Treble to Trudge

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

treble, adj. (1)

    Bty 6.304 14 Every word has a double, treble or centuple use and meaning.

Tredegar, England, adj. (1)

    Elo2 8.117 9 [The orator] is put together...like a locomotive just finished at the Tredegar works.

tree, n. (100)

    Nat 1.8 13 It is this [integrity of impression] which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood-cutter from the tree of the poet.
    Nat 1.15 7 ...the primary forms, as...the tree...give us delight in and for themselves;...
    Nat 1.64 7 ...the life of the tree puts forth new branches and leaves through the pores of the old.
    AmS 1.91 21 ...A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful.
    AmS 1.91 22 ...A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful.
    LE 1.168 11 ...the pine throwing out its pollen for the benefit of the next century; the turpentine exuding from the tree...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].
    LE 1.180 11 ...they say the bough of the tree has the character of the leaf...
    LE 1.180 12 ...they say the bough of the tree has the character of the leaf, and the whole tree of the bough...
    MN 1.203 23 ...my [Nature's] aim is the health of the whole tree...
    MN 1.216 23 From the poisonous tree, the world, say the Brahmins, two species of fruit are produced, sweet as the waters of life;...
    MR 1.252 26 ...we enact the part of the selfish noble and king from the foundation of the world. See, this tree always bears one fruit.
    Con 1.326 9 [The boldness of the hope men entertain] calms and cheers them with the picture of a simple and equal life of truth and piety. And this hope flowered on what tree?
    Tran 1.339 5 Man owns the dignity of the life which throbs around him, in chemistry, and tree, and animal...
    Hist 2.16 19 A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree;...
    Hist 2.17 19 There is nothing but is related to us...kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron shoe...
    SR 2.71 1 The genesis and maturation of a planet...the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind...are demonstrations of the...self-relying soul.
    Comp 2.101 8 ...the naturalist...regards...a bird as a flying man, a tree as a rooted man.
    SL 2.162 24 One piece of the tree is cut for a weathercock and one for the sleeper of a bridge; the virtue of the wood is apparent in both.
    Lov1 2.176 18 Every bird on the boughs of the tree sings now to [the lover' s] heart and soul.
    Lov1 2.178 13 The lover cannot paint his maiden to his fancy poor and solitary. Like a tree in flower, so much soft, budding, informing loveliness is society for itself;...
    Fdsp 2.197 23 Is it not that the soul puts forth friends as the tree puts forth leaves...
    Prd1 2.228 9 If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.
    Prd1 2.234 16 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only...the thrift of the agriculturist, to stick a tree between whiles, because it will grow whilst he sleeps;...
    OS 2.269 16 We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree;...
    Cir 2.310 10 The things which are dear to men at this hour are so on account of the ideas which have emerged on their mental horizon, and which cause the present order of things, as a tree bears its apples.
    Int 2.340 24 We talk with accomplished persons who appear to be strangers in nature. The cloud, the tree, the turf, the bird, are not theirs...
    Art1 2.355 27 A squirrel leaping from bough to bough and making the wood but one wide tree for his pleasure...is beautiful...
    Pt1 3.22 15 This expression or naming is not art, but a second nature, grown out of the first, as a leaf out of a tree.
    Pt1 3.31 5 ...Timaeus...affirms a man to be a heavenly tree...
    Pt1 3.31 8 ...George Chapman, following [Timaeus], writes, So in our tree of man, whose nervie root/ Springs in his top;/...
    Pt1 3.31 21 ...John saw, in the Apocalypse...the stars fall from heaven as the fig tree casteth her untimely fruit;...
    Exp 3.59 3 A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough...but soon became narrow and narrower and ended in a squirrel-track and ran up a tree.
    Mrs1 3.122 19 The point of distinction in all this class of names, as courtesy, chivalry, fashion, and the like, is that the flower and fruit, not the grain of the tree, are contemplated.
    Nat2 3.181 4 Compound it how [nature] will, star, sand, fire, water, tree, man, it is still one stuff...
    Nat2 3.186 21 The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed...
    NR 3.240 24 We want the great genius only...for one tree more in our grove.
    PNR 4.81 1 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.
    SwM 4.121 4 [Swedenborg] fastens each natural object to a theologic notion;--a horse signifies carnal understanding; a tree, perception;...
    ShP 4.216 26 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had another use than for apples...
    GoW 4.289 20 I join Napoleon with [Goethe], as being...two stern realists, who, with their scholars, have severally set the axe at the root of the tree of cant and seeming, for this and for all time.
    ET1 5.18 14 ...[Carlyle]...saw how every event affects all the future. Christ died on the tree; that built Dunscore kirk yonder; that brought you and me together.
    ET4 5.61 16 The continued draught of the best men in Norway, Sweden and Denmark to these piratical expeditions exhausted those countries, like a tree which bears much fruit when young...
    ET5 5.94 25 Let India boast her palms, nor envy we/ The weeping amber, nor the spicy tree,/ While, by our oaks, those precious loads are borne,/ And realms commanded which those trees adorn./
    F 6.38 14 ...nature makes every creature do its own work...is it planet, animal or tree.
    Pow 6.60 10 Here is question, every spring...whether to whitewash, or to potash, or to prune; but the one point is the thrifty tree.
    Pow 6.60 11 A good tree that agrees with the soil will grow in spite of blight...
    Pow 6.73 21 ...the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs...
    Wth 6.87 10 When the farmer's peaches are taken from under the tree and carried into town, they have a new look and a hundredfold value over the fruit which grew on the same bough and lies fulsomely on the ground.
    Wth 6.94 13 ...one tree keeps down another in the forest, that it may not absorb all the sap in the ground.
    Wth 6.115 24 Every tree and graft [on a man's land]...stand in his way... when he would go out of his gate.
    Wsp 6.203 15 A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
    Wsp 6.206 3 Christianity, in the romantic ages, signified European culture,--the grafted or meliorated tree in a crab forest.
