Sinful to Skills

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

sinful, adj. (6)

    MN 1.221 11 I will that we keep terms with sin and a sinful literature and society no longer...
    NER 3.249 6 Peace now each for malice takes,/ Beauty for his sinful weeds,/ For the angel Hope aye makes/ Him an angel whom she leads./
    PI 8.59 2 [Taliessin says] To another,--When I lapse to a sinful word,/ May neither you, nor others hear./
    Aris 10.30 4 ...he that wol have prize of his genterie,/ For he was boren of a gentil house,/ And had his elders noble and virtuous,/ And n' ill hinselven do no gentil dedes,/ Ne folwe his gentil auncestrie, that dead is,/ He n' is not gentil, be he duke or erl;/ For vilaines' sinful dedes make a churl./
    MMEm 10.427 13 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...really veiling and betraying her organic dislike to any interference, any mediation between her and the Author of her being, assurance of whose direct dealing with her she incessantly invokes: for example, the parenthesis Saving thy presence, Priest and Medium of all this approach for a sinful creature!.
    HDC 11.67 3 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was filled with wonder, that such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent Christ...

sing, v. (31)

    AmS 1.82 4 Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves.
    AmS 1.88 4 Precisely in proportion to the depth of mind from which it issued...so long does [nature] sing.
    AmS 1.97 9 ...nation and world, must also soar and sing.
    AmS 1.111 26 ...let me see...the shop, the plough, and the ledger referred to the like cause by which light undulates and poets sing;...
    SL 2.136 14 We [country folk] have not dollars, merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn; poets will sing;...
    Lov1 2.171 26 With thought, with the ideal, is...the rose of joy. Round it all the Muses sing.
    Prd1 2.227 7 The domestic man, who loves no music so well as...the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.
    Pt1 3.9 22 Our poets are men of talents who sing...
    Pt1 3.29 3 Milton says that...the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl.
    Ctr 6.166 3 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...by loud taps on the tough chrysalis can break its walls and let the new creature emerge erect and free,--make way and sing paean!
    Elo1 7.61 2 It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters that whoever can speak can sing.
    WD 7.180 12 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will...sit at home with repose and deep joy on its face. The world has no such landscape...the future no equal second opportunity. Now let poets sing!...
    WD 7.182 19 A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If the singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way of escape, I had rather have none.
    PI 8.25 4 This metonymy, or seeing the same sense in things so diverse, gives a pure pleasure. Every one of a million times we find a charm in the metamorphosis. It makes us dance and sing.
    PI 8.52 21 ...we have not done with music, no, nor with rhyme, nor must console ourselves with prose poets so long as boys whistle and girls sing.
    PI 8.59 14 Another bard in like tone says ... I know a song which I need only to sing when men have loaded me with bonds...
    PI 8.59 15 Another bard in like tone says ... I know a song which I need only to sing when men have loaded me with bonds, when I sing it, my chains fall in pieces...
    PI 8.60 3 The Crusades brought out the genius of France, in the twelfth century, when Pierre d'Auvergne said,--I will sing a new song which resounds in my breast...
    PI 8.64 7 Bring us the bards who shall sing all our old ideas out of our heads...
    PPo 8.254 28 The muleteers and camel-drivers, on their way through the desert, sing snatches of [Hafiz's] songs...
    Insp 8.268 1 If with light head erect I sing,/ Though all the Muses lend their force,/ From my poor love of anything,/ The verse is weak and shallow as its source./
    Insp 8.281 2 ...another Arabian proverb has its coarse truth: When the belly is full, it says to the head, Sing, fellow!
    Edc1 10.151 1 What poet will [the college] breed to sing to the human race?
    HDC 11.34 12 ...in these poor wigwams [the pilgrims] sing psalms, pray and praise their God...
    AKan 11.260 8 ...our poor people, led by the nose by these fine words [Union and Democracy], dance and sing...with every new link of the chain which is forged for their limbs by the plotters in the Capitol.
    SHC 11.435 22 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...
    RBur 11.440 27 [Burns's] musical arrows yet sing through the air.
    II 12.77 25 ...one day, though far off, you will attain the control of these [higher] states;...you will do what now the muses only sing.
    CInt 12.112 2 I know the mighty bards,/ I listen when they sing,/ And now I know/ The secret store/ Which these explore/ When they with torch of genius pierce/ The tenfold clouds that cover/ The riches of the universe/ From God's adoring lover./
    CInt 12.122 21 [A man] looks at all men as his representatives, and is glad to see that his wit can work at that problem as it ought to be done, and better than he could do it; whether it be to build...sing, heal or compute...
    Milt1 12.256 12 [Milton] declared that he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem;...not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.

singer, n. (8)

    ET11 5.194 21 When Julia Grisi and Mario sang at the houses of the Duke of Wellington and other grandees, a cord was stretched between the singer and the company.
    F 6.17 9 It would not be safe to say when...a singer like Jenny Lind...would be born in Boston;...
    WD 7.182 19 A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If the singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way of escape, I had rather have none.
    Cour 7.268 22 The beautiful voice at church...covers up in its volume...all the defects of the choir. The singers...all yield to it, and so the fair singer indulges her instinct...
    Elo2 8.120 27 A singer cares little for the words of the song;...
    RBur 11.440 21 Not Latimer, nor Luther struck more telling blows against false theology than did this brave singer [Burns].
    Mem 12.105 8 The Persians say, A real singer will never forget the song he has once learned.
    CL 12.142 17 ...a loud singer...profanes the river and the forest...

singers, n. (5)

    Cour 7.268 21 The beautiful voice at church...covers up in its volume...all the defects of the choir. The singers...all yield to it...
    Insp 8.285 13 ...the love-filled singers [nightingales]/ Poured by night before my window/ Their sweet melodies,-/...
    RBur 11.439 22 ...We are here to hold our parliament [the Burns Festival] with love and poesy, as men were wont to do in the Middle Ages. Those famous parliaments might or might not have had more stateliness and better singers than we...but they could not have better reason.
    CPL 11.506 22 With [books] many of us spend the most of our life...these tractable prophets, historians, and singers...
    FRep 11.533 15 We import trifles, dancers, singers, laces, books of patterns...

singing, adj. (2)

    DSA 1.137 7 The faith should blend...with...the singing bird...
    ET8 5.127 4 [The English] are sad by comparison with the singing and dancing nations...

singing, n. (1)

    War 11.163 21 This vast apparatus of artillery,...this martial music and endless playing of marches and singing of military and naval songs seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.

singing, v. (5)

    Art1 2.349 8 ...Let spouting fountains cool the air,/ Singing in the sun-baked square./
    ET16 5.277 18 Over us [at Stonehenge], larks were soaring and singing;...
    Clbs 7.226 6 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles. Sometimes it is facts...sometimes a singing...
    HDC 11.72 20 It is said that all the services of that day [March 13, 1775] made a deep impression on the people [of Concord], even to the singing of the psalm.
    MLit 12.325 4 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the Venetian music of the gondolier, originating in the habit of the fishers' wives of the Lido singing on shore to their husbands on the sea;...

singing-robes, n. (1)

    PI 8.36 19 What are [the poet's] garland and singing-robes? What but a sensibility so keen that the scent of an elder-blow...is event enough for him...

singing-school, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.173 20 The girls may have little beauty, yet plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most agreeable, confiding relations; what with their fun and their earnest, about...when the singing-school would begin...

single, adj. (125)

    Nat 1.23 21 ...the result or the expression of them all [the works of nature] is similar and single.
    Nat 1.24 4 A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.
    Nat 1.28 3 All the facts in natural history taken by themselves...are barren, like a single sex.
    Nat 1.37 5 Proportioned to the importance of the organ to be formed, is the extreme care with which its tuition is provided, - a care pretermitted in no single case.
    Nat 1.56 2 In physics, when [discovery of natural law] is attained, the memory...carries centuries of observation in a single formula.
    AmS 1.97 15 I will not...trust the revenue of some single faculty...
    AmS 1.113 13 Another sign of our times...is the new importance given to the single person.
    AmS 1.115 2 ...if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts... the huge world will come round to him.
    MN 1.201 18 That no single end may be selected and nature judged thereby, appears from this...
    MN 1.203 20 ...Nature seems further to reply, I have ventured so great a stake as my success, in no single creature.
    MR 1.246 9 [Infirm people] contrive everywhere to exhaust for their single comfort the entire means and appliances of that luxury to which our invention has yet attained.
    Con 1.313 5 Who put things on this false basis? No single man, but all men.
    YA 1.382 26 ...agricultural association must, sooner or later, fix the price of bread, and drive single farmers into association in self-defence;...
    Comp 2.97 13 There is somewhat that resembles...man and woman, in a single needle of the pine...
    Comp 2.108 13 That is the best part of each writer which has nothing private in it;...that which in the study of a single artist you might not easily find...
    SL 2.155 19 Truth has not single victories;...
    SL 2.166 2 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form, poor and sad and single...go out to service...
    Lov1 2.175 8 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when a single tone of one voice could make the heart bound...
    Fdsp 2.201 24 Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built...to entertain him a single day.
    Int 2.337 10 A child knows...if the attitude [in a picture] be natural or grand or mean; though he has never received any instruction in drawing or heard any conversation on the subject, nor can himself draw with correctness a single feature.
    Int 2.339 1 The intellect...demands integrity in every work. This is resisted equally by a man's devotion to a single thought and by his ambition to combine too many.
    Int 2.339 4 ...if a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted...
    Int 2.339 14 How wearisome...any possessed mortal whose balance is lost by the exaggeration of a single topic.
    Art1 2.354 7 We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision. It needs, by the exhibition of single traits, to assist and lead the dormant taste.
    Art1 2.354 21 Love and all the passions concentrate all existence around a single form.
    Art1 2.357 25 No mannerist made these varied groups and diverse original single figures.
    Exp 3.57 2 [Our friends] stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take the single step that would bring them there.
    Nat2 3.184 8 It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse...to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.
    Nat2 3.186 21 The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed...
    Pol1 3.199 6 ...we ought to remember...that every one of [the State's institutions] was once the act of a single man;...
    Pol1 3.221 9 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature.
    NR 3.229 19 We adjust our instrument for general observation, and sweep the heavens as easily as we pick out a single figure in the terrestrial landscape.
    NR 3.230 18 We conceive distinctly enough the French, the Spanish, the German genius, and it is not the less real that perhaps we should not meet in either of those nations a single individual who corresponded with the type.
    NER 3.261 23 It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and to conduct that in the best manner, than to make a sally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.
    NER 3.269 23 It was found that the intellect could be independently developed, that is, in separation from the man, as any single organ can be invigorated...
    UGM 4.20 2 I must not forget that we have a special debt to a single class.
    PPh 4.47 10 [Philosophy's] early records...are of the immigrations from Asia...a confusion of crude notions of morals and of natural philosophy, gradually subsiding through the partial insight of single teachers.
    PPh 4.50 14 ...the nature of the Great Spirit is single, though its forms be manifold [said Krishna]...
    SwM 4.98 24 ...[Swedenborg] seemed...to be a composition of several persons,--like the giant fruits which are matured in gardens by the union of four or five single blossoms.
    SwM 4.115 3 A spirit may be known from only a single thought.
    SwM 4.120 19 The reason why all and single things, in the heavens and on earth, are representative, is because they exist from an influx of the Lord, through heaven [said Swedenborg].
    MoS 4.152 4 The ward meetings, on election days, are not softened by any misgiving of the value of these ballotings. Hot life is streaming in a single direction.
    MoS 4.162 15 A single odd volume of Cotton's translation of the Essays [of Montaigne] remained to me from my father's library, when a boy.
    MoS 4.184 11 ...to each man is administered a single drop, a bead of dew of vital power, per day...
    ShP 4.195 4 This balance-wheel, which the sculptor found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found in the accumulated dramatic materials...which had a certain excellence which no single genius...could hope to create.
    ShP 4.195 16 ...the proceeding investigation hardly leaves a single drama of [Shakespeare's] absolute invention.
    ShP 4.200 12 Grotius makes the like remark in respect to the Lord's Prayer, that the single clauses of which it is composed were already in use in the time of Christ...
    ShP 4.201 4 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men.
    ShP 4.202 12 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age...registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth...and lets pass without a single valuable note the founder of another dynasty, which alone will cause the Tudor dynasty to be remembered...
    ShP 4.214 21 ...the speeches in [Shakespeare's] plays, and single lines, have a beauty which tempts the ear to pause on them for their euphuism...
    ET1 5.24 20 To judge from a single conversation, [Wordsworth] made the impression of a narrow and very English mind;...
    ET9 5.146 7 Mr. Coleridge is said to have given public thanks to God...that he had defended him from being able to utter a single sentence in the French language.
    ET12 5.199 6 I regret that I had but a single day wherein to see King's College Chapel [Cambridge]...
    ET15 5.268 6 Of two men of equal ability, the one who does not write but keeps his eye on the course of public affairs, will have the higher judicial wisdom. But...all the articles appear to proceed from a single will.
    ET16 5.284 19 The state drawing-room [at Wilton Hall] is a double cube... the adjoining room is a single cube...
    F 6.48 26 If we thought men were free in the sense that in a single exception one fantastical will could prevail over the law of things, it were all one as if a child's hand could pull down the sun.
    Wth 6.116 20 Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic observation: Lie down on your back, and hold the single lens and object over your eye, etc., etc.
    Wth 6.118 15 A system must be in every economy, or the best single expedients are of no avail.
    Wsp 6.226 24 It is our system that counts, not the single word or unsupported action.
    CbW 6.249 23 ...let us have the considerate vote of single men spoken on their honor and their conscience.
    CbW 6.251 12 All revelations...are made...to single persons.
    Civ 7.23 23 We see...the crimes of a single individual marked and punished at the distance of half the earth.
    DL 7.126 22 Beauty is, even in the beautiful, occasional, or, as one has said, culminating and perfect only a single moment...
    Farm 7.135 22 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/ Ascends as gladly in a single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...
    WD 7.155 3 Daughters of Time, the hypocritic days,/ Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,/ And marching single in an endless file,/ Bring diadems and fagots in their hands./
    Boks 7.194 12 ...whole nations have derived their culture from a single book...
    Boks 7.220 23 ...let each scholar associate himself to such persons as he can rely on, in a literary club, in which each shall undertake a single work or series for which he is qualified.
    Cour 7.256 19 We have had examples of men who, for showing effective courage on a single occasion, have become a favorite spectacle to nations...
    Suc 7.289 2 Lord Brougham's single duty of counsel is, to get the prisoner clear.
    Suc 7.310 13 There is not a joyful boy or an innocent girl buoyant with fine purposes of duty...but a cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
    OA 7.329 6 Linnaeus...lays out his twenty-four classes of plants, before yet he has found in Nature a single plant to justify certain of his classes.
    Res 8.151 5 ...the subject [the physiology of taste] is so large and exigent that a few particulars, and those the pleasures of the epicure, cannot satisfy. I know many men of taste whose single opinions and practice would interest much more.
    QO 8.201 13 To all that can be said of the preponderance of the Past, the single word Genius is a sufficient reply.
    QO 8.202 12 A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honoring emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument, because thus had they said...
    PC 8.217 5 I find the single mind equipollent to a multitude of minds...
    PC 8.224 16 The good wit finds the law from a single observation...
    PPo 8.243 9 Gnomic verses, rules of life conveyed...especially in an image addressed to the eye and contained in a single stanza, were always current in the East;...
    PPo 8.261 26 While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The nightingale to the falcon said/... ...sitt'st thou on the hand of princes,/ And feedest on the grouse's breast,/ Whilst I, who hundred thousand jewels/ Squander in a single tone,/ Lo! I feed myself with worms,/ And my dwelling is the thorn./
    PPo 8.264 19 [The birds] saw themselves all as Simorg,/ Themselves in the eternal Simorg./ When to the Simorg up they looked,/ They beheld him among themselves;/ And when they looked on each other,/ They saw themselves in the Simorg./ A single look grouped the two parties,/ The Simorg emerged, the Simorg vanished,/ This in that and that in this, As the world has never heard./
    Insp 8.292 24 Some perceptions...are granted to the single soul;...
    Insp 8.294 6 We esteem nations important, until we discover...later, that it is...at last...the lowliness, the outpouring, the large equality to truth of a single mind...
    Imtl 8.337 12 The love of life is out of all proportion to the value set on a single day...
    Chr2 10.99 6 The Divine Mind imparts itself to the single person...
    Chr2 10.99 22 The Divine Mind imparts itself to the single person...
    Edc1 10.152 15 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;...
    Edc1 10.153 22 ...there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind...
    Supl 10.165 14 Thousands of people live and die who were never, on a single occasion, hungry or thirsty...
    Supl 10.177 17 A bag of sequins...a single horse, constitute an estate in countries where insecure institutions make every one desirous of concealable and convertible property.
    MoL 10.255 7 ...it is...not at last a few individuals or any heroes, but himself only, the large equality to truth of a single mind...
    Schr 10.265 7 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...
    Schr 10.288 11 I had perhaps wiselier adhered to my first purpose of confining my illustration [of the scholar] to a single topic...
    LLNE 10.339 27 We could not then spare a single word [Channing] uttered in public...
    LLNE 10.358 8 One merchant to whom I described the Fourier project, thought it must not only succeed, but that agricultural association must presently fix the price of bread, and drive single farmers into association in self-defence...
    SlHr 10.444 10 ...was it only the lot of excellence, that with aims so pure and single, [Samuel Hoar] seemed to pass out of life alone...
    Thor 10.474 14 ...I know not any genius who so swiftly inferred universal law from the single fact [as did Thoreau].
    Thor 10.474 18 [Thoreau] thought the best of music was in single strains;...
    GSt 10.505 17 When one remembers...his immovable convictions,-I think this single will [George Stearns] was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    LS 11.15 15 ...this single expectation of a speedy reappearance of a temporal Messiah...would naturally tend to preserve the use of the rite [the Lord's Supper] when once established.
    HDC 11.41 8 ...it appears from a petition of some newcomers, in 1643, that a part [of the land in Concord] had been divided among the first settlers without price, on the single condition of improving it.
    HDC 11.74 16 ...the British fired one or two shots up the river...then a single gun...
    EWI 11.116 18 Throughout the island [Antigua], [the day after emancipation] there was not a single dance known of...
    EWI 11.147 1 I assure myself that this coldness and blindness [towards the negro] will pass away. A single noble wind of sentiment will scatter them forever.
    FSLC 11.190 22 I...shall content myself with reading a single passage.
    FSLN 11.224 3 ...there is not a single general remark...that can pass into literature from [Webster's] writings.
    FSLN 11.241 22 It is a potent support and ally to a brave man standing single, or with a few, for the right...to know that better men in other parts of the country appreciate the service...
    AsSu 11.249 4 ...in the long time when [Charles Sumner's] election was pending, he refused to take a single step to secure it.
    ALin 11.337 13 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius... which...carried forward the fortunes of certain chosen houses, weeding out single offenders or offending families...
    HCom 11.344 6 A single company in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard.
    Wom 11.405 4 Among those movements which seem to be, now and then, endemic in the public mind...rather than the single inspiration of one mind, is that which has urged on society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the position of Woman.
    RBur 11.442 16 ...[Burns] has made the Lowland Scotch a Doric dialect of fame. It is the only example in history of a language made classic by the genius of a single man.
    FRep 11.517 26 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy.
    PLT 12.13 3 Metaphysics is dangerous as a single pursuit.
    PLT 12.21 3 [A thought] comes single like a foreign traveller,-but find out its name, and it is related to a powerful and numerous family.
    PLT 12.40 24 A single thought has no limit to its value;...
    CW 12.170 3 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/ Ascends as gladly in the single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...
    MAng1 12.228 18 [Michelangelo] used to make to a single figure nine, ten, or twelve heads before he could satisfy himself...
    MAng1 12.241 1 [Condivi wrote] As for me...this I know very well, that in a long intimacy, I never heard from [Michelangelo's] mouth a single word that was not perfectly decorous...
    Milt1 12.271 1 Toland tells us, As [Milton] looked upon true and absolute freedom to be the greatest happiness of this life, whether to societies or single persons, so he thought constraint of any sort to be the utmost misery;...
    Milt1 12.276 27 ...the genius and office of Milton were...to ascend by the aids of his learning and his religion...to a higher insight and more lively delineation of the heroic life of man. This was his poem; whereof all his indignant pamphlets and all his soaring verses are only single cantos or detached stanzas.
    ACri 12.304 5 The politics of monarchy, when all hangs on the accidents of life and temper of a single person, may be called romantic politics.
    MLit 12.313 19 ...the single soul feels its right to be no longer confounded with numbers...
    Pray 12.351 3 Many men have contributed a single expression, a single word to the language of devotion...
    AgMs 12.362 20 I [Edmund Hosmer] do not know of a single instance in which a man has honestly got rich by farming alone.
    EurB 12.365 3 It was a brighter day than we have often known in our literary calendar, when within a twelvemonth a single London advertisement announced a new volume of poems by Wordsworth, poems by Tennyson, and a play by Henry Taylor.
    PPr 12.383 13 ...the truth of the present hour, except in particulars and single relations, is unattainable.

