Scipio to Sea-Stroke

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

Scipio, n. (10)

    SR 2.61 19 Scipio, Milton called the height of Rome;...
    SR 2.83 18 The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.
    Hsm1 2.248 17 To [Plutarch] we owe the Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminondas, the Scipio of old...
    Hsm1 2.255 26 Scipio, charged with peculation, refuses to do himself so great a disgrace as to wait for justification...
    Mrs1 3.125 10 The famous gentlemen of Asia and Europe have been of this strong type; Saladin...Scipio...
    Mrs1 3.146 17 The beautiful and the generous are, in the theory, the doctors and apostles of this church [of Fashion]: Scipio, and the Cid...
    Cour 7.255 16 There is a Hercules...or a Cid in the mythology of every nation; and in authentic history, a Leonidas, a Scipio...
    Suc 7.287 27 Newton was a great man, without...lucifer-matches, or ether for his pain; so was Shakspeare and Alfred and Scipio and Socrates.
    Elo2 8.124 14 ...in your struggles with the world...seek refuge...in the friendship of Laelius and Scipio...
    Plu 10.318 1 What a trilogy is lost to mankind in [Plutarch's] Lives of Scipio, Epaminondas, and Pindar.

Scipionism, n. (1)

    SR 2.83 17 The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.

Scipios, n. (1)

    Plu 10.291 3 ...Be great, be true, and all the Scipios,/ The Catos, the wise patriots of Rome,/ Shall flock to you and tarry by your side/ And comfort you with their high company./

Scipio's, n. (1)

    LE 1.163 12 ...in the great idea and the puny execution;...behold Scipio's... day...

scissors, n. (1)

    SL 2.143 4 We...do not see that Paganini can extract rapture from a catgut... and a nimble-fingered lad out of shreds of paper with his scissors...

scoffed, v. (2)

    Cour 7.262 17 Lieutenant Ball...whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so; I was just the same when I first went out in this way. It was as if an angel spoke to me. ... But I dare not think what would have become of me, if, at that moment, he had scoffed and exposed me.
    Thor 10.481 6 [Thoreau] had many elegancies of his own, whilst he scoffed at conventional elegance.

scoffer, n. (2)

    OS 2.279 18 We know truth when we see it, let sceptic and scoffer say what they choose.
    MoS 4.154 26 The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely.

scoffing, adj. (1)

    Carl 10.493 25 [Carlyle's] firm, victorious, scoffing vituperation strikes [literary, fashionable, political men] with chill and hesitation.

scoffing, n. (1)

    MoS 4.179 25 ...[the young spirit] went with [his thought] to the chosen and intelligent, and found...mere misapprehension, distaste and scoffing.

scoffing, v. (1)

    MoS 4.159 23 This then is the right ground of the skeptic,--this of consideration, of self-containing;...not at all of universal denying...least of all of scoffing and profligate jeering at all that is stable and good.

scolding, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.250 14 There is little poetry or prophecy in this mean and ribald scolding [Milton's Defence of the English People].

Scone Castle, Scotland, n. (1)

    ShP 4.207 17 The forest of Arden, the nimble air of Scone Castle...where is the third cousin, or grand-nephew...that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?

scoop, v. (2)

    ET2 5.29 16 In our graveyards we scoop a pit, but this aggressive water opens mile-wide pits and chasms...
    Suc 7.299 22 You walk on the beach and enjoy the animation of the picture. Scoop up a little water in the hollow of your palm, take up a handful of shore sand; well, these are the elements.

scooped, v. (1)

    SHC 11.434 12 What is the Earth itself but a surface scooped into nooks and caves of slumber...

scope, n. (38)

    Nat 1.22 1 Only let [man's] thoughts be of equal scope, and the frame will suit the picture.
    Nat 1.61 10 ...all the uses of nature admit of being summed in one, which yields the activity of man an infinite scope.
    DSA 1.142 20 The Puritans in England and America found...in the dogmas inherited from Rome, scope for their austere piety...
    MN 1.198 12 In treating a subject so large...I know it is not easy to speak with the precision attainable on topics of less scope.
    MR 1.228 15 ...the doctrine of Reform had never such scope as at the present hour.
    MR 1.247 27 ...the idea which now begins to agitate society has a wider scope than our daily employments...
    Prd1 2.222 17 [Prudence] is legitimate...when it unfolds the beauty of laws within the narrow scope of the senses.
    Int 2.346 18 The truth and grandeur of [the Greek philosophers'] thought is proved by its scope and applicability...
    Pt1 3.33 26 [The poet] unlocks our chains and admits us to a new scene. This emancipation is dear to all men, and the power to impart it, as it must come from greater depth and scope of thought, is a measure of intellect.
    Nat2 3.171 17 We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.
    UGM 4.32 1 ...heaven reserves an equal scope for every creature.
    SwM 4.127 13 The book [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] had been grand if the Hebraism had been omitted and the law stated...with that scope for ascension of state which the nature of things requires.
    GoW 4.274 20 [Goethe] has defined art, its scope and laws.
    ET14 5.253 8 The eye of the naturalist must have a scope like nature itself...
    ET17 5.297 27 ...there is something hard and sterile in [Wordsworth's] poetry...want of due catholicity and cosmopolitan scope...
    Wsp 6.229 24 ...now sciences of broader scope are starting up behind [physiognomy and phrenology].
    Boks 7.198 7 The Prometheus [of Aeschylus] is a poem of the like dignity and scope as the Book of Job...
    Clbs 7.250 1 One likes...to make in an old acquaintance unexpected discoveries of scope and power through the advantage of an inspiring subject.
    Cour 7.276 15 ...we must have a scope as large as Nature's to deal with beast-like men...
    Cour 7.276 25 There is scope and cause and resistance enough for us in our proper work and circumstance.
    PI 8.1 17 ...[The people of the sky] Teach him gladly to postpone/ Pleasures to another stage/ Beyond the scope of human age,/ Freely as task at eve undone/ Waits unblamed to-morrow's sun.
    PI 8.13 11 Vivacity of expression may indicate this high gift, even when the thought is of no great scope...
    PC 8.208 11 All this activity has added to the value of life [in America], and to the scope of the intellect.
    PC 8.208 25 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...
    Insp 8.271 2 In happy moments [thought]...carries out what were rude suggestions to larger scope...
    Aris 10.56 27 When a man begins to speak, the churl will take him up by disputing his first words, so he cannot come at his scope.
    Chr2 10.101 18 A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us by its large scope.
    Edc1 10.151 9 Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope...
    SovE 10.194 8 [Good men] do not see that particulars are sacred to [God], as well as the scope and outline;...
    CSC 10.376 20 By no means the least value of this [Chardon Street] Convention, in our eye, was the scope it gave to the genius of Mr. Alcott...
    HDC 11.59 24 The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasions.
    EPro 11.316 5 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...and now, eminently, President Lincoln's [Emancipation] Proclamation on the twenty-second of September. These are acts of great scope...
    FRO1 11.478 15 The child, the young student, finds scope in his mathematics...because he finds a truth larger than he is;...
    PLT 12.19 7 ...presently, antagonized by other thoughts which [the perceptions of the soul] first aroused, or by thoughts which are sons and daughters of these, the thought buries itself in the new thought of larger scope...
    PLT 12.50 8 One would say [Shakespeare] must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first line, so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him, and has such scope and so solidly worded...
    PLT 12.58 11 The expansions [of the Intellect] are the invitations from heaven to try a larger sweep...and to leave all our past for this enlarged scope.
    CW 12.179 11 ...when [the man] sees...the lovely tapestry of June, he may well ask himself the special meaning of the hieroglyphic, as well as the sense and scope of the whole...
    WSL 12.342 16 Let us thankfully allow every faculty and art which opens new scope to a life so confined as ours.

scorch, v. (1)

    ET14 5.240 27 [Bacon] complains that he finds this part of learning [universality] very deficient, the profounder sort of wits drawing a bucket now and then for their own use, but the spring-head unvisited. This was the dry light which did scorch and offend most men's watery natures.

scorching, adj. (2)

    HDC 11.33 9 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, tumbling sometimes higher, sometimes lower. At the end of this, they meet a scorching plain...
    EWI 11.104 10 ...if we saw men's backs flayed with cowhides, and hot rum poured on, superinduced with brine or pickle, rubbed in with a cornhusk, in the scorching heat of the sun;...we too should wince.

score, n. (6)

    Prd1 2.232 17 It does not seem to me so genuine grief when some tyrannous Richard the Third oppresses and slays a score of innocent persons, as when Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other.
    ET4 5.69 23 Lord Chief Justice Fortescue, in Henry VI.'s time, says, The inhabitants of England drink no water, unless at certain times on a religious score and by way of penance.
    ET4 5.73 18 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.
    TPar 11.286 16 Such was the largeness of [Theodore Parker's] reception of facts and his skill to employ them that it looked as if he were some president of council to whom a score of telegraphs were ever bringing in reports;...
    CInt 12.119 17 I value dearly...the composer with his score.
    CL 12.152 10 The witch-hazel blooms to mark the last hour arrived, and that Nature has played out her summer score.

scores, n. (9)

    Con 1.312 3 ...to thy industry and thrift and small condescension to the established usage,-scores of servants are swarming...to thy command;...
    Con 1.312 5 ...to thy industry and thrift and small condescension to the established usage,-scores of servants are swarming...to thy command; scores...for thy wardrobe, thy table, thy chamber, thy library, thy leisure;...
    UGM 4.20 19 ...if persons and things are scores of a celestial music, let us read off the strains.
    GoW 4.270 20 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is no poet, but scores of poetic writers;...
    ET18 5.300 22 Men and women were convicted [in England] of poisoning scores of children for burial-fees.
    F 6.17 24 There are scores and centuries of [inventors].
    Civ 7.32 19 ...when I see how much each virtuous and gifted person, whom all men consider, lives affectionately with scores of excellent people...I see what cubic values America has...
    Suc 7.309 27 I have seen scores of people who can silence me...
    CL 12.140 11 In summer, we have...scores of days when the heat is so rich, and yet so tempered, that it is delicious to live.

scoriae, n. (2)

    Nat 1.35 3 Material objects...are necessarily kinds of scoriae of the substantial thoughts of the Creator...
    Nat 1.35 8 ...the images of garment, scoriae, mirror, etc., may stimulate the fancy...

scorn, n. (14)

    AmS 1.101 21 For all this loss and scorn [to the scholar], what offset?
    MN 1.224 6 Pusillanimity and fear [the soul] refuses with a beautiful scorn;...
    LT 1.285 6 [The intellectual class's] unbelief arises out of a greater Belief; their inaction out of a scorn of inadequate action.
    MoS 4.153 4 ...the men of the senses revenge themselves on the professors and repay scorn for scorn.
    F 6.26 27 'T is the majesty into which we have suddenly mounted...the scorn of egotisms...that engage us.
    WD 7.155 11 I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,/ Forgot my morning wishes, hastily/ Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day/ Turned and departed silent. I, too late,/ Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn./
    PC 8.209 17 ...[the coxcomb] has found...that the day of ruling by scorn and sneers is past;...
    PPo 8.250 4 Hafiz praises wine, roses...to give vent to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy; and lays the emphasis on these to mark his scorn of sanctimony and base prudence.
    Aris 10.55 10 What is it that makes the true knight? Loyalty to his thought. That makes the beautiful scorn...which all men admire...
    SovE 10.191 2 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious elements...the secrets of the prisons of tyranny, the slave and his master, the proud man's scorn...
    Prch 10.218 13 Scorn of hypocrisy, pride of personal character...all these [persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] have;...
    Thor 10.478 25 [Thoreau] detected paltering as readily in dignified and prosperous persons as in beggars, and with equal scorn.
    Let 12.396 18 How joyfully we have felt the admonition of larger natures which despised our aims and pursuits, conscious that a voice out of heaven spoke to us in that scorn.
    Let 12.400 12 ...is [a man] driven into a circumstance where the spirit must not live? Let him thrust it from him with scorn, and learn to dig and plough.

scorn, v. (15)

    SR 2.59 14 If I can be firm enough to-day to do right and scorn eyes, I must have done so much right before as to defend me now.
    SR 2.59 17 Always scorn appearances and you always may.
    Prd1 2.219 3 [Prudence] Theme no poet gladly sung,/ Fair to old and foul to young;/ Scorn not thou the love of parts,/ And the articles of arts./
    Hsm1 2.256 12 In Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage, Juletta tells the stout captain and his company,--Jul. Why, slaves, 't is in our power to hang ye./ Master. Very likely,/ 'T is in our powers, then, to be hanged, and scorn ye./
    NER 3.271 13 ...every man has at intervals the grace to scorn his performances, in comparing them with his belief of what he should do;...
    SwM 4.123 25 What earnestness and weightiness [in Swedenborg]...a theoretic or speculative man, but whom no practical man in the universe could affect to scorn.
    F 6.1 6 Well might then the poet scorn/ To learn of scribe or courtier/ Hints writ in vaster character;/...
    DL 7.114 3 We scorn shifts;...
    WD 7.175 13 [That flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols] was the deep to-day which all men scorn;...
    Suc 7.310 7 ...to educate [man's] feeling and judgment so that he shall scorn himself for a bad action, that is the only aim.
    PPo 8.254 24 Scorn me not, But know I have the pearl,/ And am only seeking one to receive it./
    Aris 10.52 14 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they...express their unequivocal indignation and contempt? He...does not scorn to live by their labor...
    MMEm 10.403 9 [Mary Moody Emerson] wished you to scorn to shine.
    MMEm 10.406 10 Scorn trifles...
    JBS 11.276 8 A thousand transformations rose/ From fair to foul, from foul to fair:/ The golden crown he did not spare,/ Nor scorn the beggar's clothes./

scorned, adj. (2)

    Prd1 2.232 10 On him who scorned the world, as he said, the scorned world wreaks its revenge.
    Edc1 10.132 22 ...presently the aroused intellect finds gold and gems in one of these scorned facts...

scorned, v. (5)

    SR 2.78 26 We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate [the self-helping man] because he...scorned our disapprobation.
    Prd1 2.232 10 On him who scorned the world, as he said, the scorned world wreaks its revenge.
    Hsm1. 2.252 5 ...[heroism] is...scornful of being scorned.
    Ctr 6.163 7 Open your Marcus Antoninus. In the opinion of the ancients he was the great man who scorned to shine...
    MMEm 10.411 21 What a rich day, so fully occupied in pursuing truth that I [Mary Moody Emerson] scorned to touch a novel which for so many years I have wanted.

scornful, adj. (13)

    Fdsp 2.210 19 ...that scornful beauty of [your friend's] mien and action, do not pique yourself on reducing, but rather fortify and enhance.
    Hsm1. 2.252 4 ...[heroism] is...scornful of petty calculations...
    Hsm1. 2.252 5 ...[heroism] is...scornful of being scorned.
    Exp 3.61 20 The fine young people despise life, but in me...to whom a day is a sound and solid good, it is a great excess of politeness to look scornful and cry for company.
    ET14 5.260 10 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England],-- the perceptive class, and the practical finality class,--are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...one studious, contemplative, experimenting; the other, the ungrateful pupil, scornful of the source whilst availing itself of the knowledge for gain;...
    Cour 7.253 22 [Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown...of Chatham, whose scornful magnanimity gave him immense popularity;...
    PI 8.7 23 ...the severest analyzer, scornful of all but dryest fact, is forced to keep the poetic curve of Nature...
    LLNE 10.345 10 The clergyman who would live in the city may have piety, but must have taste, whilst there was often coming, among these, some John the Baptist, wild from the woods...quite scornful of the etiquette of cities.
    Thor 10.475 2 [Thoreau] could not be deceived as to the presence or absence of the poetic element in any composition, and his thirst for this made him negligent and perhaps scornful of superficial graces.
    EWI 11.146 13 I doubt not that sometimes the negro's friend, in the face of scornful and brutal hundreds of traders and drivers, has felt his heart sink.
    FRep 11.513 16 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...on that one compound...and is very scornful about bows and arrows...
    FRep 11.531 22 In this country...there is, at present...an extravagant confidence in our talent and activity, which becomes, whilst successful, a scornful materialism...
    WSL 12.345 21 ...intellectual, but scornful of books, [character] works directly and without means...

scornfully, adv. (3)

    Elo1 7.96 21 This man [the sturdy countryman] scornfully renounces your civil organizations...
    Carl 10.489 14 If you would know precisely how [Carlyle] talks, just suppose Hugh Whelan (the gardener) had found leisure enough in addition to all his daily work to read Plato and Shakspeare, Augustine and Calvin, remaining Hugh Whelan all the time, should talk scornfully of all this nonsense of books...
    Carl 10.497 22 ...[Carlyle] has stood for the people...intrepidly and scornfully...

scorning, v. (4)

    Exp 3.65 13 ...thou, God's darling! heed thy private dream; thou wilt not be missed in the scorning and scepticism;...
    Bty 6.279 22 While thus to love [Seyd] gave his days/ In loyal worship, scorning praise,/ How spread their lures for him, in vain,/ Thieving Ambition and paltering Gain!/
    Thor 10.465 13 [Thoreau's] own dealing with [young men of sensibility] was...didactic, scorning their petty ways...
    Milt1 12.273 7 [Milton] would...support preachers by voluntary contributions; requiring that such only should preach as have faith enough to accept so self-denying and precarious a mode of life, scorning to take thought for the aspects of prudence and expediency.

scorns, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.352 17 [Fourier]...skips the faculty of life, which spawns and scorns system and system-makers;...

scorns, v. (1)

    Cour 7.267 21 The dog that scorns to fight, will fight for his master.

scorpions, n. (2)

    Hist 2.5 18 ...crabs, goats, scorpions, the balance and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac...
    Comp 2.98 5 The barren soil does not breed fevers, crocodiles, tigers or scorpions.

scortatory, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.207 25 Here are...scortatory religions;...

scot, n. (2)

    Comp 2.112 15 Experienced men of the world know very well that it is best to pay scot and lot as they go along...
    Wth 6.90 18 ...no system of clientship suits [the Saxons]; but every man must pay his scot.