    Wsp 6.231 16 He is great whose eyes are opened to see that the reward of actions cannot be escaped, because he is transformed into his action, and taketh its nature, which bears its own fruit, like every other tree.
    CbW 6.250 14 Nature...shakes down a tree full of gnarled, wormy, unripe crabs, before you can find a dozen dessert apples;...
    CbW 6.251 22 Fate keeps everything alive so long as the smallest thread of public necessity holds it on to the tree.
    Bty 6.306 22 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend: an ascent from the joy of a horse in his trappings, up to the perception of Newton that the globe on which we ride is only a larger apple falling from a larger tree...the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
    SS 7.8 12 The determination of each is from all the others, like that of each tree up into free space.
    Elo1 7.59 14 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ .../ In his every syllable/ Lurketh nature veritable;/ .../ The forest waves, the morning breaks,/ The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,/ Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be/ And life pulsates in rock or tree./
    DL 7.103 3 The care which covers the seed of the tree under tough husks and stony cases provides for the human plant the mother's breast and the father's house.
    DL 7.117 12 ...our social forms are very far from truth and equity. But the way to set the axe at the root of the tree is to raise our aim.
    Farm 7.135 22 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/ Ascends as gladly in a single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...
    Farm 7.144 13 The tree can draw on the whole air...
    Farm 7.147 16 ...Nature drops a pine-cone in Mariposa, and it...grows in a grove of giants, like a colonnade of Thebes. Ask the tree how it was done.
    PI 8.8 17 In geology, what a useful hint was given to the early inquirers on seeing in the possession of Professor Playfair a bough of a fossil tree which was perfect wood at one end and perfect mineral coal at the other.
    PI 8.71 12 To every plant there are two powers; one shoots down as rootlet, and one upward as tree.
    PPo 8.242 22 These legends [of Persian kings], with Chiser, the fountain of life, Tuba, the tree of life;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
    Insp 8.295 25 Only our newest knowledge works as a source of inspiration and thought, as only the outmost layer of liber on the tree.
    Dem1 10.10 12 ...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun...
    Aris 10.42 5 [Ulysses]...carves a bedstead out of the trunk of a tree...
    PerF 10.71 7 The coal on your grate gives out in decomposing to-day exactly the same amount of light and heat which was taken from the sunshine in its formation in the leaves and boughs of the antediluvian tree.
    SovE 10.184 23 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part...
    SovE 10.201 7 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree.
    SovE 10.201 9 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree. You cannot bring yourself to care for it. You say: Cut away; my tree is Ygdrasil-the tree of life.
    SovE 10.201 10 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree. You cannot bring yourself to care for it. You say: Cut away; my tree is Ygdrasil-the tree of life.
    LLNE 10.338 15 The German poet Goethe...proposed...in Botany, his simple theory of metamorphosis;...the branch of a tree is nothing but a leaf whose serratures have become twigs.
    Thor 10.461 21 [Thoreau] could estimate the measure of a tree very well by his eye;...
    Thor 10.469 26 [Thoreau] wore a straw hat, stout shoes, strong gray trousers...to climb a tree for a hawk's or a squirrel's nest.
    Thor 10.470 23 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of the night-warbler, a bird...which always, when he saw it, was in the act of diving down into a tree or bush...
    Thor 10.483 12 No tree has so fair a bole and so handsome an instep as the beech.
    SHC 11.428 15 Learn from the loved one's rest serenity;/ To-morrow that soft bell for thee shall sound,/ And thou repose beneath the whispering tree,/ One tribute more to this submissive ground;-/...
    SHC 11.431 11 The life of a tree is a hundred and a thousand years;...
    SHC 11.433 17 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted, by the taste of every citizen, one tree, with its name recorded in a book;...
    SHC 11.433 18 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted...every tree that is native to Massachusetts...
    Shak1 11.450 14 Young men of a contemplative turn carry [Shakespeare's] sonnets in the pocket. With that book, the shade of any tree, a room in any inn, becomes a chapel or oratory in which to sit out their happiest hours.
    FRep 11.542 12 As the tree exists for its fruit, so a man for his work.
    PLT 12.5 23 ...when I look at the tree or the river and have not yet definitely made out what they would say to me, they are by no means unimpressive.
    PLT 12.25 9 The fine tree continues to grow.
    PLT 12.32 1 ...each tree can secrete from the soil the elements that form a peach, a lemon, or a cocoa-nut, according to its kind...
    PLT 12.49 5 [Dante] clasps the thought as if it were a tree or a stone...
    PLT 12.54 14 The tree or the brook has no duplicity...
    PLT 12.55 5 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours, this immense ground-juniper falling abroad and not gathered up into any columnar tree, is to substitute realism for sentimentalism;...
    II 12.73 12 ...really the capital discovery of modern agriculture is that it costs no more to keep a good tree than a bad one.
    II 12.86 22 See the poor flies, lately so wanton, now fixed to the wall or the tree, exhausted and presently blown away.
    CL 12.145 23 One [apple] tree yields the rent of an acre of land.
    CL 12.145 25 Yonder pear has every property which should belong to a tree.
    CL 12.148 17 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. Stable is their birthplace in the sky, but they are agitators of heaven and earth, who shake all around like the top of a tree.
    CL 12.160 24 When I look at natural structures, as at a tree, or the teeth of a shark...I know that I am seeing an architecture and carpentry which has no sham...
    CW 12.170 3 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/ Ascends as gladly in the single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...
    CW 12.178 9 ...the top of the tree is also a tap-root thrust into the public pocket of the atmosphere.
    MLit 12.316 13 The water we wash with never speaks of itself, nor does fire or wind or tree.