single-handed, adj. (1)

    Hsm1 2.250 5 Towards all this external evil the man within the breast... affirms his ability to cope single-handed with the infinite army of enemies.

single-hearted, adj. (1)

    Prd1 2.236 25 ...the good man will be the wise man, and the single-hearted the politic man.

singleness, n. (3)

    ET7 5.116 1 The Teutonic tribes have a national singleness of heart...
    GSt 10.503 27 [George Stearns's] transparent singleness of purpose... disarmed...all gainsayers.
    JBS 11.277 10 ...as soon as [people] read [John Brown's] own speeches and letters they are heartily contented,-such is the singleness of purpose which justifies him to the head and the heart of all.

singly, adv. (5)

    SR 2.59 11 Act singly...
    SR 2.59 12 ...what you have already done singly will justify you now.
    PPh 4.72 16 ...there was some story that under cover of folly, [Socrates] had, in the city government, when one day he chanced to hold a seat there, evinced a courage in opposing singly the popular voice, which had well-nigh ruined him.
    EWI 11.134 3 ...you will not suffer me to forget one eloquent old man [John Quincy Adams]...who singly has defended the freedom of speech, and the rights of the free, against the usurpation of the slave-holder.
    MAng1 12.229 10 Sculpture, [Michelangelo] called his art, and to it he regretted he had not singly given himself.

sings, v. (9)

    LE 1.163 4 ...in the cool breeze that sings out of these northern mountains... behold Charles the Fifth's day;...
    Lov1 2.176 18 Every bird on the boughs of the tree sings now to [the lover' s] heart and soul.
    F 6.40 10 We learn that the soul of Fate is the soul of us, as Hafiz sings...
    F 6.46 2 If the threads are there, thought can follow and show them. Especially when a soul is quick and docile, as Chaucer sings...
    Art2 7.52 14 Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it...
    PI 8.30 5 When [the poet] sings, the world listens with the assurance that now a secret of God is to be spoken.
    PPo 8.253 8 When Hafiz sings, the angels hearken...
    Thor 10.470 24 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of the night-warbler...the only bird which sings indifferently by night and by day.
    Milt1 12.253 26 ...Shakspeare is a voice merely; who and what he was that sang, that sings, we know not.

Sing-Sing, n. (1)

    SS 7.14 25 Put Stubbs and Coleridge, Quintilian and Aunt Miriam, into pairs, and you make them all wretched. 'T is an extempore Sing-Sing built in a parlor.

singular, adj. (35)

    LT 1.270 20 The student of history will hereafter compute the singular value of our endless discussion of questions to the mind of the period.
    SR 2.86 1 A singular equality may be observed between the great men of the first and of the last ages;...
    Mrs1 3.119 17 It is somewhat singular, adds Belzoni, to whom we owe this account, to talk of happiness among people who live in sepulchres...
    Pol1 3.207 11 In this country we are very vain of our political institutions, which are singular in this, that they sprung, within the memory of living men, from the character and condition of the people...
    PPh 4.41 11 It is singular that wherever we find a man higher by a whole head than any of his contemporaries, it is sure to come into doubt what are his real works.
    SwM 4.93 21 What is singular about this region of thought [the world of morals and of will] is its claim.
    SwM 4.126 6 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...
    NMW 4.247 12 [Napoleon's] power does not consist...in any...singular power of persuasion;...
    ET3 5.38 13 The territory [England] has a singular perfection.
    ET3 5.43 18 It is a singular coincidence to this geographic centrality [of England], the spiritual centrality which Emanuel Swedenborg ascribes to the people.
    ET4 5.58 18 ...[the Norsemen] have a singular turn for homicide;...
    ET5 5.82 9 This singular fairness [of the English] and its results strike the French with surprise.
    Bty 6.302 23 ...[the human form] is not only admirable in singular and salient talents, but also in the world of manners.
    WD 7.171 26 It is singular that our rich English language should have no word to denote the face of the world.
    Clbs 7.248 5 ...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis, as it...puts pedantry and business to the door. ...experienced men...sooner or later, impart all that is singular in their experience.
    Dem1 10.5 27 In sleep one shall travel certain roads...or shall walk alone in familiar fields and meadows, which road or which meadow in waking hours he never looked upon. This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight...
    Plu 10.321 6 ...I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals], for its vigorous English style. The work of some forty or fifty University men...it is a monument of the English language at a period of singular vigor and freedom of style.
    LLNE 10.330 10 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the slow but extraordinary influence of Swedenborg; a man...exerting a singular power over an important intellectual class;...
    LLNE 10.354 4 It argued singular courage, the adoption of Fourier's system, to even a limited extent...
    MMEm 10.408 26 To be singular of choice, without singular talents and virtues, is as ridiculous as ungrateful.
    SlHr 10.443 20 [Samuel Hoar's] head, with singular grace in its lines, had a resemblance to the bust of Dante.
    SlHr 10.445 10 It is singular that [Samuel Hoar's] character should make so deep an impression...
    Thor 10.451 5 [Thoreau's] character exhibited occasional traits drawn from this [French] blood, in singular combination with a very strong Saxon genius.
    GSt 10.501 12 ...the painful surprise which the last week brought us, in the tidings of the death of Mr. [George] Stearns, opened all eyes to the just consideration of the singular merits of the citizen...whom this assembly mourns.
    LS 11.11 4 ...it is not a little singular that we should have preserved this rite [the Lord's Supper] and insisted upon perpetuating one symbolical act of Christ whilst we have totally neglected all others...
    EWI 11.99 3 We are met to exchange congratulations on the anniversary of an event singular in the history of civilization;...
    TPar 11.292 21 The sudden and singular eminence of Mr. Parker, the importance of his name and influence, are the verdict of his country to his virtues.
    EdAd 11.391 2 Will [a journal] measure itself with the chapter on Slavery, in some sort the special enigma of the time, as it has provoked against it a sort of inspiration and enthusiasm singular in modern history?
    RBur 11.439 12 ...I heartily feel the singular claims of the occasion [the Burns Festival].
    RBur 11.440 1 I can only explain this singular unanimity [to celebrate Burns's anniversary] in a race which rarely acts together...by the fact that Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...
    Scot 11.465 18 [Scott's] power on the public mind rests on the singular union of two influences.
    II 12.66 16 There is a singular credulity which no experience will cure us of...
    Milt1 12.256 24 For the delineation of this heroic image of man, Milton enjoyed singular advantages.
    MLit 12.314 13 Nor is the distinction between these two habits [of subjectiveness] to be found in the circumstance of using the first person singular...
    MLit 12.328 21 ...what shall we think of that absence of the moral sentiment, that singular equivalence to him of good and evil in action, which discredit [Goethe's] compositions to the pure?

singularity, n. (1)

    CSC 10.374 10 The singularity and latitude of the summons [to the Chardon Street Convention] drew together...men of every shade of opinion...

singularly, adv. (5)

    NMW 4.253 18 Bonaparte was singularly destitute of generous sentiments.
    CbW 6.269 22 ...Talleyrand said, I find nonsense singularly refreshing;...
    Supl 10.179 1 The Northern genius finds itself singularly refreshed and stimulated by the breadth and luxuriance of Eastern imagery and modes of thinking...
    AsSu 11.248 26 The outrage [attack on Sumner] is the more shocking from the singularly pure character of its victim.
    Pray 12.354 21 The last of the four orisons is written in a singularly calm and healthful spirit...

sinister, adj. (13)

    Mrs1 3.122 13 ...we must keep alive in the vernacular the distinction between fashion, a word of narrow and often sinister meaning, and the heroic character which the gentleman imports.
    PPh 4.53 2 [The Greeks] saw before them no sinister political economy;...
    MoS 4.181 26 It is the rule of mere comity and courtesy...to turn your sentence with something auspicious, and not freezing and sinister.
    Bhr 6.181 6 There are...prowling eyes; and eyes full of fate,--some of good and some of sinister omen.
    CbW 6.253 13 In front of these sinister facts, the first lesson of history is the good of evil.
    DL 7.108 18 We are sure that the sacred form of man is not seen in these whimsical, pitiful and sinister masks...
    QO 8.190 6 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine? Cannot they...call their poem Beaumont and Fletcher, or the Theban Phalanx's? The city will for nine days or nine years make differences and sinister comparisons...
    PerF 10.86 26 A boy who knows that a bully lives round the corner which he must pass on his daily way to school, is apt to take sinister views of streets and of school education.
    LVB 11.89 19 ...my communication respects the sinister rumors that fill this part of the country concerning the Cherokee people.
    EWI 11.117 6 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament...contrary to many sinister predictions, that the new crop of [West Indian] island produce would not fall short of that of the last year.
    EdAd 11.387 19 ...though it may not be easy to define [America's] influence, the men feel already its emancipating quality...even in the reckless and sinister politics, not less than in purer expressions.
    Bost 12.200 23 The American idea, Emancipation...has, of course, its sinister side...
    Trag 12.409 6 A low, haggard sprite sits by our side...a sinister presentiment...

sink, n. (1)

    Wth 6.103 16 A dollar...is worth more...in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime...

sink, v. (24)

    MR 1.248 23 ...it would be like dying of perfumes to sink in the effort to re-attach the deeds of every day to the holy and mysterious recesses of life.
    Con 1.320 12 [Conservatism's] social and political action has no better aim;...not to sink the memory of the past in the glory of a new and more excellent creation;...
    Tran 1.331 8 Even the materialist Condillac...was constrained to say... though we should sink into the abyss...it is always our own thought that we perceive.
    SR 2.49 21 [The self-reliant individual] would utter opinions on all passing affairs, which...would sink like darts into the ear of men...
    Comp 2.110 17 ...[every opinion] is a harpoon hurled at the whale, unwinding, as it flies, a coil of cord in the boat, and, if the harpoon is not good, or not well thrown, it will go nigh to cut the steersman in twain or sink the boat.
    Exp 3.62 19 We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation.
    Pol1 3.211 23 Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely... saying that...a republic is a raft, which would never sink, but then your feet are always in water.
    SwM 4.145 3 In the shipwreck...the pilot chooses with science,--I plant myself here; all will sink before this;...
    MoS 4.186 12 If my bark sink, 't is to another sea./
    ET13 5.228 4 ...you, who are an honest man in other particulars [than conformity], know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also that he shall not kneel to false gods, and on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
    F 6.21 11 ...what is hurtful will sink.
    Wsp 6.209 5 ...the arts sink into shift and make-believe.
    SS 7.13 15 We sink as easily as we rise, through sympathy.
    Elo1 7.85 27 ...in the examination of witnesses there usually leap out...three or four stubborn words or phrases...which sink into the ear of all parties...
    Clbs 7.245 17 [A club] requires people...who sink trifles and know solid values...
    PI 8.42 27 We sink to rise...
    QO 8.190 3 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine? Cannot they sink their jealousies in God's love...
    Insp 8.293 8 ...a writer must find an audience up to his thought, or he...will sink to their level or be silent.
    Thor 10.462 19 When I was planting forest trees, and had procured half a peck of acorns, [Thoreau]...proceeded to...select the sound ones. But finding this took time, he said, I think if you put them all into water the good ones will sink;...
    EWI 11.146 15 I doubt not that sometimes the negro's friend, in the face of scornful and brutal hundreds of traders and drivers, has felt his heart sink.
    FSLN 11.237 2 ...that which is hurtful to the world will sink beneath all the opposing forces which it must exasperate.
    FSLN 11.241 27 It is a potent support and ally to a brave man standing single, or with a few, for the right...to know that better men in other parts of the country...will rightly report him to his own and the next age. Without this assurance, he will sooner sink.
    SHC 11.434 15 What is the Earth itself but...according to the Eastern fable, a bridge full of holes, into one or other of which all passengers sink to silence?
    ACri 12.291 24 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our universities, to which editors and members of Congress and writers of books might repair, and learn to sink what we could best spare of our words;...

sinketh, v. (1)

    PI 8.51 20 History sinketh beneath [Oblivion's] cloud.

sinking, v. (5)

    Prd1 2.233 21 ...who has not seen the tragedy of imprudent genius struggling for years with paltry pecuniary difficulties, at last sinking, chilled, exhausted and fruitless...
    Wth 6.123 18 The farmer affects to take his orders; but the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will...for an opinion concerning the mode of...sinking my well...but the ball will rebound to you.
    Elo1 7.90 22 ...tenacity of memory, power of dealing with facts...of sinking them by ridicule or by diversion of the mind...are keys which the orator holds;...
    PerF 10.86 12 All our political disasters grow as logically out of our attempts in the past to do without justice, as the sinking of some part of your house comes of defect in the foundation.
    Mem 12.104 20 ...this power of sinking the pain of any experience and of recalling the saddest with tranquillity, and even with a wise pleasure, is familiar.

sinks, v. (17)

    Nat 1.42 17 ...this moral sentiment...is caught by man and sinks into his soul.
    AmS 1.83 24 [The planter]...sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm.
    NER 3.271 24 How sinks the song in the waves of melody which the universe pours over [the master's] soul!
    NER 3.276 4 ...instead of avoiding these men who make his fine gold dim, [a man] will cast all behind him and seek their society only, woo and embrace this his humiliation and mortification, until he shall know why his eye sinks...in this presence.
    SwM 4.134 13 The thousand-fold relation of men is not there [in Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches in nature to each man...strong by his vices, often paralyzed by his virtues;--sinks into entire sympathy with his society.
    MoS 4.169 5 [Montaigne] keeps the plain; he rarely mounts or sinks;...
    ShP 4.211 20 ...all the sweets and all the terrors of human lot lay in [Shakespeare's] mind as truly but as softly as the landscape lies on the eye. And the importance of this wisdom of life sinks the form, as of Drama or Epic, out of notice.
    ET10 5.161 13 ...[the Bank of England] refuses loans, and...trade sinks;...
    Wsp 6.217 23 ...talent uniformly sinks with character.
    CbW 6.257 20 ...one would say that a good understanding would suffice as well as moral sensibility to keep one erect; the gratifications of the passions are so quickly seen to be damaging, and--what men like least--seriously lowering them in social rank. Then all talent sinks with character.
    Civ 7.20 19 [The Indian] is overpowered by the gaze of the white, and his eye sinks.
    Elo1 7.88 6 The statement of the fact...sinks before the statement of the law...
    Insp 8.280 15 A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate;...he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth...
    PerF 10.72 2 When the continent sinks, the opposite continent...rises.
    FSLN 11.216 9 ...Shakspeare was of us, Milton was for us,/ Burns, Shelley, were with us,-they watch from their graves!/ He alone breaks from the van and the freemen,/ -He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves!/ Browning, The Lost Leader.
    Mem 12.93 22 We figure [memory] as if the mind were a kind of looking-glass, which being carried through the street of time receives on its clear plate every image that passes; only with this difference, that our plate is iodized so that every image sinks into it, and is held there.
    PPr 12.383 9 Time stills the loud noise of opinions, sinks the small, raises the great...

sinner, n. (4)

    OS 2.283 16 Men ask concerning...the state of the sinner...
    PNR 4.84 3 Plato affirms...that the sinner ought to covet punishment;...
    Wsp 6.212 1 ...we appeal to the sanctified preamble of the messages and proclamations of the public sinner, as the proof of sincerity.
    Wsp 6.231 8 What is vulgar...but the avarice of reward? 'T is the difference...of sinner and saint.

sinners, n. (1)

    Comp 2.95 3 The legitimate inference the disciple would draw was,--We are to have such a good time as the sinners have now;...

sinning, v. (1)

    Exp 3.64 8 [Nature] comes eating and drinking and sinning.

sin-offering, n. (1)

    Gts 3.161 27 This is...a false state of property, to make presents of gold and silver stuffs, as a kind of symbolical sin-offering...

sins, n. (9)

    DSA 1.131 10 ...even honesty and self-denial were but splendid sins, if they did not wear the Christian name.
    MR 1.233 2 The sins of our trade belong to no class...
    SL 2.148 5 Hideous dreams are exaggerations of the sins of the day.
    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...
    SwM 4.129 21 Whether from a self-inquisitorial habit that he grew into from jealousy of the sins to which men of thought are liable, [Swedenborg] has acquired, in disentangling and demonstrating that particular form of moral disease, an acumen which no conscience can resist.
    SwM 4.137 18 [Swedenborg's] cardinal position in morals is that evils should be shunned as sins.
    SwM 4.138 2 The less we have to do with our sins the better.
    SS 7.5 15 God may forgive sins, [my friend] said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness...
    DL 7.103 22 ...[the child's] little sins [are] more bewitching than any virtue.

sins, v. (1)

    PNR 4.84 8 Plato affirms...that no man sins willingly;...

