Skims to Small-Pox

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

skims, v. (2)

    HDC 11.62 15 Alas! for [the Indians]-their day is o'er,/ Their fires are out from hill and shore,/ No more for them the wild deer bounds,/ The plough is on their hunting grounds;/ The pale man's axe rings in their woods,/ The pale man's sail skims o'er their floods,/ Their pleasant springs are dry./
    ACri 12.301 2 Pindar when the victor in a race by mules offered him a trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on demi-asses. When, however, he offered a sufficient present, he composed the poem:- Hail, daughters of the tempest-footed horse,/ That skims like wind along the course./

skin, n. (26)

    MN 1.205 20 The great Pan of old, who was clothed in a leopard skin to signify the beautiful variety of things...was but the representative of thee, O rich and various Man!...
    Comp 2.111 4 The vulgar proverb, I will get it from his purse or get it from his skin, is sound philosophy.
    Comp 2.118 9 It is more [a wise man's] interest than it is [his assailants'] to find his weak point. The wound cicatrizes and falls off from him like a dead skin...
    Prd1 2.223 18 [Base prudence] is a disease like a thickening of the skin until the vital organs are destroyed.
    UGM 4.21 25 I remember the peau d'ane on which whoso sat should have his desire, but a piece of the skin was gone for every wish.
    UGM 4.26 12 We learn of our contemporaries what they know...almost through the pores of the skin.
    MoS 4.168 27 Montaigne...does not wish to jump out of his skin...
    GoW 4.272 22 ...[Goethe] is a poet...and, under this plague of microscopes (for he seems to see out of every pore of his skin), strikes the harp with a hero's strength and grace.
    ET4 5.69 7 A clear skin, a peach-bloom complexion and good teeth are found all over the island [England].
    ET13 5.225 20 [Religion] is endogenous, like the skin and other vital organs.
    F 6.10 12 In different hours a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin...
    F 6.38 24 Do you suppose [the new-born man]...is contained in his skin...
    F 6.40 7 [The event] fits you like your skin.
    Ctr 6.138 10 Cleanse with healthy blood [the scholar's] parchment skin.
    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 6.306 7 ...character gives...awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
    SS 7.7 9 One protects himself [from society] by solitude...and one by an acid, worldly manner,--each concealing how he can the thinness of his skin...
    Cour 7.265 13 Bodily pain is superficial, seated usually in the skin and the extremities...
    Cour 7.274 16 The tender skin does not shrink from bayonets...
    Suc 7.309 2 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton. ... She weaves her tissues and integuments of flesh and skin and hair and beautiful colors of the day over it...
    Res 8.146 9 ...[Tissenet] opened his shirt a little and showed to each of the savages in turn the reflection of his own eyeball in a small pocket-mirror which he had hung next to his skin.
    PPo 8.238 18 ...life [in the East] hangs on the contingency of a skin of water more or less.
    HDC 11.33 12 ...[the pilgrims] meet a scorching plain, yet not so plain but that the ragged bushes scratch their legs foully, even to wearing their stockings to their bare skin in two or three hours.
    EWI 11.144 19 The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were the color of night, are transparent...
    FRep 11.541 21 The genius of the country has marked out our true policy,-opportunity. Opportunity...of personal power, and not less of wealth; doors wide open. If I could have it,-free trade with all the world without toll or custom-houses, invitation as we now make...to every race and skin...
    Bost 12.196 20 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of the year...takes from the muscles their suppleness, from the skin its exposure to the air;...

skin-deep, adj. (1)

    MN 1.196 17 ...the thunder...makes a skin-deep cut...

skins, n. (3)

    HDC 11.52 15 ...said [Tahattawan], all the time you have lived after the Indian fashion, under the power of the higher sachems, what did they care for you? They took away your skins, your kettles and your wampum...
    FSLN 11.231 16 We are all conservatives...in our essences: and might as well try to jump out of our skins as to escape from our Whiggery.
    JBS 11.277 20 When [John Brown] was five years old his father emigrated to Ohio, and the boy was there set...to look after cattle and dress skins;...

skip, v. (2)

    PPo 8.251 9 In general what is more tedious than dedications or panegyrics addressed to grandees? Yet in the Divan you would not skip them, since [Hafiz's] muse seldom supports him better...
    Milt1 12.252 8 ...if we skip the pages of Paradise Lost where God the Father argues like a school divine, so did the next age to [Milton's] own.

skipped, v. (6)

    PPh 4.68 10 Our faculties run out into infinity, and return to us thence. We can define but a little way; but here is a fact which will not be skipped...
    Ill 6.323 4 I prefer...to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe.
    Boks 7.202 15 If we come down a little [in Greek history] by natural steps from the master to the disciples, we have...the Platonists, who also cannot be skipped...
    PI 8.53 20 Poetry...runs into fable, personifies every fact:--the clouds clapped their hands,--the hills skipped...
    LLNE 10.349 11 [Brisbane's plan]...strode about nature with a giant's step, and skipped no fact...
    LLNE 10.352 9 Our feeling was that Fourier had skipped no fact but one, namely Life.

skipper, n. (5)

    Wth 6.108 22 If the wind were always southwest by west, said the skipper, women might take ships to sea.
    Supl 10.172 4 ...the gallant skipper...complained to his owners that he had pumped the Atlantic Ocean three times through his ship on the passage...
    LLNE 10.367 26 In every family is the father;...in a boat, the skipper;...
    CL 12.161 13 In a water-party in which many scholars joined, I noted that the skipper of the boat was much the best companion.
    CL 12.161 15 In a water-party in which many scholars joined, I noted that the skipper of the boat was much the best companion. The scholars made puns. the skipper saw instructive facts on every side...

skipping, adj. (1)

    MoS 4.159 17 Let us have to do with real men and women, and not with skipping ghosts.

skipping, v. (1)

    Plu 10.299 18 [Plutarch] is...sufficiently a mathematician to leave some of his readers...respectfully skipping to the next chapter.

skips, v. (1)

    LLNE 10.352 16 [Fourier]...skips the faculty of life...

skirt, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.172 24 My house stands...on the skirt of the village.
    SwM 4.144 1 Was [Swedenborg] like Saadi, who, in his vision, designed to fill his lap with the celestial flowers, as presents for his friends; but the fragrance of the roses so intoxicated him that the skirt dropped from his hands?...

skirt, v. (1)

    Nat2 3.175 23 The muse herself betrays her son [the poor young poet], and enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the road...

skirts, n. (4)

    Art1 2.349 16 So shall the drudge in dusty frock/ Spy behind the city clock/ Retinues of airy kings,/ Skirts of angels, starry wings/...
    UGM 4.29 24 Serve the great. ... Never mind the taunt of Boswellism: the devotion may easily be greater than the wretched pride which is guarding its own skirts.
    Elo1 7.97 9 He who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion must lay the emphasis of education...on character and insight. Let him see...that when he has spoken he...has cleared his own skirts...
    PLT 12.64 4 We wish to sum up the conflicting impressions [of Intellect] by saying that all point at last to a unity which inspires all. Our poetry, our religion are its skirts and penumbrae.

skit, n. (1)

    Wth 6.102 4 In the city, where money follows the skit of a pen...[the dollar] comes to be looked on as light.

skittish, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.258 16 ...I remember when a pair of Irish girls who had been run away with in a wagon by a skittish horse, said that when he began to rear, they were so frightened that they could not see the horse.

skopein, v. (1)

    MoS 4.156 25 [The skeptic says] I am here to consider, skopein, to consider how it is.

skulk, v. (5)

    SR 2.61 25 Let [a man] not...skulk up and down...
    SL 2.163 4 Shall I skulk and dodge and duck with my unseasonable apologies...
    Prd1 2.233 15 [The scholar] resembles the pitiful drivellers whom travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of Constantinople, who skulk about all day...and at evening...slink to the opium-shop, swallow their morsel and become tranquil and glorified seers.
    Elo2 8.128 14 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.
    PerF 10.72 15 The laws of material nature run up into the invisible world of the mind, and hereby we acquire a key to those sublimities which skulk and hide in the caverns of human consciousness.

skulked, v. (1)

    Chr2 10.114 18 There is no vice that has not skulked behind [the false religions].

skulking, adj. (2)

    ET9 5.148 9 [This little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain] takes away a dodging, skulking, secondary air...
    Comc 8.160 6 There is no joke so true and deep in actual life as when some pure idealist goes up and down among the institutions of society, attended by a man...who, sympathizing with the philosopher's scrutiny, sympathizes also with the confusion and indignation of the detected, skulking institutions.

skulking, v. (3)

    Mrs1 3.136 4 No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation;...
    SwM 4.141 26 [Swedenborg's spiritual world] is...very like...to the phenomena of dreaming, which nightly turns many an honest gentleman... into a wretch, skulking like a dog about the outer yards and kennels of creation.
    SMC 11.369 13 The Colonel [George Prescott] took evident pleasure in the fact that he could account for all his men. There were so many killed, so many wounded,-but no missing. For that word missing is apt to mean skulking.

skulks, v. (2)

    DSA 1.142 9 ...[man] skulks and sneaks through the world...
    Tran 1.353 6 To him who looks at his life from these moments of illumination, it will seem that he skulks and plays a mean, shiftless and subaltern part in the world.

skull, n. (10)

    Nat 1.54 11 A solemn air, and the best comforter/ To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains/ Now useless, boiled within thy skull./
    Fdsp 2.197 1 ...I must hazard the production of the bald fact amidst these pleasing reveries, though it should prove an Egyptian skull at our banquet.
    SwM 4.108 8 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over...into a ball, and forms the skull...
    F 6.9 2 ...the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.
    F 6.15 6 Nature is the tyrannous circumstance, the thick skull...
    F 6.34 26 Who likes to believe that he has, hidden in his skull...all the vices of a Saxon...race...
    Pow 6.72 6 What a force was coiled up in the skull of Napoleon!
    WD 7.163 17 [Man] sees the skull of the English race changing from its Saxon type under the exigencies of American life.
    Dem1 10.10 23 We doubt not a man's fortune may be read...in the outlines of the skull, by craniology...
    PerF 10.81 4 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...and learned that Papa had made it; that hidden deep in that thick skull was this gentle art and taste which the little fingers and caresses of his son had the power to draw out into day;...

skulls, n. (1)

    F 6.18 21 ...there will, in a dozen millions of...Mahometans, be one or two astronomical skulls.

sky, n. (109)

    Nat 1.9 19 Crossing a bare common...under a clouded sky...I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration.
    Nat 1.11 17 The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.
    Nat 1.15 6 ...the primary forms, as the sky...give us delight in and for themselves;...
    Nat 1.16 22 ...the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again.
    Nat 1.21 21 ...an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple...
    Nat 1.27 10 ...the blue sky in which the private earth is buried...is the type of Reason.
    Nat 1.27 11 ...the sky with its eternal calm...is the type of Reason.
    Nat 1.42 23 Who can guess...how much tranquillity has been reflected to man from the azure sky...
    Nat 1.50 19 We are strangely affected by seeing the shore...through the tints of an unusual sky.
    AmS 1.97 6 ...many another fact that once filled the whole sky, are gone already;...
    DSA 1.125 1 [The religious sentiment] makes the sky and the hills sublime...
    LE 1.162 5 No more will I dismiss, with haste, the visions which flash and sparkle across my sky;...
    MR 1.239 22 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by...men-servants and women-servants from the earth and the sky...
    LT 1.261 25 We do not think the sky will be bluer...
    Tran 1.354 3 What am I? What but a thought of serenity and independence, an abode in the deep blue sky?
    YA 1.379 24 ...Trade is also but for a time, and must give way to somewhat broader and better, whose signs are already dawning in the sky.
    YA 1.393 3 Instead of the open future expanding here before the eye of every boy to vastness, would they like the closing in of the future to a narrow slit of sky...
    Hist 2.19 4 I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove.
    Hist 2.20 21 In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window...in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.
    SR 2.85 12 ...the man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
    SL 2.147 16 The vale of Tempe, Tivoli and Rome are earth and water, rocks and sky.
    Fdsp 2.189 11 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ Through thee alone the sky is arched,/...
    Fdsp 2.215 9 In the great days, presentiments hover before me in the firmament. ... I fear only that I may lose them receding into the sky...
    Prd1 2.225 6 There revolve...the sun and moon, the great formalists in the sky...
    Cir 2.304 26 The man finishes his story...how it puts a new face on all things! He fills the sky.
    Art1 2.364 12 ...under a sky full of eternal eyes, I stand in a thoroughfare;...
    Exp 3.68 2 We would look about us, but with grand politeness [God] draws down before us an inpenetrable screen of purest sky, and another behind us of purest sky.
    Exp 3.68 3 We would look about us, but with grand politeness [God] draws down before us an inpenetrable screen of purest sky, and another behind us of purest sky.
    Nat2 3.170 21 Here [in the woods] no history, or church, or state, is interpolated on the divine sky and the immortal year.
    Nat2 3.172 6 The blue zenith is the point in which romance and reality meet. I think if we should be rapt away into all that and dream of heaven... the upper sky would be all that would remain of our furniture.
    Nat2 3.174 18 ...it is the magical lights of the horizon and the blue sky for the background which save all our works of art...
    Nat2 3.176 7 In every landscape the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth...
    Nat2 3.180 22 The whirling bubble on the surface of a brook admits us to the secret of the mechanics of the sky.
    UGM 4.4 6 ...I do not travel to find...clear sky...
    UGM 4.12 24 Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky.
    UGM 4.34 11 Once [our teachers] were angels of knowledge, and their figures touched the sky.
    PPh 4.54 18 ...whether voices were heard in the sky, or not;...a man [Plato] who could see two sides of a thing was born.
    PPh 4.59 9 Nothing can be colder than [Plato's] head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.
    SwM 4.110 7 The globule of blood gyrates around its own axis in the human veins, as the planet in the sky;...
    MoS 4.179 12 So vast is the disproportion between the sky of law and the pismire of performance under it, that whether [a man] is a man of worth or a sot is not so great a matter as we say.
    MoS 4.181 2 [To some minds] Heaven is within heaven, and sky over sky...
    GoW 4.261 21 The air is full of sounds; the sky, of tokens;...
    GoW 4.269 15 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person... Every word was carved before his eyes into the earth and the sky;...
    ET3 5.34 8 Under an ash-colored sky, [English] fields have been combed and rolled till they appear to have been finished with a pencil instead of a plough.
    ET3 5.39 15 The only drawback on this industrial conveniency [in England] is the darkness of its sky.
    ET3 5.39 24 The London fog aggravates the distempers of the sky...
    ET4 5.52 6 Certain temperaments suit the sky and soil of England...
    ET8 5.138 17 [The English] are subject to panics of credulity and of rage, but the temper of the nation...settles itself soon and easily, as, in this temperate zone, the sky after whatever storms clears again...
    ET16 5.274 26 ...[Carlyle]...compared the savans of Somerset House to the boy who asked Confucius how many stars in the sky? Confucius replied, he minded things near him: then said the boy, how many hairs are there in your eyebrows? Confucius said, he did n't know and did n't care.
    ET16 5.276 11 On the broad downs, under the gray sky, not a house was visible, nothing but Stonehenge...
    ET19 5.312 12 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was...no paradise of serene sky and roses and music and merriment all the year round...
    F 6.38 6 Of what changes then in sky and earth...does the appearance of some Dante or Columbus apprise us!
    F 6.41 1 Ducks take to the water, eagles to the sky...
    Ctr 6.129 6 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/ He must be musical,/ Tremulous, impressional,/ Alive to gentle influence/ Of landscape and of sky/...
    Bhr 6.189 27 ...if the man is self-possessed, happy and at home, his house is...indefinitely large and interesting, the roof and dome buoyant as the sky.
    Bhr 6.196 26 Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.
    CbW 6.265 17 I know those miserable fellows...who see a black star always riding through the light and colored clouds in the sky overhead;...
    CbW 6.268 11 [The young people] explore a farm, but the house is small... there's too much sky...
    Bty 6.303 21 Every natural feature--sea, sky, rainbow, flowers, musical tone--has in it somewhat which is not private but universal...
    Bty 6.304 3 ...in chosen men and women I find somewhat in form, speech and manners, which is...of a humane, catholic and spiritual character, and we love them as the sky.
    Bty 6.305 3 ...whatsoever thing does not express to me the sea and sky...is somewhat forbidden and wrong.
    Bty 6.305 27 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches...deigns to draw a truer line, which the mind knows and owns. This is that haughty force of beauty... which the poets praise...Beauty hiding all wisdom and power in its calm sky.
    Ill 6.310 20 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars...and even what seemed a comet flaming among them. ... Our musical friends sung with much feeling a pretty song, The stars are in the quiet sky...
    Farm 7.152 17 ...true political economy is...on the pattern of the sun and sky.
    WD 7.155 6 To each [the days] offer gifts after his will,/ Bread, kingdoms, stars and sky that holds them all./
    WD 7.171 13 The blue sky is a covering for a market and for the cherubim and seraphim.
    WD 7.171 14 The sky is the varnish or glory with which the Artist has washed the whole work...
    WD 7.172 12 ...the earth is the cup, the sky is the cover, of the immense bounty of Nature which is offered us for our daily aliment;...
    WD 7.183 10 ...all [Newton's] life was simple, wise and majestic. So was it in Archimedes, always self-same, like the sky.
    Boks 7.217 6 [In the novel] A thousand thoughts awoke; great rainbows seemed to span the sky...
    Cour 7.258 13 The Norse Sagas relate that when Bishop Magne reproved King Sigurd for his wicked divorce, the priest who attended the bishop, expecting every moment when the savage king would burst with rage and slay his superior, said that he saw the sky no bigger than a calf-skin.
    Cour 7.258 19 Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin;...
    Suc 7.300 4 ...the sand floor is...bent to be a part of the round globe, under the optical sky...
    PI 8.1 4 But over all his crowning grace,/ Wherefor thanks God his daily praise,/ Is the purging of his eye/ To see the people of the sky/...
    PI 8.22 18 In the ocean, in fire, in the sky, in the forest, [man] finds facts adequate and as large as he.
    PI 8.41 4 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere...[the poet] is permitted to dip his brush into the old paint-pot with which...the broad landscape, the ocean and the eternal sky, were painted.
    PI 8.41 23 ...the poet sees...the shores of matter lying on the sky...
    PI 8.53 20 Poetry...runs into fable, personifies every fact:--the clouds clapped their hands...the sky spoke.
    PI 8.71 10 ...the poet complains that the solid men leave out the sky.
    PI 8.72 24 Turnpike is one thing and blue sky another.
    Res 8.138 6 A philosophy sees only the worst;...dispirits us; the sky shuts down before us.
    PPo 8.244 26 [Hafiz] says to the Shah, Thou who rulest after words and thoughts which no ear has heard and no mind has thought, abide firm until thy young destiny tears off his blue coat from the old graybeard of the sky.
    Imtl 8.334 14 ...never to know the Cause, the Giver, and infer his character and will! Of what import this vacant sky, these puffing elements...
    Imtl 8.337 23 I have seen what glories...of midnight sky;...
    Aris 10.55 27 I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this ambient cloud. It is sufficient that they come. It is not important what they say. The sun and the evening sky are not calmer.
    PerF 10.78 7 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the Fancy, which sends its gay balloon aloft into the sky...
    Chr2 10.119 14 ...[the infant soul's] narrow chapel expands to the blue cathedral of the sky...
    Edc1 10.137 7 A new Adam in the garden, [the new man] is to name all the beasts in the field, all the gods in the sky.
    SovE 10.182 3 Thou shalt not try/ To plant thy shrivelled pedantry/ On the shoulders of the sky./
    SovE 10.191 16 An Eastern poet...said that God had made justice so dear to the heart of Nature that, if any injustice lurked anywhere under the sky, the blue vault would shrivel to a snake-skin and cast it out by spasms.
    Schr 10.276 10 [There is] Plenty of water also, sea full, sky full; who cares for it?
    EzRy 10.387 1 ...I well remember [Ezra Ripley's] his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil his hay.
    Thor 10.483 1 The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
    SMC 11.347 4 They have shown what men may do,/ They have proved how men may die,-/ Count, who can, the fields they have pressed,/ Each face to the solemn sky! Brownell.
    SMC 11.348 21 ...manhood is the one immortal thing/ Beneath Time's changeful sky/...
    SHC 11.434 20 ...I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with path of Suns, insead of foot-paths;...
    RBur 11.438 7 Praise to the bard! his words are driven,/ Like flower-seeds by the far winds sown,/ Where'er, beneath the sky of heaven,/ The birds of fame have flown./ Halleck.
    RBur 11.440 18 They that looked into [Burns's] eyes saw that they might look down the sky as easily.
    PLT 12.17 14 ...as man is conscious of the law of vegetable and animal nature, so is he aware of an Intellect which overhangs his consciousness like a sky...
    PLT 12.45 21 You must formulate your thought or 't is all sky and no stars.
    II 12.77 15 ...the beatitude of the Intellect seems to lie out of our volition, and to be unattainable as the sky...
    II 12.87 19 The sky, the sea...keep their word.
    CL 12.140 8 In summer, we have for weeks a sky of Calcutta...
    CL 12.145 15 [The farmer] makes every cloud in the sky, and every beam of the sun, serve him.
    CL 12.148 15 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. Stable is their birthplace in the sky...
    CL 12.156 17 There is somewhat finer in the sky than we have senses to appreciate.
    Milt1 12.276 3 It is true of Homer and Shakspeare...that...the poet towers to the sky, whilst the man quite disappears.
    EurB 12.366 9 The poet, like the electric rod, must reach from a point nearer the sky than all surrounding objects, down to the earth, and into the dark wet soil, or neither is of use.
    PPr 12.386 11 Every object [in Carlyle] attitudinizes...and instead of the common earth and sky, we have a Martin's Creation or Judgment Day.