Scot, n. (1)

    ET8 5.129 19 Commerce sends abroad multitudes of different classes [of Englishmen]. The choleric Welshman, the fervid Scot, the bilious resident in the East or West Indies, are wide of the perfect behavior of the educated and dignified man of family [in England].

Scotch, adj. (6)

    ET4 5.53 6 ...the figures in Punch's drawings of the public men or of the club-houses, the prints in the shop-windows, are distinctive English and not American, no, nor Scotch, nor Irish...
    Boks 7.215 6 ...I often see traces of the Scotch or the French novel in the courtesy and brilliancy of young midshipmen, collegians and clerks.
    QO 8.186 2 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...
    MoL 10.245 25 In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a Highland gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain could support.
    Carl 10.491 19 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they will eat vegetables and drink water, and he...describes with gusto the crowds of people who gaze at the sirloins in the dealer's shop-window, and even likes the Scotch nightcap;...
    CL 12.154 20 Dr. Johnson said of the Scotch mountains, The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness...

Scotch, Lowland, n. (1)

    RBur 11.442 13 ...[Burns] has made the Lowland Scotch a Doric dialect of fame.

Scotch, n. (4)

    ET17 5.296 1 [Wordsworth's] opinions of French, English, Irish and Scotch, seemed rashly formulized from little anecdotes of what had befallen himself and members of his family...
    Clbs 7.239 20 When Edward I. claimed to be acknowledged by the Scotch (1292) as lord paramount, the nobles of Scotland replied, No answer can be made while the throne is vacant.
    PI 8.57 19 ...the direct smell of the earth or the sea, is in these ancient poems...the songs and ballads of the English and Scotch.
    WSL 12.344 9 [Landor] hates the Austrians, the Italians, the French, the Scotch and the Irish.

scotch, v. (1)

    NER 3.252 21 ...[some reformers] wish the pure wheat, and will die but it shall not ferment. Stop, dear Nature, these incessant advances of thine; let us scotch these ever-rolling wheels!

Scotchman, n. (3)

    ET17 5.294 20 No Scotchman, [Wordsworth] said, can write English.
    Carl 10.489 5 [Carlyle] is...a practical Scotchman...
    Carl 10.491 15 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they will eat vegetables and drink water, and he is a Scotchman who thinks English national character has a pure enthusiasm for beef and mutton...

Scotchmen, n. (1)

    ET17 5.294 20 [Wordsworth] was nationally bitter on the French; bitter on Scotchmen, too.

Scotland, n. (25)

    ShP 4.207 27 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art...in... the Ballads of Spain and Scotland,--Genius draws up the ladder after him...
    ET2 5.25 9 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which...in 1847 had been linked into a Union, which embraced twenty or thirty towns and cities, and presently extended into the middle counties and northward into Scotland.
    ET2 5.25 20 ...the proposal [to lecture in England] offered an excellent opportunity of seeing the interior of England and Scotland...
    ET3 5.37 19 As soon as you enter England, which, with Wales, is no larger than the State of Georgia, this little land stretches by an illusion to the dimensions of an empire. Add South Carolina, and you have more than an equivalent for the area of Scotland.
    ET3 5.42 16 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having...Highlands in Scotland, Snowdon in Wales...
    ET4 5.52 25 ...what we think of when we talk of English traits really narrows itself to a small district. It excludes Ireland and Scotland and Wales...
    ET4 5.53 10 ...as you enter Scotland, the world's Englishman is no longer found.
    ET4 5.53 11 In Scotland there is a rapid loss of all grandeur of mien and manners;...
    ET11 5.182 14 The Duke of Sutherland owns the County of Sutherland, stretching across Scotland from sea to sea.
    ET11 5.189 3 Scotland was a camp until the day of Culloden.
    ET14 5.256 1 What did Walter Scott write without stint? a rhymed traveller' s guide to Scotland.
    ET18 5.300 3 England, Scotland and Ireland combine to check the [English] colonies.
    ET18 5.300 5 England and Scotland combine to check Irish manufactures and trade.
    ET18 5.300 7 England rallies at home to check Scotland.
    Boks 7.208 3 ...[Jonson] has really illustrated the England of his time, if not to the same extent yet much in the same way, as Walter Scott has celebrated the persons and places of Scotland.
    Clbs 7.239 21 When Edward I. claimed to be acknowledged by the Scotch (1292) as lord paramount, the nobles of Scotland replied, No answer can be made while the throne is vacant.
    PI 8.67 17 Do you think Burns has had no influence on the life of men and women in Scotland...
    Res 8.150 13 In England men of letters drink wine; in Scotland, whiskey;...
    Grts 8.318 20 A great style of hero draws equally...all the extremes of society, till we say the very dogs believe in him. We have had such examples in this country, in Daniel Webster...in Scotland, Robert Burns;...
    Chr2 10.106 5 In Holland, in England, in Scotland, [Christianity] felt the national narrowness.
    Chr2 10.106 24 Calvinism was one and the same thing in Geneva, in Scotland, in Old and New England.
    Chr2 10.111 17 Even the Jeremy Taylors, Fullers, George Herberts, steeped all of them, in Church traditions, are only using their fine fancy to emblazon their memory. 'T is Judaea, not England, which is the ground. So with the mordant Calvinism of Scotland and America.
    RBur 11.443 8 Every name in broad Scotland keeps [Burns's] fame bright.
    Scot 11.463 8 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial anniversary of his birthday, which we gladly join with Scotland...to keep, [Scott] is not less entitled...
    Bost 12.186 16 New England is a sort of Scotland.

Scotsman, n. (1)

    RBur 11.439 5 ...I do not know by what untoward accident it has chanced... that...it should fall to me, the worst Scotsman of all, to receive your commands...to respond to the sentiment just offered, and which indeed makes the occasion [the Burns Festival].

Scott, David, n. (1)

    ET17 5.294 7 At Edinburgh...I made the acquaintance...of the Messrs. Chambers, and of a man of high character and genius, the short-lived painter, David Scott.

Scott, John [Earl of Eldon (1)

    NR 3.246 12 Lord Eldon said in his old age that if he were to begin life again, he would be damned but he would begin as agitator.

Scott, John [Lord Eldon], (6)

    ET5 5.90 17 They are excellent judges in England of a good worker, and when they find one, like...Mansfield, Pitt, Eldon...there is nothing too good or too high for him.
    ET5 5.97 24 The sovereignty of the seas is maintained [in England] by the impressment of seamen. The impressment of seamen, said Lord Eldon, is the life of our navy.
    ET5 5.110 7 Holdship has been with me, said Lord Eldon, eight-and-twenty years, knows all my business and books.
    ET7 5.123 9 The radical mob at Oxford cried after the tory Lord Eldon, There's old Eldon; Cheer him; he never ratted.
    ET12 5.202 25 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds, when, among other friends, they called on Lord Eldon.
    ET15 5.262 5 ...said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words; you and I shall not live to see it, but this young gentleman (Lord Eldon) may...but...these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...

Scott, Michael, n. (1)

    Boks 7.190 2 ...there are books which are of that importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the fables...of Michael Scott...

Scott, n. (1)

    Scot 11.462 3 Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty every sheet of water... he looked upon...

Scott, Walter, adj. (1)

    EurB 12.375 11 ...[the hero of a novel of costume or of circumstance] is greatly in want of a fortune or of a wife, and usually of both, and the business of the piece is to provide him suitably. This is the problem to be solved in thousands of English romances, including the Porter novels and the more splendid examples of the Edgeworth and Scott romances.

Scott, Walter F. [Duke of (1)

    ET11 5.189 5 The Dukes of Athol, Sutherland, Buccleugh and the Marquis of Breadalbane have introduced the rape-culture...

Scott, Walter, n. (31)

    Hist 2.30 8 One after another [the advancing man] comes up in his private adventures with every fable...of Scott...
    Hsm1 2.247 27 ...Scott will sometimes draw a [heroic] stroke like the portrait of Lord Evandale given by Balfour of Burley.
    Chr1 3.106 18 How captivating is [children's] devotion to their favorite books, whether Aeschylus, Dante, Shakspeare, or Scott...
    Mrs1 3.120 26 ...in English literature half the drama, and all the novels, from Sir Philip Sidney to Sir Walter Scott, paint this figure [of the gentleman].
    Mrs1 3.148 10 Scott is praised for the fidelity with which he painted the demeanor and conversation of the superior classes.
    GoW 4.277 23 Wilhelm Meister is a novel in every sense...called by its admirers the only delineation of modern society,--as if other novels, those of Scott for example, dealt with costume and condition, this with the spirit of life.
    ET1 5.4 1 Like most young men at that time, I was much indebted to the men of Edinburgh...to Scott, Playfair and DeQuincey;...
    ET1 5.4 12 Besides those [writers] I have named (for Scott was dead) there was not in Britain the man living whom I cared to behold...
    ET5 5.100 16 ...[the English people's] language seems drawn from the Bible, the Common Law and the works of Shakspeare, Bacon, Milton, Pope, Young, Cowper, Burns and Scott.
    ET14 5.255 26 What did Walter Scott write without stint? a rhymed traveller's guide to Scotland.
    Ctr 6.151 4 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Burns or Scott...passing for nobody;...
    Ill 6.312 11 [The boy] has no better friend or influence than Scott, Shakspeare, Plutarch and Homer.
    Boks 7.208 2 ...[Jonson] has really illustrated the England of his time, if not to the same extent yet much in the same way, as Walter Scott has celebrated the persons and places of Scotland.
    Boks 7.213 15 The novel is that allowance and frolic the imagination finds. Everything else pins it down, and men flee for redress to Byron, Scott...
    PI 8.27 18 William Blake, whose abnormal genius, Wordsworth said, interested him more than the conversation of Scott or of Byron, writes thus...
    Grts 8.318 5 ...it is curious that Byron writes down to Scott; Scott writes up to him.
    Aris 10.54 13 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh, and weep, in their eloquent closets, and then convert the world into a huge whispering-gallery, to...win smiles and tears from many generations. The eminent examples are...Bunyan, Burns, Scott....
    Edc1 10.140 11 The young giant, brown from his hunting-tramp, tells his story well, interlarded with lucky allusions...to college-songs, to Walter Scott;...
    Plu 10.314 15 ...Walter Scott took hold of boys and young men, in England and America, and through them of their fathers.
    War 11.172 15 What makes the attractiveness of that romantic style of living which is the material of ten thousand plays and romances, from Shakspeare to Scott;...
    JBS 11.279 21 Walter Scott would have delighted to draw [John Brown's] picture...
    Shak1 11.453 10 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;...
    Scot 11.461 1 Scott, the delight of generous boys.
    Scot 11.462 1 As far as Sir Walter Scott aspired to be known for a fine gentleman, so far our sympathies leave him.
    Scot 11.463 1 The memory of Sir Walter Scott is dear to this [Massachusetts Historical] Society...
    Scot 11.464 6 ...I believe that many of those who read [Scott's books] in youth...will make some fond exception for Scott as for Byron.
    Scot 11.466 24 ...Scott portrayed with equal strength and success every figure in his crowded company.
    CPL 11.507 21 The imagination...if it has not had...Homer or Scott, has drawn equal delight and terror from haunts and passages which you will hear of with envy.
    MLit 12.318 27 Scott and Crabbe, who formed themselves on the past, had none of this [subjective] tendency;...
    EurB 12.368 2 We have poets who write the poetry...of the patrician and conventional Europe, as Scott and Moore...
    EurB 12.375 26 Except in the stories of Edgeworth and Scott...the novels of costume are all one...

Scottish, adj. (4)

    Elo1 7.71 8 ...every literature contains these high compliments to the art of the orator and the bard, from the Hebrew and the Greek down to the Scottish Glenkindie...
    Boks 7.197 20 English history is best known through Shakspeare; how much through Merlin, Robin Hood and the Scottish ballads!...
    Supl 10.172 9 ...[it] was similarly asserted of the late Lord Jeffrey, at the Scottish bar,-an attentive auditor declaring on one occasion after an argument of three hours, that he had spoken the whole English language three times over in his speech.
    Scot 11.464 9 [Scott's] own ear had been charmed by old ballads crooned by Scottish dames at firesides...

Scottish Kirk, 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.

Scottish Minstrelsy, n. (1)

    ShP 4.201 3 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men.

Scott's, Walter, n. (5)

    Mrs1 3.148 16 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; but neither does Scott's dialogue bear criticism.
    ET17 5.296 24 A gentleman in the neighborhood told the story of Walter Scott's staying once for a week with Wordsworth...
    PI 8.34 14 The...measure of poetic genius is the power to read the poetry of affairs...not to use Scott's antique superstitions, or Shakspeare's, but to convert those of the nineteenth century and of the existing nations into universal symbols.
    Plu 10.318 9 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles...there will Plutarch...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.
    Thor 10.462 9 [Thoreau] had a strong common sense, like that which Rose Flammock, the weaver's daughter in Scott's romance [The Betrothed], commends in her father...

Scougal, Henry, n. (3)

    SovE 10.203 22 The Church of Rome had its saints, and inspired the conscience of Europe...the Reformed Church, Scougal;...
    Prch 10.227 10 [The theologian] is to claim for his own whatever eloquence of St. Chrysostom or St. Jerome or St. Bernard he has felt. So not less of Bishop Taylor or George Herbert or Henry Scougal.
    Bost 12.194 1 In our own age we are learning to look, as on chivalry, at the sweetness of that ancient piety which makes the genius of St. Bernard, Latimer, Scougal...

scoundrel, n. (1)

    F 6.35 6 ...when mature [the Neopolitan] assumes the forms of the unmistakable scoundrel.

scour, v. (2)

    SL 2.166 3 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...sweep chambers and scour floors...
    SL 2.166 5 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...sweep chambers and scour floors, and...to sweep and scour will instantly appear supreme and beautiful actions...

scourge, n. (4)

    Ctr 6.133 13 This distemper [egotism] is the scourge of talent...
    Ctr 6.165 22 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy; if Want with his scourge;...can set his dull nerves throbbing...make way and sing paean!
    Comc 8.174 4 The same scourge whips the joker and the enjoyer of the joke.
    WSL 12.340 22 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...a scourge like that of Furies for every oppressor...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.

scourged, v. (2)

    Cour 7.267 23 The llama that will carry a load if you caress him, will refuse food and die if he is scourged.
    MLit 12.331 18 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets...to get a draft of sweet air...but dares not...lead a man's life in a man's relation to Nature, In that which should be his own place, he feels like a truant, and is scourged back presently to his task and his cell.