Sion House, London, Englan (1)

    ET11 5.181 26 Sion House and Holland House are in the suburbs [of London].

Sioux Indian, n. (1)

    Civ 7.17 7 We praise the guide, we praise the forest life:/ But will we sacrifice our dear-bought lore/ Of books and arts and trained experiment,/ Or count the Sioux a match for Agassiz?/

sip, v. (1)

    UGM 4.19 12 We touch and go, and sip the foam of many lives.

sir, inter. (1)

    AsSu 11.250 6 I think, sir, if Mr. Sumner had any vices, we should be likely to hear of them.

sir, n. (37)

    SR 2.62 7 To [the man in the street] a palace, a statue, or a costly book... seem to say...Who are you, Sir?
    Exp 3.54 5 But, sir, medical history; the report of the Institute; the proven facts!--I distrust the facts and the inferences.
    NER 3.263 4 When we see...a special reformer, we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your one virtue?
    ET1 5.11 23 ...I tell you, sir [said Coleridge], that I have known ten persons who loved the good, for one person who loved the true;...
    ET1 5.12 13 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining...talked of trinism and tetrakism and much more, of which I only caught this, that the will was that by which a person is a person; because, if one should push me in the street, and so I should force the man next me into the kennel, I should at once exclaim I did not do it, sir, meaning it was not my will.
    ET5 5.88 10 Nothing is more in the line of English thought than our unvarnished Connecticut question, Pray, sir, how do you get your living when you are at home?
    ET6 5.111 5 ...the cockneys stifle the curiosity of the foreigner on the reason of any practice with Lord, sir, it was always so.
    ET19 5.310 13 ...as for Dombey, sir, there is no land where paper exists to print on, where it is not found;...
    ET19 5.312 25 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port...
    Wsp 6.233 12 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners, and...the king said, Do you not know, sir, that every moment you spend here is at the risk of your life?
    Boks 7.196 27 ...Never read any [books] but what you like;, or, in Shakspeare's phrase, No profit goes where is no pleasure te'en:/ In brief, sir, study what you most affect./
    OA 7.334 1 E[dward] said [to John Adams]: I suppose, sir, you would not have taken [Mr. Lechmere's] place, even to walk as well as he.
    OA 7.334 17 [John Adams said] I went [to hear George Whitefield] with Jonathan Sewall.--And you were pleased with him, sir?--Pleased! I was delighted beyond measure.
    PI 8.6 6 The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment: our little sir...does not like to be practised upon...
    PI 8.61 14 When Sir Gawain heard the voice which spoke to him thus, he thought it was Merlin, and he answered, Sir, certes I ought to know you well...
    PI 8.61 17 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine], you will never see me more...
    Elo2 8.116 15 When a good man rises in the cold and malicious assembly, you think, Well, sir, it would be more prudent to be silent;...
    Elo2 8.116 17 When a good man rises in the cold and malicious assembly, you think, Well, sir, it would be more prudent to be silent; why not rest, sir, on your good record?
    Dem1 10.15 22 I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon to his hesitating Chancellor;...
    Chr2 10.120 16 Confucius said one day to Ke Kang: Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good.
    Chr2 10.120 23 Ke Kang, distressed about the number of thieves in the state, inquired of Confucius how to do away with them. Confucius said, If you, sir, were not covetous, although you should reward them to do it, they would not steal.
    EzRy 10.386 23 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr. Goodwin offered to relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of leading in prayer; but the Doctor...ejected his offer with some humor, as with an air that said to all the congregation, This is no time for you young Cambridge men; the affair, sir, is getting serious. I will pray myself.
    EzRy 10.387 23 We presently arrived [at the funeral], and the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] addressed each of the mourners separately: Sir, I condole with you.
    EzRy 10.387 24 We presently arrived [at the funeral], and the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] addressed each of the mourners separately: Sir, I condole with you. Madam, I condole with you. Sir, I knew your great-grandfather.
    LVB 11.89 1 Sir [Van Buren]: The seat you fill places you in a relation of credit and nearness to every citizen.
    LVB 11.89 19 Sir [Van Buren], my communication respects the sinister rumors that fill this part of the country concerning the Cherokee people.
    LVB 11.91 26 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting...to drag [the Cherokees]...to a wilderness at a vast distance beyond the Mississippi. And a paper purporting to be an army order fixes a month from this day as the hour for this doleful removal. In the name of God, sir [Van Buren], we ask you if this be so?
    LVB 11.92 21 Sir [Van Buren], does this government think that the people of the United States are become savage and mad?
    LVB 11.93 12 You [Van Buren], sir, will bring down that renowned chair in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this intrument of perfidy [the relocation of the Cherokees];...
    LVB 11.93 24 Sir [Van Buren], to us the questions upon which the government and the people have been agitated during the past year...seem but motes in comparison [with the relocation of the Cherokees].
    LVB 11.95 18 ...a letter addressed as mine is [to Van Buren], and suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain obligations of man, has a burlesque character in the apprehensions of some of my friends. I, sir, will not beforehand treat you with the contumely of this distrust.
    LVB 11.96 7 I write thus, sir [Van Buren], to inform you of the state of mind these Indian tidings have awakened here...
    LVB 11.96 14 I write thus, sir [Van Buren]...to pray with one voice more that you, whose hands are strong with the delegated power of fifteen millions of men, will avert with that might the terrific injury which threatens the Cherokee tribe. With great respect, sir, I am your fellow citizen, RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
    AsSu 11.251 14 Well, sir, this noble head [Charles Sumner]...must be the target for a pair of bullies to beat with clubs.
    AsSu 11.251 18 ...I wish, sir, that the high respects of this meeting shall be expressed to Mr. Sumner;...
    ChiE 11.473 7 ...to the governor who complained of thieves, [Confucius] said, If you, sir, were not covetous, though you should reward them for it, they would not steal.
    ACri 12.301 9 I fell in with one of the founders [of New City] who showed its advantages and its river and port and the capabilities: Sixty houses, sir, were built in a night, like tents.

Sir, n. (10)

    SL 2.135 25 When we come out of the caucus...into the fields and woods, [nature] says to us, So hot? my little Sir.
    Koss 11.397 1 Sir [Kossuth],-The fatigue of your many public visits... forbid us to detain you long.
    Koss 11.397 20 ...now, Sir [Kossuth], we are heartily glad to see you, at last, in these fields [of Concord].
    Koss 11.398 3 Sir [Kossuth], we have watched with attention your progress through the land...
    Koss 11.399 13 We [people of Concord] are afraid that you [Kossuth] are growing popular, Sir;...
    Koss 11.399 18 ...remember, Sir [Kossuth], that everything great and excellent in the world is in minorities.
    Koss 11.399 21 Far be from [the people of Concord], Sir [Kossuth], any tone of patronage;...
    Koss 11.400 21 Sir [Kossuth], whatever obstruction from selfishness, indifference, or from property...you may encounter, we congratulate you that you have known how to convert calamities into powers...
    RBur 11.439 11 ...Sir, I heartily feel the singular claims of the occasion [the Burns Festival].
    CW 12.178 17 Lord Abercorn, when some one praised the rapid growth of his trees, replied, Sir, they have nothing else to do!

sir, v. (1)

    ET19 5.310 8 Sir, when I came to sea, I found the History of Europe, by Sir A. Alison, on the ship's cabin table...

Sirad, Prince of [Albert A (1)

    ET12 5.201 6 Albert Alaskie...Prince of Sirad...was entertained with stage-plays in the Refectory of Christ-Church [College, Oxford] in 1583.

sire, n. (6)

    NMW 4.228 6 Fontanes...expressed Napoleon's own sense, when...he addressed him,--Sire, the desire of perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind.
    NMW 4.234 11 Sire, every regiment that approaches the heavy artillery is sacrificed: Sire, what orders?
    NMW 4.234 13 Sire, every regiment that approaches the heavy artillery is sacrificed: Sire, what orders?
    EWI 11.98 4 There a captive sat in chains,/ Crooning ditties treasured well/ From his Afric's torrid plains./ Sole estate his sire bequeathed/...
    EWI 11.98 5 There a captive sat in chains,/ Crooning ditties treasured well/ From his Afric's torrid plains./ Sole estate his sire bequeathed,-/ Hapless sire to hapless son,-/ Was the wailing song he breathed,/ And his chain when life was done./
    FSLC 11.192 5 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter, I have communicated your majesty's command to your faithful inhabitants and warriors in the garrison, and I have found there only good citizens, and brave soldiers; not one hangman...

sire, v. (1)

    NMW 4.234 8 Sire, General Clarke can not combine with General Junot...

Sirens [Homer, Odyssey], n. (1)

    Elo1 7.74 5 I know no remedy against [an oiled tongue] but...the wax which Ulysses stuffed into the ears of his sailors to pass the Sirens safely.

sirens, n. (1)

    MoS 4.184 24 Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and passion without bounds...but, on the first motion to prove his strength,-- hands, feet, senses, gave way and would not serve him. He was an emperor deserted by his states...and still the sirens sang, The attractions are proportioned to the destinies.

sires, n. (1)

    Bost 12.210 25 ...in Boston, Nature...has given good sons to good sires...

sirloin, n. (1)

    ET5 5.95 6 The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses to order, and breeds in which every thing was omitted but what is economical. The cow is sacrificed to her bag, the ox to his sirloin.

sirloins, n. (1)

    Carl 10.491 18 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they will eat vegetables and drink water, and he...describes with gusto the crowds of people who gaze at the sirloins in the dealer's shop-window...

sirs, n. (1)

    EWI 11.134 13 I entreat you, sirs, let not this stain attach, let not this misery accumulate any longer.

Sismondi's, Jean Charles de (1)

    Boks 7.205 27 To help us, perhaps a volume or two of M. Sismondi's Italian Republics will be as good as the entire sixteen.

sister, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.57 12 ...a new and alarming public distress retarded the growth of [Concord], as of the sister towns...

sister, n. (12)

    SL 2.150 18 ...a person of related mind, a brother or sister by nature, comes to us so softly and easily...that we feel as if some one was gone, instead of another having come;...
    Fdsp 2.207 16 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. No partialities of friend to friend, no fondnesses of brother to sister...are there pertinent...
    NER 3.256 24 ...is there not a wide disparity between the lot of me and the lot of thee, my poor brother, my poor sister?
    Cour 7.261 21 I knew a young soldier...who confided to his sister that he had made up his mind to volunteer for the war.
    PI 8.51 16 Time...is now dominant and...looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes, while his sister Oblivion reclineth semi-somnous on a pyramid...
    MMEm 10.400 11 ...Mary [Moody Emerson] remained at Malden with her grandmother, and after her death, with her father's sister...
    MMEm 10.401 15 Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm] was sold, and its price invested in a share of a farm in Maine, where she lived as a boarder with her sister...
    MMEm 10.407 6 From the country [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her sister in town, You cannot help saying that my epistle is a striking specimen of egotism.
    HDC 11.60 4 Two young farmers, Abraham and Isaac Shepherd, had set their sister Mary, a girl of fifteen years, to watch whilst they threshed grain in the barn.
    HDC 11.60 23 ...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...
    SMC 11.358 15 Before [the youth's] departure [to the Civil War] he confided to his sister that he was naturally a coward...
    Wom 11.425 21 Every woman being the...wife, daughter, sister, mother, of a man, she can never be very far from his ear...

sisters, n. (10)

    Lov1 2.178 26 [The lover's] friends find in [his mistress] a likeness to her mother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood.
    Fdsp 2.210 5 Why...know [your friend's] mother and brother and sisters?
    PNR 4.83 20 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...clear vision of the laws of return, or reaction... instanced everywhere, but specially...in Socrates' belief that the laws below are sisters of the laws above.
    DL 7.120 14 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...the school declamation faithfully rehearsed at home, sometimes to the fatigue, sometimes to the admiration of sisters;...
    PC 8.223 2 The laws above are sisters of the laws below.
    Insp 8.285 29 At last it has become summer,/ And at the first glimpse of morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./ Unmerciful she returns again:/ When often the half-awake victim/ Impatiently drives her off,/ She calls hither the unscrupulous sisters,/ And from my eyelids/ Sweet sleep must depart./
    MMEm 10.400 12 ...Mary [Moody Emerson] remained at Malden with her grandmother, and after her death, with her father's sister, in whose house she grew up, rarely seeing her brothers and sisters in Concord.
    MMEm 10.400 26 [Mary Moody Emerson]...lived in entire solitude with these old people, very rarely cheered by short visits from her brothers and sisters.
    MMEm 10.402 2 In Malden [Mary Moody Emerson] lived through all her youth and early womanhood, with the habit of visiting the families of her brothers and sisters on any necessity of theirs.
    RBur 11.441 19 ...[Burns] has endeared...the dear society of weans and wife, of brothers and sisters...

Sisters, n. (1)

    Bost 12.190 10 ...Dr. Mather writes of [Boston], The town hath indeed three elder Sisters in this colony, but it hath wonderfully outgrown them all...

Sistine, adj. (1)

    II 12.86 17 Michael Angelo must paint Sistine ceilings till he can no longer read, except by holding the book over his head.