skyey, adj. (2)

    ShP 4.208 13 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...and tell me if they match;...
    WD 7.170 19 [The days] are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.

sky-language, n. (1)

    PLT 12.19 20 So works the poor little blockhead manikin. He must arrange and dignify his shop or farm the best he can. At last he must be able to tell you it, or write it, translate it all clumsily enough into the new sky-language he calls thought.

Skylark, To the [William W (1)

    ET1 5.24 2 [Wordsworth]...quoted, with evident pleasure, the verses addressed To the Skylark.

sky-line, n. (1)

    ET16 5.281 2 I stood on the last [the sacrificial stone at Stonehenge], and [Mr. Brown] pointed to the upright, or rather, inclined stone, called the astronomical, and bade me notice that its top ranged with the sky-line.

sky-rockets, n. (1)

    CW 12.175 4 ...do not forget the 14th of November, when the meteors come, and on some years drop into your house-yard like sky-rockets.

Skyscrape, Jack [Byron, Th (1)

    SL 2.164 15 Byron says of Jack Bunting,--He knew not what to say, and so he swore.

sky-skirted, adj. (1)

    ET16 5.288 22 There, in that great sloven continent [America]...in the sea-wide, sky-skirted prairie, still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother...

sky-vault's, n. (1)

    PPo 8.255 10 My phoenix long ago secured/ His nest in the sky-vault's cope;/ In the body's cage immured,/ He was weary of life's hope./

sky-woven, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.123 27 Plato is a gownsman; his garment, though of purple, and almost sky-woven, is an academic robe...

slab, n. (1)

    Wth 6.83 16 From air the creeping centuries drew/ The matted thicket low and wide,/ This must the leaves of ages strew/ The granite slab to clothe and hide,/ Ere wheat can wave its golden pride./

slabs, n. (1)

    SMC 11.350 16 The town [Concord] has thought fit to signify its honor for a few of its sons by raising an obelisk in the square. It is a simple pile enough,-a few slabs of granite...

slack, adj. (2)

    Con 1.311 6 The ages have not been idle, nor kings slack...
    Prd1 2.233 25 Is it not better that a man should accept the first pains and mortifications of this sort, which nature is not slack in sending him, as hints that he must expect no other good than the just fruit of his own labor and self-denial?

slackening, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.279 14 George Nidiver stood still/ And looked [the bear] in the face;/ The wild beast stopped amazed,/ Then came with slackening pace./

slackens, v. (1)

    Suc 7.311 1 ...this witty malefactor [the cynic] makes [the most sanguine's] little hope less with satire and skepticism, and slackens the springs of endeavor.

slag, n. (2)

    Hsm1 2.245 10 When any Rodrigo, Pedro or Valerio enters [in the plays of the elder English dramatists]...the duke or governor exclaims, This is a gentleman,--and proffers civilities without end; but all the rest are slag and refuse.
    CbW 6.276 11 When I asked an ironmaster about the slag and cinder in railroad iron,--O, he said, there's always good iron to be had: if there's cinder in the iron it is because there was cinder in the pay.

slain, n. (1)

    FRep 11.515 2 There have been revolutions which were not in the interest of feudalism and barbarism, but in that of society. And these are distinguished not by the numbers of the combatants nor the numbers of the slain, but by the motive.

slain, v. (10)

    Hist 2.32 24 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. If the man could not answer, she swallowed him alive. If he could solve the riddle, the Sphinx was slain.
    ET4 5.59 14 If [the Northman] cannot pick any other quarrel, he will get himself...slain by a land-slide...
    Comc 8.166 5 This precious brother having slain,/ In times of peace, an Indian,/ Not out of malice, but mere zeal/ (Because he was an infidel),/ The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy/...
    Imtl 8.343 18 [The moral sentiment] risks or ruins property, health, life itself, without hesitation, for its thought, and all men justify the man by their praise for this act. And Mahomet in the same mind declared, Not dead, but living, ye are to account all those who are slain in the way of God.
    Imtl 8.351 24 Unborn, eternal, [the soul] is not slain, though the body is slain;...
    HDC 11.60 7 The Indians stole upon [Mary Shepherd] before she was aware, and her brothers were slain.
    HDC 11.60 24 ...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...
    War 11.159 12 When [Assacombuit] appeared at court, he lifted up his hand and said, This hand has slain a hundred and fifty of your majesty's enemies within the territories of New England.
    War 11.168 20 ...no man, it may be presumed, ever embraced the cause of peace and philanthropy for the sole end and satisfaction of being plundered and slain.
    Milt1 12.250 20 What under heaven had...the manner of living of Saumaise...or his niceties of diction, to do with the solemn question whether Charles Stuart had been rightly slain?

slakes, v. (1)

    Insp 8.278 21 Herrick said: 'T is not every day that I/ Fitted am to prophesy;/ No, but when the spirit fills/ The fantastic panicles,/ Full of fire, then I write/ As the Godhead doth indite./ Thus enraged, my lines are hurled,/ Like the Sibyl's, through the world;/ Look how next the holy fire/ Either slakes, or doth retire;/...

slammed, v. (1)

    Bhr 6.192 9 We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], step by step, [the boy's] climbing, until at last...the wedding day is fixed, and we follow the gala procession home to the bannered portal, when the doors are slammed in our face...

slander, n. (4)

    Hsm1 2.263 3 Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the youth may freely bring home to his mind...
    PC 8.231 13 I believe that the checks are as sure as the springs. It is thereby that men are great and have great allies. And who are the allies? Rude opposition, apathy, slander,-even these.
    Aris 10.37 16 We like cool people...who can stand a slander very well;...
    ALin 11.334 25 If ever a man was fairly tested, [Lincoln] was. There was no lack of resistance, nor of slander, nor of ridicule.

slander, v. (1)

    NMW 4.255 11 [Napoleon] would steal, slander, assassinate, drown and poison, as his interest dictated.

slandered, v. (1)

    Hsm1 2.255 11 It is told of Brutus, that when he fell on his sword after the battle of Philippi, he quoted a line of Euripides,--O Virtue! I have followed thee through life, and I find thee at last but a shade. I doubt not the hero is slandered by this report.

slap, n. (1)

    Gts 3.163 25 It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally wishes to give you a slap.

slapped, v. (1)

    MoL 10.251 2 I wish the youth to be...no helpless angel to be slapped in the face...

slashes, v. (1)

    ET4 5.59 18 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in battle, as long as he can stand...

slate, n. (5)

    YA 1.365 13 ...the mineral riches are explored; limestone, coal, slate, and iron;...
    Exp 3.80 6 Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new-comer like a travelling geologist who passes through our estate and shows us good slate...in our brush pasture.
    PNR 4.85 3 [Plato] saw...that the world was throughout mathematical;... there is just so much water and slate and magnesia;...
    F 6.15 17 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite; then a thousand ages, and a bed of slate;...
    WSL 12.347 25 [Landor] knows the value of his own words. They are not, he says, written on slate.

slates, n. (1)

    PerF 10.75 16 [Labor] is under the house in the well; it is over the house in slates and copper and water-spout;...

slaughter, n. (1)

    F 6.32 23 The annual slaughter from typhus far exceeds that of war;...

slaughter, v. (1)

    JBB 11.272 23 Is any man in Massachusetts so simple as to believe that when a United States Court in Virginia...sends to...Massachusetts, for a witness, it wants him for a witness? No...it wants him for meat to slaughter and eat.

slaughtered, adj. (2)

    ACiv 11.303 6 Better the war...should...punish us with burned capitals and slaughtered regiments, and so...exasperate our nationality.
    HCom 11.344 12 A single company in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard. You all know as well as I the story of these dedicated men...whose fathers and mothers said of each slaughtered son, We gave him up when he enlisted.

slaughtered, v. (4)

    Prd1 2.233 22 ...who has not seen the tragedy of imprudent genius struggling for years with paltry pecuniary difficulties, at last sinking, chilled, exhausted and fruitless, like a giant slaughtered by pins?
    ET16 5.281 13 Was [Stonehenge] the Giants' Dance, which Merlin brought from Killaraus, in Ireland, to be Uther Pendragon's monument to the British nobles whom Hengist slaughtered here...
    Plu 10.316 22 ...nothing so resembles an animal as fire. It is moved and nourished by itself, and...in its quenching shows some power that seems to proceed from a vital principle, for it makes a noise and resists, like an animal...violently slaughtered;...
    War 11.168 7 Will you stick to your principle of non-resistance...when your wife and babes are insulted and slaughtered in your sight?

slaughter-house, adj. (1)

    Imtl 8.332 24 Where there is depravity there is a slaughter-house style of thinking.

slaughter-house, n. (2)

    F 6.7 9 You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed...there is complicity...
    Thor 10.481 12 ...[Thoreau] remarked that by night every dwelling-house gives out bad air, like a slaughter-house.

slaughter-houses, n. (1)

    EWI 11.102 9 ...the secrets of slaughter-houses and infamous holes that cannot front the day, must be ransacked, to tell what negro slavery has been.

slave, adj. (10)

    Farm 7.141 18 If it be true that...by the eternal laws of political economy, slaves are driven out of a slave state as fast as it is surrounded by free states, then the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
    EWI 11.113 10 The Ministers, having estimated the slave products of the colonies...at 1,500,000 pounds per annum, estimated the total value of the slave property [in the West Indies] at 30,000,000 pounds sterling...
    EWI 11.113 13 The Ministers...estimated the total value of the slave property [in the West Indies] at 30,000,000 pounds sterling...
    FSLC 11.207 7 What shall we do? First, abrogate this [Fugitive Slave] law; then, proceed to confine slavery to slave states...
    FSLC 11.208 5 ...the manifest interest of the slave states; the religious effort of the free states; the public opinion of the world;-all join to demand [emancipation].
    FSLN 11.234 3 [Official papers] are a guaranty to the slave states that, as they have hitherto met with no repulse, they shall meet with none.
    FSLN 11.244 21 The Anti-Slavery Society will add many members this year. The Whig Party will join it; the Democrats will join it. The population of the free states will join it. I doubt not, at last, the slave states will join it.
    AsSu 11.247 9 Life has not parity of value in the free state and in the slave state.
    AKan 11.259 23 ...the adding of Cuba and Central America to the slave marts is enlarging the area of Freedom.
    JBB 11.270 18 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It comprises...almost every man...who sees what a tiger's thirst threatens him in the malignity of public sentiment in the slave states.

Slave, Fugitive, Bill, n. (3)

    FSLC 11.184 20 Who could have believed it, if foretold that a hundred guns would be fired in Boston on the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill?
    FSLN 11.224 15 Four years ago to-night...Mr. Webster...caused by his personal and official authority the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill.
    TPar 11.290 14 [Theodore Parker's] ministry fell...on the years when Southern slavery...wrung from the weakness or treachery of Northern people fatal concessions in the Fugitive Slave Bill...

Slave, Fugitive, Law, n. (2)

    FSLN 11.219 7 ...I never felt the check on my free speech and action, until, the other day, when Mr. Webster, by his personal influence, brought the Fugitive Slave Law on the country.
    FSLN 11.244 15 ...the Fugitive Law did much to unglue the eyes of men...

Slave Institution, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.228 20 I said I had never in my life up to this time suffered from the Slave Institution.

slave, n. (52)

    DSA 1.135 3 ...not any liar, not any slave can teach...
    LT 1.280 5 ...if I treat all men as gods, how to me can there be any such thing as a slave?
    LT 1.280 22 ...how trivial seem the contests of the abolitionist, whilst he aims merely at the circumstance of the slave.
    LT 1.280 22 Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is no slave;...
    LT 1.280 24 Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is no slave; you are the slave;...
    Con 1.316 26 ...the gravity and sense of some slave Moses...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    YA 1.390 2 If a humane measure is propounded in behalf of the slave...that sentiment...will have the homage of the hero.
    YA 1.390 15 We cannot give our life to the cause...of the slave...as another is doing;...
    Comp 2.109 25 If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
    Exp 3.81 13 The life of truth...is not the slave of tears, contritions and perturbations.
    Mrs1 3.142 17 ...friend of the African slave, [Charles James Fox] possessed a great personal popularity;...
    Pol1 3.210 23 ...[the conservative party] does not...emancipate the slave...
    NER 3.278 5 If...we start objections to your project, O friend of the slave, or friend of the poor...understand well that it is because we wish to drive you to drive us into your measures.
    MoS 4.173 2 It turns out that [the wise skeptic] is not the champion of the operative, the pauper, the prisoner, the slave.
    GoW 4.267 3 Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
    Wth 6.91 1 A man in debt is so far a slave...
    Ctr 6.166 11 [Man] is to convert...all enemies into power. The formidable mischief will only make the more useful slave.
    Wsp 6.234 8 Under the whip of the driver, the slave shall feel his equality with saints and heroes.
    SA 8.87 3 Sometimes, when in almost all expressions the Choctaw and the slave have been worked out of [a man], a coarse nature still betrays itself in his contemptible squeals of joy.
    SA 8.105 5 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;--as the love...in the tender-hearted philanthropist to spend and be spent for some romantic charity, as...John Brown for the slave.
    PPo 8.256 5 I declare myself the slave of that masculine soul/ Which ties and alliance on earth once forever renounces./
    Dem1 10.12 2 ...Pancrates...wanting a servant, took a door-bar and pronounced over it magical words, and it stood up and brought him water, and turned a spit, and carried bundles, doing all the work of a slave.
    Aris 10.48 20 In the South a slave was bluntly but accurately valued at five hundred to a thousand dollars, if a good field-hand;...
    Aris 10.48 25 In Rome or Greece what sums would not be paid for a superior slave...
    Aris 10.48 26 In Rome or Greece what sums would not be paid for a superior slave, a confidential secretary and manager, an educated slave;...
    Edc1 10.127 20 Enamoured of [sun's, moon's, plants', animals'] beauty, comforted by their convenience, [man]...fast loses sight of the fact...that they become noxious, when he becomes their slave.
    SovE 10.191 1 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious elements...the secrets of the prisons of tyranny, the slave and his master, the proud man's scorn...
    EWI 11.101 20 ...the oldest planters of Jamaica are convinced that it is cheaper to pay wages than to own the slave.
    EWI 11.105 10 Granville Sharpe was accidentally made acquainted with the sufferings of a slave, whom a West Indian planter had brought with him to London...
    EWI 11.105 20 Granville Sharpe found [the West Indian slave] at his brother's and procured a place for him in an apothecary's shop. The master accidentally met his recovered slave, and instantly endeavored to get possession of him again.
    EWI 11.105 22 Granville Sharpe found [the West Indian slave] at his brother's and procured a place for him in an apothecary's shop. The master accidentally met his recovered slave, and instantly endeavored to get possession of him again. Sharpe protected the slave.
    EWI 11.106 10 ...when [Granville Sharpe] brought the case of George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed.
    EWI 11.107 9 [Lord Mansfield's] decision established the principle that the air of England is too pure for any slave to breathe...
    EWI 11.108 1 [The English Quakers] made friends and raised money for the slave;...
    EWI 11.110 27 ...every [West Indian] slave was worked by the whip.
    EWI 11.119 4 The planter...has contracted in his indolent and luxurious climate the need of excitement by irritating and tormenting his slave.
    EWI 11.120 7 ...on the 1st August, 1838, the shackles dropped from every British slave.
    EWI 11.125 16 The oppression of the slave recoiled on [the planters].
    EWI 11.136 6 I was a slave, said the counsel of [George] Somerset, speaking for his client, for I was in America...
    FSLC 11.180 21 In Boston, we have said with such lofty confidence, no fugitive slave can be arrested...
    FSLC 11.191 12 Lord Mansfield, in the case of the slave Somerset...said, I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.
    FSLC 11.191 15 Lord Mansfield, in the case of the slave Somerset, wherein the dicta of Lords Talbot and Hardwicke had been cited, to the effect of carrying back the slave to the West Indies, said, I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.
    FSLC 11.193 2 There is not a manly Whig, or a manly Democrat, of whom if a slave were hidden in one of our houses from the hounds, we should not ask with confidence to lend his wagon in aid of his escape, and he would lend it.
    FSLC 11.200 16 The hands that put the chain on the slave are in that moment manacled.
    FSLC 11.201 5 By white slaves, by a white slave, are we beaten.
    FSLN 11.233 6 You relied on the constitution. It has not the word slave in it;...
    JBS 11.278 8 ...in Pennsylvania...[John Brown] fell in with a boy...whom he looked upon as his superior. This boy was a slave;...
    EPro 11.314 7 Pay ransom to the owner/ And fill the bag to the brim./ Who is the owner? The slave is the owner,/ And ever was. Pay him./
    SMC 11.348 16 Yea, many a tie, through iteration sweet,/ Strove to detain their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half they chose,/ Whose choice decides a man life's slave or king,/ The invisible things of God before the seen and known:/ Therefore their memory inspiration blows/ With echoes gathering on from zone to zone;/...
    CL 12.153 6 The freedom [of the sea] makes the observer feel as a slave.
    Bost 12.203 18 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some defender of the slave against the politician and the merchant;...
    WSL 12.342 17 ...a slave, to whom the religious sentiment is opened, has a freedom which makes his master's freedom a slavery.

