Rum to Rylstone Doe
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
rum, n. (4)
Civ 7.31 6 What a benefit would the American
government...render to
itself...if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of
prohibition!
EWI 11.102 14 These men [negro slaves], our
benefactors, as they are
producers...of cotton, of sugar, of rum and brandy;..I am heart-sick
when I
read how they came there, and how they are kept there.
EWI 11.104 8 ...if we saw men's backs flayed with
cowhides, and hot rum
poured on...we too should wince.
EWI 11.113 12 The Ministers, having estimated the slave
products of the
colonies in annual exports of sugar, rum and coffee, at 1,500,000
pounds
per annum, estimated the total value of the slave property [in the West
Indies] at 30,000,000 pounds sterling...
rummaging, v. (1)
CL 12.152 11 The dry leaves rustle so loud, as we go
rummaging through
them, that we can hear nothing else.
rummies, n. (1)
Pow 6.67 15 [Boniface] led the 'rummies' and radicals in
town-meeting
with a speech.
Rumney Marsh, n. (1)
EzRy 10.385 13 16th May [1735] [Joseph Emerson wrote]:
My wife and I
rode together to Rumney Marsh.
rumor, n. (11)
Chr1 3.98 12 What have I gained...that I do not tremble
before...the
Calvinistic Judgment-day,--if I quake...at the rumor of revolution...
PPh 4.72 10 ...the rumor ran that on one or two
occasions, in the war with
Boeotia, [Socrates] had shown a determination which had covered the
retreat of a troop;...
PPh 4.74 10 This hard-headed humorist [Socrates], whose
strange conceits, drollery and bonhommie diverted the young patricians,
whilst the rumor of
his sayings and quibbles gets abroad every day,--turns out...to have a
probity as invincible as his logic...
SwM 4.141 14 ...it is certain that [the scenery and
circumstance of the
newly parted soul] must tally with what is best in nature. ... In this
mood we
hear the rumor that the seer has arrived...
MoS 4.177 24 There is a painful rumor in circulation
that we have been
practised upon in all the principal performances of life...
GoW 4.263 24 A new thought or a crisis of passion
apprises [the writer] that all that he has yet learned and written is
exoteric,--is not the fact, but
some rumor of the fact.
ET4 5.55 25 The English come mainly from the
Germans...a people about
whom in the old empire the rumor ran there was never any that meddled
with them that repented it not.
Aris 10.33 12 The terrible aristocracy that is in
Nature. Real people
dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people
dwelling in a
relation, or rumor...and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the
animal
man...
LLNE 10.343 1 I suppose all of [the supposed
conspirators] were surprised
at this rumor of a school or sect...
LVB 11.90 4 Even in our distant State some good rumor
of [the
Cherokees'] worth and civility has arrived.
EWI 11.133 16 There is a scandalous rumor...that
members [of Congress] are bullied into silence by Southern gentlemen.
rumored, v. (2)
ShP 4.216 7 ...Saadi says, It was rumored abroad that I
was penitent; but
what had I to do with repentance?
CInt 12.114 17 Milton congratulates the Parliament
that, whilst London is
besieged and blocked...and battle oft rumored to be marching up to her
walls and suburb trenches,-yet then are the people...more than at other
times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important
matters
to be reformed...
rumors, n. (7)
YA 1.373 5 This Genius or Destiny is of the sternest
administration, though
rumors exist of its secret tenderness.
Exp 3.64 16 We must set up the strong present tense
against all the rumors
of wrath...
NR 3.234 24 Anomalous facts, as the never quite
obsolete rumors of magic
and demonology...are of ideal use.
SwM 4.139 25 The rumors of ghosts and hobgoblins gossip
and tell
fortunes.
Ctr 6.161 4 A man who stands on a good footing with the
heads of parties
at Washington, reads the rumors of the newspapers...with a key to the
right
and wrong in each statement, and sees well enough where all this will
end.
LVB 11.89 20 ...my communication respects the sinister
rumors that fill
this part of the country concerning the Cherokee people.
MAng1 12.231 21 Long after [St. Peter's dome] was
completed, and often
since, to this day, rumors are occasionally spread that it is giving
way...
Run, Bull, Virginia, n. (2)
SMC 11.357 11 I have a note of a conversation that
occurred in our first
company, the morning before the battle of Bull Run.
SMC 11.365 8 In the disastrous battle of Bull Run this
[Massachusetts] company behaved well...
Run, Mine, Virginia, n. (1)
SMC 11.371 7 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second
Regiment saw hard
service...crossing the Rapidan, and suffering from such extreme cold, a
few
days later, at Mine Run, that the men were compelled to break rank and
run
in circles...
run, n. (3)
CbW 6.273 13 [Friendship] is...not a postilion's dinner
to be eaten on the
run.
Aris 10.49 18 I think that the community...will be the
best measure and the
justest judge of the citizen, or will in the long run give the fairest
verdict
and reward;...
EWI 11.125 5 ...that which the head and the heart
demand is found to be, in
the long run, for what the grossest calculator calls his advantage.
run, v. (131)
Nat 1.14 5 [The private poor man] goes to the
post-office, and the human
race run on his errands;...
Nat 1.65 11 The fox and the deer run away from us;...
AmS 1.95 9 I run eagerly into this resounding tumult.
AmS 1.111 7 It is a sign...of new vigor...when currents
of warm life run
into the hands and the feet.
LE 1.156 25 Men looked...that nature...should reimburse
itself by a brood
of Titans, who should...run up the mountains of the West with the
errand of
genius and love.
MN 1.196 1 As our soils and rocks lie in strata...so do
all men's thinkings
run laterally...
MN 1.203 17 Why should not then these messieurs of
Versailles strut and
plot for tabourets and ribbons, for a season, without prejudice to
their
faculty to run on better errands by and by?
MN 1.209 9 ...the tools run away with the workman...
MN 1.209 15 As children in their play run behind each
other, and seize one
by the ears and make him walk before them, so is the spirit our unseen
pilot.
MR 1.244 6 It is for cake that we run in debt;...
LT 1.277 20 Those who are urging with most ardor what
are called the
greatest benefits of mankind, are narrow...men, and affect us as the
insane
do. They bite us, and we run mad also.
Tran 1.353 18 So little skill enters into these works,
so little do they mix
with the divine life, that it really signifies little...whether we turn
a
grindstone, or ride, or run...or govern the state.
Hist 2.27 5 ...when a truth that fired the soul of
Pindar fires mine, time is no
more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls
are
tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I
measure degrees of latitude...
Comp 2.119 14 The history of persecution is a history
of endeavors...to
make water run up hill...
Comp 2.119 27 [The mob] resembles the prank of boys,
who run with fire-engines
to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.
SL 2.152 11 ...your propositions run out of one ear as
they ran in at the
other.
SL 2.158 1 In every troop of boys that whoop and run in
each yard and
square, a new-comer is as well and accurately weighed in the course of
a
few days and stamped with his right number, as if he had undergone a
formal trial of his strength, speed and temper.
Hsm1 2.262 9 [Culture] will not now run against an axe
at the first step out
of the beaten track of opinion.
OS 2.293 16 You are running to seek your friend. Let
your feet run, but
your mind need not.
Cir 2.319 5 ...old age seems the only disease; all
others run into this one.
Int 2.334 16 ...our wiser years still run back to the
despised recollections of
childhood...