Sistine Chapel, Rome, Ital (5)

    Pow 6.72 18 When Michel Angelo was forced to paint the Sistine Chapel in fresco...he went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow...
    DL 7.131 5 ...in the Sistine Chapel I see the grand sibyls and prophets, painted in fresco by Michel Angelo...
    MAng1 12.226 24 When the Sistine Chapel was prepared for him, that he might paint the ceiling, [Michelangelo] found the platform on which he was to work suspended by ropes which passed through the ceiling.
    MAng1 12.228 2 [Michelangelo] finished the gigantic painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in twenty months...
    MAng1 12.230 6 [Michelangelo's] paintings are in the Sistine Chapel...

sit, v. (105)

    AmS 1.111 11 ...I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar...
    LE 1.166 17 ...[the speaker] finds it just as easy and natural to speak,-to speak...as it was to sit silent;...
    LE 1.176 8 Let us sit with our hands on our mouths...
    LE 1.183 22 Hence the temptation to the scholar...to hear the question, to sit upon it, to make an answer of words in lack of the oracle of things.
    Con 1.320 11 [Conservatism's] social and political action has no better aim;...not to sit on the world and steer it;...
    Tran 1.348 17 The good, the illuminated, sit apart from the rest...
    Tran 1.351 10 ...I can sit in a corner and perish (as you call it), but I will not move until I have the highest command.
    YA 1.379 15 Our part is plainly not to throw ourselves across the track, to block improvement and sit till we are stone...
    YA 1.392 1 After all the deductions which are to be made for our pitiful politics, which stake every gravest national question on the silly die whether James or whether Robert shall sit in the chair and hold the purse;... there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...
    YA 1.394 20 Commanding worth and personal power must sit crowned in all companies...
    Hist 2.8 18 [Each man] must sit solidly at home...
    Hist 2.20 7 What would...neat porches and wings have been, associated with those gigantic halls before which only Colossi could sit as watchmen...
    Hist 2.32 20 As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx, who was said to sit in the road-side and put riddles to every passenger.
    SR 2.71 6 ...let us sit at home with the cause.
    SR 2.71 23 How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look, begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary! So let us always sit.
    SR 2.71 25 Why should we assume the faults of our friend...or child, because they sit around our hearth...
    SR 2.78 14 We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down and cry for company...
    SR 2.89 24 In the Will work and acquire, and thou...shall sit hereafter out of fear of [the wheel of Chance's] rotations.
    Comp 2.126 1 ...we sit and weep in vain.
    SL 2.156 5 ...if you sit still...you show [character].
    SL 2.158 12 A fop may sit in any chair of the world...
    SL 2.158 16 Pretension may sit still, but cannot act.
    Fdsp 2.191 8 How many we...sit with in church, whom, though silently, we warmly rejoice to be wth!
    Fdsp 2.193 1 For long hours we can continue a series of sincere, graceful, rich communications [with a commended stranger]...so that they who sit by...shall feel a lively surprise at our unusual powers.
    OS 2.295 5 When I sit in that presence [of God], who shall dare to come in?
    Int 2.331 6 At last comes the era of reflection...when we of set purpose sit down to consider an abstract truth;...
    Int 2.336 14 In common hours we have the same facts as in the uncommon or inspired, but they do not sit for their portrait;...
    Int 2.346 23 ...what marks [Greek philosophers' thought's] elevation and has even a comic look to us, is the innocent serenity with which these babe-like Jupiters sit in their clouds...
    Chr1 3.103 2 If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it...
    Mrs1 3.132 7 ...good sense and character make their own forms every moment, and...sit in a chair or sprawl with children on the floor...in a new and aboriginal way;...
    Mrs1 3.137 10 Let us sit apart as the gods...
    Mrs1 3.138 23 ...a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.
    Nat2 3.183 10 ...let us be men instead of woodchucks and the oak and the elm shall gladly serve us, though we sit in chairs of ivory on carpets of silk.
    NER 3.280 25 When two persons sit and converse in a thoroughly good understanding, the remark is sure to be made, See how we have disputed about words!
    UGM 4.12 7 ...we sit by the fire and take hold on the poles of the earth.
    ShP 4.214 9 Here [in Shakespeare] is perfect representation, at last; and now let the world of figures sit for their portraits.
    ET5 5.82 3 ...[Englishmen] want a working plan...and will sit out the trial...
    ET6 5.106 20 These people [the English] have sat here a thousand years, and here they will continue to sit.
    ET6 5.107 22 ...with the national tendency to sit fast in the same spot for many generations, [the Englishman's house] comes to be, in the course of time, a museum of heirlooms...
    ET6 5.114 2 The company [at an English dinner] sit one or two hours before the ladies leave the table.
    ET9 5.148 23 ...an ex-governor of Illinois, said to me, If the man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest;...
    ET11 5.184 6 ...why need [English peers] sit out the debate? Has not the Duke of Wellington, at this moment, their proxies...
    ET11 5.185 5 In general, all that is required of [English nobility] is to sit securely...
    F 6.27 10 We sit and rule...
    F 6.43 21 What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials which have obeyed the will of some man?
    Pow 6.68 17 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood]...had rather die by the hatchet of a Pawnee than sit all day and every day at a counting-room desk.
    Wth 6.104 7 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the judge will sit less firmly on the bench...
    Wth 6.114 10 Pride...can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented in fine saloons.
    Wsp 6.228 26 If we will sit quietly, what [people] ought to say is said...
    CbW 6.273 26 We know that all our training is to fit us for [friendship], and we do not take the step towards it. How long shall we sit and wait for these benefactors?
    Bty 6.281 17 We should go to the ornithologist with a new feeling if he could teach us what the social birds say when they sit in the autumn council...
    Bty 6.290 25 The cat and the deer cannot move or sit inelegantly.
    Bty 6.299 24 Abbe Menage said of the President Le Bailleul that he was fit for nothing but to sit for his portrait.
    SS 7.9 1 ...we sit and muse and are serene and complete;...
    SS 7.14 5 Is it society to sit in one of your chairs?
    Elo1 7.63 10 No one can survey the face of an excited assembly, without... being agitated to agitate. How many orators sit mute there below!
    Elo1 7.63 22 ...they are not kings who sit on thrones, but they who know how to govern.
    WD 7.180 9 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will...sit at home with repose...
    PI 8.63 20 To true poetry we shall sit down as the result and justification of the age in which it appears...
    PI 8.66 6 The poet must let Humanity sit with the Muse in his head...
    PI 8.67 24 We must...ask whether, if we sit down at home, and do not go to Hamlet, Hamlet will come to us?...
    SA 8.85 26 Why have you statues in your hall, but to teach you that, when the door-bell rings, you shall sit like them.
    SA 8.99 2 Lovers abstain from caresses and haters from insults whilst they sit in one parlor with common friends.
    Insp 8.288 26 I envy the abstraction of some scholars I have known, who could sit on a curbstone in State Street, put up their back, and solve their problem.
    Grts 8.313 18 ...when the Devil appeared to [Barcena the Jesuit] in his cell one night, out of his profound humility he rose up to meet him, and prayed him to sit down in his chair, for he was more worthy to sit there than himself.
    Grts 8.313 19 ...when the Devil appeared to [Barcena the Jesuit] in his cell one night, out of his profound humility he rose up to meet him, and prayed him to sit down in his chair, for he was more worthy to sit there than himself.
    Imtl 8.323 7 ...one of [King Edwin's] nobles said to him: The present life of man, O king, compared with that space of time beyond...reminds me of one of your winter feasts, where you sit with your generals and ministers.
    Aris 10.32 18 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars who sit indifferently in all climates...
    Aris 10.52 5 ...if those who merely sit in [the right aristocrats'] places and are not, like them, able; if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they burn his barns...
    Chr2 10.89 2 Shun passion, fold the hands of thrift,/ Sit still, and Truth is near;/...
    Prch 10.236 17 It is true that which they say of our New England oestrum, which will never let us stand or sit...
    Schr 10.265 4 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the mischief of books...
    Plu 10.308 15 Of philosophy he is more interested in the results than in the method. He...prefers to sit as a scholar with Plato, than as a disputant;...
    Plu 10.318 13 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or verse,-there will Plutarch...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.
    MMEm 10.432 3 Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson] who have learned within three years to sit whole days in peace and enjoyment without the least apparent benefit to any...
    SlHr 10.441 2 [Samuel Hoar] returned from courts or congresses to sit down, with unaltered humility, in the church or in the town-house...
    Thor 10.457 17 ...a young girl...sharply asked [Thoreau], Whether his lecture...was one of those old philosophical things that she did not care about. Henry turned to her...and, I saw, was trying to believe that he had matter that might fit her and her brother, who were to sit up and go to the lecture, if was a good one for them.
    Thor 10.469 9 [Thoreau] knew how to sit immovable...
    Carl 10.487 2 Hold with the Maker, not the Made,/ Sit with the Cause, or grim or glad./
    LS 11.15 7 Elsewhere [St. Paul] tells [the primitive Church] that at that time [the second coming of Christ], the world would be burnt up with fire, and a new government established, in which the Saints would sit on thrones;...
    LVB 11.93 13 You [Van Buren], sir, will bring down that renowned chair in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this intrument of perfidy [the relocation of the Cherokees];...
    EWI 11.118 25 The child will sit in your arms contented, provided you do nothing.
    EWI 11.133 13 To what purpose have we clothed each of those representatives with the power of seventy thousand persons...if they are to sit dumb at their desks and see their constituents captured and sold;...
    War 11.162 6 ...if a foreign nation should wantonly insult or plunder our commerce, or, worse yet, should land on our shores to rob and kill, you would not have us sit, and be robbed and killed?
    FSLC 11.198 11 What shall we say of the functionary by whom the recent rendition [of the Fugitive Slave Law] was made? If he has rightly defined his powers, and has no authority to try the case, but only to prove the prisoner's identity, and remand him, what office is this for a reputable citizen to hold? No man of honor can sit on that bench.
    AKan 11.261 10 ...of Kansas, the President says; Let the complainants go to the courts; though he knows that when the poor plundered farmer comes to the court, he finds the ringleader who has robbed him dismounting from his own horse, and unbuckling his knife to sit as his judge.
    TPar 11.286 8 Theodore Parker was...a man of study...rapidly pushing his studies so far as to leave few men qualified to sit as his critics.
    EdAd 11.384 5 ...the train...shows our traveller what tens of thousands of powerful and weaponed men...sit at large in this ample region...
    Koss 11.400 12 You [Kossuth] may well sit a doctor in the college of liberty.
    SHC 11.435 20 ...hither [to Sleepy Hollow] shall repair...every sweet and friendly influence; the beautiful night and beautiful day will come in turn to sit upon the grass.
    Shak1 11.450 15 Young men of a contemplative turn carry [Shakespeare's] sonnets in the pocket. With that book, the shade of any tree, a room in any inn, becomes a chapel or oratory in which to sit out their happiest hours.
    ChiE 11.471 15 We had said of China, as the old prophet said of Egypt, Her strength is to sit still.
    CPL 11.496 10 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...offering a strong attraction to strangers who are seeking a country home to sit down here.
    FRep 11.535 25 [The class of which I speak] sit in decorated club-houses in the cities, and burn tobacco and play whist;...
    FRep 11.535 27 ...in the country [the class of which I speak] sit idle in stores and bar-rooms...
    CInt 12.130 11 Sit low and wait long;...
    CInt 12.130 16 Go sit with the Hermit in you, who knows more than you do.
    ACri 12.293 3 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...as a general thing; after all. Confusions of lie and lay, sit and set, shall and will.
    MLit 12.313 21 ...the single soul feels its right...itself to sit in judgment on history and literature...
    Pray 12.353 12 Why should I feel reproved when a busy one enters the room? I am not idle, though I sit with folded hands...
    PPr 12.381 21 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the exhortation...to the idle, that no man shall sit idle;...
    Trag 12.411 26 The Egyptian sphinxes, which sit to-day as they sat when the Greek came and saw them and departed...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...
    Trag 12.412 2 The Egyptian sphinxes, which sit to-day...as they will still sit when the Turk, the Frenchman and the Englishman, who visit them now, shall have passed by...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...
    Trag 12.412 10 The Egyptian sphinxes...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...verifying the primeval sentence of history on the permanency of that people, Their strength is to sit still.
    Trag 12.414 25 Nature will not sit still;...

site, n. (5)

    YA 1.368 18 ...the culture of years will never make the most painstaking apprentice [the man of genius's] equal: no more will gardening give the advantage of a happy site to a house in a hole...
    ET1 5.6 20 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure: A scientific arrangement of spaces and forms to functions and to site;...
    LLNE 10.359 7 ...if one must study all the strokes to be laid, all the faults to be shunned in a building or work of art, of...its site, its color, there would be no end.
    HDC 11.37 23 It is said that the covenant made with the Indians...was made under a great oak, formerly standing near the site of the Middlesex Hotel [Concord].
    CPL 11.495 7 That town is attractive to its native citizens and to immigrants which has a healthy site, good land, good roads...

sits, v. (43)

    Nat 1.34 17 There sits the Sphinx at the road-side...
    AmS 1.86 9 The ambitious soul sits down before each refractory fact;...
    AmS 1.105 22 Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table.
    Con 1.317 19 Yonder peasant, who sits neglected there in a corner, carries a whole revolution of man and nature in his head...
    Hist 2.34 5 The universal nature...sits on [the bard's] neck and writes through his hand;...
    Comp 2.117 25 Whilst [a great man] sits on the cushion of advantages, he goes to sleep.
    Fdsp 2.191 23 The scholar sits down to write, and all his years of meditation do not furnish him with one good thought...
    Cir 2.311 4 In common hours, society sits cold and statuesque.
    Art1 2.351 22 In a portrait [the painter]...must esteem the man who sits to him as himself only an imperfect picture or likeness of the aspiring original within.
    NR 3.247 9 ...the Truth sits veiled there on the Bench...
    NER 3.282 2 We seek to say thus and so, and over our head some spirit sits which contradicts what we say.
    PPh 4.59 15 ...the rich man...sits in no more chambers than the poor...
    SwM 4.131 10 A vampyre sits in the seat of the prophet [in Swedenborg's universe]...
    GoW 4.262 24 Whatever [the writer] beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model and sits for its picture.
    GoW 4.287 22 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides...
    ET5 5.84 5 A manufacturer [in England] sits down to dinner in a suit of clothes which was wool on a sheep's back at sunrise.
    ET5 5.92 1 The nation [England] sits in the immense city they have builded...
    ET9 5.148 3 If one of [the English] have...a squeaking or a raven voice, he has persuaded himself...that it sits well on him.
    ET10 5.162 21 Scandinavian Thor...in England...sits down at a desk in the India House...
    ET11 5.179 6 The names [of English towns and districts] are excellent,--an atmosphere of legendary melody spread over the land. Older than all epics and histories which clothe a nation, this undershirt sits close to the body.
    Bhr 6.190 1 Under the humblest roof, the commonest person in plain clothes sits there massive, cheerful, yet formidable...
    Bty 6.299 18 ...we can pardon pride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she...sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.
    SS 7.11 6 ...the power to charm the disguised soul that sits veiled under this bearded and that rosy visage is [the scholar's] rent and ration.
    Boks 7.195 17 There has already been a scrutiny and choice from many hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or political chapter which you read in a fugitive journal comes to your eye. All these are young adventurers, who produce their performance to the wise ear of Time, who sits and weighs...
    Boks 7.220 19 ...[the French Institute and the British Association] divide the whole body into sections, each of which sits upon and reports of certain matters confided to it...
    Suc 7.311 15 ...the inner life sits at home...
    PI 8.66 7 The poet must let Humanity sit with the Muse in his head, as the charioteer sits with the hero in the Iliad.
    SA 8.80 10 The staple figure in novels is the man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates, quite sure and compact...
    Res 8.144 12 The invalid sits shivering in lamb's-wool and furs; the woodsman knows how to make garments out of cold and wet themselves.
    Comc 8.167 3 A classification or nomenclature used by the scholar... becomes through indolence a barrack and a prison, in which the man sits down immovably...
    PerF 10.81 13 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone, but at night or at morning wherever she sits the inevitable circle gathers around her...
    Edc1 10.155 13 [the naturalist's] secret is patience; he sits down, and sits still;...
    Edc1 10.155 14 [the naturalist's] secret is patience; he sits down, and sits still;...
    Edc1 10.155 19 [The naturalist] sits still; if [the creatures of nature] approach, he remains passive as the stone he sits upon.
    Edc1 10.155 20 [The naturalist] sits still; if [the creatures of nature] approach, he remains passive as the stone he sits upon.
    SovE 10.187 21 In the court of law the judge sits over the culprit, but in the court of life in the same hour the judge also stands as culprit before a true tribunal.
    SovE 10.191 5 Humanity sits at the dread loom and throws the shuttle...
    HDC 11.76 3 Captain Charles Miles, who was wounded in the pursuit of the enemy [at Concord bridge] told my venerable friend who sits by me, that he went to the services of that day, with the same seriousness and acknowledgment of God, which he carried to church.
    Wom 11.403 5 ...there in the parlor sits/ Some figure in noble guise,-/ Our Angel in a stranger's form;/ Or Woman's pleading eyes./
    FRep 11.521 27 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...
    II 12.83 2 Whilst [a man] serves his genius, he works when he stands, when he sits, when he eats and when he sleeps.
    MLit 12.334 3 [The Doctrine of the Life of Man] is that which...sits in the silence of the youth.
    Trag 12.409 5 A low, haggard sprite sits by our side...

sitters, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.8 2 ...[the poet] writes primarily what will and must be spoken, reckoning [the hero and the sage], though primaries also, yet, in respect to him, secondaries and servants; as sitters or models in the studio of a painter...

sittest, v. (2)

    SL 2.162 16 Nor can you, if I am true, excite me to the least uneasiness by saying, [Epaminondas] acted and thou sittest still.
    Hsm1 2.257 25 ...friends, angels and the Supreme Being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

sitteth, v. (1)

    PI 8.51 15 Time...is now dominant and sitteth upon a Sphinx...

sitting, adj. (1)

    MAng1 12.229 15 [Michelangelo's Moses] is a sitting statue of colossal size...

sitting, n. (2)

    Edc1 10.155 17 These creatures [in nature] have no value for their time, and [the naturalist] must put as low a rate on his. By dint of obstinate sitting still, reptile, fish...begin to return.
    HDC 11.81 8 In 1786...a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...to hinder the sitting of the Court of Common Pleas.

sitting, v. (34)