Tree of Life, n. (2)

    PPo 8.255 8 In the following poem the soul is figured as the Phoenix alighting on Tuba, the Tree of Life...
    PPo 8.256 9 O high-flying falcon! the Tree of Life is thy perch;/ This nook of grief fits thee ill for a nest./

Tree of Time, n. (1)

    Tran 1.342 3 ...it would not misbecome us to inquire...what these companions and contemporaries of ours think and do, at least so far as these thoughts and actions appear to be...the inevitable flower of the Tree of Time.

treeless, adj. (1)

    ET16 5.276 6 We [Emerson and Carlyle]...took a carriage to Amesbury, passing by Old Sarum, a bare, treeless hill...

trees, n. (80)

    Nat 1.16 9 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them, as...forms of many trees...
    Nat 1.18 3 The leafless trees become spires of flame in the sunset...
    Nat 1.33 22 ...Long-lived trees make roots first;...
    AmS 1.97 21 ...those Savoyards...getting their livelihood by carving...went out one day...and discovered that they had whittled up the last of their pine trees.
    LE 1.169 6 ...the deep, echoing, aboriginal woods, where the living columns of the oak and fir tower up from the ruins of the trees of the last millenium;...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    LE 1.174 7 ...set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within, like forest trees and field flowers;...
    LT 1.262 9 ...trees make scenery, and constitute the hospitality of the landscape...
    YA 1.375 7 We plant trees...for remote generations.
    Hist 2.20 10 The Gothic church plainly originated in a rude adaptation of the forest trees...
    Hist 2.20 17 No one can walk in a road cut through pine woods, without being struck with the architectural appearance of the grove, especially in winter, when the barrenness of all other trees shows the low arch of the Saxons.
    SL 2.147 20 People are not the better for the sun and moon, the horizon and the trees;...
    SL 2.148 20 [A man] is like a quincunx of trees, which counts five,--east, west, north, or south;...
    Lov1 2.176 20 The trees of the forest, the waving grass and the peeping flowers have grown intelligent;...
    Lov1 2.177 11 ...[the lover] accosts the grass and the trees;...
    Exp 3.59 1 A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough, with planted trees on either side to tempt the traveller, but soon became narrow and narrower and ended in a squirrel-track and ran up a tree.
    Nat2 3.170 17 The incommunicable trees begin to persuade us to live with them...
    Nat2 3.172 16 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes;...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    Nat2 3.172 18 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the musical, steaming, odorous south wind, which converts all trees to wind-harps;...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    Nat2 3.181 22 ...the trees are imperfect men...
    Nat2 3.193 7 It is the same among the men and women as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence...
    NR 3.235 26 [Persons] melt so fast into each other that they are like grass and trees...
    PPh 4.71 22 [Socrates]...hated trees...
    SwM 4.141 13 Melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads when once the penetrating key-note of nature and spirit is sounded,--the earth-beat... which makes the tune to which the sun rolls...and the sap of trees.
    MoS 4.159 10 Men...like trees, receive a great part of their nourishment from the air.
    MoS 4.182 2 These particular griefs and crimes are the foliage and fruit of such trees as we see growing.
    ET5 5.94 27 Let India boast her palms, nor envy we/ The weeping amber, nor the spicy tree,/ While, by our oaks, those precious loads are borne,/ And realms commanded which those trees adorn./
    ET11 5.188 16 I pardoned high park-fences [in England], when I saw that... these have preserved...millennial trees...
    ET14 5.243 8 ...we find stumps of vast trees in our exhausted soils, and have received traditions of their ancient fertility to tillage...
    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.
    Pow 6.67 13 [Boniface] girdled the trees and cut off the horses' tails of the temperance people, in the night.
    Wth 6.84 11 ...Then flew the sail across the seas/ To feed the North from tropic trees;/...
    Wth 6.98 11 Every man may have occasion to consult books which he does not care to possess...pictures also of birds, beasts, fishes, shells, trees, flowers, whose names he desires to know.
    Wth 6.116 2 The devotion to these vines and trees [the land-owner] finds poisonous.
    Wth 6.120 15 [Mr. Cockayne] plants trees; but there must be crops, to keep the trees in ploughed land.
    Wth 6.120 17 [Cockayne] will have nothing to do with trees, but will have grass.
    Bty 6.281 18 We should go to the ornithologist with a new feeling if he could teach us what the social birds say when they sit in the autumn council, talking together in the trees.
    SS 7.1 17 In caves and hollow trees [Seyd] crept/...
    SS 7.4 11 When [my new friend] bought a house, the first thing he did was to plant trees.
    SS 7.4 13 [My new friend] could not enough conceal himself. Set a hedge here; set oaks there,--trees behind trees;...
    Civ 7.19 3 A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man is found,--a dweller...on trees, like an ape...is called Civilization.
    Art2 7.46 6 [The temple] is exalted by...its grouping with the houses, trees and towers in its vicinity.
    Farm 7.141 7 He who...plants a grove of trees by the roadside...makes a fortune...which is useful to his country long afterwards.
    Farm 7.148 2 The traveller who saw [the Sequoias] remembered his orchard at home, where every year...his forlorn trees pined like suffering virtue.
    Farm 7.151 16 [The first planter] cannot plough, or fell trees, or drain the rich swamp.
    Farm 7.152 7 As [the first planter's] family thrive, and other planters come up around him, he begins to fell trees and clear good land;...
    Suc 7.298 24 The owner of the wood-lot finds only a number of discolored trees...
    Res 8.151 23 To know the trees is, as Spenser says of the ash, for nothing ill.
    Res 8.152 22 You cannot tell when [the willows] do bud and blossom, these vivacious trees...
    Comc 8.163 27 ...in Euripides, the Bacchae, though unprovided of iron weapons...wounded their invaders with the boughs of trees which they carried...
    Imtl 8.334 27 The mind delights in immense time; delights...in the age of trees...
    PerF 10.75 13 [Labor] surprises in the perfect form and condition of trees clean of caterpillars and borers...
    Schr 10.288 3 ...[he that would sacrifice at the Muse's altar] may live on a heath without trees;...
    SlHr 10.440 3 [Samuel Hoar] was fond of farms and trees...
    Thor 10.453 16 A natural skill for mensuration, growing out of...his habit of ascertaining the measures and distances of objects which interested him, the size of trees...and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
    Thor 10.462 13 When I was planting forest trees, and had procured half a peck of acorns, [Thoreau] said that only a small portion of them would be sound...
    Thor 10.473 4 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon discovered...his knowledge...of trees, of birds, of Indian remains and the like...
    Thor 10.475 13 ...[Thoreau] said that Aeschylus and the Greeks, in describing Apollo and Orpheus, had given no song, or no good one. They ought not to have moved trees...
    Thor 10.482 27 Dead trees love the fire.
    HDC 11.33 5 Sometimes passing through thickets...and [the pilgrims'] feet clambering over the crossed trees...
    SMC 11.348 6 Think you these felt no charms/ In their gray homesteads and embowered farms?/ ... In fields their boyish feet had known?/ In trees their fathers' hands had set,/ And which with them had grown,/ Widening each year their leafy coronet?/
    EdAd 11.388 8 ...we believe politics to be...subject to the same laws with trees, earths and acids.
    SHC 11.431 4 A simultaneous movement has, in a hundred cities and towns in this country, selected some convenient piece of undulating ground with pleasant woods and waters; every family chooses its own clump of trees, and we lay the corpse in these leafy colonnades.
    SHC 11.431 6 A grove of trees,-what benefit or ornament is so fair and great?...
    SHC 11.435 14 ...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote century...the good, the wise and great will have left their names and virtues on the trees;...
    CPL 11.500 13 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man...known to our farmers as...better acquainted with their forests and meadows and trees than themselves...
    PLT 12.25 5 In the orchard many trees send out a moderate shoot in the first summer heat, and stop.
    PLT 12.26 2 ...the blood of two trees being mixed a new and excellent fruit is produced.
    II 12.80 22 Nineteen twentieths of their substance do trees draw from the air.
    CL 12.142 15 Good observers have the manners of trees and animals...
    CL 12.144 14 Twenty years ago in Northern Wisconsin the pinery was composed of trees so big, and so many of them, that it was impossible to walk in the country...
    CL 12.145 16 [The farmer's] trees are full of brandy.
    CL 12.145 18 [The Farmer] saves every drop of sap, as if it were wine. A few years ago those trees were whipsticks. Now, every one of them is worth a hundred dollars.
    CL 12.146 12 In old towns there are always certain paradises known to the pedestrian, old and deserted farms, where the neglected orchard has been left to itself, and whilst some of its trees decay, the hardier have held their own.
    CL 12.146 20 I know a whole district...where the apple-trees strive with and hold their ground against the native forest-trees: the apple growing with profusion that mocks the pains taken by careful cockneys, who come out into the country, plant young trees, and watch them dwindling.
    CL 12.147 26 ...[the man growing old against his will] may draw a moral from the fact that 't is the old trees that have all the beauty and grandeur.
    CL 12.152 2 ...[in October] all the trees are wind-harps...
    CW 12.174 5 [A man in his wood-lot] can fancy that...even the trees make little speeches or hint them.
    CW 12.178 3 I admire in trees the creation of property so clean of tears, or crime, or even care.
    CW 12.178 17 Lord Abercorn, when some one praised the rapid growth of his trees, replied, Sir, they have nothing else to do!
    ACri 12.305 5 Once in the fields with the lowing cattle, the birds, trees and waters...and I cannot tell whether this is Thessaly and Enna, or whether Concord and Acton.