Scourges of God, n. (1)

    UGM 4.23 1 ...I like...Scourges of God, and Darlings of the human race.

scout, n. (1)

    Plu 10.309 10 The part of each of the class [of the Greek philosophers] is as important as that of the master. They are like the baseball players, to whom the pitcher, the bat, the catcher and the scout are equally important.

scouted, v. (1)

    Bhr 6.190 19 Another opposes [a man who is already strong] with sound argument, but the argument is scouted until by and by it gets into the mind of some weighty person; then it begins to tell on the community.

scowl, n. (2)

    Comp 2.99 6 Is a man...a morose ruffian...Nature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters...and love and fear for them smooths his grim scowl to courtesy.
    FSLC 11.196 18 But worse, not the officials alone are bribed [by the Fugitive Slave Law], but the whole community is solicited. The scowl of the community is attempted to be averted by the mischievous whisper, Tariff and Southern market, if you will be quiet: no tariff and loss of Southern market, if you dare to murmur.

scowl, v. (1)

    ET10 5.159 4 Iron and steel are very obedient. Whether it were not possible to make a spinner that would not rebel, nor mutter, nor scowl...

scramble, n. (2)

    YA 1.381 1 These [Communities] proceeded...in great part from a feeling... that in the scramble of parties for the public purse the main duties of government were omitted...
    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...

scrambling, v. (1)

    Elo2 8.113 25 [Man] finds himself perhaps in the Senate, when the forest has cast out some wild, black-browed bantling to show the same energy in the crowd of officials which he had learned...in scrambling through thickets in a winter forest...

scrap, n. (9)

    Prd1 2.235 27 When [a man] sees a folded and sealed scrap of paper float round the globe in a pine ship and come safe to the eye for which it was written...let him likewise feel the admonition to integrate his being across all these distracting forces...
    ET12 5.203 16 ...one day, being in Venice [Dr. Bandinel] bought a room full of books and manuscripts,--every scrap and fragment...
    Bty 6.295 12 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper is rescued from danger...
    Clbs 7.239 4 ...an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...and was coolly enough received by the doctor in the laboratory where he was engaged. Only Dr. Dalton scratched a formula on a scrap of paper and pushed it towards the guest,--Had he seen that?
    Supl 10.172 19 At the Bank of England they put a scrap of paper that is worth a million pounds sterling into the hands of the visitor to touch.
    SovE 10.197 10 What is this intoxicating sentiment that allies this scrap of dust to the whole of Nature and the whole of Fate...
    Schr 10.269 20 The poet writes his verse on a scrap of paper, and instantly the desire and love of all mankind take charge of it...
    LLNE 10.336 9 ...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...
    II 12.82 8 Trust entirely the thought. Lean upon it, it will bear up...society, and systems, like a scrap of down.

scrape, n. (1)

    Pow 6.76 27 The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency...but who throws himself on your part so heartily that he can get you out of a scrape.

scraped, v. (2)

    Edc1 10.145 25 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil. Fellowes scraped away the dirt...
    MAng1 12.228 26 [Michelangelo] was accustomed to say, Those figures alone are good from which the labor is scraped off when the scaffolding is taken away.

scraper, n. (1)

    Pow 6.67 22 ...[Boniface] introduced the new horse-rake, the new scraper, the baby-jumper, and what not, that Connecticut sends to the admiring citizens.

scraps, n. (8)

    Cir 2.302 12 The Greek sculpture is all melted away, as if it had been statues of ice; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining, as we see flecks and scraps of snow left in cold dells and mountain clefts in June and July.
    Chr1 3.99 19 Society...shreds its day into scraps...
    ShP 4.205 24 ...whatever scraps of information concerning [Shakespeare's] condition these researches may have rescued, they can shed no light upon that infinite invention which is the concealed magnet of his attraction for us.
    ET14 5.236 23 The more hearty and sturdy [English] expression may indicate that the savageness of the Norseman was not all gone. Their dynamic brains hurled off their words as the revolving stone hurls off scraps of grit.
    Wth 6.126 2 The merchant has but one rule, absorb and invest;...the scraps and filings must be gathered back into the crucible;...
    Civ 7.24 13 Scraps of science, of thought, of poetry are in the coarsest sheet, so that in every house we hesitate to burn a newspaper until we have looked it through.
    DL 7.120 8 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...with scraps of poetry or song...
    FSLC 11.205 4 The scraps of morality to be gleaned from [Webster's] speeches are reflections of the mind of others;...

scratch, v. (1)

    HDC 11.33 11 ...[the pilgrims] meet a scorching plain, yet not so plain but that the ragged bushes scratch their legs foully...

scratched, v. (3)

    Clbs 7.239 4 ...an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...and was coolly enough received by the doctor in the laboratory where he was engaged. Only Dr. Dalton scratched a formula on a scrap of paper and pushed it towards the guest,--Had he seen that?
    Clbs 7.239 6 ...Dr. Dalton scratched a formula on a scrap of paper and pushed it towards the guest,--Had he seen that? The visitor scratched on another paper a formula describing some results of his own with sulphuric acid, and pushed it across the table,--Had he seen that?
    Comc 8.172 5 One day when Chodscha was with him, Timur scratched his head...

scratches, n. (2)

    GoW 4.261 11 The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain;...
    Elo2 8.128 25 A few bruises and scratches will do [a boy] no harm if he has thereby learned not to be afraid.

scratches, v. (1)

    Farm 7.151 18 ...[the first planter] scratches with a sharp stick...

scrawl, v. (1)

    Bty 6.295 10 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper is rescued from danger...

scrawled, v. (1)

    Int 2.330 20 The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts.

scrawls, v. (1)

    WD 7.169 16 The old Sabbath...when this hallowed hour dawns out of the deep,--a clean page, which the wise may inscribe with truth, whilst the savage scrawls it with fetishes,--the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our solitude.

scream, v. (5)

    PPh 4.45 21 Children cry, scream and stamp with fury, unable to express their desires.
    Ctr 6.154 4 What is odious but...people who scream and bewail?...
    Elo1 7.69 11 ...[the Sicilians] crow, squeal, hiss, cackle, bark, and scream like mad...
    SA 8.80 14 The staple figure in novels is the man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates...and, never sharing their affections or debilities...knows his way and carries his points. They may scream or applaud, he is never engaged or heated.
    Schr 10.274 21 [The thoughtful man] is not there to defend himself, but to deliver his message;...if [his voice] is broken, he can at least scream;...

screamed, v. (1)

    ET10 5.168 12 Steam from the first hissed and screamed to warn him; it was dreadful with its explosion, and crushed the engineer.

screams, n. (7)

    PPh 4.76 8 ...[Plato's] writings have not...the vital authority which the screams of prophets...possess.
    ET13 5.221 23 The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain. Their religion is a quotation;...and any examination is interdicted with screams of terror.
    Elo1 7.92 25 ...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...
    Cour 7.278 21 The boy turned round with screams,/ And ran with terror wild;/ One of the pair of savage beasts/ Pursued the shrieking child./
    LVB 11.92 18 The piety, the principle that is left in the United States... forbid us to entertain [the relocation of the Cherokees] as a fact. Such a dereliction of all faith and virtue, such a denial of justice, and such deafness to screams for mercy were never heard of in times of peace...
    AKan 11.255 15 We hear the screams of hunted wives and children answered by the howl of the butchers.
    EdAd 11.383 23 At the screams of the steam-whistle, the train quits city and suburbs...

screams, v. (2)

    Mrs1 3.139 9 The person who screams...puts whole drawing-rooms to flight.
    Elo1 7.85 20 ...in any public assembly, him who has the facts and can and will state them, people will listen to...though he stutters and screams.

screech, v. (2)

    Bhr 6.176 1 ...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.
    EWI 11.118 22 It is vain to get rid of [spoiled children] by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech;...

screen, n. (7)

    Con 1.325 26 The law acts then as a screen of [the intemperate, covetous person's] unworthiness...
    OS 2.271 25 ...there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens...
    Pt1 3.41 27 ...thou [O poet] must pass for a fool and a churl for a long season. This is the screen and sheath in which Pan has protected his well-beloved flower...
    Exp 3.68 1 We would look about us, but with grand politeness [God] draws down before us an inpenetrable screen of purest sky, and another behind us of purest sky.
    ET16 5.285 26 The interior of the [Salisbury] Cathedral is obstructed by the organ in the middle, acting like a screen.
    ET16 5.286 5 ...the nave of a church is seldom so long that it need be divided by a screen.
    Prch 10.223 7 Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the One breaks in everywhere.

screen, v. (1)

    Wth 6.111 19 We must use the means, and yet, in our most accurate using somehow screen and cloak them...

screened, v. (2)

    AmS 1.99 22 Herein [the great soul] unfolds the sacred germ of his instinct, screened from influence.
    II 12.72 26 Certain young men or maidens are thus to be screened from the evil influences of trade by force of money.

screens, n. (4)

    SR 2.54 12 ...under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are...
    Mrs1 3.135 2 Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books...and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest.
    Mrs1 3.135 7 It were unmerciful, I know, quite to abolish the use of these screens...
    Supl 10.166 7 ...I can well spare the exaggerations which appear to me screens to conceal ignorance.

screens, v. (2)

    SL 2.147 5 God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
    SovE 10.197 22 How came this creation so magically woven...that an invisible fence surrounds my being which screens me from all harm that I will to resist?

screw, n. (3)

    ET5 5.83 12 The bias of the nation [England] is a passion for utility. They love the lever, the screw and pulley...
    Art2 7.42 6 Man seems to have no option about his tools, but merely the necessity to learn from Nature what will fit best, as if he were fitting a screw or a door.
    Clbs 7.228 8 I prize the mechanics of conversation. 'T is pulley and lever and screw.

screw, v. (3)

    Tran 1.351 23 Cannot we screw our courage to patience and truth...
    Prd1 2.237 13 He who wishes to walk in the most peaceful parts of life with any serenity must screw himself up to resolution.
    Schr 10.262 14 Stung by this intellectual conscience, we go to measure our tasks as scholars, and screw ourselves up to energy and fidelity...

screwdriver, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.227 19 In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box... stored with nails, gimlet, pincers, screwdriver and chisel.

screwed, v. (1)

    PerF 10.75 11 [Labor] is twisted and screwed into fragrant hay which fills the barn.

screws, n. (2)

    Farm 7.142 19 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal proportions;...and it takes him long to understand its parts and its working. This pump never sucks; these screws are never loose;...
    Res 8.139 10 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power, with its rotating constellations, times and tides. The machine is of colossal size;...and it takes long to understand its parts and its workings. This pump never sucks; these screws are never loose;...

screws, v. (1)

    Wth 6.86 18 A clever fellow was acquainted with the expansive force of steam; he also saw the wealth of wheat and grass rotting in Michigan. Then he cunningly screws on the steam-pipe to the wheat-crop.

scribatiousness, n. (1)

    Boks 7.211 15 ...Cornelius Agrippa On the Vanity of Arts and Sciences is a specimen of that scribatiousness which grew to be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time.

scribbler, n. (1)

    Grts 8.315 23 A poor scribbler who had written a lampoon against him... came with it in his poverty to Diderot...

scribe, n. (6)

    AmS 1.108 9 ...we have come up with the point of view which the universal mind took through the eyes of one scribe;...
    Pol1 3.206 20 The non-proprietor will be the scribe of the proprietor.
    PNR 4.87 26 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the centre that we see the sphere illuminated...a theory so averaged, so modulated, that you would say the winds of ages had swept through this rhythmic structure, and not that it was the brief extempore blotting of one short-lived scribe.
    F 6.1 7 Well might then the poet scorn/ To learn of scribe or courtier/ Hints writ in vaster character;/...
    Insp 8.292 1 When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you...
    PPr 12.388 13 If the good heaven have any good word to impart to this unworthy generation, here is one scribe [Carlyle] qualified and clothed for its occasion.

scribes, n. (1)

    ET1 5.5 2 It is probable you left some obscure comrade...when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes.

scribe's, n. (1)

    PI 8.71 18 The poet is representative...in him the world projects a scribe's hand and writes the adequate genesis.

Scriblerus Club, n. (1)

    NER 3.273 4 Lord Bathurst told [Thomas Warton] that the members of the Scriblerus Club being met at his house at dinner, they agreed to rally Berkeley...on his scheme at Bermudas.

scrip, n. (1)

    ET5 5.97 5 The nearer we look, the more artificial is [the Englishmen's] social system. Their law is a network of fictions. Their property, a scrip or certificate of right to interest on money that no man ever saw.

scriptural, adj. (1)

    ACri 12.291 13 Resolute blotting rids you of all those phrases that sound like something and mean nothing, with which scriptural forms play a large part.

scripture, n. (2)

    Nat 1.35 11 Every scripture is to be interpreted by the same spirit which gave it forth...
    Mem 12.92 27 [Memory] is a scripture written day by day from the birth of the man;...

Scripture, n. (4)

    Comp 2.94 10 [The preacher]...urged from reason and from Scripture a compensation to be made to both parties [the wicked and the good] in the next life.
    QO 8.202 11 Plato, Cicero and Plutarch cite the poets in the manner in which Scripture is quoted in our churches.
    LLNE 10.340 1 We could not then spare a single word [Channing] uttered in public, not so much as the reading a lesson in Scripture...
    LS 11.18 16 ...is not Jesus called in Scripture the Mediator?

Scriptures, Hindoo, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.221 11 We owe to the Hindoo Scriptures a definition of Law, which compares well with any in our Western books.

Scriptures, Indian, n. (2)

    PPh 4.49 12 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being. This tendency finds its highest expression...chiefly in the Indian Scriptures...
    ACiv 11.309 5 Time, say the Indian Scriptures, drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to be performed, and which is delayed in the execution.

scriptures, n. (3)

    QO 8.182 21 ...when Confucius and the Indian scriptures were made known, no claim to monopoly of ethical wisdom [in Christianity] could be thought of;...
    PC 8.214 10 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left remains that certify a height of genius...which men in proportion to their wisdom still cherish,-as...the grand scriptures...of the Indian Vedas...
    SovE 10.209 10 It accuses us...that pure ethics is not now formulated and concreted into a cultus, a fraternity...with brick and stone. Why have not those who believe in it and love it...dedicated themselves to write out its scientific scriptures to become its Vulgate for millions?

Scriptures, n. (9)

    DSA 1.151 11 The Hebrew and Greek Scriptures contain immortal sentences...
    MN 1.211 10 We too could have gladly prophesied standing in [the poet's] place. We so quote our Scriptures;...
    ET13 5.218 20 The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization...
    ET13 5.225 10 The new age...reads the Scriptures with new eyes.
    Boks 7.218 14 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are, the Desatir of the Persians, and the Zoroastrian Oracles;...
    Boks 7.219 21 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...I detect them in laughter and blushes and eye-sparkles of men and women. These are Scriptures which the missionary might well carry over prairie, desert and ocean...
    MMEm 10.412 1 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...commented on the Scriptures;...
    JBS 11.279 8 Our farmers were Orthodox Calvinists, mighty in the Scriptures;...
    ACiv 11.303 9 There are Scriptures written invisibly on men's hearts...

scrivener, n. (1)

    WSL 12.341 23 The existence of the poorest playwright and the humblest scrivener is a good omen.

scrofula, n. (1)

    MoS 4.177 15 What can I do...against scrofula, lymph, impotence?...

scroll, n. (4)

    Hist 2.19 10 I have seen a snow-drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower.
    Hsm1 2.256 1 Scipio, charged with peculation, refuses to do himself so great a disgrace as to wait for justification, though he had the scroll of his accounts in his hands...
    Imtl 8.321 4 Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know/ What rainbows teach, and sunsets show?/ Verdict which accumulates/ From lengthening scroll of human fates/...
    CSC 10.375 23 ...there was no want of female speakers [at the Chardon Street Convention];...that flea of Conventions, Mrs. Abigail Folsom, was but too ready with her interminable scroll.

scrolls, n. (1)

    UGM 4.5 1 The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets. He fancies he has a new article. If he go to the factory, he shall find that his new stuff still repeats the scrolls and rosettes which are found on the interior walls of the pyramids of Thebes.

