same is almost the sole condition on which knighthood is to be won;...
    Plu 10.318 14 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or verse,-there will Plutarch...sit as bestower of the crown of noble knighthood...
    JBS 11.281 5 ...what is the oath of gentle blood and knighthood?

knights, n. (8)

    Mrs1 3.126 7 Fortune will not supply to every generation one of these well-appointed knights...
    ShP 4.189 8 The hero is in the press of knights and the thick of events;...
    ET4 5.57 19 The heroes of the [Norse] Sagas are not the knights of South Europe.
    ET14 5.250 18 Wilkinson...the champion of Hahnemann, has brought to metaphysics and to physiology...a rhetoric like the armory of the invincible knights of old.
    PI 8.60 16 ...many knights set out in search of [Merlin].
    PI 8.62 27 Now then go in the name of God [said Merlin], who will protect and save the King Arthur, and the realm of Logres, and you also, as the best knights who are in the world.
    Aris 10.42 11 In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the sheriff of every county is to cause two dubbed knights...to be returned.
    FSLN 11.244 6 [Liberty] is the oppressed Lady whom true knights on their oath and honor must rescue and save.

Knights of the Bath, n. (1)

    ET6 5.109 25 The Knights of the Bath take oath to defend injured ladies;...

Knights of the Garter, n. (1)

    ET4 5.62 12 It took many generations to trim and comb and perfume the first boat-load of Norse pirates into...most noble Knights of the Garter;...

Knight's Tale [Geoffrey Ch (2)

    F 6.6 9 For certainly, our appetites here,/ Be it of warre, or pees, or hate, or love,/ All this is ruled by the sight above./ Chaucer: The Knight's Tale.
    Aris 10.30 7 Than cometh our very gentillesse of grace,/ It was no thing bequethed us with our place./ Chaucer, The Knighte's Tale.

knit, v. (2)

    ET3 5.43 8 The sea shall disjoin the people from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality.
    PI 8.2 3 For Fancy's gift/ Can mountains lift;/ The Muse can knit/ What is past, what is done,/ With the web that 's just begun;/...

knits, v. (2)

    SovE 10.194 1 ...[good men] have accepted the notion of a mechanical supervision of human life, by which that certain wonderful being whom they call God does take up their affairs where their intelligence leaves them, and somehow knits and coordinates the issues of them in all that is beyond the reach of private faculty.
    HDC 11.31 22 Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

knitted, adj. (1)

    Chr1 3.93 11 In his parlor I see very well that [the natural merchant] has been at hard work this morning, with that knitted brow and that settled humor...

knitting, v. (2)

    GoW 4.264 23 [The scholar] is...one of the estates of the realm, provided and prepared...in the knitting and contexture of things.
    ET1 5.20 2 [Wordsworth] has even said, what seemed a paradox, that they needed a civil war in America, to teach the necessity of knitting the social ties stronger.

knives, n. (8)

    Con 1.306 26 Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all the gentlemen of this world;... And what is that peril? Knives and muskets, if we meet you in the act;...
    UGM 4.30 23 Why are the masses...food for knives and powder?
    MoS 4.167 6 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I certainly know...my knives and forks;...
    Wth 6.103 17 A dollar...is worth more...in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives and arsenic are in constant play.
    LLNE 10.329 24 The young men were born with knives in their brain...
    HDC 11.37 27 Our [Concord] Records affirm that Squaw Sachem, Tahattawan, and Nimrod did sell a tract of six miles square to the English, receiving for the same, some fathoms of Wampumpeag, hatchets, hoes, knives, cotton cloth and shirts.
    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...
    EurB 12.374 7 The eye and the word are certainly far subtler and stronger weapons than either money or knives.

knock, v. (13)

    SR 2.72 7 Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door...
    Mrs1 3.123 23 God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door;...
    ShP 4.209 1 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart...
    F 6.6 21 ...now and then an amiable parson...believes in a pistareen-Providence, which, whenever the good man wants a dinner, makes that somebody shall knock at his door and leave a half-dollar.
    Art2 7.38 7 Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does [the thought] knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.
    Res 8.140 24 By his machines man...can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder;...
    Res 8.148 16 ...[James Marshall] had the pipes laid from the water-works of his mill, with a stop-cock by his chair from which he could discharge a stream that would knock down an ox...
    Supl 10.165 20 ...much of the rhetoric of terror,-It froze my blood, It made my knees knock, etc.-most men have realized only in dreams and nightmares.
    Carl 10.494 1 [Carlyle's] talk often reminds you of what was said of Johnson: If his pistol missed fire, he would knock you down with the butt-end.
    AsSu 11.248 15 The very conditions of the game must always be,-the worst life staked against the best. It is the best whom they desire to kill. It is only when they cannot answer your reasons, that they wish to knock you down.
    HCom 11.344 4 When her blood is up, [Massachusetts] has a fist big enough to knock down an empire.
    II 12.78 7 [Truth] is a gun with a recoil which will knock down the most nimble artillerists...
    Trag 12.411 8 ...a terror of freezing to death that seizes a man in a winter midnight on the moors; a fright at uncertain sounds heard by a family at night in the cellar or on the stairs,-are terrors that make the knees knock... but are no tragedy...