tremble, v. (4)

    Chr1 3.98 7 What have I gained...that I do not tremble before the Eumenides...
    ET11 5.180 23 Mirabeau wrote prophetically from England, in 1784, If revolution break out in France, I tremble for the aristocracy...
    Chr2 10.95 2 High instincts, before which our mortal nature/ Doth tremble like a guilty thing surprised,-/...
    HDC 11.63 21 ...the country people came armed into Boston, on the afternoon (of Thursday, 18th April) in such rage and heat, as made us all tremble to think what would follow;...

trembled, v. (2)

    Cour 7.261 17 So great a soldier as the old French Marshal Montluc acknowledges that he has often trembled with fear...
    Pray 12.357 3 ...thou [God] didst beat back my weak sight upon myself, shooting out beams upon me after a vehement manner; and I even trembled between love and horror...

trembles, v. (2)

    MR 1.230 4 ...[the money-catcher] trembles and flees.
    MAng1 12.226 14 ...one day riding over [the Pons Palatinus] on horseback, with his friend Vasari, [Michelangelo] cried, George, this bridge trembles under us;...

trembling, adj. (1)

    Comp 2.91 4 Mountain tall and ocean deep/ Trembling balance duly keep./

tremblings, n. (2)

    Comp 2.112 12 The terror of cloudless noon...the instinct which leads every generous soul to impose on itself tasks of a noble asceticism and vicarious virtue, are the tremblings of the balance of justice through the heart and mind of man.
    ET15 5.270 19 Sympathizing with, and speaking for the class that rules the hour, yet being apprised of every ground-swell...[the editors of the London Times] detect the first tremblings of change.

tremendous, adj. (3)

    ET18 5.303 17 ...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...
    PerF 10.70 20 What agencies of electricity, gravity, light, affinity combine to make every plant what it is, and in a manner so quiet that the presence of these tremendous powers is not ordinarily suspected.
    Supl 10.164 25 'T is very wearisome, this straining talk, these experiences all exquisite, intense and tremendous...

tremens, delirium, n. (1)

    II 12.75 16 ...Nature is stronger than your will, and were you never so vigilant, you may rely on it, your nature and genius will certainly give your vigilance the slip though it had delirium tremens, and will educate the children by the inevitable infusions of its quality.

Tremont Street, No. 2000, (1)

    Clbs 7.244 18 If [my friend] were sure to find at No. 2000 Tremont Street what scholars were abroad after the morning studies were ended, Boston would shine as the New Jerusalem in his eyes.

Tremont Theatre, Boston, M (1)

    ShP 4.206 16 Malone, Warburton, Dyce and Collier have wasted their oil. The famed theatres, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, the Park and Tremont have vainly assisted.

tremors, n. (1)

    Wom 11.412 24 ...who suspects, in [love's] blushes and tremors, what tragedies, heroisms and immortalities are beyond it?

tremulous, adj. (4)

    MN 1.217 12 Is [Love] not a certain admirable wisdom...in which the individual is no longer his own foolish master...and consults every omen in nature with tremulous interest?
    Exp 3.60 20 Men live in their fancy, like drunkards whose hands are too soft and tremulous for successful labor.
    SwM 4.142 22 ...[Behmen] is tremulous with emotion...
    Ctr 6.129 4 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/ He must be musical,/ Tremulous, impressional/...

trench, n. (3)

    AmS 1.112 3 ...one design unites and animates the farthest pinnacle and the lowest trench.
    Cour 7.264 7 ...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.
    PerF 10.75 4 Where are the farmer's days gone? See, they are hid...in that excavated trench...

trenchant, adj. (2)

    Edc1 10.134 5 ...if [a man] be capable of dividing men by the trenchant sword of his thought, education should unsheathe and sharpen it;...
    Thor 10.463 6 [Thoreau!s] trenchant sense was never stopped by his rules of daily prudence...

trencher, n. (1)

    ACri 12.287 5 Into the exquisite refinement of his Academy, [Plato] introduces the low-born Socrates, relieving the purple diction by his perverse talk, his gallipots, and cook, and trencher, and cart-wheels...

trenchers, n. (1)

    HDC 11.40 1 Hard labor and spare diet [the settlers of Concord] had, and off wooden trenchers...

trenches, n. (4)

    LT 1.260 12 Here is this great fact of Conservatism, entrenched in its immense redoubt, with...the Atlantic and Pacific seas for its ditches and trenches;...
    War 11.163 17 This vast apparatus of artillery,...of stone bastions and trenches and embankments; this incessant patrolling of sentinels;...seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.
    SMC 11.372 13 If those writers could be here and fight all day, and sleep in the trenches, and be called up several times in the night by picket-firing, they would not call [the Army of the Potomac] inactive.
    CInt 12.114 18 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...and battle oft rumored to be marching up to her walls and suburb trenches,-yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...

trending, v. (1)

    Bost 12.190 23 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its shores trending steadily from the two arms which the capes of Massachusetts stretch out to sea, down to the bottom of the bay where the city domes and spires sparkle through the haze,-a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...

trespass, n. (1)

    Prch 10.215 3 Ascending through just degrees/ To a consummate holiness,/ As angel blind to trespass done,/ And bleaching all souls like the sun./

trespass, v. (3)

    SA 8.91 15 To trespass on a public servant is to trespass on a nation's time.
    SA 8.91 16 To trespass on a public servant is to trespass on a nation's time.
    Edc1 10.143 24 Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

tresses, n. (1)

    PPo 8.260 28 I know this perilous love-lane/ No whither the traveller leads,/ Yet my fancy the sweet scent of/ Thy tangled tresses feeds./

triad, n. (1)

    F 6.21 15 God himself cannot procure good for the wicked, said the Welsh triad.

Triad, Welsh, n. (1)

    PI 8.58 2 God himself cannot procure good for the wicked. Welsh Triad.

Triads, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.63 14 The Welsh Triads say, Many are the friends of the golden tongue.