Scrope, William, n. (1)

    ET4 5.71 4 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...all the game that is in nature. These men have written the game-books of all countries, as Hawker, Scrope, Murray...

scrub-oaks, n. (1)

    Thor 10.469 25 [Thoreau] wore a straw hat, stout shoes, strong gray trousers, to brave scrub-oaks and smilax...

scruple, n. (3)

    LT 1.264 14 ...in the hair-splitting conscientiousness of some eccentric person who has found some new scruple to embarrass himself and his neighbors withal is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...
    NMW 4.227 27 Bonaparte wrought...for power and wealth,--but Bonaparte, specially, without any scruple as to the means.
    NMW 4.253 16 ...that is the fatal quality which we discover in our pursuit of wealth, that it...is bought by the breaking or weakening of the sentiments; and it is inevitable that we should find the same fact in the history of this champion [Napoleon], who proposed to himself simply a brilliant career, without any stipulation or scruple concerning the means.

scruples, n. (4)

    MoS 4.157 27 ...great numbers dislike [the State] and suffer conscientious scruples to allegiance;...
    NMW 4.231 3 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was born;...a man not embarrassed by any scruples;...
    ACiv 11.301 27 Banknotes rob the public, but are such a daily convenience that we silence our scruples...
    MAng1 12.237 23 ...it seemed to [Michelangelo] that if a man gave him anything, he was always obligated to that individual. His friend Vasari mentions one occasion on which his scruples were overcome.

scrupulosity, n. (1)

    SovE 10.205 11 ...the mass of the community indolently follow the old forms with childish scrupulosity...

scrupulous, adj. (3)

    MoS 4.153 14 Are you tender and scrupulous,--you must eat more mince-pie.
    Suc 7.288 20 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is victory, without regard to the cause;...
    FSLC 11.199 4 [Webster's] pacification has brought...all scrupulous and good-hearted men, all women, and all children, to accuse the law.

scrupulously, adv. (2)

    F 6.7 9 You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed...there is complicity...
    Suc 7.308 26 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously.

scrutinize, v. (1)

    Edc1 10.149 15 I have seen a carriage-maker's shop emptied of all its workmen into the street, to scrutinize a new pattern from New York.

scrutiny, n. (5)

    NER 3.253 21 ...there was a keener scrutiny of institutions and domestic life than any we had known;...
    NER 3.256 3 The same disposition to scrutiny and dissent appeared in civil, festive, neighborly, and domestic society.
    ShP 4.213 25 [Shakespeare]...finishes an eyelash or a dimple as firmly as he draws a mountain; yet these, like nature's, will bear the scrutiny of the solar microscope.
    Boks 7.195 11 There has already been a scrutiny and choice from many hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or political chapter which you read in a fugitive journal comes to your eye.
    Comc 8.160 5 There is no joke so true and deep in actual life as when some pure idealist goes up and down among the institutions of society, attended by a man...who, sympathizing with the philosopher's scrutiny, sympathizes also with the confusion and indignation of the detected, skulking institutions.

scullion, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.276 16 ...we must have a scope as large as Nature's to...detect what scullion function is assigned [beast-like men]...

sculptor, n. (24)

    Nat 1.24 6 The...sculptor, the musician...seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point...
    Hist 2.24 9 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;...
    SL 2.155 3 Do not trouble yourself too much about the light on your statue, said Michel Angelo to the young sculptor;...
    Lov1 2.180 5 The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.
    Art1 2.355 5 This...power to fix the momentary eminency of an object...the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone.
    Pt1 3.24 10 I knew in my younger days the sculptor who made the statue of the youth which stands in the public garden.
    Pt1 3.38 26 The painter, the sculptor, the composer, the epic rhapsodist, the orator, all partake one desire, namely to express themselves symmetrically and abundantly...
    Pt1 3.39 4 [Artists] found or put themselves in certain conditions, as, the painter and sculptor before some impressive human figures;...and each presently feels the new desire.
    MoS 4.151 3 [The genius] has a conception of beauty which the sculptor cannot embody.
    ShP 4.194 27 This balance-wheel, which the sculptor found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found in the accumulated dramatic materials to which the people were already wonted...
    ET1 5.5 17 At Florence, chief among artists I found Horatio Greenough, the American sculptor.
    Bhr 6.181 24 The sculptor and Winckelmann and Lavater will tell you how significant a feature is the nose;...
    SS 7.3 6 I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa, and who assured me that...he was convinced that the sculptor who carved it intended it for Memory...
    Art2 7.46 27 The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us
    DL 7.130 22 The man, the woman, needs not the embellishment of canvas and marble, whose every act is a subject for the sculptor...
    Suc 7.284 9 ...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini, the Florentine sculptor, architect, painter and poet...gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues...
    Suc 7.293 25 Horatio Greenough the sculptor said to me of Robert Fulton's visit to Paris: Fulton knocked at the door of Napoleon with steam, and was rejected;...
    Suc 7.300 10 How that element [color] washes the universe with its enchanting waves! The sculptor had ended his work, and behold a new world of dream-like glory.
    PI 8.18 3 ...a painter, a sculptor, a musician, can in their several ways express the same sentiment of anger, or love, or religion.
    Grts 8.305 21 ...there is the boy who is born with a taste for the sea... another will be a lawyer;...another, a painter, sculptor, architect or engineer.
    Edc1 10.146 7 ...[Fellowes] read history and studied ancient art to explain his stones; he interested Gibson the sculptor;...
    FRep 11.511 17 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel...
    PLT 12.29 3 To the sculptor [Nature's] stone is soft;...
    MAng1 12.235 12 Michael Angelo, who believed in his own ability as a sculptor, but distrusted his capacity as an architect, at first refused [to build St. Peter's] and then reluctantly complied.

sculptors, n. (2)

    Exp 3.66 19 ...what are these millions who read and behold, but incipient writers and sculptors?
    PI 8.72 16 The problem of the poet is...to give the pleasure of color, and be not less the most powerful of sculptors.

sculptor's, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.213 1 Never did sculptor's dream unfold/ A form which marble doth not hold/ In its white block;.../

sculpture, n. (51)

    LE 1.157 1 ...the mark of American merit...in sculpture...seems to be a certain grace without grandeur...
    Con 1.315 16 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers...who told him how much love they bore their children, and how they were perplexed...lest they should fail in their duty to them. What! he said, and this...on marble floors, with cunning sculpture...about you?
    YA 1.367 15 ...sculpture, painting, and religious and civil architecture have become effete...
    Hist 2.15 2 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in sculpture...
    Hist 2.16 7 There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
    Hist 2.17 13 ...a profound nature awakens in us...the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses.
    SR 2.46 24 This sculpture in the memory is not without preestablished harmony.
    Cir 2.302 9 The Greek sculpture is all melted away...
    Art1 2.356 15 The office of painting and sculpture seems to be merely initial.
    Art1 2.357 12 A gallery of sculpture teaches more austerely the same lesson [as painting].
    Art1 2.357 14 As picture teaches the coloring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.
    Art1 2.357 19 ...painting and sculpture are gymnastics of the eye...
    Art1 2.357 23 There is no statue like this living man, with his infinite advantage over all ideal sculpture, of perpetual variety.
    Art1 2.359 25 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets...that each [work] came out of the solitary workshop of one artist, who toiled perhaps in ignorance of the existence of other sculpture...
    Art1 2.361 21 [At Naples] I saw that nothing was changed with me but the place... That fact I saw again in the Academmia at Naples, in the chambers of sculpture...
    Art1 2.364 3 The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect.
    Art1 2.364 14 ...in the works of our plastic arts and especially of sculpture, creation is driven into a corner.
    Art1 2.364 18 ...there is a certain appearance of paltriness...in sculpture.
    Art1 2.364 26 Sculpture may serve to teach the pupil how deep is the secret of form...
    Art1 2.365 5 Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.
    Pt1 3.4 16 ...the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the...manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact;...Plutarch, Dante, Swedenborg, and the masters of sculpture, picture and poetry.
    Pt1 3.27 27 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize... sculpture...
    Exp 3.63 5 ...the Transfiguration...the Communion of Saint Jerome, and what are as transcendent as these, are on the walls of the Vatican, the Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them; to say nothing of...the sculpture of the human body never absent.
    Mrs1 3.145 2 Let there be grotesque sculpture about the gates and offices of temples.
    NR 3.232 10 The Eleusinian mysteries...the Greek sculpture, show that there always were seeing and knowing men in the planet.
    NR 3.234 10 In modern sculpture, picture and poetry, the beauty is miscellaneous;...
    PPh 4.53 13 ...[the Greeks'] perfect works in architecture and sculpture seemed things of course...
    ShP 4.194 10 ...the poet owes to his legend what sculpture owed to the temple.
    ShP 4.194 11 Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece grew up in subordination to architecture.
    ShP 4.207 25 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art...in the Phidian sculpture...Genius draws up the ladder after him...
    GoW 4.261 15 The falling drop makes its sculpture in the sand or the stone.
    ET1 5.7 23 In art, [Landor] loves the Greeks, and in sculpture, them only.
    Ctr 6.149 24 ...it requires a great many cultivated women...accustomed...to spectacles, pictures, sculpture, poetry...in order that you should have one Madame de Stael.
    Ctr 6.160 13 ...sculpture and painting have an effect to teach us manners and abolish hurry.
    Bty 6.299 3 Faces...are a record in sculpture of a thousand anecdotes of whim and folly.
    Bty 6.306 2 ...I find the antique sculpture as ethical as Marcus Antoninus;...
    Art2 7.44 10 In sculpture and in architecture the material...and in architecture the mass, are sources of great pleasure quite independent of the artificial arrangement.
    Art2 7.50 10 In sculpture, did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece?
    Art2 7.51 24 The galleries of ancient sculpture in Naples and Rome strike no deeper conviction into the mind than the contrast of the purity, the severity expressed in these fine old heads, with the frivolity and grossness of the mob that exhibits and the mob that gazes at them.
    Cour 7.268 12 There is a courage in the treatment of every art by a master in architecture, in sculpture...
    Suc 7.302 16 This sensibility appears...when we see...features that explain the Phidian sculpture.
    OA 7.322 17 We still feel the force...of Michel Angelo, wearing the four crowns of architecture, sculpture, painting and poetry;...
    SA 8.79 11 [Fine manners] is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of those arts.
    FRO1 11.479 11 ...in the thirteenth century the First Person began to appear at the side of his Son, in pictures and in sculpture, for worship...
    MAng1 12.215 24 A purity severe and even terrible goes out from the lofty productions of [Michelangelo's] pencil and his chisel, and again from the more perfect sculpture of his own life...
    MAng1 12.227 15 ...[Michelangelo] made with his own hand...the chisels and all other irons and instruments which he needed in sculpture;...
    MAng1 12.229 9 Sculpture, [Michelangelo] called his art...
    MAng1 12.229 12 In sculpture, [Michelangelo's] greatest work is the statue of Moses in the Church of Pietro in Vincolo, in Rome.
    MAng1 12.241 21 So vehement was this desire [for death], that, [Michelangelo] says, my soul can no longer be appeased by the wonted seductions of painting and sculpture.
    ACri 12.290 6 Dante is the professor that shall teach both the noble low style...also the sculpture of compression.
    Trag 12.411 24 ...the earliest works of the art of sculpture are countenances of sublime tranquillity.

Sculpture, n. (3)

    Chr1 3.108 22 I look on Sculpture as history.
    Art2 7.43 7 Music, Eloquence, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. This is a rough enumeration of the Fine Arts.
    MAng1 12.216 9 [Michelangelo] is an eminent master in the four fine arts, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Poetry.

sculpture, v. (1)

    SwM 4.132 5 It is dangerous to sculpture these evanescing images of thought.

sculptured, adj. (5)

    ET16 5.285 7 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...climbed to the lonely sculptured summer-house...
    Ill 6.309 18 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...saw every form of stalagmite and stalactite in the sculptured and fretted chambers;...
    Edc1 10.145 26 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil. Fellowes...was struck with the beauty of the sculptured ornaments...
    LLNE 10.331 10 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...sculptured lips...
    CW 12.173 18 ...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the costly gardens...with their...fish-ponds, sculptured summer-houses and grottoes;...

sculptured, v. (4)

    SR 2.62 2 ...the man in the street, finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force which built a tower or sculptured a marble god, feels poor when he looks on these.
    EPro 11.326 12 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection sculptured for ages in their bronzed countenance...
    MAng1 12.242 2 At the age of eighty years, [Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari...and tells him...that...no fancy arose in his mind but DEATH was sculptured on it.
    MAng1 12.244 10 Three significant garlands are sculptured on [Michelangelo's] tomb;...

sculptures, n. (7)

    Art1 2.359 4 In the sculptures of the Greeks...the highest charm is the universal language they speak.
    Pt1 3.3 3 Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures...
    Mrs1 3.137 4 I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures...
    ET5 5.91 27 In the same [English] spirit, were the excavation and research...of Layard for his Nineveh sculptures.
    ET7 5.116 6 The faces of clergy and laity in old sculptures and illuminated missals are charged with earnest belief.
    QO 8.193 17 We admire that poetry which no man wrote...which is to be read...in the effect of a fixed or national style...of sculptures...on us.
    Prch 10.220 2 Art will embody this vanishing Spirit in temples, pictures, sculptures and hymns.

sculptures, v. (2)

    SwM 4.141 3 [The scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul] must not be inferior in tone to the already known works of the artist who sculptures the globes of the firmament and writes the moral law.
    PI 8.29 13 Fancy paints; imagination sculptures.

scurf, n. (1)

    PI 8.35 1 'T is boyish in Swedenborg to cumber himself with the dead scurf of Hebrew antiquity...

scurvy, n. (2)

    F 6.7 21 The scurvy at sea...cut off men like a massacre.
    F 6.32 25 The plague in the sea-service from scurvy is healed by lemon juice...

scutcheon, n. (2)

    ET14 5.233 22 What [the Englishman] relishes in Dante is the vise-like tenacity with which he holds a mental image before the eyes, as if it were a scutcheon painted on a shield.
    Aris 10.36 10 Every mark and scutcheon of [Nature's] indicates constitutional qualities.

scythe, n. (3)

    Prd1 2.228 26 A gay and pleasant sound is the whetting of the scythe in the mornings of June...
    Prd1 2.235 3 ...keep the rake, says the haymaker, as nigh the scythe as you can...
    MoS 4.177 8 We paint Time with a scythe;...

scythes, n. (1)

    ET4 5.58 20 ...oars, scythes, harpoons...are tools valued by [the Norsemen] all the more for their charming aptitude for assassinations.

Scythian, adj. (1)

    Con 1.317 1 ...the contemplation of some Scythian Anacharsis;...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.

Scythians, n. (3)

    Plu 10.319 3 [Alexander] persuaded...the Scythians to bury and not eat their dead parents.
    EWI 11.143 7 We do not wish a world of bugs or of birds; neither afterward of Scythians, Caraibs or Feejees.
    War 11.153 25 [Alexander's conquest of the East] weaned the Scythians and Persians from some cruel and licentious practices to a more civil way of life.

sea, adj. (2)

    F 6.41 2 Ducks take to the water...waders to the sea margin...
    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...sea waves...

Sea, Adriatic, n. (1)

    Con 1.311 19 ...for thee the fair Mediterranean, the sunny Adriatic;...

Sea, Aegean, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.145 23 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus, in the Aegean Sea, had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone...

Sea, Atlantic, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.93 7 This immensely stretched trade, which makes the capes of the Southern Ocean his wharves and the Atlantic Sea his familiar port, centres in [the natural merchant's] brain only;...

Sea, Baltic, n. (1)

    ET5 5.86 12 Before the bombardment of the Danish forts in the Baltic, Nelson spent day after day, himself, in the boats, on the exhausting service of sounding the channel.