Slave States, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.233 21 You relied on State sovereignty in the Free States to protect their citizens. They are driven with contempt out of the courts and out of the territory of the Slave States...

slave-breeder, n. (1)

    EWI 11.139 4 What happened notoriously to an American ambassador in England, that he found himself compelled to palter and to disguise the fact that he was a slave-breeder, happens to men of state.

slave-captain's, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.95 6 Is there never a glimpse of right in a poor slave-captain's mind;...

slave-driver, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.238 3 ...if you have a nice question of right and wrong, you would not go with it...to a slave-driver.

slave-drivers, n. (1)

    Exp 3.53 3 Theoretic kidnappers and slave-drivers, [physicians] esteem each man the victim of another...

slave-God, n. (1)

    HCom 11.339 12 We grudge them not, our dearest, bravest, best,-/ Let but the quarrel's issue stand confest:/ 'T is Earth's old slave-God battling for his crown/ And Freedom fighting with her visor down./ Holmes.

slaveholder, n. [slave-holder,] (7)

    LT 1.274 17 ...the compromise made with the slaveholder...every day appears more flagrant mischief to the American constitution.
    LT 1.280 8 This denouncing philanthropist is himself a slaveholder in every word and look.
    EWI 11.134 6 ...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.
    EWI 11.135 20 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the masters revolting from their mastery. The slave-holder said, I will not hold slaves.
    FSLN 11.238 10 The plea in the mouth of a slave-holder that the negro is an inferior race sounds very oddly in my ear.
    JBS 11.281 12 Who makes the abolitionist? The slave-holder.
    TPar 11.291 21 ...[Theodore Parker's] great hospitable heart was the sanctuary to which every soul conscious of an earnest opinion came for sympathy-alike the brave slave-holder and the brave slave-rescuer.

slaveholders, n. [slave-holders,] (2)

    LT 1.279 15 The great majority of men...are not aware of the evil that is around them until they see it in some gross form, as in a class of... slaveholders...
    EWI 11.134 10 ...the reader of Congressional debates, in New England, is perplexed to see with what admirable sweetness and patience the majority of the free States are schooled and ridden by the minority of slave-holders.

slave-holding, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.207 26 Here are...slave-holding and slave-trading religions;...

slave-laws, n. (3)

    LT 1.280 11 [This denouncing philanthropist] is the state of Georgia, or Alabama, with their sanguinary slave-laws, walking here on our north-eastern shores.
    EWI 11.130 6 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships, yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...
    FSLC 11.193 10 ...it is absurd...to accuse the friends of freedom in the North with being the occasion of the new stringency of the Southern slave-laws.

slave-owners, n. (1)

    EWI 11.105 4 It became plain to all men, the more this business was looked into, that the crimes and cruelties of the slave-traders and slave-owners could not be overstated.

slaver, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.94 24 Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea should take on board a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of Toussaint L'Ouverture...

slave-rescuer, n. (1)

    TPar 11.291 21 ...[Theodore Parker's] great hospitable heart was the sanctuary to which every soul conscious of an earnest opinion came for sympathy-alike the brave slave-holder and the brave slave-rescuer.

slaveries, n. (1)

    Wth 6.113 11 ...the betrothed maiden by one secure affection is relieved from a system of slaveries...

slavery, adj. (1)

    FSLC 11.203 20 ...very unexpectedly to the whole Union, on the 7th March, 1850...[Webster] crossed the line, and became the head of the slavery party in this country.

Slavery, American, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.219 2 I have lived all my life without suffering any known inconvenience from American Slavery.

slavery, n. (87)

    DSA 1.146 23 ...for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts;...
    MR 1.232 5 In the island of Cuba, in addition to the ordinary abominations of slavery, it appears only men are bought for the plantations...
    LT 1.269 8 The leaders of the crusades against War, Negro slavery...are the right successors of Luther, Knox...
    LT 1.276 21 I think that the soul of reform; the conviction that not sensualism, not slavery...are needed...
    LT 1.280 1 If, [the man of ideas] says, I am selfish, then is there slavery... wherever I go.
    LT 1.280 3 ...if I am just, then is there no slavery, let the laws say what they will.
    YA 1.378 23 ...the historian will see that...trade...will abolish slavery.
    SL 2.156 8 You think because you...have given no opinion on the times...on slavery...that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom.
    SL 2.158 20 Pretension never...abolished slavery.
    Pol1 3.209 14 Parties of principle, as...the party...of abolition of slavery... degenerate into personalities, or would inspire enthusiasm.
    ET4 5.46 7 ...slavery does not exist under [the English].
    ET7 5.123 22 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe...that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners: which, to be sure, is paralleled by the democratic whimsy in this country...that the English are at the bottom of the agitation of slavery...
    ET13 5.215 22 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...set bounds to serfdom and slavery...
    ET18 5.301 15 [The English] have abolished slavery in the West Indies...
    ET18 5.305 15 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;...the abolition of slavery, of impressment, penal code and entails.
    Ctr 6.140 27 What we call our root-and-branch reforms, of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms.
    Wsp 6.210 2 What proof of infidelity like the toleration and propagandism of slavery?
    Elo1 7.95 18 The resistance to slavery in this country has been a fruitful nursery of orators.
    Cour 7.272 23 The best act of the marvellous genius of Greece was...in the instinct which, at Thermopylae...kept Asia out of Europe,--Asia with its antiquities and organic slavery...
    Res 8.142 13 We have seen slavery disappear like a painted scene in a theatre;...
    PC 8.208 23 The war gave us the abolition of slavery...
    Aris 10.48 18 Slavery had mischief enough to answer for, but it had this good in it,-the pricing of men.
    MoL 10.247 5 A scholar defending the cause of slavery...is a traitor to his profession.
    MoL 10.258 7 Slavery is broken...
    LLNE 10.326 3 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following. It...brought new divisions in politics; as the new conscience touching temperance and slavery.
    MMEm 10.432 6 Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson]...resigned...to the memory of long years of slavery passed in labor and ignorance...
    Thor 10.460 8 ...idealist as he was, standing for abolition of slavery, abolition of tariffs, almost for abolition of government, it is needless to say [Thoreau] found himself...almost equally opposed to every class of reformers.
    Carl 10.491 11 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt; they profess freedom and he stands for slavery;...
    GSt 10.502 1 [George Stearns] was an early laborer in the resistance to slavery.
    EWI 11.100 12 The institution of slavery seems to its opponent to have but one side...
    EWI 11.102 11 ...the secrets of slaughter-houses and infamous holes that cannot front the day, must be ransacked, to tell what negro slavery has been.
    EWI 11.104 18 The blood is moral: the blood is anti-slavery...the stomach rises with disgust, and curses slavery.
    EWI 11.107 2 ...(tracing the subject to natural principles, the claim of slavery never can be supported).
    EWI 11.110 1 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade...
    EWI 11.110 7 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade, but Granville Sharpe...felt constrained to record his protest against the limitation, declaring that slavery was as much a crime against the Divine law as the slave-trade.
    EWI 11.112 24 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon and from and after the said first August, become and be to all intents and purposes free...
    EWI 11.113 1 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon and from and after the said first August, become and be...discharged of and from all manner of slavery...
    EWI 11.113 6 ...be it enacted...that from and after the first August, 1834, slavery shall be and is hereby utterly and forever abolished and declared unlawful throughout the British colonies...
    EWI 11.118 1 I may here express a general remark, which the history of slavery seems to justify...
    EWI 11.118 8 We sometimes say...give [the planter] a machine that will yield him as much money as the slaves, and he will thankfully let them go. He has no love of slavery, but he wants luxury...
    EWI 11.125 24 Slavery is no scholar, no improver;...
    EWI 11.132 21 The Congress...should set on foot the strictest inquisition to discover where such persons [freemen of Massachusetts], brought into slavery by these local [Southern] laws at any time heretofore, may now be.
    EWI 11.147 17 The genius of the Saxon race, friendly to liberty; the enterprise, the very muscular vigor of this nation, are inconsistent with slavery.
    FSLC 11.186 14 ...America, the most prosperous country in the Universe, has the greatest calamity in the Universe, negro slavery.
    FSLC 11.197 3 New York advertised in Southern markets that it would go for slavery...
    FSLC 11.197 9 Philadelphia...in this auction of the rights of mankind, rescinded all its legislation against slavery.
    FSLC 11.197 14 Nothing remains in this race of roguery but to coax Connecticut or Maine to outbid us all by adopting slavery into its constitution.
    FSLC 11.199 11 A measure of pacification and union. What is [the Fugitive Slave Law's] effect? To make one sole subject for conversation and painful thought throughout the continent, namely, slavery.
    FSLC 11.203 3 ...as the activity and growth of slavery began to be offensively felt by [Webster's] constituents, the senator became less sensitive to these evils.
    FSLC 11.206 5 It is not slavery that severs [the North and the South], it is climate and temperament.
    FSLC 11.206 7 The South does not like the North, slavery or no slavery...
    FSLC 11.207 6 What shall we do? First, abrogate this [Fugitive Slave] law; then, proceed to confine slavery to slave states...
    FSLC 11.207 18 ...will any expert statesman furnish us a plan for the summary or gradual winding up of slavery...
    FSLC 11.207 21 Since it is agreed by all sane men of all parties...that slavery is mischievous, why does the South itself never offer the smallest counsel of her own?
    FSLC 11.208 11 We shall one day bring the States shoulder to shoulder and the citizens man to man to exterminate slavery.
    FSLC 11.212 15 We will never intermeddle with your slavery...
    FSLN 11.225 22 There was the same law in England for Jeffries and Talbot and Yorke to read slavery out of, and for Lord Mansfield to read freedom.
    FSLN 11.234 12 Of course [slave-owners] will not dare to read the Bible? Won't they? They quote the Bible, quote Paul, quote Christ, to justify slavery.
    FSLN 11.234 12 If slavery is good, then is lying, theft, arson, homicide, each and all good...
    FSLN 11.238 6 The habit of mind of traders in power would not be esteemed favorable to delicate moral perception. American slavery affords no exception to this rule.
    FSLN 11.238 21 Slavery is disheartening;...
    FSLN 11.240 3 ...torpor exists here throughout the active classes on the subject of domestic slavery and its appalling aggressions.
    FSLN 11.240 26 ...the inconsistency of slavery with the principles on which the world is built guarantees its downfall...
    AsSu 11.247 7 I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
    AKan 11.261 1 In the free states, we give a snivelling support to slavery.
    JBS 11.278 18 ...the colored boy had no friend, and no future. This worked such indignation in [John Brown] that he swore an oath of resistance to slavery as long as he lived.
    JBS 11.281 10 Nothing is more absurd than...to complain of a party of men united in opposition to slavery.
    JBS 11.281 24 ...the arch-abolitionist...is Love, whose other name is Justice, which was before Alfred, before Lycurgus, before slavery, and will be after it.
    TPar 11.290 10 [Theodore Parker's] ministry fell...on the years when Southern slavery broke over its old banks...
    ACiv 11.297 7 ...now here comes this conspiracy of slavery,-they call it an institution, I call it a destitution...
    ACiv 11.300 17 Neither was anything concealed of the theory or practice of slavery.
    ACiv 11.301 2 You wish to satisfy people that slavery is bad economy.
    ACiv 11.303 15 ...there have been days in American history, when, if the free states had done their duty, slavery had been blocked...
    ACiv 11.305 5 ...as long as we fight without...any word intimating forfeiture in the rebel states of their old privileges, under the law, [the Southerners] and we fight on the same side, for slavery.
    ACiv 11.305 18 Congress can...abolish slavery...
    ACiv 11.306 5 We fancy that the endless debate...has brought the free states to some conviction that it can never go well with us whilst this mischief of slavery remains in our politics...
    ACiv 11.310 12 ...President Lincoln has proposed to Congress that the government shall cooperate with any state that shall enact a gradual abolishment of slavery.
    EPro 11.319 22 ...slavery overpowers the disgust of the moral sentiment only through immemorial usage.
    EPro 11.324 26 ...in the Southern States, the tenure of land and the local laws, with slavery, give the social system not a democratic but an aristocratic complexion;...
    ALin 11.336 10 Had [Lincoln] not lived long enough to keep the greatest promise that ever man made to his fellow men,-the practical abolition of slavery?
    Wom 11.425 25 Slavery it is that makes slavery;...
    Wom 11.425 26 The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
    FRO1 11.480 17 The soul of our late war...was, first, the desire to abolish slavery in this country...
    FRep 11.515 22 ...the culmination of these triumphs of humanity-and which did virtually include the extinction of slavery-is the planting of America.
    Milt1 12.271 7 Toland tells us...[Milton] used to tell those about him the entire satisfaction of his mind that he had constantly employed his strength and faculties...in direct opposition to slavery.
    MLit 12.331 16 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets...to get a draft of sweet air...but dares not break from his slavery...
    WSL 12.342 20 ...a slave, to whom the religious sentiment is opened, has a freedom which makes his master's freedom a slavery.

Slavery, n. (17)

    Chr2 10.114 20 It is only yesterday that our American churches, so long silent on Slavery...wheeled in line for Emancipation.
    FSLC 11.207 10 ...shall we, as we are advised on all hands, lie by, and wait the progress of the census? But will Slavery lie by? I fear not.
    FSLN 11.224 13 Four years ago to-night...Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
    FSLN 11.226 7 Mr. Webster decided for Slavery...
    FSLN 11.226 19 ...a ghastly result of all those years of experience in affairs, this, that there was nothing better for the foremost American man [Webster] to tell his countrymen than that Slavery was now at that strength that they must beat down their conscience and become kidnappers for it.
    FSLN 11.228 8 [Webster] told the people at Boston...that agitation of the subject of Slavery must be suppressed.
    FSLN 11.228 20 Slavery in Virginia or Carolina was like Slavery in Africa or the Feejees, to me.
    FSLN 11.228 21 Slavery in Virginia or Carolina was like Slavery in Africa or the Feejees, to me.
    FSLN 11.229 2 ...[the Fugitive Slave Law] discloses the secret of the new times, that Slavery was no longer mendicant...
    FSLN 11.236 2 I conceive that thus to detach a man and make him feel that he is to owe all to himself is the way to make him strong and rich; and here the optimist must find, if anywhere, the benefit of Slavery.
    FSLN 11.236 8 ...our education is not conducted by toys and luxuries, but by austere and rugged masters, by poverty, solitude, passions, War, Slavery;...
    JBB 11.269 1 ...[John Brown] conceives that the only obstruction to the Union is Slavery...
    JBB 11.269 25 ...it is the reductio ad absurdum of Slavery, when the governor of Virginia is forced to hang a man [John Brown] whom he declares to be a man of the most integrity, truthfulness and courage he has ever met.
    ACiv 11.307 8 ...the North will for a time have its full share and more, in place and counsel. But this will not last;...because Slavery will again speak through [sensible Southerners] its harsh necessity.
    ACiv 11.307 19 ...Slavery makes and keeps disunion, Emancipation removes the whole objection to union.
    EdAd 11.390 27 Will [a journal] measure itself with the chapter on Slavery...
    Wom 11.416 4 Another step [for Woman] was the effect of the action of the age in the antagonism to Slavery.

slaves, n. (60)