Trial by Jury, n. (1)

    ET6 5.113 10 In an aristocratical country like England, not the Trial by Jury, but the dinner, is the capital institution.

trial, n. (21)

    Con 1.323 3 A state of war or anarchy...is so far valuable that it puts every man on trial.
    SL 2.158 5 In every troop of boys...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.
    Hsm1 2.262 13 ...the trial of persecution always proceeds.
    ET5 5.82 1 ...the universe of Englishmen will suspend their judgment until the trial can be had.
    ET5 5.82 4 ...[Englishmen] want a working plan...and will sit out the trial...
    Pow 6.59 8 When a new boy comes into school...that happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the new-comer...
    Clbs 7.247 11 I remember a social experiment...wherein it appeared that each of the members fancied he was in need of society, but himself unpresentable. On trial they all found that they could be tolerated by, and could tolerate, each other.
    SA 8.101 12 ...in the last age, this system [of hereditary nobility] has been on its trial...
    Elo2 8.113 8 After Sheridan's speech in the trial of Warren Hastings, Mr. Pitt moved an adjournment, that the House might recover from the overpowering effect of Sheridan's oratory.
    PC 8.207 7 The heart still beats with the public pulse of joy that the country has withstood the rude trial which threatened its existence...
    Aris 10.37 5 The game of the world is a perpetual trial of strength between man and events.
    Aris 10.50 6 When the lawyer tries his case in court he himself is also on trial...
    MMEm 10.412 16 ...when Nature beams with such excess of beauty, when the heart thrills with hope in its Author...it exults, too fondly perhaps for a state of trial.
    MMEm 10.419 14 I [Mary Moody Emerson] praise Him, though when my strength of body falters, it is a trial not easily described.
    LS 11.19 24 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples...and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it.
    EWI 11.106 17 Very unwilling had that great lawyer [Lord Mansfield] been to reverse the late decisions [on slavery]; he suggested twice from the bench, in the course of the trial [of George Somerset], how the question might be got rid of...
    FSLC 11.182 24 ...[the crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] showed...how competent we are to give counsel and help in a day of trial.
    ALin 11.332 4 In a host of young men that start together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial;...
    Koss 11.400 10 You [Kossuth] have earned your own nobility at home. We [Americans] admit you ad eundem (as they say at College). We admit you to the same degree, without new trial.
    FRep 11.527 19 The legislature, to which every good farmer goes once on trial, is a superior academy.
    CInt 12.116 22 ...the new times are the times of arraignment, times of trial...

trials, n. (14)

    Con 1.305 20 You quarrel with my conservatism, but it is to build up one of your own; it will have a new beginning, but...the same trials, the same passions;...
    Tran 1.351 20 In other places other men have encountered sharp trials, and behaved themselves well.
    Tran 1.352 7 [Transcendentalists] are exercised in their own spirit with queries which acquaint them...with the trials of the bravest heroes.
    Comp 2.101 16 Every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is...a correlative of every other. Each one is an entire emblem of human life; of...its trials...
    ET10 5.159 9 After a few trials, [Richard Roberts] succeeded, and in 1830 procured a patent for his self-acting mule;...
    Pow 6.55 6 During...trials of strength...a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries...
    Pow 6.72 23 ...[Michel Angelo] went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow, mixed them with glue and water with his own hands, and having after many trials at last suited himself, climbed his ladders, and painted away...the sibyls and prophets.
    Cour 7.275 13 ...the rack, the fire...appear trials beyond the endurance of common humanity;...
    SA 8.95 17 ...there are trials enough of nerve and character...in privatest circles.
    Elo2 8.129 5 Lord Ashley, in 1696, while the bill for regulating trials in cases of high treason was pending, attempting to utter a premeditated speech in Parliament...fell into such a disorder that he was not able to proceed;...
    GSt 10.499 1 Who, when great trials come,/ Nor seeks nor shunnes them; but doth calmly stay/ Till he the thing and the example weigh:/ All being brought into a summe/ What place or person calls for he doth pay./ George Herbert.
    FSLN 11.240 23 ...mountains of difficulty must be surmounted, stern trials met...before [man] dare say, I am free.
    Mem 12.90 19 The sparrow, the ant, the worm, have the same memory as we. If you...offer them somewhat disagreeable to their senses, they make one or two trials, and then once for all avoid it.
    CInt 12.125 23 ...how often we have had repeated the trials of the young man who made no figure at college because his own methods were new and extraordinary...

triangle, n. (1)

    Civ 7.29 15 ...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and his second, and this line afforded him a respectable base for his triangle.

triangles, n. (1)

    NR 3.240 3 Since we are all so stupid, what benefit that there should be two stupidities! It is like that brute advantage so essential to astronomy, of having the diameter of the earth's orbit for a base of its triangles.

tribe, n. (32)

    Hist 2.22 7 The nomads of Africa were constrained to wander, by the attacks of the gad-fly, which drives the cattle mad, and so compels the tribe to emigrate in the rainy season...
    Comp 2.97 15 There is somewhat that resembles...man and woman...in each individual of every animal tribe.
    ET4 5.51 22 ...I fancied I could leave quite aside the choice of a tribe as [the Englishman's] lineal progenitors.
    ET4 5.54 13 We must use the popular category...for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise we are presently confounded when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.
    ET8 5.134 5 ...however derived,--whether a happier tribe or mixture of tribes, the air, or what circumstance that mixed for them the golden mean of temperament,--here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...
    ET8 5.141 16 Does the early history of each tribe show the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters?
    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?
    ET11 5.194 16 With the tribe of artistes, including the musical tribe, the patrician morgue [in England] keeps no terms, but excludes them.
    ET11 5.194 17 With the tribe of artistes, including the musical tribe, the patrician morgue [in England] keeps no terms, but excludes them.
    ET16 5.281 22 The heroic antiquary [William Stukeley]...connects [Stonehenge] with the oldest monuments and religion of the world, and with the courage of his tribe, does not stick to say, the Deity who made the world by the scheme of Stonehenge.
    F 6.6 14 Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town.
    F 6.16 4 ...the steadiness with which victory adheres to one tribe and defeat to another, is as uniform as the superposition of strata.
    Ctr 6.153 11 [The countryman in the city] has come among a supple, glib-tongued tribe...
    SA 8.100 1 In a whole nation of Hottentots there shall not be one valuable man,--valuable out of his tribe.
    Res 8.140 16 The marked events in history...each of these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
    Dem1 10.16 18 In the popular belief, ghosts are a selecting tribe...
    Aris 10.42 20 The [ancient] chief is taller by a head than any of his tribe.
    SovE 10.190 8 Community of property is tried, as when a Tartar horde or an Indian tribe roam over a vast tract for pasturage or hunting;...
    HDC 11.36 8 Tahattawan, the Sachem [of the Massachusetts Indians]... lived near Nashawtuck, now Lee's Hill. Their tribe, once numerous, the epidemic had reduced.
    HDC 11.51 4 Those [Indians] who dwelled by ponds and rivers had some tincture of civility, but the hunters of the tribe were found intractable at catechism.
    LVB 11.90 3 The interest always felt in the aboriginal population...has been heightened in regard to this tribe [Cherokee].
    LVB 11.90 13 ...we have witnessed with sympathy the painful labors of these red men [the Cherokees]...to borrow and domesticate in the tribe the arts and customs of the Caucasian race.
    LVB 11.96 13 I write thus, sir [Van Buren]...to pray with one voice more that you, whose hands are strong with the delegated power of fifteen millions of men, will avert with that might the terrific injury which threatens the Cherokee tribe.
    War 11.151 20 As far as history has preserved to us the slow unfoldings of any savage tribe, it is not easy to see how war could be avoided...
    War 11.152 10 Not only every tribe has war-gods, religious festivals in victory, but religious wars.
    War 11.153 4 The strong tribe...attack and conquer their neighbors...
    War 11.153 9 New territory, augmented numbers and extended interests call out new virtues and abilities, and the tribe makes long strides.
    War 11.154 19 ...[war] is exhibited to us continually in the dumb show of brute nature, where war between tribes, and between individuals of the same tribe, perpetually rages.
    War 11.159 7 I read in Williams's History of Maine, that Assacombuit, the Sagamore of the Anagunticook tribe, was remarkable for his turpitude and ferocity...
    War 11.159 19 This valuable person [Assacombuit]...took to killing his own neighbors and kindred, with such appetite that his tribe combined against him...
    FSLN 11.229 26 A barbarous tribe of good stock will, by means of their best heads, secure substantial liberty.
    CL 12.145 4 The Rosaceous tribe in botany...are coeval with man.

