Shot to Sidewise

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

shot, n. (3)

    ET7 5.122 17 In February, 1848, [the English] said, Look, the French king and his party fell for want of a shot;...
    ET8 5.131 17 ...Nelson said of his sailors, They really mind shot no more than peas.
    PC 8.231 18 The great heart will no more complain of the obstructions that make success hard, than of the iron walls of the gun which hinder the shot from scattering.

shot, v. (11)

    Wth 6.105 9 If the Rothschilds at Paris do not accept bills...landlords are shot down in Ireland.
    Ill 6.309 20 We shot Bengal lights into the vaults and groins of the sparry cathedrals [in the Mammoth Cave]...
    SS 7.5 5 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such great terror of being shot...
    Farm 7.147 21 The roots that shot deepest, and the stems of happiest exposure, drew the nourishment from the rest...
    WD 7.184 27 Apollo stretched his bow and shot his arrow into the extreme west.
    OA 7.323 23 ...it will not add a pang to the prisoner marched out to be shot, to assure him that the pain in his knee threatens mortification.
    Dem1 10.14 26 The augur showed [Masollam] a bird, and told him, If that bird remained where he was, it would be better for them all to remain; if he flew on, they might proceed; but if he flew back, they must return. The Jew said nothing, but bent his bow and shot the bird to the ground.
    HDC 11.58 27 A still more formidable enemy [of Concord] was removed... by the capture of Canonchet, the faithful ally of Philip, who was soon afterwards shot at Stonington.
    HDC 11.60 25 ...his brother, his uncle, his sister, and his beloved squaw being taken or slain, [King Philip] was at last shot down by an Indian deserter...
    FSLC 11.187 27 ...[resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law] is befriending... on our own farms, a man who has taken the risk of being shot...to get away from his driver...
    HCom 11.344 16 One mother said, when her son was offered the command of the first negro regiment, If he accepts it, I shall be as proud as if I had heard that he was shot.

shots, n. (1)

    HDC 11.74 14 ...the British fired one or two shots up the river...

should, n. (1)

    II 12.88 13 The old Greek was respectable...who found the genius of tragedy in the conflict between Destiny and the strong should...

shoulder, n. (12)

    LT 1.283 17 [If poets were ravished by their thought] Society could then manage to release their shoulder from its wheel...
    SR 2.57 2 ...why should you keep your head over your shoulder?
    ET5 5.89 27 To show capacity, A Frenchman described as the end of a speech in debate: No, said an Englishman, but to set your shoulder at the wheel...
    F 6.45 10 ...a hump in the shoulder will appear in the speech and handiwork.
    Wth 6.122 19 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...a sunset every day, bathing the shoulder of Blue Hills...
    Bty 6.299 7 Portrait painters say that most faces and forms are irregular and unsymmetrical;...the nose not straight, and one shoulder higher than another;...
    Farm 7.146 9 Water...sets its irresistible shoulder to your mills or your ships...
    OA 7.323 18 When the old wife says, Take care of that tumor in your shoulder, perhaps it is cancerous,--[the man of sixty] replies, I am yielding to a surer decomposition.
    FSLC 11.208 9 We shall one day bring the States shoulder to shoulder and the citizens man to man to exterminate slavery.
    FSLC 11.208 10 We shall one day bring the States shoulder to shoulder and the citizens man to man to exterminate slavery.
    AsSu 11.249 17 [Charles Sumner] meekly bore the cold shoulder from some of his New England colleagues...
    Milt1 12.264 10 His mind gave him, [Milton] said, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath of chastity, ought to be born a knight; nor needed to expect the gilt spur, the laying of a sword upon his shoulder, to stir him up, by his counsel and his arm, to secure and protect attempted innocence.

shoulder, v. (1)

    AmS 1.101 8 ...[the scholar] must betray often an ignorance and shiftlessness in popular arts, incurring the disdain of the able who shoulder him aside.

shoulders, n. (17)

    AmS 1.107 8 [The poor and the low] cast the dignity of man from their downtrod selves upon the shoulders of a hero...
    Mrs1 3.146 11 ...there is still...some youth ashamed of the favors of fortune and impatiently casting them on other shoulders.
    UGM 4.15 16 [The people] delight in a man. Here is a head and a trunk! What a front! what eyes! Atlantean shoulders...
    SwM 4.108 13 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over...into a ball, and forms the skull, with extremities again...the fingers and toes being represented this time by upper and lower teeth. This new spine is destined to high uses. It is a new man on the shoulders of the last.
    ET4 5.46 27 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit.
    ET18 5.305 21 These poor tortoises [the English] must hold hard, for they feel no wings sprouting at their shoulders.
    Wsp 6.240 5 The weight of the universe is pressed down on the shoulders of each moral agent to hold him to his task.
    Bty 6.305 20 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders;...
    SS 7.5 14 [My friend]...walked miles and miles to get...the starts and shrugs out of his arms and shoulders.
    Elo1 7.71 23 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear child, who is that man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks broader in his shoulders and breast.
    Elo1 7.72 11 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] mixed with the assembled Trojans, and stood, the broad shoulders of Menelaus rose above the other;...
    DL 7.104 22 Mistrusting the cunning of his small legs, [the young American] wishes to ride on the necks and shoulders of all flesh.
    DL 7.105 1 On the strongest shoulders [the child] rides...
    OA 7.316 25 Nature...now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then a young heart beating under fourscore winters.
    SovE 10.182 3 Thou shalt not try/ To plant thy shrivelled pedantry/ On the shoulders of the sky./
    SovE 10.193 7 All the tyrants and proprietors and monopolists of the world in vain set their shoulders to heave the bar [of Divine justice].
    Milt1 12.274 14 [Milton] beholds [man] as he walked in Eden:-His fair large front and eye sublime declared/ Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks/ Round from his parted forelock manly hung/ Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad./

shout, n. (1)

    Cour 7.275 25 Scholars and thinkers...shrink if a coarser shout comes up from the street...

shouted, v. (1)

    Let 12.400 21 It is heartrending to see your [German] poet, your artist, and all who still revere genius, who love and foster the Beautiful. The Good! They...are like the patient Ulysses whilst he sat in the guise of a beggar at his own door, whilst shameless rioters shouted in the hall...

shouting, adj. (1)

    SA 8.87 1 It seems to require several generations of education to train a squeaking or a shouting habit out of a man.

shouting, v. (1)

    Exp 3.80 20 How long before our masquerade will end its noise of tambourines, laughter and shouting...

shouts, n. (2)

    UGM 4.15 13 Under this head [of the effects of friendship]...falls that homage...which all ranks pay to the hero of the day, from Coriolanus and Gracchus down to...Lamartine. Hear the shouts in the street!
    Prch 10.231 26 ...it is impossible to pay no regard...to the stirring shouts of parties...

shove, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.184 8 It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.

shove, v. (3)

    Nat2 3.185 6 ...to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way;...
    Art2 7.49 10 So much as we can shove aside our egotism...and bring the omniscience of reason upon the subject before us, so perfect is the work [of art].
    EdAd 11.382 18 ...[the elements] shove us from them, yield to us/ Only what to our griping toil is due;/...

shoved, v. (2)

    ET2 5.29 6 Nobody likes to be treated ignominiously, upset, shoved against the side of the house...
    JBB 11.266 22 ...Old Brown,/ Osawatomie Brown,/ Said, Boys, the Lord will aid us! and he shoved his ramrod down./ Edmund Clarence Stedman, John Brown.

shovel, n. (2)

    Pow 6.72 20 ...[Michel Angelo] went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow...
    JBS 11.278 9 ...in Pennsylvania...[John Brown] fell in with a boy...whom he looked upon as his superior. This boy was a slave; he saw him beaten with an iron shovel...

shovel, v. (2)

    Nat 1.14 10 [The private poor man] sets his house upon the road, and the human race go forth every morning, and shovel out the snow, and cut a path for him.
    FSLC 11.210 7 Let [the United States] confront this mountain of poison [slavery],-bore, blast, excavate, pulverize, and shovel it once for all, down into the bottomless Pit.

shovel-handed, adj. (1)

    CbW 6.249 16 I do not wish any mass at all...no shovel-handed, narrow-brained, gin-drinking million stockingers or lazzaroni at all.

shoves, v. (1)

    SR 2.69 22 This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that... shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.

shoving, v. (1)

    Con 1.305 5 ...you cannot...put out the boat to sea without shoving from the shore...

show, n. (32)

    DSA 1.147 22 There are...persons...to whom all we call art and artist, seems too nearly allied to show and by-ends...
    LE 1.167 20 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature...yet the naturalist of this hour finds that he knows nothing, by all their poems, of any of these fine things; that he has conversed with the mere surface and show of them all;...
    YA 1.394 10 ...in England...no man of letters, be his eminence what it may, is received into the best society, except as a lion and a show.
    Hsm1 2.254 11 ...hospitality must be for service, and not for show...
    Hsm1 2.255 25 ...these rare [heroic] souls set opinion, success, and life at so cheap a rate that they will not soothe their enemies by...the show of sorrow...
    Pt1 3.3 14 [The umpires of tastes'] knowledge of the fine arts is...some limited judgment of color or form, which is exercised for amusement or for show.
    UGM 4.16 20 These [new fields of activity] are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show.
    ET7 5.119 2 [The English]...do not easily learn to make a show...
    ET11 5.190 27 Of course there is another side to this gorgeous show [of English aristocracy].
    Ctr 6.133 8 [Egotists] like sickness, because physical pain will extort some show of interest from the bystanders...
    Ctr 6.153 12 [The countryman in the city] has come among a supple, glib-tongued tribe, who live for show...
    Bhr 6.191 18 ...when [a man] opens [his thought] for show, it corrupts him.
    Wsp 6.223 14 If you spend for show...it will so appear.
    Bty 6.291 21 In the midst of a military show and a festal procession gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan that lay rusting under a wall, and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.
    Ill 6.314 6 Amid the joyous troop who give in to the charivari, comes now and then a sad-eyed boy whose eyes lack the requisite refractions to clothe the show in due glory...
    Elo1 7.99 15 If [eloquence]...aspires to be somewhat of itself, and to glitter for show, it is false and weak.
    Elo1 7.100 1 [Eloquence's] great masters...never permitted any talent...to appear for show;...
    Suc 7.290 23 We countenance each other in this life of show...
    PC 8.230 2 Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show.
    Aris 10.56 2 I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this ambient cloud. ... They seem to have arrived at the fact, to have got rid of the show, and to be serene.
    Edc1 10.138 23 I like...boys...putting nobody on his guard, but seeing the inside of the show...
    SovE 10.185 15 A thought is embosomed in a sentiment, and the attempt to detach and blazon the thought is like a show of cut flowers.
    Schr 10.272 4 The scholar has a deep ideal interest in the moving show around him.
    LLNE 10.337 14 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature, dragging down every sacred secret to a street show.
    SlHr 10.440 14 [Samuel Hoar] was open-handed to...every public claim that had any show of reason in it.
    Carl 10.495 5 [Carlyle] is eaten up with indignation against such as desire to make a fair show in the flesh.
    War 11.154 17 ...[war] is exhibited to us continually in the dumb show of brute nature...
    FSLN 11.231 8 [Reasonable men] side with Carolina, or with Arkansas, only to make a show of Whig strength...
    PLT 12.54 15 The tree or the brook has...no show.
    PLT 12.58 19 ...[each talent] works for show and for the shop...
    CInt 12.123 19 Falsehood begins as soon as [talent] disobeys, it works for show, and for the shop...
    Bost 12.205 11 [The people of Massachusetts] accepted the divine ordination that man is for use;...and that his ruin is to live for pleasure and for show.

show, v. (217)

