Spirits to Squid

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

spirits, n. (78)

    Nat 1.50 6 If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision...causes and spirits are seen through [outlines and surfaces].
    DSA 1.123 13 ...speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance.
    LE 1.175 23 Re-collect the spirits.
    MN 1.222 14 Emanuel Swedenborg affirmed that it was opened to him that the spirits who knew truth in this life, but did it not, at death shall lose their knowledge.
    LT 1.281 14 The sad Pestalozzi, who shared with all ardent spirits the hope of Europe on the outbreak of the French Revolution...recorded his conviction that the amelioration of outward circumstances will be the effect but can never be the means of mental and moral improvement.
    LT 1.282 13 A great perplexity hangs like a cloud on the brow of all cultivated persons, a certain imbecility in the best spirits...
    LT 1.285 2 What has checked in this age the animal spirits which gave to our forefathers their bounding pulse?
    Tran 1.330 21 The idealist, in speaking of events, sees them as spirits.
    Tran 1.357 3 [The Transcendentalist's] strength and spirits are wasted in rejection.
    Tran 1.357 4 ...the strong spirits overpower those around them without effort.
    Hist 2.22 24 A man of rude health and flowing spirits has the faculty of rapid domestication...
    Hist 2.27 19 Rare, extravagant spirits come by us at intervals...
    Hist 2.28 21 The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child, in repressing his spirits and courage...is a familiar fact...
    SR 2.70 5 Round him [who has more obedience] I must revolve by the gravitation of spirits.
    SR 2.90 1 ...the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event raises your spirits...
    Fdsp 2.199 25 After interviews have been compassed with long foresight we must be tormented presently...by epilepsies of wit and of animal spirits, in the heydey of friendship and thought.
    Fdsp 2.211 21 There can never be deep peace between two spirits...until in their dialogue each stands for the whole world.
    Hsm1 2.245 20 The Roman Martius has conquered Athens,--all but the invincible spirits of Sophocles, the duke of Athens, and Dorigen, his wife.
    Hsm1 2.258 6 A great man makes his climate genial in the imagination of men, and its air the beloved element of all delicate spirits.
    OS 2.285 20 We are all discerners of spirits.
    Pt1 3.26 2 Why should not the symmetry and truth that modulate these [aspects of nature], glide into our spirits...
    Mrs1 3.124 3 In a good lord there must first be a good animal, at least to the extent of yielding the incomparable advantage of animal spirits.
    UGM 4.20 27 These [great] men correct the delirium of the animal spirits...
    SwM 4.114 26 Man is a kind of very minute heaven, corresponding to the world of spirits and to heaven.
    SwM 4.118 27 ...[Swedenborg's] profound mind admitted the perilous opinion...that he was an abnormal person, to whom was granted the privilege of conversing with angels and spirits;...
    SwM 4.131 18 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that seemed of brass, but it was formed of angelic spirits...
    SwM 4.133 14 Every thought [in Swedenborg's system of the world] comes into each mind by influence from a society of spirits that surround it...
    SwM 4.138 20 To what a painful perversion had Gothic theology arrived, that Swedenborg admitted no conversion for evil spirits!
    MoS 4.152 5 ...to the animal strength and spirits...the man of ideas appears out of his reason.
    NMW 4.233 5 Here was a man who in each moment and emergency knew what to do next. It is an immense comfort and refreshment to the spirits, not only of kings, but of citizens.
    ET6 5.103 19 The mechanical might and organization [in England] requires in the people constitution and answering spirits;...
    ET8 5.140 5 King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony, that he, among all his men, cared least about doubtful circumstances...for whatever turned up, he was never in higher nor in lower spirits...
    ET15 5.262 27 Rude health and spirits, an Oxford education and the habits of society are implied [by writing for English journals], but not a ray of genius.
    Wth 6.126 16 The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits;...
    Ctr 6.164 5 Who wishes to resist the eminent and polite, in behalf of the poor, and low, and impolite? And who that dares do it can keep...his frolic spirits?
    Wsp 6.223 10 If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium and wine.
    CbW 6.265 3 ...a depression of spirits develops the germs of a plague in individuals and nations.
    SS 7.12 19 The capital defect of cold, arid natures is the want of animal spirits.
    SS 7.12 26 Animal spirits constitute the power of the present...
    SS 7.13 8 ...we say of animal spirits that they are the spontaneous product of health and of a social habit.
    Elo1 7.67 2 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels. Humble persons are conscious of new illumination;...delicate spirits...who now hear their own native language for the first time...
    Elo1 7.68 4 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with...a hue-and-cry style of harangue, which inundates the assembly with a flood of animal spirits...
    DL 7.102 3 Spirits of a higher strain/ Who sought thee once shall seek again./
    WD 7.163 24 [Tantalus] is now in great spirits;...
    Suc 7.292 23 ...because we cannot shake off from our shoes this dust of Europe and Asia...life is theatrical and literature a quotation; and hence that depression of spirits...said to mark every American brow.
    Elo2 8.129 10 ...having recovered his spirits and the command of his faculties, [Lord Ashley] drew such an argument from his own confusion as more advantaged his cause that all the powers of eloquence could have done.
    Comc 8.167 21 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who... was in a dying condition, when I met his physician, who accosted me in great spirits...
    Comc 8.174 10 The physician endeavored to cheer [his melancholy patient' s] spirits, and advised him to go to the theatre and see Carlini. He replied, I am Carlini.
    QO 8.190 14 Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust, in another mouth.
    PPo 8.240 5 Elsewhere [Layard] adds, Poetry and flowers are the wine and spirits of the Arab;...
    PPo 8.240 14 Solomon had three talismans: first, the signet-ring by which he commanded the spirits...
    PPo 8.241 3 When Solomon travelled, his throne was placed on a carpet of green silk, of a length and breadth sufficient for all his army to stand upon,-men placing themselves on his right hand, and the spirits on his left.
    PPo 8.241 21 Asaph, the vizier, at a certain time, lost the seal of Solomon, which one of the Dews or evil spirits found...
    PPo 8.248 8 ...it is only a few delicate spirits who are sufficient to see that the whole web of convention is the imbecility of those whom it entangles...
    Insp 8.277 6 Swedenborg's genius was the perception of the doctrine that The Lord flows into the spirits of angels and of men;...
    Imtl 8.326 2 [The Greek]...built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii. The poet Shelley says of these delicately carved white marble cells, They seem not so much hiding places of that which must decay, as voluptuous chambers for immortal spirits.
    Dem1 10.12 17 The lovers...of what we call the occult and unproved sciences...of intercourse, by writing or by rapping or by painting, with departed spirits, need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement.
    Dem1 10.26 10 These adepts [in occult facts] have mistaken flatulency for inspiration. Were this drivel which they report as the voice of spirits really such, we must find out a more decisive suicide.
    Aris 10.39 12 I wish...men...who...are not too learned to love...the power and the spirits of Solitude;...
    Aris 10.43 4 ...a sound body must be at the root of any excellence in manners and actions; a strong and supple frame which yields a stock of strength and spirits for all the needs of the day...
    Edc1 10.136 26 I call our system [of education] a system of despair, and I find all the correction, all the revolution that is needed and that the best spirits of this age, promise, in one word, in Hope.
    SovE 10.204 23 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism, in which wit takes the place of faith in the leading spirits...
    Prch 10.236 6 ...certainly on this seventh [day] let us...think as spirits think, who belong to the universe...
    EzRy 10.386 8 [Ezra Ripley's] prayers for rain and against the lightning, that it may not lick up our spirits;...are well remembered...
    MMEm 10.418 15 Shut up in this severe weather with careful, infirm, afflicted age, it is wonderful, my [Mary Moody Emerson's] spirits...
    MMEm 10.427 15 ...Were it possible that the Creator was not virtually present with the spirits and bodies which He has made...
    MMEm 10.430 24 ...one secret sentiment of virtue...will tell, in the world of spirits, of God's immediate presence...
    HDC 11.75 17 In all the anecdotes of that day's [April 19, 1775] events we may discern the natural action of the people. It...might have been calculated on by any one acquainted with the spirits and habits of our community.
    FSLN 11.217 4 I have my own spirits in prison;-spirits in deeper prisons, whom no man visits if I do not.
    Wom 11.426 16 The new movement [for women's rights] is only a tide shared by the spirits of man and woman;...
    FRep 11.522 19 [The American] is easily fed with wheat and game, with Ohio wine, but his brain is also pampered by finer draughts, by political power and by the power in the railroad board, in the mills, or the banks. This elevates his spirits...
    PLT 12.45 19 ...the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
    CW 12.174 1 If [a thoughtful man] suffer from accident or low spirits, his spirits rise when he enters [his wood-lot].
    Bost 12.192 25 ...in that time [of the settlement of Massachusetts] terrors of witchcraft, terrors of evil spirits, and a certain degree of terror still clouded the idea of God in the mind of the purest.
    EurB 12.368 16 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored.
    PPr 12.389 15 ...in all this glad and needful venting of his redundant spirits, [Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very word...
    Let 12.398 4 There is...a paralysis of the active faculties, which falls on young men of this country...which...bereaves them of animal spirits;...
    Trag 12.411 13 The most exposed classes, soldiers, sailors, paupers, are nowise destitute of animal spirits.

spirit's, n. (2)

    MN 1.220 11 ...the spirit's holy errand through us absorbed the thought.
    Art2 7.39 3 ...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.

spirit-touch, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.129 7 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,/ And tender to the spirit-touch/ Of man's or maiden's eye/...

spiritual, adj. (184)