Art1 2.356 10 From this succession of excellent objects
[of art] we learn at
last...the opulence of human nature, which can run out to infinitude in
any
direction.
Pt1 3.23 9 [Nature] makes a man; and having brought him
to ripe age, she
will no longer run the risk of losing this wonder at a blow...
Pt1 3.30 7 We seem to be touched by a wand which makes
us dance and
run about happily, like children.
Exp 3.63 15 ...we...run hither and thither for nooks
and secrets.
Chr1 3.94 11 How often has the influence of a true
master realized all the
tales of magic! A river of command seemed to run down from his eyes
into
all those who beheld him...
Chr1 3.98 25 The capitalist does not run every hour to
the broker to coin
his advantages into current money of the realm;...
Mrs1 3.128 21 The class of power, the working
heroes...see...that the
brilliant names of fashion run back to just such busy names as their
own...
Mrs1 3.135 14 ...if perchance a searching realist comes
to our gate...then
again we run to our curtain, and hide ourselves...
Mrs1 3.141 5 Insight we must have, or we shall run
against one another and
miss the way to our food;...
Pol1 3.204 27 [The young] believe their own newspaper,
as their fathers did
at their age. With such an ignorant and deceivable majority, States
would
soon run to ruin, but that there are limitations beyond which the folly
and
ambition of governors can not go.
NR 3.237 10 We...run about all day among the shops and
markets...
NER 3.279 15 If it were worth while to run into details
this general
doctrine of the latent but ever soliciting Spirit, it would be easy to
adduce
illustration in particulars of a man's equality to the Church...
UGM 4.4 20 The gods of fable are the shining moments of
great men. We
run all our vessels into one mould.
UGM 4.21 20 I go to Boston or New York and run up and
down on my
affairs...
PPh 4.68 8 [Plato] said then, Our faculties run out
into infinity, and return
to us thence.
NMW 4.249 2 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way
in which battles
are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when the bravest
troops...feel
inclined to run.
ET4 5.70 11 [The English] box, run, shoot, ride, row,
and sail from pole to
pole.
ET4 5.70 25 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of
the island to
America, to Asia...to hunt with fury...all the game that is in nature.
ET6 5.110 4 [Englishmen's] leases run for a hundred and
a thousand years.
ET8 5.131 13 [Englishmen's] looks bespeak an invincible
stoutness: they
have extreme difficulty to run away...
ET8 5.132 11 [Young Englishmen]...run into absurd
frolics with the gravity
of the Eumenides.
ET9 5.152 4 A rogue and informer, [George of
Cappadocia] got rich and
was forced to run from justice.
ET10 5.160 8 ...when, to this labor and trade and these
native resources [of
England] was added this goblin of steam...the amassing of property has
run
out of all figures.
ET11 5.185 20 The English nobles are high-spirited,
active, educated men... who have run through every country...
ET12 5.204 21 The reading men [at Oxford]...two days
before the
examination...lounge, ride, or run, to be fresh on the college
doomsday.
ET13 5.226 11 Like the Quakers, [the wise legislator]
may resist the
separation of a class of priests, and create opportunity and
expectation in
the society to run to meet natural endowment in this kind.
ET13 5.227 26 ...you must pay for conformity. All goes
well as long as you
run with conformists.
ET16 5.275 5 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle
complained that
they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the English, and run
away to
France and go with their countrymen and are amused...
ET18 5.306 8 [The English]...are like a dull good horse
which lets every
nag pass him, but with whip and spur will run down every racer in the
field.
F 6.5 15 On two days, it steads not to run from thy
grave/...
F 6.21 20 ...we must not run into generalizations too
large...
F 6.31 24 ...where [men] have not experience they run
against [the friendly
power] and hurt themselves.
F 6.36 18 ...observe how far the roots of every
creature run...
F 6.38 27 ...the papillae of a man run out to every
star.
F 6.45 13 If a man has a see-saw in his voice, it will
run into his sentences...
Pow 6.64 25 ...the 'bruisers,' who have run the
gauntlet of caucus and
tavern through the county or the state,--have their own vices, but they
have
the good nature of strength and courage.
Pow 6.66 20 It is an esoteric doctrine of society that
a little wickedness is
good to make muscle;...as if poor decayed formalists of law and order
cannot run like wild goats, wolves, and conies;...
Ctr 6.133 26 ...if we run over our private list of
poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them
infected with this
dropsy and elephantiasis [egotism]...
Ctr 6.145 2 ...men run away to other countries because
they are not good in
their own...
Ctr 6.145 4 ...men run away to other countries because
they are not good in
their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in
the
new places.
Bhr 6.178 1 A cow can bid her calf, by secret
signal...to run away...
Wsp 6.208 23 A silent revolution has loosed the tension
of the old religious
sects, and in place of the gravity and permanence of those societies of
opinion, they run into freak and extravagance.
Wsp 6.232 7 A poor, tender, painful body, [man] can run
into flame or
bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.
Wsp 6.233 13 [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.
CbW 6.270 9 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid
fool, who believes
that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household]
are
soon perverted...into...repairers of this one malefactor; like a boat
about to
be overset, or a carriage run away with,--not only the foolish pilot or
driver, but everybody on board is forced to assume strange and
ridiculous attitudes, to balance the vehicle and prevent the upsetting.
CbW 6.270 19 ...when the case [of the blockhead] is
seated and malignant, the only safety is in amputation; as seamen say,
you shall cut and run.
Ill 6.320 24 That story of Thor, who was set to drain
the drinking-horn in
Asgard and to wrestle with the old woman and to run with the runner
Lok, and presently found that he had been drinking up the sea, and
wrestling
with Time, and racing with Thought,--describes us...
Civ 7.26 26 ...[a highly destined society] must run in
the grooves of the
celestial wheels.
Civ 7.29 22 We...run this way and that way
superserviceably;...
Elo1 7.91 10 ...all these talents [of oratory]...have
an equal power to
ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator. His talents are too
much
for him, his horses run away with him;...
Elo1 7.91 12 ...people always perceive whether you
drive or whether the
horses take the bits in their teeth and run.
Elo1 7.91 17 ...we...might well go round the world, to
see a man who
drives, and is not run away with,--a man who, in prosecuting great
designs, has an absolute command of the means of representing his
ideas...
Boks 7.212 4 There is another class [of books], more
needful to the present
age, because the currents of custom run now in another direction...
Clbs 7.231 27 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the
company of those who have
convivial talent. But the moment they meet, to be sure they begin to be
something else than they were; they...run on each other...
Cour 7.254 5 Men admire...the man...who has the impiety
to make the
rivers run the way he wants them;...
Cour 7.258 15 ...I remember when a pair of Irish girls
who had been run
away with in a wagon by a skittish horse, said that when he began to
rear, they were so frightened that they could not see the horse.
Cour 7.264 5 ...the farmer is skilful to fight [the
forest fire]. The neighbors
run together; with pine boughs they can mop out the flame...
Cour 7.271 27 ...General Daumas and Abdel-Kader...if
their nation and
circumstance did not keep them apart, would run into each other's arms.
Suc 7.283 9 Our eyes run approvingly along the
lengthened lines of railroad
and telegraph.
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 7.284 6 ...Ojeda could run out swiftly on a plank
projected from the top
of a tower...