    Nat 1.65 16 ...[the landscape] may show us what discord is between man and nature...
    Nat 1.67 19 I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details, so long as there is...no ray...to show the relation of the forms of flowers, shells, animals, architecture, to the mind...
    AmS 1.111 18 The meal in the firkin;...the form and the gait of the body; - show me the ultimate reason of these matters;...
    AmS 1.111 19 ...show me the sublime presence of the highest spiritual cause lurking...in these suburbs and extremities of nature;...
    DSA 1.144 17 It is the office of a true teacher to show us that God is, not was;...
    DSA 1.151 21 I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those shining laws that he...shall show that the Ought, that Duty, is one thing with Science...
    LE 1.184 2 Show frankly as a saint would do, your experience, methods, tools, and means.
    LE 1.186 10 Bend to the persuasion which is flowing to you from every object in nature...to show the besotted world how passing fair is wisdom.
    MN 1.204 21 There is the incoming or the receding of God: that is all we can affirm; and we can show neither how nor why.
    Con 1.306 17 ...[the youth] says, If I am born in the earth...have the goodness, gentlemen of this world, to show me my wood-lot, where I may fell my wood...
    Con 1.308 5 ...you must show me a warrant like these stubborn facts in your own fidelity and labor...
    Con 1.308 20 I cannot occupy the bleakest crag of the White Hills or the Alleghany Range, but some man or corporation steps up to me to show me that it is his.
    Tran 1.331 16 ...how easy it is to show [the materialist] that he also is a phantom walking and working amid phantoms...
    Tran 1.351 1 We [Transcendentalists] perish of rest and rust: but we do not like your work. Then, says the world, show me your own.
    Tran 1.353 22 ...the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, really show very little relation to each other;...
    Tran 1.357 17 ...all these [Transcendentalists] of whom I speak...are novices; they only show the road in which man should travel...
    YA 1.375 19 Fathers...behold with impatience a new character and way of thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter.
    Hist 2.40 2 What connection do the books show between the fifty or sixty chemical elements and the historical eras?
    SR 2.52 3 Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company.
    SL 2.138 22 A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events;...
    SL 2.146 14 Men feel and act the consequences of your doctrine without being able to show how they follow.
    SL 2.146 15 Show us an arc of the curve, and a good mathematician will find out the whole figure.
    SL 2.155 17 [The things the great man did] are the demonstrations in a few particulars of the genius of nature; they show the direction of the stream.
    SL 2.156 4 If you act you show character;...
    SL 2.156 5 ...if you sleep, you show [character].
    Fdsp 2.203 20 No man would think...of putting [a man I knew] off with any chat of markets or reading-rooms. But every man was constrained by so much sincerity to the like plaindealing, and...what symbol of truth he had, he did certainly show him.
    Fdsp 2.213 24 [By persisting in your path] You...draw to you...those rare pilgrims...before whom the vulgar great show as spectres and shadows merely.
    Prd1 2.237 7 ...treat [men] greatly and they will show themselves great...
    Prd1 2.239 22 The thought...[in dispute]...does not show itself proportioned and in its true bearings...
    OS 2.270 16 All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ...
    OS 2.290 10 The ambitious vulgar show you their spoons and brooches and rings...
    Pt1 3.35 12 The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid...
    Mrs1 3.126 23 Fine manners show themselves formidable to the uncultivated man.
    Mrs1 3.132 18 We are such lovers of self-reliance that we excuse in a man many sins if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position...
    Mrs1 3.142 11 A tradesman who had long dunned [Charles James Fox] for a note of three hundred guineas, found him one day counting gold, and demanded payment. No, said Fox, I owe this money to Sheridan; it is a debt of honor; if an accident should happen to me, he has nothing to show.
    Mrs1 3.147 6 ...as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth/ In form and shape compact and beautiful;/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads/...
    Mrs1 3.150 16 ...I confide so entirely in [woman's] inspiring and musical nature, that I believe only herself can show us how she shall be served.
    Mrs1 3.152 9 ...the bias of [Lilla's] nature was not to thought, but to sympathy, yet was she so perfect in her own nature as to meet intellectual persons by the fulness of her heart, warming them by her sentiments; believing...that by dealing nobly with all, all would show themselves noble.
    Nat2 3.179 5 Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where our spoons are gone);...
    Nat2 3.184 11 Once heave the ball from the hand, and we can show how all this mighty order grew.
    Pol1 3.217 21 It is because we know how much is due from us that we are impatient to show some petty talent as a substitute for worth.
    NR 3.232 10 The Eleusinian mysteries...the Greek sculpture, show that there always were seeing and knowing men in the planet.
    NR 3.235 9 All things show us that on every side we are very near to the best.
    NR 3.248 11 ...I endeavored to show my good men that I liked everything by turns and nothing long;...
    NER 3.266 20 The world is awaking to the idea of union, and these experiments [of association] show what it is thinking of.
    NER 3.271 9 It would be easy to show...that we are not so wedded to our paltry performances of every kind but that every man has at intervals the grace to scorn his performances, in comparing them with his belief of what he should do;...
    NER 3.274 25 Caesar, just before the battle of Pharsalia...offers to quit the army, the empire, and Cleopatra, if [the Egyptian priest] will show him those mysterious sources [of the Nile].
    NER 3.276 17 ...if the secret oracles whose whisper makes the sweetness and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and accompany him no longer,--it is time...with Caesar to take in his hand the army, the empire and Cleopatra, and say, All these will I relinquish, if you will show me the fountains of the Nile.
    PPh 4.56 5 Thought seeks to know unity in unity; poetry to show it by variety;...
    SwM 4.137 25 One man, you say, dreads erysipelas,--show him that this dread is evil...
    SwM 4.137 26 ...one [man] dreads hell,--show him that dread is evil.
    MoS 4.170 16 A book or statement which goes to show that there is no line...dispirits us.
    ShP 4.198 23 Show us the constituency, and the now invisible channels by which the senator is made aware of their wishes;...
    ShP 4.218 3 As long as the question is of talent and mental power, the world of men has not [Shakespeare's] equal to show.
    NMW 4.252 5 In intervals of leisure...Napoleon appears as a man of genius directing on abstract questions...the impatience of words he was wont to show in war.
    GoW 4.267 2 Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
    ET1 5.9 9 One room was full of pictures, which [Landor] likes to show...
    ET1 5.24 6 ...[Wordsworth] said he wished to show me what a common person in England could do...
    ET1 5.24 11 [Wordsworth] then said he would show me a better way towards the inn;...
    ET2 5.26 14 ...the captain affirmed that the ship would show us in time all her paces...
    ET3 5.40 21 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London.
    ET5 5.89 25 To show capacity, A Frenchman described as the end of a speech in debate...
    ET8 5.129 1 ...a kind of pride in bad public speaking is noted in the House of Commons, as if they were willing to show that they did not live by their tongues...
    ET8 5.130 6 ...these [lower] classes are the right English stock, and may fairly show the national qualities...
    ET8 5.141 16 Does the early history of each tribe show the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters?
    ET10 5.153 9 A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls;--if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?
    ET11 5.174 26 The things these English have done were not done...without wisdom and conduct; and the first hands...were often challenged to show their right to their honors...
    ET11 5.178 3 ...some curious examples are cited to show the stability of English families.
    ET11 5.191 8 Grammont, Pepys and Evelyn show the kennels to which the king and court went in quest of pleasure.
    ET12 5.209 9 ...so eminent are the members that a glance at the calendars will show that in all the world one cannot be in better company than on the books of one of the larger Oxford or Cambridge colleges.
    ET13 5.215 14 ...plainly there has been great power of sentiment at work in this island [England], of which these [religious] buildings are the proofs; as volcanic basalts show the work of fire which has been extinguished for ages.
    ET13 5.217 19 The English Church has many certificates to show of humble effective service in humanizing the people...
    ET13 5.222 18 [The English] talk with courage and logic, and show you magnificent results...
    ET14 5.258 4 The best office of the best poets has been to show how low and uninspired was their general style...
    ET15 5.266 4 Our entertainer [at the London Times] confided us to a courteous assistant to show us the establishment...
    ET15 5.272 11 If only [the London Times] dared...to show the right to be the only expedient...
    ET16 5.280 2 The Acta Sanctorum show plainly that the men of those times believed in God...
    ET16 5.280 24 I engaged the local antiquary, Mr. Brown, to go with us [Emerson and Carlyle] to Stonehenge...and show us what he knew of the astronomical and sacrificial stones.
    ET16 5.282 14 This cup or little boat, in which the magnet was made to float on water and so show the north, was probably [the compass's] first form...
    F 6.19 7 These [laws of repression]...show a kind of mechanical exactness... in what we call casual...events.
    F 6.21 21 ...we must...show the natural bounds or essential distinctions...
    F 6.24 9 Let [man]...show his lordship by manners and deeds on the scale of nature.
    F 6.26 16 The world of men show like a comedy without laughter...
    F 6.29 15 Does the reading of history make us fatalists? What courage does not the opposite opinion show!
    F 6.46 1 If the threads are there, thought can follow and show them.
    Pow 6.78 2 Basil Hall likes to show that the worst regular troops will beat the best volunteers.
    Wth 6.104 4 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the soundness of banks will show it;...
    Wth 6.119 27 Nor is any investment so permanent that it can be allowed to remain without incessant watching, as the history of each attempt to lock up an inheritance through two generations for an unborn inheritor may show.
    Wth 6.120 27 The rule is...to learn practically the secret...that things...will show to the watchful their own law.
    Ctr 6.136 17 The causes to which we have sacrificed...would show like roots of bitterness...
    Ctr 6.144 15 One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
    Ctr 6.149 14 Boys and girls who have been brought up with well-informed and superior people show in their manners an inestimable grace.
    Ctr 6.161 12 ...a wise man who knows not only what Plato, but what Saint John can show him, can easily raise the affair he deals with to a certain majesty.
    Ctr 6.165 10 The fossil strata show us that Nature began with rudimental forms and rose to the more complex as fast as the earth was fit for their dwelling-place;...
    Bhr 6.180 5 If the man is off his centre, his eyes show it.
    Bhr 6.182 5 Beware you don't laugh, said the wise mother, for then you show all your faults.
    Bhr 6.195 27 [Beautiful manners] must always show self-control;...
    Bhr 6.196 14 Every hour will show a duty as paramount as that of my whim just now...
    Wsp 6.206 18 What Gothic mixtures the Christian creed drew from the pagan sources, Richard of Devizes' chronicle of Richard I.'s crusade, in the twelfth century, may show.
    Wsp 6.211 18 ...the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one;...
    Wsp 6.221 22 Let me show [the reader] that the dice are loaded;...
    Wsp 6.234 26 [Benedict said] My ledger may show that I am in debt...
    CbW 6.268 27 When joy or calamity or genius shall show [the youth his purpose], then woods, then farms...will mirror back to him its unfathomable heaven...
    CbW 6.271 13 ...if one comes who can...show [men] their native riches...he wakes in them the feeling of worth...
    Bty 6.281 22 ...the skin or skeleton you show me is no more a heron than a heap of ashes or a bottle of gases into which his body has been reduced, is Dante or Washington.
    Bty 6.291 6 ...our taste in building...allows the real supporters of the house honestly to show themselves.
    Ill 6.318 14 Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals.
    Ill 6.321 7 We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid condition...pots to buy, butcher's meat, sugar, milk and coal. Set me some great task, ye gods! and I will show my spirit.
    Art2 7.55 7 It would be easy to show of many fine things in the world...the origin in quite simple local necessities.
    Elo1 7.70 11 The pictures we have of [eloquence] in semi-barbarous ages... show what it aims at.
    Elo1 7.82 22 ...[Columbus] can say nothing to one party or to the other, but he can show how all Europe can be diminished and reduced under the king, by annexing to Spain a continent as large as six or seven Europes.
    DL 7.110 26 [The citizen's] house ought to show us his honest opinion of what makes his well-being when he rests among his kindred...
    DL 7.133 18 He who shall bravely and gracefully...show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages;...will restore the life of man to splendor...
    WD 7.164 10 Many facts concur to show that we must look deeper for our salvation than to steam, photographs, balloons or astronomy.
    WD 7.164 20 A man builds a fine house; and now he has...a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it...the rest of his days.
    WD 7.166 21 Every [inventor] has more to hide than he has to show...
    WD 7.180 1 These passing fifteen minutes, men think...are...the way to or the way from welfare, but not welfare. Can he show their tie?
    Boks 7.217 10 ...this passion for romance, and this disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry...
    Boks 7.217 12 ...this passion for romance, and this disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry: that which shall show us...the analogons of our own thoughts...
    Cour 7.255 27 I need not show how much [courage] is esteemed...
    Suc 7.289 8 Rien ne reussit mieux que le succes. And we Americans are tainted with this insanity, as our...reckless politics may show.
    Suc 7.295 1 ...a few years will show the advantage of the real master over the short popularity of the showman.
    OA 7.313 11 I care not if the pomps [clouds] show/ Be what they soothfast appear,/ Or if yon realms in sunset glow/ Be bubbles of the atmosphere./
    OA 7.328 24 ...the young man's year is a heap of beginnings. At the end of a twelvemonth, he has nothing to show for it...
    PI 8.5 21 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...
    PI 8.25 8 When people tell me they do not relish poetry, and bring me Shelley...to show that it has no charm, I am quite of their mind.
    PI 8.26 5 ...a cow does not...show or affect any interest in the landscape...
    PI 8.31 9 ...skates allow the good skater far more grace than his best walking would show...
    PI 8.46 5 The universality of this taste [for rhyme] is proved by our habit of casting our facts into rhyme to remember them better, as so many proverbs may show.
    PI 8.48 23 Omen and coincidence show the rhythmical structure of man;...
    PI 8.66 8 Show me, said Sarona in the novel, one wicked man who has written poetry, and I will show you where his poetry is not poetry;...
    PI 8.66 10 Show me, said Sarona in the novel, one wicked man who has written poetry, and I will show you where his poetry is not poetry;...
    PI 8.66 11 Show me, said Sarona in the novel, one wicked man who has written poetry, and...I will show you in his poetry no poetry at all.
    SA 8.82 18 It is a commonplace of romances to show the ungainly manners of the pedant who has lived too long in college.
    Elo2 8.113 23 [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 driving cattle to the hills...
    Elo2 8.130 26 If [the eloquent man] does not know your fact, he will show that it is not worth the knowing.
    PC 8.212 21 The oldest empires...now that we have true measures of duration [in Geology], show like creations of yesterday.
    PC 8.213 16 ...we have not on the instant better men to show than Plutarch' s heroes.
    PC 8.223 7 There is no use in Copernicus if the robust periodicity of the solar system does not show its equal perfection in the mental sphere...
    Imtl 8.321 2 Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know/ What rainbows teach, and sunsets show?/
    Dem1 10.5 15 The very landscape and scenery in a dream seem...like a coat or cloak of some other person to overlap and encumber the wearer;...and if it served no other purpose would show us how accurately Nature fits man awake.
    Dem1 10.13 15 I am content and occupied with such miracles as I know, such as my eyes and ears daily show me...
    Dem1 10.16 19 In the popular belief, ghosts are a selecting tribe, avoiding millions, speaking to one. In our traditions, fairies, angels and saints show the like favoritism;...
    Aris 10.59 9 ...we can only indicate [grand interests] to show how high is the range of the realm of Honor.
    Aris 10.64 20 ...affairs themselves show the way in which they should be handled;...
    PerF 10.69 17 Art is long, and life short, and [a man] must supply this disproportion by borrowing and applying to his task the energies of Nature. Reinforce his self-respect, show him his means...
    PerF 10.69 19 Show [a man] the riches of the poor...
    PerF 10.69 19 ...show [a man] what mighty allies and helpers he has.
    Chr2 10.91 14 Surely it is not to prove or show the truth of things...no, it is for benefit, that all subsists.
    Edc1 10.155 26 ...as [the naturalist] is still immovable, [the creatures of nature]...show themselves to him in their work-day trim...
    Edc1 10.158 10 If a child [in the school] happens to show that he knows any fact about astronomy...that interests him and you, hush all the classes and encourage him to tell it so that all may hear.
    Supl 10.178 9 The political economist defies us to show any gold-mine country that is traversed by good roads...
    SovE 10.184 10 ...all the animals show the same good sense in their humble walk that the man who is their enemy or friend does;...
    SovE 10.199 11 It is the sturdiest prejudice in the public mind that religion is...a department...to which the tests and judgment men are ready enough to show on other things, do not apply.
    MoL 10.244 21 In Puritanism, how the whole Jewish history became flesh and blood in those men, let Bunyan show.
    MoL 10.247 9 The worst times only show [the scholar] how independent he is of times;...
    MoL 10.255 17 It is not enough that the work [of art] should show a skilful hand...
    Schr 10.272 18 ...the quality and essence of the universe is in [Union Pacific stock] also. Have we less interest...in any relation of life or custom of society? The scholar is to show, in each, identity and connexion;...
    Schr 10.272 19 ...the quality and essence of the universe is in [Union Pacific stock] also. Have we less interest...in any relation of life or custom of society? The scholar is to show, in each, identity and connexion; he is to show its origin in the brain of man...
    Schr 10.273 1 ...the allusions just now made to the extent of [the scholar's] duties...may show that his place is no sinecure.
    Schr 10.281 5 We have seen to weariness what you [idealists] cannot do; now show us what you can and will do, asks the practical man...
    Plu 10.321 10 I hope the Commission of the Philological Society in London...will not overlook these volumes [the 1718 edition of Plutarch], which show the wealth of their tongue to greater advantage than many books of more renown as models.
    LLNE 10.323 3 Of old things all are over old,/ Of good things none are good enough;-/ We 'll show that we can help to frame/ A world of other stuff./ Rob Roy's Grave. Wordsworth.
    LLNE 10.369 22 I please myself with the thought that our American mind... is beginning to show a quiet power...
    EzRy 10.389 27 ...[Ezra Ripley] repeated to me at table some of the particulars of that gentleman's [Jack Downing's] intimacy with General Jackson, in a manner which betrayed to me at once that he took the whole for fact. To undeceive him, I hastened to recall some particulars to show the absurdity of the thing...
    Thor 10.470 27 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of the night-warbler, a bird he had never identified...the only bird which sings indifferently by night and by day. I told him he must beware of finding and booking it, lest life should have nothing more to show him.
    Thor 10.483 10 Nature made ferns for pure leaves, to show what she could do in that line.
    Carl 10.492 25 If you boast of the growth of the country, and show [Carlyle] the wonderful results of the census, he finds nothing so depressing as the sight of a great mob.
    LS 11.4 20 I allude to these facts only to show that, so far from the [Lord's] Supper being a tradition in which men are fully agreed, there has always been the widest room for difference of opinion upon this particular.
    LS 11.14 9 To make [his friends'] enormity plainer, [St. Paul] goes back to the origin of this religious feast [the Lord's Supper] to show what sort of feast that was...
    LS 11.22 2 ...although for the satisfaction of others I have labored to show by the history that this rite [the Lord's Supper] was not intended to be perpetual; although I have gone back to weigh the expressions of Paul, I feel that here is the true point of view.
    HDC 11.79 27 The Town Records show how slowly the inhabitants [of Concord] recovered from the strain of excessive exertion [during the Revolution].
    LVB 11.95 20 I will at least...show you [Van Buren] how plain and humane people...regard the policy of the government...
    EWI 11.101 16 If the Virginian piques himself...on the heavy Ethiopian manners of his house-servants...I shall not refuse to show him that when their free-papers are made out, it will still be their interest to remain on his estate...
    EWI 11.102 1 In the oldest temples of Egypt, negro captives are painted on the tombs of kings, in such attitudes as to show that they are on the point of being executed;...
    EWI 11.109 16 These debates [on West Indian slavery] are instructive, as they show on what grounds the trade was assailed and defended.
    War 11.151 10 Looked at in this general and historical way, many things wear a very different face from that they show near by, and one at a time...
    War 11.154 7 [Alexander's conquest of the East] brought different families of the human race together,-to blows at first, but afterwards to truce, to trade, and to intermarriage. It would be very easy to show analogous benefits that have resulted from military movements of later ages.
    War 11.165 18 The standing army, the arsenal, the camp and the gibbet do not appertain to man. They only serve as an index to show where man is now;...
    FSLC 11.214 2 ...there is sufficient margin in the statute and the law for the spirit of the Magistrate to show itself...
    FSLN 11.220 9 I saw plainly that the great show their legitimate power in nothing more than in their power to misguide us.
    FSLN 11.234 16 These things show that no forms...are of any use in themselves.
    FSLN 11.243 21 [Robert Winthrop] denounced every name and aspect under which liberty and progress dare show themselves in this age and country...
    AKan 11.256 12 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated? Does their dismal catalogue of private tragedies show it?
    JBS 11.280 4 ...the anecdotes preserved [of John Brown] show a far-seeing skill and conduct...
    EPro 11.321 17 With this blot [slavery] removed from our national honor... we shall not fear henceforward to show our faces among mankind.
    EPro 11.321 23 What if the brokers' quotations show our stocks discredited...
    ALin 11.336 25 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web... that Heaven, wishing to show the world a completed benefactor, shall make [Lincoln] serve his country even more by his death than by his life?
    HCom 11.344 24 ...in how many cases it chanced, when the hero had fallen, they who came by night to his funeral, on the morrow returned to the war-path to show his slayers the way to death!
    EdAd 11.390 18 Let [a journal] now show its astuteness by dodging each difficult question...
    SHC 11.429 8 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together, to show you the ground...
    Humb 11.457 4 Humboldt was one of those wonders of the world...who appear from time to time, as if to show us the possibilities of the human mind...
    FRep 11.525 10 ...any disturbances in politics...sober [the American people], and instantly show more virtue and conviction in the popular vote.
    PLT 12.15 12 Thirdly...I...attempt to show the relation of men of thought to the existing religion and civility of the present time.
    PLT 12.34 19 ...though [instinct] does not show objects, yet it shows the way.
    PLT 12.57 2 If a man show cleverness...people clap their hands without asking more.
    CInt 12.114 2 ...[Archimedes] was willing to show [the king] that he was quite able in rude matters, if he could condescend to them...
    CL 12.166 5 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems.
    CW 12.171 19 ...I have a problem long waiting for an engineer,-this-to what height I must build a tower in my garden that shall show me the Atlantic Ocean from its top-the ocean twenty miles away.
    CW 12.173 11 Here [in the Academy Garden] I [Linnaeus] admire the wisdom of the Supreme Artist, disclosing Himself by proofs of every kind, and show them to others.
    CW 12.175 7 ...a common spy-glass...will show the satellites of Jupiter...
    CW 12.175 10 ...a common spy-glass...turned on the Pleiades, or Seven Stars, in which most eyes can only count six,-will show many more...
    CW 12.175 11 ...a common spy-glass...turned on the Pleiades, or Seven Stars, in which most eyes can only count six,-will show many more,-a telescope in an observatory will show two hundred.
    Bost 12.198 2 We can show [in New England] native examples...who possess all the elements of noble behavior.
    MAng1 12.217 8 ...we shall endeavor by sketches from [Michelangelo's] life to show the direction and limitations of his search after this element [Beauty].
    MAng1 12.242 16 Michael [Angelo] admonishes [Vasari]...that we ought not to show that joy when a child is born, which should be reserved for the death of one who has lived well.
    Milt1 12.259 3 ...as far as possible [writes Milton], I aim to show myself equal in thought and speech to what I have written, if I have written anything well.
    Milt1 12.264 13 [Milton] states these things, he says, to show that...a certain reservedness of natural disposition and moral discipline...was enough to keep him in disdain of far less incontinences that these that had been charged on him.
    Milt1 12.276 15 Like prophets, [Homer and Shakespeare] seem but imperfectly aware of the import of their own utterances. We hesitate to say such things, and say them only to the unpleasing dualism, when the man and the poet show like a double consciousness.
    MLit 12.313 15 Accustomed always to behold the presence of the universe in every part, the soul will not condescend to look at any new part as a stranger, but saith,-I know all already and what art thou? Show me thy relations to me, to all, and I will entertain thee also.
    Pray 12.353 9 These duties are not the life, but the means which enable us to show forth the life.
    Pray 12.354 16 That my weak hand may equal my firm faith,/ And my life practise more than my tongue saith;/ That my low conduct may not show,/ Nor my relenting lines,/ That I thy purpose did not know,/ Or overrated thy designs./
    Pray 12.355 15 Wilt thou give me strength to persevere in this great work of redemption. Wilt thou show me the true means of accomplishing it.
    EurB 12.368 19 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored. There was not the least attempt...to show...that although London was the home for men of great parts, yet Westmoreland had these consolations for such as fate had condemned to the country life...
    Let 12.397 3 The loneliest man, after twenty years, discovers that he stood in a circle of friends, who will then show like a close fraternity held by some masonic tie.
    Trag 12.409 8 A low, haggard sprite sits by our side...a power of the imagination to dislocate things orderly and cheerful and show them in startling array.
    Trag 12.413 5 When two strangers meet in the highway, what each demands of the other is that the aspect should show a firm mind...

showed, v. (63)