    DSA 1.144 7 The old is for slaves.
    MR 1.245 1 ...as soon as there is society, comfits and cushions will be left to slaves.
    Con 1.316 27 ...the gravity and sense of some slave Moses who leads away his fellow slaves from their masters;...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    Hsm1 2.243 2 ...Sugar spends to fatten slaves/...
    Hsm1 2.256 10 In Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage, Juletta tells the stout captain and his company,--Jul. Why, slaves, 't is in our power to hang ye./ Master. Very likely,/ 'T is in our powers, then, to be hanged, and scorn ye./
    Mrs1 3.138 6 Let us leave hurry to slaves.
    Mrs1 3.146 5 ...there is still...some guide and comforter of runaway slaves;...
    ET4 5.45 4 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, which reckon...exclusive of slaves, 20,000,000...and you have a population of English descent and language of 60,000,000...
    F 6.23 11 ...nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves...
    Wth 6.84 14 ...New slaves fulfilled the poet's dream,/ Galvanic wire, strong-shouldered steam./
    CbW 6.261 26 Aesop, Saadi, Cervantes, Regnard, have been...sold for slaves, and know the realities of human life.
    Farm 7.141 17 If it be true that...by the eternal laws of political economy, slaves are driven out of a slave state as fast as it is surrounded by free states, then the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
    WD 7.162 5 Our selfishness would have held slaves...
    Chr2 10.114 14 Men will learn to put back the emphasis peremptorily on pure morals...with...no female slaves...
    Supl 10.177 25 ...the Orientals excel...in the training of slaves, elephants and camels...
    LLNE 10.357 1 ...[Thoreau's] independence made all others look like slaves.
    MMEm 10.422 14 ...the gray-headed god [Time] throws his shadows all around, and his slaves catch...at the halo he throws around poetry, or pebbles, bugs, or bubbles.
    EWI 11.107 1 Immemorial usage preserves the memory of positive law, long after all traces of the occasion, reason, authority and time of its introduction are lost; and in a case so odious as the condition of slaves, must be taken strictly...
    EWI 11.107 25 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 11 Thomas Clarkson was a youth at Cambridge, England, when the subject given out for a Latin prize dissertation was, Is it right to make slaves of others against their will?
    EWI 11.110 12 In 1821, according to official documents presented to the American government by the Colonization Society, 200,000 slaves were deported from Africa.
    EWI 11.110 24 In attempting to make its escape from the pursuit of a man-of- war, one ship flung five hundred slaves alive into the sea.
    EWI 11.112 8 The scheme of the Minister...proposed...that on 1st August, 1834, all persons [in the West Indies] now slaves should be entitled to be registered as apprenticed laborers...
    EWI 11.113 19 The Ministers...proposed to give the [West Indian] planters...20,000,000 pounds sterling...to be distributed to the owners of slaves by commissioners...
    EWI 11.118 4 We sometimes say, the planter does not want slaves, he only wants the immunities and luxuries which the slaves yield him;...
    EWI 11.118 5 We sometimes say, the planter...only wants the immunities and luxuries which the slaves yield him;...
    EWI 11.118 7 We sometimes say...give [the planter] a machine that will yield him as much money as the slaves, and he will thankfully let them go.
    EWI 11.121 17 It may be asserted...that the former slaves of Jamaica are now as secure in all social rights, as freeborn Britons.
    EWI 11.125 11 It was shown to the planters that they, as well as the negroes, were slaves;...
    EWI 11.125 23 Many planters have said, since the emancipation [in the West Indies], that, before that day, they were the greatest slaves on the estates.
    EWI 11.126 8 It was very easy for manufacturers...to see that...if the slaves [in the West Indies] had wages, the slaves would be clothed, would build houses...
    EWI 11.130 13 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships... freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in jails so long as the vessel remained in port, with the stringent addition, that if the shipmaster fails to pay the costs of this official arrest and the board in jail, these citizens are to be sold for slaves, to pay that expense.
    EWI 11.135 21 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the masters revolting from their mastery. The slave-holder said, I will not hold slaves.
    EWI 11.140 16 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat the underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners...
    EWI 11.140 24 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea...the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners: they had a right to do what they had done. Lord Mansfield is reported to have said on the bench, The matter left to the jury is,-Was it from necessity? For they had no doubt...that the case of slaves was the same as if horses had been thrown overboard.
    FSLC 11.187 23 [Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law] is not going crusading into Virginia and Georgia after slaves...
    FSLC 11.200 22 The words of John Randolph, wiser than he knew, have been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in the heat of the Missouri debate. We do not govern the people of the North by our black slaves, but by their own white slaves.
    FSLC 11.200 23 The words of John Randolph, wiser than he knew, have been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in the heat of the Missouri debate. We do not govern the people of the North by our black slaves, but by their own white slaves.
    FSLC 11.201 5 By white slaves, by a white slave, are we beaten.
    FSLC 11.208 20 It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish, to buy that property of the planters, as the British nation bought the West Indian slaves.
    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.
    FSLN 11.228 26 There was an old fugitive law, but it had become, or was fast becoming...by the genius and laws of Massachusetts, inoperative. The new [Fugitive Slave] Bill...required me to hunt slaves...
    FSLN 11.234 9 ...one would have said that a Christian would not keep slaves;-but Chrisitans keep slaves.
    FSLN 11.235 9 ...no man has a right to hope that the laws of New York will defend him from the contamination of slaves another day until he has made up his mind that he will not owe his protection to the laws of New York, but to his own sense and spirit.
    FSLN 11.238 12 The masters of slaves seem generally anxious to prove that they are not of a race superior in any noble quality to the meanest of their bondsmen.
    AsSu 11.247 16 In [the slave state]...man is an animal...spending his days in hunting and practising with deadly weapons to defend himself against his slaves and against his companions brought up in the same idle and dangerous way.
    JBS 11.278 21 ...[John Brown's] enterprise to go into Virginia and run off five hundred or a thousand slaves was not a piece of spite or revenge...
    ACiv 11.299 2 We have attempted to hold together two states of civilization: a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes an oligarchy...
    ACiv 11.301 7 A democratic statesman said to me...that, if he owned the state of Kentucky, he would manumit all the slaves, and be a gainer by the transaction.
    ACiv 11.301 12 ...there is no one owner of the state [Kentucky], but a good many small owners. One man owns land and slaves; another owns slaves only.
    ACiv 11.305 18 Congress can...abolish slavery, and pay for such slaves as we ought to pay for.
    ACiv 11.305 19 Congress can...abolish slavery, and pay for such slaves as we ought to pay for. Then the slaves near our armies will come to us;...
    ACiv 11.306 20 ...what kind of peace shall at that moment be easiest attained, [the people] will make concessions for it,-will give up the slaves, and the whole torment of the past half-century will come back to be endured anew.
    EPro 11.315 21 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...the British emancipation of slaves in the West Indies...
    EPro 11.320 6 The President [Lincoln] by this act [the Emancipation Proclamation] has paroled all the slaves in America;...
    EPro 11.323 12 If we had consented to a peaceable secession of the rebels... the slaves on the border...were an incessant fuel to rekindle the fire.
    ALin 11.336 11 [Lincoln] had seen Tennessee, Missouri and Maryland emancipate their slaves.
    Wom 11.425 27 The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

slaves', n. [slave's,] (2)

    EWI 11.113 16 The Ministers...proposed to give the [West Indian] planters, as a compensation for so much of the slaves' time as the act [of emancipation] took from them, 20,000,000 pounds sterling...
    EWI 11.129 25 I could not see the great vision of the patriots and senators who have adopted the slave's cause...

slave-ship, n. (1)

    EWI 11.102 27 For the negro, was the slave-ship to begin with...

slave-ships, n. (1)

    EWI 11.108 22 [Thomas] Clarkson went to Bristol, made himself acquainted with the interior of the slave-ships and the details of the trade.

slave-trade, n. (8)

    Nat 1.73 6 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...the achievements of a principle, as in...the abolition of the slave-trade;...
    Tran 1.348 4 ...[Transcendentalists] do not willingly share...in the abolition of the slave-trade...
    EWI 11.107 27 Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of July, 1783...to consider what step they should take...for the discouragement of the slave-trade on the coast of Africa.
    EWI 11.108 26 The facts [of the slave trade] confirmed [Thomas Clarkson' s] sentiment...that the slave-trade was as impolitic as it was unjust;...
    EWI 11.109 27 ...in 1807, on the 25th March, the bill passed, and the slave-trade was abolished.
    EWI 11.110 8 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade, but Granville Sharpe...felt constrained to record his protest against the limitation, declaring that slavery was as much a crime against the Divine law as the slave-trade.
    EWI 11.126 15 ...[British merchants] saw further that the slave-trade, by keeping in barbarism the whole coast of eastern Africa, deprives them of countries and nations of customers...
    Trag 12.415 25 The market-man never damned the lady because she had not paid her bill, but the stout Irishman has to take that once a month. She, however, never feels weakness in her back because of the slave-trade.

Slave-trade, n. (1)

    LT 1.269 19 How can such a question as the Slave-trade be agitated for forty years...without throwing great light on ethics into the general mind?

slave-trader, n. (1)

    LT 1.269 23 The fury with which the slave-trader defends every inch of his bloody deck...is a trumpet to alarm the ear of mankind...

slave-traders, n. (1)

    EWI 11.105 3 It became plain to all men, the more this business was looked into, that the crimes and cruelties of the slave-traders and slave-owners could not be overstated.

slave-trading, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.207 26 Here are...slave-holding and slave-trading religions;...

slavish, adj. (3)

    SR 2.88 18 Our dependence on these foreign goods leads us to our slavish respect for numbers.
    EWI 11.106 11 ...when [Granville Sharpe] brought the case of George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed.
    ACiv 11.299 26 ...a literal, slavish following of precedents...is not for those who at this hour lead the destinies of this people.

slay, v. (5)

    F 6.5 18 On the first [the appointed day], neither balm nor physician can save,/ Nor thee, on the second [the unappointed day], the Universe slay./
    Cour 7.258 12 The Norse Sagas relate that when Bishop Magne reproved King Sigurd for his wicked divorce, the priest who attended the bishop, expecting every moment when the savage king would burst with rage and slay his superior, said that he saw the sky no bigger than a calf-skin.
    MMEm 10.421 3 Am I [Mary Moody Emerson], poor victim, swept on through the sternest ordinations of Nature's laws, which slay? yet I 'll trust.
    FSLC 11.178 10 ...Though, feigning dwarfs, [Eternal Rights] crouch and creep,/ The strong they slay, the swift outstride;/...
    Milt1 12.271 20 [Milton] maintained that a nation may try, judge and slay their king, if he be a tyrant.

slayers, n. (1)

    HCom 11.344 24 ...in how many cases it chanced, when the hero had fallen, they who came by night to his funeral, on the morrow returned to the war-path to show his slayers the way to death!

slaying, v. (1)

    Milt1 12.272 23 [Milton] defends the slaying of the king, because a king is a king no longer than he governs by the laws;...

slays, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.232 17 It does not seem to me so genuine grief when some tyrannous Richard the Third oppresses and slays a score of innocent persons, as when Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other.

sled, n. (2)

    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!
    Elo2 8.128 16 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 and coasting down the hills on his sled...that I wish his guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.

sledge, n. (1)

    Farm 7.135 13 [Farmers] turn the frost upon their chemic heap,/ They set the wind to winnow pulse and grain,/ They thank the spring-flood for its fertile slime,/ And on cheap summit-levels of the snow/ Slide with the sledge to inaccessible woods/ O'er meadows bottomless./

sleek, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.287 18 I invite you [scholars] not...to a sleek and rosy comfort;...

sleep, n. (77)

    Nat 1.4 22 Now many [phenomena] are thought not only unexplained but inexplicable; as...sleep...
    Nat 1.75 2 What is sleep?
    Nat 1.75 12 ...poverty, labor, sleep, fear, fortune, are known to you.
    DSA 1.136 10 ...this ill-suppressed murmur of all thoughtful men against the famine of our churches...should be heard through the sleep of indolence...
    LE 1.173 2 ...nothing is great,-not mighty Homer and Milton, beside the infinite Reason. It carries them away as a flood. They are as a sleep.
    MN 1.200 14 ...like a sleep, [the dance of the hours] is inexact and boundless.
    MR 1.238 21 What [a man] gets only as fast as he wants for his own ends, does not...take away his sleep with looking after.
    LT 1.274 4 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep;...
    Hist 2.7 26 These hints, dropped as it were from sleep and night, let us use in broad day.
    Hist 2.26 18 I admire the love of nature in the Philoctetes. In reading those fine apostrophes to sleep...I feel time passing away as an ebbing sea.
    Comp 2.93 8 The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation] is to be drawn...lay always before me, even in sleep;...
    Comp 2.117 26 Whilst [a great man] sits on the cushion of advantages, he goes to sleep.
    Fdsp 2.195 15 A new person is to me a great event and hinders me from sleep.
    Prd1 2.225 3 [Prudence] respects...climate, want, sleep...
    Cir 2.319 1 ...there is no sleep, no pause, no preservation...
    Int 2.328 18 You cannot with your best deliberation and heed come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you, whilst you...walk abroad in the morning after meditating the matter before sleep on the previous night.
    Exp 3.45 12 Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes...
    Exp 3.65 10 Life itself is...a sleep within a sleep.
    Chr1 3.94 3 Higher natures overpower lower ones by affecting them with a certain sleep.
    NR 3.235 17 The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting we beguile the time...with sleep...
    SwM 4.110 10 ...the circles of intellect relate to those of the heavens. Each law of nature has the like universality; eating, sleep or hybernation...
    SwM 4.122 20 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him all day, accompanied him even into sleep and dreams;...
    SwM 4.133 12 The universe, in [Swedenborg's] poem, suffers under a magnetic sleep...
    MoS 4.155 23 The studious class are their own victims;...the night is without sleep...
    MoS 4.176 13 Are the opinions of a man...on fate and causation, at the mercy of a broken sleep or an indigestion?
    ET4 5.68 4 Nelson, dying at Trafalgar...like an innocent schoolboy that goes to bed, says Kiss me, Hardy, and turns to sleep.
    ET4 5.70 14 [The English] eat and drink, and live jolly in the open air, putting a bar of solid sleep between day and day.
    ET8 5.130 11 [The English] are...in all things very much steeped in their temperament, like men hardly awaked from deep sleep, which they enjoy.
    ET8 5.130 16 [The English] are full of coarse strength, rude exercise, butcher's meat and sound sleep;...
    ET10 5.164 6 [The English] have...drowsy habitude, daily dress-dinners, wine and ale and beer and gin and sleep.
    ET13 5.216 7 [The priest...translated the sanctities of old hagiology into English virtues on English ground. It was a certain affirmative or aggressive state of the Caucasian races. Man awoke refreshed by the sleep of ages.
    F 6.37 8 The long sleep is not an effect of cold...
    Wth 6.86 12 One man has stronger arms or longer legs; another sees by the course of streams and the growth of markets where land will be wanted, makes a clearing to the river, goes to sleep and wakes up rich.
    Wth 6.88 12 ...[nature]...takes away warmth, laughter, sleep, friends and daylight, until [a man] has fought his way to his own loaf.
    Ill 6.307 5 Flow, flow the waves hated,/ Accursed, adored,/ The waves of mutations:/ No anchorage is./ Sleep is not, death is not;/ Who seem to die live./
    Civ 7.17 26 Mind wakes a new-born giant from her sleep.
    DL 7.117 18 [A house] is not for festivity, it is not for sleep...
    Farm 7.140 10 ...for sleep, [the farmer] has cheaper and better and more of it than citizens.
    Farm 7.145 26 Whilst all thus burns...it needs a perpetual tempering...a sleep...to check the fury of the conflagration;...
    WD 7.160 2 How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the human body, as...in the beautiful aid of ether, like a finer sleep;...
    Boks 7.210 24 The tap of [the auctioneer's] hammer was heard in the libraries of Rome, Milan and Venice. Boccaccio stirred in his sleep of five hundred years...
    Clbs 7.229 22 Sancho Panza blessed the man who invented sleep.
    OA 7.316 13 Nature lends herself to these illusions [of time], and adds dim sight...short memory and sleep.
    OA 7.326 11 ...[the old lawyer] may go below his mark with impunity, and people will say...He lost his sleep for two nights.
    PI 8.46 13 The babe is lulled to sleep by the nurse's song.
    Res 8.138 10 A Schopenhauer...inferring that sleep is better than waking, and death than sleep,--all the talent in the world cannot save him from being odious.
    Res 8.138 11 A Schopenhauer...inferring that sleep is better than waking, and death than sleep,--all the talent in the world cannot save him from being odious.
    PC 8.227 21 It is only in the sleep of the soul that we help ourselves by so many ingenious crutches and machineries.
    Insp 8.273 3 The separation of our days by sleep almost destroys identity.
    Insp 8.280 7 I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health.
    Insp 8.280 8 Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces;...
    Insp 8.280 16 A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate;...he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth...
    Insp 8.280 19 Sleep is like death, and after sleep/ The world seems new begun;/...
    Insp 8.280 27 A man must be able to escape from his cares and fears, as well as from hunger and want of sleep;...
    Insp 8.285 3 ...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./ But they left me lying in sleep/ Dull, and not to be enlivened/...
    Insp 8.285 11 When now the Spring stirred,/ I said to the nightingales:/ Dear nightingales, trill/ Early, O, early before my lattice,/ Wake me out of the deep sleep/ Which mightily chains the young man./
    Insp 8.285 31 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./
    Imtl 8.337 3 ...the wish for sleep, for society, for knowledge, are not random whims...
    Imtl 8.337 6 ...the wish for food, the wish for motion, the wish for sleep, for society, for knowledge, are...grounded in the structure of the creature, and meant to be satisfied by food, by motion, by sleep, by society, by knowledge.
    Imtl 8.341 16 [The thinker] studies...even in his sleep.
    Dem1 10.3 8 The witchcraft of sleep divides with truth the empire of our lives.
    Dem1 10.5 18 There is one memory of waking and another of sleep.
    Dem1 10.5 20 In sleep one shall travel certain roads in stage-coaches or gigs, which he recognizes as familiar...
    Dem1 10.9 9 Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance...
    Dem1 10.15 9 It is not the tendency of our times to ascribe importance to whimsical pictures of sleep...
    Supl 10.165 25 ...there is an inverted superlative...which...is tired by sleep;...
    SovE 10.204 10 A sleep creeps over the great functions of man.
    HDC 11.51 24 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached his first sermon in the Indian language at Noonantum; Waban, Tahattawan, and their sannaps, going thither from Concord to hear him. There under the rubbish and ruins of barbarous life, the human heart heard the voice of love, and awoke as from a sleep.
    HDC 11.53 26 Their forefathers, the Indians told [John] Eliot, did know God, but after this, they fell into a deep sleep...
    EWI 11.130 22 In the sleep of the laws, the private interference of two excellent citizens of Boston has, I have ascertained, rescued several natives of this State from these Southern prisons.
    ALin 11.333 8 ...[good humor] is to a man of severe labor, in anxious and exhausting crises, the natural resorative, good as sleep...
    CPL 11.507 27 In saying these things for books, I do not for a moment forget that they are...only used in the off-hours, only in the pause, and, as it were, the sleep, or passive state of the mind.
    PLT 12.7 17 Bring the best wits together, and they are so impatient of each other, so vulgar, there is so much more than their wit,-such follies, gluttonies, partialities, age, care, and sleep, that you shall have no academy.
    Mem 12.99 5 ...there is a sound sleep of children and of savages...which never visits the eyes of civil gentlemen...
    Mem 12.107 9 ...observing some mysterious continuity of mental operation during sleep...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning.
    Let 12.393 16 Our friend suggests so many inconveniences from piracy out of the high air to orchards and lone houses...that we have not the heart to break the sleep of the good public by the repetition of these details.
    Trag 12.410 22 That which seems intolerable reproach or bereavement does not take from the accused or bereaved man or woman appetite or sleep.

sleep, v. (36)

    LT 1.274 13 Religion was not invited to eat or drink or sleep with us...
    SR 2.84 24 What a contrast between the...American...and the naked New Zealander, whose property is...an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under!
    Comp 2.106 21 [Jove] cannot get his own thunders; Minerva keeps the key of them:--Of all the gods, I only know the keys/ That ope the solid doors within whose vaults/ His thunders sleep./
    SL 2.156 5 ...if you sleep, you show [character].
    Prd1 2.226 11 At night [the islander] may sleep on a mat under the moon...
    Prd1 2.231 19 We call partial half-lights, by courtesy, genius;...talent which glitters to-day that it may dine and sleep well to-morrow;...
    Hsm1 2.255 14 [The heroic soul] does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm.
    Pt1 3.40 4 What drops of all the sea of our science are baled up! and by what accident it is that these are exposed, when so many secrets sleep in nature!
    Exp 3.54 13 When virtue is in presence, all subordinate powers sleep.
    Exp 3.82 14 In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the threshold.
    Exp 3.85 18 It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep...
    Chr1 3.103 11 Love is inexhaustible, and if its estate is wasted...still cheers and enriches, and the man, though he sleep, seems to purify the air and his house...
    Nat2 3.195 4 After every foolish day we sleep off the fumes and furies of its hours;...
    F 6.27 11 ...though we sleep, our dream will come to pass.
    Elo1 7.59 12 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ .../ In his every syllable/ Lurketh nature veritable;/ .../ The forest waves, the morning breaks,/ The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,/ Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be/ And life pulsates in rock or tree./
    DL 7.119 6 ...let this stranger...in your looks, in your accent and behavior, read...your thought and will...which he may...dine sparely and sleep hard in order to behold.
    WD 7.182 21 Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep;...
    WD 7.182 22 Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep;...
    Boks 7.191 5 ...read Plutarch, and the world is a proud place, peopled...with heroes and demigods standing around us, who will not let us sleep.
    Imtl 8.334 11 To breathe, to sleep, is wonderful.
    Prch 10.221 6 In the activity of the understanding, the sentiments sleep.
    LLNE 10.346 3 ...[the pilgrim]...had learned to sleep...on a wagon covered with the buffalo-robe under the shed...
    Thor 10.463 14 [Thoreau] said,-You can sleep near the railroad, and never be disturbed...
    EWI 11.103 26 ...the crude element of good in human affairs must work and ripen, spite of whips and plantation laws and West Indian interest. Conscience rolled on its pillow, and could not sleep.
    EWI 11.125 21 ...like other robbers, [the planters] could not sleep in security.
    FSLC 11.178 7 ...[Eternal Rights] reach no term, they never sleep,/ In equal strength through space abide;/...
    AKan 11.258 1 ...the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...
    SMC 11.364 8 It looked very much like a severe thunder-storm, writes the captain [George Prescott] and I knew the men would all have to sleep out of doors, unless we carried [tent-poles].
    SMC 11.372 13 If those writers could be here and fight all day, and sleep in the trenches, and be called up several times in the night by picket-firing, they would not call [the Army of the Potomac] inactive.
    SHC 11.431 13 ...[trees] grow when we sleep...
    SHC 11.434 10 Sleepy Hollow. In this quiet valley...we shall sleep well when we have finished our day.
    FRep 11.536 2 ...in the country [the class of which I speak] sit idle in stores and bar-rooms, and burn tobacco, and gossip and sleep.
    Mem 12.101 22 ...the Past will not sleep...
    CW 12.178 14 ...[trees] grow, when you wake and when you sleep, at nobody's cost...
    MLit 12.327 13 In these days and in this country...where men read easy books and sleep after dinner, it seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this man...
    EurB 12.377 20 [The Vivian Greys] never sleep, go nowhere, stay nowhere, eat nothing, and know nobody...

sleeper, n. (2)

    SL 2.162 25 One piece of the tree is cut for a weathercock and one for the sleeper of a bridge; the virtue of the wood is apparent in both.
    Dem1 10.20 7 There is one world common to all who are awake, but each sleeper betakes himself to one of his own.