knocked, v. (2)

    Suc 7.293 26 ...Fulton knocked at the door of Napoleon with steam, and was rejected;...
    LLNE 10.346 4 ...[the pilgrim]...had learned to sleep, on cold nights, when the farmer at whose door he knocked declined to give him a bed, on a wagon covered with the buffalo-robe under the shed...

knocking, v. (2)

    FRep 11.536 17 ...every man must have glimmer enough to keep him from knocking his head against the walls.
    Mem 12.107 11 ...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning.

knocks, n. (1)

    MR 1.228 8 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a benefactor, not content to slip along through the world...escaping by his nimbleness and apologies as many knocks as he can...

knocks, v. (3)

    SL 2.144 19 ...I will go to the man who knocks at my door...
    Farm 7.152 5 The sun-stroke which knocks [the first planter] down brings his corn up.
    Insp 8.274 27 [Plato] said again, The man who is his own master knocks in vain at the doors of poetry.

knoll, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.29 19 That spirit which suffices quiet hearts, which seems to come forth to such from every dry knoll of sere grass...comes forth to the poor and hungry...

knot, n. (14)

    MR 1.253 5 In every knot of laborers the rich man does not feel himself among his friends...
    Hist 2.36 12 A man is...a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world.
    Prd1 2.232 24 ...[Goethe's] Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other. One living after the maxims of this world and consistent and true to them, the other fired with all divine sentiments, yet grasping also at the pleasures of sense, without submitting to their law. That is a grief we all feel, a knot we cannot untie.
    Hsm1 2.247 5 Treacherous heart,/ My hand shall cast thee quick into my urn,/ Ere thou transgress this knot of piety./
    Pol1 3.221 27 ...there are now men...to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends...
    GoW 4.275 14 The plant goes from knot to knot, closing at last with the flower and the seed [wrote Goethe].
    GoW 4.275 16 ...the tape-worm, the caterpillar, goes from knot to knot and closes with the head [wrote Goethe].
    ET8 5.131 9 ...one can believe that Burton, the Anatomist of Melancholy, having predicted from the stars the hour of his death, slipped the knot himself round his own neck, not to falsify his horoscope.
    F 6.36 20 This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.
    Elo1 7.85 11 In any knot of men conversing on any subject, the person who knows most about it will have the ear of the company if he wishes it...
    PI 8.31 23 [The poet] affirms the applicability of the ideal law to...the present knot of affairs.
    Dem1 10.23 12 ...in a particular circle and knot of affairs [the fortunate man] is not so much his own man as the hand of Nature and time.
    Prch 10.236 9 ...certainly on this seventh [day] let us...think as spirits think, who belong to the universe, whilst...our hands work in a small knot of affairs.
    MoL 10.257 20 Battle, with the sword, has cut many a Gordian knot in twain which all the wit of East and West, of Northern and Border statesmen could not untie.

knots, n. (6)

    ET2 5.28 19 In one week [the ship] has made 1467 miles, and now...is flying before the gray south wind eleven and a half knots the hour.
    F 6.47 6 ...one solution to the old knots of fate, freedom, and foreknowledge, exists;...
    Civ 7.32 10 ...when I...see...how self-helped and self-directed all families are,--knots of men in purely natural societies...I see what cubic values America has...
    WD 7.169 3 Cannot memory still descry the old school-house and its porch...and do you not recall that life...threw itself into nervous knots of glittering hours...
    PPo 8.246 3 Loose the knots of the heart; never think on thy fate:/ No Euclid has yet disentangled that snarl./
    PPo 8.247 13 Loose the knots of the heart, [Hafiz] says.

knots, v. (1)

    FSLN 11.220 3 ...when a great man comes who knots up into himself the opinions and wishes of the people, it is so much easier to follow him as an exponent of this.

knotty, adj. (2)

    SovE 10.201 6 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree.
    LLNE 10.342 8 ...at a knotty point in the discourse, a sympathizing Englishman...interrupted...

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