    Nat 1.19 22 The presence of a higher, namely, of the spiritual element is essential to [nature's] perfection.
    Nat 1.25 7 Particular natural facts are symbols of particular spiritual facts.
    Nat 1.26 1 ...thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature.
    Nat 1.26 10 ...this origin of all words that convey a spiritual import...is our least debt to nature.
    Nat 1.26 14 Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
    Nat 1.28 16 ...[The human corpse] is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.
    Nat 1.29 8 As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when...all spiritual facts are represented by natural symbols.
    Nat 1.35 6 ...visible nature must have a spiritual and moral side.
    Nat 1.40 19 All things...have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.
    Nat 1.52 21 The remotest spaces of nature are visited [by Shakspeare's muse], and the farthest sundered things are brought together, by a subtile spiritual connection.
    Nat 1.55 19 It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles], that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature;...
    AmS 1.86 21 ...when this spiritual light shall have revealed the law of more earthly natures...[the scholar] shall look forward to an ever expanding knowledge as to a becoming creator.
    AmS 1.111 20 ...show me the sublime presence of the highest spiritual cause lurking...in these suburbs and extremities of nature;...
    AmS 1.113 3 [Swedenborg] pierced the emblematic or spiritual character of the visible, audible, tangible world.
    DSA 1.119 9 Through the transparent darkness the stars pour their almost spiritual rays.
    DSA 1.135 1 ...observe the condition, the spiritual limitation of the office [of priest].
    DSA 1.150 20 Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us; first the Sabbath...whose light...everywhere suggests...the dignity of spiritual being.
    LE 1.159 14 The sense of spiritual independence is like the lovely varnish of the dew...
    LE 1.163 23 ...the more quaintly you inspect...its spiritual causes...so much the more you master the biography of this hero...
    LE 1.175 19 ...accept the hint...of spiritual emptiness and waste which true nature gives you...
    MN 1.191 10 ...[the scholars] stand for the spiritual interest of the world...
    MN 1.192 13 There is in each of these works...an intellectual step, or short series of steps, taken; that act or step is the spiritual act;...
    MN 1.193 3 The weaver should not be bereaved of...his knowledge that the product or the skill is of no value, except so far as it embodies his spiritual prerogatives.
    MN 1.199 3 How can I hope for better hap in my attempts to enunciate spiritual facts?
    MR 1.227 19 ...every man should be open to ecstacy or a divine illumination, and his daily walk elevated by intercourse with the spiritual world.
    MR 1.228 1 ...we ought to seek to establish ourselves in such disciplines and courses as will deserve that guidance and clearer communication with the spiritual nature.
    MR 1.236 23 We must have an antagonism in the tough world for all the variety of our spiritual faculties...
    MR 1.255 11 The mediator between the spiritual and the actual world should have a great prospective prudence.
    MR 1.256 14 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever to greater sacrifices...
    LT 1.259 4 ...the present aspects of our social state...have their root in an invisible spiritual reality.
    LT 1.265 14 Could we indicate the indicators...so that all witnesses should recognize a spiritual law as each well-known form flitted for a moment across the wall, we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours.
    LT 1.286 9 The spiritualist wishes this only, that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself to the end...
    Tran 1.330 27 [The idealist] does not deny the presence of this table, this chair...but he looks at these things...as...each being a sequel or completion of a spiritual fact which nearly concerns him.
    Tran 1.335 22 The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine.
    Tran 1.335 26 [The Transcendentalist] wishes that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself to the end...
    Tran 1.336 4 ...the spiritual measure of inspiration is the depth of the thought...
    Tran 1.338 6 ...all who by strong bias of nature have leaned to the spiritual side in doctrine, have stopped short of their goal.
    Tran 1.338 9 ...of a purely spiritual life, history has afforded no example.
    Tran 1.342 4 Our American literature and spiritual history are...in the optative mood;...
    Tran 1.358 26 ...it may not be without its advantage that we should now and then encounter rare and gifted men, to compare the points of our spiritual compass...
    Hist 2.6 4 Property...covers great spiritual facts...
    Hist 2.24 7 The Grecian state is the era...of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body.
    SR 2.52 11 There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold;...
    SR 2.72 3 ...your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual...
    SL 2.145 8 Everywhere [the man] may take what belongs to his spiritual estate...
    SL 2.157 13 It was this conviction which Swedenborg expressed when he described a group of persons in the spiritual world endeavoring in vain to articulate a proposition which they did not believe;...
    Fdsp 2.211 4 To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter. That seems to you a little. It suffices me. It is a spiritual gift...
    Fdsp 2.213 27 It is foolish to be afraid of making our ties too spiritual...
    Fdsp 2.215 14 It would...give me a certain household joy to quit...this spiritual astronomy...
    Prd1 2.223 2 The first class have common sense; the second, taste; and the third, spiritual perception.
    OS 2.271 22 We know that all spiritual being is in man.
    OS 2.272 3 We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature...
    OS 2.277 15 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property in what was said, as well as the sayer.
    Cir 2.303 21 Moons are no more bounds to spiritual power than bat-balls.
    Int 2.335 24 When the spiritual energy is directed on something outward, then it is a thought.
    Int 2.346 2 ...wonderful seems the calm and grand air of these few [Greek philosophers], these great spiritual lords...
    Art1 2.352 2 What is that abridgment and selection we observe in all spiritual activity, but itself the creative impulse?...
    Art1 2.352 21 As far as the spiritual character of the period overpowers the artist and finds expression in his work, so far it will retain a certain grandeur...
    Art1 2.364 10 ...[sculpture] is...not the manly labor of a wise and spiritual nation.
    Pt1 3.4 3 Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to talk of the spiritual meaning of a ship or a cloud...
    Pt1 3.19 14 The spiritual fact remains unalterable...
    Exp 3.53 13 ...the definition of spiritual should be, that which is its own evidence.
    Exp 3.62 11 In the morning I awake and find the old world...the dear old spiritual world...not far off.
    Exp 3.70 23 That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency. So is it with us, now sceptical or without unity, because immersed in forms and effects all seeming to be of equal yet hostile value, and now religious, whilst in the reception of spiritual law.
    Exp 3.77 7 Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible...
    Chr1 3.107 10 I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?...
    Nat2 3.176 11 The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna...
    Nat2 3.190 26 ...trade to all the world, country-house and cottage by the waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual!
    Nat2 3.194 11 We are escorted on every hand through life by spiritual agents...
    NER 3.255 6 There is observable throughout [the practical activities of New England], the contest between mechanical and spiritual methods...
    NER 3.255 8 There is observable throughout [the practical activities of New England]...a steady tendency of the thoughtful and virtuous to a deeper belief and reliance on spiritual facts.
    UGM 4.11 9 Each material thing...has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere...
    PNR 4.82 11 These expansions or extensions [of facts] consist in continuing the spiritual sight where the horizon falls on our natural vision...
    PNR 4.88 2 ...a very well-marked class of souls, namely those who delight in giving a spiritual, that is, an ethico-intellectual expression to every truth... are said to Platonize.
    SwM 4.115 19 The form above [the perpetual-circular] is the vortical, or perpetual-spiral: next, the perpetual-vortical, or celestial: last, the perpetual-celestial, or spiritual.
    SwM 4.116 4 ...In our doctrine of Representations and Correspondences [says Swedenborg] we shall treat...of the astonishing things which occur... which correspond so entirely to supreme and spiritual things that one would swear that the physical world was purely symbolical of the spiritual world;...
    SwM 4.116 6 ...one would swear [says Swedenborg] that the physical world was purely symbolical of the spiritual world;...
    SwM 4.116 10 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...
    SwM 4.116 11 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...
    SwM 4.116 20 [Swedenborg says] I intend hereafter to communicate a number of examples of such correspondences, together with a vocabulary containing the terms of spiritual things, as well as of the physical things for which they are to be substituted.
    SwM 4.119 22 [Swedenborg] attempts to give some account of the modus of the new state, affirming that his presence in the spiritual world is attended with a certain separation, but only as to the intellectual part of his mind, not as to the will part;...
    SwM 4.125 7 [To Swedenborg] The marriages of the world are broken up. Interiors associate all in the spiritual world.
    SwM 4.127 19 ...in the real or spiritual world the nuptial union is not momentary [to Swedenborg], but incessant and total;...
    SwM 4.129 11 In fact, in the spiritual world we change sexes every moment.
    SwM 4.141 18 [Swedenborg's] spiritual world bears the same relation to the generosities and joys of truth of which human souls have already made us cognizant, as a man's bad dreams bear to his ideal life.
    SwM 4.146 8 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam and blaze through him...and he renders a second passive service to men... and, in the retributions of spiritual nature, not less glorious or less beautiful to himself.
    NMW 4.224 26 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is material... subordinating all intellectual and spiritual forces into means to a material success.
    GoW 4.264 27 There is a certain heat in the breast...which is the shining of the spiritual sun down into the shaft of the mine.
    GoW 4.268 4 ...great action must draw on the spiritual nature.
    GoW 4.284 21 [Goethe] is the type of culture...spiritual, but not spiritualist.
    ET3 5.43 19 It is a singular coincidence to this geographic centrality [of England], the spiritual centrality which Emanuel Swedenborg ascribes to the people.
    ET3 5.43 24 For the English nation, the best of them are in the centre of all Christians, because they have interior intellectual light. This appears conspicuously in the spiritual world.
    ET14 5.256 19 The English have lost sight of the fact that poetry exists to speak the spiritual law...
    F 6.20 8 If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.
    F 6.20 9 If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.
    F 6.28 13 The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.
    Wth 6.126 24 The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest...that he may spend in spiritual creation...
    Wsp 6.214 26 That which is signified by the words moral and spiritual, is a lasting essence...
    Wsp 6.215 5 The true meaning of spiritual is real;...
    Wsp 6.216 15 ...when poems were made,--the human soul...had fixed its thoughts on spiritual verities...
    Bty 6.284 27 The clergy have bronchitis, which does not seem a certificate of spiritual health.
    Bty 6.304 2 ...in chosen men and women I find somewhat in form, speech and manners, which is...of a humane, catholic and spiritual character...
    Art2 7.39 5 The Will distinguishes [Art] as spiritual action.
    Art2 7.43 14 It will be seen that in each of these [fine] arts there is much which is not spiritual.
    Art2 7.44 6 Eloquence...is modified how much by the material organization of the orator...the play of the eye and countenance. All this is so much deduction from the purely spiritual pleasure...
    Art2 7.45 6 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured, who do not ask a fine spiritual delight, almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.
    Art2 7.48 7 Let us proceed to the consideration of the law stated in the beginning of this essay, as it affects the purely spiritual part of a work of art.
    WD 7.171 20 ...could a power open our eyes to behold millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on which they moved floored beneath and arched above with the same web of blue depth which weaves itself over me now...
    WD 7.178 20 Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
    Clbs 7.235 11 However courteously we conceal it, it is social rank and spiritual power that are compared;...
    PI 8.11 13 [Natural objects'] value to the intellect appears only when I hear their meaning made plain in the spiritual truth they cover.
    PI 8.70 21 Every man may be, and at some time a man is, lifted to a platform whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth...
    PC 8.205 3 Nature spoke/ To each apart, lifting her lovely shows/ To spiritual lessons pointed home/...
    PC 8.229 4 Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force...
    PC 8.233 22 ...in France, at one time, there was almost a repudiation of the moral sentiment in what is called, by distinction, society,-not a believer within the Church, and almost not a theist out of it. In England the like spiritual disease affected the upper class in the time of Charles II....
    Insp 8.271 7 ...[the poet] is made aware of a power to carry on and complete the metamorphosis of natural into spiritual facts.
    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...
    Grts 8.311 27 The scholar's courage should be as terrible as the Cid's, though it grow out of spiritual nature, not out of brawn.
    Imtl 8.332 23 ...the practical faculties are faster developed than the spiritual.
    Imtl 8.347 20 ...when we are living in the sentiments we ask no questions about time. The spiritual world takes place;-that which is always the same.
    Dem1 10.26 2 [Mesmerism]...is separated by celestial diameters from the love of spiritual truths.
    Dem1 10.26 19 [Adepts in occult facts] are...by laws of kind,-dunces seeking dunces in the dark of what they call the spiritual world,-preferring snores and gastric noises to the voice of any muse.
    Aris 10.47 8 All spiritual or real power makes its own place.
    PerF 10.72 11 ...behind all these [natural forces] are finer elements...a new style and series, the spiritual.
    PerF 10.77 17 Certain thoughts, certain observations...would be my capital if I removed to Spain or China...or to new spiritual societies.
    PerF 10.83 16 The last revelation of intellect and of sentiment is that in a manner it...makes known to [the man] that the spiritual powers are sufficient to him if no other being existed;...
    PerF 10.84 25 [Men]...would like to have Aladdin's lamp to compel darkness, and iron-bound doors, and hostile armies, and lions and serpents to serve them like footmen. And they wish the same service from the spiritual faculties.
    Chr2 10.94 5 The antagonist nature is the individual...with appetites which...would enlist the entire spiritual faculty of the individual...
    Chr2 10.112 3 The constitution and law in America must be written on ethical principles, so that the entire power of the spiritual world can be enlisted to hold the loyalty of the citizen...
    Chr2 10.117 19 [The Sunday] invites...to whatever means and aids of spiritual refreshment.
    Chr2 10.121 14 Swedenborg said, that, in the spiritual world, when one wishes to rule, or despises others, he is thrust out of doors.
    SovE 10.204 1 There was in the last century a serious habitual reference to the spiritual world...
    MoL 10.243 11 It is the perpetual tendency of wealth to draw on the spiritual class...
    MoL 10.247 2 [The scholar] represents intellectual or spiritual force.
    MoL 10.247 3 [The scholar] represents intellectual or spiritual force. I wish him to rely on the spiritual arm;...
    MoL 10.247 22 ...no decay has crept over the spiritual force which gives bias and period to boundless Nature.
    MoL 10.248 23 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature...as...Swedenborg, with his spiritual world.
    MoL 10.254 22 The clerisy, the spiritual guides...have been false to their trust.
    Schr 10.261 21 ...in the worldly habits which harden us, we find with some surprise...that the spiritual nature is too strong for us;...
    Schr 10.263 20 The scholar is here...to keep men spiritual and sweet.
    Schr 10.275 16 The ends I have hinted at made the scholar or spiritual man indispensable to the Republic or Commonwealth of Man.
    Schr 10.276 3 There is a great deal of spiritual energy in the universe...
    Schr 10.278 16 ...when one observes how eagerly our people entertain and discuss a new theory...one would draw a favorable inference as to their intellectual and spiritual tendencies.
    Schr 10.278 17 It seems as if two or three persons coming who should add to a high spiritual aim great constructive energy, would carry the country with them.
    Schr 10.282 14 The spiritual nature exhibits itself so in its counteraction to any accumulation of material force.
    Plu 10.306 24 It is fatal to spiritual health to lose your admiration.
    Plu 10.307 3 ...we expect this awe and reverence of the spiritual power from the philosopher in his closet...
    LLNE 10.337 13 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature...
    LLNE 10.363 12 [Charles Newcomb] was the Abbe or spiritual father [of Brook Farm], from his religious bias.
    MMEm 10.428 6 The sickness of the last week was fine medicine; pain disintegrated the spirit, or became spiritual.
    Thor 10.474 23 ...[Thoreau] had the source of poetry in his spiritual perception.
    Thor 10.475 7 [Thoreau] was so enamoured of the spiritual beauty that he held all actual written poems in very light esteem in the comparison.
    LS 11.13 18 It was only too probable that among the half-converted Pagans and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor, whilst yet unable to comprehend the spiritual character of Christianity.
    LS 11.15 10 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...
    LS 11.15 17 ...this single expectation of a speedy reappearance of a temporal Messiah, which kept its influence even over so spiritual a man as St. Paul, would naturally tend to preserve the use of the rite [the Lord's Supper] when once established.
    HDC 11.40 21 ...as we are informed, the edge of [the settlers of Concord's] appetite was greater to spiritual duties at their first coming, in time of wants, than afterwards.
    FSLC 11.189 27 All arts, customs, societies, books, and laws, are good as they foster and concur with this spiritual element...
    EPro 11.326 6 Do not let the dying die: hold them back to this world, until you have charged their ear and heart with this message to other spiritual societies...
    SMC 11.351 7 The art of the architect and the sense of the town have made these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument] speak; have...converted these elements from a secular to a sacred and spiritual use;...
    SMC 11.351 17 ...whatever good grows to the country out of war, the largest results, the future power and genius of the land, will go on clothing this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.
    Wom 11.410 12 The spiritual force of man is as much shown in taste...as in his perception of truth.
    FRep 11.540 16 ...the Constitution and the law in America must be written on ethical principles, so that the entire power of the spiritual world shall hold the citizen loyal...
    PLT 12.5 15 I believe in the existence of the material world as the expression of the spiritual or the real...
    PLT 12.37 25 At a moment in our history the mind's eye opens and we become aware of spiritual facts...
    PLT 12.45 7 Goethe...apprehends the spiritual but is not spiritual.
    PLT 12.60 21 The spiritual power of man is twofold, mind and heart...
    PLT 12.60 24 The spiritual power of man is twofold...Intellect and morals; one respecting truth, the other the will. One is the man, the other the woman in spiritual nature.
    PLT 12.62 25 ...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes. And meantime he shall be able continually to keep sight of his biographical Ego...rhetoric or offset to his grand spiritual ego, without impertinence...
    CL 12.142 27 [DeQuincey said] [Wordsworth's] eyes are not under any circumstances bright, lustrous or piercing, but, after a long day's toil in walking, I have seen them assume an appearance the most solemn and spiritual that it is possible for the human eye to wear.
    CL 12.143 7 The light which resides in [Wordsworth's eyes]...under favorable accidents...is more truly entitled to be held the light that never was on land or sea, a light radiating from some far spiritual world, than any that can be named.
    Bost 12.184 16 How can we not believe in influences of climate and air, when, as true philosophers, we must believe that chemical atoms also have their spiritual cause why they are thus and not other;...
    Bost 12.184 18 How can we not believe in influences of climate and air, when, as true philosophers, we must believe...that carbon, oxygen, alum and iron, each has its origin in spiritual nature?
    Bost 12.209 22 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America.
    MAng1 12.233 17 Through [superficial beauty] [Michelangelo] beheld the eternal spiritual beauty which ever clothes itself with grand and graceful outlines...
    MAng1 12.241 24 At the age of eighty years, [Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari, sending him various spiritual sonnets he had written...
    Milt1 12.248 24 [Milton's tracts] are earnest, spiritual...
    Milt1 12.254 8 There is something pleasing in the affection with which we can regard a man [Milton]...who...by an influence purely spiritual makes us jealous for his fame as for that of a near friend.
    Milt1 12.266 9 Few men could be cited who have so well understood what is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton], and the precise aid it has brought to men, in being an emphatic affirmation of the omnipotence of spiritual laws...
    Milt1 12.273 14 And so, throughout all his actions and opinions, is [Milton] a consistent...believer in the omnipotence of spiritual laws.
    Milt1 12.279 10 ...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the angelic devotion of this man [Milton], who,...endeavored...to carry out the life of man to new heights of spiritual grace and dignity...
    MLit 12.309 7 When we flout all particular books as initial merely, we truly express the privilege of spiritual nature...
    MLit 12.335 14 In [man's] heart he knows the ache of spiritual pain...
    WSL 12.345 13 What is the nature of that subtle and majestic principle which attaches us to a few persons, not so much by personal as by the most spiritual ties?
    WSL 12.348 20 ...what skill of transition [Landor] may possess is superficial, not spiritual.

spiritual, n. (4)

    Nat 1.56 4 Thus even in physics, the material is degraded before the spiritual;...
    Wsp 6.215 4 In our definitions we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible.
    Edc1 10.134 21 If the vast and the spiritual are omitted [in our culture], so are the practical and the moral.
    PLT 12.45 7 Goethe...apprehends the spiritual but is not spiritual.

spiritualism, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.349 15 Mechanics were pushed so far [by Brisbane] as fairly to meet spiritualism.

Spiritualism, n. (1)

    MoL 10.245 7 We run...to Mesmerism, Spiritualism, to Pusey, to the Catholic Church, as if for the want of thought...

spiritualist, n. (6)

    LT 1.286 8 The spiritualist wishes this only, that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself to the end...
    Tran 1.337 18 ...if there is...any presentiment, any extravagance of faith, the spiritualist adopts it as most in nature.
    MoS 4.181 19 The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.
    GoW 4.284 21 [Goethe] is the type of culture...spiritual, but not spiritualist.
    SlHr 10.445 12 [Samuel Hoar] was neither spiritualist nor man of genius...
    Milt1 12.273 13 And so, throughout all his actions and opinions, is [Milton] a consistent spiritualist...

spiritualists, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.133 15 Eminent spiritualists shall have an incapacity of putting their act or word aloof from them...

spiritualize, v. (1)

    LS 11.10 3 Remember the readiness which [Jesus] always showed to spiritualize every occurrence.

spiritually, adv. (3)

    Nat 1.64 4 ...[nature] does not act upon us from without...but spiritually...
    Art2 7.51 9 ...the delight which a work of art affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature, again in active operation. It differs from the works of Nature in this, that they are organically reproductive. This is not, but spiritually it is prolific by its powerful action on the intellects of men.
    Art2 7.53 8 We feel, in seeing a noble building, which rhymes well, as we do in hearing a perfect song, that it is spiritually organic;...

spit, n. (2)

    SL 2.142 8 The common experience is that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit.
    Dem1 10.12 1 ...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...