Sleepers, Seven, n. (1)

    QO 8.186 20 There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers, Gyges's Ring...

sleeping, adj. (4)

    LE 1.162 21 ...in this sleeping wilderness, [the youth] has read the story of Emperor Charles the Fifth...
    YA 1.364 19 Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
    OA 7.324 6 All men carry seeds of all distempers through life latent, and we die without developing them...but if you are enfeebled by any cause, these sleeping seeds start and open.
    Dem1 10.3 13 There lies a sleeping city, God of dreams!/ What an unreal and fantastic world/ Is going on below!/

sleeping, v. (9)

    ET16 5.288 15 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping, overgrowing, almost conscious...
    WD 7.182 5 Poems have been written between sleeping and waking, irresponsibly.
    QO 8.199 2 ...[Swedenborg] noticed that, when in his bed, alternately sleeping and waking,-sleeping, he was surrounded by persons disputing and offering opinions on the one side and on the other side of a proposition;...
    QO 8.199 7 ...[Swedenborg] noticed that, when in his bed...sleeping again, he saw and heard the speakers as before...
    Insp 8.285 20 ...the love-filled singers [nightingales]/ Poured by night before my window/ Their sweet melodies,-/ Kept awake my dear soul,/ Roused tender new longings/ In my lately touched bosom/ And so the night passed,/ And Aurora found me sleeping;/ Yea, hardly did the sun wake me./
    Imtl 8.351 26 ...subtler than what is subtle, greater than what is great, sitting [the soul] goes far, sleeping it goes everywhere.
    SMC 11.361 20 [George Prescott] writes, You don't know how one gets attached to a company by living with them and sleeping with them all the time.
    SMC 11.364 26 [George Prescott writes] I told Lieutenant Bowers, this morning, that I could afford to be sick from bringing the tent-poles, for it saved the whole regiment from sleeping out-doors;...
    Milt1 12.264 23 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring...

sleeping-house, n. (1)

    DL 7.118 21 Let a man...say...an eating-house and sleeping-house for travellers [my house] shall be, but it shall be much more.

sleepless, adj. (2)

    Tran 1.356 16 Grave seniors insist on [Transcendentalists'] respect...to some vocation...or morning or evening call, which they resist as what does not concern them. But it costs such sleepless nights...they have so many moods about it;...
    Pt1 3.23 15 ...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs,--a fearless, sleepless, deathless progeny...

sleeps, n. (1)

    DL 7.104 3 All day, between his three or four sleeps, [the nestler] coos like a pigeon-house...

sleeps, v. (23)

    Nat 1.29 2 ...the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from [the ant] to man...then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.
    MR 1.248 13 What is a man born for but to be...a restorer of truth and good, imitating that great Nature...which sleeps no moment on an old past...
    Hist 2.22 27 At sea, or in the forest, or in the snow, [a man of rude health and flowing spirits] sleeps as warm...as beside his own chimneys.
    SL 2.163 26 The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.
    Fdsp 2.210 16 Should not the society of my friend be to me...great as nature itself? Ought I to feel that our tie is profane in comparison with yonder bar of cloud that sleeps on the horizon...
    Prd1 2.234 17 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only...the thrift of the agriculturist, to stick a tree between whiles, because it will grow whilst he sleeps;...
    Exp 3.77 15 The subject is the receiver of Godhead, and at every comparison must feel his being enhanced by that cryptic might. Though not in energy, yet by presence, this magazine of substance cannot be otherwise than felt; nor can any force of intellect attribute to the object the proper deity which sleeps or wakes forever in every subject.
    Nat2 3.169 16 The day, immeasurably long, sleeps over the broad hills and warm wide fields.
    ET16 5.288 23 There, in that great sloven continent [America]...still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother...
    OA 7.326 19 All the good days behind [a man] are sponsors, who...work for him when he sleeps.
    Res 8.144 23 The hunter, the soldier, rolls himself in his blanket, and the falling snow...is his eider-down, in which he sleeps warm till the morning.
    Comc 8.164 26 ...the inertia of men inclines them, when the [religious] sentiment sleeps, to imitate that thing it did;...
    QO 8.194 21 The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
    PPo 8.260 5 [Hafiz's] ingenuity never sleeps...
    Schr 10.273 13 We who should be the channel of that unweariable Power which never sleeps, must give our diligence no holidays.
    War 11.162 9 You forget that the quiet which now sleeps in cities and in farms...rests on the perfect understanding of all men that the musket, the halter and the jail stand behind there...
    Wom 11.414 26 When a daughter is born, says the Shiking, the old Sacred Book of China, she sleeps on the ground...
    II 12.83 3 Whilst [a man] serves his genius, he works when he stands, when he sits, when he eats and when he sleeps.
    Mem 12.101 22 They say in Architecture, An arch never sleeps;....
    CL 12.147 10 ...the wood-lot yields its gentle rent of six per cent....when the owner sleeps or travels...
    Let 12.397 20 As long as [a man] sleeps in the shade of the present error, the after-nature does not betray its resources.

sleep-walking, n. (1)

    AmS 1.107 16 Men...very naturally seek money or power;...the spoils, so called, of office. And why not? for they aspire to the highest, and this, in their sleep-walking, they dream is highest.

sleepy, adj. (8)

    MN 1.206 21 The sleepy nations are occupied with their political routine.
    Mrs1 3.140 15 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners...
    NMW 4.242 12 The day of sleepy, selfish policy...was ended [in France]...
    ET18 5.305 9 There is cramp limitation in [Englishmen's] habit of thought, sleepy routine...
    MoL 10.248 8 War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize. Weeks, months pass-a new harvest; trade springs up, and there stand new cities, new homes, all rebuilt and sleepy with permanence.
    FRep 11.513 11 Our sleepy civilization...has built its whole art of war...on that one compound [gunpowder]...
    EurB 12.375 13 It is curious how sleepy and foolish we are, that these tales [novels of costume or of circumstance] will so take us.
    Trag 12.405 21 Projects that once we laughed and leapt to execute find us now sleepy and preparing to lie down in the snow.

Sleepy Hollow, n. (3)

    SHC 11.433 26 This spot for twenty years has borne the name of Sleepy Hollow.
    SHC 11.434 9 In all the multitudes of woodlands and hillsides, which within a few years have been laid out with a similar design [as a cemetery], I have not known one so fitly named. Sleepy Hollow.
    SHC 11.434 22 ...I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with path of Suns, insead of foot-paths;...

sleet, n. (4)

    Prd1 2.237 27 ...[the drover's, the sailor's] health renews itself at as vigorous a pulse under the sleet as under the sun of June.
    Nat2 3.172 12 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    Suc 7.297 27 We remember when in early youth the earth spoke and the heavens glowed; when an evening, any evening, grim and wintry, sleet and snow, was enough for us;...
    RBur 11.441 27 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of middle-class Nature. Not like...Moore, in the luxurious East, but in the homely landscape which the poor see around them...ice and sleet and rain and snow-choked brooks;...

sleeve, n. (1)

    ET8 5.135 26 [The English] do not wear their heart in their sleeve for daws to peck at.

sleezy, adj. (1)

    Pow 6.82 7 A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin...and you shall not conceal the sleezy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece;...

sleigh-bell, adj. (1)

    PI 8.52 17 I know what you say of mediaeval barbarism and sleigh-bell rhyme...

sleight, n. (1)

    Con 1.310 5 ...precisely the defence which was set up for the British Constitution, namely that...every interest did by right, or might, or sleight get represented;-the same defence is set up for the existing institutions.

slender, adj. (10)

    Nat 1.17 5 The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light.
    LE 1.164 20 In order to a knowledge of the resources of the scholar, we must not rest in the use of slender accomplishments...
    Hist 2.21 13 ...the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm...
    Prd1 2.236 5 ...let [a man]...feel the admonition to...keep a slender human word among the storms , distances and accidents that drive us hither and thither...
    Art1 2.349 27 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part,/ Man in Earth to acclimate/ And bend the exile to his fate,/ And, moulded of one element/ With the days and firmament,/ Teach him on these as stairs to climb/ And live on even terms with Time;/ Whilst upper life the slender rill/ Of human sense doth overfill./
    GoW 4.286 14 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of Goethe;...
    ET4 5.65 27 It is the fault of their forms that [the English] grow stocky... few tall, slender figures of flowing shape...
    MMEm 10.399 21 I report some of the thoughts and soliloquies of a country girl [Mary Moody Emerson]...growing from youth to age amid slender opportunities and usually very humble company.
    SlHr 10.443 22 [Samuel Hoar] retained to the last the erectness of his tall but slender form...
    Trag 12.405 12 How slender the possession that yet remains to us;...

slenderest, adj. (1)

    QO 8.181 26 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society,-that every talker helps a story in repeating it, until, at last, from the slenderest filament of fact a good fable is constructed,-the same growth befalls mythology...

slenderly, adv. (1)

    Elo1 7.95 4 We are slenderly furnished with anecdotes of these men [Chatham, Pericles, Luther]...

slept, v. (16)

    Hist 2.31 26 The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes [man] know the Proteus. What else am I who laughed or wept yesterday, who slept last night like a corpse, and this morning stood and ran?
    ET2 5.27 17 Since the ship was built, it seems, the master never slept but in his day-clothes whilst on board.
    ET8 5.140 6 King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony, that he, among all his men, cared least about doubtful circumstances...for whatever turned up, he...never slept less nor more on account of them...
    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.
    Pow 6.55 16 If Eric...has slept well...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland.
    Bhr 6.196 19 If you have not slept, or if you have slept...I beseech you...to hold your peace...
    SS 7.1 18 In caves and hollow trees [Seyd] crept/ And near the wolf and panther slept./
    Elo1 7.66 16 If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see the emergence [in the audience] of the boys and rowdies, so loud and vivacious that you might think the house was filled with them. If new topics are started, graver and higher, these roisters recede; a more chaste and wise attention takes place. You would think the boys slept, and that the men have any degree of profoundness.
    Clbs 7.230 2 [Men] kindle each other; and such is the power of suggestion that each sprightly story calls out more; and sometimes a fact that had long slept in the recesses of memory hears the voice, is welcomed to daylight, and proves of rare value.
    Res 8.145 22 Wanting a picket to which to attach my horse, [Malus] says, I tied him to my leg. I slept, and dreamed peaceably of the pleasures of Europe.
    QO 8.199 9 ...[Swedenborg] noticed that, when in his bed...sleeping again, he saw and heard the speakers as before: and this as often as he slept or waked.
    HDC 11.33 17 [The pilgrims] slept on the rocks, wherever night found them.
    HCom 11.341 9 ...in these last years all opinions have been affected by the magnificent and stupendous spectacle which Divine Providence has offered us of the energies that slept in the children of this country...
    HCom 11.341 10 ...in these last years all opinions have been affected by the magnificent and stupendous spectacle which Divine Providence has offered us of the energies that slept in the children of this country,-that slept and have awakened.
    Humb 11.456 6 If a life prolonged to an advanced period bring with it several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in the delight of being able...to see great advances in knowledge develop themselves under our eyes in departments which had long slept in inactivity.
    MAng1 12.228 9 ...[Michelangelo] told Vasari that he often slept in his clothes [while painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling], both because he was too weary to undress, and because he would rise in the night and go immediately to work.

slew, v. (4)

    Con 1.297 12 ...to save the world, Jupiter slew his father Saturn.
    PPo 8.260 12 [Hafiz's ingenuity]...plays in a thousand pretty courtesies:- Fair fall thy soft heart!/ A good work wilt thou do?/ O, pray for the dead/ Whom thy eyelashes slew!/
    HDC 11.51 2 ...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.
    JBS 11.276 17 But though they slew him with the sword,/ And in the fire his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its undoings restored./

slice, n. (1)

    PPo 8.244 9 Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of Meru:-Color, taste and smell, smaragdus, sugar and musk,/ Amber for the tongue, for the eye a picture rare,/ If you cut the fruit in slices, every slice a crescent fair,/ If you leave it whole, the full harvest moon is there./

slices, n. (1)

    PPo 8.244 9 Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of Meru:-Color, taste and smell, smaragdus, sugar and musk,/ Amber for the tongue, for the eye a picture rare,/ If you cut the fruit in slices, every slice a crescent fair,/ If you leave it whole, the full harvest moon is there./

slid, v. (3)

    Hist 2.32 19 Ah! brother, stop the ebb of thy soul,--ebbing downward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid.
    Nat2 3.196 24 ...wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood;...it slid into us as pleasure;...
    SwM 4.98 18 ...now, when the royal and ducal Frederics, Christians and Brunswicks of that day have slid into oblivion, [Swedenborg] begins to spread himself into the minds of thousands.

slide, n. (1)

    Prch 10.226 6 ...when we think our feet are planted now at last on adamant, the slide is drawn out from under us.

slide, v. (2)

    ShP 4.211 12 ...[Shakespeare] read the hearts of men and women...the transitions by which virtues and vices slide into their contraries...
    Farm 7.135 13 [Farmers] turn the frost upon their chemic heap,/ They set the wind to winnow pulse and grain,/ They thank the spring-flood for its fertile slime,/ And on cheap summit-levels of the snow/ Slide with the sledge to inaccessible woods/ O'er meadows bottomless./

slides, n. (1)

    Farm 7.142 9 In English factories, the boy that watches the loom...is called a minder. And in this great factory of our Copernican globe, shifting its slides...the farmer is the minder.

slides, v. (3)

    Mrs1 3.137 15 If [lovers] forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.
    PPh 4.48 27 ...each [Unity and Variety] so fast slides into the other that we can never say what is one, and what it is not.
    F 6.36 16 ...to see how fate slides into freedom and freedom into fate, observe how far the roots of every creature run...

sliding, adj. (2)

    Exp 3.48 4 [Disaster] shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction, but the most slippery sliding surfaces;...
    Exp 3.72 14 The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale...

sliding, v. (3)

    Cir 2.314 3 ...we now and then detect in nature slight dislocations which apprise us that this surface on which we now stand is not fixed, but sliding.
    ET2 5.26 25 The good ship darts through the water...sliding from horizon to horizon.
    Dem1 10.16 22 This faith in a doting power, so easily sliding into the current belief everywhere...runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.

slight, adj. (38)