Suc 7.311 12 There is an external life, which
is...taught to grasp all the boy
can get, urging him...to ride, run, argue and contend...
PI 8.52 9 The best thoughts run into the best words;...
Comc 8.160 10 ...[the man of the world's] eye wandering
perpetually from
the rule to the crooked, lying, thieving fact, makes the eyes run over
with
laughter.
Comc 8.162 9 ...the sensibility to the ludicrous may
run into excess.
Comc 8.169 13 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender
of the man to his
appearance;... It affects us oddly, as...to see a man in a high wind
run after
his hat, which is always droll.
PPo 8.259 8 [Hafiz] has run through the whole gamut of
passion...
PPo 8.262 18 A painter in China once painted a hall;/
Such a web never
hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush with rich colors
did
run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the sun;/...
Insp 8.269 16 There are times when the intellect is so
active that everything
seems to run to meet it.
Insp 8.275 22 ...ecstasy will be found...only an
example on a higher plane
of the same gentle gravitation by which stones fall and rivers run.
Grts 8.305 17 ...there is the boy who is born with a
taste for the sea, and
must go thither if he has to run away from his father's house to the
forecastle;...
Imtl 8.345 23 ...one abstains from writing or printing
on the immortality of
the soul, because, when he comes to the end of his statement, the
hungry
eyes that run through it will close disappointed;...
Dem1 10.16 13 As [the young man] comes into manhood he
remembers
passages and persons that seem...to have been supernaturally deprived
of
injurious influence on him. His eyes were holden that he could not see.
But
he learns that such risks he may no longer run.
Dem1 10.23 26 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism,
omens, sacred
lots, have great interest for some minds. They run into this twilight
and say, There 's more than is dreamed of in your philosophy.
Dem1 10.28 7 Man is the Image of God. Why run after a
ghost or a dream?
PerF 10.69 3 The hero in the fairy-tales has a servant
who can eat granite
rocks...and a third who can run a hundred leagues in half an hour;...
PerF 10.72 13 The laws of material nature run up into
the invisible world
of the mind...
Chr2 10.102 2 The world would run into endless routine,
and forms incrust
forms, till the life was gone.
Supl 10.174 7 Children and thoughtless people...like to
run to a house on
fire...
Prch 10.220 23 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly
in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of
the intellect...we are
like...soldiers who rush to battle; but when the game is run down...we
are
alarmed at our solitude;...
Prch 10.221 12 The understanding...because it has found
absurdities to
which the sentiment of veneration is attached, sneers at veneration; so
that
analysis has run to seed in unbelief.
MoL 10.245 6 We run to Paris, to London, to Rome...as
if for the want of
thought...
MoL 10.249 22 As certainly as water falls in rain on
the tops of mountains
and runs down into valleys, plains and pits, so does thought fall first
on the
best minds, and run down...
Schr 10.266 23 Men run out of one superstition into an
opposite
superstition...
Schr 10.268 7 I should wish your energy to run in works
and emergencies
growing out of your personal character.
Schr 10.280 14 When a man begins to dedicate himself to
a particular
function...the advance of his character and genius pauses; he has run
to the
end of his line;...
LLNE 10.355 13 There is...to every theory a tendency to
run to an
extreme...
Thor 10.475 18 [Thoreau's] own verses are often rude
and defective. The
gold does not yet run pure...
HDC 11.36 26 Roger Williams affirms that he has known
[Indians] run
between eighty and a hundred miles in a summer's day...
HDC 11.43 24 What could the body of freemen, meeting
four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at
Musketaquid? The wolf
was to be killed;...town and farm lines to be run.
HDC 11.64 2 ...the [Concord] Town Records of that day
[April 18, 1689] confine themselves...to conferences with the
neighboring towns to run
boundary lines.
War 11.164 25 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy
which some man
has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or
two
years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid
wood
and brick and mortar. You shall see a hundred presses printing a
million
sheets; you shall see men and horses and wheels made to walk, run and
roll
for it...
FSLC 11.188 3 ...this man who has run the gauntlet of a
thousand miles for
his freedom, the statute says, you men of Massachusetts shall hunt, and
catch...
FSLN 11.229 15 [Passage of the Fugitive Slave Law]
showed...that while
we reckoned ourselves a highly cultivated nation, our bellies had run
away
with our brains...
AKan 11.261 23 ...I borrow the language of an eminent
man...If that be
law, let the ploughshare be run under the foundations of the
Capitol;...
JBS 11.278 20 ...[John Brown's] enterprise to go into
Virginia and run off
five hundred or a thousand slaves was not a piece of spite or
revenge...
ACiv 11.305 24 Instantly, the armies that now confront
you must run home
to protect their estates...
EPro 11.316 15 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when
an orator...having
run over the superficial fitness and commodities of the measure he
urges... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles
involved;...
SMC 11.371 8 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second
Regiment saw hard
service...crossing the Rapidan, and suffering from such extreme cold, a
few
days later, at Mine Run, that the men were compelled to break rank and
run
in circles...
Wom 11.410 18 ...[the horse and ox] run to the river
when thirsty...
Wom 11.415 27 ...another important step [for Woman] was
made by the
doctrine of Swedenborg, a sublime genius who...showed the difference of
sex to run through nature and through thought.
SHC 11.431 9 ...[trees] keep the earth habitable; their
roots run down, like
cattle, to the water-courses;...
FRep 11.514 21 Prince Metternich said, Revolutions
begin in the best
heads and run steadily down to the populace.
FRep 11.517 9 ...a court or an aristocracy, which must
always be a small
minority, can more easily run into follies than a republic...
FRep 11.523 4 ...one may run a risk once too often.
PLT 12.8 25 ...if you like to run away from this
besetting sin of sedentary
men, you can escape all this insane egotism by running into society...
II 12.88 24 ...there is a religion which...is
worshipped and pronounced with
emphasis again and again by some holy person;-and men...have run mad
for the pronouncer, and forgot the religion.
Mem 12.90 23 It is essential to a locomotive that it
can...run backward and
forward with equal celerity.
Bost 12.187 21 Demand and supply run [in Paris] into
every invisible and
unnamed province of whim and passion.
MLit 12.335 5 The world does not run smoother than of
old,/ There are sad
haps that must be told./
runaway, adj. (2)
Mrs1 3.146 5 ...there is still...some guide and
comforter of runaway
slaves;...
ET2 5.30 22 The mate avers that this is the history of
all sailors; nine out of
ten are runaway boys;...
runaways, n. (1)
EWI 11.104 11 ...if we saw the runaways hunted with
bloodhounds into
swamps and hills;...we too should wince.
runes, n. (1)
PI 8.59 23 Odin taught these arts in runes or songs...
rung, v. (3)
Insp 8.287 10 I confide that my reader...has perhaps
Slighted Minerva's
learned tongue,/ But leaped with joy when on the wind the shell of Clio
rung./
EzRy 10.391 17 ...all will remember that even in [Ezra
Ripley's] old age, if
the firebell was rung, he was instantly on horseback with his buckets,
and
bag.
Bost 12.201 22 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...was said and rung in
every tone of the psalmody of the Puritans;...
runner, n. (3)
MR 1.240 6 ...we have now a puny, protected person,
guarded by walls and
curtains...and he is now what is called a rich man,-the menial and
runner
of his riches.