Spitalfields, London, Engla (1)

    ET4 5.69 3 ...the bullies of the costermongers of Shoreditch, Seven Dials and Spitalfield, [the English] know how to wake up.

spite, n. (46)

    Nat 1.9 7 In the presence of nature a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
    Nat 1.26 21 ...a snake is subtle spite;...
    LE 1.161 20 In spite of all the rueful abortions that squeak and gibber in the street...have been these glorious manifestations of the mind;...
    LE 1.161 22 ...in spite of slumber and guilt...have been these glorious manifestations of the mind;...
    LE 1.161 22 ...in spite of the army...have been these glorious manifestations of the mind;...
    MN 1.196 7 ...as soon as [the grand inquisitor] probes the crust, behold gimlet, plumb-line, and philosopher take a lateral direction, in spite of all resistance...
    SR 2.51 18 Thy love afar is spite at home.
    Comp 2.120 2 The inviolate spirit turns [the mob's] spite against the wrongdoers.
    NER 3.279 6 ...in spite of selfishness and frivolity, the general purpose in the great number of persons is fidelity.
    SwM 4.97 20 In the chief examples of religious illumination somewhat morbid has mingled, in spite of the unquestionable increase of mental power.
    NMW 4.237 19 In one of his conversations with Las Casas, [Napoleon] remarked, As to moral courage, I have rarely met with the two-o'clock-in-the- morning kind: I mean...that which...in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgment and decision...
    NMW 4.244 6 ...in spite of the detraction which his systematic egotism dictated toward the great captains who conquered with and for him, ample acknowledgements are made by [Napoleon] to Lannes, Duroc...
    ET5 5.86 5 ...Wellington, when he came to the army in Spain, had every man weighed, first with accoutrements, and then without; believing that the force of an army depended on the weight and power of the individual soldiers, in spite of cannon.
    ET5 5.91 16 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings, in spite of epigrams, and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board.
    ET8 5.131 1 ...you shall find in the common [English] people a surly indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper; and in minds of more power, magazines of inexhaustible war, challenging The ruggedest hour that time and spite dare bring/ To frown upon the enraged Northumberland./
    ET10 5.155 20 The British empire is solvent; for in spite of the huge national debt, the valuation mounts.
    ET11 5.172 21 In spite of broken faith...we take sides as we read for the loyal England...
    Pow 6.60 11 A good tree that agrees with the soil will grow in spite of blight...
    Pow 6.62 2 We prosper with such vigor that like thrifty trees, which grow in spite of ice, lice, mice and borers, so we do not suffer from the profligate swarms that fatten on the national treasury.
    Ctr 6.162 20 [The finished man of the world] must...not remember spite.
    Bhr 6.172 21 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to slough [people's] animal husks and habits;...overawe their spite and meanness;...
    Wsp 6.212 24 In spite of our imbecility and terrors...the moral sense reappears to-day...
    Wsp 6.227 1 What I am and what I think is conveyed to you, in spite of my efforts to hold it back.
    Ill 6.323 9 At the top or at the bottom of all illusions, I set the cheat which still leads us to work and live for appearances; in spite of our conviction, in all sane hours, that it is what we really are that avails with friends, with strangers, and with fate or fortune.
    WD 7.165 24 ...Trade...that benefactor in spite of itself, ends in shameful defaulting, bubble and bankruptcy...
    Boks 7.197 10 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare: 1. Homer, who in spite of Pope and all the learned uproar of centuries, has really the true fire...
    Clbs 7.234 1 One lesson we learn early,--that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern.
    PI 8.3 21 In spite of all the joys of poets and the joys of saints, the most imaginative and abstracted person never makes with impunity the least mistake in this particular,--never tries to kindle his oven with water...
    PI 8.75 2 The grandeur of our life exists in spite of us...
    Res 8.153 2 ...in spite of accident and enemy, [the willows'] gentle persistency lives when the oak is shattered by storm...
    PC 8.218 12 If a theologian of deep convictions and strong understanding carries his country with him, like Luther, the state becomes Lutheran, in spite of the Emperor;...
    SovE 10.189 1 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that, in spite of appearances...an eternal, beneficent necessity is always bringing things right;...
    SovE 10.189 2 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...in spite of malignity and blind self-interest...an eternal, beneficent necessity is always bringing things right;...
    Prch 10.226 15 ...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland... [Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-In spite of all that Beauty may disown/ In your harsh features, Nature doth embrace/ Her lawful offspring in man's art/...
    Prch 10.231 18 I do not love sensation preaching,-the personalities for spite...
    Plu 10.320 24 In spite of its carelessness and manifold faults...I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals]...
    LLNE 10.352 2 ...in spite of the assurances of [Fourierism's] friends that it was new and widely discriminated from all other plans for the regeneration of society, we could not exempt it from the criticism which we apply to so many project for reform...
    CSC 10.376 23 ...not [the Chardon Street Convention's] least instructive lesson was the gradual but sure ascendency of [Alcott's] spirit, in spite of the incredulity and derision with which he is at first received...
    CSC 10.376 24 ...not [the Chardon Street Convention's] least instructive lesson was the gradual but sure ascendency of [Alcott's] spirit...in spite...of his own failures.
    MMEm 10.424 7 [Time] Hasten to finish thy motley work, on which frightful Gorgons are at play, spite of holy ghosts.
    EWI 11.103 24 ...the crude element of good in human affairs must work and ripen, spite of whips and plantation laws and West Indian interest.
    FSLC 11.213 9 Every nation and every man bows, in spite of himself, to a higher mental and moral existence;...
    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...
    JBS 11.280 5 ...the anecdotes preserved [of John Brown] show a far-seeing skill and conduct, which, in spite of adverse accidents, should secure, one year with another, an honest reward...
    II 12.75 25 ...in spite of our imbecility and terrors...the moral sense reappears forever with the same angelic newness that has been from of old the fountain of poetry and beauty and strength.
    II 12.75 26 ...in spite of Boston and London...the moral sense reappears forever with the same angelic newness that has been from of old the fountain of poetry and beauty and strength.

spleen, n. (2)

    ET8 5.138 5 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman...
    Farm 7.150 22 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords...

splendid, adj. (32)

    Nat 1.12 18 What angels invented these splendid ornaments...
    Nat 1.63 6 [If Idealism only deny the existence of matter] It leaves me in the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions...
    AmS 1.95 27 [Action] is the raw material out of which the intellect moulds her splendid products.
    AmS 1.100 24 Flamsteed and Herschel...may catalogue the stars...and the results being splendid and useful, honor is sure.
    DSA 1.131 9 ...even honesty and self-denial were but splendid sins, if they did not wear the Christian name.
    LE 1.177 4 ...literary men...dealing with the organ of language...learn to enjoy the pride of playing with this splendid engine...
    MN 1.192 17 ...I will not be deceived into admiring the routine of handicrafts and mechanics, how splendid soever the result...
    MN 1.192 19 That splendid results ensue from the labors of stupid men...is the fruit of higher laws than their will...
    Con 1.311 9 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?
    Hist 2.14 10 ...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the imagination; but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Osiris-Jove, a beautiful woman with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows!
    Hist 2.32 25 In splendid variety these changes come...
    SR 2.86 19 Galileo, with an opera-glass, discovered a more splendid series of celestial phenomena than any one since.
    OS 2.289 13 ...we...feel that the splendid works which [Shakspeare] has created...take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock.
    Nat2 3.193 1 What splendid distance...in the sunset!
    Pol1 3.218 8 ...we are constrained to reflect on our splendid moment with a certain humiliation...
    NR 3.230 12 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.
    UGM 4.6 17 It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes; yet how splendid is that benefit!
    PPh 4.53 10 Art was in its splendid novelty [in Greece].
    GoW 4.264 10 ...nature has more splendid endowments for those whom she elects to a superior office;...
    ET1 5.17 1 Gibbon [Carlyle] called the splendid bridge from the old world to the new.
    Elo1 7.85 2 ...the splendid weapons which went to the equipment of Demosthenes, of Aeschines...deserve a special enumeration.
    Elo1 7.91 5 If you...give [a man] a grasp of facts, learning, quick fancy, sarcasm, splendid allusion, interminable illustration,--all these talents...have an equal power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator.
    Schr 10.275 22 Nature could not leave herself without a seer and expounder. But he could not see or teach without organs. The same necessity then that would create him reappears in his splendid gifts.
    LLNE 10.333 9 [Everett] abounded...in splendid allusion, in quotation impossible to forget...
    MMEm 10.398 1 Many a day shall dawn and die,/ Many an angel wander by,/ And passing, light my sunken turf,/ Moist perhaps by ocean surf,/ Forgotten amid splendid tombs,/ Yet wreathed and hid by summer blooms./
    Thor 10.468 4 [Thoreau] seemed a little envious of the Pole, for the coincident sunrise and sunset, or five minutes' day after six months, a splendid fact, which Annursnuc had never afforded him.
    HDC 11.49 20 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book...
    FSLN 11.222 17 ...[Webster's] splendid wrath...was the wrath of the fact and the cause he stood for.
    Mem 12.95 13 This command of old facts...is our splendid privilege.
    Milt1 12.251 6 The other piece is [Milton's] Areopagitica...the most splendid of his prose works.
    MLit 12.332 10 [Goethe] was content to...spend on common aims his splendid endowments...
    EurB 12.375 11 ...[the hero of a novel of costume or of circumstance] is greatly in want of a fortune or of a wife, and usually of both, and the business of the piece is to provide him suitably. This is the problem to be solved in thousands of English romances, including the Porter novels and the more splendid examples of the Edgeworth and Scott romances.

splendor, n. (58)

    AmS 1.98 9 I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech.
    AmS 1.107 22 The main enterprise of the world for splendor...is the upbuilding of a man.
    DSA 1.137 8 ...now the priest's Sabbath has lost the splendor of nature;...
    DSA 1.150 23 Let [the Sabbath] stand forevermore, a temple which new love, new faith, new sight shall restore to more than its first splendor...
    Hist 2.16 7 There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
    SR 2.77 1 ...the moment [a man] acts from himself...that teacher shall restore the life of man to splendor...
    Prd1 2.223 8 Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol solidly...and lastly, whilst he pitches his tent on this sacred volcanic isle of nature, does not offer to build houses and barns thereon,--reverencing the splendor of the God which he sees bursting through each chink and cranny.
    Prd1 2.224 22 ...our existence...so fond of splendor and so tender to hunger and cold and debt, reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
    Hsm1 2.254 12 The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies.
    Hsm1 2.258 13 The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles...Hampden, teach us...that we, by the depth of our living, should deck [our life] with more than regal or national splendor...
    Art1 2.351 12 The details, the prose of nature [the painter] should omit and give us only the spirit and splendor.
    Art1 2.356 26 ...painting teaches me the splendor of color...
    Art1 2.364 8 [Sculpture] was originally a useful art...and among a people possessed of a wonderful perception of form this childish carving was refined to the utmost splendor of effect.
    Pt1 3.14 23 The mighty heaven, said Proclus, exhibits, in its transfigurations, clear images of the splendor of intellectual perceptions;...
    Exp 3.59 7 Unspeakably sad and barren does life look to those who a few months ago were dazzled with the splendor of the promise of the times.
    Chr1 3.114 10 The ages have exulted in the manners of a youth...who, by the pure quality of his nature, shed an epic splendor around the facts of his death...
    Mrs1 3.140 4 ...the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.
    Nat2 3.192 24 This or this [in nature] is but outskirt and a far-off reflection and echo of the triumph that has passed by, and is now at its glancing splendor and heyday, perchance in the neighboring fields...
    ShP 4.214 15 The sonnets [of Shakespeare], though their excellence is lost in the splendor of the dramas, are as inimitable as they;...
    ShP 4.216 25 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer, saw the splendor of meaning that plays over the visible world;...
    NMW 4.233 17 [Napoleon] is firm, sure...not misled...by the splendor of his own means.
    NMW 4.256 5 ...when you have penetrated through all the circles of power and splendor [of Napoleon], you were not dealing with a gentleman, at last;...
    ET3 5.37 23 The innumerable details [in England]...the military strength and splendor...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
    ET8 5.132 6 Of that constitutional force which yields the supplies of the day, [the English] have more than enough; the excess which creates... splendor in ceremonies...
    ET8 5.135 23 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...and when he saw that the splendor of one of his pictures in the Exhibition dimmed his rival's that hung next it, secretly took a brush and blackened his own.
    ET10 5.163 26 This comfort and splendor [in England]...all consist with perfect order.
    ET10 5.170 14 [England's] prosperity, the splendor which so much manhood and talent and perseverance has thrown upon vulgar aims, is the very argument of materialism.
    ET11 5.172 6 Palaces, halls, villas, walled parks, all over England, rival the splendor of royal seats.
    ET11 5.184 23 In the army, the [English] nobility fill a large part of the high commissions, and give to these a tone of expense and splendor...
    ET11 5.192 11 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title;...the splendor of the titles, and the apathy of the nation;...make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
    ET14 5.237 22 Judge of the splendor of a nation by the insignificance of great individuals in it.
    ET17 5.292 21 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society.
    F 6.48 18 ...I cannot look without seeing splendor and grace.
    Wth 6.100 26 Napoleon was fond of telling the story of the Marseilles banker who said to his visitor, surprised at the contrast between the splendor of the banker's chateau and hospitality and the meanness of the counting-room in which he had seen him,--Young man, you are too young to understand how masses are formed;...
    Bty 6.306 6 ...character gives splendor to youth...
    Art2 7.54 10 The first form in which [savages] built a house would be the first form of their public and religious edifice also. This form becomes immediately sacred in the eyes of their children, and...is imitated with more splendor in each succeeding generation.
    DL 7.133 23 ...whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor...
    WD 7.179 15 ...if a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundations of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.
    Clbs 7.231 12 Among the men of wit and learning, [the lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety, grasp of memory, luck, splendor and speed;...
    Clbs 7.241 5 ...it is not this class, whom the splendor of their accomplishment almost inevitably guides into the vortex of ambition... whom we now consider.
    Suc 7.299 4 Wordsworth writes of the delights of the boy in Nature:--For never will come back the hour/ Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower./
    Elo2 8.121 26 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud, when a holy man, passing by, asked what was his monthly stipend. He answered, Nothing at all. But why then do you take so much trouble? He replied, I read for the sake of God. The other rejoined, For God's sake, do not read; for if you read the Koran in this manner you will destroy the splendor of Islamism.
    Res 8.149 24 ...the guide kindled a Roman candle, and held it here and there shooting its fireballs successively into each crypt of the groined roof [of the Mammoth Cave], disclosing its starry splendor...
    PerF 10.67 2 What central flowing forces, say,/ Make up thy splendor, matchless day?/
    PerF 10.82 23 The imagination enriches [the man], as if there were no other; the memory opens all her cabinets and archives;...Poetry her splendor and joy and the august circles of eternal law.
    MoL 10.247 11 The worst times...only relieve and bring out the splendor of [the scholar's] privilege.
    Schr 10.287 15 [The scholar] is still to decline how many glittering opportunities, and to retreat, and wait. So shall you find in this penury and absence of thought a purer splendor than ever clothed the exhibitions of wit.
    LLNE 10.330 18 Germany had created criticism in vain for us until 1820, when Edward Everett...brought to Cambridge his rich results, which no one was so fitted by natural grace and the splendor of his rhetoric to introduce and recommend.
    HDC 11.84 20 For splendor, there must be somewhere rigid economy.
    War 11.153 3 The [early] leaders, picked men of a courage and vigor tried and augmented in fifty battles, are emulous to distinguish themselves above each other by new merits, as clemency, hospitality, splendor of living.
    Koss 11.397 9 ...[the people of Concord]...have been hungry to see the man whose extraordinary eloquence is seconded by the splendor and solidity of his actions [Kossuth].
    PLT 12.7 11 Seek the literary circles...the men of splendor, of bon-mots, will they afford me satisfaction?
    PLT 12.14 6 I observe with curiosity [the Intellect's] risings and settings... that I may learn to...catch sight of its splendor...
    CL 12.150 21 In March, the thaw...and the splendor of the icicles.
    CL 12.152 7 The forest in its coat of many colors reflects its varied splendor through the softest haze.
    Bost 12.185 12 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes, which at one season gives them the splendor of the equator and a touch of Syria, and then runs down to a cold which approaches the temperature of the celestial spaces.
    ACri 12.303 13 [Writing] discloses to [man] the variety and splendor of his resources.
    PPr 12.386 25 ...the splendor of wit cannot outdazzle the calm daylight...

splendors, n. (9)

    AmS 1.85 11 Far too as her splendors shine...Nature hastens to render account of herself to the mind.
    MN 1.197 21 ...we explore the face of the sun in a pool, when our eyes cannot brook his direct splendors.
    SL 2.147 14 Earth fills her lap with splendors not her own.
    Lov1 2.180 24 ...personal beauty is then first charming and itself...when... [the beholder] cannot feel more right to it than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset.
    PPh 4.64 22 [Plato] delighted...above all in the splendors of genius and intellectual achievement.
    Elo1 7.61 14 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. ... ...and a fifth [needs] nothing less than...the splendors and shades of Heaven and Hell.
    PI 8.70 1 It is not style or rhymes, or a new image more or less that imports, but...that the old forgotten splendors of the universe should glow again for us;...
    LLNE 10.351 12 Aladdin and his magician, or the beautiful Scheherezade can alone, in these prosaic times before the [Fourierist] sight, describe the material splendors collected there [in the Golden Horn].
    EurB 12.371 11 [Tennyson] is...a tasteful bachelor who collects quaint staircases and groined ceilings. We have no right to such superfineness. We must not make our bread of pure sugar. These delicacies and splendors are then legitimate when they are the excess of substantial and necessary expenditure.