    AmS 1.113 1 ...[Swedenborg] saw and showed the connection between nature and the affections of the soul.
    AmS 1.113 7 ...[Swedenborg] showed the mysterious bond that allies moral evil to the foul material forms...
    Hist 2.19 5 I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove.
    Exp 3.71 17 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries of its profound beauty and repose, as if the clouds that covered it parted at intervals, and showed the approaching traveller the inland mountains...
    PPh 4.72 5 ...[Socrates] showed one who was afraid to go on foot to Olympia, that it was no more than his daily walk within doors, if continuously extended, would easily reach.
    SwM 4.122 21 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which...showed him through what a long ancestry his thoughts descend;...
    SwM 4.122 22 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him...into society, and showed by what affinities he was girt to his equals and his counterparts;...
    SwM 4.122 24 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him...into natural objects, and showed their origin and meaning...
    NMW 4.226 13 It struck Dumont that he could fit [Mirabeau's speech] with a peroration, which he wrote in pencil immediately, and showed it to Lord Elgin...
    NMW 4.226 15 ...Dumont, in the evening, showed [his peroration] to Mirabeau.
    NMW 4.247 3 We can not...sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon], who...showed us how much may be accomplished by the mere force of such virtues as all men possess in less degrees;...
    GoW 4.273 23 [Goethe]...showed that the dulness and prose we ascribe to the age was only another of [Proteus's] masks...
    GoW 4.274 6 ...in the solidest kingdom of routine and the senses, [Goethe] showed the lurking daemonic power;...
    ET1 5.14 2 Going out, [Coleridge] showed me in the next apartment, a picture of Allston's...
    ET1 5.22 3 [Wordsworth] led me out into his garden, and showed me the gravel walk in which thousands of his lines were composed.
    ET4 5.61 6 ...decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves [the Normans], who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal...
    ET5 5.90 23 Private persons [in England] exhibit...the same pertinacity as the nation showed in the coalitions in which it yoked Europe against the empire of Bonaparte...
    ET12 5.199 17 My new friends [at Oxford] showed me their cloisters...
    ET12 5.203 8 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me the manuscript Plato...
    ET14 5.248 19 Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon, without finding Newton indebted to him, and thinks it a mistake. Bacon occupies it... as an effect of the same cause which showed itself more pronounced afterwards in Hooke, Boyle and Halley.
    ET17 5.293 18 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days, one at Kew, where Sir William Hooker showed me all the riches of the vast botanic garden;...
    ET17 5.297 9 A gentleman in London showed me a watch that once belonged to Milton...
    ET17 5.297 11 [A London gentleman] said he once showed [Milton's watch] to Wordsworth...
    Bty 6.297 2 ...the citizens of her native city of Toulouse obtained the aid of the civil authorities to compel [Pauline de Viguier] to appear publicly on the balcony at least twice a week, and as often as she showed herself, the crowd was dangerous to life.
    Bty 6.305 8 Polarized light showed the secret architecture of bodies;...
    Cour 7.280 3 But sure that rifle's aim,/ Swift choice of generous part,/ Showed in its passing gleam/ The depths of a brave heart./
    PI 8.14 16 Our Kentuckian orator [Davy Crockett] said of his dissent from his companion, I showed him the back of my hand.
    PI 8.55 24 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it.
    SA 8.94 7 When they showed [Madame de Stael] the beautiful Lake Leman, she exclaimed, O for the gutter of the Rue de Bac!...
    Elo2 8.122 20 ...the wonders [John Quincy Adams] could achieve with that cracked and disobedient organ [his voice] showed what power might have belonged to it in early manhood.
    Elo2 8.123 21 [John Quincy Adams's] last lecture...contained some nervous allusions to the treatment he had received from his old friends, which showed how much it had stung him...
    Res 8.146 7 ...[Tissenet] opened his shirt a little and showed to each of the savages in turn the reflection of his own eyeball in a small pocket-mirror which he had hung next to his skin.
    QO 8.181 18 M. Le Grand showed that in the old Fabliaux were the originals of the tales of Moliere, La Fontaine, Boccaccio, and of Voltaire.
    PPo 8.238 20 The very geography of old Persia showed these contrasts.
    Grts 8.306 10 ...[Faraday] showed us various experiments on certain gases...
    Dem1 10.14 22 ...this man [Masollam] inquired the reason of [the multitude's] halting. The augur showed him a bird, and told him, If that bird remained where he was, it would be better for them all to remain;...
    Dem1 10.17 17 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... It resembled chance, since it showed no sequel.
    MoL 10.243 2 America at large exhibited such a confusion as California showed in 1849...
    LLNE 10.334 13 ...not a sentence was written in academic exercises...but showed the omnipresence of [Everett's] genius to youthful heads.
    LLNE 10.336 14 Astronomy...showed that our sacred as our profane history had been written in gross ignorance of the laws...
    LLNE 10.337 8 ...there was, in the first quarter of our nineteenth century... an eagerness for reform, which showed itself in every quarter.
    LLNE 10.365 19 ...in every instance the newcomers [to Brook Farm] showed themselves keenly alive to the advantages of the society...
    EzRy 10.386 5 ...[Ezra Ripley] gave me anecdotes of the nine church members who had made a division in the church in the time of his predecessor, and showed me how every one of the nine had come to bad fortune or to a bad end.
    EzRy 10.391 20 [Ezra Ripley] showed even in his fireside discourse traits of that pertinency and judgment...which make the distinction of the scholar...
    Thor 10.464 11 ...there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau]...which showed him the material world as a means and symbol.
    LS 11.10 2 Remember the readiness which [Jesus] always showed to spiritualize every occurrence.
    EWI 11.141 6 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro; comprising cloths and loom...pipe-bowls and trinkets. These he showed to Mr. Pitt...
    FSLC 11.182 16 The crisis [over the Fugitive Slave Law] had the illuminating power of a sheet of lightning at midnight. It showed truth.
    FSLC 11.182 20 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] showed the slightness and unreliableness of our social fabric...
    FSLC 11.182 21 ...[the crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] showed what stuff reputations are made of...
    FSLC 11.182 24 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] showed the shallowness of leaders;...
    FSLC 11.182 26 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law]...showed that men would not stick to what they had said...
    FSLN 11.229 10 The way in which the country was dragged to consent to this [Fugitive Slave Law]...was the darkest passage in the history. It showed that our prosperity had hurt us...
    FSLN 11.229 12 [Passage of the Fugitive Slave Law] showed that the old religion and the sense of the right had faded and gone out;...
    TPar 11.287 14 [Theodore Parker] came at a time when, to the irresistible march of opinion, the forms still retained by the most advanced sects showed loose and lifeless...
    SMC 11.359 19 [George Prescott] was...engaged in common duties, but equal always to the occasion; and the [Civil] war showed him still equal...
    Wom 11.415 26 ...another important step [for Woman] was made by the doctrine of Swedenborg, a sublime genius who...showed the difference of sex to run through nature and through thought.
    CInt 12.118 15 A farmer wished to buy an ox. The seller told him how well he had treated the animal. But, said the farmer, I asked the ox, and the ox showed me by marks that could not lie that he had been abused.
    CL 12.137 25 [Linnaeus] showed [the people of Tornea] that the whole evil [of dying cattle] might be prevented by employing a woman for a month to eradicate the noxious plants [water-hemlock].
    CL 12.144 18 One more inconveniency [to walking], I remember, they showed me in Illinois, that, in the bottom lands, the grass was fourteen feet high.
    CW 12.170 7 The gentle deities/ Showed me the love of color and of sounds,/...
    ACri 12.301 7 I fell in with one of the founders [of New City] who showed its advantages and its river and port and the capabilities...
    MLit 12.315 23 [The selfish] invited us to contemplate Nature, and showed us an abominable self.

shower, n. (10)

    Tran 1.346 10 [A man] ought to be a shower of benefits...
    Chr1 3.111 17 ...when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars...it should be a festival of nature which all things announce.
    MoS 4.168 18 ...blacksmiths and teamsters do not trip in their speech; it is a shower of bullets.
    DL 7.129 7 ...when men shall meet as they should...each...a shower of falling stars...it shall be the festival of Nature...
    Res 8.145 3 A sudden shower cannot wet [the old forester], if he cares to be dry;...
    Res 8.145 8 ...[the old forester] draws his boat ashore, turns it over in a twinkling against a clump of alders with cat-briers, which keep up the lee-side, crawls under it with his comrade, and lies there till the shower is over, happy in his stout roof.
    Insp 8.278 1 ...[Behmen said] though I could have written in a more accurate, fair and plain manner, the burning fire often forced forward with speed, and the hand and pen must hasten directly after it, for it comes and goes as a sudden shower.
    Edc1 10.132 27 ...the event of each moment, the shower, the steamboat disaster...are all tests to try our theory [of life]...
    Thor 10.466 1 Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own cost...to South America. But though nothing could be more grave or considered than his refusals, they remind one...of that fop Brummel's reply to the gentleman who offered him his carriage in a shower, But where will you ride, then?...
    CL 12.151 27 The world has nothing to offer more rich or entertaining than the days which October always brings us, when, after the first frosts, a steady shower of gold falls in the strong south wind from the chestnuts, maples and hickories;...

showers, n. (5)

    ET16 5.280 13 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound [Stonehenge] in the twilight...and coming back two miles to our inn we were met by little showers...
    Ill 6.325 23 Every moment new changes and new showers of deceptions to baffle and distract [the young mortal].
    WD 7.160 23 Egypt...now, it is said, thanks Mehemet Ali's irrigations and planted forests for late-returning showers.
    MoL 10.239 1 On bravely through the sunshine and the showers,/ Time hath his work to do, and we have ours./
    HDC 11.34 8 ...thus these poor servants of Christ provide shelter for themselves...keeping off the short showers from their lodgings...

showers, v. (1)

    LT 1.278 3 We...want...the spirit that sheds and showers actions...

showery, adj. (2)

    ET16 5.280 15 The grass grows rank and dark in the showery England.
    PPr 12.389 6 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned persons, like a showery south wind with its sunbursts and rapid chasing of lights and glooms over the landscape...

showeth, v. (2)

    Fdsp 2.194 3 Shall I not call God the Beautiful, who daily showeth himself so to me in his gifts?
    Int 2.332 13 ...now you must labor with your brains, and now you must forbear your activity and see what the great Soul showeth.

showing, v. (32)

    AmS 1.100 19 The office of the scholar is...to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
    DSA 1.125 17 [The sentiment of virtue] corrects the capital mistake of the infant man...by showing the fountain of all good to be in himself...
    LE 1.160 20 Any history of philosophy fortifies my faith, by showing me that what high dogmas I had supposed were the...fruit of a cumulative culture...were the prompt improvisations of the earliest inquirers;...
    MR 1.232 26 [The general system of our trade] is not that which a man... meditates on with joy and self-approval in his hour of love and aspiration; but rather what he then puts out of sight, only showing the brilliant result...
    Tran 1.340 4 ...Immanuel Kant...replied to the skeptical philosophy of Locke...by showing that there was a very important class of ideas or imperative forms, which did not come by experience, but through which experience was acquired;...
    Cir 2.303 27 [A man] can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
    ET3 5.40 26 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure, under his showing, by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street.
    ET9 5.147 19 ...[the English] have...a petty courage, through which every man delights in showing himself for what he is and in doing what he can;...
    ET11 5.193 3 Dismal anecdotes abound...of great lords living by the showing of their houses...
    Bty 6.304 6 The feat of the imagination is in showing the convertibility of every thing into every other thing.
    WD 7.176 19 We owe to genius always the same debt, of...showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and pedlers.
    Boks 7.209 9 ...tender readers have a great pudency in showing their books to a stranger.
    Clbs 7.236 5 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with humble people...in giving wise answers, showing that he saw at a larger angle of vision...
    Cour 7.256 18 We have had examples of men who, for showing effective courage on a single occasion, have become a favorite spectacle to nations...
    PI 8.7 20 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science...a hint...showing unity and perfect order in physics.
    PI 8.12 21 ...children resent your showing them that their doll Cinderella is nothing but pine wood and rags;...
    PI 8.15 4 I think Hindoo books the best gymnastics for the mind, as showing treatment.
    Res 8.149 24 ...the guide kindled a Roman candle, and held it here and there shooting its fireballs successively into each crypt of the groined roof [of the Mammoth Cave], disclosing its starry splendor, and showing for the first time what that plaything was good for.
    Dem1 10.8 6 We call the phantoms that rise [in dreams], the creation of our fancy, but they act like mutineers, and fire on their commander; showing that every act, every thought, every cause, is bipolar...
    Aris 10.51 26 To a right aristocracy...to the men, that is, who are incomparably superior to the populace in ways agreeable to the populace, showing them the way they should go...everything will be permitted and pardoned...
    PerF 10.85 26 [This world] is a fagot of laws, and a true analysis of these laws, showing how immortal and how self-protecting they are, would be a wholesome lesson for every time and for this time.
    Supl 10.176 17 ...Nature delights in showing us that in the East [the superlative] is animated...
    LLNE 10.336 2 ...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 not the centre of the Universe...
    MMEm 10.429 22 O dear worms,-how they will at some sure time take down this tedious tabernacle...instructors in the science of mind, by gnawing away the meshes which have chained it. A very Beatrice in showing the Paradise.
    Thor 10.475 22 ...[Thoreau] have not the poetic temperament, he never lacks the causal thought, showing that his genius was better than his talent.
    War 11.155 16 ...the appearance of the other instincts [than self-help] immediately modifies and controls this; turns its energies into harmless, useful and high courses, showing thereby what was its ultimate design;...
    FRO1 11.478 22 ...the statistics of the American, the English and the German cities, showing that the mass of the population is leaving off going to church, indicate the necessity...that the Church should always be new and extemporized...
    FRO2 11.490 12 ...you cannot bring me...too penetrating an insight from the Jews. I hail every one with delight, as showing the riches of my brother...
    CPL 11.505 17 One curious witness [to the value of reading] was that of a Shaker who, when showing me the houses of the Brotherhood, and a very modest bookshelf, said there was Milton's Paradise Lost, and some other books in the house, and added that he knew where they were, but he took up a sound cross in not reading them.
    PLT 12.43 6 I owe to genius always the same debt, of...showing me that gods are sitting disguised in every company.
    Milt1 12.260 3 [Milton] was a benefactor of the English tongue by showing its capabilities.
    Milt1 12.266 20 [Milton] told the bishops that instead of showing the reason of their lowly condition from divine example and command, they seek to prove their high preeminence from human consent and authority.

showman, n. (3)

    NER 3.269 19 [The scholar]...became a showman...
    Suc 7.295 3 ...a few years will show the advantage of the real master over the short popularity of the showman.
    Schr 10.280 16 When a man begins to dedicate himself to a particular function...the development of that mind is arrested. The scholar is lost in the showman.

showmen, n. [show-men,] (2)

    DL 7.130 16 Why should we convert ourselves into showmen and appendages to our fine houses and our works of art?
    Suc 7.290 1 ...Nature utilizes misers, fanatics, show-men, egotists, to accomplish her ends;...

shown, v. (88)