Ill 6.320 25 That story of Thor, who was set to drain
the drinking-horn in
Asgard and to wrestle with the old woman and to run with the runner
Lok, and presently found that he had been drinking up the sea, and
wrestling
with Time, and racing with Thought,--describes us...
Thor 10.461 26 [Thoreau] was a good swimmer, runner,
skater, boatman...
runneth, v. (1)
ET6 5.111 1 The favorite phrase of [the Englishmen's]
law is, a custom
whereof the memory of man runneth not back to the contrary.
running, adj. (13)
Hist 2.7 22 [The true aspirant] hears the
commendation...of that character
he seeks...in the running river and the rustling corn.
Comp 2.101 7 ...the naturalist...regards a horse as a
running man...
Comp 2.120 26 Under all this running sea of
circumstance...lies the
aboriginal abyss of real Being.
NR 3.246 19 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at
ignorance and the life of
the senses;...
SwM 4.144 27 In the shipwreck, some cling to running
rigging, some to
cask and barrel...
ET4 5.71 6 The people at home [in England] are addicted
to boxing, running, leaping and rowing matches.
Bty 6.292 21 The interruption of equilibrium stimulates
the eye to desire
the restoration of symmetry, and to watch the steps through which it is
attained. This is the charm of running water...
DL 7.106 16 The first ride into the country, the first
bath in running water... are new chapters of joy [to the child].
OA 7.315 11 [Josiah Quincy]...made a sort of running
commentary on
Cicero's chapter De Senectute.
PI 8.13 20 ...if running water, if burning coal...say
what I say, it must be
true.
PPo 8.241 12 ...when the Queen of Sheba came to visit
Solomon, he had
built...a palace, of which the floor or pavement was of glass, laid
over
running water...
II 12.69 12 We ought to know the way to insight and
prophecy as surely as
the plant knows its way to the light; the cow and sheep to the running
brook;...
II 12.72 10 It is as impossible for labor to
produce...a song of Burns, as... the Iliad. There is much loss, as we
say on the railway, in the stops, but the
running time need be but little increased, to add great results.
running, n. (4)
Fdsp 2.207 22 In good company the individuals merge
their egotism into a
social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there
present. ... Now this convention...destroys the high freedom of great
conversation, which requires an absolute running of two souls into one.
Suc 7.289 11 Our success takes from all what it gives
to one. 'T is a
haggard, malignant, careworn running for luck.
Schr 10.267 13 Action is legitimate and good; forever
be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth
to beneficent and as yet
incalculable ends. Yes, but not a petty fingering and running...
Schr 10.267 14 Action is legitimate and good; forever
be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth
to beneficent and as yet
incalculable ends. Yes, but not...a senseless repeating of yesterday's
fingering and running;...
running, v. (53)
Nat 1.50 24 The men, the women, - talking, running,
bartering, fighting... are unrealized at once [when seen from a
coach]...
AmS 1.85 22 ...[the young mind] goes on...discovering
roots running under
ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from
one
stem.
Comp 2.105 7 Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes
running back.
Lov1 2.172 23 ...to-day [the rude village boy] comes
running into the entry
and meets one fair child disposing her satchel;...
Lov1 2.176 14 In the noon and the afternoon of life we
still throb at the
recollection of days...when all business seemed an impertinence, and
all the
men and women running to and fro in the streets, mere pictures.
OS 2.293 15 You are running to seek your friend.
Pt1 3.9 13 [A recent writer of lyrics] does not stand
out of our low
limitations, like a Chimborazo under the line, running up from a torrid
base
through all the climates of the globe...
Mrs1 3.120 15 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and
the gold, for which these
horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where
man... establishes a select society, running through all the countries
of intelligent
men...
Mrs1 3.137 22 Proportionate is our disgust at those
invaders who fill a
studious house with blast and running...
UGM 4.9 9 A man is a centre for nature, running out
threads of relation
through every thing...
PPh 4.57 25 With the palatial air there is [in Plato],
for the direct aim of
several of his works and running through the tenor of them all, a
certain
earnestness...
SwM 4.139 17 [Swedenborg's] revelations destroy their
credit by running
into detail.
ShP 4.215 3 [Shakespeare] is not reduced to dismount
and walk because his
horses are running off with him in some distant direction...
NMW 4.249 20 [Napoleon] delighted in running through
the range of
practical, of literary and of abstract questions.
GoW 4.266 12 It is believed...the running up and down
to procure a
company of subscribers to set a-going five or ten thousand
spindles...is
practical and commendable.
ET2 5.27 21 ...in hurrying over these abysses [of the
sea], whatever dangers
we are running into, we are certainly running out of the risks of
hundreds of
miles every day...
ET2 5.27 22 ...in hurrying over these abysses [of the
sea], whatever dangers
we are running into, we are certainly running out of the risks of
hundreds of
miles every day...
ET4 5.73 19 A score or two of mounted gentlemen may
frequently be seen [in England] running like centaurs down a hill
nearly as steep as the roof of
a house.
ET5 5.89 1 [The English] have no running for luck, and
no immoderate
speed.
ET8 5.136 26 After running each tendency to an extreme,
[the English] try
another tack with equal heat.
ET19 5.311 16 This conscience is one element [which
attracts an American
to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running
through
all classes...
F 6.20 3 The element running through entire nature,
which we popularly
call Fate, is known to us as limitation.
Pow 6.69 18 ...when [the young English] have no wars to
breathe their
riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...running
on the
creases of Malays in Borneo.
Bhr 6.178 25 Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running,
leaping...
SS 7.5 11 [My friend] had a remorse running to despair
of his social
gaucheries...
Art2 7.54 25 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any
one may see its
origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight,
sickness, or
odd appearance in the street.
Elo1 7.79 4 A supreme commander over all his passions
and affections; but
the secret of [Caesar's] ruling is higher than that. It is the power of
Nature
running without impediment from the brain and will into the hands.
Elo1 7.99 4 One thought the philosophers of
Demosthenes's own time
found running through all his orations,--this namely, that virtue
secures its
own success.
Clbs 7.225 24 ...the staple of conversation is widely
unlike in its circles. Sometimes it is facts,--running from those of
daily necessity, to the last
results of science...
Clbs 7.247 15 I remember a social experiment...wherein
it appeared that
each of the members fancied he was in need of society, but himself
unpresentable. On trial they all found that they could be tolerated by,
and
could tolerate, each other. Nay, the tendency to extreme self-respect
which
hesitated to join in a club was running rapidly down to abject
admiration of
each other, when the club was broken up by new combinations.
Cour 7.258 21 Cowardice...shuts the eyes so that we
cannot see the horse
that is running away with us;...
Res 8.147 13 ...when fear has once possessed you, God
ye good even! You
think you are flying towards the poop when you are running towards the
prow...
Dem1 10.11 8 ...the atmosphere of a summer morning is
filled with
innumerable gossamer threads running in every direction...
Aris 10.38 8 From the most accumulated culture we are
always running
back to the sound of any drum and fife.
Chr2 10.106 15 ...what has been running on through
three horizons, or
ninety years, looks to all the world like a law of Nature...
SovE 10.184 17 I see the unity of thought and of morals
running through all
animated Nature;...
SovE 10.204 1 There was in the last century a serious
habitual reference to
the spiritual world, running through diaries, letters and
conversation...
Schr 10.273 15 Other men are...running and sailing...