    Nat 1.21 10 When Sir Harry Vane was dragged up the Tower-hill, sitting on a sled...one of the multitude cried out to him, You never sate on so glorious a seat!
    Nat 1.21 19 ...the multitude imagined they saw liberty and virtue sitting by [Lord Russell's] side.
    DSA 1.137 10 ...we can make...even sitting in our pews, a far better, holier, sweeter [Sabbath], for ourselves.
    LE 1.166 7 A man of cultivated mind but reserved habits, sitting silent, admires the miracle of free...speech, in the man addressing an assembly;...
    Con 1.296 7 Saturn grew weary of sitting alone...
    Tran 1.348 19 The good, the illuminated, sit apart from the rest...as if they thought that by sitting very grand in their chairs, the very brokers, attorneys, and congressmen would see the error of their ways, and flock to them.
    SL 2.162 18 I see action to be good, when the need is, and sitting still to be also good.
    Pt1 3.9 19 ...this genius [a recent writer of lyrics] is the landscape-garden of a modern house...with well-bred men and women standing and sitting in the walks and terraces.
    Exp 3.60 12 It is not the part of men, but of fanatics...to say that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want or sitting high.
    Chr1 3.110 2 John Bradshaw, says Milton, appears like a consul...so that not on the tribunal only, but throughout his life, you would regard him as sitting in judgment upon kings.
    SwM 4.112 9 [Swedenborg]...sometimes sought to uncover those secret recesses where Nature is sitting at the fires in the depths of her laboratory;...
    NMW 4.230 26 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was born; a man...capable of sitting on horseback sixteen or seventeen hours...
    ET16 5.279 27 [Carlyle] can see, as he reads [the Acta Sanctorum], the old Saint of Iona sitting there and writing, a man to men.
    Ill 6.325 9 Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
    Ill 6.325 26 Every moment new changes and new showers of deceptions to baffle and distract [the young mortal]. And when...for an instant...the cloud lifts a little, there are the gods still sitting around him on their thrones,--they alone with him alone.
    Elo1 7.72 12 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] mixed with the assembled Trojans, and stood, the broad shoulders of Menelaus rose above the other; but, both sitting, Ulysses was more majestic.
    DL 7.120 16 ...who can see unmoved...the first solitary joys of literary vanity...sitting alone near the top of the house;...
    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.
    Cour 7.254 7 Men admire...the man...who, sitting in his closet, can lay out the plans of a campaign...
    SA 8.91 20 ...presidents of the United States are afflicted by rude Western and Southern gossips...until the gossip's immeasurable legs are tired of sitting;...
    Imtl 8.351 26 ...subtler than what is subtle, greater than what is great, sitting [the soul] goes far, sleeping it goes everywhere.
    SovE 10.187 26 Montaigne kills off bigots as cowhage kills worms; but there is a higher muse there sitting where he durst not soar...
    LLNE 10.333 26 [Everett]...speaking, walking, sitting, was as much aloof and uncommon as a star.
    SlHr 10.441 13 ...[Samuel Hoar]...might easily suggest Milton's picture of John Bradshaw, that he...in private seemed ever sitting in judgment on kings.
    LS 11.7 2 Jesus is a Jew, sitting with his countrymen, celebrating their national feast [the Passover].
    LVB 11.90 20 ...it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic, of the men and the matrons sitting in the thriving independent families all over the land, that [the Indians] shall be duly cared for;...
    EWI 11.133 15 To what purpose have we clothed each of those representatives with the power of seventy thousand persons...if they are to sit dumb at their desks and see their constituents captured and sold;- perhaps to gentlemen sitting by them in the hall?
    ACiv 11.297 10 ...now here comes this conspiracy of slavery...this stealing of men and setting them to work, stealing their labor, and the thief sitting idle himself;...
    SMC 11.357 12 At a halt in the march, a few of our boys were sitting on a rail fence...
    CPL 11.496 26 If you consider what has befallen you when reading...a tragedy, or a novel, even, that deeply interested you,-how you forgot...the persons sitting in the room...you will easily admit the wonderful property of books to make all towns equal...
    PLT 12.43 6 I owe to genius always the same debt, of...showing me that gods are sitting disguised in every company.
    Bost 12.199 6 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England], sitting down hard and fast where they came...
    PPr 12.381 7 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths; the picture of the English nation all sitting enchanted...
    PPr 12.382 5 It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae, that men are to be helped...

sitting-room, n. (4)

    Nat2 3.172 21 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames, or of pine logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sitting-room;--these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    DL 7.109 1 Let us go to the sitting-room...
    DL 7.120 1 ...who can see unmoved...the eager, blushing boys...hastening into the sitting-room to the study of to-morrow's merciless lesson...
    QO 8.199 13 ...does it not look...as if we stood, not in a coterie of prompters that filled a sitting-room, but in a circle of intelligences...

sitting-rooms, n. (1)

    ACri 12.286 2 Whitman is our American master, but has not...gained the entree of the sitting-rooms.

sitt'st, v. (1)

    PPo 8.261 23 While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The nightingale to the falcon said/... ...sitt'st thou on the hand of princes,/ And feedest on the grouse's breast,/ Whilst I, who hundred thousand jewels/ Squander in a single tone,/ Lo! I feed myself with worms,/ And my dwelling is the thorn./

situated, v. (2)

    SwM 4.101 5 ...[Swedenborg] lived in a house situated in a large garden;...
    DL 7.122 9 ...[the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in [Lord Falkland]...that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air;...

situation, n. (7)

    LE 1.166 14 ...once having overcome the novelty of the situation, [the speaker] finds it just as easy and natural to speak...as it was to sit silent;...
    NMW 4.243 4 ...Napoleon said...Gentlemen, in the situation in which I stand, my only nobility is the rabble of the Faubourgs.
    ET2 5.33 4 ...the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main: As if, said they, we contended for the drops of the sea, and not for its situation...
    ET16 5.277 27 The temple [Stonehenge] is circular and uncovered, and the situation fixed astronomically...
    Bhr 6.184 5 ...[of every two persons who meet on any affair],--one instantly perceives that he has the key of the situation...
    PI 8.43 17 Barthold Niebuhr said well, There is little merit in inventing a happy idea or attractive situation, so long as it is only the author's voice which we hear.
    SovE 10.213 2 ...to [innocence] come grandeur of situation and poetic perception...

situations, n. (5)

    Hist 2.30 1 [The advancing man] finds that the poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible situations...
    SR 2.52 6 ...do not tell me...of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations.
    NMW 4.246 8 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!...
    PI 8.44 10 Vast is the difference between writing clean verses for magazines, and creating these new persons and situations...
    Thor 10.457 20 [Thoreau] was a speaker and actor of the truth...and was ever running into dramatic situations from this cause.

six, adj. (77)

    Con 1.301 27 ...we must...suffer men to learn as they have done for six millenniums, a word at time;...
    OS 2.267 22 The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul.
    Int 2.334 4 If you...hoe corn, and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the corn-flags, and this for five or six hours afterwards.
    NR 3.229 12 Who can tell if Washington be a great man or no? Who can tell if Franklin be? Yes, or any but the twelve, or six, or three great gods of fame?
    NER 3.259 5 Four, or six, or ten years, the pupil is parsing Greek and Latin...
    PNR 4.80 20 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result.
    PNR 4.80 21 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result.
    SwM 4.117 20 The earth had fed its mankind through five or six millenniums...
    MoS 4.165 14 There is no man, in [Montaigne's] opinion, who has not deserved hanging five or six times;...
    MoS 4.165 16 Five or six as ridiculous stories, too, [Montaigne] says, can be told of me, as of any man living.
    NMW 4.238 5 At Montebello, [Napoleon said,] I ordered Kellermann to attack with eight hundred horse, and with these he separated the six thousand Hungarian grenadiers...
    ET1 5.8 20 [Landor]...designated as three of the greatest of men, Washington, Phocion and Timoleon--much as our pomologists, in their lists, select the three or the six best pears for a small orchard;...
    ET5 5.79 10 ...[Kenelm Digby] was skilled in six tongues...
    ET6 5.113 17 ...[the English] would sooner give five or six ducats to provide an entertainment for a person, than a groat to assist him in any distress.
    ET6 5.113 21 [the dinner] is reserved to the end of the day, the family-hour being generally six, in London...
    ET7 5.124 25 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money. He let it lie there six months...
    ET8 5.128 25 The reputation of taciturnity [the English] have enjoyed for six or seven hundred years;...
    ET10 5.157 16 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon explained the precession of the equinoxes...
    ET10 5.158 4 Finally, [Roger Bacon announced] it would not be impossible to make machines which by means of a suit of wings, should fly in the air in the manner of birds. But the secret slept with Bacon. The six hundred years have not yet fulfilled his words.
    ET10 5.159 19 The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills, has been computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men...
    ET11 5.176 11 At [Richard Neville's] house in London, six oxen were daily eaten at a breakfast...
    ET11 5.178 23 Pepys tells us, in writing of an Earl Oxford, in 1666, that the honor had now remained in that name and blood six hundred years.
    ET11 5.188 9 I look with respect at houses six, seven, eight hundred, or, like Warwick Castle, nine hundred years old.
    ET11 5.189 12 Against the cry of the old tenantry and the sympathetic cry of the English press, the [English nobility] have rooted out and planted anew, and now six millions of people live, and live better, on the same land that fed three millions.
    ET12 5.204 10 This rich library [the Bodleian] spent during the last year (1847), for the purchase of books, 1668 pounds.
    ET15 5.265 27 The old press [the London Times] were then using printed five or six thousand sheets per hour;...
    ET16 5.285 15 The [Salisbury] Cathedral, which was finished six hundred years ago, has even a spruce and modern air...
    ET16 5.289 1 There, in that great sloven continent [America]...still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother, long since driven away from the trim hedge-rows and over-cultivated garden of England. And, in England, I am quite too sensible of this. Every one is on his good behavior and must be dressed for dinner at six.
    Pow 6.55 22 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland. But take out Eric and put in a stronger and bolder man...and the ships will...sail six hundred... miles further...
    Pow 6.79 11 Six hours every day at the piano, only to give facility of touch;...
    Pow 6.79 12 ...six hours a day at painting, only to give command of the odious materials...
    Wth 6.108 12 If, in Boston, the best securities offer twelve per cent. for money, they have just six per cent. of insecurity.
    Ctr 6.147 13 ...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.
    Ctr 6.155 16 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that...takes two looms in the factory, three looms, six looms...
    Ill 6.309 6 We traversed...the six or eight black miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth Cave] to the innermost recess which tourists visit...
    Civ 7.29 10 ...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and his second...
    Elo1 7.82 24 ...[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.
    Boks 7.202 13 If we come down a little [in Greek history] by natural steps from the master to the disciples, we have, six or seven centuries later, the Platonists, who also cannot be skipped...
    SA 8.102 3 I have been often impressed at our country town-meetings with the accumulated virility, in each village, of five or six or eight or ten men...
    Comc 8.167 7 I have been employed, [Camper] says, six months on the Cetacea;...
    PC 8.212 23 The old six thousand years of chronology become a kitchen clock...
    PC 8.214 24 Six hundred years ago Roger Bacon explained the precession of the equinoxes and the necessity of reform in the calendar;...
    Insp 8.291 12 ...the wise student will remember the prudence of Sir Tristram in Morte d' Arthur, who, having received from the fairy an enchantment of six hours of growing strength every day, took care to fight in the hours when his strength increased;...
    Chr2 10.101 22 ...to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him...
    Edc1 10.152 20 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils.
    Prch 10.235 22 All civil mankind have agreed in leaving one day for contemplation against six for practice.
    Schr 10.270 19 I, said the great-hearted Kepler, may well wait a hundred years for a reader, since God Almighty has waited six thousand years for an observer like myself.
    LLNE 10.345 16 [The pilgrim]...explained with simple warmth the belief of himself and five or six young men with whom he agreed in opinion, of the vast mischief of our insidious coin.
    LLNE 10.350 25 ...each community should take up six thousand acres of land.
    LLNE 10.367 20 The children from six to eight [said Fourier]...shall do this last function of civilization [the dirty work].
    LLNE 10.368 17 The society at Brook Farm existed, I think, about six or seven years...
    EzRy 10.382 6 Always inclined to notice ministers, and frequently attempting, when only five or six years old, to imitate them by preaching... [Ezra Ripley] had an ardent desire to be preacher of the gospel.
    MMEm 10.419 25 I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars a year for clothes and charity, and I never remember to have been needy, though I never had but two or three aids in those six years of earning my home.
    Thor 10.468 4 [Thoreau] seemed a little envious of the Pole, for the coincident sunrise and sunset, or five minutes' day after six months...
    Carl 10.492 10 Here, [Carlyle] says, the Parliament gathers up six millions of pounds every year to give the poor, and yet the people starve.
    HDC 11.37 25 Our [Concord] Records affirm that Squaw Sachem, Tahattawan, and Nimrod did sell a tract of six miles square to the English...
    HDC 11.79 6 In June [1776], the General Assembly of Massachusetts resolved to raise 5000 militia for six months...
    HDC 11.79 15 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their brethren...will...fill up the numbers proportioned to the several towns. On that occasion, Concord furnished 67 men, paying them itself, at an expense of 622 pounds.
    HDC 11.80 20 ...our fathers must be forgiven by their charitable posterity, if, in 1782...it was Voted that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day...
    HDC 11.80 24 ......it was Voted [by Concord] that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day, whilst in actual service, an account of which time he should bring to the town, and if it should be that the General Court should resolve, that, their pay should be more than 6s., then the representative shall be hereby directed to pay the overplus into the town treasury.
    LVB 11.91 8 ...out of eighteen thousand souls composing the [Cherokee] nation, fifteen thousand six hundred and sixty-eight have protested against the so-called treaty.
    EWI 11.107 20 Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of July, 1783...to consider what step they should take for the relief and liberation of the negro slaves in the West Indies...
    EWI 11.108 16 [Thomas Clarkson] left Cambridge; he fell in with the six [English] Quakers.
    EWI 11.110 19 ...Slave ships] carried five, six, even seven hundred stowed in a ship built so narrow as to be unsafe...
    EWI 11.112 14 ...the praedials [in the West Indies] should owe three fourths of the profits of their labor to their masters for six years...
    JBB 11.267 20 Captain John Brown is...the fifth in descent from Peter Brown, who came to Plymouth in the Mayflower, in 1620. All the six have been farmers.
    ALin 11.330 21 All of us remember-it is only a history of five or six years-the surprise and disappointment of the country at [Lincoln's] first nomination by the convention at Chicago.
    SMC 11.361 2 Some of these [Civil War] letters are...written on the knee, in the mud, with pencil, six words at a time;...
    SMC 11.364 9 ...I [George Prescott] took six poles, and went to the colonel, and told him I had got the poles for two tents, which would cover twenty-four men...
    CPL 11.498 26 Major Simon Willard's son Samuel graduated at Harvard in 1659, and was for six years, from 1701 to 1707, vice-president of the college;...
    CPL 11.506 15 [Kepler writes] [The book] may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer like myself.
    CL 12.147 8 According to the common estimate of farmers, the wood-lot yields its gentle rent of six per cent....
    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 16 How many poems have been written, or, at least attempted, on the lost Pleiad! for though that pretty constellation is called for thousands of years the Seven Stars, most eyes can only count six.
    Bost 12.185 22 Give me a climate where people think well and construct well,-I will spend six months there, and you may have all the rest of my years.
    MAng1 12.224 25 After an active and successful service to the city [Florence] for six months, Michael Angelo was informed of a treachery that was ripening within the walls.
    AgMs 12.359 1 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect. Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the soil...not like Napoleon, hero of sixty battles, but of six thousand...

Six Nations, n. (1)

    WD 7.178 9 A poor Indian chief of the Six Nations of New York made a wiser reply than any philosopher, to some one complaining that he had not enough time. Well, said Red Jacket, I suppose you have all there is.

six per cents, n. (1)

    Pow 6.61 23 A timid man...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days, and he hardens himself the best he can against the coming ruin. But after this has been foretold with equal confidence fifty times, and government six per cents have not declined a quarter of a mill, he discovers that the enormous elements of strength which are here in play make our politics unimportant.

sixpence, n. (3)

    ET1 5.16 3 [Carlyle] had names of his own for all the matters familiar to his discourse. Blackwood's was the sand magazine;...a piece of road near by, that marked some failed enterprise, was the grave of the last sixpence.
    Wth 6.109 23 ...we charged threepence a pound for carrying cotton, sixpence for tobacco, and so on;...
    HDC 11.41 11 Other portions [of land in Concord] seem to have been successively divided off and granted to individuals, at the rate of sixpence or a shilling an acre.

sixteen, adj. (13)

    NMW 4.230 27 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was born; a man...capable of sitting on horseback sixteen or seventeen hours...
    ET1 5.15 1 ...being intent on delivering a letter which I had brought from Rome, inquired for Craigenputtock. It was a farm in Nithsdale, in the parish of Dunscore, sixteen miles distant.
    ET1 5.15 22 Few were the objects and lonely the man [Carlyle]; not a person to speak to within sixteen miles except the minister of Dunscore;...
    ET2 5.32 10 Sea-days are long--these lack-lustre, joyless days which whistled over us; but they were few--only fifteen, as the captain counted, sixteen according to me.
    ET12 5.205 2 The whole expense, says Professor Sewel, of ordinary college tuition at Oxford, is about sixteen guineas a year.
    Bty 6.287 1 ...the sweet seriousness of sixteen...we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
    WD 7.157 17 ...a good surveyor will pace sixteen rods more accurately than another man can measure them by tape.
    Boks 7.206 2 To help us, perhaps a volume or two of M. Sismondi's Italian Republics will be as good as the entire sixteen.
    LLNE 10.350 18 It takes sixteen hundred and eighty men to make one Man, complete in all the faculties;...
    EzRy 10.381 13 Ezra Ripley followed the business of farming till sixteen years of age...
    Thor 10.461 17 [Thoreau] could pace sixteen rods more accurately than another man could measure them with rod and chain.
    EWI 11.109 11 During the next sixteen years, ten times, year after year, the attempt [to abolish West Indian slavery] was renewed by Mr. Wilberforce...
    EWI 11.111 7 [The West Indian slave] was worked sixteen hours...

sixteenth, adj. (5)

    ET13 5.220 10 Heats and genial periods arrive in history...as in the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and again in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries [in England]...
    Bty 6.296 21 French memoires of the sixteenth century celebrate the name of Pauline de Viguier...
    EzRy 10.385 12 16th May [1735] [Joseph Emerson wrote]: My wife and I rode together to Rumney Marsh.
    SMC 11.372 26 On the sixteenth of June, [the Thirty-second Regiment] crossed the James River...
    Wom 11.415 9 After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century...the Quakers have the honor of having first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes.

sixth, adj. (4)

    SwM 4.117 1 The fact [of Correspondence] thus explicitly stated [by Swedenborg] is implied...in the structure of language. Plato knew it, as is evident from his twice bisected line in the sixth book of the Republic.
    ET5 5.90 26 Private persons [in England] exhibit...the same pertinacity as the nation showed in the coalitions in which it yoked Europe against the empire of Bonaparte, one after the other defeated, and still renewed, until the sixth hurled him from his seat.
    DL 7.125 9 In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is made the coals of an ever-burning egotism. In one, it was his going to sea;... in a sixth, his coming forth from the abolition organizations;...
    EWI 11.107 21 Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of July, 1783...to consider what step they should take for the relief and liberation of the negro slaves in the West Indies...

sixties, n. (1)

    OA 7.328 15 The Indian Red Jacket, when the young braves were boasting their deeds, said, But the sixties have all the twenties and forties in them.

sixtieth, adj. (1)

    OA 7.323 14 It were strange if a man should turn his sixtieth year without a feeling of immense relief from the number of dangers he has escaped.