Sea, Mediterranean, n. (6)

    Con 1.311 19 ...for thee the fair Mediterranean, the sunny Adriatic;...
    ET4 5.56 3 Charlemagne, halting one day in a town of Narbonnese Gaul, looked out of a window and saw a fleet of Northmen cruising in the Mediterranean.
    ET5 5.94 21 ...oranges and pine-apples are as cheap in London as in the Mediterranean.
    WD 7.168 1 Bonaparte...endeavored to make the Mediterranean a French lake.
    MoL 10.244 8 On the south and east shores of the Mediterranean Mahomet impressed his fierce genius how deeply into the manners, language and poetry of Arabia and Persia!
    CL 12.153 3 The history of the world,-what is it but the doings about the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic?

sea, n. (239)

    Nat 1.13 11 ...the sun evaporates the sea;...
    Nat 1.17 6 The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light.
    Nat 1.17 7 From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea.
    Nat 1.21 3 When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America;...the sea behind...can we separate the man from the living picture?
    Nat 1.23 22 Nature is a sea of forms radically alike...
    Nat 1.45 27 ...these [human forms] all rest...on the unfathomed sea of thought and virtue...
    Nat 1.47 22 ...what is the difference, whether land and sea interact...or whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are inscribed in the constant faith of man?
    Nat 1.52 1 [The poet] unfixes the land and the sea...
    AmS 1.98 21 That great principle of Undulation in nature, that shows itself...in the ebb and flow of the sea;..is known to us under the name of Polarity...
    DSA 1.119 23 ...in its navigable sea;...[the world] is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.
    DSA 1.145 2 See how nations and races flit by on the sea of time...
    LE 1.162 12 ...you must come to know that each admirable genius is but a successful diver in that sea whose floor of pearls is all your own.
    MN 1.221 1 ...we also can bask in the great morning which rises forever out of the eastern sea...
    MN 1.221 26 [Man's] nobility needs the assurance of this inexhaustible reserved power. How great soever have been its bounties, they are a drop to the sea whence they flow.
    LT 1.266 19 ...when we stand by the seashore...a wave comes up the beach far higher than any foregoing one, and recedes; and for a long while none comes up to that mark; but after some time the whole sea is there and beyond it.
    LT 1.288 3 Here we drift, like white sail across the wild ocean, now bright on the wave, now darkling in the trough of the sea;...
    LT 1.288 11 ...to what port are we bound? Who knows! There is no one to tell us but such poor weather-tossed mariners as ourselves...who have... floated to us some letter in a bottle from far. But what know they more than we? They also found themselves on this wondrous sea.
    LT 1.288 13 Over all [the sailors'] speaking-trumpets, the gray sea and the loud winds answer, Not in us; not in Time.
    Con 1.296 16 Seest thou the great sea, how it ebbs and flows?...
    Con 1.305 5 ...you cannot...put out the boat to sea without shoving from the shore...
    Tran 1.345 12 ...we, on this sea of human thought, in like manner inquire, Where are the old idealists?...
    Tran 1.358 21 ...the storm-tossed vessel at sea speaks the frigate or line packet to learn its longitude...
    YA 1.364 25 The bountiful continent is ours...to the waves of the Pacific sea;...
    YA 1.379 3 ...the aristocracy of trade...was...the result of merit of some kind, and is continually falling, like the waves of the sea, before new claims of the same sort.
    Hist 2.6 26 We sympathize in the great moments of history...because there law was enacted, the sea was searched...for us...
    Hist 2.22 26 At sea, or in the forest, or in the snow, [a man of rude health and flowing spirits] sleeps as warm...as beside his own chimneys.
    Hist 2.26 20 I admire the love of nature in the Philoctetes. In reading those fine apostrophes...to the stars, rocks, mountains and waves, I feel time passing away as an ebbing sea.
    SR 2.81 27 I...embark on the sea...
    Comp 2.92 13 ...all that Nature made thy own,/ Floating in air or pent in stone,/ Will rive the hills and swim the sea/ And, like thy shadow, follow thee./
    Comp 2.97 12 There is somewhat that resembles the ebb and flow of the sea...in a single needle of the pine...
    Comp 2.98 21 The waves of the sea do not more speedily seek a level from their loftiest tossing than the varieties of condition tend to equalize themselves.
    Comp 2.120 26 Under all this running sea of circumstance...lies the aboriginal abyss of real Being.
    Comp 2.124 2 ...see the facts nearly and these mountainous inequalities vanish. Love reduces them as the sun melts the iceberg in the sea.
    SL 2.141 3 ...[each man] sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.
    Fdsp 2.189 2 A ruddy drop of manly blood/ The surging sea outweighs;/...
    Prd1 2.234 24 ...timber of ships will rot at sea...
    OS 2.281 6 [Revelation] is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life.
    OS 2.290 27 ...the soul that ascends to worship the great God...dwells...in the earnest experience of the common day,--by reason of the present moment and the mere trifle having become...bibulous of the sea of light.
    OS 2.294 13 ...the water of the globe is all one sea...
    Cir 2.308 7 Infinitely alluring and attractive was [a man] to you yesterday... a sea to swim in;...
    Cir 2.313 11 ...steeped in the sea of beautiful forms which the field offers us, we may chance to cast a right glance back upon biography.
    Int 2.344 14 ...a capillary column of water is a balance for the sea.
    Art1 2.357 11 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street, with moving men and children...capped and based by heaven, earth, and sea.
    Pt1 3.1 7 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ .../ Through man, and woman, and sea, and star/ Saw the dance of nature forward far;/...
    Pt1 3.10 19 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 written hundreds of lines, but could not tell whether that which was in him was therein told; he could tell nothing but that all was changed,--man, beast, heaven, earth and sea.
    Pt1 3.25 10 The sea, the mountain-ridge...pre-exist or super-exist, in pre-cantations...
    Pt1 3.40 2 What drops of all the sea of our science are baled up!...
    Pt1 3.42 11 Thou [O poet] shalt have...the sea for thy bath and navigation...
    Exp 3.48 21 An innavigable sea washes with silent waves between us and the things we aim at and converse with.
    Mrs1 3.153 8 ...the advantages which fashion values are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets namely. Out of this precinct they...are of no use...at sea...
    PPh 4.55 20 The sea-shore, sea seen from shore, shore seen from sea;...this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    PPh 4.60 17 ...[Plato] paints and quibbles; and by and by comes a sentence that moves the sea and land.
    PPh 4.77 3 The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.
    SwM 4.103 3 A drop of water has the properties of the sea, but cannot exhibit a storm.
    SwM 4.112 20 [Swedenborg] knows, if he only, the flowing of nature, and how wise was that old answer of Amasis to him who bade him drink up the sea, Yes, willingly, if you will stop the rivers that flow in.
    MoS 4.158 10 Shall [the young man] then, cutting the stays that hold him fast to the social state, put out to sea with no guidance but his genius?
    MoS 4.160 26 ...a shell must dictate the architecture of a house founded on the sea.
    MoS 4.161 5 We are...houses founded on the sea.
    MoS 4.183 9 [The moral sentiment] is the drop which balances the sea.
    MoS 4.186 12 If my bark sink, 't is to another sea./
    ShP 4.190 4 A great man does not wake up on some fine morning and say, I am full of life, I will go to sea and find an Antarctic continent...
    NMW 4.229 15 ...men saw in [Bonaparte] combined the natural and the intellectual power, as if the sea and land had taken flesh and begun to cipher.
    NMW 4.229 17 ...men saw in [Bonaparte] combined the natural and the intellectual power, as if the sea and land had taken flesh and begun to cipher. Therefore the land and sea seem to presuppose him.
    NMW 4.246 10 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!--when spying the Alps, by a sunset in the Sicilian sea;...
    ET1 5.5 1 It is probable you left some obscure comrade...when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes.
    ET2 5.26 7 I wanted a change and a tonic, and England was proposed to me. Besides, there were at least the dread attraction and salutary influences of the sea.
    ET2 5.26 18 ...we crept along through the floating drift of boards, logs and chips, which the rivers of Maine and New Brunswick pour into the sea after a freshet.
    ET2 5.27 5 ...they say at sea a stern chase is a long race...
    ET2 5.29 9 Nobody likes to be treated ignominiously, upset...suffocated with bilge, mephitis and stewing oil. We get used to these annoyances at last [at sea], but the dread of the sea remains longer.
    ET2 5.29 10 The sea is masculine...
    ET2 5.29 14 Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over [the sea], each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth.
    ET2 5.29 19 To the geologist the sea is the only firmament;...
    ET2 5.29 23 The sea keeps its old level;...
    ET2 5.29 27 A rising of the sea, such as has been observed, say an inch in a century, from east to west on the land, will bury all the towns, monuments, bones and knowledge of mankind...
    ET2 5.30 23 The mate avers that this is the history of all sailors; nine out of ten are runaway boys; and adds that all of them are sick of the sea...
    ET2 5.31 3 If sailors were contented, if they had not resolved again and again not to go to sea any more, I should respect them.
    ET2 5.31 5 ...the inconveniences and terrors of the sea are not of any account to those whose minds are preoccupied.
    ET2 5.31 10 ...the sea is not slow in disclosing inestimable secrets to a good naturalist.
    ET2 5.31 21 The worst impediment I have found at sea is the want of light in the cabin.
    ET2 5.32 2 The busiest talk with leisure and convenience at sea...
    ET2 5.32 22 ...I think the white path of an Atlantic ship the right avenue to the palace front of this seafaring people [the English], who for hundreds of years claimed the strict sovereignty of the sea...
    ET2 5.33 4 ...the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main: As if, said they, we contended for the drops of the sea, and not for its situation...
    ET2 5.33 5 ...the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main: As if, said they, we contended for the drops of the sea, and not for...the bed of those waters. The sea is bounded by his majesty's empire.
    ET3 5.34 13 Nothing [in England] is left as it was made. Rivers, hills, valleys, the sea itself, feel the hand of a master.
    ET3 5.39 8 The rivers [in England] and the surrounding sea spawn with fish;...
    ET3 5.41 6 The sea, which, according to Virgil's famous line, divided the poor Britons utterly from the world, proved to be the ring of marriage with all nations.
    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...
    ET3 5.43 7 The sea shall disjoin the people from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality.
    ET4 5.46 16 Every body likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed to air, soil, sea, or to local wealth...
    ET4 5.47 14 How came such men as...Francis Bacon, George Herbert, Henry Vane, to exist here [in England]? What made these delicate natures? was it the air? was it the sea?...
    ET4 5.56 6 As [the Northmen] put out to sea again, the emperor [Charlemagne] gazed long after them...
    ET4 5.58 1 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are people...drawing half their food from the sea and half from the land.
    ET4 5.59 20 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in battle, as long as he can stand, then orders his war-ship, loaded with his dead men and their weapons, to be taken out to sea...
    ET5 5.83 14 The bias of the nation [England] is a passion for utility. They love the lever...the sea and the wind to bear their freight ships.
    ET5 5.83 26 [The English] apply themselves...to resisting encroachments of sea, wind, travelling sands, cold and wet sub-soil;...
    ET6 5.112 16 When Thalberg the pianist was one evening performing before the Queen at Windsor, in a private party, the Queen accompanied him with her voice. The circumstance took air, and all England shuddered from sea to sea.
    ET8 5.130 13 [The English] are of the earth, earthy; and of the sea, as the sea-kinds, attached to it for what it yields them...
    ET8 5.134 18 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...abysmal temperament, hiding wells of wrath, and glooms on which no sunshine settles, alternated with a common sense and humanity which hold them fast to every piece of cheerful duty; making this temperament a sea to which all storms are superficial;...
    ET10 5.163 13 Whatever is excellent and beautiful...in fountain, garden, or grounds,--the English noble crosses sea and land to see and to copy at home.
    ET11 5.174 20 The foundations of these [noble English] families lie deep in Norwegian exploits by sea and Saxon sturdiness on land.
    ET11 5.182 12 The Marquis of Breadalbane rides out of his house a hundred miles in a straight line to the sea...
    ET11 5.182 14 The Duke of Sutherland owns the County of Sutherland, stretching across Scotland from sea to sea.
    ET19 5.310 8 ...when I came to sea, I found the History of Europe, by Sir A. Alison, on the ship's cabin table...
    F 6.7 16 The sea changes its bed.
    F 6.7 21 The scurvy at sea...cut off men like a massacre.
    F 6.8 9 ...the forms of the shark...the weapons of the grampus, and other warriors hidden in the sea, are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.
    F 6.22 23 On one side elemental order...peat-bog, forest, sea and shore; and on the other part thought...
    F 6.24 18 Go face the fire at sea...knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny.
    F 6.32 14 Cold and sea will train an imperial Saxon race...
    F 6.44 1 Wood...gums, were dispersed over the earth and sea, in vain.
    Pow 6.68 19 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood] are made...for the sea...
    Pow 6.68 22 Some men cannot endure an hour of calm at sea.
    Wth 6.87 23 Wealth begins...in a horse or a locomotive to cross the land, in a boat to cross the sea;...
    Wth 6.89 14 The sea...offers its perilous aid and the power and empire that follow it...to [man's] craft and audacity.
    Wth 6.94 22 [To be rich] is to have the sea, by voyaging;...
    Wth 6.106 7 The level of the sea is not more surely kept than is the equilibrium of value in society by the demand and supply;...
    Wth 6.108 23 If the wind were always southwest by west, said the skipper, women might take ships to sea.
    Ctr 6.139 19 The city breeds one kind of speech and manners;...the sea another;...
    CbW 6.243 18 Live in the sunshine, swim the sea,/ Drink the wild air's salubrity/...
    CbW 6.262 13 We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.
    CbW 6.271 25 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...then...we see the zenith over and the nadir under us. Instead of the tanks and buckets of knowledge to which we are daily confined, we come down to the shore of the sea...
    Bty 6.291 14 How beautiful are ships on the sea!...
    Bty 6.292 3 The Greeks fabled that Venus was born of the foam of the sea.
    Bty 6.303 8 The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakes all the near water.
    Bty 6.303 13 Wordsworth rightly speaks of a light that never was on sea or land, meaning that it was supplied by the observer;...
    Bty 6.303 21 Every natural feature--sea, sky, rainbow, flowers, musical tone--has in it somewhat which is not private but universal...
    Bty 6.305 3 ...whatsoever thing does not express to me the sea and sky...is somewhat forbidden and wrong.
    Ill 6.320 26 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 7.21 5 The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast...
    Civ 7.22 27 ...the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.
    Civ 7.24 27 ...I watched, in crossing the sea, the beautiful skill whereby the engine in its constant working was made to produce two hundred gallons of fresh water out of salt water, every hour...
    Art2 7.42 19 ...we build a mill in such position as to set the north wind to play upon our instrument...or the ebb and flow of the sea.
    Art2 7.51 22 If the earth and sea conspire with virtue more than vice,--so do the masterpieces of art.
    Elo1 7.98 15 In this tossing sea of delusion we feel with our feet the adamant;...
    DL 7.125 4 In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is made the coals of an ever-burning egotism. In one, it was his going to sea;...
    Farm 7.139 9 The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature;...patience...with the largeness of the sea and land we must traverse...
    Farm 7.144 22 ...the sea is the grand receptacle of all rivers...
    WD 7.160 16 In Massachusetts we fight the sea successfully with beach-grass and broom...
    WD 7.160 20 The soil of Holland...is below the level of the sea.
    WD 7.162 14 ...German, Chinese, Turk, Russ and Kanaka were putting out to sea, and intermarrying race with race;...
    WD 7.163 8 ...we have the newspaper, which does its best to make every square acre of land and sea give an account of itself at your breakfast-table;...
    WD 7.168 4 Czar Alexander...wished to call the Pacific my ocean; and the Americans were obliged to resist his attempts to make it a close sea.
    WD 7.168 5 ...if [Czar Alexander] had the earth for his pasture and the sea for his pond, he would be a pauper still.
    WD 7.171 5 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...the sea with its invitations;...are given immeasurably to all.
    Boks 7.189 7 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or from Pontus;...
    Boks 7.204 14 I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
    Suc 7.298 5 What is it we look for...in the sea and the firmament?...
    Suc 7.309 26 Good will makes insight, as one finds his way to the sea by embarking on a river.
    OA 7.323 10 [Age] has weathered the perilous capes and shoals in the sea whereon we sail...
    PI 8.14 5 ...the Greek mythology called the sea the tear of Saturn.
    PI 8.14 7 The return of the soul to God was described as a flask of water broken in the sea.
    PI 8.52 3 With...the first strain of a song, we...launch on the sea of ideas and emotions...
    PI 8.57 16 ...the direct smell of the earth or the sea, is in these ancient poems...
    PI 8.58 10 ...[The wind] has no fear, nor the rude wants of created things./ Great God! how the sea whitens when it comes?/
    PI 8.58 21 [The wind] makes no perturbation in the place where God wills it,/ On the sea, on the land./
    PI 8.58 24 In one of his poems [Taliessin] asks:--Is there but one course to the wind?/ But one to the water of the sea?/ Is there but one spark in the fire of boundless energy?/
    PI 8.59 5 [Taliessin says] Of an enemy,--The cauldron of the sea was bordered round by his land, but it would not boil the food of a coward./
    PI 8.59 8 To an exile on an island [Taliessin] says,--The heavy blue chain of the sea didst thou, O just man, endure.
    PI 8.63 14 There is something--our brothers on this or that side of the sea do not know it or own it;...which is setting us and them aside...and planting itself.
    PI 8.65 12 [Nature] is not proud of the sea...
    Elo2 8.109 15 Self-centred; when [the patriot] launched the genuine word/ It shook or captivated all who heard/ Ran from his mouth to mountains and the sea,/ And burned in noble hearts proverb and prophecy./
    Res 8.141 9 Here in America are all the wealth of soil, of timber, of mines and of the sea, put into the possession of a people who wield all these wonderful machines...
    Comc 8.162 22 The victim who has just received the discharge [of wit], if in a solemn company, has the air very much of a stout vessel which has just shipped a heavy sea;...
    PC 8.207 21 Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology, to fly with [men] over the sea...
    PC 8.217 7 I find the single mind equipollent to a multitude of minds...as a drop of water balances the sea;...
    PPo 8.242 1 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Karun (the Persian Croesus)...who, with all his treasures, lies buried not far from the Pyramids, in the sea which bears his name;...
    PPo 8.255 23 If over this world of ours/ His wings my phoenix spread,/ How gracious falls on land and sea/ The soul-refreshing shade!/
    Insp 8.273 25 Sometimes there is no sea-fire, and again the sea is aglow to the horizon.
    Insp 8.289 17 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic creativeness...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty]. A ride near the sea, a sail near the shore, said the ancient.
    Insp 8.294 25 Neither by sea nor by land, said Pindar, canst thou find the way to the Hyperboreans;...
    Insp 8.296 1 Books of natural science...explorations of the sea, of meteors, of astronomy,-all the better if written without literary aim or ambition.
    Grts 8.304 25 When [young men] have learned that the parlor and the college and the counting-room demand as much courage as the sea or the camp, they will be willing to consult their own strength and education in their choice of place.
    Grts 8.305 16 ...there is the boy who is born with a taste for the sea...
    Grts 8.308 12 Montluc...says of...Andrew Doria, It seemed as if the sea stood in awe of this man.
    Dem1 10.3 12 This soft enchantress [sleep] visits two children lying locked in each other's arms, and carries them asunder by wide spaces of land and sea...
    Dem1 10.3 18 Within the sweep of yon encircling wall/ How many a large creation of the night,/ Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea,/ Peopled with busy, transitory groups,/ Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd./
    Dem1 10.14 9 The poor ship-master discovered a sound theology, when in the storm at sea he made his prayer to Neptune, O God, thou mayst save me if thou wilt, and if thou wilt thou mayst destroy me; but, however, I will hold my rudder true.
    PerF 10.73 26 It is curious to see how a creature so feeble and vulnerable as a man, who, unarmed, is no match for the wild beasts...none for the sea... is yet able to subdue to his will these terrific [natural] forces...
    PerF 10.74 11 If a straw be held still in the direction of the ocean-current, the sea will pour through it as through Gibraltar.
    PerF 10.74 13 ...if [man] should fight the sea and the whirlwind with his ship, he would snap his spars, tear his sails, and swamp his bark;...
    Edc1 10.126 7 All the fairy tales of Aladdin...or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicate the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.
    Edc1 10.155 9 Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets...of the rivers and the sea?
    MoL 10.250 5 [Nature says to the American] I give you the land and sea... the elemental forces, nervous energy.
    Schr 10.270 1 What the Genius whispered [the poet] at night he reported to the young men at dawn. He rides in them, he traverses sea and land.
    Schr 10.276 8 There is plenty of air, but it is worth nothing until by gathering it into sails we can get it into shape and service to carry us and our cargo across the sea.
    Schr 10.276 10 [There is] Plenty of water also, sea full, sky full; who cares for it?
    Thor 10.466 9 Mr. Thoreau dedicated his genius with such entire love to the fields, hills and waters of his native town, that he made them known and interesting to all reading Americans, and to people over the sea.
    HDC 11.28 6 Lo now! if these poor men/ Can govern the land and sea/ And make just laws below the sun,/ As planets faithful be./
    HDC 11.36 23 ...standing on the seashore, [the Indians] often told of the coming of a ship at sea, sooner by one hour, yea, two hours' sail, than any Englishman that stood by, on purpose to look out.
    HDC 11.85 7 ...[Concord's sons] traverse the sea...
    EWI 11.110 21 ...Slave ships] carried five, six, even seven hundred stowed in a ship built so narrow as to be unsafe, being made just broad enough on the beam to keep the sea.
    EWI 11.110 24 In attempting to make its escape from the pursuit of a man-of- war, one ship flung five hundred slaves alive into the sea.
    EWI 11.115 3 Some American captains left the shore and put to sea [at the announcement of emancipation in the West Indies]...
    EWI 11.140 16 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat the underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners...
    War 11.157 7 ...trade...gives the parties the knowledge that these enemies over sea or over the mountain are such men as we;...
    FSLC 11.188 1 ...[resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law] is befriending...on our own farms, a man who has taken the risk of being...cast into the sea...to get away from his driver...
    TPar 11.292 13 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will affirm...that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke;...that the sea which bore your mourners home affirms it...
    EPro 11.325 26 [The Emancipation Proclamation] will be an insurance to the ship as it goes plunging through the sea with glad tidings to all people.
    ALin 11.329 4 We meet under the gloom of a calamity [death of Lincoln] which darkens down over the minds of good men in all civil society, as the fearful tidings travel over sea, over land...
    ALin 11.330 9 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American, had never crossed the sea...
    SMC 11.353 3 A thunder-storm at sea sometimes reverses the magnets in the ship...
    EdAd 11.386 3 We hearken in vain for any profound voice...intelligently announcing duties which clothe life with joy, and endear the face of land and sea to men.
    Koss 11.399 9 We [people of Concord] only see in you [Kossuth] the angel of freedom, crossing sea and land;...
    Shak1 11.451 1 The palaces [Englishmen] compass earth and sea to enter, the magnificence and personages of royal and imperial abodes, are shabby imitations and caricatures of [Shakespeare's]...
    Humb 11.458 1 You could not put [Humboldt] on any sea or shore but his instant recollection of every other sea or shore illuminated this.
    Humb 11.458 2 You could not put [Humboldt] on any sea or shore but his instant recollection of every other sea or shore illuminated this.
    Humb 11.458 7 ...at any point on land or sea [Humboldt] found the objects of his researches.
    FRep 11.513 14 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war, all fortification by land and sea...on that one compound...
    FRep 11.534 26 ...the land and sea educate the people...
    FRep 11.542 24 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet...hinders the inroads of the sea on the continent...
    PLT 12.15 15 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...
    PLT 12.15 18 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...carrying its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes. To this sea every human house has a water front.
    PLT 12.22 7 A fish in like manner is man furnished to live in the sea;...
    II 12.87 20 The sky, the sea...keep their word.
    CL 12.137 11 [Linnaeus] went into Oland, and found that the farms on the shore were perpetually encroached on by the sea...
    CL 12.143 6 The light which resides in [Wordsworth's eyes]...under favorable accidents...is more truly entitled to be held the light that never was on land or sea...
    CL 12.152 24 ...[man's] old propensities will stir at midsummer, and send him, like an Indian, to the sea.
    CL 12.152 27 Its power on the mind in sharpening the perceptions has made the sea the famous educator of our race.
    CL 12.153 4 What freedom of grace has the sea with all this might!
    CL 12.153 13 At Niagara, I have noticed, that, as quick as I got out of the wetting of the Fall, all the grandeur changed into beauty. You cannot keep it grand, 't is so quickly beautiful; and the sea gave me the same experience.
    CL 12.154 7 The sea is the chemist that dissolves the mountain and the rock;...
    CL 12.154 18 ...the sea drives us back to the hills.
    CL 12.156 8 ...we are glad to see the world, and what amplitudes it has, of meadow, stream, upland, forest and sea...
    CL 12.156 11 ...we are glad to see the world, and what amplitudes it has, of meadow, stream, upland, forest and sea, which yet are lanes and crevices to the great space in which the world shines like a cockboat in the sea.
    CW 12.176 26 This is my ideal of the powers of wealth. Find out what lake or sea Agassiz wishes to explore, and offer to carry him there...
    CW 12.177 21 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches in the sea, in the ground, in barren moors, in the night even...
    Bost 12.182 3 The rocky nook with hilltops three/ Looked eastward from the farms,/ And twice each day the flowing sea/ Took Boston in its arms./
    Bost 12.182 5 The sea returning day by day/ Restores the world-wide mart;/ So let each dweller on the Bay/ Fold Boston in his heart./
    Bost 12.190 25 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its shores trending steadily from the two arms which the capes of Massachusetts stretch out to sea, down to the bottom of the bay where the city domes and spires sparkle through the haze,-a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...
    Bost 12.191 8 ...the weariness of the sea, the shrinking from cold weather and the pangs of hunger must justify [the Plymouth colonists].
    Bost 12.198 5 We can show [in New England] native examples, and I may almost say (travellers as we are) natives who never crossed the sea, who possess all the elements of noble behavior.
    ACri 12.296 3 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech...words...that have neatness and necessity, through their use in the vocabulary of work and appetite, like the pebbles which the incessant attrition of the sea has rounded.
    MLit 12.325 4 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the Venetian music of the gondolier, originating in the habit of the fishers' wives of the Lido singing on shore to their husbands on the sea;...
    MLit 12.335 15 ...[man's] thought can animate the sea and land.
    EurB 12.369 10 ...the spirit of literature and the modes of living and the conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question [by Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...from the lessons which the country muse taught a stout pedestrian...following a river from its parent rill down to the sea.
    Let 12.393 24 The sea and the iron road are safer toys for such ungrown people;...
    Let 12.402 7 The steep antagonism between the money-getting and the academic class...perhaps is the more violent that whilst our work is imposed by the soil and the sea, our culture is the tradition of Europe.
    Trag 12.405 3 As the salt sea covers more than two thirds of the surface of the globe, so sorrow encroaches in man on felicity.
    Trag 12.411 18 ...the frailest glass bell will support a weight of a thousand pounds of water at the bottom of a river or sea, if filled with the same.