    Nat 1.51 6 ...the most wonted objects, (make a very slight change in the point of vision,) please us most.
    LT 1.289 26 The granite is curiously concealed a thousand formations and surfaces...but it...is always indicating its presence by slight but sure signs.
    Tran 1.355 12 [Our virtue's respresentatives] are still liable to that slight taint of burlesque which in our strange world attaches to the zealot.
    Tran 1.355 17 ...we are tempted to smile, and we flee from the working to the speculative reformer, to escape that same slight ridicule.
    YA 1.372 9 All the facts in any part of nature shall be tabulated and the results shall indicate the same security and benefit; so slight as to be hardly observable, yet it is there.
    YA 1.395 2 Our houses and towns are like mosses and lichens, so slight and new;...
    Cir 2.314 1 ...we now and then detect in nature slight dislocations which apprise us that this surface on which we now stand is not fixed, but sliding.
    Pt1 3.15 24 The writer wonders what the coachman or the hunter values in riding, in horses and dogs. It is not superficial qualities. When you talk with him he holds these at as slight a rate as you.
    Mrs1 3.130 2 We sometimes...feel that the moral sentiment rules man and nature. We think all other distinctions and ties will be slight and fugitive...
    Nat2 3.185 7 ...to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance a slight generosity...
    Nat2 3.187 13 ...each [man] has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head...
    Nat2 3.193 20 Must we not suppose somewhere in the universe a slight treachery and derision?
    NR 3.230 13 It is even worse in America, where, from the intellectual quickness of the race, the genius of the country is more splendid in its promise and more slight in its performance.
    NER 3.273 27 We are weary of gliding ghostlike through the world, which is itself so slight and unreal.
    MoS 4.149 10 Nothing so thin but has these two faces [sensation and morals], and when the observer has seen the obverse, he turns it over to see the reverse. Life is a pitching of this penny,--heads or tails. We never tire of this game, because there is still a slight shudder of astonishment at the exhibition of the other face...
    NMW 4.249 4 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when the bravest troops...feel inclined to run. That terror proceeds from a want of confidence in their own courage, and it only requires a slight opportunity...to restore confidence to them.
    GoW 4.288 21 There is a slight blush of shame on the cheek of good men and aspiring men...
    ET4 5.65 7 Other countrymen look slight and undersized beside [the English]...
    ET14 5.251 23 The voice of [Englishmen's] modern muse has a slight hint of the steam-whistle...
    Elo1 7.95 21 ...the slight yet sufficient party organization [the resistance to slavery] offered, reinforced the city with new blood from the woods and mountains.
    Boks 7.194 1 The inspection of the catalogue [of the Cambridge Library] brings me continually back to the few standard writers who are on every private shelf; and to these it can afford only the most slight and casual additions.
    Boks 7.201 15 Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek history...but the shortest is the best, and if one lacks stomach for Mr. Grote' s voluminous annals, the old slight and popular summary of Goldsmith or of Gillies will serve.
    Cour 7.265 2 ...we do not exhaust the subject [Courage] in the slight analysis;...
    OA 7.324 18 [With age] The passions have answered their purpose: that slight but dread overweight with which in each instance Nature secures the execution of her aim, drops off.
    Insp 8.288 6 Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in the woods in summer, and saw where little flaws of wind whip spots or patches of still water into fleets of ripples,-so sudden, so slight, so spiritual...
    Insp 8.289 2 All the conditions must be right for my success, slight as that is.
    Edc1 10.133 26 A treatise on education...affects us with slight paralysis...
    MMEm 10.402 21 Nobody can...recall the conversation of old-school people, without seeing that Milton and Young had a religious authority in their mind, and nowise the slight, merely entertaining quality of modern bards.
    MMEm 10.426 8 ...the hold on [external objects] is so slight, that duty is lost sight of perhaps, at times.
    LS 11.6 18 I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution... would have been established in this slight manner...
    LS 11.6 19 I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution... would have been established...in a manner so slight, that the intention of commemorating it should not appear, from their narrative, to have caught the ear...of the only two among the twelve who wrote down what happened.
    FRep 11.532 4 Our people are too slight and vain.
    PLT 12.44 8 This slight discontinuity which perception effects between the mind and the object paralyzes the will.
    CL 12.155 4 For my own part, says Linnaeus, I have enjoyed good health, except a slight languor...
    MAng1 12.223 8 The love of beauty which never passes beyond outline and color was too slight an object to occupy the powers of [Michelangelo's] genius.
    WSL 12.337 7 We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an erect, muscular man...whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English traveller;-a man nowise cautious to conceal...his very slight esteem for the persons and the country that surround him.
    AgMs 12.359 3 These slight and useless city limbs of ours will come to shame before this strong soldier [the Farmer]...
    EurB 12.376 4 ...there is but one standard English novel, like the one orthodox sermon, which with slight variation is repeated every Sunday from so many pulpits.

slight, n. (1)

    SL 2.165 23 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...and a heart...which on the waves of its love and hope can uplift all that is reckoned solid and precious in the world... marking its own incomparable worth by the slight it casts on these gauds of men;--these all are his...

slight, v. (5)

    DSA 1.147 27 Slight [the commanders] by preoccupation of mind...and they instantly feel...that it is in lower places that they must shine.
    DSA 1.147 27 ...slight [the commanders]...by high and universal aims, and they instantly feel...that it is in lower places that they must shine.
    Cir 2.307 11 If [my friend] were high enough to slight me, then could I love him...
    WD 7.184 8 There are people...who in their consciousness of deserving success constantly slight the ordinary means of attaining it;...
    CInt 12.118 17 We affect to slight England and Englishmen.

slighted, v. (5)

    YA 1.394 21 Commanding worth and personal power must sit crowned in all companies, nor will extraordinary persons be slighted or affronted in any company of civilized men.
    NMW 4.250 25 ...the men of letters [Bonaparte] slighted;...
    Insp 8.287 9 I confide that my reader...has perhaps Slighted Minerva's learned tongue,/ But leaped with joy when on the wind the shell of Clio rung./
    Thor 10.452 26 If [Thoreau] slighted and defied the opinions of others, it was only that he was more intent to reconcile his practice with his own belief.
    HDC 11.44 8 [The colonists'] wants, their poverty, their manifest convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General Court...to certain purposes, sovereign powers. The townsmen's words were heard and weighed, for all knew that it was a petitioner that could not be slighted;...

slighter, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.144 10 Let [the child] find you so true to yourself that you are...the imperturbable slighter of his trifling.

slightest, adj. (9)

    Tran 1.350 9 A great man will be content to have indicated in any the slightest manner his perception of the reigning Idea of his time...
    Fdsp 2.215 1 We must...admit or exclude [society] on the slightest cause.
    Hsm1 2.245 17 ...there is in [the elder English dramatists'] plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...wherein the speaker is...on such deep grounds of character, that the dialogue, on the slightest additional incident in the plot, rises naturally into poetry.
    Insp 8.290 2 George Sand says, I have no enthusiasm for Nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
    Insp 8.290 6 ...I remember that Thoreau, with his robust will, yet found certain trifles disturbing the delicacy of that health which composition exacted,-namely, the slightest irregularity...
    LLNE 10.335 4 ...works of genius in their first and slightest form are still wholes.
    LS 11.5 25 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent.
    CL 12.140 4 I have no enthusiasm for Nature, said a French writer, which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
    Let 12.394 19 By the slightest possible concert, persevered in through four or five years, [the correspondents] think that a neighborhood might be formed of friends who would provoke each other to the best activity.

slighting, v. (1)

    MAng1 12.230 15 Slighting the secondary arts of coloring, and all the aids of graceful finish, [Michelangelo] aimed exclusively [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes], as a stern designer, to express the vigor and magnificence of his conceptions.

slightly, adv. (4)

    Ill 6.317 14 ...[men who make themselves felt in the world] never deeply interest us unless they...betray, never so slightly, their penetration of what is behind [the curtain].
    LLNE 10.331 12 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...a voice of...such precise and perfect utterance, that, although slightly nasal, it was the most mellow and beautiful and correct of all the instruments of the time.
    CL 12.140 19 So exquisite is the structure of the cortical glands, said the old physiologist Malpighi, that when the atmosphere is ever so slightly vitiated or altered, the brain is the first part to sympathize...
    Milt1 12.264 14 [Milton] states these things, he says, to show that though Christianity had been but slightly taught him, yet a certain reservedness of natural disposition and moral discipline...was enough to keep him in disdain of far less incontinences that these that had been charged on him.

slightness, n. (2)

    LLNE 10.331 9 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...his heavy large eye, marble lids, which gave the impression of mass which the slightness of his form needed;...
    FSLC 11.182 20 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] showed the slightness and unreliableness of our social fabric...

slights, v. (3)

    Hist 2.12 23 To the poet...all men [are] divine. For the eye is fastened on the life, and slights the circumstance.
    Hsm1 2.250 10 [Heroism] is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence...
    NMW 4.232 8 [Bonaparte] sees where the matter hinges, throws himself on the precise point of resistance, and slights all other considerations.

Sligo, Earl of, n. (1)

    EWI 11.117 19 The governors [of Jamaica], Lord Belmore, the Earl of Sligo, and afterwards Sir Lionel Smith...threw themselves on the side of the oppressed...

slim, adj. (1)

    ACri 12.292 2 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an adverb...slim for bad;...

slime, n. (3)

    Wth 6.84 6 ...when the quarried means were piled,/ All is waste and worthless, till/ Arrives the wise selecting will/ And, out of slime and chaos, Wit/ Draws the threads of fair and fit./
    Farm 7.135 11 [Farmers] turn the frost upon their chemic heap,/ They set the wind to winnow pulse and grain,/ They thank the spring-flood for its fertile slime/...
    LLNE 10.355 10 ...like the dreams of poetic people on the first outbreak of the old French Revolution, so [the Fourierist community] would disappear in a slime of mire and blood.

slimy, adj. (1)

    F 6.41 17 ...the slug sweats out its slimy house on the pear-leaf...

slinger, n. (1)

    WD 7.157 20 The sympathy of eye and hand by which an Indian or a practised slinger hits his mark with a stone, or a wood-chopper or a carpenter swings his axe to a hair-line on his log, are examples [that the eye appreciates finer differences than art can expose];...

slink, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.233 17 [The scholar] resembles the pitiful drivellers whom travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of Constantinople, who skulk about all day...and at evening...slink to the opium-shop, swallow their morsel and become tranquil and glorified seers.

slip, n. (5)

    Hist 2.6 22 All that Shakspeare says of the king, yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself.
    GoW 4.262 20 The gardener saves every slip and seed and peach-stone...
    ET1 5.24 9 ...[Wordsworth] led me into the enclosure of his clerk, a young man to whom he had given this slip of ground...
    ET15 5.269 24 Every slip of an Oxonian or Cantabrigian who writes his first leader assumes that we subdued the earth before we sat down to write this particular [London] Times.
    II 12.75 16 ...Nature is stronger than your will, and were you never so vigilant, you may rely on it, your nature and genius will certainly give your vigilance the slip though it had delirium tremens, and will educate the children by the inevitable infusions of its quality.

slip, v. (5)

    MR 1.228 6 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a benefactor, not content to slip along through the world like a footman or a spy...
    Exp 3.49 20 I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.
    Chr1 3.105 19 Care is taken that the greatly-destined shall slip up into life in the shade...
    SS 7.5 7 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such great terror of being shot, I, who am only waiting...to slip away into the back stars...
    WD 7.173 20 Ah! poor dupe, will you never slip out of the web of the master juggler...

slipped, v. (7)

    Exp 3.47 8 'T is the trick of nature thus to degrade to-day; a good deal of buzz, and somewhere a result slipped magically in.
    ET8 5.131 9 ...one can believe that Burton, the Anatomist of Melancholy, having predicted from the stars the hour of his death, slipped the knot himself round his own neck, not to falsify his horoscope.
    Pow 6.82 8 A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin...and you shall not conceal the sleezy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece;...
    SA 8.95 10 What a good trait is that recorded of Madame de Maintenon, that, during dinner, the servant slipped to her side, Please, madame, one anecdote more, for there is no roast to-day.
    Insp 8.280 11 Sleep benefits...incidentally...by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.
    LLNE 10.350 12 The hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea, were all beneficent parts of the system; the good Fourier knew what those creatures should have been, had not the mould slipped...
    Trag 12.416 18 Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature... has given me a temperament like a block of marble. Thunder cannot move it; the shaft merely glides along. The great events of my life have slipped over me...

slipper, n. (1)

    Suc 7.303 14 ...the genial man is interested in every slipper that comes into the assembly.

slipperiness, n. (2)

    ET7 5.116 16 ...any slipperiness in the [English] government of political faith...would bring the whole nation to a committee of inquiry and reform.
    ET14 5.233 4 ...the Englishman...takes hold of things by the right end, and there is no slipperiness in his grasp.

slippers, n. (1)

    Con 1.319 12 The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and...his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels...

slippery, adj. (2)

    Exp 3.48 4 [Disaster] shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction, but the most slippery sliding surfaces;...
    SwM 4.121 8 [Swedenborg...poorly tethers every symbol to a several ecclesiastic sense. The slippery Proteus is not so easily caught.

slippery-elm, n. (1)

    CL 12.162 1 Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person who knows where arnica grows...or the slippery-elm, or wild cherries, or wild pears?

slipping, v. (3)

    ET17 5.296 25 A gentleman in the neighborhood told the story of Walter Scott's staying once for a week with Wordsworth, and slipping out every day...to the Swan Inn for a cold cut and porter;...
    ACiv 11.309 4 ...this measure [emancipation], to be effectual, must come speedily. The weapon is slipping out of our hands.
    Koss 11.399 26 We [people of Concord] know the austere condition of liberty...that it is always slipping from those who boast it to those who fight for it...

slips, v. (3)

    Bhr 6.167 20 Too weak to win, too fond to shun/ The tyrants or his doom,/ The much deceived Endymion/ Slips behind a tomb./
    CbW 6.269 17 When [a blockhead] comes into the office or public room, the society dissolves; one after another slips out...
    PLT 12.48 20 Most men's minds do not grasp anything. All slips through their fingers...

slipshod, adj. (4)

    SA 8.102 25 With all our haste, and slipshod ways and flippant self-assertion, I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country.
    MoL 10.257 16 We do not often have a moment of grandeur in these hurried, slipshod lives...
    Shak1 11.452 19 ...Shakspeare...simply by his colossal proportions, dwarfs the geniuses of Elizabeth as easily as...the poor slipshod troubadours of King Rene.
    EurB 12.365 13 [Wordsworth] has the merit of just moral perception, but not that of deft poetic execution. How would Milton curl his lip at such slipshod newspaper style.

slit, n. (2)

    YA 1.393 3 Instead of the open future expanding here before the eye of every boy to vastness, would they like the closing in of the future to a narrow slit of sky...
    UGM 4.30 6 Presently a dot appears on the animal [the monad], which enlarges to a slit, and it becomes two perfect animals.

slit, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.225 18 Time...is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters.

Sloane, Hans, n. (1)

    SwM 4.133 22 All [Swedenborg's] interlocutors Swedenborgize. Be they who they may, to this complexion must they come at last. This Charon ferries them all over in his boat;...Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Hans Sloane, King George II....

sloop, n. (1)

    SwM 4.99 19 [Swedenborg] performed a notable feat of engineering in 1718, at the siege of Frederikshald, by hauling two galleys, five boats and a sloop, some fourteen English miles overland...

slope, n. (5)

    Exp 3.53 7 ...[physicians] esteem each man the victim of another, who...by such cheap signboards as the color of his beard or the slope of his occiput, reads the inventory of his fortunes and character.
    NMW 4.234 25 In vain several officers and myself were placed on the slope of a hill to produce the effect...
    Wsp 6.204 3 The stern old faiths have all pulverized. ... 'T is as flat anarchy in our ecclesiastic realms as that...which prevails now on the slope of the Rocky Mountains...
    Art2 7.41 22 The slope of your roof is determined by the weight of snow.
    CL 12.139 20 ...Massachusetts...is on the northern slope...

sloped, v. (1)

    ET2 5.29 2 The floor of your room [at sea] is sloped at an angle of twenty or thirty degrees...

slopes, n. (3)

    ShP 4.213 4 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort...
    Wsp 6.238 25 The race of mankind have always offered at least this implied thanks for the gift of existence,--namely...the terror of its being taken away... The whole revelation that is vouchsafed us is the gentle trust, which, in our experience, we find will cover also with flowers the slopes of this chasm.
    CL 12.144 10 In Massachusetts, our land...is...not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills...so that if you go a mile, you have only the choice whether you will climb the hill on your way out or on your way back. The more reason we have to be content with the felicity of our slopes in Massachusetts...

slopes, v. (1)

    PPh 4.61 16 [Plato]...slopes his thought, however picturesque the precipice on one side, to an access from the plain.

sloth, n. (7)

    DSA 1.140 4 We are struck with pity, rather, at the swift retribution of [the negligent servant's] sloth.
    Tran 1.348 7 The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth;...
    Cir 2.317 9 I accuse myself of sloth and unprofitableness day by day;...
    Art2 7.52 5 These [ancient sculptures] are...the face of man in the morning of the world. No mark is on these lofty features of sloth or luxury or meanness...
    Imtl 8.345 7 ...we live by choice;...by the vivacity of the laws which we obey, and obeying share their life,-or we die by sloth, by disobedience...
    Schr 10.262 11 I do not now refer to that intellectual conscience which... gives us many twinges for our sloth and unfaithfulness...
    EWI 11.125 18 [The planters] were full of vices; their children were lumps of pride, sloth, sensuality and rottenness.

slough, n. (2)

    Nat 1.9 23 In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough...
    PI 8.74 3 In the mire of the sensual life...even [poets'] novel and newspaper, nay, their superstitions also, are...a cordage of ropes that hold them up out of the slough.

slough, v. (1)

    Bhr 6.172 19 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to slough [people's] animal husks and habits;...

sloven, adj. (3)

    Mrs1 3.138 25 I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws than with a sloven and unpresentable person.
    ET16 5.288 21 There, in that great sloven continent [America]...still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother...
    FRep 11.526 24 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...

slovenly, adj. (1)

    DL 7.112 18 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... If the hours of meals are punctual, the apartments are slovenly.

slovens, n. (1)

    SA 8.88 4 There are always slovens in State Street or Wall Street, who are not less considered.

slow, adj. (55)

    AmS 1.89 3 The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude, slow to open to the incursions of Reason...having once received this book, stands upon it...
    AmS 1.100 20 [The scholar] plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation.
    DSA 1.123 2 [The moral sentiment's] operation in life, though slow to the senses, is at last as sure as in the soul.
    SR 2.55 14 ...nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.
    SL 2.153 9 ...if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men;...
    Prd1 2.228 9 If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.
    OS 2.276 15 In ascending to this primary and aboriginal sentiment we have come from our remote station on the circumference instantaneously to the centre of the world, where...we see causes, and anticipate the universe, which is but a slow effect.
    Pt1 3.12 21 ...I, being myself a novice, am slow in perceiving that [the poet] does not know the way into the heavens...
    SwM 4.124 9 That slow but commanding influence which [Swedenborg] has acquired, like that of other religious geniuses, must be excessive also...
    ET2 5.31 10 ...the sea is not slow in disclosing inestimable secrets to a good naturalist.
    ET5 5.89 3 [The English] spend largely on their fabric, and await the slow return.
    ET6 5.111 8 Bacon told [the English], Time was the right reformer; Chatham, that confidence was a plant of slow growth;...
    ET7 5.123 26 A slow temperament makes [the English] less rapid and ready than other countrymen...
    ET8 5.127 5 [The English] are sad by comparison with the singing and dancing nations: not sadder, but slow and staid...
    ET8 5.130 8 [The English] are...slow but obstinate admirers...
    ET8 5.140 17 The slow, deep English mass smoulders with fire...
    ET11 5.194 9 I suppose...that a feeling of self-respect is driving cultivated men out of this society [of English noblemen], as if the noble were slow to receive the lessons of the times...
    ET18 5.306 5 [The English] are slow and reticent...
    Pow 6.77 10 ...the galvanic stream, slow but continuous, is equal in power to the electric spark...
    Wth 6.121 14 Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us when we prefer our own way to hers.
    Wsp 6.216 4 What a day dawns when we...have come to know that justice will be done to us; and if our genius is slow, our term will be long.
    CbW 6.268 23 [The youth is] Slow, slow to learn the lesson that there is but one depth...
    CbW 6.268 24 [The youth is] Slow, slow to learn the lesson that there is but one depth...
    Farm 7.138 26 [The farmer] is a slow person...
    Farm 7.139 12 Slow, narrow man, [the farmer's] rule is that the earth shall feed and clothe him;...
    Farm 7.140 5 This hard work [of the farm] will always be done...by men of endurance,--deep-chested, long-winded, tough, slow and sure, and timely.
    PI 8.35 4 American life storms about us daily, and is slow to find a tongue.
    Elo2 8.120 3 ...a man of this talent [of eloquence] sometimes finds himself cold and slow in private company...
    Res 8.138 2 ...skepticism is slow suicide.
    QO 8.182 6 ...the psalms and liturgies of churches, are...of this slow growth...
    PC 8.223 20 Mind carries the law; history is the slow and atomic unfolding.
    Grts 8.310 15 ...there is for you...a slow discrimination that there is for each a Best Counsel which enjoins the fit word and the fit act for every moment.
    Dem1 10.12 18 The lovers...of what we call the occult and unproved sciences...need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement.
    Dem1 10.20 18 It is curious to see what grand powers we have a hint of and are mad to grasp, yet how slow Heaven is to trust us with such edge-tools.
    Edc1 10.152 12 It is difficult to class [pupils], some are too young, some are slow, some perverse.
    Edc1 10.154 4 The advantages of this system of emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...it is so energetic on slow and on bad natures...that it is not strange that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.
    SovE 10.187 3 'T is a long scale...from the gorilla...to the sanctities of religion...the summits of science, art and poetry. The beginnings are slow and infirm, but it is an always-accelerated march.
    LLNE 10.330 6 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the English philosophic theologians...and then...from the slow but extraordinary influence of Swedenborg;...
    LLNE 10.347 24 Mr. Owen preached his doctrine of labor and reward...to the slow ears of his generation.
    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... so slow were the disciples...to receive the idea which we receive, that his second coming was a spiritual kingdom...
    HDC 11.82 10 From that time [1788] to the present hour, this town [Concord] has made a slow but constant progress in population and wealth...
    HDC 11.84 25 Of late years, the growth of Concord has been slow.
    LVB 11.92 8 We have looked in the newspapers of different parties and find a horrid confirmation of the tale [of the relocation of the Cherokees]. We are slow to believe it.
    War 11.151 19 As far as history has preserved to us the slow unfoldings of any savage tribe, it is not easy to see how war could be avoided...
    War 11.159 24 All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline.
    EPro 11.315 13 Liberty is a slow fruit.
    EPro 11.321 1 We confide that...as [Lincoln] has been slow in making up his mind...he will be as absolute in his adhesion [to Emancipation].
    ALin 11.335 15 Step by step [Lincoln] walked before [the American people]; slow with their slowness, quickening his march by theirs...
    ALin 11.337 11 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius... which, with a slow but stern justice, carried forward the fortunes of certain chosen houses...
    SMC 11.355 27 This [Civil War] will be a slow business, writes our Concord captain [George Prescott] home, for we have to stop and civilize people as we go along.
    Wom 11.406 16 [Women] learn so fast and convey the result so fast as to outrun the logic of their slow brother...
    CPL 11.495 14 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who cannot wait for the slow growth of the population to make these advantages adequate to the desires of the people...
    CPL 11.502 27 If you sprain your foot, you will presently come to think that Nature has sprained hers. Everything begins to look so slow and inaccessible.
    PLT 12.49 13 The pace of Nature is so slow.
    II 12.83 18 Many men are very slow in finding their vocation.