sixty, adj. (28)

    Hist 2.40 3 What connection do the books show between the fifty or sixty chemical elements and the historical eras?
    Mrs1 3.128 22 The class of power, the working heroes...see...that the brilliant names of fashion run back to just such busy names as their own, fifty or sixty years ago.
    PPh 4.79 6 ...it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.
    MoS 4.169 14 Montaigne died of a quinsy, at the age of sixty, in 1592.
    NMW 4.236 22 [Napoleon] fought sixty battles.
    ET4 5.45 9 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock. Add the United States of America...and you have a population of English descent and language of 60,000,000...
    ET4 5.60 17 The Normans came out of France into England worse men than they went into it one hundred and sixty years before.
    ET16 5.277 10 It was pleasant to see that...[Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across...were like what is most permanent on the face of the planet: these, and the barrows,--mere mounds (of which there are a hundred and sixty within a circle of three miles about Stonehenge)...
    ET16 5.277 26 There are ninety-four stones [at Stonehenge], and there were once probably one hundred and sixty.
    ET16 5.284 18 The state drawing-room [at Wilton Hall] is a double cube, 30 feet high, by 30 feet wide, by 60 feet long...
    Pow 6.72 6 Of the sixty thousand men making [Napoleon's] army at Eylau, it seems some thirty thousand were thieves and burglars.
    Boks 7.193 17 It is easy...to demonstrate that though [a man] should read from dawn till dark, for sixty years, he must die in the first alcoves [of the libraries].
    OA 7.319 17 We had a judge in Massachusetts who at sixty proposed to resign...
    OA 7.321 4 A man of great employments and excellent performance used to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was sixty;...
    Imtl 8.328 4 Sixty years ago, the books read...were all directed on death.
    Aris 10.42 23 The horn of Roland, in the romance, is heard sixty miles.
    Chr2 10.106 15 The older see two generations, or sixty years.
    LLNE 10.330 3 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times; from the Arminians, which was the current name of the backsliders from Calvinism, sixty years ago;...
    MMEm 10.414 18 [Mary Moody Emerson] alludes to the early days of her solitude, sixty years afterward, on her own farm in Maine...
    MMEm 10.429 8 I [Mary Moody Emerson] enter my dear sixty the last of this month.
    Carl 10.496 16 Edwin Chadwick is one of [Carlyle's] heroes,-who proposes to provide every house in London with pure water, sixty gallons to every head...
    HDC 11.55 7 In 1644, the town [Concord] contained sixty families.
    HDC 11.72 11 In January, 1775, a meeting was held [in Concord] for the enlisting of minute-men. Reverend William Emerson...preached to the people. Sixty men enlisted...
    PLT 12.60 8 This premature stop, I know not how, befalls most of us in early youth; as if...the access to rare truths, closed at two or three years in the child, while all the pagan faculties went ripening on to sixty.
    Milt1 12.254 5 There is something pleasing in the affection with which we can regard a man [Milton] who died a hundred and sixty years ago...
    ACri 12.301 8 I fell in with one of the founders [of New City] who showed its advantages and its river and port and the capabilities: Sixty houses, sir, were built in a night, like tents.
    ACri 12.301 19 Where is the town [New City]? Was there not, I asked, a river and a harbor there? Oh, yes, there was a guzzle out of a sand-bank. And the town? There are still the sixty houses, but when I passed it, one owl was the only inhabitant.
    AgMs 12.358 23 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect. Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the soil...not like Napoleon, hero of sixty battles, but of six thousand...

sixty-eight, adj. (5)

    MoS 4.162 27 ...when in Paris, in 1833...in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste Collignon, who died in 1830, aged sixty-eight years...
    ET12 5.204 10 This rich library [the Bodleian] spent during the last year (1847), for the purchase of books, 1668 pounds.
    LVB 11.91 9 ...out of eighteen thousand souls composing the [Cherokee] nation, fifteen thousand six hundred and sixty-eight have protested against the so-called treaty.
    Bost 12.190 8 In sixty-eight years after the foundation of Boston, Dr. Mather writes of it, The town hath indeed three elder Sisters in this colony, but it hath wonderfully outgrown them all...
    Bost 12.199 25 What should hinder that this America...the firm shore hid until...a man should be found who should sail steadily west fixty-eight days from the port of Palos to find it...should have its happy ports...

sixty-five, adj. (1)

    PerF 10.82 7 ...when the soldier comes home from the fight, he fills all eyes. But the soldier has the same admiration of the great parliamentary debater. And poetry and literature are disdainful of all these claims beside their own. Like the boy who thought in turn...each of the three hundred and sixty-five days in the year the crowner.

sixty-seven, adj. [sixty-seven] (3)

    ET2 5.28 15 In one week [the ship] has made 1467 miles...
    HDC 11.54 11 ...in 1676, there were five hundred and sixty-seven praying Indians...
    HDC 11.79 14 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their brethren...will...fill up the numbers proportioned to the several towns. On that occasion, Concord furnished 67 men...

sixty-three, adj. (1)

    OA 7.325 17 When I chanced to meet the poet Wordsworth, then sixty-three years old, he told me that he had just had a fall and lost a tooth...

size, n. (35)

    Tran 1.333 9 The idealist has another measure...namely, the rank which things themselves take in his consciousness; not at all the size or appearance.
    YA 1.364 13 ...this invention [the railroad] has reduced England to a third of its size...
    Hist 2.12 15 Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance;...
    Hist 2.20 5 What would statues of the usual size...have been, associated with those gigantic halls before which only Colossi could sit as watchmen...
    Lov1 2.184 2 Neighborhood, size, numbers, habits, persons, lose by degrees their power over us.
    Hsm1 2.257 13 The first step of worthiness will be to disabuse us of our superstitious associations...with number and size.
    Hsm1 2.258 26 ...[many extraordinary young men] enter an active profession and the forming Colossus shrinks to the common size of man.
    Nat2 3.187 18 ...the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partisans...
    NR 3.229 6 ...[a personal influence] borrows all its size from the momentary estimation of the speakers...
    UGM 4.17 13 [The imagination] opens the delicious sense of indeterminate size...
    UGM 4.31 23 All men are at last of a size;...
    SwM 4.98 25 [Swedenborg's] frame is on a larger scale and possesses the advantages of size.
    SwM 4.106 10 [Swedenborg] was apt for cosmology, because of that native perception of identity which made mere size of no account to him.
    ET3 5.43 15 [Nature made] An island,--but not so large, the people [of England] not so many as to glut the great markets and depress one another, but proportioned to the size of Europe and the continents.
    ET11 5.182 5 In the country, the size of private [English] estates is more impressive.
    ET16 5.283 9 For the difficulty of handling and carrying stones of this size [of Stonehenge], the like is done in all cities, every day, with no other aid than horse-power.
    ET16 5.283 14 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work on the substructure of a house in Bowdoin Square, in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns...
    ET18 5.300 23 In Irish districts [of England], men deteriorated in size and shape...
    Bhr 6.189 14 ...even the size of your companion seems to vary with his freedom of thought.
    Bty 6.290 22 'T is the adjustment of the size and of the joining of the sockets of the skeleton that gives grace of outline and the finer grace of movement.
    Civ 7.31 17 ...the true test of civilization is, not...the size of cities...no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
    Art2 7.41 26 It is only within narrow limits that the discretion of the architect may range: gravity, wind, sun, rain, the size of men and animals, and such like, have more to say than he.
    DL 7.103 6 The size of the nestler is comic...
    Farm 7.148 12 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps. The planter took the hint of the Sequoias...surrounded the orchard with a nursery of birches and evergreens. Thus he had the mountain basin in miniature; and his pears grew to the size of melons...
    WD 7.176 14 ...it was the rule of our poets, in the legends of fairy lore, that the fairies largest in power were the least in size.
    PI 8.2 6 ...[Fancy] can knit/ What is past, what is done,/ With the web that ' s just begun;/ Making free with time and size,/ Dwindles here, there magnifies,/ Swells a rain-drop to a tun;/...
    PI 8.18 25 Our indeterminate size is a delicious secret which [the act of imagination] reveals to us.
    Res 8.139 6 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power, with its rotating constellations, times and tides. The machine is of colossal size;...
    LLNE 10.336 25 The religious sentiment made nothing of bulk or size, or far or near;...
    Thor 10.453 16 A natural skill for mensuration, growing out of...his habit of ascertaining the measures and distances of objects which interested him, the size of trees...and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
    Thor 10.479 22 To [Thoreau] there was no such thing as size.
    FSLC 11.211 7 Greece was the least part of Europe. Attica a little part of that,-one tenth of the size of Massachusetts. Yet that district still rules the intellect of men.
    PLT 12.27 6 A man has been in Spain. The facts and thoughts which the traveller has found in that country gradually settle themselves into a determinate heap of one size and form and not another.
    PLT 12.29 26 If [a man] could attain full size he would take up, first or last, atom by atom, all the world into a new form.
    MAng1 12.229 15 [Michelangelo's Moses] is a sitting statue of colossal size...

skate, v. (4)

    Exp 3.59 25 We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them.
    NER 3.257 20 It is well if we can swim and skate.
    F 6.32 10 ...learn to skate, and the ice will give you a graceful, sweet, and poetic motion.
    Edc1 10.148 25 The boy wishes to learn to skate, to coast...

skater, n. (4)

    PI 8.31 2 Every writer is a skater, and must go partly where he would, and partly where the skates carry him;...
    PI 8.31 8 ...skates allow the good skater far more grace than his best walking would show...
    Thor 10.461 27 [Thoreau] was a good swimmer, runner, skater, boatman...
    CW 12.171 15 ...every house on that long street [in Concord] has a back door, which leads down through the garden to the river-bank, when a skiff, or a dory, gives you...access...all winter, to miles of ice for the skater.

skates, n. (7)

    F 6.15 11 Nature is the tyrannous circumstance...the conditions of a tool, like...skates, which are wings on the ice but fetters on the ground.
    DL 7.106 17 The first ride into the country...the first time the skates are put on...are new chapters of joy [to the child].
    WD 7.172 26 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship, and Nature employed certain illusions as her ties and straps...skates, a river, a boat, a horse, a gun, for the growing boy;...
    PI 8.31 4 Every writer is a skater, and must go partly where he would, and partly where the skates carry him;...
    PI 8.31 7 ...skates allow the good skater far more grace than his best walking would show...
    PI 8.67 13 The ballad and romance work on the hearts of boys, who recite the rhymes to their hoops or their skates if alone...
    Elo2 8.128 15 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...allowing [a youth] to skulk from the games of ball and skates...that I wish his guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.

skating, v. (6)

    MR 1.241 24 ...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual...is better taught by a moderate and dainty exercise, such as...skating...than by the downright drudgery of the farmer and the smith.
    Prd1 2.235 12 In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
    ET12 5.211 10 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic. With a hardier habit and resolute gymnastics...with skating and rowing-matches, the American would arrives at as robust exegesis...
    Ctr 6.143 24 ...skating, climbing...are lessons in the art of power...
    LLNE 10.362 26 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment not with the elders or his exact contemporaries so much as with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;...
    EzRy 10.390 1 To undeceive [Ezra Ripley], I hastened to recall some particulars to show the absurdity of the thing, as the Major [Jack Downing] and the President [Andrew Jackson] going out skating on the Potomac, etc.

skein, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.173 7 ...who can avert his eyes from the engaging...ways of school-girls who go into the country shops to buy a skein of silk...

skeleton, adj. (1)

    Suc 7.300 16 [Color] clothes the skeleton world with space, variety and glow.

skeleton, n. (11)

    GoW 4.275 12 ...in osteology, [Goethe] assumed that one vertebra of the spine might be considered as the unit of the skeleton...
    ET4 5.65 12 I suppose a hundred English taken at random out of the street weigh a fourth more than so many Americans. Yet, I am told, the skeleton is not larger.
    ET14 5.234 27 It is a tacit rule of the [English] language to make the frame or skeleton of Saxon words...
    Pow 6.73 3 Michel [Angelo] was wont to draw his figures first in skeleton...
    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 6.290 23 'T is the adjustment of the size and of the joining of the sockets of the skeleton that gives grace of outline and the finer grace of movement.
    Suc 7.308 27 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton.
    Comc 8.171 24 A lady of high rank, but of lean figure, had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure, as well as to her republican opinions; the Countess retaliated by calling Madame the Venus of the Pere-Lachaise, a compliment to her skeleton which did not fail to circulate.
    Thor 10.467 9 ...the turtle, frog, hyla and cricket, which make the banks [of the Concord River] vocal,-were all known to [Thoreau], and, as it were, townsmen and fellow creatures; so that he felt an absurdity or violence in any narrative of one of these by itself apart, and still more of...in the exhibition of its skeleton...
    MAng1 12.221 13 When Michael Angelo would begin a statue, he made first on paper the skeleton;...
    Milt1 12.256 20 The muscles, the nerves and the flesh with which this skeleton is to be filled out and covered exist in [Milton's] works and must be sought there.

Skeneateles, New York, n. (1)

    NR 3.240 15 Here is a new enterprise...of Skeneateles...why so impatient to baptize them Essenes...or by any known and effete name?

skeptic, n. (11)

    Chr1 3.111 5 The sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the power and the furniture of man, is in that possibility of joyful intercourse with persons, which makes the faith and practice of all reasonable men.
    MoS 4.155 2 The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely.
    MoS 4.159 19 This then is the right ground of the skeptic,--this of consideration, of self-containing;...
    MoS 4.161 5 The wise skeptic wishes to have a near view of the best game and the chief players;...
    MoS 4.172 4 The ground occupied by the skeptic is the vestibule of the temple.
    MoS 4.172 15 The wise skeptic is a bad citizen;...
    Ctr 6.139 10 The hardiest skeptic who has seen a horse broken...will not deny the validity of education.
    DL 7.128 7 ...the sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the competence of man to elevate and to be elevated is in that desire and power to stand in joyful and ennobling intercourse with individuals...
    Boks 7.191 15 Whenever any skeptic or bigot claims to be heard on the questions of intellect and morals, we ask if he is familiar with the books of Plato, where all his pert objections have once for all been disposed of.
    Imtl 8.332 27 The skeptic affirms that the universe is a nest of boxes with nothing in the last box.
    SovE 10.185 22 The believer says to the skeptic:-One avenue was shaded from thine eyes/ Through which I wandered to eternal truth./

skeptical, adj. (14)

    Tran 1.340 1 ...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;...
    MoS 4.171 18 ...the skeptical class, which Montaigne represents, have reason...
    Wsp 6.202 14 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 6.283 1 We are just so frivolous and skeptical.
    Boks 7.216 6 We admire...the homage of drawing-rooms and parliaments. They make us skeptical, by giving prominence to wealth and social position.
    OA 7.319 1 ...seen from the streets and markets and the haunts of pleasure and gain, the estimate of age is low, melancholy and skeptical.
    Imtl 8.332 27 One argument of future life is...our pain at every skeptical statement.
    MoL 10.244 22 Now it is agreed...that we are skeptical, frivolous;...
    Schr 10.279 17 ...the young...finding that nothing outside corresponds to the noble order in the soul...become skeptical and forlorn.
    LLNE 10.361 6 Those who inspired and organized [Brook Farm] were... persons impatient of the routine...of society around them, which was so timid and skeptical of any progress.
    MMEm 10.432 24 Cassandra uttered, to a frivolous, skeptical time, the arcana of the Gods...
    EWI 11.146 5 There have been moments in [emancipation in the West Indies], as well as in every piece of moral history, when there seemed room for the infusions of a skeptical philosophy;...
    PLT 12.61 10 Intellect is skeptical...
    Bost 12.194 22 That [Christian] piety is a refutation of every skeptical doubt.

skepticism, n. (34)

    Tran 1.350 1 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found that from the liberal professions to the coarsest manual labor...there is a spirit of cowardly compromise and seeming which intimates a frightful skepticism...
    Hist 2.31 9 The Prometheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism.
    MoS 4.157 14 Who shall forbid a wise skepticism...
    MoS 4.162 12 ...I will...offer, as an apology for electing him as the representative of skepticism, a word or two to explain how my love began and grew for this admirable gossip [Montaigne].
    MoS 4.171 26 Skepticism is the attitude assumed by the student in relation to the particulars which society adores, but which he sees to be reverend only in their tendency and spirit.
    MoS 4.173 24 I do not press the skepticism of the materialist.
    MoS 4.180 21 Some minds are incapable of skepticism.
    MoS 4.182 17 [The spiritualist] had rather stand charged with the imbecility of skepticism, than with untruth.
    MoS 4.183 4 The final solution in which skepticism is lost, is in the moral sentiment...
    MoS 4.183 11 I play with the miscellany of facts, and take those superficial views which we call skepticism;...
    MoS 4.183 13 ...I know that [facts] will presently appear to me in that order which makes skepticism impossible.
    ET5 5.83 6 [The English] are impious in their skepticism of theory...
    ET14 5.247 26 The critic [in England] hides his skepticism under the English cant of practical.
    Wsp 6.201 15 ...I am sure that a certain truth will be said through me... though I should try to say the reverse. Nor do I fear skepticism for any good soul.
    Wsp 6.201 17 A just thinker will allow full swing to his skepticism.
    Wsp 6.202 20 We may well give skepticism as much line as we can.
    Wsp 6.210 7 What proof of skepticism like the base rate at which the highest mental and moral gifts are held?
    Wsp 6.210 18 Another scar of this skepticism is the distrust in human virtue.
    Wsp 6.214 19 We say...that a skepticism devastates the community.
    Wsp 6.220 19 Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.
    Elo1 7.80 15 ...among our cool and calculating people...there is a good deal of skepticism as to extraordinary influence.
    Cour 7.277 11 ...if your skepticism reaches to the last verge...then be brave...
    Suc 7.310 27 ...this witty malefactor [the cynic] makes [the most sanguine' s] little hope less with satire and skepticism...
    Res 8.138 2 ...skepticism is slow suicide.
    Imtl 8.332 20 ...you shall find a good deal of skepticism in the streets...
    Dem1 10.26 23 I think the rappings a new test...to try catechisms with. It detects organic skepticism in the very heads of the Church.
    Aris 10.60 1 The youth...having got into decent society, is left to himself, and falls abroad with too much freedom. But in the hours of insight we rally against this skepticism.
    SovE 10.214 1 A man who has accustomed himself...to pierce to the principle and moral law, and everywhere to find that,-has put himself out of the reach of all skepticism;...
    Prch 10.218 5 I see in those classes and those persons...who contain the activity of to-day and the assurance of to-morrow,-I see in them character, but skepticism;...
    Prch 10.223 26 ...there is a statement of religion possible which makes all skepticism absurd.
    MoL 10.245 1 Our profoundest philosophy...is skepticism.
    War 11.164 10 Observe the ideas of the present day,-orthodoxy, skepticism, missions...
    MLit 12.322 19 Such was [Goethe's] capacity that the magazines of the world's ancient or modern wealth, which arts and intercourse and skepticism could command,-he wanted them all.
    AgMs 12.363 26 [Edmund Hosmer]...was incorrigible in his skepticism concerning the benefits conferred by legislatures on the agriculture of Massachusetts.