splenetic, adj. (1)

    ET8 5.129 15 [The English] are contradictorily described as sour, splenetic and stubborn,--and as mild, sweet and sensible.

splinter, n. (1)

    ET4 5.63 3 ...one may say of England that this watch moves on a splinter of adamant.

splinters, n. (2)

    SL 2.144 10 [A man] is...like the loadstone amongst splinters of steel.
    MoS 4.160 22 An angular, dogmatic house would be rent to chips and splinters in this storm of many elements.

split, v. (5)

    Hist 2.25 8 ...Xenophon arose naked, and taking an axe, began to split wood;...
    Civ 7.28 22 I admire still more than the saw-mill the skill which, on the seashore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn, and which thus engages the assistance of the moon...to...split stone, and roll iron.
    Comc 8.162 23 The victim who has just received the discharge [of wit], if in a solemn company, has the air very much of a stout vessel which has just shipped a heavy sea; and though it does not split it, the poor bark is for the moment critically staggered.
    Comc 8.173 3 Chodscha answered [Timur], If thou hast only seen thy face once, at at once seeing hast not been able to contain thyself, but hast wept, what should we do,--we who see thy face every day and night? If we weep not, who should weep? Therefore have I wept. Timur almost split his sides with laughing.
    LLNE 10.325 21 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 seemed...a crack in Nature, which split every church in Christendom into Papal and Protestant;...

splits, v. (1)

    Civ 7.27 18 ...see [the carpenter] on the ground, dressing his timber under him. Now, not his feeble muscles but the force of gravity brings down the axe; that is to say, the planet itself splits his stick.

splitting, v. (1)

    SL 2.137 16 All our manual labor and works of strength, as prying, splitting, digging, rowing and so forth, are done by dint of continual falling...

spoil, n. (1)

    Plu 10.300 6 ...though Plutarch is as plain-spoken [as Montaigne], his moral sentiment is always pure. What better praise has any writer received than he whom Montaigne finds frank in giving things, not words, dryly adding, it vexes me that he is so exposed to the spoil of those that are conversant with him.

spoil, v. (7)

    Tran 1.345 8 ...this masterpiece is the result of such an extreme delicacy that the most unobserved flaw in the boy will neutralize the most aspiring genius, and spoil the work.
    Prd1 2.229 3 Scatter-brained and afternoon men spoil much more than their own affair in spoiling the temper of those who deal with them.
    ShP 4.207 10 These tricks of [Shakespeare's] magic spoil for us the illusions of the green-room.
    Wth 6.114 21 ...if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he...should not...fetter himself with duties which will...spoil him for his proper work.
    Ill 6.314 22 Pears and cakes are good for something; and because you unluckily have an eye or nose too keen, why need you spoil the comfort which the rest of us find in them?
    Elo2 8.114 17 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside...a man...whom praise cannot spoil...
    EzRy 10.387 2 ...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.

spoiled, adj. (4)

    ET12 5.208 11 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank and to the child of upstart wealth, an evenhanded justice...
    MoL 10.250 23 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage. So let his habits be formed, and all his economies heroic; no spoiled child, no drone, no epicure...
    EWI 11.118 16 We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them...
    EWI 11.119 1 The planter is the spoiled child of his unnatural habits...

spoiled, v. (13)

    Chr1 3.106 26 ...some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise...
    Chr1 3.112 22 Society is spoiled if pains are taken...
    Nat2 3.194 3 [Nature's] secret is untold. Many and many an Oedipus arrives; he has the whole mystery teeming in his brain. Alas! the same sorcery has spoiled his skill;...
    ET16 5.284 2 ...I heard afterwards that it is not an economy to cultivate this land [Salisbury Plain], which only yields one crop on being broken up, and is then spoiled.
    Bhr 6.184 25 ...the high-born Turk who came hither [to a dress circle] fancied...that all the talkers were brained and exhausted by the deoxygenated air; it spoiled the best persons;...
    Wsp 6.218 1 The bias of errors of principle carries away men into perilous courses as soon as their will does not control their passion or talent. Hence the extraordinary blunders and final wrong-head into which men spoiled by ambition usually fall.
    Bty 6.300 26 Sir Philip Sidney...Ben Jonson tells us, was no pleasant man in countenance, his face being spoiled with pimples...
    SA 8.90 25 ...the best society has often been spoiled to [the highly organized person] by the intrusion of bad companions.
    War 11.158 23 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. All the villages and towns that ever I landed at, I burned and spoiled.
    FSLC 11.180 17 ...Boston, spoiled by prosperity, must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
    ALin 11.330 9 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...had never been spoiled by English insularity or French dissipation;...
    FRep 11.535 19 They who find America insipid-they for whom London and Paris have spoiled their own homes-can be spared to return to those cities.
    AgMs 12.360 27 The story [in the Agricultural Survey] of the farmer's daughter, whom education had spoiled for everything useful on a farm,- that is good, too...

spoiling, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.229 4 Scatter-brained and afternoon men spoil much more than their own affair in spoiling the temper of those who deal with them.

spoils, n. (6)

    AmS 1.107 14 Men...very naturally seek money or power;...the spoils, so called, of office.
    Bty 6.304 26 The poets are quite right in decking their mistresses with the spoils of the landscape...
    Aris 10.45 17 He who understands the art of war, reckons the hostile battalions and cities, opportunities and spoils.
    War 11.158 20 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain, where I made great spoils.
    CW 12.173 5 I [Linnaeus] possess here [in the Academy Garden] all that I desire of the spoils of the East and the West...
    MLit 12.322 16 [Goethe] has owed to Commerce and to the victories of the Understanding, all their spoils.

spoils, v. (4)

    Fdsp 2.204 1 Almost every man we meet...has...some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head...which spoils all conversation with him.
    Pow 6.81 25 In the gingham-mill, a broken thread or a shred spoils the web through a piece of a hundred yards...
    Suc 7.289 21 I could point to men in this country...of this [egotistical] humor, whom we could ill spare; any one of them would be a national loss. But it spoils conversation.
    War 11.156 22 ...Fontenelle expressed a volume of meaning when he said, I hate war, for it spoils conversation.

spoke, v. (57)

    DSA 1.129 18 [Jesus] spoke of miracles;...
    DSA 1.147 4 We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had...with souls...that spoke what we thought;...
    DSA 1.151 10 I look for the hour when that supreme Beauty which ravished the souls of those Eastern men...and through their lips spoke oracles to all time, shall speak in the West also.
    MN 1.198 25 Empedocles undoubtedly spoke a truth of thought, when he said, I am God;...
    LT 1.281 21 ...let us turn to see how it stands with the other class of which we spoke, namely, the students.
    SR 2.45 17 ...the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they...spoke not what men, but what they thought.
    SR 2.68 3 We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of...tutors... painfully recollecting the exact words they spoke;...
    SL 2.156 7 You think because you have spoken nothing when others spoke...that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom.
    Lov1 2.184 24 Her pure and eloquent blood/ Spoke in her cheeks.../
    Fdsp 2.203 7 I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy...spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered...
    Chr1 3.87 7 He spoke, and words more soft than rain/ Brought the Age of Gold again:/...
    NER 3.267 14 ...leave [a man] alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul; he will go up and down doing the works of a true member [of a union], and, to the astonishment of all, the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke.
    NER 3.267 25 In alluding just now to our system of education, I spoke of the deadness of its details.
    MoS 4.162 23 It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book [Montaigne's Essays], in some former life, so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience.
    ShP 4.212 13 ...few real men have left such distinct characters as [Shakespeare's] fictions. And they spoke in language as sweet as it was fit.
    ET1 5.3 15 The shop-signs spoke our language;...
    ET1 5.9 2 I had visited Professor Amici, who had shown me his microscopes, magnifying (it was said) two thousand diameters; and I spoke of the uses to which they were applied.
    ET1 5.10 17 [Coleridge]...spoke warmly of [Allston's] merits and doings when he knew him in Rome;...
    ET1 5.10 20 [Coleridge] spoke of Dr. Channing.
    ET5 5.78 12 King Ethelwald spoke the language of his race when he planted himself at Wimborne and said he would do one of two things, or there live, or there lie.
    ET5 5.79 24 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such chains. ...if he do aught beyond this...he findeth, nevertheless, in this linked sequel of simple discourses, the art, the cause, the rule, the bounds and the model of it. There spoke the genius of the English people.
    ET8 5.129 2 ...a kind of pride in bad public speaking is noted in the House of Commons, as if they...thought they spoke well enough if they had the tone of gentlemen.
    ET14 5.248 25 Coleridge...who wrote and spoke the only high criticism in his time, is one of those who save England from the reproach of no longer possessing the capacity to appreciate what rarest wit the island has yielded.
    Bhr 6.175 25 ...when [the old Massachusetts statesman] spoke, his voice would not serve him;...
    Wsp 6.227 5 [Another] has heard from me what I never spoke.
    Wsp 6.230 10 The other party will forget the words that you spoke...
    SS 7.3 22 There was some paralysis on [my new friend's] will, such that when he met men on common terms he spoke weakly...
    Elo1 7.72 14 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] conversed, and interweaved stories and opinions with all, Menelaus spoke succinctly...
    Elo1 7.84 7 Pepys says of Lord Clarendon...though he spoke indeed excellent well, yet his manner and freedom of doing it, as if he played with it, and was informing only all the rest of the company, was mighty pretty.
    Cour 7.262 13 Lieutenant Ball...whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so; I was just the same when I first went out in this way. It was as if an angel spoke to me.
    Cour 7.269 27 ...I remember the old professor, whose searching mind engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class...
    Suc 7.297 26 We remember when in early youth the earth spoke and the heavens glowed;...
    Suc 7.299 6 ...I have just seen a man, well knowing what he spoke of, who told me that [Wordsworth's] verse was not true for him;...
    OA 7.315 17 [Josiah Quincy's] was a discourse full of dignity, honoring him who spoke and those who heard.
    OA 7.333 22 [John Adams] spoke of Mr. Lechmere...
    OA 7.335 3 [John Adams] spoke of the new novels of Cooper...with praise...
    PI 8.53 20 Poetry...runs into fable, personifies every fact:--the clouds clapped their hands...the sky spoke.
    PI 8.59 19 The Norsemen have no less faith in poetry and its power, when they describe it thus:--Odin spoke everything in rhyme.
    PI 8.61 13 When Sir Gawain heard the voice which spoke to him thus, he thought it was Merlin...
    Elo2 8.109 6 He, when the rising storm of party roared,/ Brought his great forehead to the council board,/ There, while hot heads perplexed with fears the state,/ Calm as the morn the manly patriot sate;/ Seemed, when at last his clarion accents broke/ As if the conscience of the country spoke./
    QO 8.202 16 A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honoring emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument, because thus had they said: importing that the bard spoke not his own, but the words of some god.
    PC 8.205 1 Nature spoke/ To each apart, lifting her lovely shows/ To spiritual lessons pointed home/...
    Insp 8.288 2 Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian harp], which spoke to the eye...
    Chr2 10.106 8 Our ancestors spoke continually of angels and archangels with the same good faith as they would have spoken of their own parents or their late minister.
    Supl 10.170 19 ...the great official spoke and beat his breast...
    Prch 10.223 18 I find myself always struck and stimulated by a good anecdote, any trait...of faithful service. I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor the language the actors spoke...
    LLNE 10.331 15 The word that [Everett] spoke, in the manner in which he spoke it, became current and classical in New England.
    EzRy 10.394 26 [Ezra Ripley] did not know when he was good in prayer or sermon, for he had no literature and no art; but he believed, and therefore spoke.
    MMEm 10.417 14 ...Malden [alluding to the sale of her farm]. Last night I [Mary Moody Emerson] spoke two sentences about that foolish place...
    SlHr 10.445 20 If [Samuel Hoar] spoke of the engagement of two lovers, he called it a contract.
    Thor 10.478 27 Such dangerous frankness was in [Thoreau's] dealing that his admirers called him that terrible Thoreau, as if he spoke when silent, and was still present when he had departed.
    HDC 11.44 9 ...it was the river, or the winter, or famine, or the Pequots, that spoke through [the townsmen] to the Governor and the Council of Massachusetts Bay.
    JBB 11.266 5 ...There [John Brown] spoke aloud for Freedom, and the Border strife grew warmer/ Till the Rangers fired his dwelling, in his absence, in the night;/...
    TPar 11.292 10 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will affirm to all men, in all times, that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke;...
    CL 12.134 2 Keen ears can catch a syllable,/ As if one spoke to another,/ In the hemlocks tall, untamable,/ And what the whispering grasses smother./
    Bost 12.199 21 What should hinder that this America...glimpses being afforded which spoke to the imagination, yet the firm shore hid until science and art should be ripe to propose it as a fixed aim...should have its happy ports...
    Let 12.396 17 How joyfully we have felt the admonition of larger natures which despised our aims and pursuits, conscious that a voice out of heaven spoke to us in that scorn.

spoken, adj. (3)

    Comp 2.116 8 [Commit a crime and] You cannot recall the spoken word... so as to leave no inlet or clew.
    Wom 11.418 21 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [of rights for women], is this: that though their mathematical justice is not be be denied, yet the best women do not wish these things;...
    CPL 11.501 11 ...[Hawthorne's] careful studies of Concord life and history are known wherever the English language is spoken.

spoken, v. (89)