slow, adv. (3)

    Nat2 3.195 23 ...man's life is but seventy salads long, grow they swift or grow they slow.
    DL 7.127 13 ...we see heads that seem to turn on a pivot as deep as the axle of the world,--so slow, and lazily, and great, they move.
    SHC 11.428 8 ...shalt thou pause to hear some funeral-bell/ Slow stealing o' er the heart in this calm place/...

slower, adj. (3)

    Cir 2.316 18 ...you shall find that, though slower, the progress of my character will liquidate all these debts without injustice to higher claims.
    ET10 5.156 7 [The English] are contented with slower steamers, as long as they know that swifter boats lose money.
    Clbs 7.234 5 ...men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that...their watches are slower than ours.

slower, adv. (4)

    Farm 7.145 14 The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.
    Grts 8.305 24 ...there is not a piece of Nature in any kind but a man is born who...aims slower or faster to dedicate himself to that.
    PLT 12.49 26 The same functions which are perfect in our quadrupeds are seen slower performed in palaeontology.
    II 12.84 17 If you speak to the man, he turns his eyes from his own scene, and, slower or faster, endeavors to comprehend what you say.

slowest, adj. (1)

    Fdsp 2.199 7 We snatch at the slowest fruit in the whole garden of God...

slow-grown, adj. (1)

    ET13 5.217 26 From this slow-grown [English] church important reactions proceed;...

slowly, adv. (37)

    LT 1.267 10 Slowly, like light of morning, it steals on us, the new fact, that we who were pupils or aspirants are now society...
    Comp 2.124 26 ...the shell-fish crawls out of its beautiful but stony case... and slowly forms a new house.
    Lov1 2.188 12 Though slowly and with pain, the objects of the affections change...
    ET4 5.64 11 The torture of criminals, and the rack for extorting evidence, were slowly disused [in England].
    ET16 5.290 21 Slowly we [Emerson and Carlyle] left the old house [Winchester Cathedral]...
    ET19 5.312 18 ...I was given to understand in my childhood...that [Englishmen's] best parts were slowly revealed;...
    Pow 6.76 16 A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much but can only bring it to light slowly.
    Ctr 6.132 26 In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round and continues to spin slowly on one spot.
    Ctr 6.142 12 ...books are good only as far as a boy is ready for them. He sometimes gets ready very slowly.
    Wsp 6.216 23 ...we very slowly admit in another man a higher degree of moral sentiment than our own...
    Wsp 6.217 1 ...we very slowly admit in another man...an ear to hear acuter notes of right and wrong than we can. I think we listen suspiciously and very slowly to any evidence to that point.
    Bty 6.281 3 Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.
    Elo1 7.74 17 There is a petty lawyer's fluency, which is sufficiently impressive...though it be...nothing more than a facility of expressing with accuracy and speed what everybody thinks and says more slowly;...
    WD 7.173 3 Seldom and slowly the mask [of illusion] falls...
    Cour 7.257 10 ...[the babe] comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.
    Cour 7.279 21 The hunter met [the bear's] gaze,/ Nor yet an inch gave way;/ The bear turned slowly round,/ And slowly moved away./
    Cour 7.279 22 The hunter met [the bear's] gaze,/ Nor yet an inch gave way;/ The bear turned slowly round,/ And slowly moved away./
    OA 7.327 22 ...at the end of fifty years, [a man's] soul is appeased by seeing some sort of correspondence between his wish and his possession. This makes...the satisfaction [age] slowly offers to every craving.
    PI 8.24 3 Slowly...there dawned on some mind a theory of the sun...
    PI 8.50 24 Richard Owen...said:--All hitherto observed causes of extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.
    Imtl 8.332 4 Slowly [the two men] advanced towards each other as they could...
    Chr2 10.99 13 Slowly the body comes to the use of its organs;...
    Chr2 10.99 14 ...slowly the soul unfolds itself in the new man.
    Thor 10.465 14 [Thoreau's] own dealing with [young men of sensibility] was...didactic, scorning their petty ways,-very slowly conceding, or not conceding at all, the promise of his society at their houses...
    Carl 10.498 1 ...in England, where the morgue of aristocracy has very slowly admitted scholars into society...[Carlyle] has carried himself erect...
    HDC 11.79 27 The Town Records show how slowly the inhabitants [of Concord] recovered from the strain of excessive exertion [during the Revolution].
    FSLN 11.238 25 ...the spasms of Nature are centuries and ages, and will tax the faith of short-lived men. Slowly, slowly the Avenger comes, but comes surely.
    FSLN 11.240 9 ...that is the stern edict of Providence, that liberty shall be no hasty fruit, but that...age on age, shall cast itself into the opposite scale, and not until liberty has slowly accumulated weight enough to countervail and preponderate against all this, can the sufficient recoil come.
    ALin 11.330 18 How slowly, and yet by happily prepared steps, [Lincoln] came to his place.
    SMC 11.350 21 ...as we have learned that the upheaved mountain, from which these discs or flakes were broken, was once a glowing mass at white heat, slowly crystallized, then uplifted by the central fires of the globe: so the roots of events [the Concord Monument] appropriately marks are in the heart of the universe.
    Humb 11.457 10 ...a man's natural powers are often a sort of committee that slowly...give their attention and action;...
    FRep 11.542 15 A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does not stand in the universe. They are all toiling, however secretly or slowly, in the province assigned to them...
    PLT 12.17 26 ...the sun is conceived to have made our system by hurling out from itself the outer rings of diffuse ether which slowly condensed into earths and moons...
    PLT 12.23 10 Every scholar knows that he applies himself coldly and slowly at first to his task...
    II 12.84 2 [Men slow in finding their vocation] ripen too slowly than that the determination should appear in this brief life.
    MAng1 12.231 16 Very slowly came [Michelangelo], after months and years, to the dome [of St. Peter's].
    EurB 12.372 14 Locksley Hall and The Two Voices are meditative poems, which were slowly written to be slowly read.

slow-match, n. (1)

    CL 12.162 1 Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person who knows where arnica grows...or punk for slow-match;...

slowness, n. (6)

    ET6 5.111 12 All [the Englishmen's] statesmen...have invented many fine phrases to cover this slowness of perception and prehensility of tail.
    Farm 7.139 7 The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature;...patience with the slowness of our feet...
    Suc 7.283 2 Our American people cannot be taxed with slowness in performance or in praising their performance.
    ALin 11.335 16 Step by step [Lincoln] walked before [the American people]; slow with their slowness, quickening his march by theirs...
    CPL 11.507 1 You say, [reading] is a languid pleasure. Yes, but its tractableness...contrasts with the slowness of fortune and the inaccessibleness of persons.
    Bost 12.208 11 ...there is yet in every city a certain permanent tone;... audacity or slowness;...

slug, n. (1)

    F 6.41 16 ...the slug sweats out its slimy house on the pear-leaf...

sluggard, adj. (1)

    AmS 1.81 16 Perhaps the time is already come when...the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids...

sluggard, n. (1)

    FRep 11.537 11 ...the Genius or Destiny of America is no log or sluggard...

sluggish, adj. (5)

    AmS 1.89 2 The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude...having once received this book, stands upon it...
    Pow 6.57 10 [A broad, healthy, massive understanding]...anticipates everybody's discovery; and if it do not command every fact of the genius and the scholar, it is because it is large and sluggish...
    SS 7.12 12 A cold sluggish blood thinks it has not facts enough to the purpose...
    War 11.153 22 [Alexander's conquest of the East] carried the arts and language and philosophy of the Greeks into the sluggish and barbarous nations of Persia, Assyria and India.
    PLT 12.59 18 Routine, the rut, is the path of indolence...of sluggish animal life;...

sluggishness, n. (2)

    LLNE 10.364 15 It is certain that...variety of work, variety of means of thought and instruction, art, music, poetry, reading, masquerade, did not permit sluggishness or despondency [at Brook Farm]...
    FSLC 11.203 14 At last, at a fatal hour, [Webster's] sluggishness accumulated to downright counteraction...

slugs, n. (2)

    NER 3.253 5 ...a society for the protection of ground-worms, slugs and mosquitos was to be incorporated without delay.
    F 6.45 21 A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves.

sluice-way, n. (1)

    ET5 5.98 17 Man in England submits to be a product of political economy. On a bleak moor a mill is built...and men come in as water in a sluice-way...

slumber, n. (5)

    Nat 1.72 1 ...sometimes [man] starts in his slumber...
    LE 1.161 22 ...in spite of slumber and guilt...have been these glorious manifestations of the mind;...
    Art2 7.50 24 ...in the moment or in the successive moments when that form [of a work of art] was seen, the iron lids of Reason were unclosed, which ordinarily are heavy with slumber.
    Insp 8.285 25 At last it has become summer,/ And at the first glimpse of morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./
    SHC 11.434 13 What is the Earth itself but a surface scooped into nooks and caves of slumber...

slumber, v. (3)

    Bty 6.279 3 Was never form and never face/ So sweet to Seyd as only grace/ Which did not slumber like a stone/ But hovered gleaming and was gone./
    SA 8.88 8 It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.
    AKan 11.258 1 ...the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...

slumbered, v. (1)

    YA 1.378 2 [Trade] calls out all force of a certain kind that slumbered in the former dynasties.

slumberous, adj. (1)

    II 12.69 4 Could we prick the sides of this slumberous giant [Instinct];...

slumbers, v. (1)

    AmS 1.114 4 ...in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason;...

slur, v. (1)

    LE 1.178 6 Let [the scholar] not slur his lesson;...

sly, adj. (3)

    Mrs1 3.135 4 Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature...
    Ill 6.316 9 ...the mighty Mother who had been so sly with us...insinuates into the Pandora-box of marriage some deep and serious benefits...
    MLit 12.326 3 The fair hearers [says Wieland] were enthusiastic at the nature in this piece [Goethe's journal]; I liked the sly art in the composition...still better.

slyboots, n. (1)

    LE 1.171 15 ...Truth is...such a slyboots...

slyness, n. (1)

    MR 1.253 1 In every household, the peace of a pair is poisoned by the... slyness...of domestics.

smack, v. (1)

    MoS 4.166 17 [Montaigne] likes his saddle. You may read theology, and grammar, and metaphysics elsewhere. Whatever you get here shall smack of the earth and of real life...

smacks, v. (2)

    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; although this smacks a little of the resolution of a certain Young Men's Republican Club, that all men should be held eligible who are under seventy.
    TPar 11.284 11 ...[Theodore Parker's] periods fall on you, stroke after stroke,/ Like the blows of a lumberer felling an oak,/ You forget the man wholly, you 're thankful to meet/ With a preacher who smacks of the field and the street/...

small, adj. (136)