MMEm 10.401 19 Not far from [Mary Moody Emerson's]
house was a
brook running over a granite floor like the Franconia Flume...
Thor 10.457 20 [Thoreau] was a speaker and actor of the
truth...and was
ever running into dramatic situations from this cause.
HDC 11.47 6 He is ill informed who expects, on running
down the [New
England] Town Records for two hundred years, to find a church of
saints...
HDC 11.64 3 In 1699, so broad was [Concord's]
territory, I find the
selectmen running the lines with Chelmsford, Cambridge and Watertown.
FSLN 11.231 4 [Reasonably men] answered...that they
knew Cuba would
be had, and Mexico would be had, and they stood...as near to monarchy
as
they could, only to moderate the velocity with which the car was
running
down the precipice.
ALin 11.332 24 ...[Lincoln's] broad good humor, running
easily into
jocular talk...was a rich gift to this wise man.
CPL 11.501 27 A river of thought is always running out
of the invisible
world into the mind of man.
PLT 12.8 27 ...if you like to run away from this
besetting sin of sedentary
men, you can escape all this insane egotism by running into society...
PLT 12.16 17 In my thought I seem to stand on the bank
of a river and
watch the endless flow of the stream, floating objects of all shapes,
colors
and natures; nor can I much detain them as they pass except by running
beside them a little way along the bank.
PLT 12.36 24 ...[Instinct] has a range as wide as human
nature, running
over all the ground of morals, of intellect and of sense.
CL 12.139 1 ...if, instead of running about in the
hotels and theatres of
Europe, we, would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in
Massachusetts...we were better patriots and happier men.
CL 12.155 21 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I
[Linnaeus], a youth
of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these two old [Lap] men,
one
fifty, one seventy years, running and playing like boys, felt none of
the
inconveniences of the road...
Milt1 12.261 14 We may even apply to [Milton's]
performance on the
instrument of language, his own description of music:-Notes, with many
a
winding bout/ Of linked sweetness long drawn out,/ With wanton heed and
giddy cunning,/ The melting voice through mazes running,/...
ACri 12.295 6 My friend thinks the reason why the
French mind is so
shallow, and still to seek, running into vagaries and blind alleys, is
because
they do not read Shakspeare;...
Trag 12.415 5 Our human being is wonderfully plastic;
if it cannot win this
satisfaction here, it makes itself amends by running out there and
winning
that.
runs, v. (67)
Nat 1.9 7 In the presence of nature a wild delight runs
through the man...
MR 1.244 2 I ought to be armed by every part and
function of my
household...by my traffic. Yet I am almost no party to any of these
things. Custom does it for me...and runs me in debt to boot.
Con 1.299 17 ...[reform] runs to egotism and bloated
self-conceit;...
Con 1.299 18 ...[reform] runs to a bodiless
pretension...
Comp 2.112 17 The borrower runs in his own debt.
SL 2.140 27 [Each man] is like a ship in a river; he
runs against
obstructions on every side but one...
Lov1 2.173 1 Among the throng of girls [the village
boy] runs rudely
enough...
Lov1 2.181 16 ...the man beholding such a [beautiful]
person in the female
sex runs to her and finds the highest joy in contemplating the form,
movement and intelligence of this person...
Cir 2.304 15 ...if the soul is quick and strong
it...expands another orbit on
the great deep, which also runs up into a high wave...
Exp 3.66 1 Everything runs to excess;...
Chr1 3.95 17 The will of the pure runs down from them
into other natures...
Chr1 3.95 18 The will of the pure runs down from them
into other natures, as water runs down from a higher into a lower
vessel.
Chr1 3.112 12 ...there is a Greek verse which runs, The
Gods are to each
other not unknown./
Mrs1 3.139 2 The same discrimination of fit and fair
runs out, if with less
rigor, into all parts of life.
Mrs1 3.150 27 ...are there not women who fill our vase
with wine and roses
to the brim, so that the wine runs over and fills the house with
perfume;...
Nat2 3.183 12 This guiding identity [in nature] runs
through all the
surprises and contrasts of the piece...
Nat2 3.184 4 If the identity [in nature] expresses
organized rest, the counter
action runs also into organization.
Nat2 3.187 11 ...the craft with which the world is
made, runs also into the
mind and character of men.
NR 3.240 4 Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy...
UGM 4.15 21 This pleasure of full expression to that
which, [in the people'
s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed, runs...much
higher...
PNR 4.82 16 Everywhere [Plato] stands on a path
which...runs
continuously round the universe.
MoS 4.154 1 The inconvenience of this [sensual] way of
thinking is that it
runs into indifferentism and then into disgust.
MoS 4.164 25 [Montaigne's] French freedom runs into
grossness;...
MoS 4.170 10 We are persuaded that a thread runs
through all things...
ET2 5.28 8 It is impossible not to personify a ship;
every body does, in
every thing they say...she runs her nose into the water;...
ET8 5.132 8 The young [English] men have a rude health
which runs into
peccant humors.
ET9 5.150 8 The habit of brag runs through all classes
[in England]...
ET10 5.161 24 ...now that a telegraph line runs through
France and Europe
from London, every message it transmits makes stronger by one thread
the
band which war will have to cut.
ET11 5.186 18 ...it is wonderful how much talent runs
into manners...
Pow 6.56 7 ...health...runs over, and inundates the
neighborhoods and
creeks of other men's necessities.
Ctr 6.132 27 The [egotistical] man runs round a ring
formed by his own
talent...
Ctr 6.138 17 [Your man of genius's] head runs up into a
spire...
Bhr 6.188 9 ...nothing is more charming than to
recognize the great style
which runs through the actions of such [persons of character].
CbW 6.266 1 An old French verse runs, in my
translation:--Some of your
griefs you have cured,/ And the sharpest you still have survived;/ But
what
torments of pain you endured/ From evils that never arrived!/
DL 7.128 21 A verse of the old Greek Menander remains,
which runs in
translation:--Not on the store of sprightly wine,/ Nor plenty of
delicious
meats,/ Though generous Nature did design/ To court us with perpetual
treats,--/ 'T is not on these we for content depend,/ So much as on the
shadow of a Friend./
Suc 7.295 27 'T is the fulness of man that runs over
into objects...
PI 8.22 14 Man runs about restless and in pain when his
condition or the
objects about him do not fully match his thought.
PI 8.53 18 Poetry...runs into fable, personifies every
fact...
Elo2 8.112 7 Our community runs through a long scale of
mental power...
Res 8.139 17 Measure by barrels the spending of the
brook that runs
through your field.
PC 8.226 15 The inquisitiveness of the child to hear
runs to meet the
eagerness of the parent to explain.
Insp 8.269 18 Knowledge runs to the man, and the man
runs to knowledge.
Insp 8.269 19 Knowledge runs to the man, and the man
runs to knowledge.
Dem1 10.17 1 This faith...in the particular of lucky
days and fortunate
persons...this supposed power runs athwart the recognized
agencies...which
science and religion explore.
Dem1 10.28 9 The voice of divination resounds
everywhere and runs to
waste unheard...
Aris 10.37 26 How is it that the sword runs away with
all the fame from the
spade and the wheel?
Aris 10.51 16 The day is darkened when the golden river
runs down into
mud;...
Chr2 10.115 9 ...in [Jesus's] disciples, admiration of
him runs away with
their reverence for the human soul...