    Nat 1.7 16 If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men...preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!
    AmS 1.106 8 ...I have already shown the ground of my hope...
    AmS 1.112 17 Goethe...has shown us...the genius of the ancients.
    DSA 1.149 19 So it is in rugged crisis...that the angel is shown.
    DSA 1.151 14 ...[the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures]...are not shown in their order to the intellect.
    MN 1.200 16 [The dance of the hours] will not be dissected, nor unravelled, nor shown.
    MR 1.232 2 The abolitionist has shown us our dreadful debt to the southern negro.
    Con 1.314 11 ...we have already shown that there is no pure reformer...
    Con 1.323 9 The man of courage and resources is shown [in war or anarchy]...
    YA 1.385 15 There really seems a progress towards such a state of things in which this work shall be done by these natural workmen; and this, not certainly through any increased discretion shown by the citizens at elections...
    SR 2.60 7 We love [honor] and pay it homage because it is...of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.
    Comp 2.93 14 It seemed to me...that in [Compensation] might be shown men a ray of divinity...
    Prd1 2.228 16 Our American character is marked by a more than average delight in accurate perception, which is shown by the currency of the byword, No mistake.
    Art1 2.358 12 ...what skill is...shown [in works of the highest art] is the reappearance of the original soul...
    Exp 3.50 22 Who cares what sensibility or discrimination a man has at some time shown, if he falls asleep in his chair?...
    Nat2 3.188 17 Each young and ardent person writes a diary, in which, when the hours of prayer and penitence arrive, he inscribes his soul. The pages thus written are to him burning and fragrant;...too good for the world, and hardly yet to be shown to the dearest friend.
    PPh 4.72 12 ...the rumor ran that on one or two occasions, in the war with Boeotia, [Socrates] had shown a determination which had covered the retreat of a troop;...
    SwM 4.104 10 Harvey had shown the circulation of the blood;...
    SwM 4.104 11 ...Gilbert had shown that the earth was a magnet;...
    MoS 4.161 21 ...the secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
    MoS 4.173 15 We must do with [doubts and negations] as the police do with old rogues, who are shown up to the public at the marshal's office.
    MoS 4.184 6 [The divine Providence] has shown the heaven and earth to every child...
    ShP 4.198 12 It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
    NMW 4.226 20 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration]...and declared he would incorporate it into his harangue to-morrow, to the Assembly. It is impossible, said Dumont, as, unfortunately, I have shown it to Lord Elgin.
    NMW 4.226 21 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration]...and declared he would incorporate it into his harangue to-morrow, to the Assembly. It is impossible, said Dumont, as, unfortunately, I have shown it to Lord Elgin. If you have shown it to Lord Elgin and to fifty persons beside, I shall still speak it to-morrow...
    ET1 5.8 27 I had visited Professor Amici, who had shown me his microscopes...
    ET1 5.16 6 When too much praise of any genius annoyed [Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig.
    ET1 5.16 22 [Carlyle] had read in Stewart's book that when he inquired in a New York hotel for the Boots, he had been shown across the street and had found Mungo in his own house dining on roast turkey.
    ET1 5.24 10 ...[Wordsworth] led me into the enclosure of his clerk, a young man to whom he had given this slip of ground, which was laid out, or its natural capabilities shown, with much taste.
    ET5 5.89 5 At Rogers's mills, in Sheffield, where I was shown the process of making a razor and a penknife, I was told there is no luck in making good steel;...
    ET5 5.93 5 There is no secret of war in which [the English] have not shown mastery.
    ET11 5.181 11 In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown the palaces in Piccadilly...
    ET14 5.244 6 The absence of the faculty [of generalization] in England is shown by the timidity which accumulates mountains of facts...
    ET15 5.263 18 [The London Times] has shown those qualities which are dear to Englishmen...
    ET16 5.284 17 My friend [Carlyle] had a letter from Mr. [Sidney] Herbert to his housekeeper,and the house [Wilton Hall] was shown.
    ET16 5.286 12 Carlyle was unwilling, and we did not ask to have the choir [at Salisbury Cathedral] shown us...
    F 6.28 23 Where power is shown in will, it must rest on the universal force.
    F 6.37 3 The web of relation is shown in habitat...
    F 6.37 3 The web of relation is...shown in hibernation.
    F 6.45 3 The correlation is shown in defects.
    Pow 6.82 1 In the gingham-mill, a broken thread or a shred...is traced back to the girl that wove it, and lessens her wages. The stockholder, on being shown this, rubs his hands with delight.
    Wth 6.117 22 I remember in Warwickshire to have been shown a fair manor, still in the same name as in Shakspeare's time.
    Bhr 6.191 20 Society is the stage on which manners are shown;...
    Wsp 6.227 27 Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy, and the abbess advised the Holy Father of the wonderful powers shown by her novice.
    Bty 6.298 10 That Beauty is the normal state is shown by the perpetual effort of nature to attain it.
    Bty 6.299 26 A Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty...
    Ill 6.321 27 From day to day the capital facts of human life are hidden from our eyes. Suddenly the mist rolls up and reveals them, and we think how much good time is gone that might have been saved had any hint of these things been shown.
    Elo1 7.92 4 The listener cannot hide from himself that something has been shown him and the whole world which he did not wish to see;...
    Farm 7.143 5 Science has shown the great circles in which Nature works;...
    WD 7.166 27 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God...
    Clbs 7.229 19 [The student] seeks intelligent persons...who will give him provocation, and at once and easily the old motion begins in his brain...and the infinite opulence of things is again shown him.
    Cour 7.253 4 I observe that there are three qualities which conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of mankind: 1. Disinterestedness, as shown in indifference to the ordinary bribes and influences of conduct... practical power...courage...
    PI 8.13 5 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure. It is like the new virtue shown in some unprized old property...
    PI 8.17 10 [Poetry's] essential mark is that it betrays in every word instant activity of mind, shown in new uses of every fact and image...
    PI 8.35 18 Every one delights in the felicity frequently shown in our drawing-rooms.
    Elo2 8.117 27 A worthy gentleman...listening to the debates of the General Assembly of the Scottish Kirk in Edinburgh...delighted with the talent shown by Dr. Hugh Blair, went to him and offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in public.
    Res 8.152 10 If I go into the woods in winter, and am shown the thirteen or fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that they quietly expand in the warmer days...
    Dem1 10.13 17 I am content and occupied with such miracles as I know... such as humanity and astronomy. If any others are important to me they will certainly be shown to me.
    Aris 10.53 18 The best feat of genius is to bring all the varieties of talent and culture into its audience; the mediocre and the dull are reached as well as the intelligent. I have seen it conspicuously shown in a village.
    Edc1 10.131 3 ...what is the charm which every ore...every new fact touching...the secrets of chemical composition and decomposition possess for Humboldt? What but that much revolving of similar facts in his mind has shown him that always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the means of classifying the most refractory phenomena...
    SovE 10.196 6 Shall we attach ourselves violently to our teachers and historical personalities, and think the foundation shaken if any fault is shown in their record?
    Prch 10.233 14 ...power is not so much shown in talent as in tone.
    MoL 10.258 3 The times develop the strength they need. Boys are heroes. Women have shown a tender patriotism and inexhaustible charity.
    Schr 10.270 5 'T is wonderful, 't is almost scandalous, this extraordinary favoritism shown to poets.
    SlHr 10.438 25 ...when the votes of the Free States, as shown in the recent election in the State of Pennsylvania, had disappointed the hopes of mankind...[Samuel Hoar] considered the question of justice and liberty, for his age, lost...
    Thor 10.485 3 It seems...a kind of indignity to so noble a soul [as Thoreau] that he should depart out of Nature before yet he has been really shown to his peers for what he is.
    LS 11.16 5 If it could be satisfactorily shown that [the primitive Church] esteemed [the Lord's Supper] authorized and to be transmitted forever, that does not settle the question for us.
    EWI 11.125 10 It was shown to the planters that they, as well as the negroes, were slaves;...
    War 11.168 12 In reply to this charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that such deductions consider only one half of the fact.
    FSLC 11.184 16 The levity of the public mind has been shown in the past year by the most extravagant actions.
    FSLC 11.186 18 ...these few months have shown very conspicuously [the Fugitive Slave Law's] nature and impracticability.
    FSLC 11.195 20 ...it is a greater crime to reenslave a man who has shown himself fit for freedom, than to enslave him at first, when it might be pretended to be a mitigation of his lot as a captive in war.
    FSLN 11.233 7 You relied on the constitution. It has not the word slave in it; and very good argument has shown that it would not warrant the crimes that are done under it;...
    EPro 11.325 2 ...those [Southern] states have shown every year a more hostile and aggressive temper...
    SMC 11.347 1 They have shown what men may do,/ They have proved how men may die,-/ Count, who can, the fields they have pressed,/ Each face to the solemn sky! Brownell.
    Wom 11.410 12 The spiritual force of man is as much shown in taste...as in his perception of truth.
    SHC 11.431 20 Modern taste has shown that there is no ornament, no architecture alone, so sumptuous as well disposed woods and waters...
    SHC 11.433 20 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted...every tree that is native to Massachusetts...so that every child may be shown growing, side by side, the eleven oaks of Massachusetts;...
    PLT 12.27 1 The mechanical laws might as easily be shown pervading the kingdom of mind as the vegetative.
    CInt 12.118 3 Never was pure valor...shown in a bad cause.
    CInt 12.131 11 ...'t is very certain that an examination is yonder before us and an examining committee that cannot be escaped or deceived, that every scholar...must hear the questions proposed, and answer them by himself, and receive honor or dishonor according to the fidelity shown.
    CL 12.167 3 The very science by which [matter] is shown to you argues the force of man.
    CW 12.176 7 In walking with Allston, you shall see what was never before shown to the eye of man.
    Bost 12.201 6 European critics regret the detachment of the Puritans to this country without aristocracy; which a little reminds one of the pity of the Swiss mountaineers when shown a handsome Englishman: What a pity he has no goitre!
    PPr 12.390 5 Carlyle, in his strange, half-mad way, has entered the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and shown a vigor and wealth of resource which has no rival in the tourney-play of these times;...
    Let 12.394 3 ...to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer? Excellent reasons have been shown us why the writers...should be dissatisfied with the life they lead...
    Let 12.394 8 Excellent reasons [the correspondents] have shown why something better should be tried.
    Trag 12.405 2 He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the house of Pain.

shows, n. (16)

    Nat 1.19 9 The shows of day...if too eagerly hunted...mock us with their unreality.
    Nat 1.19 13 The shows of day...if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely...
    Nat 1.58 14 ...Contemn the unsubstantial shows of the world;...
    Hist 2.34 23 The preternatural prowess of the hero, the gift of perpetual youth, and the like, are alike the endeavor of the human spirit to bend the shows of things to the desires of the mind.
    Prd1 2.222 8 The world of the senses is a world of shows;...
    Prd1 2.222 10 ...a true prudence or law of shows recognizes the co-presence of other laws...
    Pt1 3.5 10 Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time.
    Exp 3.60 23 ...amidst this vertigo of shows and politics, I settle myself ever the firmer in the creed that we should...do broad justice where we are...
    ET14 5.241 26 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics. In England these...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...[Bacon's] doctrine of poetry, which accommodates the shows of things to the desires of the mind...
    PI 8.20 3 Bacon expressed the same sense in his definition, Poetry accommodates the shows of things to the desires of the mind;...
    PC 8.205 2 Nature spoke/ To each apart, lifting her lovely shows/ To spiritual lessons pointed home/...
    Dem1 10.4 1 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we should...become the theatre of delirious shows...
    Chr2 10.91 6 [Morals] is the science of substances, not of shows.
    Edc1 10.132 10 ...whilst thus the man is ever invited inward into shining realms of knowledge and power by the shows of the world...it becomes the office of a just education to awaken him to the knowledge of this fact.
    Prch 10.237 4 The old intellect still lives, to pierce the shows to the core.
    Milt1 12.278 3 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry... seeks to accommodate the shows of things to the desires of the mind...

shows, v. (91)

    Nat 1.38 16 The wise man shows his wisdom in separation...
    Nat 1.49 22 The first effort of thought...shows us nature aloof...
    AmS 1.98 19 That great principle of Undulation in nature, that shows itself in the inspiring and expiring of the breath;...is known to us under the name of Polarity...
    DSA 1.132 2 That which shows God in me, fortifies me.
    DSA 1.132 3 That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.
    DSA 1.138 26 [Church attendance] shows that there is a commanding attraction in the moral sentiment...
    MR 1.229 3 What if...the reformers tend to idealism? That only shows the extravagance of the abuses which have driven the mind into the opposite extreme.
    YA 1.368 4 If the landscape is pleasing, the garden shows it...
    Hist 2.20 17 No one can walk in a road cut through pine woods, without being struck with the architectural appearance of the grove, especially in winter, when the barrenness of all other trees shows the low arch of the Saxons.
    SL 2.163 2 The fact that I am here certainly shows me that the soul had need of an organ here.
    Fdsp 2.203 21 ...to most of us society shows not its face and eye...
    Prd1 2.225 17 Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters.
    Prd1 2.231 24 Appetite shows to the finer souls as a disease...
    Cir 2.309 23 [Idealism] now shows itself ethical and practical.
    Int 2.326 17 Nature shows all things formed and bound.
    Pt1 3.20 20 ...the poet...shows us all things in their right series and procession.
    Pt1 3.40 14 Stand there, [O poet,]...hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own;...
    Exp 3.48 2 [Disaster] shows formidable as we approach it...
    Exp 3.50 7 Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses...and each shows only what lies in its focus.
    Exp 3.57 6 A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.
    Exp 3.63 27 ...the new molecular philosophy shows astronomical interspaces betwixt atom and atom...
    Exp 3.64 2 ...the new molecular philosophy shows astronomical interspaces betwixt atom and atom, shows that the world is all outside; it has no inside.
    Exp 3.80 5 Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new-comer like a travelling geologist who passes through our estate and shows us good slate...in our brush pasture.
    Chr1 3.110 13 ...the virtuous prince moves, and for ages shows empire the way.
    Gts 3.160 3 Men use to tell us that we love flattery...because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
    NR 3.244 21 Love shows me the opulence of nature...
    NER 3.274 26 The same magnanimity shows itself in our social relations...
    SwM 4.109 17 Gravitation, as explained by Newton, is good, but grander when we find...that the atomic theory shows the action of chemistry to be mechanical also.
    SwM 4.109 19 Metaphysics shows us a sort of gravitation operative also in the mental phenomena;...
    SwM 4.135 15 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric.
    MoS 4.176 26 ...is no community of sentiment discoverable in distant times and places? And when it shows the power of self-interest, I accept that as part of the divine law...
    ET4 5.60 10 ...the old fossil world shows that the first steps of reducing the chaos were confided to saurians and other huge and horrible animals...
    ET5 5.84 26 Every article of cutlery [in England] shows, in its shape, thought and long experience of workmen.
    ET8 5.141 20 Does the early history of each tribe show the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters? The early history shows it...
    ET11 5.197 6 ...the analysis of the [English] peerage and gentry shows the rapid decay and extinction of old families...
    ET13 5.221 19 The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain.
    ET15 5.271 21 The [London] Times, like every important institution, shows the way to a better.
    ET18 5.306 17 An Englishman shows no mercy to those below him in the social scale...
    Wth 6.108 17 The price of coal shows the narrowness of the coal-field...
    Ctr 6.158 3 ...the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and in the humanity stock,--and, in the last, exults as much in the demonstration of the unsoundness of Curfew, as his interest in the former gives him pleasure in the currency of Curfew. For the depreciation of his Curfew stock only shows the immense values of the humanity stock.
    Bhr 6.180 8 There is a look by which a man shows he is going to say a good thing...
    Bty 6.291 3 ...our taste in building...shows the original grain of the wood...
    Ill 6.322 1 A sudden rise in the road shows us the system of mountains...
    DL 7.105 3 The childhood, said Milton, shows the man...
    DL 7.105 4 The childhood, said Milton, shows the man, as morning shows the day.
    WD 7.176 8 'T is the very principle of science that Nature shows herself best in leasts;...
    PI 8.30 9 The right poetic mood...shows a sharper insight...
    PI 8.38 6 A poet comes who...shows [mortal men] the circumstance as illusion;...
    PI 8.38 7 A poet comes who...shows that Nature is only a language to express the laws...
    PI 8.56 21 ...[Newton] only predicts, one would say, a grander poetry: he only shows that he is not yet reached;...
    SA 8.87 17 ...one word or two in regard to dress, in which our civilization instantly shows itself.
    SA 8.91 9 That every well-dressed lady or gentleman should be at liberty to exceed ten minutes in his or her call on serious people, shows a civilization still rude.
    Elo2 8.112 22 Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.
    Elo2 8.117 17 As soon as a man shows rare power of expression...all the great interests...crowd to him to be their spokesman...
    Res 8.139 19 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep.
    PC 8.229 7 Every generalization shows the way to a larger.
    PPo 8.259 3 Jami says,-A friend is he, who, hunted as a foe,/ So much the kindlier shows him than before;/ Throw stones at him, or ruder javelins throw,/ He builds with stone and steel a firmer floor./
    Grts 8.317 18 The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it;...
    Dem1 10.13 8 For Spiritism, it shows that no man, almost, is fit to give evidence.
    Dem1 10.18 12 ...this demonic element appears most fruitful when it shows itself as the determining characteristic in an individual.
    PerF 10.80 1 The geometer shows us the true order in figures;...
    PerF 10.85 15 [A survey of cosmical powers] shows us the world alive...
    PerF 10.85 18 [A survey of cosmical powers] shows us the long Providence...
    Edc1 10.152 16 Each [pupil] requires so much consideration, that the morning hope of the teacher...is often closed at evening by despair. Each single case, the more it is considered, shows more to be done;...
    Supl 10.172 16 The astronomer shows you in his telescope the nebula of Orion, that you may look on that which is esteemed the farthest-off land in visible nature.
    SovE 10.184 9 Experiment shows that the bird and the dog reason as the hunter does...
    SovE 10.207 23 If theology shows that opinions are fast changing, it is not so with the convictions of men with regard to conduct.
    Prch 10.217 2 In the history of opinion, the pinch of falsehood shows itself first...in insincerity, indifference and abandonment of the Church...
    Schr 10.270 7 [The favoritism shown to poets] only shows that such is the gulf between our perception and our painting...that all the human race have agreed to value a man according to his power of expression.
    Schr 10.275 6 ...Algernon Sidney wrote to his father...I have ever had in my mind that when God should cast me into such a condition as that I cannot save my life but by doing an indecent thing he shows me the time has come when I should resign it.
    Plu 10.304 6 ...[Plutarch]...cleaves to the security of prose narrative, and only shows his intellectual sympathy with [the poet and the orator];...
    Plu 10.316 19 ...nothing so resembles an animal as fire. It is moved and nourished by itself, and...in its quenching shows some power that seems to proceed from a vital principle...
    Carl 10.492 8 [Young men] go for free institutions...and only giving opportunity and motive to every man; [Carlyle] for stringent government, that shows people what they must do, and makes them do it.
    Carl 10.495 11 In proportion to the peals of laughter amid which [Carlyle] strips the plumes of a pretender, and shows the lean hypocrisy to every vantage of ridicule, does he worship whatever enthusiasm, fortitude, love or other sign of a good nature is in a man.
    EWI 11.118 12 ...experience...shows the existence, beside the covetousness, of a bitterer element [in slavery], the love of power...
    War 11.159 23 This valuable person [Assacombuit]...took to killing his own neighbors and kindred, with such appetite that his tribe...would have killed him had he not fled his country forever. The scandal which we feel in such facts certainly shows that we have got on a little.
    War 11.171 20 The attractiveness of war shows one thing through all the throats of artillery...
    FSLC 11.185 23 The crisis [over the Fugitive Slave Law] is interesting as it shows the self-protecting nature of the world and of Divine laws.
    EdAd 11.384 2 ...the train...shows our traveller what tens of thousands of powerful and weaponed men...sit at large in this ample region...
    Wom 11.423 8 As for the unsexing and contamination [of women in politics],-that only...shows how barbarous we are...
    Wom 11.424 19 ...whatever is popular...shows the spontaneous sense of the hour.
    FRep 11.542 6 Whilst every man can say I serve...he therein sees and shows a reason for his being in the world...
    PLT 12.34 19 ...though [instinct] does not show objects, yet it shows the way.
    II 12.73 6 ...he will instruct and aid us who shows us how the young may be taught without degrading the old;...
    CL 12.160 10 Our microscopes are not necessary. [Nature] shows every fact in large bodies somewhere.
    Bost 12.189 26 [John Smith writes (1624)] The seacoast, as you pass, shows you all along large cornfields...
    MAng1 12.220 14 Michael Angelo dedicated himself...to a toilsome observation of Nature. The first anecdote recorded of him shows him to be already on the right road.
    Milt1 12.249 20 ...the piece [a tract by Milton] shows all the rambles and resources of indignation...
    Milt1 12.262 19 ...the old eternal goodness finds a home in [Milton's] breast, and for once shows itself beautiful.
    PPr 12.385 7 The wit [of Carlyle's Past and Present] has eluded all official zeal; and yet...this flaming sword of Cherubim waved high in air...shows to the eyes of the universe every wound it inflicts.
    PPr 12.386 26 ...the splendor of wit cannot outdazzle the calm daylight, which always shows every individual man in balance with his age...

showy, adj. (5)

    Ctr 6.158 13 I must have children...I must have a social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or basis. But to give these accessories any value, I must know them as contingent and rather showy possessions...
    Ill 6.315 15 When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I...affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff.
    Suc 7.293 4 [Your appointed task] by no means consists in rushing prematurely to a showy feat...
    PLT 12.57 6 We have a juvenile love...of showy speech.
    ACri 12.293 12 A list might be made of showy words that tempt young writers...

shred, n. (3)

    YA 1.373 21 ...we cannot shed a hair or a paring of a nail but instantly [Nature] snatches at the shred...
    Pow 6.81 25 In the gingham-mill, a broken thread or a shred spoils the web through a piece of a hundred yards...
    CbW 6.262 18 Nature...works up every shred and ort and end into new creations;...