skepticisms, n. (2)

    MoS 4.181 20 The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.
    SovE 10.213 18 [The man of this age] should be taught all skepticisms and unbeliefs...

skeptics, n. (4)

    SwM 4.106 24 ...[Swedenborg] held, in exact antagonism to the skeptics, that the wiser a man is, the more will he be a worshipper of the Deity.
    Farm 7.144 26 Our senses are skeptics...
    Cour 7.276 2 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history...
    MLit 12.336 3 Religion will bind again these that were sometime frivolous, customary, enemies, skeptics, self-seekers...

sketch, n. (15)

    Tran 1.338 1 You will see by this sketch that there is no such thing as a Transcendental party;...
    NMW 4.234 15 Seruzier, a colonel of artillery, gives...the following sketch of a scene after the battle of Austerlitz.
    ET11 5.189 23 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker; Lord Herbert of Cherbury's autobiography;... are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    Art2 7.45 3 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work; a coarse sketch in colors of a landscape...these things give to unpractised eyes...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.
    OA 7.332 4 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the election of his son to the Presidency. It is but a sketch...
    Comc 8.165 22 The satire [on religion] reaches its climax when the actual Church is set in direct contradiction to the dictates of the religious sentiment, as in the sketch of our Puritan politics in Hudibras...
    PC 8.208 14 I will not say that American institutions have given a new enlargement to our idea of a finished man, but they have added important features to the sketch.
    MMEm 10.399 17 I have found that I could only bring you this portrait [of Mary Moody Emerson] by selections from the diary of my heroine, premising a sketch of her time and place.
    HDC 11.83 5 Such, fellow citizens, is an imperfect sketch of the history of Concord.
    HDC 11.83 7 I have been greatly indebted, in preparing this sketch [of Concord], to the printed but unpublished History of this town...
    Humb 11.457 15 With great propriety, [Humboldt] named his sketch of the results of science Cosmos.
    PLT 12.53 10 I must think...that we have in the race the sketch of a man which no individual comes up to.
    MAng1 12.220 26 ...one of the last drawings in [Michelangelo's] portfolio is a sublime hint of his own feeling; for it is a sketch of an old man with a long beard, in a go-cart, with an hour-glass before him; and the motto, Ancora imparo, I still learn.
    MAng1 12.229 8 It does not fall within our design to give an account of [Michelangelo's] works, yet for the sake of the completeness of our sketch we will name the principle ones.
    EurB 12.372 20 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry, destined...to be more cultivated in the next generation. Oenone was a sketch of the same kind.

sketch, v. (3)

    Hist 2.16 27 I knew a draughtsman employed in a public survey who found that he could not sketch the rocks until their geological structure was first explained to him.
    Bhr 6.197 15 What finest hands would not be clumsy to sketch the genial precepts of the young girl's demeanor?
    MLit 12.324 3 ...for many of [Goethe's] stories, this seems the only reason: Here is a piece of humanity I had hitherto omitted to sketch;-take this.

sketched, v. (3)

    PPh 4.56 14 ...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world;...
    GoW 4.278 25 George Sand, in Consuelo and its continuation, has sketched a truer and more dignified picture [than has Goethe in Wilhelm Meister].
    QO 8.183 25 ...when [Webster] opened a new book, he turned to the table of contents, took a pen, and sketched a sheet of matters and topics...

sketches, n. (13)

    LT 1.265 16 Could we indicate the indicators...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours.
    ET15 5.271 11 [Punch's] sketches are usually made by masterly hands...
    Boks 7.207 24 ...what with...the portrait sketches in his Discoveries... [Jonson] has really illustrated the England of his time...
    Res 8.153 14 I have not, in all these rambling sketches, gone beyond the beginning of my list [of Resources].
    Aris 10.32 11 In the sketches which I have to offer [on Aristocracy] I shall not be surprised if my readers should fancy that I am giving them...a chapter on Education.
    Plu 10.305 21 Many of [Plutarch's discourses] are mere sketches or notes for chapters in preparation...
    LLNE 10.363 27 Hawthorne drew some sketches [of Brook Farm], not happily, as I think;...
    CSC 10.374 3 The daily newspapers reported...brief sketches of the course of proceedings [of the Chardon Street Convention]...
    PLT 12.14 26 What I am now to attempt is simply some sketches or studies for such a picture; Memoires pour servir toward a Natural History of Intellect.
    MAng1 12.217 7 ...we shall endeavor by sketches from [Michelangelo's] life to show the direction and limitations of his search after this element [Beauty].
    MAng1 12.233 3 A little before he died, [Michelangelo] burned a great number of designs, sketches and cartoons made by him...
    WSL 12.345 4 [Landor's] portraits, though mere sketches, must be valued as attempts in the very highest kind of narrative...
    EurB 12.371 4 Tennyson's compositions are not so much poems as... sketches after the styles of sundry old masters.

sketches, v. (2)

    Pol1 3.201 14 The history of the State sketches in coarse outline the progress of thought...
    ET1 5.6 17 I have a private letter from [Greenough]...in which he roughly sketches his own theory.

sketching, v. (1)

    PerF 10.78 1 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces;...

skies, n. (14)

    Nat 1.32 22 Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them...
    Nat 1.46 7 We are associated in adolescent and adult life with some friends, who, like skies and waters, are coextensive with our idea;...
    MN 1.214 10 Does the sunset landscape seem to you the place of Friendship,-those purple skies and lovely waters the amphitheatre dressed and garnished only for the exchange of thought and love of the purest souls? It is that.
    Int 2.345 18 I shall not presume to interfere in the old politics of the skies;...
    UGM 4.8 15 Mind thy affair, says the spirit:--coxcomb, would you meddle with the skies...
    ET8 5.135 22 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...importing into their galleries every tint and trait of sunnier cities and skies;...
    ET18 5.303 26 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms...pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands...carrying the Saxon seed, with its instinct...for arts and for thought,--acquiring under some skies a more electric energy than the native air allows...
    F 6.38 6 Of what changes then in sky and earth, and in finer skies and earths, does the appearance of some Dante or Columbus apprise us!
    Wsp 6.203 24 Nothing can exceed the anarchy that has followed in our skies.
    PI 8.17 24 As soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it, fields, waters, skies, offer to clothe his thoughts in images.
    PI 8.26 11 ...when, on rare days, [nature] speaks to the imagination, we feel...that the light, skies and mountains are but the painted vicissitudes of the soul.
    MMEm 10.409 18 ...from the highway hedges where I [Mary Moody Emerson] get lodging...I get a pleasing vision which is an earnest of the interminable skies where the mansions are prepared for the poor.
    MMEm 10.425 6 When the dreamy pages of life seem all turned and folded down to very weariness, even this idea of those who fill the hour with crowded virtues, lifts the spectator to other worlds, and he adores the eternal purposes of Him who...bringeth to dust, and raiseth to the skies.
    Bost 12.185 17 [Boston] is not a country of luxury or of pictures; of snows rather, of east winds and changing skies;...

skiff, n. (1)

    CW 12.171 13 ...every house on that long street [in Concord] has a back door, which leads down through the garden to the river-bank, when a skiff, or a dory, gives you, all summer, access to enchantments, new every day...

skilful, adj. (45)

    LT 1.260 4 [The Times] is very good matter to be handled, if we are skilful;...
    Comp 2.114 6 It is best to pay in your land a skilful gardener...
    SL 2.149 5 You have observed a skilful man reading Virgil.
    Mrs1 3.136 2 ...emperors and rich men are by no means the most skilful masters of good manners.
    NR 3.229 21 We are practically skilful in detecting elements for which we have no place in our theory, and no name.
    NR 3.241 19 ...gamesters say that the cards beat all the players, though they were never so skilful...
    SwM 4.104 6 The robust Aristotelian method...skilful to discriminate power from form...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
    MoS 4.161 11 Every thing that is excellent in mankind...every one skilful to play and win,--[the wise skeptic] will see and judge.
    NMW 4.224 25 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is material... widely and accurately learned and skilful...
    ET1 5.14 10 ...Montague, still talking with his back to the canvas, put up his hand and touched it, and exclaimed, By Heaven! this picture is not ten years old:--so delicate and skilful was that man's touch.
    ET3 5.42 3 ...to make these [commercial] advantages avail, the river Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the kingdom, giving...all the conveniency to trade that a people so skilful and sufficient in economizing water-front by docks, warehouses and lighters required.
    ET5 5.76 21 The Scandinavian fancied himself surrounded by Trolls,--a kind of goblin men with vast power of work and skilful production...
    ET11 5.177 12 The lawyer, the farmer, the silk-mercer lies perdu under the coronet, and winks to the antiquary to say nothing; especially skilful lawyers...
    ET15 5.268 11 [The London Times] draws from any number of learned and skilful contributors;...
    ET15 5.268 12 [The London Times] draws from any number of learned and skilful contributors; but a more learned and skilful person supervises, corrects, and co-ordinates.
    Bty 6.294 18 ...our art saves material by more skilful arrangement...
    Civ 7.23 15 The skilful combinations of civil government...require wisdom and conduct in the rulers...
    Elo1 7.64 13 Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians...when a proper opportunity offers, this same person, like a skilful jaculator, will hurl a sentence worthy of attention...
    Elo1 7.80 1 He who has points to carry must hire, not a skilful attorney, but a commanding person.
    DL 7.129 16 ...he will have learned the lesson of life who is skilful in the ethics of friendship.
    Clbs 7.244 24 The man of thought...the administrator skilful in affairs... whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is wishing to be found.
    Cour 7.264 4 The forest on fire looks discouraging enough to a citizen: the farmer is skilful to fight it.
    Suc 7.285 10 ...leaving the coast [of Panama], the ship full of one hundred and fifty skilful seamen...the wise admiral [Columbus] kept his private record of his homeward path.
    OA 7.313 5 I know ye [clouds] skilful to convoy/ The total freight of hope and joy/ Into rude and homely nooks,/ Shed mocking lustres on shelf of books,/ On farmer's byre, on pasture rude,/ And stony pathway to the wood./
    Elo2 8.120 18 ...every one has an ear for skilful reading.
    Imtl 8.334 5 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive...the secret workman so transcendently skilful that it tasks successive generations of observers only to find out...the delicate contrivance and adjustment of a weed...and the contriver of it all forever hidden!
    Dem1 10.9 11 A skilful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge;...
    Dem1 10.12 7 ...do [Watt and Fulton] not make an iron bar and half a dozen wheels do the work, not of one, but of a thousand skilful mechanics?
    Dem1 10.14 19 As I was once travelling by the Red Sea, there was one among the horsemen that attended us named Masollam...according to the testimony of all the Greeks and barbarians, a very skilful archer.
    Aris 10.42 2 Ulysses in Homer is represented as a very skilful carpenter.
    PerF 10.78 22 ...on the signal occasions in our career [our mental forces'] inspirations...make the selfish and protected and tenderly bred person... skilful in action...
    Edc1 10.148 23 The joy of our childhood in hearing beautiful stories from some skilful aunt who loves to tell them, must be repeated in youth.
    Edc1 10.150 14 ...the instruction [in colleges] seems to require skilful tutors...rather than ardent and inventive masters.
    MoL 10.255 17 It is not enough that the work [of art] should show a skilful hand...
    Thor 10.461 14 [Thoreau's] senses were acute...his hands strong and skilful in the use of tools.
    AsSu 11.247 10 In [the free state], [life] is adorned with education, with skilful labor...
    SMC 11.357 4 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...manly farmers, skilful mechanics, young tradesmen...
    CPL 11.496 3 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library, which adds by the beauty of the building, and its skilful arrangement, a quite new attraction...
    CPL 11.500 11 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man...known to our farmers as the most skilful of surveyors...
    II 12.67 24 ...when the eye cannot detect the juncture of the skilful mosaic, the spirit is apprised of disunion...
    Mem 12.106 22 He is a skilful doctor who can give me a recipe for the cure of a bad memory.
    CL 12.146 2 It seems to me much that I have brought a skilful chemist into my ground...for an art he has, out of all kinds of refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels...
    CW 12.176 3 If you use a good and skilful companion [on a tramp], you shall see through his eyes;...
    Bost 12.208 25 What public souls have lived here [in Boston]...what... skilful workmen...
    Milt1 12.257 20 [Milton's] ear for music was so acute that he was not only enthusiastic in his love, but a skilful performer himself;...

skilfully, adv. (5)

    NER 3.274 18 The heroes of ancient and modern fame...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully played...
    NMW 4.230 5 ...a very small force, skilfully and rapidly manoeuvring so as always to bring two men against one at the point of engagement, will be an overmatch for a much larger body of men.
    Wsp 6.224 23 To every creature is his own weapon, however skilfully concealed from himself, a good while.
    PI 8.48 12 So in our songs and ballads the refrain skilfully used, and deriving some novelty or better sense in each of many verses...
    Milt1 12.256 6 [Milton] defined the object of education to be, to fit a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

skill, n. (168)