tribes, n. (33)

    Nat 1.18 25 The tribes of birds and insects...follow each other...
    Con 1.304 19 ...the Egyptians and Chaldeans...passed among the junior tribes of Greece and Italy for sacred nations.
    Hist 2.21 17 ...the Persian court in its magnificent era never gave over the nomadism of its barbarous tribes...
    Pt1 3.40 22 All the creatures by pairs and by tribes pour into [the poet's] mind as into a Noah's ark...
    Pt1 3.41 15 ...in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants...
    Mrs1 3.131 3 The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris by the purity of their tournure.
    NR 3.228 18 The magnetism which arranges tribes and races in one polarity is alone to be respected;...
    ET4 5.52 3 ...[the English character] is not so much a history of one or of certain tribes of Saxons, Jutes, or Frisians...
    ET5 5.74 10 ...I doubt not, the [English] nobles are of both tribes [Norman and Saxon], and the workers of both...
    ET5 5.88 25 I know not from which of the tribes and temperaments that went to the composition of the people [of England] this tenacity was supplied, but they clinch every nail they drive.
    ET5 5.99 8 Every nation has yielded some good wit, if, as has chanced to many tribes, only one.
    ET7 5.116 1 The Teutonic tribes have a national singleness of heart...
    ET8 5.134 5 ...however derived,--whether a happier tribe or mixture of tribes, the air, or what circumstance that mixed for them the golden mean of temperament,--here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...
    F 6.7 26 The cholera, the small-pox, have proved as mortal to some tribes as a frost to the crickets...
    F 6.16 3 ...the scale of tribes...is as uniform as the superposition of strata.
    Wsp 6.205 12 The interior tribes of our Indians and some of the Pacific islanders flog their gods when things take an unfavorable turn.
    Civ 7.20 3 ...in mankind to-day the savage tribes are gradually extinguished rather than civilized.
    Civ 7.20 12 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth, as we say...is made by tribes.
    WD 7.167 9 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God...names of the sun...indicating that those ancient men, in their attempts to express the Supreme Power of the universe, called him the Day, and that this name was accepted by all the tribes.
    PI 8.32 11 Of course, we know what you say, that legends are found in all tribes,--but this legend is different.
    QO 8.203 10 The earliest describers of savage life, as...Alexander Henry's travels among our Indian tribes, have a charm of truth...
    PPo 8.236 10 As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi] seemed to bask, to dream and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than still to entertain his ear/ And pass the burning summer-time/ In the palm-grove with a rhyme;/ Heedless that each cunning word/ Tribes and ages overheard/...
    PPo 8.239 21 When the bard improvised an amatory ditty, the young [Bedouin] chief's excitement was almost beyond control. The other Bedouins were scarcely less moved by these rude measures, which have the same kind of effect on the wild tribes of the Persian mountains.
    Aris 10.41 22 In the Norse Edda it appears as the curious but excellent policy of contending tribes, when tired of war, to exchange hostages...
    Edc1 10.123 3 With the key of the secret he marches faster/ From strength to strength, and for night brings day,/ While classes or tribes too weak to master/ The flowing conditions of life, give way./
    Prch 10.221 17 Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is without God in the world. To wander all day in the sunlight among the tribes of animals, unrelated to anything better;...
    Schr 10.271 10 There could always be traced, in the most barbarous tribes... some vestiges of a faith in genius...
    HDC 11.50 20 The interest of the Puritans in the natives was heightened by a suspicion at that time prevailing that these were the lost ten tribes of Israel.
    HDC 11.53 12 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...
    HDC 11.62 9 ...a few vagrant [Indian] families, that are now pensioners on the bounty of Massachusetts, are all that is left of the twenty tribes.
    LVB 11.95 11 ...the steps of this crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] follow each other...at such fatally quick time, that the millions of virtuous citizens...must shut their eyes until the last howl and wailing of these tormented villages and tribes shall afflict the ear of the world.
    War 11.153 24 [Alexander's conquest of the East] introduced the arts of husbandry among tribes of hunters and shepherds.
    War 11.154 18 ...[war] is exhibited to us continually in the dumb show of brute nature, where war between tribes, and between individuals of the same tribe, perpetually rages.

tribunal, n. (6)

    Chr1 3.110 1 John Bradshaw, says Milton, appears like a consul...so that not on the tribunal only, but throughout his life, you would regard him as sitting in judgment upon kings.
    Insp 8.294 8 We esteem nations important, until we discover...later, that it is...at last...the lowliness, the outpouring, the large equality to truth of a single mind,-as if in the narrow walls of a human heart...the tribunal by which the universe is judged, found room to exist.
    Chr2 10.113 8 ...it is all in all how you stand to your own tribunal.
    SovE 10.187 23 In the court of law the judge sits over the culprit, but in the court of life in the same hour the judge also stands as culprit before a true tribunal.
    MoL 10.255 10 ...in the narrow walls of a human heart...the tribunal by which the universe is judged, found room to exist.
    MLit 12.313 23 ...the single soul feels its right...to summon all facts and parties before its tribunal.

tribune, n. (3)

    Pow 6.70 5 March without the people, said a French deputy from the tribune, and you march into night...
    Elo1 7.78 10 Julius Caesar said to Metellus, when that tribune interfered to hinder him from entering the Roman treasury, Young man, it is easier for me to put you to death than to say that I will;...
    LLNE 10.344 10 Theodore Parker was...the tribune of the people...