shreds, n. (4)

    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...
    OS 2.297 9 [Man] will weave no longer a spotted life of shreds and patches...
    PPh 4.77 2 Here is the world...perfect...not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but [Plato's] theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.
    Bty 6.299 10 The man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches...

shreds, v. (1)

    Chr1 3.99 19 Society...shreds its day into scraps...

shrewd, adj. (16)

    Pt1 3.19 17 A shrewd country-boy goes to the city for the first time, and the complacent citizen is not satisfied with his little wonder.
    ET5 5.76 1 A nobility of soldiers cannot keep down a commonalty of shrewd scientific persons.
    ET9 5.148 18 I remember a shrewd politician...told me that he had known several successful statesmen made by their foible.
    ET10 5.166 23 Man is a shrewd inventor...
    Wth 6.99 22 An infinite number of shrewd men, in infinite years, have arrived at certain best and shortest ways of doing...
    Wth 6.117 16 In England...I was assured by shrewd observers that great lords and ladies had no more guineas to give away than other people;...
    Ctr 6.152 3 A shrewd foreigner said of the Americans that whatever they say has a little the air of a speech.
    Bhr 6.186 1 Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train...
    CbW 6.261 14 ...[the rich man] is a shrewd adviser in the insurance office;...
    Bty 6.286 24 ...we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
    MoL 10.246 17 A shrewd broker out of State Street visited a quiet countryman possessed of all the virtues...
    Schr 10.277 2 These shrewd faculties belong to man.
    MMEm 10.405 15 ...the minister found quickly that [Mary Moody Emerson] knew all his books and many more, and made shrewd guesses at his character and possibilities...
    MMEm 10.406 3 Society is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train...
    EWI 11.126 6 It was very easy for manufacturers less shrewd than those of Birmingham and Manchester to see that if the state of things in the islands [of the West Indies] was altered, if the slaves had wages, the slaves would be clothed, would build houses...
    II 12.73 3 Certain young men or maidens are thus to be screened from the evil influences of trade by force of money. Perhaps that is a benefit, but those who give the money must be just so much more shrewd, and worldly, and hostile, in order to save so much money.

shrewdness, n. (2)

    Comp 2.118 24 Bolts and bars are not the best of our institutions, nor is shrewdness in trade a mark of wisdom.
    MoS 4.168 23 Montaigne talks with shrewdness...

shriek, v. (1)

    Schr 10.281 27 As we read the newspapers...patriotism and religion seem to shriek like ghosts.

shrieking, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.278 24 The boy turned round with screams,/ And ran with terror wild;/ One of the pair of savage beasts/ Pursued the shrieking child./

shrieking, v. (1)

    Mrs1 3.119 24 In the deserts of Borgoo the rock-Tibboos still dwell in caves, like cliff-swallows, and the language of these negroes is compared by their neighbors to the shrieking of bats and to the whistling of birds.

shrieks, v. (1)

    MoS 4.168 25 Montaigne...never shrieks, or protests, or prays...

shrill, adj. (2)

    Cir 2.312 26 [Some Petrarch or Ariosto] smites and arouses me with his shrill tones...
    Insp 8.287 25 Did you never observe, says Gray, while rocking winds are piping loud, that pause...rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note...

shrill, v. (1)

    FRep 11.529 16 The men, the women, all over this land shrill their exclamations of impatience and indignation at what is short-coming or is unbecoming in the government...

shriller, adj. (1)

    QO 8.199 20 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences that reached...back to the first negro, who...gave a shriller sound or name for the thing he saw and dealt with?

shrilly, adv. (1)

    SHC 11.436 2 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...and in the grass, and by the pond, the locust, the cricket and the hyla, shall shrilly play.

shrine, adj. (1)

    ET16 5.290 15 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted them affectionately...

shrine, n. (4)

    Int 2.332 6 ...the oracle comes because we had previously laid siege to the shrine.
    SwM 4.144 22 ...in [Swedenborg's] immolation of genius and fame at the shrine of conscience, is a merit sublime beyond praise.
    DL 7.132 10 ...the progress of truth will make every house a shrine.
    Chr2 10.108 25 ...the stern determination...to be chaste and humble, was substantially the same, whether under a self-respect, or under a vow made on the knees at the shrine of Madonna.

shrines, n. (2)

    ET13 5.220 21 The spirit that dwelt in this [English] church has glided away to animate other activities, and they who come to the old shrines find apes and players rustling the old garments.
    LLNE 10.337 20 On the heels of this intruder [Phrenology] came Mesmerism, which broke into the inmost shrines...

shrink, v. (16)

    Nat 1.52 23 ...all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.
    DSA 1.137 15 We shrink as soon as the prayers begin, which do not uplift...
    Lov1 2.171 15 Let any man go back to those delicious relations...which have given him sincerest instruction and nourishment, he will shrink and moan.
    Lov1 2.174 3 I have been told that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personal relations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words.
    OS 2.273 19 Before the revelations of the soul, Time, Space and Nature shrink away.
    Pt1 3.37 9 If we filled the day with bravery, we should not shrink from celebrating it.
    ET14 5.244 11 The English shrink from a generalization.
    Bhr 6.188 20 ...the sad realist knows these fellows [of position] at a glance, and they know him; as when in Paris the chief of the police enters a ball-room, so many diamonded pretenders shrink...
    Cour 7.263 5 It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting it again.
    Cour 7.274 17 The tender skin does not shrink from bayonets...
    Cour 7.275 25 Scholars and thinkers...shrink if a coarser shout comes up from the street...
    PerF 10.87 21 ...we shrink to speak of [our moral sentiment] or to range ourselves by its side.
    Chr2 10.100 24 Men are forced by their own self-respect to give [some souls] a certain attention. Evil men shrink and pay involuntary homage by hiding or apologizing for their action.
    EWI 11.104 4 ...if we saw the whip applied to old men, to tender women; and, undeniably, though I shrink to say so, pregnant women set in the treadmill for refusing to work;...we too should wince.
    FSLC 11.198 1 ...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law]. We poor men in the country who might once have thought it an honor to shake hands with them...would now shrink from their touch...
    FRep 11.521 6 ...we...shrink from an act of our own.

shrinking, v. (3)

    Nat2 3.187 2 The excess of fear with which the animal frame is hedged round, shrinking from cold...protects us...from some one real danger at last.
    Bost 12.191 8 ...the weariness of the sea, the shrinking from cold weather and the pangs of hunger must justify [the Plymouth colonists].
    Let 12.396 12 It is not for nothing...that sincere persons of all parties are demanding somewhat vital and poetic of our stagnant society. How fantastic and unpresentable soever the theory has hitherto seemed, how swiftly shrinking from the examination of practical men, let us not lose the warning of that most significant dream.

shrinks, v. (9)

    DSA 1.120 9 ...when the mind opens...then shrinks the great world...into a mere illustration...
    DSA 1.124 18 In so far as [a man] roves from these [good] ends...his being shrinks out of all remote channels...
    LE 1.172 19 ...any particular portraiture...when considered by the soul, warps and shrinks away.
    Comp 2.111 16 ...as soon as there is any departure from simplicity and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him, my neighbor... shrinks from me as far as I have shrunk from him;...
    Hsm1 2.258 25 ...[many extraordinary young men] enter an active profession and the forming Colossus shrinks to the common size of man.
    OS 2.295 22 Before the immense possibilities of man...all past biography... shrinks away.
    ET8 5.142 10 ...the calm, sound and most British Briton shrinks from public life as charlatanism...
    FSLC 11.210 11 ...grant that the heart of financiers...shrinks within them at these colossal amounts, and the embarrassments which complicate the problem [abolition];...
    Milt1 12.255 4 Lord Bacon...shrinks and falters before the absolute and uncourtly Puritan [Milton].

shrivel, v. (3)

    Farm 7.153 16 ...the drawing-room heroes put down beside [the farmer] would shrivel in his presence;...
    PC 8.211 23 The creeds of [the sectarian's] church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory...
    SovE 10.191 17 An Eastern poet...said that God had made justice so dear to the heart of Nature that, if any injustice lurked anywhere under the sky, the blue vault would shrivel to a snake-skin and cast it out by spasms.

shrivelled, adj. (2)

    DL 7.108 20 We are sure that the sacred form of man is not seen in...these bloated and shrivelled bodies...
    SovE 10.182 2 Thou shalt not try/ To plant thy shrivelled pedantry/ On the shoulders of the sky./

shrivels, v. (1)

    Nat 1.75 7 ...when the fact is seen under the light of an idea, the gaudy fable fades and shrivels.

shriven, v. (2)

    SR 2.74 12 There are two confessionals, in one or the other of which we must be shriven.
    Schr 10.282 23 ...it is the end of eloquence...to persuade a multitude of persons to...change the course of life. They go forth not the men they came in, but shriven, convicted and converted.

shroud, n. (4)

    Hsm1 2.263 24 Who that sees the meanness of our politics but inly congratulates Washington that he is long already wrapped in his shroud...
    SwM 4.143 11 Swedenborg is retrospective, nor can we divest him of his mattock and shroud.
    MMEm 10.428 20 Saladin caused his shroud to be made, and carried it to battle as his standard.
    MMEm 10.428 22 [Mary Moody Emerson] made up her shroud, and...wore it as a night-gown, or a day-gown...

shrouded, v. (1)

    Cir 2.311 10 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys. Then cometh the god...and by a flash of his eye burns up the veil which shrouded all things...

shrouds, n. (2)

    MMEm 10.397 22 ...Nor me can Hope or Passion urge,/ Hearing as now the lofty dirge/ Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn,/ Nature's funeral high and dim,-/ Sable pageantry of clouds,/ Mourning summer laid in shrouds./
    MMEm 10.424 4 In Eternity, no deceitful promises, no fantastic illusions, no riddles concealed by thy [Time's] shrouds...

shrubs, n. (3)

    SovE 10.198 8 ...as we send to England for shrubs which grow as well in our own door-yards and cow-pastures.
    SHC 11.431 26 In cultivated grounds one sees the picturesque and opulent effect of the familiar shrubs...
    CL 12.162 23 ...sometimes [my naturalist] brought [the farmers] ostentatiously gifts of flowers, fruit or rare shrubs they would gladly have paid a price for...

shrugs, n. (2)

    SS 7.5 14 [My friend]...walked miles and miles to get...the starts and shrugs out of his arms and shoulders.
    ACri 12.299 4 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours, whilst he is humming and chuckling, with... shrugs, and long commanding glances...

shrunk, v. (6)

    Nat 1.71 22 ...[man] is shrunk to a drop.
    Comp 2.111 16 ...as soon as there is any departure from simplicity and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him, my neighbor... shrinks from me as far as I have shrunk from him;...
    Fdsp 2.200 5 If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly.
    DL 7.123 8 Every one was eager to try [the fairy cloak] on, but it would fit nobody: for one it was a world too wide, for the next it dragged on the ground, and for the third it shrunk to a scarf.
    SlHr 10.447 5 [Samuel Hoar] never shrunk from a disagreeable duty.
    SMC 11.357 25 One [volunteer] wrote to his father these words: You may think it strange that I, who have always naturally rather shrunk from danger, should wish to enter the army;...

shudder, n. (4)

    OS 2.282 17 The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist;...the experiences of the Methodists, are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.
    MoS 4.149 10 Nothing so thin but has these two faces [sensation and morals], and when the observer has seen the obverse, he turns it over to see the reverse. Life is a pitching of this penny,--heads or tails. We never tire of this game, because there is still a slight shudder of astonishment at the exhibition of the other face...
    PI 8.71 24 ...for obvious municipal or parietal uses God has given us a bias or a rest on to-day's forms. Hence the shudder of joy with which in each clear moment we recognize the metamorphosis, because it is always a conquest, a surprise from the heart of things.
    AsSu 11.251 22 I wish that [Charles Sumner] may know the shudder of terror which ran through all this community on the first tidings of this brutal attack.

shudder, v. (2)

    Suc 7.292 13 The gravest and learnedest courts in this country shudder to face a new question...
    EWI 11.139 26 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts,-no more, no less. Of course, the timid and base persons...shudder at the change...

shuddered, v. (2)

    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.
    ET12 5.206 10 [The young men at Oxford] shuddered at the prospect of dying a Fellow...

shuddering, adj. (1)

    ET8 5.132 25 ...[young Englishmen]...translate and send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Bramins;...

shudders, v. (1)

    Elo1 7.67 22 When each auditor...shudders with cold at the thinness of the morning audience...mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable.

shuffle, v. (3)

    Prd1 2.239 5 What low, poor, paltry, hypocritical people an argument on religion will make of the pure and chosen souls! They will shuffle and crow...
    Chr1 3.94 21 Cannot Caesar in irons shuffle off the irons and transfer them to the person of Hippo or Thraso the turnkey?
    SS 7.5 6 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such great terror of being shot, I, who am only waiting to shuffle off my corporeal jacket...

shuffled, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.237 20 ...[The Shakers] say, the Spirit will presently manifest to the man himself and to the society what manner of person he is, and whether he belongs among them. They do not receive him, they do not reject him. And not in vain have they...shuffled in their Bruin dance...if they have truly learned thus much wisdom.

shuffling, n. (1)

    Boks 7.211 12 ...[a dictionary] is full of suggestion,--the raw material of possible poems and histories. Nothing is wanting but a little shuffling, sorting, ligature and cartilage.

shuffling, v. (1)

    ET7 5.118 11 [The English] hate shuffling and equivocation...

shullen, v. (1)

    Aris 10.29 3 But for ye speken of such gentillesse/ As is descended out of old richesse,/ That therfore shullen ye be gentilmen,-/ Such arrogance n' is not worth a hen./

shun, v. (19)

    LT 1.290 10 ...men seem to fear and to shun [the Moral Sentiment] when it comes barely to view in our immediate neighborhood.
    Con 1.307 20 [The youth says] I shall seek those whom I love, and shun those whom I love not...
    Tran 1.342 13 ...[Transcendentalists] shun general society;...
    Tran 1.347 14 ...it is really...the wish to find society for their hope and religion,-which prompts [Transcendentalists] to shun what is called society.
    SR 2.51 25 I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me.
    SR 2.75 23 We shun the rugged battle of fate...
    Exp 3.46 25 Our life looks trivial, and we shun to record it.
    SwM 4.144 19 [Swedenborg's] laurel so largely mixed with cypress, a charnel-breath so mingles with the temple incense, that boys and maids will shun the spot.
    MoS 4.156 8 [The skeptic says] I, at least, will shun the weakness of philosophizing beyond my depth.
    ET13 5.226 6 The wise legislator...will shun the enriching of priests.
    F 6.49 17 Let us build to the Beautiful Necessity, which makes man brave in believing that he cannot shun a danger that is appointed...
    Ctr 6.165 6 ...a considerate man will reckon himself a subject of that secular melioration by which mankind is mollified, cured and refined; and will shun every expenditure of his forces on pleasure or gain which will jeopardize this social and secular accumulation.
    Bhr 6.167 17 Too weak to win, too fond to shun/ The tyrants or his doom,/ The much deceived Endymion/ Slips behind a tomb./
    Boks 7.196 5 Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour.
    SA 8.98 14 Shun the negative side.
    Dem1 10.3 3 The name Demonology covers dreams, omens, coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic and other experiences which shun rather than court inquiry...
    Dem1 10.21 16 Shun [animal magnetism, divination, second-sight] as you would the secrets of the undertaker and the butcher.
    Chr2 10.89 1 Shun passion, fold the hands of thrift,/ Sit still, and Truth is near;/...
    FSLC 11.179 7 The last year has forced us all into politics, and made it a paramount duty to seek what it is often a duty to shun.

shunned, v. (4)

    SwM 4.137 18 [Swedenborg's] cardinal position in morals is that evils should be shunned as sins.
    SwM 4.137 21 ...he does not know what evil is, or what good is, who thinks any ground remains to be occupied, after saying that evil is to be shunned as evil.
    LLNE 10.359 5 ...if one must study all the strokes to be laid, all the faults to be shunned in a building or work of art...there would be no end.
    GSt 10.503 24 [George Stearns] gave to each [patriotic measure] his strong support, but uniformly shunned to appear in public.

shunnes, v. (1)

    GSt 10.499 2 Who, when great trials come,/ Nor seeks nor shunnes them; but doth calmly stay/ Till he the thing and the example weigh:/ All being brought into a summe/ What place or person calls for he doth pay./ George Herbert.

shuns, v. (5)

    LE 1.175 12 The reason why an ingenious soul shuns society, is to the end of finding society.
    MN 1.215 4 To every reform...early disgusts are incident...so that [the disciple] shuns his associates...
    Comp 2.123 24 Look at those who have less faculty, and one...knows not well what to make of it. He almost shuns their eye;...
    Pol1 3.201 7 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies;...
    Supl 10.174 10 Children and thoughtless people...like to talk of a marriage, of a bankruptcy, of a debt, of a crime. The wise man shuns all this.

shut, v. (49)