    AmS 1.100 13 I have now spoken of the education of the scholar by nature...
    DSA 1.121 22 [These divine laws] will not be...spoken by the tongue.
    DSA 1.139 16 There is poetic truth concealed in all the commonplaces of prayer and of sermons, and though foolishly spoken, they may be wisely heard;...
    LE 1.173 13 Having thus spoken of the resources and the subject of the scholar, out of the same faith proceeds also the rule of his ambition and life.
    MN 1.209 11 I conceive a man as always spoken to from behind...
    LT 1.286 5 It almost seems as if what was aforetime spoken fabulously and hieroglyphically, was now spoken plainly...
    LT 1.286 6 It almost seems as if what was aforetime spoken fabulously and hieroglyphically, was now spoken plainly...
    Tran 1.330 16 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm...facts which in their first appearance to us assume a native superiority to material facts, degrading these into a language by which the first are to be spoken;...
    Tran 1.335 18 ...if you ask me, Whence am I? I feel like other men my relation to that Fact which cannot be spoken...
    Tran 1.344 4 Like fairies, [Transcendentalists] do not wish to be spoken of.
    Tran 1.355 26 There is...a great deal of well-founded objection to be spoken or felt against the sayings and doings of this class [Transcendentalists]...
    SR 2.49 11 As soon as [a man] has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person...
    Comp 2.118 14 ...as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
    SL 2.153 3 The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.
    SL 2.156 6 You think because you have spoken nothing when others spoke...that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom.
    Fdsp 2.191 2 We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.
    OS 2.275 6 With each divine impulse the mind...comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths that have always been spoken in the world...
    OS 2.279 19 Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?
    OS 2.294 1 ...every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear!
    Int 2.329 19 We want in every man a long logic; we cannot pardon the absence of it, but it must not be spoken.
    Int 2.347 8 The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men...
    Pt1 3.7 26 ...as [the hero and the sage] act and think primarily, so [the poet] writes primarily what will and must be spoken...
    Pt1 3.11 20 Mankind in good earnest have availed so far in understanding themselves and their work, that the foremost watchman on the peak announces his news. It is the truest word ever spoken...
    Pt1 3.17 17 What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connection of thought.
    Pt1 3.39 27 ...as an admirable creative power exists in these intellections [of the poet], it is of the last importance that these things get spoken.
    Chr1 3.93 15 In his parlor I see very well that [the natural merchant] has been at hard work this morning, with that knitted brow and that settled humor, which all his desire to be courteous cannot shake off. I see plainly... how many valiant noes have this day been spoken, when others would have uttered ruinous yeas.
    Nat2 3.187 24 The poet, the prophet, has a higher value for what he utters than any hearer, and therefore it gets spoken.
    Nat2 3.189 13 ...perhaps the discovery...that though we should hold our peace the truth would not the less be spoken, might check injuriously the flames of our zeal.
    NR 3.231 18 Money...which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
    MoS 4.170 4 Shall we say that Montaigne has spoken wisely...
    ShP 4.197 4 Other men say wise things as well as [the poet]; only they say a good many foolish things, and do not know when they have spoken wisely.
    NMW 4.226 8 ...Mirabeau plagiarized every good thought, every good word that was spoken in France.
    NMW 4.227 17 Every sentence spoken by Napoleon...deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
    GoW 4.264 2 Whatever can be thought can be spoken...
    GoW 4.284 2 I dare not say that Goethe ascended to the highest grounds from which genius has spoken.
    ET1 5.20 14 I [Wordsworth] am told that things are boasted of in the second class of society there [in America], which, in England,--God knows, are done in England every day, but would never be spoken of.
    ET7 5.118 16 Even Lord Chesterfield...when he came to define a gentleman, declared that truth made his distinction; and nothing ever spoken by him would find so hearty a suffrage from his nation.
    ET14 5.232 11 ...[the English] delight in strong earthy expression...and though spoken among princes, equally fit and welcome to the mob.
    Wth 6.120 25 The rule is...to learn practically the secret spoken from all nature...
    Bhr 6.193 6 In all the superior people I have met I notice directness, truth spoken more truly...
    CbW 6.249 23 ...let us have the considerate vote of single men spoken on their honor and their conscience.
    CbW 6.270 15 ...let all the truth that is spoken or done be at the zero of indifferency, or truth itself will be folly.
    Art2 7.38 9 Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does [the thought] knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.
    Elo1 7.66 10 There are many audiences in every public assembly, each one of which rules in turn. If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see the emergence of the boys and rowdies...
    Elo1 7.72 4 [Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove, This is the wise Ulysses...knowing all wiles and wise counsels. To her the prudent Antenor replied again: O woman, you have spoken truly.
    Elo1 7.97 7 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 not done nothing...
    Boks 7.192 5 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but...it is the law of their limbo that they must not speak until spoken to;...
    Clbs 7.238 8 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile? The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with death on my mouth have I spoken the fate-words of the generation of the Aesir;...
    Suc 7.309 16 When that is spoken which has a right to be spoken, the chatter and the criticism will stop.
    Suc 7.309 17 When that is spoken which has a right to be spoken, the chatter and the criticism will stop.
    OA 7.328 8 ...a man does not live long and actively without costly additions of experience, which, though not spoken, are recorded in his mind.
    OA 7.336 2 I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced;...
    PI 8.30 6 When [the poet] sings, the world listens with the assurance that now a secret of God is to be spoken.
    PI 8.38 18 ...it is a few oracles spoken by perceiving men that are the texts on which religions and states are founded.
    PI 8.44 7 This force of representation so plants [the poet's] figures before him that he...puts words in their mouth such as they should have spoken...
    PI 8.61 4 ...when [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice which thus called him by his right name, he replied, Who can this be who hath spoken to me?
    PI 8.71 3 In good society...is not everything spoken in fine parable...
    Elo2 8.131 7 [Eloquence] is...the unmistakable sign, never so casually given, in tone of voice, or manner, or word, that a greater spirit speaks from you than is spoken to in him.
    QO 8.187 8 Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends, laughingly compared his writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they were pronounced, and the next summer, when they were warmed and melted by the sun, the people heard what had been spoken in the winter.
    Insp 8.279 13 Aristotle said: No great genius was ever without some mixture of madness, nor can anything grand or superior to the voice of common mortals be spoken except by the agitated soul.
    Chr2 10.106 10 Our ancestors spoke continually of angels and archangels with the same good faith as they would have spoken of their own parents or their late minister.
    Supl 10.172 11 ...[it] was similarly asserted of the late Lord Jeffrey, at the Scottish bar,-an attentive auditor declaring on one occasion after an argument of three hours, that he had spoken the whole English language three times over in his speech.
    Schr 10.263 16 The scholar is here...to affirm noble sentiments; to hear them wherever spoken...
    CSC 10.374 6 These meetings [of the Chardon Street Convention]...were spoken of in different circles in every note of hope, of sympathy, of joy, of alarm, of abhorrence and of merriment.
    MMEm 10.403 27 ...certain expressions, when they marked a memorable state of mind in [Mary Moody Emerson's] experience, recurred to her afterwards, and she would vindicate herself as having said to Dr. Ripley or Uncle Lincoln [Ripley] so and so, at such a period of her life. But they were intensely true when first spoken.
    SlHr 10.447 19 I have spoken of [Samuel Hoar's] modesty;...
    Thor 10.460 16 Before the first friendly word had been spoken for Captain John Brown, [Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown...
    Thor 10.476 11 I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them...
    LS 11.2 1 The word unto the prophet spoken/ Was writ on tables yet unbroken;/...
    HDC 11.59 6 ...when [King Philip] he was told that his sentence was death, he said he liked it well that he was to die before...he had spoken anything unworthy of himself.
    EWI 11.105 6 It became plain to all men, the more this business was looked into, that the crimes and cruelties of the slave-traders and slave-owners could not be overstated. The more it was searched, the more shocking anecdotes came up,-things not to be spoken.
    FSLC 11.200 20 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.
    FSLC 11.213 15 ...the sting of the late disgraces [the Fugitive Slave Law] is that this royal position of Massachusetts was foully lost, that the well-known sentiment of her people was not expressed. Let us correct this error. In this one fastness let truth be spoken and right done.
    FSLN 11.243 6 You, gentlemen of these literary and scientific schools, and the important class you represent, have the power to make your verdict clear and prevailing. Had you done so, you would have found me [Robert Winthrop] its glad organ and champion. Abstractly, I should have preferred that side. But you have not done it. You have not spoken out. You have failed to arm me.
    AsSu 11.250 25 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his speeches were written before they were spoken;...
    ACiv 11.310 25 The message [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] has been received throughout the country...we doubt not, with more pleasure than has been spoken.
    ACiv 11.311 4 More and better than the President has spoken shall, perhaps, the effect of this message [proposal for gradual abolition] be...
    EdAd 11.389 5 We are not well, we are not in our seats, when justice and humanity are to be spoken for.
    Wom 11.423 10 As for the unsexing and contamination [of women in politics],-that only...shows...that our policies are...made up of things not to be spoken...
    FRO1 11.477 10 I have listened with great pleasure to the lessons which we have heard. To many, to those last spoken, I have found so much in accord with my own thought that I have little left to say.
    FRep 11.521 15 John Quincy Adams was a man of an audacious independence that always kept the public curiosity alive in regard to what he might do. None could predict his word, and a whole congress could not gainsay it when it was spoken.
    FRep 11.528 3 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the voice of the public...because it is thought to be, on the whole, the verdict, though badly spoken, of the greatest number.
    PLT 12.47 1 A man tries to speak [the truth] and his voice is...rude and chiding. The truth is not spoken but injured.
    PLT 12.49 11 I have spoken of Intellect constructive.
    CL 12.144 23 ...'t is a commonplace, which I have frequently heard spoken in Illinois, that it was a manifest leading of the Divine Providence that the New England states should have been first settled before the Western country was known, or they would never have been settled at all.
    ACri 12.285 19 [George Borrow]...mastered the patois of the gypsies, called Romany, which is spoken by them in all countries where they wander...
    MLit 12.333 1 The criticism, which is not so much spoken as felt in reference to Goethe, instructs us directly in the hope of literature.
    WSL 12.340 6 ...we have spoken all our discontent [with Landor].
    EurB 12.375 18 Had...one sentiment from the heart of God been spoken by [the novel of costume or of circumstance] the reader had been made a participator of their triumph;...

spokesman, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.117 21 As soon as a man shows rare power of expression...all the great interests...crowd to him to be their spokesman...

spokesmen, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.118 9 ...the great and daily growing interests at stake in this country must pay proportional prices to their spokesmen and defenders.

Spoleto, Italy, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.237 14 ...[Michelangelo]...in old age speaks with extreme pleasure of his residence with the hermits in the mountains of Spoleto;...

spondees, n. (1)

    PI 8.53 10 Lord Bacon, we are told, loved not to see poesy go on other feet than poetical dactyls and spondees;...

sponge, n. (5)

    Nat 1.40 27 ...every animal function from the sponge up to Hercules, shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    Aris 10.35 17 The superiority in [my companion] is inferiority in me, and if this particular companion were wiped by a sponge out of Nature, my inferiority would still be made evident to me by other persons...
    FSLC 11.194 21 ...unless you can draw a sponge over those seditious Ten Commandments which are the root of our European and American civilization;...your labor [the Fugitive Slave Law] is vain.
    Mem 12.99 18 What is the newspaper but a sponge or invention for oblivion?...
    Bost 12.183 22 There are countries, said Howell, where the heaven is a fiery furnace or a blowing bellows, or a dropping sponge, most parts of the year.

sponsor, n. (1)

    CbW 6.251 1 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid,--to whom he is to be...for backer and sponsor...

sponsors, n. (1)

    OA 7.326 15 All the good days behind [a man] are sponsors, who speak for him when he is silent...

spontaneity, n. (3)

    Int 2.327 20 The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict...the mode of that spontaneity.
    Exp 3.68 5 All good conversation, manners and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages...
    SwM 4.133 2 Swedenborg's system of the world wants central spontaneity;...

Spontaneity, n. (1)

    SR 2.64 6 The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

spontaneous, adj. (36)

    Nat 1.31 8 This imagery is spontaneous.
    AmS 1.90 25 ...there are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions, words, that is...springing spontaneous from the mind's own sense of good and fair.
    AmS 1.94 15 I have heard it said...that the rough, spontaneous conversation of men [the clergy] do not hear...
    AmS 1.103 14 The poet...remembering his spontaneous thoughts...is found to have recorded that which men...find true for them also.
    DSA 1.130 20 [The soul]...will have no preferences but those of spontaneous love.
    LE 1.165 25 The vision of genius comes by...giving leave and amplest privilege to the spontaneous sentiment.
    LE 1.166 3 ...the moment [men] desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope...all flock to their aid.
    SR 2.46 3 [Great works of art] teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression...
    SR 2.54 23 ...not possibly can [the preacher] say a new and spontaneous word?
    SL 2.133 22 We love characters in proportion as they are impulsive and spontaneous.
    SL 2.138 25 ...only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong...
    Int 2.327 17 The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion.
    Int 2.328 13 Our spontaneous action is always the best.
    Int 2.328 15 You cannot with your best deliberation and heed come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you...
    Int 2.329 15 If we consider what persons have stimulated and profited us, we shall perceive the superiority of the spontaneous or intuitive principle over the arithmetical or logical.
    Int 2.336 16 The thought of genius is spontaneous;...
    Int 2.336 19 ...the power of picture or expression...implies...a certain control over the spontaneous states...
    Int 2.336 24 ...the imaginative vocabulary seems to be spontaneous also.
    Exp 3.47 23 ...in this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions.
    Mrs1 3.121 20 Comme il faut, is the Frenchman's description of good society: as we must be. It is a spontaneous fruit of talents and feelings of precisely that class who have most vigor...
    NR 3.227 9 All our poets, heroes and saints...fail to draw our spontaneous interest...
    Ctr 6.142 2 ...in proportion to the spontaneous power should be the assimilating power.
    Wsp 6.213 8 The religion of the cultivated class now...consists in an avoidance of acts and engagements which it was once their religion to assume. But this avoidance will yield spontaneous forms in their due hour.
    SS 7.13 8 ...we say of animal spirits that they are the spontaneous product of health and of a social habit.
    WD 7.182 2 ...what has been best done in the world,--the works of genius,-- cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought.
    PI 8.29 1 Fancy is a wilful, imagination a spontaneous act;...
    Comc 8.173 17 We do nothing that is not laughable whenever we quit our spontaneous sentiment.
    QO 8.178 7 ...in proportion to the spontaneous power should be the assimilating power.
    QO 8.202 22 All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.
    SovE 10.198 10 ...spontaneous graces and forces elevate [life] in every domestic circle...
    MMEm 10.427 6 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus, not at all spontaneous...
    War 11.171 4 ...[peace] is to be accomplished by the spontaneous teaching, of the cultivated soul, in its secret experience and meditation,-that it is now time that it should pass out of the state of beast into the state of man;...
    Wom 11.424 19 ...whatever is popular...shows the spontaneous sense of the hour.
    Wom 11.425 5 All that is spontaneous is irresistible...
    CPL 11.504 5 ...in proportion to the spontaneous power should be the assimilating power.
    II 12.69 26 Here are we with...the spontaneous impressions of Nature and men, and original oracles,-all ready to be uttered, if only we could be set aglow.

spontaneously, adv. (5)

    SR 2.55 24 The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face...
    Wsp 6.236 3 [Benedict said] if [the thought] come not spontaneously, it comes not rightly at all.
    Imtl 8.344 6 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live; so far does every one carry in himself the proof of immortality, and quite spontaneously.
    PLT 12.33 20 Right thought comes spontaneously...
    II 12.72 17 It is this employment of new means-of means spontaneously appearing for the new need...that denotes the inspired man.

spontaneousness, n. (1)

    MoS 4.158 25 ...culture will instantly impair that chiefest beauty of spontaneousness.

spontoons, n. (1)

    Art1 2.361 2 ...in my younger days...I fancied the great pictures would be... a foreign wonder, barbaric pearl and gold, like the spontoons and standards of the militia...

spoon, n. (4)

    ET5 5.101 11 The chancellor carries England on his mace...the cook in the bowl of his spoon;...
    ET6 5.108 3 ...the poorest [Englishmen] have some spoon or saucepan... saved out of better times.
    ET12 5.202 15 ...gifts of all values, from a hall or a fellowship or a library, down to a picture or a spoon, are continually accruing [at Oxford]...
    CbW 6.250 27 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid,--to whom he is to be for spoon and jug...

spoons, n. (6)

    OS 2.290 10 The ambitious vulgar show you their spoons and brooches and rings...
    Nat2 3.179 6 Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where our spoons are gone);...
    ET1 5.20 20 My [Wordsworth's] friend Colonel Hamilton, at the foot of the hill, who was a year in America, assures me that the newspapers are atrocious, and accuse members of Congress of stealing spoons!
    Wsp 6.211 26 We were not deceived by the professions of the private adventurer,--the louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons;...
    Comc 8.170 19 ...in the instance of cowardice or fear of any sort, from the loss of life to the loss of spoons, the majesty of man is violated.
    MMEm 10.400 20 One of [Mary Moody Emerson's] tasks, it appears, was to watch for the approach of the deputy-sheriff, who might come to confiscate the spoons...

sporadic, adj. (2)

    SMC 11.349 18 We are thankful...that the heroes of old and of recent date, who made and kept America free and united, were...sporadic over vast tracts of the Republic.
    Wom 11.405 3 Among those movements which seem to be, now and then, endemic in the public mind,-perhaps we should say sporadic...is that which has urged on society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the position of Woman.

spores, n. (3)

    Pt1 3.23 1 ...[nature] shakes down from the gills of one agaric countless spores...
    Pt1 3.23 3 ...[nature] shakes down from the gills of one agaric countless spores, and one of which, being preserved, transmits new billions of spores to-morrow or next day.
    Bty 6.282 20 Bugs and stamens and spores...are not finalities;...

sport, n. (9)

    Hsm1 2.256 13 Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
    Nat2 3.194 16 If we measure our individual forces against [Nature's] we may easily feel as if we were the sport of an insuperable destiny.
    UGM 4.6 6 [Man's] own affair, though impossible to others, he can open... in sport.
    UGM 4.7 8 Certain men affect us as rich possibilities, but helpless to themselves and to their times,--the sport perhaps of some instinct that rules in the air;...
    CbW 6.244 5 A day for toil, an hour for sport,/ But for a friend is life too short./
    CbW 6.264 15 Genius works in sport...
    Ill 6.317 24 ...the best soldiers, sea-captains and railway men have a gentleness when off duty, a good-natured admission that there are illusions, and who shall say that he is not their sport?
    Art2 7.53 20 The Iliad of Homer...the plays of Shakspeare...were made not for sport but in grave earnest...
    ACiv 11.304 16 The war is welcome to the Southerner; a chivalrous sport to him...