    AmS 1.81 4 We do not meet for games of strength or skill...
    AmS 1.81 19 Perhaps the time is already come...when the sluggard intellect of this continent will...fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill.
    LE 1.181 16 ...in a contempt for the gabble of to-day's opinions the secret of the world is to be learned, and the skill truly to unfold it is acquired.
    MN 1.193 2 The weaver should not be bereaved of...his knowledge that the product or the skill is of no value, except so far as it embodies his spiritual prerogatives.
    MR 1.238 27 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son...and cannot give him the skill and experience which made or collected these...the son finds his hands full...
    MR 1.256 17 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to leave...their best means and skill of procuring a present success...
    LT 1.263 1 ...[persons] have the skill to make the world look bleak and inhospitable, or seem the nest of tenderness and joy.
    Con 1.307 26 Young man, I have no skill to talk with you...
    Tran 1.353 9 That is to be done which [the Transcendentalist] has not skill to do...
    Tran 1.353 15 So little skill enters into these works...that it really signifies little what we do...
    YA 1.378 14 ...[Trade] converts Government into an Intelligence-Office, where every man may find what he wishes to buy, and expose what he has to sell; not only produce and manufactures, but art, skill, and intellectual and moral values.
    YA 1.383 26 Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.
    YA 1.385 5 ...many people have a native skill for carving out business for many hands;...
    SR 2.85 9 ...[the civilized man] fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun.
    Comp 2.118 4 When [a great man] is pushed, tormented, defeated...he...has got moderation and real skill.
    SL 2.150 14 Persons...dedicate their whole skill to the hour and the company,--with very imperfect result.
    Prd1 2.221 6 I have no skill to make money spend well...
    OS 2.276 4 The lover has no talent, no skill, which passes for quite nothing with his enamored maiden...
    OS 2.288 8 Among the multitude of scholars and authors...we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than inspiration;...
    Int 2.333 19 Perhaps, if we should meet Shakspeare we should...be conscious...only that he possessed a strange skill of using, of classifying his facts, which we lacked.
    Int 2.337 17 We may owe to dreams some light on the fountain of this skill [of drawing];...
    Art1 2.358 12 ...what skill is...shown [in works of the highest art] is the reappearance of the original soul...
    Art1 2.358 24 The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces... can ever teach...
    Art1 2.366 1 ...a ball-room makes us feel that we are all paupers in the almshouse of this world...without skill or industry.
    Pt1 3.7 15 Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men...
    Pt1 3.9 2 ...we do not speak now of men...of industry and skill in metre...
    Pt1 3.9 6 I took part in a conversation the other day concerning a recent writer of lyrics...whose skill and command of language we could not sufficiently praise.
    Pt1 3.12 24 ...I, being myself a novice, am slow in perceiving that [the poet]...is merely bent that I should admire his skill to rise like a fowl or a flying fish...
    Exp 3.60 1 Under the oldest mouldiest conventions a man of native force prospers just as well as in the newest world, and that by skill of handling and treatment.
    Chr1 3.93 17 I see [in the natural merchant], with the pride of art and skill of masterly arithmetic and power of remote combination, the consciousness of being an agent and playfellow of the original laws of the world.
    Mrs1 3.126 26 [Fine manners] are a subtler science of defence to parry and intimidate; but once matched by the skill of the other party, they drop the point of the sword...
    Nat2 3.182 11 ...according to the skill of the eye, from any one object the parts and properties of any other may be predicted.
    Nat2 3.194 3 [Nature's] secret is untold. Many and many an Oedipus arrives; he has the whole mystery teeming in his brain. Alas! the same sorcery has spoiled his skill;...
    Pol1 3.202 3 One man owns his clothes, and another owns a county. This accident, depending primarily on the skill and virtue of the parties...falls unequally, and its rights...are unequal.
    Pol1 3.214 10 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I...come into false relations to him. I may have so much more skill or strength than he that he cannot express adequately his sense of wrong, but it is a lie...
    NER 3.268 26 We do not believe that...any influence of genius, will ever give depth of insight to a superficial mind. Having settled ourselves into this infidelity, our skill is expended to procure alleviations...
    NER 3.269 1 We adorn the victim [of education] with manual skill...
    NER 3.281 19 Each [man] is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions has added to his fitness for his own work.
    UGM 4.7 2 ...there are persons who, in their character and actions, answer questions which I have not skill to put.
    PPh 4.46 20 The progress is to accuracy, to skill, to truth, from blind force.
    PPh 4.52 24 European civility is...adaptive skill...
    PPh 4.59 5 [Plato's] strength is like the momentum of a falling planet, and his discretion the return of its due and perfect curve,--so excellent is his Greek love of boundary and his skill in definition.
    SwM 4.100 21 [Swedenborg's] rare science and practical skill...drew to him queens, nobles, clergy...
    SwM 4.111 18 This startling reappearance of Swedenborg...is not the least remarkable fact in his history. Aided it is said by the munificence of Mr. Clissold, and also by his literary skill, this piece of poetic justice is done.
    MoS 4.161 17 The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have...proof that he has played with skill and success;...
    ShP 4.193 8 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...and a string of doleful tragedies, merry Italian tales and Spanish voyages, which all the London 'prentices know. All the mass has been treated, with more or less skill, by every playwright...
    ShP 4.215 9 Cultivated men often attain a good degree of skill in writing verses;...
    NMW 4.224 15 [The democratic class] desires to keep open every avenue to the competition of all, and to multiply avenues...the class of industry and skill.
    GoW 4.274 26 [Goethe] treats nature...as the seven wise masters did,--and, with whatever loss of French tabulation and dissection, poetry and humanity remain to us; and they have some doctoral skill.
    ET4 5.49 1 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...high bribes to talent and skill;...
    ET4 5.50 26 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter, contemplation and practical skill;...
    ET4 5.56 26 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy. ... As soon as the shores are sufficiently peopled to make piracy a losing business, the same skill and courage are ready for the service of trade.
    ET4 5.72 17 In the Danish invasions the marauders seized upon horses where they landed, and were at once converted into a body of expert cavalry. At one time this skill seems to have declined.
    ET5 5.92 17 [The English] have approved...their descent from Odin's smiths, by their hereditary skill in working in iron;...
    ET14 5.251 19 The bias of Englishmen to practical skill has reacted on the national mind.
    ET15 5.262 17 England is full of manly, clever, well-bred men who possess the talent of writing off-hand pungent paragraphs, expressing with clearness and courage their opinion on any person or performance. Valuable or not, it is a skill that is rarely found, out of the English journals.
    ET15 5.267 13 [The London Times's] consummate discretion and success exhibit the English skill of combination.
    ET16 5.275 22 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling...that no skill or activity can long compete with the prodigious natural advantages of that country...
    F 6.12 3 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain... which skill nowise alters rank in the scale of nature...
    Pow 6.51 2 His tongue was framed to music,/ And his hand was armed with skill;/...
    Pow 6.63 15 Men expect from good whigs put into office by the respectability of the country, much less skill to deal with Mexico...than from some strong transgressor, like Jefferson or Jackson...
    Wth 6.99 25 ...this accumulated skill in arts, cultures, harvestings, curings, manufactures, navigations, exchanges, constitutes the worth of our world to-day.
    Wth 6.100 1 Commerce is a game of skill...
    Wth 6.104 25 Every man who removes into this city with any purchasable talent or skill in him, gives to every man's labor in the city a new worth.
    Ctr 6.131 7 ...a skill to get money makes [a man] a miser, that is, a beggar.
    Ctr 6.158 25 A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill;...
    Wsp 6.234 22 [Benedict said] I meet powerful, brutal people to whom I have no skill to reply.
    SS 7.15 13 ...nature delights to put us between extreme antagonisms, and our safety is in the skill with which we keep the diagonal line.
    Civ 7.17 22 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/ What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible again,/--Culture and libraries, mysteries of skill/...
    Civ 7.25 1 ...I watched, in crossing the sea, the beautiful skill whereby the engine in its constant working was made to produce two hundred gallons of fresh water out of salt water, every hour...
    Civ 7.25 6 The skill that pervades complex details; the man that maintains himself;...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms... which is the index of high civilization.
    Civ 7.28 17 I admire still more than the saw-mill the skill which, on the seashore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn...
    Art2 7.35 2 I framed his tongue to music,/ I armed his hand with skill,/ I moulded his face to beauty/ And his heart the throne of Will./
    Elo1 7.65 4 That...which eloquence ought to reach, is not a particular skill in telling a story...
    Elo1 7.76 7 ...this precious person makes a speech which is printed and read all over the Union, and he...takes the lead in the public mind over all these executive men, who, of course, are full of indignation to find one who has no tact or skill and knows he has none, put over them by means of this talking-power which they despise.
    Elo1 7.90 15 A popular assembly...is commanded by these two powers,-- first by a fact, then by skill of statement.
    Farm 7.137 14 If [a man] have not some skill which recommends him to the farmer...he must himself return into his due place among the planters.
    Farm 7.152 9 ...when...there is more skill, and tools and roads, the new generations are strong enough to open the lowlands...
    WD 7.166 3 ...if, with all his arts, [man] is a felon, we cannot assume the mechanical skill or chemical resources as the measure of worth.
    Clbs 7.245 1 The man of thought...the man of manners and culture, whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is wishing to be found. Each wishes to open his thought, his knowledge, his social skill to the daylight in your company and affection;...
    Cour 7.273 8 ...it is not the means on which we draw, as...practical skill or dexterous talent..that count, but the aims only.
    Cour 7.278 10 And when the bird or deer/ Fell by the hunter's skill,/ The boy was always near/ To help with right good will./
    Suc 7.284 25 It is recorded of Linnaeus, among many proofs of his beneficent skill, that when the timber in the shipyards of Sweden was ruined by rot, Linnaeus was desired by the government to find a remedy.
    Suc 7.286 2 Hippocrates in Greece knew how to stay the devouring plague which ravaged Athens in his time, and his skill died with him.
    Suc 7.290 12 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn...skill without study...
    Suc 7.294 18 I pronounce that young man happy who is content with having acquired the skill which he had aimed at...
    Suc 7.301 13 We bring a welcome to the highest lessons of religion and of poetry out of all proportion beyond our skill to teach.
    Suc 7.303 5 ...genius is measured by its skill in this science [of sensibility].
    OA 7.319 14 We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write...
    OA 7.321 21 Skill to do comes of doing;...
    OA 7.336 7 ...the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill...affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.
    PI 8.6 23 Suppose there were in the ocean certain strong currents which drove a ship, caught in them, with a force that no skill of sailing with the best wind, and no strength of oars, or sails, or steam, could make any head against...
    PI 8.33 19 Great design belongs to a poem, and is better than any skill of execution...
    PI 8.55 24 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill;...
    PI 8.72 22 A little more or less skill in whistling is of no account.
    PI 8.73 14 [Poets] are, in our experience, men of every degree of skill...
    Elo2 8.117 13 The special ingredients of this force [of eloquence] are... logic; imagination, or the skill to clothe your thought in natural images;...
    QO 8.196 25 ...it is not rare to find...people who copy drawings with admirable skill, but are incapable of any design.
    PC 8.210 13 Consider...what genius of science...what of practical skill...the railroad, the telegraph...have evoked!...
    PC 8.215 10 Even the races that we still call savage or semi-savage... vindicate their faculty by the skill with which they make their yam-cloths, pipes, bows...
    PPo 8.252 8 It is itself a test of skill, as this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy.
    Insp 8.283 4 ...[In The Harbingers, Herbert] signalizes his delight in this skill [of writing verse]...
    Imtl 8.325 20 [The Greek]...made [death] bright with games of strength and skill...
    Imtl 8.338 12 I have a house, a closet which holds my books, a table, a garden, a field: are these...a reason for refusing the angel who beckons me away,-as if there were no room or skill elsewhere that could reproduce for me as my like or my enlarging wants may require?
    Aris 10.39 4 I wish catholic men, who by their science and skill are at home in every latitude and longitude...
    Aris 10.42 15 In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the sheriff...of every city [is to cause] two citizens, and of every borough, two burgesses, such as have greatest skill in shipping and merchandising, to be returned.
    PerF 10.79 5 The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He...increases his skill and strength...
    Chr2 10.113 19 ...whoever feels any love or skill for ethical studies may safely lay out all his strength and genius in working in that mine.
    Edc1 10.126 23 Those [animals] called domestic are capable of learning of man a few tricks of utility or amusement, but they cannot communicate the skill to their race.
    Edc1 10.127 3 For a thousand years the islands and forests of a great part of the world have been filled with savages who made no steps of advance in art or skill beyond the necessity of being fed and warmed.
    Edc1 10.135 2 We exercise [boys'] understandings...to a skill in numbers, in words;...
    Edc1 10.148 6 ...this function of opening and feeding the human mind...is not to be trusted to any skill less large than Nature itself.
    Supl 10.164 19 From want of skill to convey quality, we hope to move admiration by quantity.
    Supl 10.178 6 One of the meters of the height to which any civility rose is the skill in the fabric of iron.
    Supl 10.178 14 The European civility, or that of the positive degree, is established by coal-mines, by ventilation, by irrigation and every skill...
    MoL 10.242 25 Every kind of skill was in demand...
    MoL 10.245 12 Our industrial skill, arts ministering to convenience and luxury, have made life expensive...
    Schr 10.280 12 When a man begins to dedicate himself to a particular function, as...his arithmetical skill, the advance of his character and genius pauses;...
    Plu 10.312 2 Seneca...by...his own skill...of living with men of business... learned to temper his philosophy with facts.
    Plu 10.320 23 One proof of Plutarch's skill as a writer is that he bears translation so well.
    LLNE 10.329 17 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages...like a mother yielding food from her own breast instead of preparing it through chemic and culinary skill...all gone;...
    LLNE 10.330 23 The novelty of the learning lost nothing in the skill and genius of [Everett's] relation...
    LLNE 10.333 12 [Everett] abounded...even in a sort of defying experiment of his own wit and skill in giving an oracular weight to Hebrew or Rabbinical words;...
    EzRy 10.393 18 An eminent skill [Ezra Ripley] had in saying difficult and unspeakable things;...
    EzRy 10.394 16 This intimate knowledge of families, and this skill of speech...made [Ezra Ripley] incomparable in his parochial visits...
    SlHr 10.441 18 ...[Samuel Hoar] was not adorned with any graces of rhetoric:-But simple truth his utmost skill./
    Thor 10.453 7 With his hardy habits and few wants, his skill in wood-craft, and his powerful arithmetic, [Thoreau] was very competent to live in any part of the world.
    Thor 10.453 13 A natural skill for mensuration...and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
    Thor 10.453 24 [Thoreau's] accuracy and skill in this work [surveying] were readily appreciated...
    Thor 10.461 6 It was said of Plotinus that he was ashamed of his body, and 't is very likely he had good reason for it,-that his body was a bad servant, and he had not skill in dealing with the material world...
    Thor 10.473 3 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon discovered his rare accuracy and skill...
    Thor 10.474 22 [Thoreau's] poetry might be bad or good; he no doubt wanted a lyric facility and technical skill...
    GSt 10.501 18 Known until that time in no very wide circle as a man of skill and perseverance in his business;...[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics...engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.
    GSt 10.504 13 I have heard...that [George Stearns] had great executive skill...
    HDC 11.50 27 ...the secret of [the Indian's] amazing skill seemed to be that he partook of the nature and fierce instincts of the beasts he slew.
    EWI 11.123 24 It was, or it seemed the dictate of trade, to keep the negro down. We had found a race who were...less energetic shopkeepers than we; who had very little skill in trade.
    EWI 11.142 14 The recent testimonies...of Gurney, of Philippo, are very explicit on this point, the capacity and the success of the colored and the black population [in the West Indies] in employments of skill, of profit and of trust;...
    FSLC 11.183 26 It is not skill in iron locomotives that makes so fine civility...
    AsSu 11.248 19 ...men's bodily strength, or skill with knives and guns, is not usually in proportion to their knowledge and mother-wit...
    JBS 11.280 1 ...[John Brown] had all the skill of a shepherd by choice of breed and by wise husbandry to obtain the best wool...
    JBS 11.280 5 ...the anecdotes preserved [of John Brown] show a far-seeing skill and conduct...
    TPar 11.286 14 Such was the largeness of [Theodore Parker's] reception of facts and his skill to employ them that it looked as if he were some president of council to whom a score of telegraphs were ever bringing in reports;...
    TPar 11.286 22 [Theodore Parker] had...a love for facts, a rapid eye for their historic relations, and a skill in stripping them of traditional lustres.
    ALin 11.328 19 [The people] knew that outward grace is dust;/ They could not choose but trust/ In that sure-footed mind's [Lincoln's] unfaltering skill./ And supple-tempered will/ That bent, like perfect steel, to spring again and thrust./
    Scot 11.464 24 ...[Scott] had the skill proper to vers de societe...
    Scot 11.464 24 ...[Scott] had the...skill to fit his verse to his topic...
    FRep 11.511 13 The manufacturers rely on turbines of hydraulic perfection; the carpet-mill, of mordants and dyes which exhaust the skill of the chemist;...
    FRep 11.532 15 [Our people] follow a fact; they follow success, and not skill.
    PLT 12.48 11 ...the whole ponderous machinery of the state has really for its aim just to place this skill of each.
    PLT 12.56 20 There are two theories of life;... One is activity... The other is trust...the worship of ideas. This is solitary, grand, secular. They are in perpetual balance and strife. One is talent, the other genius. One is skill, the other character.
    PLT 12.57 3 If a man show...rhetorical skill...people clap their hands without asking more.
    II 12.67 20 The eye and ear have a logic which transcends the skill of the tongue.
    Mem 12.91 18 ...a piece of news I hear, has a value at this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it.
    CInt 12.117 11 This Integrity over all partial knowledge and skill, homage to truth-how rare!
    Bost 12.204 27 [The people of Massachusetts] did not try to unlock the treasure of the world except by honest keys of labor and skill.
    MAng1 12.223 17 Architecture is the bond that unites the elegant and the economical arts, and [Michelangelo's] skill in this is a pledge of his capacity in both kinds.
    MAng1 12.223 23 Nor was [Michelangelo's] a skill in ornament, or confined to the outline and designs of towers and facades...
    MAng1 12.225 17 By the treachery...of the general of the Republic, Malatesta Baglioni, all [Michelangelo's] skill was rendered unavailing...
    MAng1 12.227 20 ...not only was this discoverer of Beauty [Michelangelo]...rooted and grounded in those severe laws of practical skill, which genius can never teach...but he was one of the most industrious men that ever lived.
    Milt1 12.245 2 I framed his tongue to music,/ I armed his hand with skill,/ I moulded his face to beauty,/ And his heart the throne of will./
    Milt1 12.250 21 Though it evinces learning and critical skill, yet, as an historical argument, [Milton's Defence of the English People] cannot be valued with similar disquisitions of Robertson and Hallam...
    Milt1 12.259 9 [Milton's] father's care, seconded by his own endeavor, introduced him to a profound skill in all the treasures of Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Italian tongues;...
    Milt1 12.260 2 [Milton's] lore of foreign tongues added daily to his consummate skill in the use of his own.
    WSL 12.348 19 ...what skill of transition [Landor] may possess is superficial...
    AgMs 12.362 10 ...Mr. D. [Elias Phinney], with all his knowledge and present skill, would starve in two years on any one of fifty poor farms in this neighborhood...
    AgMs 12.362 17 ...as for the Major [Abel Moore], he never got rich by his skill in making land produce, but in making men produce.
    AgMs 12.363 5 The true men of skill, the poor farmers...are the only right subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth];...
    EurB 12.370 5 The elegance, the wit and subtlety of this writer [Tennyson]...his metrical skill...discriminate the musky poet of gardens and conservatories...

skill, v. (1)

    LT 1.273 10 A wealthy man...finds religion to be a traffic...of so many piddling accounts, that of all mysteries he cannot skill to keep a stock going upon that trade.

skilled, adj. (5)

    ET5 5.79 10 ...[Kenelm Digby] was skilled in six tongues...
    Suc 7.302 27 I am always, [Socrates] says, asserting that I happen to know... nothing but a mere trifle relating to matters of love; yet in that kind of learning I lay claim to being more skilled than any one man of the past or present time.
    Res 8.144 1 The whole history of our civil war is rich in a thousand anecdotes attesting...the skilled labor of our people.
    Imtl 8.322 1 Mute orator! well skilled to plead,/ And send conviction without phrase,/ Thou dost succor and remede/ The shortness of our days,/ And promise, on thy Founder's truth,/ Long morrow to this mortal youth./ Monadnoc.
    CW 12.172 5 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through...and...other men not known widely but known at home, farmers... skilled in turning a swamp or a sand-bank into a fruitful field...

skills, n. (7)

    LE 1.164 18 ...the soul has assurance...of all power in the direction of its ray, as well as of the special skills it has already acquired.
    Hist 2.17 6 By a deeper apprehension, and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills, the artist attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity.
    Ctr 6.143 13 These minor skills and accomplishments...are tickets of admission to the dress-circle of mankind...
    Ctr 6.160 17 ...culture must reinforce from higher influx the empirical skills of eloquence, or of politics...
    Bhr 6.193 12 ...[simple and noble persons]...meet on a better ground than the talents and skills they may chance to possess...
    WD 7.185 10 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills and the economy which reckons the amount of production per hour to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done...
    Chr2 10.93 12 Certain biases, talents, executive skills, are special to each individual;...

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