    Nat 1.50 16 ...a small alteration in our local position, apprizes us of a dualism.
    Nat 1.68 11 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord...because he...finds something of himself in every great and small thing...
    AmS 1.112 13 The drop is a small ocean.
    MR 1.251 6 Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. The victories of the Arabs after Mahomet, who...from a small and mean beginning, established a larger empire than that of Rome, is an example.
    LT 1.259 7 Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact;...
    Con 1.311 7 Have we not atoned for this small offence...of leaving you no right in the soil, by this splendid indemnity of ancestral and national wealth?
    Con 1.312 2 ...to thy industry and thrift and small condescension to the established usage,-scores of servants are swarming...to thy command;...
    Tran 1.332 6 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away... a bit of bullet, now glimmering, now darkling through a small cubic space...
    Tran 1.349 10 Each cause as it is called...becomes speedily a little shop, where the article...is now made up into portable and convenient cakes, and retailed in small quantities to suit purchasers.
    YA 1.372 4 [That Genius] indicates itself by a small excess of good...
    YA 1.372 5 [That Genius] indicates itself by...a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.
    Hist 2.1 1 There is no great and no small/ To the Soul that maketh all:/...
    Hist 2.20 3 In these [Nubian Egypian] caverns, already prepared by nature, the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses, so that when art came to the assistance of nature it could not move on a small scale without degrading itself.
    SR 2.62 26 ...power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a small house...
    Comp 2.97 17 The reaction, so grand in the elements, is repeated within these small boundaries.
    Comp 2.101 24 Eyes, ears, taste, smell, motion, resistance, appetite, and organs of reproduction that take hold on eternity,--all find room to consist in the small creature.
    Comp 2.112 16 ...a man often pays dear for a small frugality.
    Fdsp 2.216 13 It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet.
    Prd1 2.232 12 He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.
    Prd1 2.234 20 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only...the the prudence which consists in husbanding...particles of stock and small gains.
    Hsm1 2.257 10 If we dilate in beholding...the Roman pride, it is that we are already domesticating the same sentiment. Let us find room for this great guest in our small houses.
    OS 2.285 25 In full court, or in small committee...men offer themselves to be judged.
    Cir 2.304 2 The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles...
    Pt1 3.17 21 Small and mean things serve as well as great symbols.
    Exp 3.61 26 I am thankful for small mercies.
    Chr1 3.90 8 The purest literary talent appears at one time great, and another time small...
    Gts 3.164 14 Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.
    Nat2 3.169 22 At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small...
    Nat2 3.176 16 The difference between landscape and landscape is small...
    Nat2 3.185 2 Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality.
    NR 3.227 2 All persons exist to society by some shining trait of beauty or utility which they have. We borrow the proportions of the man from that one fine feature, and finish the portrait symmetrically; which is false, for the rest of his body is small or deformed.
    NR 3.229 5 ...if they say [a personal influence] is small, it is small;...
    NER 3.282 25 Every time we converse we seek to translate [Providence] into speech, but whether we hit or whether we miss, we have the fact. Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence that we do not get it into verbs and nouns...
    PPh 4.54 11 It is as easy to be great as to be small.
    PPh 4.72 22 [Socrates'] necessary expenses were exceedingly small...
    SwM 4.113 27 The principle of all things, entrails made/ Of smallest entrails; bone, of smallest bone;/ Blood, of small sanguine drops reduced to one;/...
    SwM 4.114 1 The principle of all things, entrails made/ Of smallest entrails; bone, of smallest bone;/ Blood, of small sanguine drops reduced to one;/ Gold, of small grains; earth, of small sands compacted;/ Small drops to water, sparks to fire contracted./
    SwM 4.114 2 The principle of all things, entrails made/ Of smallest entrails; bone, of smallest bone;/ Blood, of small sanguine drops reduced to one;/ Gold, of small grains; earth, of small sands compacted;/ Small drops to water, sparks to fire contracted./
    SwM 4.114 18 What was too small for the eye to detect was read by the aggregates;...
    MoS 4.180 11 Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit may find small good in tea...
    NMW 4.223 11 It is Swedenborg's theory that...the lungs are composed of infinitely small lungs; the liver, of infinitely small livers;...
    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.
    NMW 4.242 4 The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that no longer the throne was occupied and the land sucked of its nourishment, by a small class of legitimates...
    GoW 4.271 18 ...[Goethe] lived in a small town...
    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;...
    ET2 5.28 23 Near the equator you can read small print by [the light of the sea-fire];...
    ET3 5.42 21 [England] is a nation conveniently small.
    ET4 5.52 24 ...what we think of when we talk of English traits really narrows itself to a small district.
    ET4 5.53 19 In Ireland are the same climate and soil as in England, but... small tenantry and an inferior or misplaced race.
    ET4 5.53 25 Only a hardy and wise people could have made this small territory [England] great.
    ET4 5.56 4 Charlemagne, halting one day in a town of Narbonnese Gaul, looked out of a window and saw a fleet of Northmen cruising in the Mediterranean. They even entered the port of the town where he was, causing no small alarm and sudden manning and arming of his galleys.
    ET6 5.110 10 Wordsworth says of the small freeholders of Westmoreland, Many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land which they tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of the same name and blood.
    ET7 5.124 14 ...[Englishmen] affirm the one small fact they know...
    ET9 5.144 22 [The Englishman] is intensely patriotic, for his country is so small.
    ET11 5.183 2 The great [English] estates are absorbing the small freeholds.
    ET11 5.183 13 I was surprised to observe the very small attendance usually in the House of Lords.
    ET15 5.265 3 ...when [John Walter] demanded a small share in the proprietary [of the London Times] and was refused, he said, As you please, gentlemen; and you may take away The Times from this office when you will;...
    Wth 6.99 12 ...in America, where democratic institutions divide every estate into small portions after a few years, the public should step into the place of these [European] proprietors, and provide this culture and inspiration for the citizen.
    Wth 6.100 16 [The right merchant]...likes small and sure gains.
    Wth 6.100 22 The problem [in commerce] is to combine many and remote operations with the accuracy and adherence to the facts which is easy in near and small transactions;...
    Wth 6.117 8 ...after expense has been fixed at a certain point, then new and steady rills of income, though never so small, being added, wealth begins.
    CbW 6.268 9 [The young people] explore a farm, but the house is small...
    Bty 6.301 3 If a man can raise a small city to be a great kingdom...'t is no matter whether his nose is parallel to his spine...
    SS 7.8 14 'T is no wonder, when each has his whole head, our societies should be so small.
    SS 7.13 12 ...the people are to be taken in very small doses.
    Civ 7.27 9 Everything good in man leans on what is higher. This rule holds in small as in great.
    Civ 7.29 5 ...on a planet so small as ours, the want of an adequate base for astronomical measurements is early felt...
    Elo1 7.64 5 Isocrates described his art as the power of magnifying what was small and diminishing what was great...
    Elo1 7.98 20 ...I do not accept that definition of Isocrates, that the office of his art [of eloquence] is to make the great small and the small great;...
    Elo1 7.98 26 ...I esteem this to be [eloquence's] perfection,--when the orator sees through all masks to the eternal scale of truth, in such sort that he can hold up before the eyes of men the fact of to-day steadily to that standard, thereby making the great great, and the small small...
    DL 7.103 19 The small despot asks so little that all reason and all nature are on his side.
    DL 7.104 21 Mistrusting the cunning of his small legs, [the young American] wishes to ride on the necks and shoulders of all flesh.
    DL 7.104 22 The small enchanter nothing can withstand...
    DL 7.105 24 ...the garden full of flowers is Eden over again to the small Adam;...
    Farm 7.135 19 What these strong masters [farmers] wrote at large in miles,/ I followed in small copy in my acre;/...
    Farm 7.138 25 [The farmer] represents continuous hard labor...and small gains.
    Farm 7.146 19 ...[the farmer] is habitually engaged in small economies...
    Clbs 7.231 23 [The lover of letters among the men of wit and learning] could not find that he was helped by so much as...one commanding impulse: great was the dazzle, but the gain was small.
    Cour 7.257 16 ...[the child's] utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every by-stander to take his part.
    Cour 7.261 11 Each [new soldier] whispers to himself: My exertions must be of small account to the result;...
    PI 8.49 26 Rhyme is a pretty good measure of the latitude and opulence of a writer. If unskilful, he is at once detected by the poverty of his chimes. A small, well-worn, sprucely brushed vocabulary serves him.
    Elo2 8.109 12 ...[The patriot] bridged the gulf from th' alway good and wise/ To that within the vision of small eyes./
    Res 8.146 8 ...[Tissenet] opened his shirt a little and showed to each of the savages in turn the reflection of his own eyeball in a small pocket-mirror which he had hung next to his skin.
    Res 8.146 12 ...taking from his portmanteau a small phial of white brandy, [Tissenet] poured it into a cup...
    QO 8.179 19 The highest statement of new philosophy complacently caps itself with some prophetic maxim from the oldest learning. There is something mortifying in this perpetual circle. This extreme economy argues a very small capital of invention.
    Insp 8.288 15 ...it is almost impossible for a house-keeper who is in the country a small farmer, to exclude interruptions...
    Dem1 10.25 23 ...this prodigious promiser [Animal Magnetism] ends always and always will...in a very small and smoky performance.
    Chr2 10.97 3 Devout men...have used different images to suggest this latent [moral] force; as...the Comforter, the Daemon, the still, small voice...
    SovE 10.203 11 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion...perhaps on a sublime national victory or a peace. But that, be sure, is not the religion of the universal, unsleeping providence, which lurks...in still, small voices...
    SovE 10.206 24 We in America are charged...that our institutions, our politics and our trade have fostered a self-reliance which is small, liliputian, full of fuss and bustle;...
    Prch 10.236 8 ...certainly on this seventh [day] let us...think as spirits think, who belong to the universe, whilst...our hands work in a small knot of affairs.
    Schr 10.285 9 ...[men of talent] nourish a small difference into a loud quarrel.
    Schr 10.286 11 [The scholar] must...ride at anchor and vanquish every enemy whom his small arms cannot reach, by the grand resistance of submission...
    LLNE 10.353 23 ...in a day of small, sour and fierce schemes, one is admonished and cheered by a project of such friendly aims [as Fourier's]...
    LLNE 10.358 12 Society in England and in America is trying the [Fourierist] experiment again in small pieces...
    MMEm 10.401 11 [Mary Moody Emerson's aunt] would leave the farm to her by will. This promise was kept; she came into possession of the property many years after, and her dealings with it gave her no small trouble...
    MMEm 10.411 24 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights.
    MMEm 10.431 3 I [Mary Moody Emerson] believe thus much, that [the greatest geniuses'] large perception...made it impossible for them to make small calculations.
    MMEm 10.431 5 That greatest of all gifts, however small my [Mary Moody Emerson's] power of receiving,-the capacity, the element to love the All-perfect, without regard to personal happiness:-happiness?-'t is itself.
    Thor 10.451 12 ...[Thoreau] seldom thanked colleges for their service to him, holding them in small esteem...
    Thor 10.457 26 In 1845 [Thoreau] built himself a small framed house on the shores of Walden Pond...
    Thor 10.459 22 [Thoreau] listened impatiently to news or bonmots gleaned from London circles; and though he tried to be civil, these anecdotes fatigued him. The men were all imitating each other, and on a small mould.
    Thor 10.462 15 When I was planting forest trees, and had procured half a peck of acorns, [Thoreau] said that only a small portion of them would be sound...
    Thor 10.463 11 ...Thoreau thought all diets a very small matter...
    Thor 10.466 24 ...the conical heaps of small stones on the river-shallows, the huge nests of small fishes...were all known to [Thoreau]...
    Thor 10.466 25 ...the conical heaps of small stones on the river-shallows, the huge nests of small fishes...were all known to [Thoreau]...
    Thor 10.473 27 Occasionally, a small party of Penobscot Indians would visit Concord...
    Thor 10.479 22 To [Thoreau] there was no such thing as size. The pond was a small ocean;...
    HDC 11.42 21 The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.
    HDC 11.48 19 The matters there debated [in Concord town-meetings] are such as to invite very small considerations.
    HDC 11.82 17 If the community [Concord] stints its expense in small matters, it spends freely on great duties.
    EWI 11.101 2 If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of his own comfort...I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.
    EWI 11.111 4 The [West Indian] boy was set to strip and flog his own mother to blood, for a small offence.
    War 11.151 5 It has been a favorite study of modern philosophy...to watch the rising of a thought in one man's mind, the communication of it to a few, to a small minority...
    War 11.154 21 The microscope reveals miniature butchery in atomies and infinitely small biters that swim and fight in an illuminated drop of water;...
    War 11.158 21 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of ships, small and great.
    War 11.161 6 ...the fact that [the idea that there can be peace as well as war] has become so distinct to any small number of persons as to become a subject of prayer and hope...that is the commanding fact.
    FSLC 11.212 20 We must make a small state great, by making every man in it true.
    AsSu 11.247 21 In [the slave state]...man is an animal...spending his days in hunting and practising with deadly weapons to defend himself against his slaves and against his companions brought up in the same idle and dangerous way. Such people...readily risk on every passion a life which is of small value to themselves or to others.
    AsSu 11.251 9 ...when I think of these most small faults as the worst which party hatred could allege, I think I may borrow the language which Bishop Burnet applied to Sir Isaac Newton, and say that Charles Sumner has the whitest soul I ever knew.
    ACiv 11.301 11 ...there is no one owner of the state [Kentucky], but a good many small owners.
    Scot 11.466 6 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class, with whom he established the best relation,- small farmers and tradesmen, shepherds, fishermen, gypsies...
    FRO2 11.486 1 ...as my friend, your presiding officer [of the Free Religious Association], has asked me to take at least some small part in this day's conversation, I am ready to give...the first simple foundation of my belief...
    FRep 11.517 8 ...a court or an aristocracy, which must always be a small minority, can more easily run into follies than a republic...
    PLT 12.9 7 Here [in society]...the solidest merits must exist only for the entertainment of all. We are not in the smallest degree helped. Great is the dazzle, but the gain is small.
    PLT 12.44 15 If you cut or break in two a block or stone and press the two parts closely together, you can indeed bring the particles very near, but never again so near that they shall attract each other so that you can take up the block as one. That indescribably small interval is as good as a thousand miles...
    CL 12.148 1 I admire the taste which makes the avenue to a house, were the house never so small, through a wood;...
    CL 12.151 21 In August, when the corn is grown to be a resort and protection to woodcocks and small birds...we observe already that the leaf is sere...
    CW 12.175 22 I admire the taste which makes the avenue to the house- were the house never so small-through a wood;...
    MAng1 12.226 10 Nanni sold the travertine, and filled up the piers [of the Pons Palatinus] with gravel at small expense.
    MAng1 12.231 18 Very slowly came [Michelangelo], after months and years, to the dome [of St. Peter's]. At last he began to model it very small in wax.
    Milt1 12.267 22 Johnson petulantly taunts Milton with great promise and small performance, in returning from Italy because his country was in danger, and then opening a private school.
    ACri 12.292 19 Vulgarisms to be gazetted, moiety used for a small part;...
    MLit 12.314 24 ...small men introduce us always to themselves.
    WSL 12.341 2 Mr. Landor is one of the foremost of that small class who make good in the nineteenth century the claims of pure literature.
    PPr 12.383 9 Time stills the loud noise of opinions, sinks the small, raises the great...

small, n. (8)

    Nat 1.53 27 ...this power which [the poet] exerts to dwarf the great, to magnify the small, - might be illustrated by a thousand examples from [Shakspeare's] Plays.
    DSA 1.121 9 When...[man] attains to say...Virtue, I am thine;...thee will I serve...in great, in small..then...God is well pleased.
    PNR 4.82 25 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...discernment of the little in the large and the large in the small;...
    ShP 4.213 2 ...the great [Shakespeare] tells greatly; the small subordinately.
    Elo1 7.98 20 ...I do not accept that definition of Isocrates, that the office of his art [of eloquence] is to make the great small and the small great;...
    Elo1 7.98 26 ...I esteem this to be [eloquence's] perfection,--when the orator sees through all masks to the eternal scale of truth, in such sort that he can hold up before the eyes of men the fact of to-day steadily to that standard, thereby making the great great, and the small small...
    Prch 10.237 24 The Church is open to great and small in all nations;...
    LLNE 10.364 26 [Brook Farm] was...a French Revolution in small...

small-beer, n. (1)

    ET16 5.289 17 This hospitality of seven hundred years' standing [at the Church of Saint Cross] did not hinder Carlyle from pronouncing a malediction on the priest who receives 2000 pounds a year, that were meant for the poor, and spends a pittance on this small-beer and crumbs.

small-brained, adj. (1)

    F 6.22 16 [Man] betrays his relation to what is below him...small-brained... quadruped ill-disguised...

small-clothes, n. (1)

    OA 7.332 12 The old President [John Adams] sat in a large stuffed arm-chair, dressed in a blue coat, black small-clothes, white stockings;...

smaller, adj. (13)

    LT 1.285 9 By the side of these men [of the intellectual class], the hot agitators have a certain cheap and ridiculous air; they even look smaller than the others.
    Cir 2.317 6 Forgive his crimes, forgive his virtues too,/ Those smaller faults, half converts to the right./
    NER 3.267 9 Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished in his proportion; and the stricter the union the smaller and more pitiful he is.
    SwM 4.108 2 Manifestly, at the end of the spine, Nature puts out smaller spines, as arms;...
    SwM 4.114 7 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms...
    NMW 4.257 13 [Napoleon] left France smaller, poorer, feebler, than he found it;...
    ET12 5.209 19 Oxford, which equals in wealth several of the smaller European states, shuts up the lectureships which were made public for all men thereunto to have concourse;...
    ET16 5.278 12 The nineteen smaller stones of the inner circle [at Stonehenge] are of granite.
    Farm 7.149 4 The smaller [the farmer's] garden, the better he can feed it...
    SovE 10.184 13 ...all the animals show the same good sense in their humble walk that the man who is their enemy or friend does; and, if it be in smaller measure, yet it is not diminished, as his often is, by freak and folly.
    AKan 11.257 6 I think we are to give largely, lavishly, to these [Kansas] men. And we must prepare to do it. We must...live in smaller tenement...
    HCom 11.343 15 Here in this little Massachusetts, in smaller Rhode Island...[enthusiasm] flamed out when the guilty gun was aimed at Sumter.
    MAng1 12.230 11 [Michelangelo's paintings are in the Sistine Chapel, of which he first covered the ceiling with the story of the Creation, in successive compartments...and a series of greater and smaller fancy pieces in the lunettes.

smallest, adj. (47)

    Nat 1.33 6 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus...the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest...
    Tran 1.358 16 ...in society...there must be a few...persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.
    YA 1.375 1 ...we who build will receive the very smallest share of benefit.
    YA 1.382 3 Here are Etzlers and mechanical projectors, who...undoubtingly affirm that the smallest union would make every man rich;...
    Hist 2.37 2 [Talbot's] substance is not here./ For what you see is but the smallest part/...
    Comp 2.96 14 I shall attempt...to record some facts that indicate the path of the law of Compensation; happy beyond my expectation if I shall truly draw the smallest arc of this circle.
    Comp 2.104 25 This dividing and detaching is steadily counteracted. Up to this day it must be owned no projector has had the smallest success.
    Int 2.340 19 ...all the laws of nature may be read in the smallest fact.
    Pt1 3.17 26 ...we choose the smallest box or case in which any needful utensil can be carried.
    Exp 3.69 10 Nature will not spare us the smallest leaf of laurel.
    Chr1 3.89 12 We cannot find the smallest part of the personal weight of Washington in the narrative of his exploits.
    Chr1 3.93 25 [Character] works with most energy in the smallest companies and in private relations.
    Chr1 3.109 2 How easily we read in old books...of the smallest action of the patriarchs.
    NR 3.225 21 ...on seeing the smallest arc we complete the curve...
    UGM 4.33 15 ...the smallest acquisition of truth or of energy, in any quarter, is so much good to the commonwealth of souls.
    PPh 4.76 26 Here is the world...perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left...
    PPh 4.78 11 No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence.
    SwM 4.113 26 The principle of all things, entrails made/ Of smallest entrails; bone, of smallest bone;/...
    SwM 4.115 1 Every particular idea of man, and...every smallest part of his affection, is an image and effigy of him.
    MoS 4.179 5 A method in the world we do not see, but this parallelism of great and little, which never...discover the smallest tendency to converge.
    NMW 4.238 2 [Napoleon's] personal attention descended to the smallest particulars.
    ET10 5.164 21 ...absolute possession gives the smallest freeholder [in England] identity of interest with the duke.
    ET14 5.255 7 The practical and comfortable oppress [the English] with inexorable claims, and the smallest fraction of power remains for heroism and poetry.
    ET19 5.311 26 ...I have not the smallest interest in any holiday except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys;...
    F 6.38 26 The smallest candle fills a mile with its rays...
    Wsp 6.221 15 Law it is...which is smallest of the least, and largest of the large;...
    Wsp 6.222 25 The smallest fly will draw blood...
    CbW 6.251 21 Fate keeps everything alive so long as the smallest thread of public necessity holds it on to the tree.
    CbW 6.257 2 ...God hangs the greatest weights on the smallest wires.
    Farm 7.146 13 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles. But its far greater power depends on its talent of becoming little, and entering the smallest holes and pores.
    Boks 7.190 12 Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library.
    Boks 7.199 20 Plutarch cannot be spared from the smallest library;...
    Insp 8.278 10 The depth of the notes which we accidentally sound on the strings of Nature...might teach us what strangers and novices we are, vagabond in this universe of pure power, to which we have only the smallest key.
    Insp 8.290 21 ...the experience of some good artists has taught them to prefer the smallest and plainest chamber...
    Chr2 10.98 21 In the ever-returning hour of reflection, [a man] says: I stand here glad at heart of all the sympathies I can awaken and share...yet knowing that it is not in the power of all who surround me to take from me the smallest thread I call mine.
    Supl 10.175 11 ...Nature...crystallizes in water at one invariable angle...in granite at one; and if you omit the smallest condition, the experiment will not succeed.
    LLNE 10.334 1 The smallest anecdote of [Everett's] behavior or conversation was eagerly caught and repeated...
    MMEm 10.412 25 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane aunt] was brought here [to Malden]. Ah! mortifying sight! instinct perhaps triumphs over reason, and every dignified respect to herself, in her anxiety about recovery, and the smallest means connected.
    EWI 11.99 15 I might well hesitate...without the smallest claim to be a special laborer in this work of humanity, to undertake to set this matter [emancipation] before you;...
    EWI 11.133 6 ...perhaps I know too little of politics for the smallest weight to attach to any censure of mine...
    FSLC 11.204 14 Not the smallest municipal provision, if it were new, would receive [Webster's] sanction.
    FSLC 11.205 10 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop, which, if so much as the smallest end be shivered off, the whole will snap into atoms.
    FSLC 11.207 23 Since it is agreed by all sane men of all parties...that slavery is mischievous, why does the South itself never offer the smallest counsel of her own?
    FRep 11.528 14 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop, which will snap into atoms is so much as the smallest end be shivered off.
    PLT 12.9 6 Here [in society]...the solidest merits must exist only for the entertainment of all. We are not in the smallest degree helped.
    Let 12.393 6 ...when our correspondent proceeds to flying-machines, we have no longer the smallest taper-light of credible information and experience left...
    Let 12.402 11 ...the smallest new activity given to the perceptive power, is a victory won to the living universe from Chaos and old Night...

smallness, n. (1)

    ET5 5.99 15 Is it the smallness of the country, or is it the pride and affection of race,--[the English] have solidarity, or responsibleness...

small-pot-soon-hot, adj. (1)

    Elo1 7.62 3 Our county conventions often exhibit a small-pot-soon-hot style of eloquence.

small-pox, n. (5)

    F 6.7 25 The cholera, the small-pox, have proved as mortal to some tribes as a frost to the crickets...
    F 6.33 1 ...the depopulation by cholera and small-pox is ended by drainage and vaccination;...
    Cour 7.270 22 As for the bullying drunkards of which armies are usually made up, [John Brown] thought cholera, small-pox and consumption as valuable recruits.
    Aris 10.40 8 ...if the healer of small-pox, the contriver of the safety-lamp... should keep their secrets...must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?
    Chr2 10.106 27 Calvinism was one and the same thing in Geneva, in Scotland, in Old and New England. If there was a wedding, they had a sermon;...if a war, or small-pox, or a comet, or canker-worms, or a deacon died,-still a sermon...

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