sported, v. (1)

    ET8 5.128 17 [The English] sported sadly;...

sporting, adj. (1)

    ET10 5.162 2 A sporting duke [in England] may fancy that the state depends on the House of Lords...

sporting, v. (1)

    Bty 6.285 3 An Indian prince, Tisso, one day riding in the forest, saw a herd of elk sporting.

sportive, adj. (3)

    PPh 4.73 21 [Socrates is] A pitiless disputant...whose dreadful logic was always leisurely and sportive;...
    Grts 8.320 21 The man...sportive in manner, but inexorable in act;...he it is whom we seek...
    CL 12.148 21 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... I praise their sportive resistless strength.

sportiveness, n. (1)

    Carl 10.495 20 [Carlyle] feels that the perfection of health is sportiveness...

sports, v. (3)

    OS 2.272 20 The spirit sports with time...
    NR 3.242 1 ...there is somewhat spheral and infinite in every man...which, if you can come very near him, sports with all your limitations.
    OA 7.316 17 Whilst...our mates are yet youths with even boyish remains, one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or a bald head...

sportsmen, n. (1)

    PPh 4.63 1 The sciences...are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

spot, n. (41)

    Con 1.317 8 ...the thoughts of some beggarly Homer...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    Tran 1.347 17 ...a favorite spot in the hills or the woods which they can people with the fair and worthy creation of the fancy, can give [Transcendentalists] often forms so vivid that these for the time shall seem real, and society the illusion.
    Comp 2.107 6 ...a leaf fell on [Siegfried's] back whilst he was bathing in the dragon's blood, and that spot which it covered is mortal.
    Lov1 2.182 17 In the particular society of his mate [the lover] attains a clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her beauty has contracted from this world...
    Prd1 2.229 19 This property [which gives life to the figures in a painting] is the hitting, in all the figures we draw, the right centre of gravity. I mean the placing the figures firm upon their feet...and fastening the eyes on the spot where they should look.
    Pt1 3.3 9 [The umpires of tastes'] cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire...
    SwM 4.125 13 [To Swedenborg] Nothing can resist states: every thing gravitates: like will to like: what we call poetic justice takes effect on the spot.
    SwM 4.144 20 [Swedenborg's] laurel so largely mixed with cypress, a charnel-breath so mingles with the temple incense, that boys and maids will shun the spot.
    ET6 5.107 22 ...with the national tendency to sit fast in the same spot for many generations, [the Englishman's house] comes to be, in the course of time, a museum of heirlooms...
    ET7 5.117 12 'T is said that the wolf, who makes a cache of his prey and brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on digging, it is not found, is instantly and unresistingly torn in pieces.
    ET11 5.178 26 This long descent of [English] families and this cleaving through ages to the same spot of ground, captivates the imagination.
    ET16 5.279 19 The spot, the gray blocks [of Stonehenge] and their rude order...suggested to [Carlyle] the flight of ages...
    ET16 5.283 21 After spending half an hour on the spot [Stonehenge], we [Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in our dog-cart over the downs for Wilton...
    F 6.17 1 [The Germans and Irish] are...carted over America...to lie down prematurely to make a spot of green grass on the prairie.
    Wth 6.86 8 ...the art of getting rich consists not in industry...but...in being at the right spot.
    Wth 6.122 24 [The citizen from Dock Square] proceeds at once...to fix the spot for his corner-stone.
    Wth 6.123 7 ...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer built the house in the right spot for the sun and wind...
    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.
    Wsp 6.233 17 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners... In a few minutes a cannon-ball fell on the spot, and the gentleman was killed.
    Art2 7.54 16 ...it has been remarked by Goethe that the granite breaks into parallelopipeds, which broken in two, one part would be an obelisk; that in Upper Egypt the inhabitants would naturally mark a memorable spot by setting up so conspicuous a stone.
    SA 8.100 3 In every million of Europeans or of Americans there shall be thousands who would be valuable on any spot on the globe.
    Elo2 8.111 23 ...[in a debate] much power is to be exhibited which is not yet called into existence, but is to be suggested on the spot by the unexpected turn things may take...
    Dem1 10.10 13 ...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun...
    Dem1 10.11 3 Belzoni describes the three marks which led him to dig for a door to the pyramid of Ghizeh. What thousands had beheld the same spot for so many ages, and seen no three marks.
    Edc1 10.146 2 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil. Fellowes...looking about him, observed more blocks and fragments like this. He returned to the spot, procured laborers and uncovered many blocks.
    HDC 11.41 23 In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to Governor Winthrop... and Governor Winthrop selected as a building spot the land near the house of Captain Humphrey Hunt.
    HDC 11.73 8 In the field where the western abutment of the old bridge [in Concord] may still be seen, about half a mile from this spot, the first organized resistance was made to the British arms.
    HDC 11.75 3 The British retreated immediately towards the village [Concord], and were joined by two companies of grenadiers, whom the noise of the firing had hastened to the spot.
    EWI 11.128 14 ...England has the advantage of trying the question [of slavery] at a wide distance from the spot where the nuisance exists;...
    SMC 11.361 21 [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. I know every man by heart. I know every man's weak spot...
    SMC 11.367 26 At Fredericksburg we lay eleven hours in one spot without moving...
    SHC 11.430 21 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations of Nature, but, at the same time...wishing to make one spot tender to our children...
    SHC 11.433 25 This spot for twenty years has borne the name of Sleepy Hollow.
    SHC 11.435 17 ...hither [to Sleepy Hollow] shall repair, to this modest spot of God's earth, every sweet and friendly influence;...
    FRep 11.520 16 We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape Cod farm...the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure.
    Mem 12.100 18 ...if [Newton] was asked why things were so or so, he could find the reason on the spot.
    MAng1 12.234 6 There is no spot upon [Michelangelo's] fame.
    MAng1 12.238 10 ...just here [said Vasari's servant to Michelangelo], before your door, is a spot of soft mud, and [the candles] will stand upright in it very well, and there I will light them all.
    MAng1 12.243 13 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot.
    MAng1 12.243 26 Whilst he was yet alive, [Michelangelo] asked that he might be buried in that church [Santa Croce], in such a spot that the dome of the cathedral might be visible from his tomb when the doors of the church stood open.
    Pray 12.354 2 If but this tedious battle could be fought,/ Like Sparta's heroes at one rocky pass,/ One day be spent in dying, men had sought/ The spot, and been cut down like mower's grass./

spotless, adj. (3)

    OS 2.295 22 Before the immense possibilities of man...all past biography, however spotless and sainted, shrinks away.
    SovE 10.195 23 Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship...
    HDC 11.76 21 If ever men in arms had a spotless cause, you [veterans of the battle of Concord] had.

spots, n. (6)

    WD 7.166 19 Look up the inventors. Each has his own knack; his genius is in veins and spots.
    Insp 8.288 5 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...
    Dem1 10.10 16 ...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun, until in some hour the moon eclipses the luminary; and then first we notice that the spots of light have become crescents...
    Thor 10.473 15 ...on the river-bank, large heaps of clam-shells and ashes mark spots which the savages frequented.
    PLT 12.36 9 [Pan] wears a coat of leopard spots or stars.
    Bost 12.184 20 Even at this day men are to be found superstitious enough to believe that to certain spots on the surface of the planet special powers attach...

spotted, adj. (4)

    MN 1.202 24 None of [the eminent souls] seen by himself...will justify the cost of that enormous apparatus of means by which this spotted and defective person was at last procured.
    OS 2.297 9 [Man] will weave no longer a spotted life of shreds and patches...
    Nat2 3.173 3 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.
    CL 12.148 18 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Because they drive the clouds, they have harnessed the spotted deer to their chariot;...

spotted, v. (1)

    DSA 1.119 3 ...the meadow is spotted with fire and gold in the tint of flowers.

spotty, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.366 1 In practice it is always found that virtue is occasional, spotty, and not linear or cubic.

spouting, adj. (1)

    Art1 2.349 7 ...Let spouting fountains cool the air,/ Singing in the sun-baked square./

Sprague, Charles, n. (1)

    Shak1 11.447 18 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that...Mr. Charles Sprague,-pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.

sprain, v. (2)

    CPL 11.502 25 If you sprain your foot, you will presently come to think that Nature has sprained hers.
    CPL 11.503 1 ...when you sprain your mind, by gloomy reflection on your failures and vexations, you come to have a bad opinion of life.

sprained, v. (3)

    Thor 10.464 3 At Mount Washington...Thoreau had a bad fall, and sprained his foot.
    CPL 11.502 26 If you sprain your foot, you will presently come to think that Nature has sprained hers.
    PLT 12.49 16 The pace of Nature is so slow. Why not from strength to strength...and not as now with this retardation-as if Nature had sprained her foot...

sprang, v. (5)

    Nat 1.71 16 Out from [man] sprang the sun and moon;...
    YA 1.365 6 The task of surveying, planting, and building upon this immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate thereto. A consciousness of this fact is beginning to take the place of the purely trading spirit and education which sprang up whilst all the population lived on the fringe of sea-coast.
    Art2 7.53 25 ...each work of art sprang irresistibly from necessity...
    Art2 7.56 11 ...all [the arts] sprang out of some genuine enthusiasm...
    EPro 11.326 16 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection... uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music,-a race...whose very miseries sprang from their great talent for usefulness...

sprats, n. (1)

    ET3 5.39 9 The rivers [in England] and the surrounding sea spawn with fish; there are salmon for the rich and sprats and herrings for the poor.

sprawl, v. (1)

    Mrs1 3.132 7 ...good sense and character make their own forms every moment, and...sit in a chair or sprawl with children on the floor...in a new and aboriginal way;...

sprawling, v. (2)

    Exp 3.60 11 It is not the part of men, but of fanatics...to say that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want or sitting high.
    Farm 7.149 1 ...the vines and stalks and stems may go sprawling about in the fields outside...

spray, n. (2)

    ET4 5.50 8 It need not puzzle us that...Saxon and Tartar should mix, when we...know that the barriers of races are not so firm but that some spray sprinkles us from the antediluvian seas.
    FSLC 11.192 20 Against a principle like this [that immoral laws are void], all the arguments of Mr. Webster are the spray of a child's squirt against a granite wall.

spread, adj. (2)

    ET16 5.280 14 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound [Stonehenge] in the twilight...and coming back two miles to our inn we were met by little showers, and late as it was, men and women were out attempting to protect their spread windrows.
    FRep 11.530 23 The spread eagle must fold his foolish wings and be less of a peacock;...

spread, v. (27)

    MR 1.256 1 It is better that joy should be spread over all the day in the form of strength...
    YA 1.389 11 I fear little from the bad effect of Repudiation; I do not fear that it will spread.
    SR 2.54 11 If you...spread your table like base housekeepers...I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are...
    Comp 2.103 7 The retribution in the circumstance...is often spread over a long time...
    Comp 2.114 11 It is best...to buy...in your agent, good sense applied to accounts and affairs. So do you multiply your presence, or spread yourself throughout your estate.
    Prd1 2.226 13 ...wherever a wild date-tree grows, nature has...spread a table for [the islander's] morning meal.
    Exp 3.71 19 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new...region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries...as if the clouds that covered it parted...and showed the approaching traveller the inland mountains, with the tranquil eternal meadows spread at their base...
    NR 3.241 12 A recluse sees only two or three persons, and allows them all their room; they spread themselves at large.
    PPh 4.45 7 I am struck...with the extreme modernness of [Plato's] style and spirit. Here is the germ of that Europe we know so well... ... It has spread itself since into a hundred histories, but has added no new element.
    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.
    GoW 4.270 16 [Goethe] appears at a time when a general culture has spread itself...
    ET4 5.59 21 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in battle, as long as he can stand, then orders his war-ship, loaded with his dead men and their weapons, to be taken out to sea, the tiller shipped and the sails spread;...
    ET11 5.179 4 The names [of English towns and districts] are excellent,--an atmosphere of legendary melody spread over the land.
    Pow 6.77 14 ...in human action, against the spasm of energy we offset the continuity of drill. We spread the same amount of force over much time, instead of condensing it into a moment.
    Bty 6.279 23 While thus to love [Seyd] gave his days/ In loyal worship, scorning praise,/ How spread their lures for him, in vain,/ Thieving Ambition and paltering Gain!/
    DL 7.119 8 Certainly, let the board be spread and let the bed be dressed for the traveller;...
    WD 7.169 4 Cannot memory still descry the old school-house and its porch...and do you not recall that life...threw itself into nervous knots of glittering hours...and not spread itself abroad an equable felicity?
    Cour 7.264 8 ...the farmer is skilful to fight [the forest fire]. The neighbors run together;...and by raking with the hoe a long but little trench, confine to a patch the fire which would easily spread over a hundred acres.
    OA 7.331 13 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...
    PPo 8.255 22 If over this world of ours/ His wings my phoenix spread,/ How gracious falls on land and sea/ The soul-refreshing shade!/
    Imtl 8.323 10 The hearth blazes in the middle and a grateful heat is spread around...
    HDC 11.29 20 The river...every winter, for ages, has spread its crust of ice over the great meadows which, in ages, it had formed.
    SHC 11.428 5 ...Here the green pines delight, the aspen droops/ Along the modest pathways, and those fair/ Pale asters of the season spread their plumes/ Around this field, fit garden for our tombs./
    CPL 11.502 3 A river of thought is always running out of the invisible world into the mind of man. Shall not they who received the largest streams spread abroad the healing waters?
    FRep 11.530 6 ...if the prosperity of this country has been merely the obedience of man to the guiding of Nature...yet is there fate above fate, if we choose to spread this language;...
    MAng1 12.231 22 Long after [St. Peter's dome] was completed, and often since, to this day, rumors are occasionally spread that it is giving way...
    MLit 12.312 14 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost alone has called out the genius of the German nation into an activity which...has made theirs now at last the paramount intellectual influence of the world, reacting with great energy on England and America. And thus...does an original genius work and spread himself.

spreading, v. (1)

    MLit 12.312 8 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost alone has called out the genius of the German nation into an activity which, spreading from the poetic into the scientific, religious and philosophical domains, has made theirs now at last the paramount intellectual influence of the world...

spreads, v. (4)

    ET8 5.141 18 Does the early history of each tribe show the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters?
    PI 8.29 16 I do not wish...to find that my poet is not partaker of the feast he spreads...
    PC 8.229 23 Hope never spreads her golden wings but on unfathomable seas.
    FSLN 11.241 4 ...when one sees how fast the rot [of slavery] spreads...I think we demand of superior men that they be superior in this,-that the mind and the virtue shall give their verdict in their day...

sprightliness, n. (2)

    GoW 4.281 5 The German intellect wants the French sprightliness...
    PI 8.49 20 A right ode...will by any sprightliness be at once lifted out of conventionality...

sprightly, adj. (6)

    DL 7.128 23 A verse of the old Greek Menander remains, which runs in translation:--Not on the store of sprightly wine,/ Nor plenty of delicious meats,/ Though generous Nature did design/ To court us with perpetual treats,--/ 'T is not on these we for content depend,/ So much as on the shadow of a Friend./
    Clbs 7.230 1 [Men] kindle each other; and such is the power of suggestion that each sprightly story calls out more;...
    PI 8.11 25 We cannot utter a sentence in sprightly conversation without a similitude.
    EWI 11.109 18 These debates [on West Indian slavery] are instructive, as they show on what grounds the trade was assailed and defended. Everything generous, wise and sprightly is sure to come to the attack.
    TPar 11.286 23 [Theodore Parker] had a sprightly fancy...
    CInt 12.129 27 ...it was in a mean country inn that Burns found his fancy so sprightly.

spring, adj. (4)

    Wth 6.120 10 Perhaps [Mr. Cockayne] bought also a yoke of oxen to do his work; but they get blown and lame. What to do with blown and lame oxen? The farmer fats his after the spring work is done, and kills them in the fall.
    Insp 8.287 5 Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, the October woods!
    SHC 11.435 5 The morning, the moonlight, the spring day, are magical painters...
    Mem 12.104 12 The spring days when the bluebird arrives have usually only few hours of fine temperature...