    AmS 1.97 12 I will not shut myself out of this globe of action...
    LE 1.171 17 Shut the shutters never so quick to keep all the light in, it is all in vain;...
    LE 1.175 21 ...shut the shutters;...
    MN 1.223 23 Nothing can bar [these qualities] out, or shut them in...
    MR 1.241 10 Neither would I shut my ears to the plea of the learned professions...
    Tran 1.342 13 ...[Transcendentalists] incline to shut themselves in their chamber in the house...
    Tran 1.354 4 Presently the clouds shut down again;...
    SR 2.79 9 Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors...
    Comp 2.110 25 The exclusionist in religion does not see that he shuts the door of heaven on himself, in striving to shut others out.
    SL 2.136 20 Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew...
    Lov1 2.187 24 Looking at these aims with which two persons, a man and a woman, so variously and correlatively gifted, are shut up in one house to spend in the nuptial society forty or fifty years, I do not wonder at the emphasis with which the heart prophesies this crisis from early infancy...
    Prd1 2.234 21 The eye of prudence may never shut.
    Hsm1 2.253 20 When I was in Sogd I saw a great building, like a palace, the gates of which were...fixed back to the wall with large nails. I asked the reason, and was told that the house had not been shut, night or day, for a hundred years.
    OS 2.294 21 ...if [man] would know what the great God speaketh, he must go into his closet and shut the door...
    Int 2.333 27 If you...hoe corn, and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the the corn-flags...
    Pt1 3.36 7 The men in one of [Swedenborg's] visions, seen in heavenly light, appeared like dragons, and seemed in darkness; but to each other they appeared as men, and when the light from heaven shone into their cabin, they complained of the darkness, and were compelled to shut the window that they might see.
    Chr1 3.115 5 When at last that which we have always longed for [a fine character] is arrived...then to be critical...argues a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of heaven.
    NER 3.257 12 ...we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind...
    UGM 4.18 4 The eyes of Plato, Shakspeare, Swedenborg, Goethe, never shut on either of these laws [of identity and of reaction].
    PPh 4.68 10 Our faculties run out into infinity, and return to us thence. We can define but a little way; but here is a fact...which to shut our eyes upon is suicide.
    MoS 4.157 8 [The skeptic says] Why think to shut up all things in your narrow coop...
    MoS 4.165 7 ...though a biblical plainness coupled with a most uncanonical levity may shut [Montaigne's] pages to many sensitive readers, yet the offence is superficial.
    ET8 5.129 3 In mixed company [the English] shut their mouths.
    ET8 5.129 12 Was it...a stroke of humor in the serious Swedenborg...that made him shut up the English souls in a heaven by themselves?
    ET11 5.198 13 [The English] cannot shut their eyes to the fact that an untitled nobility possess all the power without the inconveniences that belong to rank...
    ET12 5.201 23 [Oxford's] gates shut of themselves against modern innovation.
    ET13 5.222 21 ...the same [English] men who have brought free trade or geology to their present standing, look grave and lofty and shut down their valve as soon as the conversation approaches the English Church.
    ET13 5.223 23 [The Anglican Church]...is perfectly well-bred, and can shut its eyes on all proper occasions.
    Ctr 6.133 21 Beware of the man who says, I am on the eve of a revelation. It is speedily punished, inasmuch as this habit invites men to humor it, and by treating the patient tenderly, to shut him up in a narrower selfism...
    Ill 6.319 12 As if one shut up always in a tower, with one window through which the face of heaven and earth could be seen, should fancy that all the marvels he beheld belonged to that window.
    Clbs 7.224 1 Too long shut in strait and few,/ Thinly dieted on dew,/ I will use the world, and sift it,/ To a thousand humors shift it./
    Clbs 7.240 6 You can shut out the light, it may be, but can you shut out gravitation?
    Clbs 7.240 7 You can shut out the light, it may be, but can you shut out gravitation?
    Cour 7.278 15 One day as through the cleft/ Between two mountains steep,/ Shut in both right and left,/ Their questing way they keep,/...
    Suc 7.287 17 The [Norse] mother says to her son:--Success shall be in thy courser tall,/ Success in thyself, which is best of all,/ Success in thy hand, success in thy foot,/ In struggle with man, in battle with brute:--/ The holy God and Saint Drothin dear/ Shall never shut eyes on thy career;/...
    PI 8.32 16 I require that the poem should impress me so that after I have shut the book it shall recall me to itself...
    SA 8.98 9 ...On the day of resurrection, those who have indulged in ridicule will be called to the door of Paradise, and have it shut in their faces when they reach it.
    Elo2 8.127 25 The doctor [Charles Chauncy]...shut up in his closet and his theology, had lost some natural relation to men...
    Aris 10.29 11 Take fire and beare it into the derkest hous/ Betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it behold;/...
    Plu 10.311 18 ...when we have shut [Seneca's] book, we forget to open it again.
    MMEm 10.410 4 When Mrs. Thoreau called on [Mary Moody Emerson] one day, wearing pink ribbons, she shut her eyes, and so conversed with her for a time.
    MMEm 10.410 7 By and by [Mary Moody Emerson] said, Mrs. Thoreau, I don't know whether you have observed that my eyes are shut.
    MMEm 10.418 13 Shut up in this severe weather with careful, infirm, afflicted age, it is wonderful, my [Mary Moody Emerson's] spirits...
    Thor 10.462 5 The length of [Thoreau's] walk uniformly made the length of his writing. If shut up in the house he did not write at all.
    LVB 11.95 9 ...the steps of this crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] follow each other...at such fatally quick time, that the millions of virtuous citizens...must shut their eyes until the last howl and wailing of these tormented villages and tribes shall afflict the ear of the world.
    EWI 11.130 9 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships... freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in jails so long as the vessel remained in port...
    TPar 11.291 9 There are men of good powers who have so much sympathy that they must be silent when they are not in sympathy. If you don't agree with them, they know they only injure the truth by speaking. Their faculties will not play them true, and they do not wish to squeak and gibber, and so they shut their mouths.
    CPL 11.502 14 [Thought] cannot be contained in any cup, though you shut the lid never so tight.
    MAng1 12.216 23 It is a happiness to find...a soul at intervals born to behold and create only Beauty. So shall not...the great spectacle of morn and evening which shut and open the most disastrous day, want observers.

shuts, v. (23)

    Nat 1.11 17 The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.
    Con 1.319 25 If any man resist and set up a foolish hope he has entertained as good against the general despair, Society...shuts him out of her opportunities...
    Comp 2.110 24 The exclusionist in religion does not see that he shuts the door of heaven on himself, in striving to shut others out.
    OS 2.284 18 It is...in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow;...
    Int 2.342 4 ...he [in whom the love of repose predominates] shuts the door of truth.
    Exp 3.52 1 Temperament...shuts us in a prison of glass which we cannot see.
    Nat2 3.189 19 As soon as [a man] is released from the instinctive and particular and sees [his speech's] partiality, he shuts his mouth in disgust.
    NER 3.259 8 Four, or six, or ten years, the pupil is parsing Greek and Latin, and as soon as he leaves the University...he shuts those books for the last time.
    MoS 4.181 4 Others there are to whom the heaven is brass, and it shuts down to the surface of the earth.
    ET12 5.209 19 Oxford...shuts up the lectureships which were made public for all men thereunto to have concourse;...
    ET13 5.222 13 I suspect that there is in an Englishman's brain a valve that can be closed at pleasure, as an engineer shuts off steam.
    ET14 5.252 20 A good Englishman shuts himself out of three fourths of his mind...
    ET14 5.254 13 A horizon of brass of the diameter of his umbrella shuts down around [the English student's] senses.
    Pow 6.61 16 A timid man...observing...sectional interests urged with a fury which shuts its eyes to consequences...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days...
    Boks 7.190 10 ...there are...books...so nearly equal to the world which they paint, that though one shuts them with meaner ones, he feels his exclusion from them to accuse his way of living.
    Boks 7.197 4 ...I find certain books vital and spermatic, not leaving the reader what he was: he shuts the book a richer man.
    Cour 7.258 19 Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin;...
    Cour 7.258 20 Cowardice...shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us;...
    Cour 7.258 22 Cowardice...shuts the eyes of the mind...
    Res 8.138 7 A philosophy sees only the worst;...dispirits us; the sky shuts down before us.
    PPo 8.245 15 Here is the sum, that, when one door opens, another shuts.
    Edc1 10.126 15 ...when one and the same man...leaves...the stupor of the senses, to enter into the quasi-omniscience of high thought...all limits disappear. No horizon shuts down.
    CPL 11.507 8 ...the book is a sure friend...opens to the very page you desire, and shuts at your first fatigue...

shutters, n. (3)

    LE 1.171 17 Shut the shutters never so quick to keep all the light in, it is all in vain;...
    LE 1.175 21 ...shut the shutters;...
    PPr 12.384 21 ...a grain of wit is more penetrating than the lightning of the night-storm, which no curtains or shutters will keep out.

shutting, n. (1)

    MR 1.233 25 Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes...

shutting, v. (5)

    ShP 4.216 17 ...how stands the account of man with this bard and benefactor [Shakespeare], when, in solitude, shutting our ears to the reverberations of his fame, we seek to strike the balance?
    Edc1 10.142 17 Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.
    Bost 12.196 14 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of the year...defrauds the human being in some degree of his relations to external nature;...
    Bost 12.196 16 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of the year, and then again shuttng up the body in flannel and leather, defrauds the human being in some degree of his relations to external nature;...
    ACri 12.301 23 When Samuel Dexter...argued the claims of South Boston Bridge, he had to meet loud complaints of the shutting out of the coasting-trade by the proposed improvements.

shuttle, n. (2)

    SovE 10.191 5 Humanity sits at the dread loom and throws the shuttle...
    MMEm 10.424 19 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or feel he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow,- labors, rather...

shuttles, n. (2)

    YA 1.364 1 ...the locomotive and the steamboat, like enormous shuttles, shoot every day across the thousand various threads of national descent and employment...
    MMEm 10.424 8 [Time] Hasten to finish thy motley work, on which frightful Gorgons are at play, spite of holy ghosts. 'T is already moth-eaten and its shuttles quaver, as the beams of the loom are shaken.

shy, adj. (4)

    ET1 5.6 6 ...[Greenough] thought art would never prosper until we left our shy jealous ways and worked in society as [the Greeks].
    Bhr 6.185 2 The aspect of that man is repulsive; I do not wish to deal with him. The other is irritable, shy and on his guard.
    Clbs 7.232 4 I know well the rusticity of the shy hermit.
    Let 12.401 17 Where a people honors genius in its artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul, to which the shy sensibility opens...

shyness, n. (1)

    CInt 12.124 11 ...there is a certain shyness of genius...in colleges...

Siamese, adj. (1)

    Prch 10.232 7 ...we are...allied to men around us, as really though not quite so visibly as the Siamese brothers.

Siamese, n. (1)

    ET6 5.108 10 An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.

Siberia, n. (3)

    Wth 6.102 19 There are wide countries, like Siberia, where [the dollar] would buy little else to-day than some petty mitigation of suffering.
    Bhr 6.177 22 In Siberia a late traveller found men who could see the satellites of Jupiter with their unarmed eye.
    Boks 7.219 23 [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...to Siberia, Japan, Timbuctoo.

sibyl, adj. (1)

    Dem1 10.8 27 In dreams I see [Rupert] engaged in certain actions which seem...out of all fitness. He is hostile...he is a poltroon. It turns out prophecy a year later. But it was already in my mind as character, and the sibyl dreams merely embodied it in fact.

sibyl, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.188 23 I had received, said a sibyl, I had received at birth the fatal gift of penetration;...

Sibyl, n. (2)

    Chr2 10.90 2 For what need I of book or priest/ Or Sibyl from the mummied East/ When every star is Bethlehem Star,-/...
    Plu 10.304 14 ...[Plutarch] says...the Sibyl, with her frantic grimaces... continues her voice a thousand years...

Sibylline, adj. (1)

    GoW 4.269 10 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person: he wrote...Sibylline verses...

Sibyls, Delphic, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.150 25 ...besides those who make good in our imagination the place of muses and of Delphic Sibyls, are there not women who fill our vase with wine and roses to the brim...

Sibyls [Michelangelo], n. (1)

    MAng1 12.230 9 [Michelangelo's paintings are in the Sistine Chapel, of which he first covered the ceiling with the story of the Creation, in successive compartments, with the great series of the Prophets and Sibyls in alternate tablets...

sibyls, n. (3)

    Pow 6.72 25 ...[Michel Angelo] went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow, mixed them with glue and water with his own hands, and having after many trials at last suited himself, climbed his ladders, and painted away...month after month, the sibyls and prophets.
    DL 7.131 6 ...in the Sistine Chapel I see the grand sibyls and prophets, painted in fresco by Michel Angelo...
    LS 11.2 2 ...The word by seers or sibyls told,/ In groves of oak, or fanes of gold,/ Still floats upon the morning wind,/ Still whispers to the willing mind./

Sibyl's, n. (2)

    Insp 8.278 19 Herrick said: 'T is not every day that I/ Fitted am to prophesy;/ No, but when the spirit fills/ The fantastic panicles,/ Full of fire, then I write/ As the Godhead doth indite./ Thus enraged, my lines are hurled,/ Like the Sibyl's, through the world;/...
    Mem 12.95 4 Never was truer fable than that of the Sibyl's writing on leaves which the wind scatters.

sic adv. (1)

    swM 4.113 19 Ossa videlicet e pauxillis atque minutis/ Ossibus sic et de pauxillis atque minutis/ Visceribus viscus gigni, sanguenque creari/ Sanduinis inter se multis coeuntibus guttis;/...

Sicilian, adj. (1)

    NMW 4.246 9 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!--when spying the Alps, by a sunset in the Sicilian sea;...

Sicily, n. (9)

    AmS 1.108 19 [The universal mind] is one central fire, which, flaming now out of the lips of Etna, lightens the capes of Sicily...
    PPh 4.44 4 [Plato]...accepted the invitations of Dion and of Dionysius to the court of Sicily...
    ET1 5.3 2 In 1833, on my return from a short tour in Sicily, Italy and France, I crossed from Boulogne and landed in London...
    ET1 5.13 13 ...on learning that I had been in Malta and Sicily, [Coleridge] compared one island with the other...
    ET1 5.13 16 ...on learning that I had been in Malta and Sicily, [Coleridge] compared one island with the other, repeating what he had said to the Bishop of London when he returned from that country, that Sicily was an excellent school of political economy;...
    ET18 5.301 12 ...[the foreign policy of England] betrayed Genoa, Sicily, Parma, Greece, Turkey, Rome and Hungary.
    Elo1 7.69 6 The traveller in Sicily needs no gayer melodramatic exhibition [of eloquence] than the table d'hote of his inn will afford him in the conversation of the joyous guests.
    MoL 10.246 27 There is an oracle current in the world, that nations die by suicide. The sign of it is the decay of thought. Niebuhr has given striking examples of that fatal portent; as in the loss of power of thought that followed the disasters of the Athenians in Sicily.
    CPL 11.497 19 ...I always remember with satisfaction that I saw that venerable plant [Papyrus] in 1833, growing wild at Syracuse, in Sicily...

sick, adj. (28)

    DSA 1.142 5 ...the soul of the community is sick and faithless.
    MN 1.223 20 ...these qualities did not now begin to exist, cannot be sick with my sickness...
    MR 1.250 21 As we cannot make a planet...by means of the best... engineers' tools...so neither can we ever construct that heavenly society you prate of out of foolish, sick, selfish men and women, such as we know them to be.
    Exp 3.65 19 ...do thou, sick or well, finish that stint.
    Exp 3.65 20 Thou art sick, but shalt not be worse...
    NER 3.272 15 [Men] are conservatives...when they are sick, or aged.
    SwM 4.122 17 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times,--when he was born, when he married, when he fell sick and when he died...here was a teaching which accompanied him all day...
    MoS 4.166 9 ...[Montaigne] has stayed in-doors till he is deadly sick;...
    NMW 4.258 23 As long as our civilization is essentially one of property...it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick;...
    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...
    ET14 5.247 15 [Macaulay] thinks it the distinctive merit of the Baconian philosophy in its triumph over the old Platonic, its disentangling the intellect from theories of the all-Fair and all-Good, and pinning it down to the making of a better sick chair and a better wine-whey for an invalid;...
    Wth 6.118 26 The farm yielded no money, and the farmer got on without it. If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his aid;...
    Wsp 6.232 24 Napoleon, says Goethe, visited those sick of the plague...
    Wsp 6.235 2 [Benedict said] My race may not be prospering; we are sick, ugly, obscure, unpopular.
    CbW 6.248 19 A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die...
    CbW 6.263 17 Dr. Johnson said severely, Every man is a rascal as soon as he is sick.
    CbW 6.263 27 ...if people were sick and dying to any purpose, we would leave all and go to them...
    Ill 6.322 11 Like sick men in hospitals, we change only from bed to bed, from one folly to another;...
    DL 7.115 8 If [man] is sick...it is because there is so much of his nature which is unlawfully withholden from him.
    WD 7.159 10 Why need I speak of steam...which is made in hospitals to bring a bowl of gruel to a sick man's bed...
    MMEm 10.419 3 I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked to Captain Dexter's. Sick.
    SMC 11.364 25 [George Prescott writes] I told Lieutenant Bowers, this morning, that I could afford to be sick from bringing the tent-poles...
    FRO1 11.480 19 The soul of our late war...was...secondly, to abolish the mischief of the war itself, by healing and saving the sick and wounded soldiers...
    FRep 11.541 10 Humanity asks...that democratic institutions shall be more thoughtful...for the welfare of sick and unable persons...
    PLT 12.21 12 To be isolated is to be sick...
    Mem 12.102 26 The poet, the philosopher, lamed, old, blind, sick, yet disputing the ground inch by inch against fortune, finds a strength against the wrecks and decays sometimes more invulnerable than the heyday of youth and talent.
    ACri 12.304 11 The classic is healthy, the romantic is sick.
    PPr 12.385 26 In this work [Past and Present], as in his former labors, Mr. Carlyle reminds us of a sick giant.

sick, n. (10)

    Con 1.320 4 [Conservatism's] religion is just as bad; a lozenge for the sick;...
    SR 2.89 26 ...the recovery of your sick...or some other favorable event raises your spirits...
    SL 2.152 20 ...we know that these gentlemen will not communicate their own character and experience to the company. If we had reason to expect such a confidence we should go through all inconvenience and opposition. The sick would be carried in litters.
    Fdsp 2.205 9 We chide the citizen because he makes love a commodity. It... watches with the sick;...
    Wsp 6.212 23 ...the multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.
    CbW 6.263 20 In dealing with the drunken, we do not affect to be drunk. We must treat the sick with the same firmness...
    CbW 6.263 25 I once asked a clergyman in a retired town...what men of ability he saw? He replied that he spent his time with the sick and the dying.
    CbW 6.266 9 There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich...that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveller...
    CL 12.152 19 We know the healing effect on the sick of change of air...
    MLit 12.316 4 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love? Or is his passion for the wilderness only the sensibility of the sick...

sick-bed, n. (1)

    SovE 10.203 7 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion...on a sick-bed, or at a funeral...

sickening, adj. (1)

    WD 7.165 15 What sickening details in the daily journals!

sickening, n. (1)

    HDC 11.35 9 The great cost of cattle, and the sickening of [the pilgrims'] cattle upon such wild fodder as was never cut before;...are the other disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].

sickening, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.236 25 Mira came to ask what she should do with the poor Genesee woman who had hired herself to work for her...and, now sickening, was like to be bedridden on her hands.

sick-headache, n. (1)

    OA 7.324 14 ...be it as it may with the sick-headache,--'t is certain that graver headaches and heart-aches are lulled once for all as we come up with certain goals of time.

sick-headaches, n. (1)

    OA 7.324 8 At fifty years, 't is said, afflicted citizens lose their sick-headaches.

sicklied, v. (1)