Tribune, New York, n. (2)

    WD 7.165 19 I believe they have ceased to publish the Newgate Calendar and the Pirate's Own Book since the family newspapers, namely the New York Tribune and the London Times, have quite superseded them in the freshness as well as the horror of their records of crime.
    LLNE 10.359 22 Mr. George Ripley was the President [of the West Roxbury Association], and I think Mr. Charles Dana (afterwards well known as one of the editors of the New York Tribune) was the Secretary.

tribunes, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.256 3 Scipio, charged with peculation, refuses to do himself so great a disgrace as to wait for justification, though he had the scroll of his accounts in his hands, but tears it to pieces before the tribunes.

tributaries, n. (2)

    UGM 4.23 10 I like a master standing firm on legs of iron...drawing all men by fascination into tributaries and supporters of his power.
    Boks 7.204 14 I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

tribute, n. (10)

    Nat 1.9 11 ...every hour and season yields its tribute of delight;...
    Nat2 3.177 19 Frivolity is a most unfit tribute to Pan...
    Pol1 3.220 19 We...pay unwilling tribute to governments founded on force.
    NMW 4.243 27 [Napoleon's] impatience at levity was...an oblique tribute of respect to those able persons who commanded his regard...
    DL 7.116 2 Aristides was made general receiver of Greece, to collect the tribute which each state was to furnish against the barbarian.
    Thor 10.460 12 ...[Thoreau] paid the tribute of his uniform respect to the Anti-Slavery party.
    HDC 11.75 25 [the minute-men] supposed they had a right to their corn and their cattle, without paying tribute to any but their own governors.
    ACiv 11.309 11 I hope it is not a fatal objection to this policy [of emancipation] that it is simple and beneficent thoroughly, which is the tribute of a moral action.
    SHC 11.428 16 Learn from the loved one's rest serenity;/ To-morrow that soft bell for thee shall sound,/ And thou repose beneath the whispering tree,/ One tribute more to this submissive ground;-/...
    Scot 11.463 7 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial anniversary of his birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled...

trick, n. (15)

    SL 2.163 17 ...why should we be cowed by the name of Action? 'T is a trick of the senses,--no more.
    Pt1 3.28 21 ...never can any advantage be taken of nature by a trick.
    Exp 3.47 6 'T is the trick of nature thus to degrade to-day;...
    Exp 3.55 7 This onward trick of nature is too strong for us...
    Gts 3.165 15 When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,--no more.
    Pol1 3.208 8 What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politic, which now for ages has signified cunning, intimating that the State is a trick?
    NR 3.239 14 In every conversation, even the highest, there is a certain trick...
    NR 3.239 18 ...[each man] would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence.
    ET5 5.78 11 The English game is...a rough tug without trick or dodging...
    Wth 6.108 26 One might say...that nothing is cheap or dear, and that the apparent disparities that strike us are only a shopman's trick of concealing the damage in your bargain.
    Ctr 6.152 7 ...one of the traits down in the books as distinguishing the Anglo-Saxon is a trick of self-disparagement.
    Ill 6.310 27 I own I did not like the [Mammoth] cave so well for eking out its sublimities with this theatrical trick.
    DL 7.124 14 ...we soon catch the trick of each man's conversation...
    Thor 10.479 9 A certain habit of antagonism defaced [Thoreau's] earlier writings,-a trick of rhetoric not quite outgrown in his later, of substituting for the obvious word and thought its diametrical opposite.
    ACri 12.283 1 Literature is but a poor trick...when it busies itself to make words pass for things;...

tricked, v. (2)

    Nat 1.11 8 ...nature is not always tricked in holiday attire...
    ET5 5.79 1 ...in a bargain, no prospect of advantage is so dear to the [English] merchant as the thought of being tricked is mortifying.

trickle, v. (1)

    HDC 11.33 14 Some of [the pilgrims], having no leggins, have had the blood trickle down at every step.

trickles, v. (1)

    PLT 12.51 21 Nature having for capital this rill [of thought], drop by drop, as it trickles from the rock of ages...she husbands and hives...

tricks, n. (14)

    LE 1.184 2 Let [the scholar]...be an artist superior to tricks of art.
    Tran 1.352 23 ...in the space of an hour probably, I was let down from this height; I was at my old tricks, the selfish member of a selfish society.
    OS 2.268 27 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that overpowering reality which confutes our tricks and talents...
    Exp 3.57 17 Life is not worth the taking, to do tricks in.
    Chr1 3.92 23 [The natural merchant's] natural probity combines with his insight into the fabric of society to put him above tricks...
    NR 3.239 9 ...Nature, who abhors mannerism, has set her heart on breaking up all styles and tricks...
    ShP 4.207 10 These tricks of [Shakespeare's] magic spoil for us the illusions of the green-room.
    ET14 5.250 6 ...where impatience of the tricks of men makes Nemesis amiable...the inevitable recoil is to heroism...
    Wth 6.106 27 ...however wary we are of the falsehoods and petty tricks which we suicidally play off on each other, every man has a certain satisfaction whenever his dealing touches on the inevitable facts;...
    Clbs 7.232 1 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the company of those who have convivial talent. But the moment they meet, to be sure they begin to be something else than they were; they...try many fantastic tricks...
    QO 8.195 13 A man hears a fine sentence out of Swedenborg...and is very merry at heart that he has now got so fine a thing. Translate it out of the new words into his own usual phrase, and he will wonder again at his own simplicity, such tricks do fine words play with us.
    Edc1 10.126 22 Those [animals] called domestic are capable of learning of man a few tricks of utility or amusement...
    Edc1 10.143 11 Let [the youth]...read Tom Brown at Oxford,-better yet, read Hodson's Life-Hodson who took prisoner the king of Delhi. They teach the same truth,-a trust...in your own worth, and not in tricks, plotting, or patronage.
    Mem 12.104 18 ...when late in autumn we hear rarely a bluebird's notes they are sweet by reminding us of the spring. Well, it is so with other tricks of memory.

tri-color, n. (1)

    ACiv 11.296 3 To the mizzen, the main, and the fore/ Up with it once more!-/ The old tri-color,/ The ribbon of power,/ The white, blue and red which the nations adore!/

tricolore, Grenadier, Le, n. (1)

    Comc 8.171 21 A lady of high rank, but of lean figure, had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier Tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure...

tried, adj. (3)

    Fdsp 2.197 12 I hear what you say of the admirable parts and tried temper of the party you praise...
    FSLC 11.183 18 ...only persons who were known and tried benefactors are found standing for freedom...
    HCom 11.341 4 ...I think it is not in man to see, without a feeling of pride and pleasure, a tried soldier...