Sea Red, n. [Sea,] (2)

    NMW 4.246 13 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!...fording the Red Sea;...
    Dem1 10.14 15 As I was once travelling by the Red Sea, there was one among the horsemen that attended us named Masollam...

Sea, South, n. (1)

    SR 2.69 10 Vast spaces of nature...the South Sea;...are of no account.

Sea Voyage [Fletcher, Mass (1)

    Hsm1 2.256 7 In Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage, Juletta tells the stout captain and his company,--Jul. Why, slaves, 't is in our power to hang ye./ Master. Very likely,/ 'T is in our powers, then, to be hanged, and scorn ye./

Sea, Western, n. (1)

    War 11.165 7 ...when a truth appears,-as, for instance, a perception in the wit of one Columbus that there is land in the Western Sea...it will build ships;...

sea-air, n. (1)

    Insp 8.276 10 [Inspiration] seems a semi-animal heat; as if tea, or wine, or sea-air...could...wake the fancy and the clear perception.

sea-battle, n. (1)

    ET5 5.86 16 Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of breaking the line of sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling...were only translations into naval tactics of Bonaparte's rule of concentration.

sea-beach, n. (2)

    Tran 1.359 15 Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded;...these cities rotted...all gone, like the shells which sprinkle the sea-beach with a white colony to-day...
    SA 8.80 25 In the gymnasium or on the sea-beach [the well-mannered man' s] superiority does not leave him.

sea-beat, n. (1)

    SwM 4.141 11 Melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads when once the penetrating key-note of nature and spirit is sounded,--the earth-beat, sea-beat... which makes the tune to which the sun rolls...

sea-beaten, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.42 21 Who can guess how much firmness the sea-beaten rock has taught the fisherman?...

seaboard, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.203 2 [Webster] has been by his clear perceptions and statements in all these years...the champion of the interests of the Northern seaboard...

sea-captain, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.393 6 [Ezra Ripley]...knew the weather like a sea-captain.

sea-captains, n. (1)

    Ill 6.317 21 ...the best soldiers, sea-captains and railway men have a gentleness when off duty...

sea-coast, n. [seacoast,] (3)

    YA 1.365 7 The task of surveying, planting, and building upon this immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate thereto. A consciousness of this fact is beginning to take the place of the purely trading spirit and education which sprang up whilst all the population lived on the fringe of sea-coast.
    Suc 7.283 6 We have the power of territory and of seacoast...
    Bost 12.189 26 [John Smith writes (1624)] The seacoast, as you pass, shows you all along large cornfields...

sea-days, n. (1)

    ET2 5.32 7 Sea-days are long...

sea-downs, n. (1)

    SHC 11.435 1 Bleak sea-rocks and sea-downs and blasted heaths have their own beauty;...

seafaring, adj. (2)

    ET2 5.32 21 ...I think the white path of an Atlantic ship the right avenue to the palace front of this seafaring people [the English]...
    ET19 5.310 12 ...when I came to sea, I found the History of Europe, by Sir A. Alison, on the ship's cabin table, the property of the captain;--a sort of programme or play-bill to tell the seafaring New Englander what he shall find on his landing here.

seafaring, n. (1)

    ET3 5.43 12 [Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets on every side. Long time I will keep them on their feet, by poverty, border-wars... seafaring...

sea-fight, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.124 12 The courage which girls exhibit is like...a sea-fight.
    ET5 5.79 4 Sir Kenelm Digby...who won the sea-fight of Scanderoon, was a model Englishman in his day.

sea-fire, n. (2)

    ET2 5.28 20 The sea-fire shines in [the ship's] wake...
    Insp 8.273 24 Sometimes there is no sea-fire, and again the sea is aglow to the horizon.

sea-foam, n. (1)

    Con 1.296 25 Thy oysters are barnacles and cockles, and with the next flowing of the tide they will be pebbles and sea-foam.

sea-gods, n. (1)

    ET2 5.31 25 We found on board [the Washington Irving] the usual cabin library; Basil Hall, Dumas, Dickens, Bulwer, Balzac and Sand were our sea-gods.

sea-going, adj. (1)

    ET5 5.92 16 [The English] have approved their Saxon blood, by their sea-going qualities;...

sea-kinds, n. (1)

    ET8 5.130 13 [The English] are of the earth, earthy; and of the sea, as the sea-kinds, attached to it for what it yields them...

sea-kings, n. (1)

    ET8 5.141 1 ...if hereafter the war of races...should menace the English civilization, these sea-kings may take once again to their floating castles...

seal, n. (13)