    AmS 1.109 21 ...the time is...Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought./

sickly, adj. (6)

    LE 1.169 2 That is morning, to cease for a bright hour to be a prisoner of this sickly body...
    MR 1.242 12 ...the faults and vices of our literature and philosophy ...are attributable to the enervated and sickly habits of the literary class.
    Art1 2.366 27 As soon as beauty is sought...for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. ...an effeminate, prudent, sickly beauty, which is not beauty, is all that can be formed;...
    Nat2 3.178 16 The critics who complain of the sickly separation of the beauty of nature from the thing to be done, must consider that our hunting of the picturesque is inseparable from our protest against false society.
    GoW 4.288 18 All the geniuses are usually so ill-assorted and sickly that one is ever wishing them somewhere else.
    MMEm 10.424 16 ...in the weary womb [of Time] are prolific numbers of the same sad hour, colored...by the prophecy of others, more dreary, blind and sickly.

sickness, n. (32)

    Nat 1.69 19 ...[Man] treads down that which doth befriend him/ When sickness makes him pale and wan./
    DSA 1.127 13 The doctrine of the divine nature being forgotten, a sickness infects and dwarfs the constitution.
    LE 1.178 2 ...out of sickness and pain;...comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
    MN 1.215 3 To every reform...early disgusts are incident, so that the disciple is surprised at the very hour of his first triumphs with chagrins, and sickness, and a general distrust;...
    MN 1.223 20 ...these qualities did not now begin to exist, cannot be sick with my sickness...
    Con 1.319 10 The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity...
    Con 1.319 14 Sickness gets organized as well as health...
    Con 1.319 18 ...now that sickness has got such a foothold, leprosy has grown cunning, has got into the ballot-box;...
    SR 2.72 7 Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door...
    Comp 2.116 24 ...disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove benefactors...
    Prd1 2.233 11 The scholar shames us by his bifold life. ... Yesterday, radiant with the light of an ideal world in which he lives, the first of men; and now oppressed by wants and by sickness, for which he must thank himself.
    OS 2.273 5 In sickness...give us a strain of poetry...and we are refreshed;...
    Exp 3.65 16 Thy sickness, they say, and thy puny habit require that thou do this or avoid that...
    PPh 4.58 1 [Plato] has been charged with feigning sickness at the time of the death of Socrates.
    Pow 6.56 4 Sickness is poor-spirited...
    Ctr 6.133 7 [Egotists] like sickness...
    Wsp 6.239 25 ...[men] suffer from politics...or from sickness, and they would gladly know that they were to be dismissed from the duties of life.
    CbW 6.263 8 ...sickness is a cannibal which eats up all the life and youth it can lay hold of...
    Art2 7.54 26 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight, sickness, or odd appearance in the street.
    Cour 7.266 16 Hear what women say of doing a task by sheer force of will: it costs them a fit of sickness.
    Suc 7.282 8 ...If thou go in thine own likeness,/ Be it health or be it sickness;/ If thou go as thy father's son,/ If thou wear no mask or lie,/ Dealing purely and nakedly;--/...
    PI 8.59 13 Another bard in like tone says,--I am possessed of songs such as no son of man can repeat; one of them is called the 'Helper'; it will help thee at thy need in sickness, grief, and all adversities.
    SA 8.98 16 Never name sickness...
    Insp 8.283 13 Seneca says of an almost fatal sickness that befell him, The thought of my father...restrained me;...
    Edc1 10.128 9 Here is a world...fenced and planted with civil partitions and properties, which all put new restraints on the young inhabitant. He too must come into this magic circle of relations, and know health and sickness...
    Edc1 10.129 24 [Is it not true] That...sickness, sorrow, success, all work actively upon our being...
    EzRy 10.386 9 [Ezra Ripley's] prayers...against sickness and insanity;...are well remembered...
    EzRy 10.393 7 The usual experiences of men, birth, marriage, sickness, death, burial;...[Ezra Ripley] studied them all...
    MMEm 10.402 4 [Mary Moody Emerson's] good will to serve in time of sickness or of pressure was known to [her brothers and sisters]...
    MMEm 10.428 4 The sickness of the last week was fine medicine;...
    HDC 11.37 8 Many instances of [the Indian's] humanity were known to the Englishmen who suffered in the woods from sickness or cold.
    SMC 11.364 22 At this time Captain Prescott was daily threatened with sickness...

Sid River, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.179 14 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Exmouth, Dartmouth, Sidmouth, Teignmouth, the mouths of the Ex, Dart, Sid and Teign rivers.

side, n. (211)

    Nat 1.13 13 ...the ice, on the other side of the planet, condenses rain on this;...
    Nat 1.20 14 The winds and waves, said Gibbon, are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
    Nat 1.20 23 ...when Arnold Winkelried...gathers in his side a sheaf of Austrian spears to break the line for his comrades; are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    Nat 1.21 19 ...the multitude imagined they saw liberty and virtue sitting by [Lord Russell's] side.
    Nat 1.35 6 ...visible nature must have a spiritual and moral side.
    Nat 1.44 25 Every such truth is the absolute Ens seen from one side.
    Nat 1.46 9 We are associated in adolescent and adult life with some friends...who, answering each to a certain affection of the soul, satisfy our desire on that side;...
    AmS 1.104 23 ...[the scholar] will...find in himself a perfect comprehension of [fear's] nature and extent; he will have made his hands meet on the other side...
    AmS 1.108 16 The human mind cannot be enshrined in a person who shall set a barrier on any one side to this unbounded, unboundable empire.
    AmS 1.110 7 If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not... when the old and the new stand side by side...
    LE 1.182 15 [The man of genius] must draw from the infinite Reason, on one side;...
    MR 1.252 15 An acceptance of the sentiment of love throughout Christendom for a season would bring the felon and the outcast to our side in tears...
    LT 1.260 23 Let [Conservatism's] side be fairly stated.
    LT 1.260 27 I wish to consider well this affirmative side [Reform]...
    LT 1.268 13 No Burke, no Metternich has yet done full justice to the side of conservatism.
    LT 1.285 7 By the side of these men [of the intellectual class], the hot agitators have a certain cheap and ridiculous air;...
    Con 1.301 10 If we see [the world] from the side of Will, or the Moral Sentiment, we shall accuse the Past and the Present...
    Con 1.302 12 What insurmountable fact binds [the conservative] to that side?
    Con 1.306 11 There [the youth] stands...with all the reason of things, one would say, on his side.
    Tran 1.330 25 [The idealist] does not deny the presence of this table, this chair...but he looks at these things as the reverse side of the tapestry...
    Tran 1.338 6 ...all who by strong bias of nature have leaned to the spiritual side in doctrine, have stopped short of their goal.
    Tran 1.346 16 [A man] ought to be...a great influence...so that though absent...if the earth should open at my side...his name should be the prayer I should utter to the Universe.
    YA 1.372 6 [That Genius] indicates itself by...a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.
    YA 1.381 21 On one side is agricultural chemistry, coolly exposing the nonsense of our spendthrift agriculture...
    YA 1.382 5 Here are Etzlers...who...undoubtingly affirm that the smallest union would make every man rich;-and, on the other side, a multitude of poor men and women seeking work...
    YA 1.388 21 The 'opposition' papers, so called, are on the same side.
    YA 1.390 8 That is [the hero's] nobility, his oath of knighthood...always to throw himself on the side of weakness, of youth, of hope;...
    YA 1.390 9 That is [the hero's] nobility...always to throw himself...on the liberal, on the expansive side...
    YA 1.393 8 The English, the most conservative people this side of India, are not sensible of the restraint [of aristocracy]...
    Hist 2.18 27 ...my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud...quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches,--a round block in the centre, which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth, supported on either side by wide-stretched symmetrical wings.
    Hist 2.24 17 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;... wherein the face is...composed of...symmetrical features, whose eye-sockets are so formed that it would be impossible for such eyes to squint and take furtive glances on this side and on that...
    Hist 2.32 1 ...what see I on any side but the transmigrations of Proteus?
    SR 2.46 6 [Great works of art] teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression...then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side.
    SR 2.54 27 ...[the preacher] is pledged to himself not to look but at one side...
    SR 2.55 1 ...[the preacher] is pledged to himself not to look but at...the permitted side...
    SR 2.84 13 [Society] recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other.
    Comp 2.104 21 [Men] think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side, the bitter.
    Comp 2.104 22 [Men] think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side, the bitter.
    Comp 2.118 5 The wise man throws himself on the side of his assailants.
    Comp 2.120 8 ...every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
    SL 2.141 1 [Each man] is like a ship in a river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one, on that side all obstruction is taken away...
    Fdsp 2.203 21 ...to most of us society shows...its side and back.
    Fdsp 2.208 24 Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
    Fdsp 2.215 22 ...next week I shall have languid moods...then I shall...wish you were by my side again.
    Fdsp 2.216 9 It has seemed to me lately more possible than I knew, to carry a friendship greatly, on one side, without due correspondence on the other.
    Prd1 2.240 26 ...truth, frankness, courage, love, humility and all the virtues range themselves on the side of prudence...
    OS 2.272 2 We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature...
    OS 2.293 2 [God's presence] is...the infinite enlargement of the heart with a power of growth to a new infinity on every side.
    Cir 2.304 27 Lo! on the other side rises also a man and draws a circle around the circle we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere.
    Cir 2.310 15 In conversation we pluck up the termini which bound the common of silence on every side.
    Int 2.331 14 I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that.
    Art1 2.361 26 It had travelled by my side; that which I fancied I had left in Boston was here in the Vatican...
    Art1 2.363 24 Art should...throw down the walls of circumstance on every side...
    Pt1 3.11 1 It is much to know that poetry has been written this very day, under this very roof, by your side.
    Exp 3.59 1 A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough, with planted trees on either side to tempt the traveller, but soon became narrow and narrower and ended in a squirrel-track and ran up a tree.
    Mrs1 3.154 25 ...it seemed as if the instinct of all sufferers drew them to [Osman's] side.
    Gts 3.164 23 ...rectitude scatters favors on every side without knowing it...
    Nat2 3.195 26 Let the victory fall where it will, we are on that side.
    Pol1 3.210 15 On the other side, the conservative party...is timid...
    NR 3.235 9 All things show us that on every side we are very near to the best.
    NER 3.262 19 Now all men are on one side.
    NER 3.271 15 ...[every man] he puts himself on the side of his enemies...
    NER 3.278 27 I remember standing at the polls one day when the anger of the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the independent electors, and a good man at my side, looking on the people, remarked, I am satisfied that the largest part of these men, on either side, mean to vote right.
    NER 3.279 3 I remember standing at the polls one day when the anger of the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the independent electors, and a good man at my side, looking on the people, remarked, I am satisfied that the largest part of these men, on either side, mean to vote right.
    UGM 4.11 8 Each material thing has its celestial side;...
    UGM 4.35 9 It is for man...on every side, whilst he lives, to scatter the seeds of science and of song...
    PPh 4.52 17 On the other side, the genius of Europe is active and creative...
    PPh 4.54 24 The wonderful synthesis so familiar in nature; the upper and the under side of the medal of Jove;...was now also transferred entire to the consciousness of a man [Plato].
    PPh 4.56 7 Plato keeps the two vases, one of aether and one of pigment, at his side, and invariably uses both.
    PPh 4.61 17 [Plato]...slopes his thought, however picturesque the precipice on one side, to an access from the plain.
    PPh 4.78 2 [Plato] argues on this side and on that.
    SwM 4.122 12 [Swedenborg's] religion thinks for him and is of universal application. He turns it on every side;...
    SwM 4.129 9 ...it is only when you leave and lose me by casting yourself on a sentiment which is higher than both of us, that I draw near and find myself at your side;...
    MoS 4.149 1 Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and on the other morals.
    MoS 4.149 5 The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides [sensation and morals], to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
    MoS 4.151 24 On the other part, the men of toil and trade and luxury,--the animal world...and the practical world...weigh heavily on the other side.
    MoS 4.158 19 ...on the other side, it is alleged that labor impairs the form and breaks the spirit of man...
    MoS 4.160 5 [The skeptic] is the considerer...believing...that we cannot give ourselves too many advantages in this unequal conflict, with powers so vast and unweariable ranged on one side, and this little, conceited vulnerable popinjay that a man is, bobbing up and down into every danger, on the other.
    MoS 4.180 4 ...shall we, because a good nature inclines us to virtue's side, say, There are no doubts...
    MoS 4.181 1 Once admitted to the heaven of thought, [some minds] see no relapse into night, but infinite invitation on the other side.
    NMW 4.240 17 In the social interests, [Napoleon] knew the meaning and value of labor, and threw himself naturally on that side.
    GoW 4.265 6 If [the writer] have his incitements, there is, on the other side, invitation...
    GoW 4.283 10 ...men distinguished for wit and learning, in England and France, adopt their study and their side with a certain levity...
    GoW 4.288 16 Socrates loved Athens; Montaigne, Paris; and Madame de Stael said she was only vulnerable on that side...
    ET1 5.12 16 ...[Coleridge said] this also, that if you should insist on your faith here in England, and I on mine, mine would be the hotter side of the fagot.
    ET2 5.29 6 Nobody likes to be treated ignominiously, upset, shoved against the side of the house...
    ET2 5.33 8 As we neared the land [England], its genius was felt. This was inevitably the British side.
    ET3 5.41 4 ...England is anchored at the side of Europe...
    ET3 5.43 10 The sea shall disjoin the people from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets on every side.
    ET5 5.85 20 In war, the Englishman looks to his means. He is of the opinion of Civilis...whom Tacitus reports as holding that the gods are on the side of the strongest;...
    ET6 5.109 15 This [English] taste for house and parish merits has of course its doting and foolish side.
    ET7 5.125 5 It is told of a good Sir John that he heard a case stated by counsel, and made up his mind; then the counsel for the other side taking their turn to speak, he found himself so unsettled and perplexed that he exclaimed, So help me God! I will never listen to evidence again.
    ET10 5.165 13 Sir Edward Boynton...on a precipice of incomparable prospect, built a house like a long barn, which had not a window on the prospect side.
    ET11 5.190 26 Of course there is another side to this gorgeous show [of English aristocracy].
    ET12 5.201 22 On every side, Oxford is redolent of age...
    ET13 5.221 18 The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain.
    F 6.13 14 In England there is always some man of wealth and large connection, planting himself, during all his years of health, on the side of progress...
    F 6.20 1 A man's power is hooped in by a necessity which...he touches on every side until he learns its arc.
    F 6.22 21 On one side elemental order...and on the other part thought...
    F 6.22 25 ...here they are, side by side, god and devil...
    F 6.22 26 ...here they are, side by side, god and devil...
    F 6.23 5 If you please to plant yourself on the side of Fate...then we say, a part of Fate is the freedom of man.
    F 6.35 12 ...a defect pays [a man] revenues on the other side.
    Pow 6.70 3 The people lean on this [aboriginal source], and the mob is not quite so bad an argument as we sometimes say, for it has this good side.
    Pow 6.76 24 The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency...
    Wth 6.89 19 Beware of me, [the sea] says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands. Fire offers, on its side, an equal power.
    Ctr 6.147 16 ...of the six or seven teachers whom each man wants among his contemporaries, it often happens that one or two of them live on the other side of the world.
    Wsp 6.201 23 ...we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
    CbW 6.275 18 Our domestic service is usually a foolish fracas of unreasonable demand on one side and shirking on the other.
    Bty 6.282 19 All our science lacks a human side.
    Bty 6.286 9 At the birth of Winckelmann...side by side with this arid, departmental, post mortem science, rose an enthusiasm in the study of Beauty;...
    Bty 6.288 2 On the other side, everybody knows people who appear beridden...
    SS 7.10 12 A man is born by the side of his father, and there he remains.
    Civ 7.30 4 A puny creature, walled in on every side, as Daniel wrote,-- Unless above himself he can/ Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!/...
    Art2 7.37 13 On one side in primary communication with absolute truth through thought and instinct, the human mind on the other side tends...to the publication and embodiment of its thought...
    Art2 7.37 15 On one side in primary communication with absolute truth through thought and instinct, the human mind on the other side tends...to the publication and embodiment of its thought...
    Art2 7.43 18 The basis of poetry is language, which is material only on one side.
    DL 7.103 21 The small despot asks so little that all reason and all nature are on his side.
    Farm 7.139 19 It were as false for farmers to use a wholesale and massy expense, as for states to use a minute economy. But if thus pinched on one side, he has compensatory advantages.
    Farm 7.151 23 ...[the first planter] coughs, he has a stitch in his side, he has a fever and chills;...
    WD 7.170 12 There are days which are the carnival of the year. The angels assume flesh, and repeatedly become visible. The imagination of the gods is excited and rushes on every side into forms.
    Boks 7.210 12 Earl Spencer...had paused a quarter of a minute, when Lord Althorp with long steps came to his side...
    Boks 7.212 6 There is another class [of books], more needful to the present age, because the currents of custom run now in another direction and leave us dry on this side;--I mean the Imaginative.
    Clbs 7.233 2 ...there are the gladiators, to whom [conversation] is always a battle; 't is no matter on which side, they fight for victory;...
    Suc 7.288 27 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is victory, without regard to the cause;...the way of the Talleyrands, prudent people...who detect the first moment of decline and throw themselves on the instant on the winning side.
    Suc 7.305 22 An Englishman of marked character and talent, who had brought with him hither one or two friends and a library of mystics, assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England,--he had brought all that was alive away. I was forced to reply: No, next door to you probably, on the other side of the partition in the same house, was a greater man than any you had seen.
    OA 7.336 6 I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side.
    PI 8.6 1 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from the forms to the lurking method. This hint...upsets...the common sense side of religion and literature...
    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.
    SA 8.95 10 What a good trait is that recorded of Madame de Maintenon, that, during dinner, the servant slipped to her side, Please, madame, one anecdote more, for there is no roast to-day.
    SA 8.98 14 Shun the negative side.
    Elo2 8.124 12 ...in your struggles with the world...when priest and Levite shall come and look on you and pass by on the other side, seek refuge...in the precepts and example of Him whose law is love...
    Elo2 8.131 10 There is [in eloquence] always the previous question: How came you on that side?
    QO 8.199 4 ...[Swedenborg] noticed that, when in his bed, alternately sleeping and waking,-sleeping, he was surrounded by persons disputing and offering opinions on the one side and on the other side of a proposition;...
    QO 8.199 5 ...[Swedenborg] noticed that, when in his bed, alternately sleeping and waking,-sleeping, he was surrounded by persons disputing and offering opinions on the one side and on the other side of a proposition;...
    PC 8.210 7 When classes are exasperated against each other, the peace of the world is always kept by striking a new note. Instantly...those who were opposed are now side by side.
    PC 8.218 6 The history of Greece is at one time reduced to two persons,- Philip...on the one side, and Demosthenes...on the other.
    PC 8.221 25 To this material essence [centrality] answers Truth, in the intellectual world...Truth, on whose side we always heartily are.
    PC 8.232 26 We have suffered our young men of ambition to play the game of politics and take the immoral side without loss of caste...
    PPo 8.238 16 On the other side, the desert, the simoon, the mirage, the lion and the plague endanger [subsistence in the East]...
    PPo 8.245 16 On every side is an ambush laid by the robber-troops of circumstance;...
    PPo 8.262 20 A painter in China once painted a hall;/ Such a web never hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush with rich colors did run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the sun;/ So that all which delighted the eye in one side,/ The same, point for point, in the other replied./
    Grts 8.303 5 The man in the tavern maintains his opinion, though the whole crowd takes the other side; we are at once drawn to him.
    PerF 10.87 22 ...we shrink to speak of [our moral sentiment] or to range ourselves by its side.
    Chr2 10.116 16 ...every church divides itself into a liberal and expectant class, on one side, and an unwilling and conservative class on the other.
    Edc1 10.152 18 Each [pupil] requires so much consideration, that the morning hope of the teacher...is often closed at evening by despair. Each single case...shows...the strict conditions of the hours, on one side, and the number of tasks, on the other.
    Supl 10.171 25 If man loves the conditioned, he also loves the unconditioned. We don't wish to sin on the other side...
    Prch 10.231 18 I do not love sensation preaching...the hurrah for our side...
    MoL 10.256 27 There is always the previous question, How came you on that side?
    Plu 10.291 5 ...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./
    Plu 10.306 3 [Plutarch's] poor indignation against Herodotus was perhaps a youthful prize essay...or perhaps, at a rhetorician's school, the subject of Herodotus being the lesson of the day, Plutarch was appointed by lot to take the adverse side.
    Plu 10.314 14 ...Plutarch always addresses the question [of immortality] on the human side...
    LLNE 10.339 5 ...the tendency even of Punch's caricature, was all on the side of the people.
    LLNE 10.351 1 ...fancy the earth planted with fifties and hundreds of these [Fourierist] phalanxes side by side...
    LLNE 10.366 19 ...every visitor [to Brook Farm] found that there was a comic side to this Paradise of shepherds and shepherdesses.
    CSC 10.375 2 The most daring innovators and the champions-until-death of the old cause sat side by side [at the Chardon Street Convention].
    EzRy 10.384 20 Part of the shay, as it lay upon one side, went over my wife, and yet she was scarcely anything hurt. How wonderful the preservation.
    MMEm 10.404 19 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I scarcely feel the sympathies of this life enough to agitate the pool. This in general, one case or so excepted, and even this is a relation to God through you. 'T was so in my happiest early days, when you were at my side.
    SlHr 10.442 8 [Samuel Hoar] had one side or the other of every important case...
    SlHr 10.442 13 Many good stories are still told of the perplexity of jurors who found the law and the evidence on one side, and yet Squire Hoar had said that he believed, on his conscience, his client entitled to a verdict.
    Carl 10.492 17 [Carlyle] throws himself readily on the other side.
    HDC 11.34 6 After [the pilgrims] have found a place of abode, they burrow themselves in the earth for their first shelter, under a hillside, and casting the soil aloft upon timbers, they make a fire against the earth, at the highest side.
    HDC 11.38 16 [The Puritans] proceeded to build, under the shelter of the hill that extends for a mile along the north side of the Boston road, their first dwellings.
    EWI 11.100 13 The institution of slavery seems to its opponent to have but one side...
    EWI 11.117 22 The governors [of Jamaica], Lord Belmore, the Earl of Sligo, and afterwards Sir Lionel Smith (a governor of their own class who had been sent out to gratify the planters), threw themselves on the side of the oppressed...
    EWI 11.137 2 All the great geniuses of the British senate...Grenville, Sheridan, Grey, Canning, ranged themselves on [emancipation's] side;...
    War 11.168 15 In reply to this charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that such deductions consider only one half of the fact. They look only at the passive side of the friend of peace...they quite omit to consider his activity.
    FSLC 11.183 6 ...you cannot rely on any man for the defence of truth, who is not constitutionally or by blood and temperament on that side.
    FSLC 11.208 16 Why not end this dangerous dispute [over slavery] on some ground of fair compensation on one side, and satisfaction on the other to the conscience of the free states?
    FSLN 11.224 13 Four years ago to-night...Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
    FSLN 11.226 3 In the final hour, when he was forced by the peremptory necessity of the closing armies to take a side,-did [Webster] take the part of great principles...or the side of abuse and oppression and chaos?
    FSLN 11.226 4 In the final hour...did [Webster] take...the side of humanity and justice, or the side of abuse and oppression and chaos?
    FSLN 11.226 5 In the final hour...did [Webster] take...the side of humanity and justice, or the side of abuse and oppression and chaos?
    FSLN 11.236 19 The Persian Saadi said, Beware of hurting the orphan. When the orphan sets a-crying, the throne of the Almighty is rocked from side to side.
    FSLN 11.236 26 Whenever a man has come to this mind, that there is...no liberty but his invincible will to do right,-then certain aids and allies will promptly appear: for the constitution of the Universe is on his side.
    FSLN 11.241 18 We should not forgive the clergy for taking on every issue the immoral side;...
    FSLN 11.241 19 We should not forgive...the Bench, if it put itself on the side of the culprit;...
    FSLN 11.242 26 I [Robert Winthrop] am, as you see, a man virtuously inclined, and only corrupted by my profession of politics. I should prefer the right side.
    FSLN 11.243 5 You, gentlemen of these literary and scientific schools, and the important class you represent, have the power to make your verdict clear and prevailing. Had you done so, you would have found me [Robert Winthrop] its glad organ and champion. Abstractly, I should have preferred that side.
    AKan 11.255 14 There is this peculiarity about the case of Kansas, that all the right is on one side.
    AKan 11.262 10 The land [in California] was measured into little strips of a few feet wide, all side by side.
    JBS 11.280 25 All gentlemen, of course, are on [John Brown's] side.
    ACiv 11.305 4 ...as long as we fight without...any word intimating forfeiture in the rebel states of their old privileges, under the law, [the Southerners] and we fight on the same side, for slavery.
    ACiv 11.310 16 [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] marks the happiest day in the political year. The American Executive ranges itself for the first time on the side of freedom.
    EPro 11.319 19 [The Emancipation Proclamation] draws the fashion to this side.
    SMC 11.353 17 War civilizes, rearranges the population, distributing by ideas,-the innovators on one side, the antiquaries on the other.
    EdAd 11.387 4 We have no sympathy with that boyish egotism, hoarse with cheering for one side, for one state, for one town...
    EdAd 11.388 14 The young intriguers who drive in bar-rooms and town-meetings the trade of politics, sagacious only to seize the victorious side, have put the country into the position of an overgrown bully...
    SHC 11.433 4 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...
    SHC 11.433 21 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted...every tree that is native to Massachusetts...so that every child may be shown growing, side by side, the eleven oaks of Massachusetts;...
    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...
    FRep 11.518 6 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of professional politicians, who...thrust their unworthy minority into the place of the old aristocracy on the one side...
    FRep 11.522 6 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...looks from his coal-fields, his wheat-bearing prairie, his gold-mines, to his two oceans on either side...
    FRep 11.523 22 ...it is useless to rely on [the people] to go to a meeting, or to give a vote, if any check from this must-have-the-money side arises.
    PLT 12.9 15 What with egotism on one side and levity on the other, we shall have no Olympus.
    PLT 12.23 3 From whatever side we look at Nature we seem to be exploring the figure of a disguised man.
    PLT 12.61 12 On the other side the clear-headed thinker complains of souls led hither and thither by affections...
    CL 12.144 5 In Massachusetts, our land...is permeable like a park, and not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills having each one side at forty-five degrees...
    CL 12.144 6 In Massachusetts, our land...is permeable like a park, and not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills having each one side at forty-five degrees and the other side perpendicular...
    CL 12.150 3 [The Indian] consults by way of natural compass, when he travels: (1) large pine-trees, which bear more numerous branches on their southern side; (2) ant-hills...(3) aspens...
    CL 12.150 7 [The Indian] consults by way of natural compass, when he travels: (1) large pine-trees...(2) ant-hills...(3) aspens, whose bark is rough on the north and smooth on the south side.
    CL 12.161 16 In a water-party in which many scholars joined, I noted that the skipper of the boat was much the best companion. The scholars made puns. the skipper saw instructive facts on every side...
    Bost 12.200 23 The American idea, Emancipation...has, of course, its sinister side...
    Bost 12.208 12 ...there is yet in every city a certain permanent tone;...which side is it on?
    MAng1 12.224 18 ...the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist [Michelangelo] hung mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the attack...
    MAng1 12.234 10 When [Michelangelo] was informed that Paul IV. desired he should paint again the side of the chapel where the Last Judgment was painted, because of the indecorous nudity of the figures, he replied, Tell the Pope that this is easily done. Let him reform the world and he will find the pictures will reform themselves.
    Milt1 12.269 19 ...[Milton] threw himself, the flower of elegancy, on the side of the reeking conventicle;...
    Milt1 12.269 20 ...[Milton] threw himself, the flower of elegancy, on the side of the reeking conventicle; the side of humanity, but unlearned and unadorned.
    MLit 12.332 21 Humanity must wait for its physician still at the side of the road...
    AgMs 12.364 3 I believe that my friend [Edmund Hosmer] is a little stiff and inconvertible in his own opinions, and that there is another side to be heard;...
    Trag 12.409 5 A low, haggard sprite sits by our side...