Edc1 10.158 5 ...if a boy [in the school] runs from his
bench, or a girl, because the fire falls...take away the medal from the
head of the class and
give it on the instant to the brave rescuer.
Supl 10.177 10 The religion [of the Arab] runs into
asceticism and fate.
SovE 10.199 14 You may sometimes talk with the gravest
and best citizen, and the moment the topic of religion is broached, he
runs into a childish
superstition.
SovE 10.205 15 ...freedom has its own guards, and, as
soon as in the vulgar
it runs to license, sets all reasonable men on exploring those guards.
MoL 10.249 20 As certainly as water falls in rain on
the tops of mountains
and runs down into valleys, plains and pits, so does thought fall first
on the
best minds, and run down...
Plu 10.321 12 [The language of the 1718 edition of
Plutarch] runs through
the whole scale of conversation in the street, the market...
LLNE 10.325 14 There are always two parties, the party
of the Past and the
party of the Future; the Establishment and the Movement. At times...the
schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy,
Church, State and social customs.
LLNE 10.366 4 ...the conscience of the conscientious
runs in veins...
EWI 11.104 17 The blood is moral: the blood is
anti-slavery: it runs cold in
the veins...
EWI 11.139 18 The tendency of things runs steadily to
this point, namely, to put every man on his merits...
SMC 11.353 22 ...when you replace the love of family or
clan by a
principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line...
EdAd 11.393 8 ...a few friends of good letters have
thought fit to associate
themselves for the conduct of a new journal. We have obeyed the custom
and convenience of the time in adopting this form of a Review, as a
mould
into which all metal most easily runs.
Wom 11.412 4 The worm its golden woof presents./
Whatever runs, flies, dives or delves/ All doff for [woman] their
ornaments,/ Which suit her
better than themselves./
CPL 11.502 15 Once brought into the world, [thought]
runs over the vessel
which received it into all minds that love it.
FRep 11.533 20 See the secondariness and aping of
foreign and English
life, that runs through this country...
PLT 12.61 10 Intellect...runs down into talent...
CW 12.171 9 ...[the Musketaquid River] runs parallel
with the village
street...
Bost 12.185 13 ...if the character of the people [of
Boston] has a larger
range and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of
extremes, which at one season gives them the splendor of the equator
and a
touch of Syria, and then runs down to a cold which approaches the
temperature of the celestial spaces.
Let 12.400 3 Is [Germany] not like some battle-field,
where hands and arms
and all members lie scattered about, whilst the life-blood runs away
into the
sand?
Rupert, n. (1)
Dem1 10.8 21 [Dreams] are the maturation often of
opinions not
consciously carried out to statements, but whereof we already possessed
the
elements. Thus, when awake, I know the character of Rupert, but do not
think what he may do.
Rupert's, Prince, n. (2)
FSLC 11.205 9 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American
Union was a
huge Prince Rupert's drop...
FRep 11.528 12 In Mr. Webster's imagination the
American Union was a
huge Prince Rupert's drop, which will snap into atoms is so much as the
smallest end be shivered off.
rupture, n. (1)
Cour 7.265 15 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...
rural, adj. (12)
Chr1 3.106 3 I was content with the simple rural poverty
of my own;...
Nat2 3.183 3 We may easily hear too much of rural
influences.
ET4 5.57 26 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are people
considerably
advanced in rural arts...
ET10 5.163 11 Whatever is excellent and beautiful in
civil, rural, or
ecclesiastic architecture...the English noble crosses sea and land to
see and
to copy at home.
ET10 5.167 6 The robust rural Saxon degenerates in the
mills to the
Leicester stockinger...
Pow 6.67 2 I knew a burly Boniface who for many years
kept a public-house
in one of our rural capitals.
Elo1 7.76 25 You are safe in your rural district...
SlHr 10.439 26 ...[Samuel Hoar] had a strong,
unaffected interest in...the
common incidents of rural life.
War 11.157 16 Early in the eleventh and twelfth
centuries, the Italian cities
had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to
dismantle their castles...
ALin 11.330 16 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...a
flatboatman, a
captain in the Black Hawk War, a country lawyer, a representative in
the
rural legislature of Illinois;...
RBur 11.442 11 [Burns] grew up in a rural district...
MLit 12.325 11 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to
find a theory of
every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness
his
explanation...of the domestic rural architecture in Italy;...
Rush, Benjamin, n. (1)
Suc 7.286 3 Dr. Benjamin Rush, in Philadelphia, carried
that city heroically
through the yellow fever of the year 1793.
rush, n. (5)
CbW 6.255 18 I do not think very respectfully of the
designs or the doings
of the people who went to California in 1849. It was a rush and a
scramble
of needy adventurers...
OA 7.320 6 ...in the rush and uproar of Broadway, if
you look into the faces
of the passengers there is dejection or indignation in the seniors...
Insp 8.272 16 A rush of thoughts is the only
conceivable prosperity that
can come to us.
ACiv 11.306 17 There does exist, perhaps, a popular
will...that our trade, and therefore our laws, must have the whole
breadth of the continent, and
from Canada to the Gulf. But since this is the rooted belief and will
of the
people, so much the more are they in danger, when impatient of defeats,
or
impatient of taxes, to go with a rush for some peace;...
Mem 12.108 27 In dreams a rush of many thoughts...and
when we start up
and look at the watch, instead of a long night we are surprised to find
it was
a short nap.
rush, v. (15)
MR 1.228 22 ...now...all things else hear the trumpet,
and must rush to
judgment...
ET7 5.125 14 I knew a very worthy man...who went to the
opera to see
Malibran. In one scene, the heroine was to rush across a ruined bridge.
Pow 6.76 7 Many men are knowing, many are apprehensive
and tenacious, but they do not rush to a decision.
Wth 6.96 3 ...if men should...leave off aiming to be
rich, the moralists
would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people,
lest
civilization should be undone.
Cour 7.265 23 Our affections and wishes for the
external welfare of the
hero tumultuously rush to expression in tears and outcries...
Cour 7.278 19 ...They see two grizzly bears/ With
hunger fierce and fell/
Rush at them unawares/ Right down the narrow dell./
SA 8.87 14 I know that there go two to this game [of
laughter], and, in the
presence of certain formidable wits, savage nature must sometimes rush
out
in some disorder.
PC 8.226 17 The air does not rush to fill a vacuum with
such speed as the
mind to catch the expected fact.
Prch 10.220 22 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly
in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of
the intellect...we are
like...soldiers who rush to battle;...
EWI 11.141 9 On sight of these [African artifacts],
says Clarkson, many
sublime thoughts seemed to rush at once into [William Pitt's] mind...
AsSu 11.249 9 In Congress, [Charles Sumner] did not
rush into party
position.
PLT 12.41 18 It is [a perception's] nature to rush to
expression...
PLT 12.41 19 It is [a perception's] nature...to rush to
embody itself.
CInt 12.116 14 ...if [colleges] could cause that a mind
not profound should
become profound,-we should all rush to their gates;...
CL 12.159 24 ...the speculators who rush for
investment...are all more or
less mad...
rushes, v. (17)
Comp 2.92 10 Laurel crowns cleave to deserts/ And power
to him who
power exerts;/ Hast not thy share? On winged feet,/ Lo! it rushes thee
to
meet;/...
Cir 2.304 2 The life of man is a self-evolving circle,
which, from a ring
imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger
circles...