spring, n. (43)

    Nat 1.42 7 ...[a farm] is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.
    MN 1.200 2 The beauty of these fair objects is imported into them from a metaphysical and eternal spring.
    MR 1.248 26 The power which is at once spring and regulator in all efforts of reform is the conviction that there is an infinite worthiness in man...
    LT 1.286 23 We have come to that which is the spring of all power...
    Con 1.298 20 We are reformers in spring and summer...
    Con 1.315 2 ...[Friar Bernard]...drank of the spring...
    Hist 2.21 18 ...the Persian court...travelled from Ecbatana, where the spring was spent, to Susa in summer and to Babylon for the winter.
    Nat2 3.171 23 There is the bucket of cold water from the spring...and there is the sublime moral of autumn and of noon.
    NMW 4.231 2 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was born; a man...with the speed and spring of a tiger in action;...
    ET10 5.166 10 The cause and spring of [England's wealth] is the wealth of temperament in the people.
    ET18 5.303 18 ...who would see the uncoiling of that tremendous spring... must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted through all climates...
    Pow 6.57 14 ...one horse has the spring in him, and another in the whip.
    Pow 6.60 7 Here is question, every spring, whether to graft with wax, or whether with clay;...
    Wth 6.89 12 The same correspondence that is between thirst in the stomach and water in the spring, exists between the whole of man and the whole of nature.
    Wth 6.123 7 ...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer built the house in the right spot for...the spring and water-drainage...
    Ctr 6.138 1 In the Norse legend, All-fadir did not get a drink of Mimir's spring (the fountain of wisdom) until he left his eye in pledge.
    Ctr 6.138 12 Cleanse with healthy blood [the scholar's] parchment skin. You restore to him his eyes which he left in pledge at Mimir's spring.
    Wsp 6.204 8 Nature has...certain proportions in which oxygen and azote combine, and not less a harmony in faculties, a fitness in the spring and the regulator.
    CbW 6.259 10 Passion...is a powerful spring.
    Civ 7.27 27 We had letters to send: couriers...foundered their horses; bad roads in spring, snowdrifts in winter, heats in summer;...
    WD 7.158 15 Our century to be sure had inherited a tolerable apparatus. We had the compass, the printing-press, watches, the spiral spring, the barometer, the telescope.
    Suc 7.298 27 The owner of the wood-lot finds only a number of discolored trees, and says...they should be cut and corded before spring.
    Suc 7.299 8 ...I have just seen a man...who told me...that every spring was more beautiful to him than the last.
    PI 8.12 2 Note our incessant use of the word like...like thunder, like a bee, like a year without a spring.
    Res 8.152 17 If I go into the woods in winter, and am shown the thirteen or fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that...though insignificant enough in the general bareness of the forest, yet a great change takes place in them between fall and spring;...
    Insp 8.269 19 In spring...the maple-trees flow with sugar...
    Imtl 8.326 7 ...the modern Greeks, in their songs, ask...that a little window may be cut in the sepulchre, from which the swallow might be seen when it comes back in the spring.
    Thor 10.468 15 See these weeds, [Thoreau] said, which have been hoed at by a million farmers all spring and summer, and yet have prevailed...
    AKan 11.259 7 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...
    FRep 11.520 14 We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape Cod farm,-in the old time when the minister was still invited, in the spring, to make a prayer for the blessing of a piece of land,-the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure.
    FRep 11.532 25 Young men at thirty and even earlier lose all spring and vivacity...
    II 12.66 25 I know, of course, all the grounds on which any man affirms the immortality of the Soul. Fed from one spring, the water-tank is equally full in all the gardens...
    II 12.84 1 We must suppose life to [men slow in finding their vocation] is a kind of hibernation, and 't is to be hoped they will be very fat and energetic in the spring.
    Mem 12.97 19 A knife with a good spring, a forceps whose lips accurately meet and match...describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...
    Mem 12.104 17 ...when late in autumn we hear rarely a bluebird's notes they are sweet by reminding us of the spring.
    CL 12.136 7 ...the necessity of exercise and the nomadic instinct are always stirring the wish to travel, and in the spring and summer, it commonly gets the victory.
    CL 12.137 16 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle...
    Milt1 12.258 6 ...in his essay on Education, [Milton] doubts whether, in the fine days of spring, any study can be accomplished by young men.
    Milt1 12.261 23 ...[Milton] knew that this mastery of language was a secondary power, and he respected the mysterious source whence it had its spring;...
    ACri 12.302 1 'T is very easy to call the gracious spring poor goody herb-wife...
    AgMs 12.361 16 The Commissioner [Henry Colman] advises the farmers to sell their cattle and their hay in the fall, and buy again in the spring.
    AgMs 12.361 24 Down below, where manure is cheap and hay dear, they will sell their oxen in November; but for me [Edmund Hosmer] to sell my cattle and my produce in the fall would be to sell my farm, for I should have no manure to renew a crop in the spring.
    Trag 12.406 13 Men and women at thirty years, and even earlier, have lost all spring and vivacity...

Spring, n. (2)

    PPo 8.258 6 This picture of the first days of Spring...seems to belong to Hafiz:-O'er the garden water goes the wind alone/ To rasp and to polish the cheek of the wave;/ The fire is quenched on the dear hearthstone,/ But it burns again on the tulips brave./
    Insp 8.285 7 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./

spring, v. (16)

    Cir 2.319 2 ...all things renew, germinate and spring.
    Art1 2.368 8 [Beauty] will...spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.
    Exp 3.78 24 Especially the crimes that spring from love seem right and fair from the actor's point of view...
    Chr1 3.111 4 What is so excellent as strict relations of amity, when they spring from this deep root?
    PPh 4.43 2 [Plato] says, in the Republic, Such a genius as philosophers must of necessity have, is wont but seldom in all its parts to meet in one man, but its different parts generally spring up in different persons.
    ShP 4.206 11 It is the essence of poetry to spring...from the invisible...
    Bty 6.295 2 The fine arts...spring from the instincts of the nations that created them.
    Art2 7.57 10 ...beauty, truth and goodness...spring eternal in the breast of man;...
    Farm 7.144 24 ...the air is the receptacle from which all things spring...
    Insp 8.286 1 Vigorous, I spring from my couch,/ Seek the beloved Muses/...
    Carl 10.494 18 Great is [Carlyle's] reverence...for all such traits as spring from the intrinsic nature of the actor.
    ALin 11.328 21 [The people] knew that outward grace is dust;/ They could not choose but trust/ In that sure-footed mind's [Lincoln's] unfaltering skill./ And supple-tempered will/ That bent, like perfect steel, to spring again and thrust./
    II 12.89 6 [A man] finds that events spring from the same root as persons;...
    Pray 12.351 10 Among the remains of Euripides we have this prayer: Thou God of all! infuse light into the souls of men, whereby they may be enabled to know what is the root whence all their evils spring, and by what means they may avoid them.
    Let 12.400 23 Full of love, talent and hope spring up the darlings of the muse among the Germans;...
    Trag 12.414 26 ...new hopes spring, new affections twine, and the broken is whole again.

Springfield, Massachusetts, (1)

    PerF 10.70 3 ...I find it wholesome and invigorating to enumerate the resources we can command, to look a little into this arsenal, and see...how many arms better than Springfield muskets, we can bring to bear.

Springfield, Massachusetts, (2)

    Civ 7.32 4 ...it is not New York streets...though stretching...northward until they touch New Haven, Hartford, Springfield, Worcester and Boston,--that make the real estimation.
    AKan 11.256 18 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated? ... Is it an exaggeration, that...Mr. Jennison of Groton, Mr. Phillips of Berkshire, have been murdered? That Mr. Robinson of Fitchburg has been imprisoned? Rev. Mr. Nute of Springfield seized...

spring-flood, n. (1)

    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/...

spring-head, n. (2)

    ET14 5.240 26 [Bacon] complains that he finds this part of learning [universality] very deficient, the profounder sort of wits drawing a bucket now and then for their own use, but the spring-head unvisited.
    ET14 5.244 15 ...[the English] draw only a bucketful at the fountain of the First Philosophy for their occasion, and do not go to the spring-head.

springing, adj. (1)

    SovE 10.195 21 Cripples and invalids, we doubt not there are bounding fawns in the forest, and lilies with graceful, springing stem;...

springing, v. (3)

    AmS 1.90 25 ...there are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions, words, that is...springing spontaneous from the mind's own sense of good and fair.
    ET7 5.119 21 [The English] confide in each other,--English believes in English. The French feel the superiority of this probity. The Englishman is not springing a trap for his admiration, but is honestly minding his business.
    FRO1 11.480 22 I wish that the various beneficent institutions which are springing up...all over this country, should all be remembered as within the sphere of this committee [of the Free Religious Association]...

springs, n. (14)

    Nat 1.48 20 The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature.
    YA 1.375 6 /Man's heart the Almighty to the Future set/ By secret and inviolable springs./
    Bhr 6.179 11 The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.
    Elo1 7.62 23 ...this lust to speak marks the universal feeling of the energy of the engine, and the curiosity men feel to touch the springs.
    Suc 7.306 8 ...the springs of justice and courage do not fail any more than salt or sulphur springs.
    Suc 7.306 9 ...the springs of justice and courage do not fail any more than salt or sulphur springs.
    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.
    Res 8.142 1 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha...obtain, by merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the mineral oil will burn till the tube is decomposed...
    PC 8.231 11 I believe that the checks are as sure as the springs.
    Imtl 8.344 16 Man's heart the Almighty to the Future set/ By secret but inviolable springs./
    Thor 10.466 10 The river on whose banks [Thoreau] was born and died he knew from its springs to its confluence with the Merrimack.
    HDC 11.62 16 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./
    EdAd 11.392 5 We have a better opinion of the economy of Nature than to fear that those varying phases which humanity presents ever leave out any of the grand springs of human action.
    Bost 12.184 24 ...it appears as if some localities of the earth, through wholesome springs...were preferred before others.

springs, v. (9)

    AmS 1.104 7 Fear always springs from ignorance.
    LT 1.272 3 Out of this fair Idea in the mind springs the effort at the Perfect.
    YA 1.377 12 ...as quickly as men go to foreign parts in ships or caravans, a new order of things springs up;...
    Pt1 3.31 9 ...George Chapman, following [Timaeus], writes, So in our tree of man, whose nervie root/ Springs in his top;/...
    ET14 5.256 26 ...the grave old [English] poets...heeded their designs, and less considered the finish. It was their office to lead to the divine sources, out of which all this, and much more readily springs;...
    PI 8.6 17 ...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind;...a certain tyranny which springs up in his own thoughts...
    MoL 10.248 6 War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize. Weeks, months pass-a new harvest; trade springs up...
    EdAd 11.387 6 ...the right patriotism consists in the delight which springs from contributing our peculiar and legitimate advantages to the benefit of humanity.
    FRO1 11.478 27 ...the Church should always be new and extemporized, because it is eternal and springs from the sentiment of men, or it does not exist.

Springs, Virginia, n. (1)

    MoL 10.256 24 ...this big-mouthed talker, among his dictionaries and Leipzig editions of Lysias, had lost his knowledge. But the President of the Bank...relates that at Virginia Springs this idol of the forum exhausted a trunkful of classic authors.

springtime, n. [spring-time,] (3)

    SwM 4.126 8 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws; as when he uttered that famed sentence, that In heaven the angels are advancing continually to the springtime of their youth, so that the oldest angel appears the youngest...
    Ill 6.307 8 House you were born in,/ Friends of your spring-time,/ Old man and young maid,/ Day's toil and its guerdon, /They are all vanishing, / Fleeing to fables,/ Cannot be moored./
    HDC 11.34 24 ...the Lord is pleased to provide for [the pilgrims] great store of fish in the spring-time...

sprinkle, v. (2)

    Tran 1.359 15 Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded;...these cities rotted...all gone, like the shells which sprinkle the sea-beach with a white colony to-day...
    Bhr 6.176 21 Take a thorn-bush, said the emir Abdel-Kader, and sprinkle it for a whole year with rose-water;--it will yield nothing but thorns.

sprinkled, v. (2)

    ET16 5.276 18 Far and wide a few shepherds with their flocks sprinkled the [Salisbury] plain...
    Imtl 8.326 15 [The doctrine of the resurrection] was an affair of the body, and narrowed again by the fury of sect; so that grounds were sprinkled with holy water to receive only orthodox dust;...

sprinkles, v. (1)

    ET4 5.50 8 It need not puzzle us that...Saxon and Tartar should mix, when we...know that the barriers of races are not so firm but that some spray sprinkles us from the antediluvian seas.

sprinkling, n. (1)

    FRep 11.526 14 ...really, though you see wealth in the capitals, it is only a sprinkling of rich men in the cities and at sparse points;...

sprinkling, v. (1)

    Comp 2.106 4 How secret art thou who dwellest in the highest heavens in silence, O thou only great God, sprinkling with an unwearied providence certain penal blindnesses upon such as have unbridled desires!

sprite, n. (1)

    Trag 12.409 5 A low, haggard sprite sits by our side...

sprout, v. (1)

    Farm 7.147 1 At rare intervals [on the prairie] a thin oak-opening has been spared, and every such section has been long occupied. But the farmer manages to procure wood from far, puts up a rail-fence, and at once the seeds sprout and the oaks rise.

sprouting, n. (1)

    LE 1.169 27 Undoubtedly the changes of geology have a relation to the prosperous sprouting of the corn and peas in my kitchen garden;...

sprouting, v. (1)

    ET18 5.305 20 These poor tortoises [the English] must hold hard, for they feel no wings sprouting at their shoulders.

sprouts, v. (2)

    MN 1.201 15 Nature knows neither palm nor oak, but only vegetable life, which sprouts into forests...
    FSLN 11.239 11 [The Greeks] said of the happiness of the unjust, that at its close...there sprouts forth for posterity every-ravening calamity...

spruce, adj. (2)

    ET16 5.285 15 The [Salisbury] Cathedral, which was finished six hundred years ago, has even a spruce and modern air...
    Civ 7.17 17 ...The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood, the fire:/ All the fierce enemies, ague, hunger, cold,/ This thin spruce roof, this clayed log wall,/ This wild plantation will suffice to chase./

spruce, n. (2)

    Hist 2.21 2 Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder, and that his chisel, his saw and plane still reproduced...its locust, elm, oak, pine, fir and spruce.
    CL 12.149 18 ...what countless uses [of the forest] that we know not! How an Indian helps himself with fibre of milkweed...or root of spruce, black or white, for strings;...

sprucely, adv. (1)

    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.

sprung, v. (8)

    LE 1.159 4 There is no event but sprung somewhere from the soul of man;...
    YA 1.380 18 Witness too the spectacle of three Communities which have within a very short time sprung up within this Commonwealth...
    Art1 2.353 23 [Indian, Chinese and Mexican idols]...were not fantastic, but sprung from a necessity as deep as the world.
    Art1 2.359 17 The traveller who visits the Vatican and passes from chamber to chamber...through all forms of beauty cut in the richest materials, is in danger of forgetting the simplicity of the principles out of which they all sprung...
    Exp 3.72 17 The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees. The sentiment from which it sprung determines the dignity of any deed...
    Pol1 3.207 12 In this country we are very vain of our political institutions, which are singular in this, that they sprung, within the memory of living men, from the character and condition of the people...
    Wsp 6.199 2 This is he, who, felled by foes,/ Sprung harmless up, refreshed by blows/...
    Bost 12.209 7 Greater cities there are that sprung from [Boston]...

spun, v. (4)

    Nat 1.38 15 ...wool cannot be drunk, nor water spun...
    ET5 5.92 22 [The English] have tilled, builded, forged, spun and woven.
    WD 7.169 1 Cannot memory still descry the old school-house and its porch...where you spun tops and snapped marbles;...
    HDC 11.36 14 Of the Indian hemp [the Indians] spun their nets and lines for summer angling...

spur, n. (3)

    ET18 5.306 7 [The English]...are like a dull good horse which lets every nag pass him, but with whip and spur will run down every racer in the field.
    F 6.36 7 Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint;...
    Milt1 12.264 9 His mind gave him, [Milton] said, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath of chastity, ought to be born a knight; nor needed to expect the gilt spur...to stir him up, by his counsel and his arm, to secure and protect attempted innocence.

spur, v. (1)

    Boks 7.205 16 ...[Gibbon's] book is one of the conveniences of civilization...and, I think, will be sure to send the reader to his...Abstracts of my Readings, which will spur the laziest scholar to emulation of his prodigious performance.

spurious, adj. (5)

    Prd1 2.224 8 The spurious prudence...is the god of sots and cowards...
    Pt1 3.28 16 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...and, as it was a spurious mode of attaining freedom...they were punished for that advantage they won, by a dissipation and deterioration.
    PPh 4.41 10 This range of Plato instructs us what to think of the vexed question concerning his reputed works,--what are genuine, what are spurious.
    Cour 7.267 7 Swedenborg has left this record of his king: Charles XII. of Sweden did not know...what that spurious valor and daring [was] that is excited by inebriating draughts...
    Aris 10.31 9 My concern with [Aristocracy] is that concern which all well-disposed persons will feel, that there should be model men,-true instead of spurious pictures of excellence...

spurn, v. (2)

    LE 1.175 5 Pindar, Raphael...dwell in crowds it may be, but the instant thought comes...they spurn personal relations;...
    SovE 10.197 12 What is this intoxicating sentiment...that makes this doll... able to spurn all outward advantages...

spurned, v. (2)

    F 6.20 21 ...the gods in the Norse heaven were unable to bind the Fenris Wolf with steel or with the weight of mountains,-the one he snapped and the other he spurned with his heel...
    F 6.20 23 When the gods in the Norse heaven were unable to bind the Fenris Wolf with steel...they put round his foot a limp band...and this held him; the more he spurned it the stiffer it drew.

spurred, v. (1)

    Aris 10.45 21 Men are born to command, and...come into the world booted and spurred to ride.

spurs, n. (1)

    Nat 1.54 5 Ariel. The strong based promontory/ Have I made shake, and by the spurs plucked up/ The pine and cedar./

spurs, v. (1)

    DL 7.104 4 All day, between his three or four sleeps, [the nestler]...sputters and spurs...

spurting, v. (2)

    Nat2 3.172 19 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    Res 8.148 24 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the pop-corn, and Christmas hemlock spurting in the fire.