side, v. (3)

    SL 2.138 15 We side with the hero, as we read or paint, against the coward and the robber;...
    FSLN 11.231 7 [Reasonable men] side with Carolina, or with Arkansas, only to make a show of Whig strength...
    PPr 12.382 20 ...let [a man's speech] always side with the race...

side-door, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.340 26 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were...drawing gently towards their great expectation, when a side-door opened, the whole company streamed in to an oyster supper...

sidereal, adj. (3)

    ET4 5.54 7 The kitchen-clock is more convenient than sidereal time.
    Wsp 6.219 7 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and projection keep their craft...a secreter gravitation, a secreter projection rule not less tyrannically in human history...
    SS 7.5 8 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such great terror of being shot, I, who am only waiting to...put diameters of the solar system and sidereal orbits between me and all souls...

sides, n. (65)

    Nat 1.44 25 Every such truth is the absolute Ens seen from one side. But it has innumerable sides.
    MN 1.208 23 ...darest thou think meanly of thyself whom the stalwart Fate brought forth to unite his ragged sides...
    LT 1.269 26 The fury with which the slave-trader defends every inch of... his howling auction-platform, is a trumpet...to...drive all neutrals to take sides...
    LT 1.287 4 Every age has a thousand sides and signs and tendencies...
    Con 1.316 9 The reformer concedes...that if he proposed comfort, he should take sides with the establishment.
    Tran 1.341 14 What [many intelligent and religious persons] do is done only because they are overpowered by the humanities that speak on all sides;...
    Hist 2.19 8 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.
    Comp 2.116 17 All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.
    Comp 2.120 14 Every thing has two sides, a good and an evil.
    SL 2.139 9 [The soul] has so infused its strong enchantment into nature that...when we struggle to wound its creatures our hands are glued to our sides...
    Prd1 2.225 5 There revolve, to give bound and period to [man's] being on all sides, the sun and moon...
    Cir 2.304 3 The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles...
    Cir 2.304 13 ...if the soul is quick and strong it bursts over that boundary on all sides...
    Cir 2.313 2 [Some Petrarch or Ariosto] claps wings to the sides of all the solid old lumber of the world...
    Cir 2.314 22 Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
    Cir 2.319 16 Infancy, youth, receptive, aspiring...abandons itself to the instruction flowing from all sides.
    Pt1 3.9 16 [A recent writer of lyrics] does not stand out of our low limitations, like a Chimborazo under the line...with belts of the herbage of every latitude on its high and mottled sides;...
    Exp 3.65 1 ...lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides...
    Exp 3.82 4 In this our talking America we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides.
    Nat2 3.169 6 There are days which occur in this climate...when, in these bleak upper sides of the planet, nothing is to desire that we have heard of the happiest latitudes...
    Nat2 3.180 15 It is a long way from granite to the oyster; farther yet to Plato and the preaching of the immortality of the soul. Yet all must come, as surely as the first atom has two sides.
    Nat2 3.181 13 ...by clothing the sides of a bird with a few feathers [nature] gives him a petty omnipresence.
    NR 3.242 20 The universality being hindered in its primary form, comes in the secondary form of all sides;...
    NER 3.267 7 Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished in his proportion;...
    UGM 4.27 25 [Geniuses] are very attractive, and seem at a distance our own: but we are hindered on all sides from approach.
    PPh 4.54 22 ...whether a swarm of bees settled on his lips, or not;--a man [Plato] who could see two sides of a thing was born.
    PPh 4.78 6 ...admirable texts can be quoted on both sides of every great question from [Plato].
    MoS 4.149 4 The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides [sensation and morals], to find the other...
    MoS 4.150 2 Each man is born with a predisposition to one or the other of these sides of nature [Sensation or Morals];...
    MoS 4.157 13 [The skeptic says] Why fancy that you have all the truth in your keeping? There is much to say on all sides.
    MoS 4.158 12 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? There is much to say on both sides.
    GoW 4.287 24 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides...
    ET3 5.36 25 ...we have the same difficulty in making a social or moral estimate of England, that the sheriff finds in drawing a jury to try some cause...on which every body finds himself an interested party. Officers, jurors, judges have all taken sides.
    ET5 5.81 20 Into this English logic...an infusion of justice enters, not so apparent in other races;--a belief in the existence of two sides...
    ET11 5.172 23 In spite of...the devastation of society by the profligacy of the court, we take sides as we read for the loyal England...
    ET14 5.243 20 [Locke's] countrymen forsook the lofty sides of Parnassus...
    ET16 5.285 24 Salisbury [Cathedral] is now esteemed the culmination of the Gothic art in England, as the buttresses are fully unmasked and honestly detailed from the sides of the pile.
    ET19 5.313 2 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back with torn sheets and battered sides...
    F 6.47 22 ...[man] is to take sides with the Deity who secures universal benefit by his pain.
    Wth 6.87 24 Wealth begins...in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers;...
    Wsp 6.202 15 The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate, of practical power...
    Bty 6.284 2 The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into nature...
    Boks 7.198 27 ...every fresh suggestion of modern humanity, is there [in Plato]. If the student wish to see both sides...he shall be contented also.
    Comc 8.162 15 So painfully susceptible are some men to these impressions [of halfness], that if a man of wit come into the room where they are, it seems to take them out of themselves with violent convulsions of the face and sides, and obstreperous roarings of the throat.
    Comc 8.173 3 Chodscha answered [Timur], If thou hast only seen thy face once, at at once seeing hast not been able to contain thyself, but hast wept, what should we do,--we who see thy face every day and night? If we weep not, who should weep? Therefore have I wept. Timur almost split his sides with laughing.
    Comc 8.173 27 ...explore the whole of Nature, the farce and buffoonery in the yard below, as well as the lessons of poets and philosophers upstairs in the hall, and get the rest and refreshment of the shaking of the sides.
    PC 8.228 24 Great love is the inventor and expander of the frozen powers, the feathers frozen to our sides.
    Chr2 10.114 7 The soul, penetrated with the beatitude which pours into it on all sides, asks no interpositions...
    Prch 10.219 2 A thousand negatives [the oracle] utters...on all sides;...
    HDC 11.59 27 The virtues of patriotism and of prodigious courage and address were exhibited [in King Philip's war] on both sides...
    EWI 11.146 9 I doubt not that, sometimes, a despairing negro, when jumping over the ship's sides to escape from the white devils who surrounded him, has believed there was no vindication of right;...
    War 11.169 4 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation; I shall not find them defenceless, with idle hands swinging at their sides.
    War 11.170 20 ...[public meetings] vote and vote, cry hurrah on both sides...
    FSLN 11.225 14 Nobody doubts that there were good and plausible things to be said on the part of the South. But this is not a question of ingenuity, not a question of syllogisms, but of sides. How came [Webster] there?
    SMC 11.354 3 As long as we debate in council, both sides may form their private guess what the event may be, or which is the strongest.
    EdAd 11.387 9 ...the grape on two sides of the same fence has new flavors;...
    PLT 12.11 9 Let me have your attention to this dangerous subject [the laws and powers of the Intellect], which we will cautiously approach on different sides of this dim and perilous lake...
    II 12.69 4 Could we prick the sides of this slumberous giant [Instinct];...
    CL 12.149 13 The Hindoos called fire Agni...of graceful form and whose countenance is turned on all sides.
    Bost 12.207 6 From Roger Williams...down to...William Garrison, there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.
    ACri 12.302 7 Shakspeare says, A plague of opinion; a man can wear it on both sides, like a leather jerkin.
    PPr 12.380 2 [Carlyle's Past and Present] is a brave and just book, and not a semblance. No new truth, say the critics on all sides. Is it so?
    Let 12.403 6 A friend of ours went five years ago to Illinois to buy a farm for his son. Though there were crowds of emigrants in the roads, the country was open on both sides...

sides, v. (2)

    ET13 5.223 12 ...whenever it comes to action, the [English] clergyman invariably sides with his church.
    Ctr 6.158 5 As soon as [the poet] sides with his critic against himself, with joy, he is a cultivated man.

sidewalk, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.428 18 ...[Mary Moody Emerson]...delighted herself with the discovery of the figure of a coffin made every evening on their sidewalk, by the shadow of a church tower which adjoined the house.

sidewalks, n. (1)

    CPL 11.495 8 That town is attractive to its native citizens and to immigrants which has a healthy site...good sidewalks, a good hotel;...

side-wind, n. (1)

    PerF 10.74 17 ...if [man] should fight the sea and the whirlwind with his ship, he would snap his spars, tear his sails, and swamp his bark; but by cunningly dividing the force, tapping the tempest for a little side-wind, he uses the monsters...

sidewise, adv. (1)

    PPo 8.246 25 On turnpikes of wonder/ Wine leads the mind forth,/ Straight, sidewise and upward,/ West, southward and north./

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