Nat2 3.171 24 There is...the wood-fire to which the
chilled traveller rushes
for safety,--and there is the sublime moral of autumn and of noon.
NR 3.236 18 [Nature]...rushes into persons;...
F 6.5 12 The Turk...rushes on the enemy's sabre with
undivided will.
Wth 6.106 3 In a free and just commonwealth, property
rushes from the
idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.
Elo1 7.92 24 ...in cases where profound conviction has
been wrought, the
eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It...
perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation. Then it
rushes
from him as in short, abrupt screams...
WD 7.170 11 There are days which are the carnival of
the year. The angels
assume flesh, and repeatedly become visible. The imagination of the
gods is
excited and rushes on every side into forms.
PI 8.7 25 All multiplicity rushes to be resolved into
unity.
PI 8.30 15 ...in poetry, the master rushes to deliver
his thought, and the
words and images fly to him to express it;...
Dem1 10.9 10 Sleep...arms us with terrible freedom, so
that every will
rushes to a deed.
Chr2 10.117 2 ...Calvinism rushes to be Unitarianism,
as Unitarianism
rushes to be pure Theism.
Chr2 10.117 3 ...Calvinism rushes to be Unitarianism,
as Unitarianism
rushes to be pure Theism.
SovE 10.190 2 ...every wish, appetite and passion
rushes into act and
embodies itself in usages...
PLT 12.16 12 Who are we, and what is Nature, have one
answer in the life
that rushes into us.
PLT 12.30 23 When, moved by love, a man...rushes at
immense personal
sacrifice on some public, self-immolating act, it is not done for
others, but
to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.
PLT 12.64 10 [The hints of the Intellect] overcome us
like perfumes from a
far-off shore of sweetness, and their meaning is...that by casting
ourselves
on it and being its voice it rushes each moment to positive commands...
rushing, adj. (1)
MN 1.199 8 The method of nature: who could ever analyze
it? That rushing
stream will not stop to be observed.
rushing, v. [rushing,] (9)
AmS 1.82 1 The millions that around us are rushing into
life, cannot always
be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.
MN 1.210 17 Are there not moments in the history of
heaven when the
human race was not counted by individuals, but...was...God rushing into
multiform benefit?
MR 1.230 7 ...the scholar says...behold every solitary
dream of mine is
rushing to fulfilment.
ir 2.315 14 ...the highest prudence is the lowest
prudence. Is this too sudden
a rushing from the centre to the verge of our orbit?
Cour 7.273 15 The meal and water that are the
commissariat of the forlorn
hope that stake their lives to defend the pass are sacred as the Holy
Grail, or
as if one had eyes to see in chemistry the fuel that is rushing to feed
the sun.
Suc 7.293 4 [Your appointed task] by no means consists
in rushing
prematurely to a showy feat...
LLNE 10.336 10 ...the paramount source of the religious
revolution was
Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan
fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we
live
was...a little scrap of a planet, rushing round the sun in our
system...
FSLC 11.193 17 Will you...blame the air for rushing in
where a vacuum is
made...
Wom 11.425 9 The loneliest thought, the purest prayer,
is rushing to be the
history of a thousand years.
Rushworth, John, n. (1)
ET18 5.308 1 Magna Charta, said Rushworth, is such a
fellow that he will
have no sovereign.
Ruskin, John, n. (3)
ET1 5.6 13 [Greenough's] paper on Architecture,
published in 1843, announced in advance the leading thoughts of Mr.
Ruskin on the morality
in architecture...
Imtl 8.335 5 The mind delights in immense
time;...delights in architecture, whose building lasts so long,-A
house, says Ruskin, is not in its prime
until it is five hundred years old...
CL 12.157 24 The facts disclosed by...Greenough,
Ruskin, Garbett, Penrose, are joyful possessions...
Russ, n. (1)
WD 7.162 13 ...German, Chinese, Turk, Russ and Kanaka
were putting out
to sea, and intermarrying race with race;...
Russell, Elizabeth Mary, n. (1)
ET6 5.108 24 The romance does not exceed the height of
noble passion in
Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson, or in Lady Russell, or even as one discerns
through
the plain prose of Pepys's Diary, the sacred habit of an English wife.
Russell, Finality, n. (1)
ACri 12.293 6 Persons have been named from their abuse
of certain
phrases, as...Finality Russell...
Russell, John [Duke of Bed (3)
ET11 5.176 24 How came the Duke of Bedford by his great
landed estates?
ET11 5.177 2 [The Duke of Bedford's] ancestor...became
the companion of
a foreign prince wrecked on the Dorsetshire coast, where Mr. [John]
Russell lived.
ET11 5.181 16 The Duke of Bedford includes or included
a mile square in
the heart of London...
Russell, John, n. (3)
ET5 5.90 18 They are excellent judges in England of a
good worker, and
when they find one, like...Peel, or Russell, there is nothing too good
or too
high for him.
ET6 5.102 17 ...Sydney Smith had made it a proverb that
little Lord John
Russell, the minister, would take command of the Channel fleet
to-morrow.
ET10 5.160 18 In 1848, Lord John Russell stated that
the people of this
country [England] had laid out 300,000,000 pounds of capital in
railways, in the last four years.
Russell Square, London, En (2)
ET1 5.3 10 ...I remember the pleasure of that first walk
on English ground... to a house in Russell Square...
ET11 5.181 21 The Duke of Bedford includes or
included...the land
occupied by Woburn Square, Bedford Square, Russell Square.
Russell, William, n. (1)
Nat 1.21 15 Charles II., to intimidate the citizens of
London, caused the
patriot Lord Russell to be drawn in an open coach through the principal
streets of the city...
russet, adj. (1)
LE 1.176 21 How mean to go blazing...in fashionable or
political salons... forfeiting the real prerogative of the russet
coat...
russet, n. (1)
CL 12.158 9 My companion and I...agreed that russet was
the hue of
Massachusetts...
Russia, n. (6)
YA 1.376 2 ...a French ambassador mentioned to Paul of
Russia that a man
of consequence in St. Petersburg was interesting himself in some
matter...
ET15 5.270 10 [The London Times's] editors know better
than to defend
Russia, or Austria...on abstract grounds.
Elo2 8.123 16 In 1809 [John Quincy Adams] was appointed
Minister to
Russia...
Imtl 8.336 11 Nature does not, like the Empress Anne of
Russia, call
together all the architectural genius of the Empire to build and finish
and
furnish a palace of snow...
War 11.163 13 The reference to any foreign register
will inform us of the
number of thousand or million men that are now under arms in the vast
colonial system...of Russia, Austria and France;...
CL 12.150 18 In January the new snow has changed the
woods so that [a
man] does not know them; has built sudden cathedrals in a night. In the
familiar forest he finds Norway and Russia in the masses of overloading
snow which break all that they cannot bend.
Russian, adj. (7)
NMW 4.234 17 At the moment in which the Russian army was
making its
retreat...the Emperor Napoleon came riding at full speed toward the
artillery.
NMW 4.244 17 In the Russian campaign he was so much
impressed by the
courage and resources of Marshal Ney, that [Napoleon] said, I have two
hundred millions in my coffers, and I would give them all for Ney.
ET11 5.185 1 ...there are few noble families [in
England] which have not
paid, in some of their members, the debt of life or limb in the
sacrifices of
the Russian war.