    AmS 1.87 2 ...nature is the opposite of the soul, answering to it part for part. One is seal and one is print.
    Tran 1.337 13 ...I have assurance in myself that in pardoning these faults according to the letter, man...sets the seal of his divine nature to the grace he accords.
    Art1 2.352 19 The Genius of the Hour sets his ineffaceable seal on the work [of art]...
    PPh 4.45 1 [Plato]...has almost impressed language and the primary forms of thought with his name and seal.
    SwM 4.117 3 Lord Bacon had found that truth and nature differed only as seal and print;...
    MoS 4.176 3 ...a book...or only the sound of a name, shoots a spark through the nerves, and we suddenly believe in will: my finger-ring shall be the seal of Solomon;...
    GoW 4.262 2 In nature...the narrative is the print of the seal.
    GoW 4.262 5 ...nature strives upward; and, in man, the report is something more than print of the seal.
    ET13 5.217 21 [The English Church] has the seal of martyrs and confessors;...
    PPo 8.241 20 Asaph, the vizier, at a certain time, lost the seal of Solomon...
    LVB 11.93 14 You [Van Buren], sir, will bring down that renowned chair in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this intrument of perfidy [the relocation of the Cherokees];...
    EWI 11.131 17 If such a damnable outrage [kidnapping of freeborn negroes] can be committed on the person of a citizen with impunity, let the Governor break the broad seal of the State;...
    Scot 11.465 24 [Scott] saw in the English Church the symbol and seal of all social order;...

seal, v. (2)

    ET7 5.118 3 The mottoes of [English] families are monitory proverbs, as... Say and seal, of the house of Fiennes;...
    Schr 10.280 14 When a man begins to dedicate himself to a particular function...the advance of his character and genius pauses;...seal the book;...

sealed, adj. (3)

    Prd1 2.235 27 When [a man] sees a folded and sealed scrap of paper float round the globe in a pine ship and come safe to the eye for which it was written...let him likewise feel the admonition to integrate his being across all these distracting forces...
    ET7 5.124 20 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money.
    HDC 11.76 16 We...confirm from living lips the sealed records of time.

sealed, v. (4)

    ET12 5.203 18 ...one day, being in Venice [Dr. Bandinel] bought a room full of books and manuscripts...and had the doors locked and sealed by the consul.
    Wsp 6.199 5 Sprung harmless up, refreshed by blows:/ He to captivity was sold,/ But him no prison-bars would hold:/ Though they sealed him in a rock,/ Mountain chains he can unlock/...
    LS 11.7 10 When hereafter, [Jesus] says to [his disciples], you shall keep the Passover, it will have an altered aspect to your eyes. It is now a historical covenant of God with the Jewish nation. Hereafter it will remind you of a new covenant sealed with my blood.
    WSL 12.338 2 Here [in America] is very good earth and water and plenty of them; that [John Bull] is free to allow; to all other gifts of Nature or man his eyes are sealed by the inexorable demand for the precise conveniences to which he is accustomed in England.

sealers, n. (1)

    NR 3.232 4 How wise the world appears, when...the completeness of the municipal system is considered! Nothing is left out. If you go into...the offices of sealers of weights and measures, of inspection of provisions,--it will appear as if one man had made it all.

seal-hunter, n. (1)

    Hist 2.40 18 ...what food or experience or succor have [Olympiads and Consulates] for the Esquimaux seal-hunter...

sea-life, n. (2)

    ET2 5.28 26 I find the sea-life an acquired taste...
    SA 8.105 1 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;--as the love...of the boy for sea-life, or for painting...

sea-line, n. (2)

    ET2 5.27 7 The shortest sea-line from Boston to Liverpool is 2850 miles.
    CL 12.160 12 On the seashore, [Nature] reveals to the eye, by the sea-line, the true curve of the globe.

sea-lord, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.42 16 ...thou [O poet] shalt possess that wherein others are only tenants and boarders. Thou true land-lord! sea-lord! air-lord!

seals, n. (2)

    Supl 10.172 7 ...the gallant skipper...complained to his owners that he had pumped the Atlantic Ocean three times through his ship on the passage, and 't was common to strike seals and porpoises in the hold.
    Trag 12.412 13 To this architectural stability of the human form, the Greek genius added an ideal beauty, without disturbing the seals of serenity;...

seam, n. (1)

    Exp 3.71 5 Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is...the heaven without rent or seam.

seaman, n. (3)

    Tran 1.345 8 Talk with a seaman of the hazards to life in his profession and he will ask you, Where are the old sailors?
    ET2 5.30 7 If [the sea] is capable of these great and secular mischiefs, it is quite as ready at private and local damage; and of this no landsman seems so fearful as the seaman.
    War 11.158 6 Only in Elizabeth's time, out of the European waters, piracy was all but universal. The proverb was,-No peace beyond the line; and the seaman shipped on the buccaneer's bargain, No prey, no pay.

sea-margins, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.138 22 To wade in marshes and sea-margins is the destiny of certain birds...

sea-marks, n. (1)

    Bost 12.190 21 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its waters bounded and marked by lighthouses, buoys and sea-marks;...a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...

seamen, n. (6)

    ET5 5.97 23 The sovereignty of the seas is maintained [in England] by the impressment of seamen.
    ET5 5.97 23 The sovereignty of the seas is maintained [in England] by the impressment of seamen. The impressment of seamen, said Lord Eldon, is the life of our navy.
    ET18 5.302 26 ...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years! What dignity resting on what reality and stoutness! What courage in war...what seamen and pilots...
    CbW 6.270 18 ...when the case [of the blockhead] is seated and malignant, the only safety is in amputation; as seamen say, you shall cut and run.
    Suc 7.285 10 ...leaving the coast [of Panama], the ship full of one hundred and fifty skilful seamen...the wise admiral [Columbus] kept his private record of his homeward path.
    EWI 11.109 1 More seamen died in [the slave] trade in one year than in the whole remaining trade of the country [England] in two.

seamen's, n. (1)

    Grts 8.318 18 A great style of hero draws equally...all the extremes of society, till we say the very dogs believe in him. We have had such examples in this country, in Daniel Webster...and the seamen's preacher, Father Taylor;...

seamless, adj. (2)

    Ill 6.309 9 We traversed...the six or eight black miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth Cave] to...a niche or grotto made of one seamless stalactite...
    CL 12.149 22 [The Indian] goes to a white birch-tree, and can fit his leg with a seamless boot, or a hat for his head.

sea-monsters, n. (1)

    CL 12.153 27 ...what strength and fecundity [in the sea], from the sea-monsters, hugest of animals, to the primary forms of which it is the immense cradle...

sea-mountains, n. (1)

    Civ 7.24 21 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts: the ship...driven by steam; and in wildest sea-mountains, at vast distances from home,--The pulses of her iron heart/ Go beating through the storm./

sea-officers, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.87 9 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was. The court..tried words... describing duties of insurers, captains, pilots and miscellaneous sea-officers that are or might be...

search, n. (38)

    Hist 2.29 12 ...in that protest which each considerate person makes against the superstition of his times, he repeats step for step the part of old reformers, and in the search after truth finds, like them, new perils to virtue.
    Fdsp 2.198 10 ...every man passes his life in the search after friendship...
    Fdsp 2.215 15 It would...give me a certain household joy to quit...this spiritual astronomy or search of the stars...
    UGM 4.3 20 The search after the great man is the dream of youth...
    ET5 5.91 11 The [English] Admiralty sent out the Arctic expeditions year after year, in search of Sir John Franklin...
    ET16 5.279 18 In this quiet house of destiny [Stonehenge] [Carlyle] happened to say, I plant cypresses wherever I go, and if I am in search of pain, I cannot go wrong.
    F 6.33 26 [Steam] was the workman [Fulton and Watt] were in search of.
    Pow 6.53 13 Life is a search after power;...
    Wsp 6.203 27 'T is a whole population of gentlemen and ladies out in search of religions.
    Wsp 6.219 16 ...the primordial atoms...are in search of justice...
    CbW 6.267 22 ...'t is strange how tenaciously we cling to that bell-astronomy of a protecting domestic horizon. I find the same illusion in the search after happiness which I observe every summer recommenced in this neighborhood...
    CbW 6.268 2 [The young people] set forth on their travels in search of a home...
    Ill 6.314 8 Science is a search after identity...
    Clbs 7.230 26 ...I seldom meet with a reading and thoughtful person but he tells me...that he has no companion. Suppose such a one to go out exploring different circles in search of this wise and genial counterpart,--he might inquire far and wide.
    Clbs 7.234 22 ...I am to say that there may easily be obstacles in the way of finding the pure article [good company] we are in search of...
    PI 8.32 25 Later, the thought, the happy image which expressed it and which was a true experience of the poet, recurs to mind, and sends me back in search of the book.
    PI 8.60 17 ...many knights set out in search of [Merlin].
    PI 8.60 18 ...many knights set out in search of [Merlin]. Among others was Sir Gawain, who pursued his search till it was time to return to the court.
    PI 8.62 14 ...said Merlin...I taught my mistress that whereby she hath imprisoned me in such a manner that none can set me free. Certes, Merlin, replied Sir Gawain, of that I am right sorrowful, and so will King Arthur, my uncle, be...who is making search after you throughout all countries.
    SA 8.89 13 Welfare requires...persons...who shall hold us fast to good sense and virtue; and these we are always in search of.
    SA 8.100 15 ...If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with whip in hand to get them, I will do so.
    SA 8.100 18 As the search [for riches] may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love.
    PC 8.209 1 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the search for just rules affecting labor;...
    Edc1 10.133 4 If I have renounced the search of truth...I have died to all use of these new events...
    Edc1 10.141 20 ...because of the disturbing effect of passion and sense, which by a multitude of trifles impede the mind's eye from the quiet search of that fine horizon-line which truth keeps,-the way to knowledge and power has ever been an escape from too much engagement with affairs and possessions;...
    Supl 10.172 22 Our travelling is a sort of search for the superlatives or summits of art...
    Prch 10.227 4 What is essential to the theologian is, that whilst he is... severe in his search for truth, he shall be broad in his sympathies,-not to allow himself to be excluded from any church.
    Plu 10.305 4 The paths of life are large, but few are men directed by the Daemons. When Theanor had said this, he looked attentively on Epaminondas, as if he designed a fresh search into his nature and inclinations.
    CSC 10.376 7 These men and women [at the Chardon Street Convention] were in search of something better and more satisfying than a vote or a definition...
    MMEm 10.405 9 [Mary Moody Emerson]...now and then in her migrations from town to town in Maine and Massachusetts, in search of a new boarding-place, discovered some preacher with sense or piety, or both.
    Thor 10.456 25 ...[Thoreau] was always ready to lead...a search for chestnuts or grapes.
    Thor 10.465 10 I have repeatedly known young men of sensibility converted in a moment to the belief that this [Thoreau] was the man they were in search of...
    Thor 10.470 21 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of the night-warbler, a bird he...had been in search of twelve years...
    HDC 11.83 24 [The Concord Town Records] exhibit a pleasing picture of a community...where no man has much time for words, in his search after things;...
    War 11.175 3 ...if the search of the sublime laws of morals and the sources of hope and trust, in man, and not in books, in the present, and not in the past, proceed;...then war has a short day...
    EdAd 11.392 7 Mankind for the moment seem to be in search of a religion.
    CPL 11.503 23 Every one of us is always in search of his friend...
    MAng1 12.217 9 ...we shall endeavor by sketches from [Michelangelo's] life to show the direction and limitations of his search after this element [Beauty].

search, v. (18)

    Nat 1.74 25 It will not need, when the mind is prepared for study, to search for objects.
    AmS 1.104 18 Let [the scholar] look into [fear's] eye and search its nature...
    LT 1.259 19 The Times...are to be studied...as sacred leaves, whereon a weighty sense is inscribed, if we have the wit and the love to search it out.
    LT 1.266 6 Here is a Damascus blade, such as you may search through nature in vain to parallel...
    Hsm1 2.259 18 Let the maiden, with erect soul...search in turn all the objects that solicit her eye...
    PPh 4.63 21 I give you joy, O sons of men!...that we have hope to search out what might be the very self of everything.
    PPh 4.64 8 ...[said Plato] the persuasion that we must search that which we do not know, will render us, beyond comparison, better, braver and more industrious than if we thought it impossible to discover what we do not know, and useless to search for it.
    PPh 4.64 12 ...[said Plato] the persuasion that we must search that which we do not know, will render us, beyond comparison, better, braver and more industrious than if we thought it impossible to discover what we do not know, and useless to search for it.
    ET6 5.110 26 ...[every Englishman's] instinct is to search for a precedent.
    Boks 7.221 6 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...
    PI 8.7 9 One of these vortices or self-directions of thought is the impulse to search resemblance, affinity, identity, in all its objects...
    PI 8.17 6 Poetry is the perpetual endeavor...to pass the brute body and search the life and reason which causes it to exist;...
    PC 8.231 26 Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times, which search till they find resistance and bottom.
    SovE 10.212 23 ...innocence is a wonderful electuary for purging the eyes to search the nature of those souls that pass before it.
    FRep 11.511 18 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel, who said, Send to Italy, search the museums for the forms of old Etruscan vases...
    Mem 12.97 15 Is [Memory] some old aunt who goes in and out of the house, and occasionally recites anecdotes of old times and persons...and she being gone again I search in vain for any trace of the anecdotes?
    Milt1 12.260 10 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument,-Such as may make thee search thy coffers round,/ Before thou clothe my fancy in fit sound;/...
    Pray 12.353 5 If I may not search out and pierce thy thought, so much the more may my living praise thee [My Father].

searched, v. (15)

    AmS 1.110 8 If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not... when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope;...
    MN 1.194 1 Even the scholar is not safe; he too is searched and revised.
    Hist 2.6 27 We sympathize in the great moments of history...because there law was enacted, the sea was searched...for us...
    OS 2.267 23 The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul.
    Pt1 3.1 6 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ .../ They overleapt the horizon's edge,/ Searched with Apollo's privilege;/...
    OA 7.329 27 We have an admirable line worthy of Horace...but have searched all probable and improbable books for it in vain.
    Res 8.137 10 ...whether searched by the plough of Adam...or the submarine telegraph,--to every one of these experiments [the earth] makes a gracious response.
    Res 8.144 7 The commander called for men in the ranks who could rebuild the road. Many men stepped forward, searched in the water, found the hidden rails, laid the track...
    Dem1 10.27 26 [Man] is sure...the circumambient soul which flows into him as into all, and is his life, has not been searched.
    EWI 11.105 5 It became plain to all men, the more this business was looked into, that the crimes and cruelties of the slave-traders and slave-owners could not be overstated. The more it was searched, the more shocking anecdotes came up...
    EPro 11.316 24 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...a new audience is found in the heart of the assembly,-an audience...now at last so searched and kindled that they come forward...
    Koss 11.398 25 As you [Kossuth] see, the love you win [from Americans] is worth something; for it has been argued through; its foundation searched;...
    MAng1 12.220 8 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the muscles...the hidden, the reposing, the foundation of the apparent, must be searched...
    Milt1 12.261 6 ...[Milton]...searched the kennel and jakes as well as the palaces of sound for the harsh discords of his polemic wrath.
    Milt1 12.269 6 Questions that involve all social and personal rights...were searched by eyes to which the love of freedom, civil and religious, lent new illumination.

searches, v. (5)

    Nat 1.22 17 The intellect searches out the absolute order of things...
    SL 2.158 11 What has he done? is the divine question which searches men...
    MoS 4.149 17 [A man] sees the beauty of a human face, and searches the cause of that beauty, which must be more beautiful.
    Clbs 7.250 16 Discourse, when it...searches deepest...is between two.
    Plu 10.303 5 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care which has unrolled in our times, and still searches and unrolls papyri from ruined libraries...

searching, adj. (13)

    Nat 1.43 1 What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of Health!
    Fdsp 2.207 9 ...three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
    Mrs1 3.135 12 ...if perchance a searching realist comes to our gate...then again we run to our curtain, and hide ourselves...
    NER 3.280 22 ...all frank and searching conversation, in which a man lays himself open to his brother, apprises each of their radical unity.
    ET12 5.210 19 ...in general, here [at Oxford] was proof of a more searching study in the appointed directions...
    Ctr 6.150 5 The head of a commercial house...is brought into daily contact with...the driving-wheels, the business men of each section, and one can hardly suggest for an apprehensive man a more searching culture.
    Cour 7.269 27 ...I remember the old professor, whose searching mind engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class...
    Suc 7.307 26 The searching tests to apply to every new pretender are amount and quality...
    EzRy 10.394 8 [Ezra Ripley] was the more competent to these searching discourses from his knowledge of family history.
    Thor 10.464 25 ...[Thoreau] said, one day, The other world is all my art;...I do not use it as a means. This was the muse and genius that ruled his opinions, conversation, studies, work and course of life. This made him a searching judge of men.
    Thor 10.466 2 ...what accusing silences, and what searching and irresistible speeches, battering down all defences, [Thoreau's] companions can remember!
    HDC 11.45 7 Members of a church before whose searching covenant all rank was abolished, [the settlers of Concord] stood in awe of each other, as religious men.
    Shak1 11.450 8 ...so searching is [Shakespeare's] penetration...that he still agitates the heart in age as in youth...