Spurzheim, Johann Kaspar, n (1)

    F 6.9 15 Ask Spurzheim...if temperaments decide nothing?...

Spurzheim's, Johann Kaspar, (1)

    LLNE 10.337 11 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature...

sputters, v. (1)

    DL 7.104 3 All day, between his three or four sleeps, [the nestler]...sputters and spurs...

spy, n. (4)

    MR 1.228 7 ...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...
    Pt1 3.26 11 A spy [things] will not suffer;...
    ET15 5.261 13 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper]...turns the glare of this solar microscope on every malfaisance, so as to make the public a more terrible spy than any foreigner;...
    CInt 12.125 22 Piety comes to be regarded as a spy and a rebel.

spy, v. (2)

    Art1 2.349 14 So shall the drudge in dusty frock/ Spy behind the city clock/ Retinues of airy kings,/ Skirts of angels, starry wings/...
    WD 7.182 7 Fancy defines herself:--Forms that men spy/ With the half-shut eye/ In the beams of the setting sun, am I./

spy-glass, n. (2)

    Thor 10.469 23 Under his arm [Thoreau] carried an old music-book to press plants; in his pocket...a spy-glass for birds...
    CW 12.175 6 ...a common spy-glass...will show the satellites of Jupiter...

spying, n. (1)

    PI 8.64 3 The poetic gift we want...surely not cold spying and authorship.

spying, v. (2)

    NMW 4.246 9 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!--when spying the Alps, by a sunset in the Sicilian sea;...
    PLT 12.14 12 The analytic process is...somewhat mean, as spying.

squabble, n. (1)

    ET15 5.270 18 Sympathizing with, and speaking for the class that rules the hour, yet being apprised of...every Church squabble...[the editors of the London Times] detect the first tremblings of change.

squabbles, n. (1)

    EdAd 11.390 9 ...the insight which commands the laws and conditions of the true polity precludes forever all interest in the squabbles of parties.

squadron, n. (1)

    NMW 4.236 6 On any point of resistance [Bonaparte] concentrated squadron on squadron in overwhelming numbers...

squadrons, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.124 14 The courage which girls exhibit is like...a sea-fight. The intellect relies on memory to make some supplies to face these extemporaneous squadrons.

squalid, adj. (8)

    Nat 1.41 17 ...the use of commodity, regarded by itself, is mean and squalid.
    SR 2.60 20 Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times...
    ET14 5.254 14 Squalid contentment with conventions...betray the ebb of life and spirit [in English students].
    F 6.10 25 ...the fine organs of [the digger's] brain have been pinched by overwork and squalid poverty...
    CbW 6.271 4 Our habit of thought...is not satisfying; in the common experience I fear it is poor and squalid.
    Ill 6.321 3 We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid condition...
    LLNE 10.361 5 Those who inspired and organized [Brook Farm] were... persons impatient of...the uniformity, perhaps they would say the squalid contentment of society around them...
    HDC 11.53 11 We, who see in the squalid remnants of the twenty tribes of Massachusetts...can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness with which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to the new hope they had conceived...

squall, n. (1)

    ET2 5.27 24 ...in hurrying over these abysses [of the sea], whatever dangers we are running into, we are certainly running out of the risks of hundreds of miles every day, which have their own chances of squall, collision, sea-stroke, piracy, cold and thunder.

squalor, n. (3)

    MoS 4.155 24 The studious class are their own victims;...the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption,--pallor, squalor, hunger and egotism.
    Wsp 6.209 1 In creeds never was such levity; witness...the squalor of Mesmerism...
    Thor 10.454 15 [Thoreau]...knew how to be poor without the least hint of squalor or inelegance.

squander, v. (2)

    Elo1 7.81 3 Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?--for example...if he is penurious, to squander money for some purpose he now least thinks of...
    PPo 8.261 26 While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The nightingale to the falcon said/... ...sitt'st thou on the hand of princes,/ And feedest on the grouse's breast,/ Whilst I, who hundred thousand jewels/ Squander in a single tone,/ Lo! I feed myself with worms,/ And my dwelling is the thorn./

squandered, adj. (1)

    NMW 4.257 9 ...what was the result of [Napoleon's] vast talent and power, of these...squandered treasures...

squandered, v. (3)

    Tran 1.348 27 On the part of these children it is replied that life and their faculty seem to them gifts too rich to be squandered on such trifles as you propose to them.
    Bhr 6.190 24 Self-reliance...is the guaranty that the powers are not squandered in too much demonstration.
    Mem 12.106 20 [The bright school-girl's] is a bushel-basket memory of all unchosen knowledge...so that an old scholar, who knows what to do with a memory, is full of wonder and pity that this magical force should be squandered on such frippery.

squandering, n. (1)

    Wth 6.113 21 Let a man who belongs to the class of nobles, namely who have found out that they can do something, relieve himself of all vague squandering on objects not his.

squanders, v. (2)

    ET11 5.193 27 Most of [the English noblemen] are only chargeable with idleness, which, because it squanders such vast power of benefit, has the mischief of crime.
    PI 8.17 16 The poet squanders on the hour an amount of life that would more than furnish the seventy years of the man that stands next him.

square, adj. (22)

    Tran 1.331 22 The sturdy capitalist, no matter how deep and square on blocks of Quincy granite he lays the foundations of his banking-house or Exchange, must set it ...on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...
    Comp 2.121 26 Inasmuch as [the criminal] carries the malignity and the lie with him he so far deceases from nature. In some manner there will be a demonstration of the wrong to the understanding also; but, should we not see it, this deadly deduction makes square the eternal account.
    Exp 3.84 4 When I receive a new gift, I do not macerate my body to make the account square...
    Exp 3.84 5 When I receive a new gift, I do not macerate my body to make the account square, for if I should die I could not make the account square.
    ET4 5.44 23 The British Empire is reckoned...to comprise a territory of 5, 000,000 square miles.
    ET4 5.45 5 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...20,000,000 of people, on a territory of 3,000,000 square miles...and you have a population of English descent and language of 60,000,000...
    ET11 5.181 17 The Duke of Bedford includes or included a mile square in the heart of London...
    Wth 6.116 6 [The land-owner] believes he composes easily on the hills. But this pottering in a few square yards of garden is dispiriting and drivelling.
    Bhr 6.181 22 A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors;...
    Wsp 6.202 11 If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out in passions, in war...let us not be so nice that we cannot...doubt but there is a counter-statement as ponderous...which, being put, will make all square.
    CbW 6.249 2 'T is pedantry to estimate nations...by square miles of land...
    DL 7.108 8 It is easier to...compute the square extent of a territory...than to come to the persons and dwellings of men and read their character...
    Farm 7.148 18 The high wall reflecting the heat back on the soil gives that acre a quadruple share of sunshine,--Enclosing in the garden square/ A dead and standing pool of air/...
    Farm 7.148 27 ...[the farmer] will concentrate his kitchen-garden into a box of one or two rods square...
    WD 7.163 7 ...we have the newspaper, which does its best to make every square acre of land and sea give an account of itself at your breakfast-table;...
    SA 8.104 20 We have come...to know...the good will that is in the people, their conviction of the great moral advantages of...education and religious culture, and their determination to hold these fast, and, by them, to hold fast the country and penetrate every square mile of it with this American civilization.
    HDC 11.37 25 Our [Concord] Records affirm that Squaw Sachem, Tahattawan, and Nimrod did sell a tract of six miles square to the English...
    EWI 11.142 5 If before, [the negro] was taxed with such stupidity...that he could not set a table square to the walls of an apartment, he is now the principal if not the only mechanic in the West Indies;...
    CL 12.143 21 There is no good walk in that state [Illinois]. The reason is, a square yard of it is as good as a hundred miles.
    CW 12.173 21 ...there is happiness all the year round to be had from the square fruit-gardens which we plant in the front or rear of every farmhouse.
    Bost 12.209 16 You cannot conquer [Boston]...by square miles...
    WSL 12.348 8 There is no inadequacy or disagreeable contraction in [the dense writer's] sentence, any more than in a human face, where in a square space of a few inches is found room for every possible variety of expression.

Square, Bedford, London, E (1)

    ET11 5.181 20 The Duke of Bedford includes or included...the land occupied by Woburn Square, Bedford Square, Russell Square.

Square, Berkshire, London, (1)

    ET11 5.181 13 In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown...Lansdowne House in Berkshire Square...

Square, Bowdoin, Boston, M (1)

    ET16 5.283 12 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work on the substructure of a house in Bowdoin Square, in Boston...

Square, Dock, Boston, Mass [Square,] (2)

    Wth 6.122 14 When a citizen fresh from Dock Square or Milk Street comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...
    Wth 6.123 1 ...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer built the house in the right spot for...the convenience to the pasture, the garden, the field and the road. So Dock Square yields the point, and things have their own way.

square, n. (10)

    Hist 2.14 27 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once more in their architecture, a beauty...limited to the straight line and the square...
    SL 2.155 4 Do not trouble yourself too much about the light on your statue, said Michel Angelo to the young sculptor; the light of the public square will test its value.
    SL 2.158 1 In every troop of boys that whoop and run in each yard and square, a new-comer is as well and accurately weighed in the course of a few days and stamped with his right number, as if he had undergone a formal trial of his strength, speed and temper.
    Art1 2.349 8 ...Let spouting fountains cool the air,/ Singing in the sun-baked square./
    NER 3.249 2 In the suburb, in the town,/ On the railway, in the square,/ Came a beam of goodness down/ Doubling daylight everywhere/...
    SS 7.11 1 Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts you must frequent the public square.
    DL 7.108 26 Let us come then out of the public square and enter the domestic precinct.
    Clbs 7.242 25 There was a time when in France...the houses of the nobility, which, up to that time, had been constructed on feudal necessities, in a hollow square...were rebuilt with new purpose.
    MoL 10.253 12 There is a proverb that Napoleon, when the Mameluke cavalry approached the French lines, ordered the grenadiers to the front, and the asses and the savans to fall into the hollow square.
    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.

Square, Printing-House, Lo (1)

    ET15 5.265 14 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office, which was entered through a pretty garden-yard in Printing-House Square.

Square, Russell, London, E (2)

    ET1 5.3 10 ...I remember the pleasure of that first walk on English ground... to a house in Russell Square...
    ET11 5.181 21 The Duke of Bedford includes or included...the land occupied by Woburn Square, Bedford Square, Russell Square.

Square, St. Michael's, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.144 24 Another mode [of winning a place in fashion] is to pass through all the degrees, spending a year and a day in St. Michael's Square...

square, v. (1)

    ShP 4.190 5 A great man does not wake up on some fine morning and say, I am full of life...to-day I will square the circle...

Square, Woburn, London, En (1)

    ET11 5.181 20 The Duke of Bedford includes or included...the land occupied by Woburn Square, Bedford Square, Russell Square.

squarely, adv. (1)

    Cour 7.268 27 The judge...squarely accosts the question, and by not being afraid of it...he sees presently that common arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair.

square-pewed, adj. (1)

    EzRy 10.383 22 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old, cold, unpainted, uncarpeted, square-pewed meeting-house...

squares, n. (3)

    GoW 4.274 4 [Goethe] sought [Proteus] in public squares and main streets...
    ET11 5.181 22 The Marquis of Westminster built within a few years the series of squares called Belgravia.
    CPL 11.505 27 In 1618 (8th March) John Kepler came upon the discovery of the law connecting the mean distances of the planets with the periods of their revolution about the sun, that the squares of the times vary as the cubes of the distances.

squat, adj. (1)

    F 6.11 4 So [a man] has but one future, and that is already...described in that little fatty face...and squat form.

squaw, n. (1)

    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...

Squaw Sachem, n. (3)

    HDC 11.37 24 Our [Concord] Records affirm that Squaw Sachem, Tahattawan, and Nimrod did sell a tract of six miles square to the English...
    HDC 11.38 2 Wibbacowet, the husband of Squaw Sachem, received a suit of cloth, a hat, a white linen band, shoes, stockings and a greatcoat;...
    HDC 11.51 10 In 1644, Squaw Sachem...with two sachems of Wachusett... intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...

squaws, n. (1)

    HDC 11.52 3 At a meeting which Eliot gave to the squaws apart, the wife of Wampooas propounded the question, Whether do I pray when my husband prays, if I speak nothing as he doth, yet if I like what he saith?...

squeak, v. (2)

    LE 1.161 21 In spite of all the rueful abortions that squeak and gibber in the street...have been these glorious manifestations of the mind;...
    TPar 11.291 8 There are men of good powers who have so much sympathy that they must be silent when they are not in sympathy. If you don't agree with them, they know they only injure the truth by speaking. Their faculties will not play them true, and they do not wish to squeak and gibber, and so they shut their mouths.

squeaking, adj. (3)

    ET9 5.148 1 If one of [the English] have...a squeaking or a raven voice, he has persuaded himself that there is something modish and becoming in it...
    SA 8.87 1 It seems to require several generations of education to train a squeaking or a shouting habit out of a man.
    LLNE 10.342 9 ...a sympathizing Englishman with a squeaking voice interrupted with the question, Mr. Alcott, a lady near me desires to inquire whether omnipotence abnegates attribute?

squeal, v. (2)

    Elo1 7.69 11 ...[the Sicilians] crow, squeal, hiss, cackle, bark, and scream like mad...
    EWI 11.118 22 It is vain to get rid of [spoiled children] by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech;...

squeals, n. (1)

    SA 8.87 5 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.

squeamishness, n. (1)

    EWI 11.144 14 ...now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint... outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity. The anti-slavery of the whole world is dust in the balance before this,-is a poor squeamishness and nervousness...

squib, n. (1)

    Prch 10.237 22 ...when we...come into the house of thought and worship, we come with the purpose...to see that life...is no hopping squib...

squid, n. (1)

    CL 12.165 8 [Agassiz] talks about lizard, shell-fish and squid, he means John and Mary, Thomas and Ann.

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