ET18 5.301 1 During the Russian war, few of those that
offered as recruits [in England] were found up to the medical
standard...
Wth 6.105 14 Rothschild refuses the Russian loan, and
there is peace and
the harvests are saved.
CbW 6.254 13 Rough, selfish despots serve men
immensely...as the
ferocity of the Russian czars;...
Carl 10.491 12 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with
contempt;...they praise
republics and he likes the Russian Czar;...
Russian, n. (1)
ET3 5.36 2 The Russian in his snows is aiming to be
English.
Russians, n. (2)
NMW 4.235 6 ...in less than no time we buried some
thousands of Russians
and Austrians under the waters of the lake.
F 6.39 9 Dante and Columbus...would be Russians or
Americans to-day.
rust, n. (3)
MR 1.238 7 Every species of property is preyed on by its
own enemies, as
iron by rust;...
MR 1.239 6 ...rust, mould, vermin, rain, sun, freshet,
fire, all seize their
own...
Tran 1.350 27 We [Transcendentalists] perish of rest
and rust: but we do
not like your work.
rust, v. (5)
LT 1.266 7 Here is a Damascus blade, such as you may
search through
nature in vain to parallel, laid up on the shelf in some village to
rust and
ruin.
Prd1 2.234 22 Iron, if kept at the ironmonger's, will
rust;...
Prd1 2.235 8 Iron cannot rust, nor beer sour...in the
few swift moments in
which the Yankee suffers any one of them to remain in his possession.
Farm 7.143 27 No particle of oxygen can rust or wear...
War 11.166 12 ...the least change in the man will
change his
circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every
man
was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works
with
right. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the
most
striking changes of external things...the men-of-war would rot ashore;
the
arms rust;...
Rustem [Firdusi, Shah Nama (3)
Cour 7.255 13 There is a Hercules...a Rustem...in the
mythology of every
nation;...
PPo 8.242 15 ...when [Afrasiyab] came to fight against
the generals of
Kaus, he was but an insect in the grasp of Rustem...
PPo 8.242 16 Rustem felt such anger at the arrogance of
the King of
Mazinderan that every hair on his body started up like a spear.
rustic, adj. (2)
Bhr 6.181 2 The military eye I meet, now darkly
sparkling under clerical, now under rustic brows.
Wom 11.409 7 It was Burns's remark when he first came
to Edinburgh that
between the men of rustic life and the polite world he observed little
difference;...
rustic, n. (2)
Lov1 2.172 21 [Love] is the dawn of civility and grace
in the coarse and
rustic.
Bost 12.196 4 The universality of an elementary
education in New England
is her praise and her power in the whole world. To the schools succeeds
the
village lyceum...where every week through the winter, lectures are read
and
debates sustained which prove a college for the young rustic.
rusticate, v. (1)
WD 7.176 4 In the Greek legend...Jove liked to rusticate
among the poor
Ethiopians.
rusticity, n. (1)
Clbs 7.232 4 I know well the rusticity of the shy
hermit.
rustics, n. (1)
War 11.167 19 Since the peace question has been before
the public mind, those who affirm its right and expediency have
naturally been met with
objections more or less weighty. There are cases frequently put by the
curious,-moral problems, like those problems in arithmetic which in
long
winter evenings the rustics try the hardness of their heads in
ciphering out.
rusting, v. (1)
Bty 6.291 23 In the midst of...a festal procession gay
with banners, I saw a
boy seize an old tin pan that lay rusting under a wall, and poising it
on the
top of a stick, he set it turning and made it describe the most elegant
imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the decorated
procession
by this startling beauty.
rustle, n. (2)
SR 2.68 15 When a man lives with God, his voice shall be
as sweet as...the
rustle of the corn.
MLit 12.320 22 The Excursion awakened in every lover of
Nature the right
feeling. We saw stars shine...we heard the rustle of the wind in the
grass...
rustle, v. (2)
RBur 11.443 15 ...the corn, barley, and bulrushes
hoarsely rustle [Burns's
songs]...
CL 12.152 11 The dry leaves rustle so loud, as we go
rummaging through
them, that we can hear nothing else.
rustling, adj. (1)
Hist 2.7 22 [The true aspirant] hears the
commendation...of that character
he seeks...in the running river and the rustling corn.
rustling, v. (1)
ET13 5.220 21 The spirit that dwelt in this [English]
church has glided
away to animate other activities, and they who come to the old shrines
find
apes and players rustling the old garments.
rusty, adj. (5)
LE 1.183 11 They [whom the student's thoughts have
entertained or
inflamed] find that he is a poor, ignorant man, in a white-seamed,
rusty
coat, like themselves...
Ctr 6.155 5 ...a tender boy who wears his rusty cap and
outgrown coat, that
he may secure the coveted place in college...is educated to some
purpose.
Ctr 6.155 13 There is a great deal of self-denial and
manliness in poor and
middle-class houses in town and country...that goes rusty and educates
the
boy;...
Imtl 8.341 24 [The thinker] is but as a fly or a worm
to this mountain, this
continent, which his thoughts inhabit. It is a perception that
comes...never
to the lazy or rusty mind.
HDC 11.73 4 ...the farmers [of Concord] snatched down
their rusty
firelocks from the kitchen walls...
rut, n. (1)
PLT 12.59 17 Routine, the rut, is the path of
indolence...
Ruth, n. (1)
PLT 12.49 7 I once found Page the painter modelling his
figures in clay, Ruth and Naomi, before he painted them on canvas.
ruthlessness, n. (1)
YA 1.393 17 It is a questionable compensation to the
embittered feeling of
a proud commoner, the reflection that a fop...is himself also an
aspirant
excluded with the same ruthlessness from higher circles...
Rutland, Vermont, n. (1)
MMEm 10.400 8 [Mary Moody Emerson's father] died at
Rutland, Vermont...
ruts, n. (2)
MR 1.250 7 Now if I talk...with a conscientious youth
who is...not yet
harnessed in the team of society to drag with us all in the ruts of
custom, I
see at once how paltry is all this generation of unbelievers...
Edc1 10.151 10 Is it not manifest...that [our academic
institutions] should
not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation...
Rydal Mount, England, n. (2)
ET1 5.19 3 On the 28th August [1833] I went to Rydal
Mount, to pay my
respects to Mr. Wordsworth.
ET17 5.294 12 At Ambleside in March, 1848, I was for a
couple of days
the guest of Miss Martineau, then newly returned from her Egyptian
tour. On Sunday afternoon I accompanied her to Rydal Mount.
rye, n. (3)
Wth 6.119 3 The farm yielded no money, and the farmer
got on without it. If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his
aid;...reaped his rye;...
HDC 11.47 13 In this open democracy [in New England],
every opinion
had utterance; every objection, every fact, every acre of land, every
bushel
of rye, its entire weight.
CW 12.172 8 Still less did I know [when I bought my
farm] what good and
true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country
through...and...other men not known widely but known at home,
farmers... when witch-grass and nettles grew, causing a forest of
apple-trees or miles
of corn and rye to thrive.
rye-field, n. (1)
Nat2 3.172 13 The fall of snowflakes in a still
air...the waving rye-field;... these are the music and pictures of the
most ancient religion.
Rylstone Doe, The [William (1)
EurB 12.365 15 Many of [Wordsworth's] poems, as for
example the
Rylstone Doe, might be all improvised.
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