searching, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.187 7 It is remarkable how rare in the history of tyrants is an immoral law. Some color, some indirection was always used. If you take up the volumes of the Universal History, you will find it difficult searching.

searching, v. (2)

    PI 8.47 1 I think you will also find a charm heroic, plaintive, pathetic, in these cadences [of common English metres], and be at once set on searching for the words that can rightly fill these vacant beats.
    Plu 10.297 15 [Plutarch] is, among prose writers, what Chaucer is among English poets, a repertory for those who want the story without searching for it at first hand...

searchings, n. (1)

    ET14 5.238 1 The manner in which [the English] learned Greek and Latin... by lectures of a professor, followed by their own searchings,--required a more robust memory, and cooperation of all the faculties;...

sea-risks, n. (1)

    ET3 5.43 12 [Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets on every side. Long time I will keep them on their feet, by...sea-risks and the stimulus of gain.

sea-rocks, n. (1)

    SHC 11.435 1 Bleak sea-rocks and sea-downs and blasted heaths have their own beauty;...

sea-room, n. (1)

    ET4 5.52 12 The English derive their pedigree from such a range of nationalities that there needs sea-room and land-room to unfold the varieties of talent and character.

seas, n. (22)

    LT 1.260 11 Here is this great fact of Conservatism, entrenched in its immense redoubt, with...the Atlantic and Pacific seas for its ditches and trenches;...
    LT 1.268 20 It is...the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain [of conservatism] to embark on seas of adventure, who engages our interest.
    Hist 2.28 10 I have seen the first monks and anchorets, without crossing seas or centuries.
    Hsm1 2.260 1 Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
    ET4 5.50 9 It need not puzzle us that...Saxon and Tartar should mix, when we...know that the barriers of races are not so firm but that some spray sprinkles us from the antediluvian seas.
    ET4 5.55 9 [The Celts] planted Britain, and gave to the seas and mountains names which are poems...
    ET4 5.67 23 I apply to Britannia, queen of seas and colonies, the words in which her latest novelist portrays his heroine; She is as mild as she is game, and as game as she is mild.
    ET4 5.72 19 Two centuries ago the English horse never performed any eminent service beyond the seas;...
    ET5 5.97 22 The sovereignty of the seas is maintained [in England] by the impressment of seamen.
    ET11 5.196 21 This is the charter, or the chartism, which fogs and seas and rains proclaimed [in England],--that intellect and personal force should make the law;...
    Wth 6.84 10 ...Then flew the sail across the seas/ To feed the North from tropic trees;/...
    CbW 6.266 18 ...we shall not always traverse seas and lands with light purposes...
    Bty 6.279 16 [Seyd] heard a voice none else could hear/ From centred and from errant sphere./ The quaking earth did quake in rhyme,/ Seas ebbed and flowed in epic chime./
    Suc 7.303 17 ...the genial man is interested in every slipper that comes into the assembly. The passion, alike everywhere, creeps under the snows of Scandinavia...and swims in the seas of Polynesia.
    PI 8.11 9 Seas, forests, metals, diamonds and fossils interest the eye, but 't is only with some preparatory or predicting charm.
    PC 8.229 24 Hope never spreads her golden wings but on unfathomable seas.
    PPo 8.261 9 Plunge in yon angry waves,/ Renouncing doubt and care;/ The flowing of the seven broad seas/ Shall never wet thy hair./
    Dem1 10.4 13 ...[in dreams] we seem busied for hours and days in peregrinations over seas and lands...
    SovE 10.192 17 The idea of right...lays itself out...in the level of the seas, in the action and reaction of forces.
    EWI 11.131 5 The poorest fishing-smack that floats under the shadow of an iceberg in the Northern seas...should be encompassed by [Massachusetts' s] laws with comfort and protection...
    TPar 11.290 3 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over...leaving your principles at home to follow on the high seas or in Europe a supple complaisance to tyrants,-it is a hypocrisy...
    Wom 11.411 26 For [woman] the seas their pearls reveal,/ Art and strange lands her pomp supply/ With purple, chrome and cochineal,/ Ochre and lapis lazuli./

sea-service, n. (1)

    F 6.32 25 The plague in the sea-service from scurvy is healed by lemon juice...

sea-shell, n. [seashell,] (5)

    Con 1.300 17 Each of the convolutions of the sea-shell...marks one year of the fish's life;...
    Hist 2.18 2 ...every spine and tint in the sea-shell preexists in the secreting organs of the fish.
    Pt1 3.25 21 A rhyme in one of our sonnets should not be less pleasing than the iterated nodes of a seashell...
    ET6 5.111 14 A sea-shell should be the crest of England...
    Bty 6.291 1 ...the lustres of the sea-shell begin with its existence.

sea-shells, n. (1)

    Nat 1.16 8 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them, as...sea-shells...

seashore, n. [sea-shore,] (16)

    LE 1.168 13 The man who stands on the seashore...seems to be the first man that ever stood on the shore...
    LT 1.266 15 ...when we stand by the seashore...a wave comes up the beach far higher than any foregoing one, and recedes;...
    PPh 4.55 19 The sea-shore, sea seen from shore, shore seen from sea;...this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    ET3 5.42 13 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having plain, forest, marsh, river, seashore...
    Wth 6.95 13 The world is his who has money to go over it. He arrives at the seashore and a sumptuous ship has floored and carpeted for him the stormy Atlantic...
    CbW 6.267 26 The young people do not like the town, do not like the sea-shore...
    Civ 7.21 1 ...chiefly the seashore has been the point of departure, to knowledge, as to commerce.
    Civ 7.28 18 I admire still more than the saw-mill the skill which, on the seashore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn...
    PI 8.56 27 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise...up to the thorough-base of the seashore...
    Res 8.138 27 I like the sentiment of the poor woman who, coming...for the first time to the seashore...said she was glad for once in her life to see something which there was enough of.
    Insp 8.289 7 The seashore and the taste of two metals in contact...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    HDC 11.36 22 ...standing on the seashore, [the Indians] often told of the coming of a ship at sea, sooner by one hour, yea, two hours' sail, than any Englishman that stood by, on purpose to look out.
    CL 12.140 22 We are very sensible of this [power of the air], when, in midsummer, we go to the seashore, or mountains...
    CL 12.153 22 On the seashore the play of the Atlantic with the coast! What wealth is here!
    CL 12.160 11 On the seashore, [Nature] reveals to the eye, by the sea-line, the true curve of the globe.
    Bost 12.183 4 [The old physiologists] believed the air of mountains and the seashore a potent predisposer to rebellion.

seasickness, n. (2)

    Let 12.403 24 Apathies and total want of work, and reflection on the imaginative character of American life...are like seasickness...
    Trag 12.411 9 ...a terror of freezing to death that seizes a man in a winter midnight on the moors; a fright at uncertain sounds heard by a family at night in the cellar or on the stairs...are no tragedy, any more than seasickness...

seaside, n. [sea-side,] (3)

    Elo2 8.114 9 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside...
    Res 8.150 18 Is not the seaside necessary in summer?
    Insp 8.290 15 Certain localities, as...the sea-side...are excitants of the muse.

season, n. (50)

    Nat 1.3 10 Embosomed for a season in nature...why should we grope among the dry bones of the past...
    Nat 1.9 11 ...every hour and season yields its tribute of delight;...
    LE 1.185 24 When you shall say...I must eat the good of the land and let learning and romantic expectations go, until a more convenient season;- then dies the man in you;...
    MN 1.203 16 Why should not then these messieurs of Versailles strut and plot for tabourets and ribbons, for a season...
    MR 1.252 14 An acceptance of the sentiment of love throughout Christendom for a season would bring the felon and the outcast to our side in tears...
    Con 1.300 19 Each of the convolutions of the sea-shell...marks one year of the fish's life; what was the mouth of the shell for one season...becoming an ornamental node.
    Hist 2.22 8 The nomads of Africa were constrained to wander, by the attacks of the gad-fly, which drives the cattle mad, and so compels the tribe to emigrate in the rainy season...
    Fdsp 2.198 3 ...[the soul] goes alone for a season that it may exalt its conversation or society.
    Prd1 2.229 2 ...what is more lonesome and sad than the sound of a whetstone or mower's rifle when it is too late in the season to make hay?
    Hsm1 2.249 20 Let [a man] hear in season that he is born into the state of war...
    OS 2.268 12 When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see that I am a pensioner;...
    Int 2.344 2 ...let [new doctrines] not go until their blessing be won, and after a short season the dismay will be overpast...
    Pt1 3.41 27 ...thou [O poet] must pass for a fool and a churl for a long season.
    Nat2 3.169 2 There are days which occur in this climate, at almost any season of the year, wherein the world reaches its perfection;...
    NMW 4.248 19 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains.
    ET3 5.39 11 ...at one season, the country people [of England] say, the lakes contain one part water and two parts fish.
    ET4 5.70 23 Every season turns out the [the English] aristocracy into the country to shoot and fish.
    ET11 5.177 23 [The English aristocracy] have often no residence in London, and only go thither a short time, during the season, to see the opera;...
    ET14 5.237 4 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...
    F 6.3 9 ...the subject [the Spirit of the Times] had the same prominence in some remarkable pamphlets and journals issued in London in the same season.
    F 6.37 11 [The animal] becomes torpid when the fruit or prey it lives on is not in season...
    Wth 6.114 19 ...if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he...should be wise in season and not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his days...
    Suc 7.285 4 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April, and he directed that during ten days at that season the logs should be immersed under water in the docks;...
    PI 8.58 13 [The wind] is in the field, it is in the wood,/ Without hand, without foot,/ Without age, without season/...
    SA 8.100 26 ...[there is in America the general belief that] if [the young American] have...quick eye for the opportunities which are always offering for investment, he can come to wealth, and in such good season as to enjoy as well as transmit it.
    Insp 8.267 2 That flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me.
    Insp 8.269 23 The hunter on the prairie, at the right season, has no need of choosing his ground;...
    Insp 8.282 8 ...it sometimes if rarely happens that after a season of decay or eclipse...the faculties revive to their fullest force.
    LLNE 10.357 9 [Thoreau said] I love best to have each thing in its season only...
    EzRy 10.386 20 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr. Goodwin offered to relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of leading in prayer; but the Doctor suddenly remembering the season, rejected his offer with some humor...
    MMEm 10.426 6 The mystic dream which is shed over the season.
    MMEm 10.427 1 Never do the feelings of the Infinite and the consciousness of finite frailty and ignorance harmonize so well as at this mystic season in the deserts of life.
    SlHr 10.437 3 ...this is the pregnant season, when our old Roman, Samuel Hoar, has chosen to quit this world.
    HDC 11.34 11 ...thus these poor servants of Christ provide shelter for themselves...keeping off the short showers from their lodgings, but the long rains penetrate through, to their great disturbance in the night season.
    HDC 11.34 22 ...[the pilgrims] were forced to cut their bread very thin for a long season.
    HDC 11.38 25 The little flower which at this season stars our woods and roadsides with its profuse blooms, might attract even eyes as stern as [the settlers of Concord's] with its humble beauty.
    HDC 11.39 7 As the season grew later, [the settlers of Concord] felt its inconveniences.
    HDC 11.58 12 [Simon Willard] marched from Concord to Brookfield, in season to save the people whose houses had been burned...
    War 11.170 21 The next season, an Indian war...or the party this man votes with have an appropriation to carry through Congress: instantly he wags his head the other way...
    EPro 11.318 16 Better is virtue in the sovereign than plenty in the season, say the Chinese.
    SHC 11.428 5 ...Here the green pines delight, the aspen droops/ Along the modest pathways, and those fair/ Pale asters of the season spread their plumes/ Around this field, fit garden for our tombs./
    PLT 12.14 8 ...this watching of the mind, in season and out of season...is a little of the detective.
    PLT 12.14 9 ...this watching of the mind, in season and out of season...is a little of the detective.
    II 12.84 5 [Men slow in finding their vocation] ripen too slowly than that the determination should appear in this brief life. As with our Catawbas and Isabellas at the eastward, the season is not quite long enough for them.
    CInt 12.115 16 At this season, the colleges keep their anniversaries...
    Bost 12.185 11 ...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.
    AgMs 12.360 3 I walked up and down the field, as [Edmund Hosmer] ploughed his furrow, and we talked as we walked. Our conversation naturally turned on the season and its new labors.
    EurB 12.378 19 We must...adjourn the rest of our critical chapter to a more convenient season.

seasonable, adj. (4)

    MoS 4.159 15 ...what we have, let it be solid and seasonable and our own.
    ET15 5.264 16 [TheLondon Times] has done bold and seasonable service in exposing frauds which threatened the commercial community.
    ET15 5.264 23 ...a daily paper can only be new and seasonable for a few hours.
    Clbs 7.231 6 The reply of old Isocrates comes so often to mind,--The things which are now seasonable I cannot say; and for the things which I can say it is not now the time.

Seasons [James Thomson], n. (1)

    PI 8.22 25 ...Thomson's Seasons and the best parts of many old and many new poets are simply enumerations by a person who felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds...

seasons, n. (16)

    Nat 1.28 21 ...is there no intent of an analogy between man's life and the seasons?
    Nat 1.28 22 ...do the seasons gain no grandeur or pathos from that analogy [with man's life]?
    Nat 1.71 20 ...the periods of [man's] actions externized themselves...into the year and the seasons.
    SR 2.79 27 The pupil takes the same delight in subordinating every thing to the new terminology as a girl who has just learned botany in seeing a new earth and new seasons thereby.
    Exp 3.51 14 What cheer can the religious sentiment yield, when that is suspected to be secretly dependent on the seasons of the year...
    ET18 5.300 17 Pauperism incrusts and clogs the [English] state, and in hard times becomes hideous. In bad seasons, the porridge was diluted.
    Farm 7.138 22 [The farmer] bends to the order of the seasons...
    Farm 7.138 27 He takes the pace of seasons, plants and chemistry.
    Farm 7.139 6 The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with...delays of the seasons...
    PI 8.9 8 ...[the student] observes that all things in Nature...the river, the seasons...have a mysterious relation to his thoughts and his life;...
    PI 8.26 15 Who has heard our hymn in the churches without accepting the truth,--As o'er our heads the seasons roll,/ And soothe with change of bliss the soul/?
    PI 8.50 7 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see...how rich and lavish their profusion. In their rhythm is...a vortex, or musical tornado, which, falling on words and the experience of a learned mind, whirls these materials into the same grand order as planets and moons obey, and seasons, and monsoons.
    PerF 10.82 6 ...when the soldier comes home from the fight, he fills all eyes. But the soldier has the same admiration of the great parliamentary debater. And poetry and literature are disdainful of all these claims beside their own. Like the boy who thought in turn each one of the four seasons the best...
    SMC 11.351 22 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...mixes with surrounding nature,-by day with the changing seasons, by night the stars roll over it gladly...
    CL 12.159 3 Those who persist [in walking] from year to year...and know all the good points within ten miles, with the seasons for visiting each... these we call professors.
    Milt1 12.258 8 [Milton says] In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches...

Seasons, The [James Thomso (1)

    CL 12.164 18 What is the merit of Thomson's Seasons but copying a few of the pictures out of this vast book [of Nature] into words...

sea-steamers, n. (1)

    ET5 5.85 1 [The English] put the expense in the right place, as in their sea-steamers, in the solidity of the machinery and the strength of the boat.

sea-storm, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.210 11 Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him;...

sea-stroke, n. (1)

    ET2 5.27 24 ...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, which have their own chances of squall, collision, sea-stroke, piracy, cold and thunder.

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