tried, v. (39)

    MR 1.255 3 The virtue of this principle [Love] in human society in application to great interests is obsolete and forgotten. Once or twice in history it has been tried in illustrious instances, with signal success.
    LT 1.265 8 Let us paint...the woman of the world who has tried and knows;...
    Con 1.308 13 I am unworthy to arraign your manner of living, until I too have been tried.
    SR 2.46 21 ...none but [man] knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
    Comp 2.105 20 So signal is the failure of all attempts to make this separation of the good from the tax, that the experiment would not be tried... but for the circumstance that when the disease began in the will...the intellect is at once infected...
    Nat2 3.187 16 Great causes are never tried on their merits;...
    Pol1 3.219 23 The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
    NER 3.264 21 ...it may easily be questioned...whether such a retreat [to associations] does not promise to become an asylum to those who have tried and failed...
    NER 3.269 15 ...some doubt is felt by good and wise men whether really the happiness and probity of men is increased by the culture of the mind in those disciplines to which we give the name of education. Unhappily too the doubt comes...from persons who have tried these methods.
    MoS 4.174 13 My astonishing San Carlo thought the lawgivers and saints infected. They found the ark empty; saw, and would not tell; and tried to choke off their approaching followers, by saying, Action, action, my dear fellows, is for you!
    MoS 4.183 6 All moods may be safely tried...
    ShP 4.193 23 Shakspeare...esteemed the mass of old plays waste stock, in which any experiment could be freely tried.
    NMW 4.234 27 In vain several officers and myself were placed on the slope of a hill to produce the effect: their balls and mine rolled upon the ice without breaking it up. Seeing that, I tried a simple method of elevating light howitzers.
    ET5 5.74 15 The island [England] was a prize for the best race. Each of the dominant races tried its fortune in turn.
    ET6 5.115 3 ...[at an English dress-dinner] one meets now and then with polished men who know every thing, have tried every thing, and can do every thing...
    Elo1 7.87 6 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was. The court, thus pushed, tried words...
    Cour 7.266 17 Plutarch relates that the Pythoness who tried to prophesy without command in the Temple at Delphi...fell into convulsions and died.
    Suc 7.304 8 ...it occurs to [the lover] that [he and his beloved] might somehow meet independently of time and place. How delicious the belief that he could...hold instant and sempiternal communication! In solitude, in banishment...the experiment was eagerly tried.
    SA 8.97 1 When Molyneux fancied that the observations of the nutation of the earth's axis destroyed Newton's theory of gravitation, he tried to break it softly to Sir Isaac...
    SA 8.106 8 ...[the debauchee of sentiment] believes his disease is blooming health. A rough realist or a phalanx of realists would be prescribed; but that is like proposing to mend your bad road with diamonds. Then poverty, famine, war, imprisonment, might be tried.
    Elo2 8.127 19 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed, and in his prayer he hesitated, he tried to make soft approaches...
    Aris 10.48 15 ...society must have the benefit of the best leaders. How to obtain them? Birth has been tried and failed.
    SovE 10.190 7 Community of property is tried...
    Plu 10.320 26 In spite of its carelessness and manifold faults, which, I doubt not, have tried the patience of its present learned editor and corrector, I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals]...
    LLNE 10.368 7 People cannot live together in any but necessary ways. The only candidates who will present themselves will be those who have tried the experiment of independence and ambition, and have failed;...
    EzRy 10.382 2 ...when fitted for college, the son [Ezra Ripley] could not be contented with teaching, which he had tried the preceding winter.
    SlHr 10.443 6 I used to feel that [Samuel Hoar's] conscience was a kind of meter of the degree of honesty in the country, by which on each occasion it was tried, and sometimes found wanting.
    Thor 10.459 20 [Thoreau] listened impatiently to news or bonmots gleaned from London circles; and though he tried to be civil, these anecdotes fatigued him.
    Thor 10.462 19 When I was planting forest trees, and had procured half a peck of acorns, [Thoreau]...proceeded to...select the sound ones. But finding this took time, he said, I think if you put them all into water the good ones will sink; which experiment we tried with success.
    War 11.152 27 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...
    War 11.173 2 We are affected...by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping...and whose appearance is the arrival of so much life and virtue. In dangerous times they are presently tried...
    JBS 11.276 12 Then angrily the people cried,/ The loss outweighs the profit far;/ Our goods suffice us as they are:/ We will not have them tried./
    ALin 11.334 5 [The Gettyburg Address] and one other American speech, that of John Brown to the court that tried him, and a part of Kossuth's speech at Birmingham, can only be compared with each other...
    ALin 11.335 10 In four years...[Lincoln's] endurance, his fertility of resources, his magnanimity, were sorely tried...
    SMC 11.365 1 [George Prescott writes] The major had tried to discourage me;-said, perhaps, if I carried [tent-poles] over, some other company would get them;...
    Koss 11.398 11 We [people of Concord] please ourselves that in you [Kossuth] we meet one whose temper was long since tried in the fire...
    CL 12.158 1 There are probably many in this audience who have tried the experiment on a hilltop...of bending the head so as to look at the landscape with your eyes upside down.
    CL 12.165 11 Swedenborg or Behman or Plato tried to decipher this hieroglyphic [of Nature]...
    Let 12.394 9 Excellent reasons [the correspondents] have shown why something better should be tried.

Trientalis, n. (1)

    OA 7.329 9 In process of time, [Linnaeus] finds with delight the little white Trientalis, the only plant with seven petals and sometimes seven stamens, which constitutes a seventh class in conformity with his system.

tries, v. (12)

    Nat 1.34 19 There sits the Sphinx at the road-side, and...as each prophet comes by, he tries his fortune at reading her riddle.
    Tran 1.339 7 ...[man] is balked when he tries to fling himself into this enchanted circle...
    SR 2.49 2 ...looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, [the boy] tries and sentences them on their merits...
    SR 2.76 7 A sturdy lad...who in turn tries all the professions...is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
    OS 2.290 5 From that inspiration [of the soul] the man comes back with a changed tone. He does not talk with men with an eye to their opinion. He tries them.
    Wth 6.119 20 [A farm] requires as much watching as if you were decanting wine from a cask. The farmer knows what to do with it...but a blunderhead comes out of Cornhill, tries his hand, and it all leaks away.
    DL 7.103 17 [The nestler's] unaffected lamentations when he lifts up his voice on high, or, more beautiful, the sobbing child,--the face all liquid grief, as he tries to swallow his vexation,--soften all hearts to pity...
    PI 8.4 1 ...the most imaginative and abstracted person...never tries to kindle his oven with water...
    Aris 10.50 5 When the lawyer tries his case in court he himself is also on trial...
    Chr2 10.119 5 [Growth] is not dangerous, any more than the mother's withdrawing her hands from the tottering babe, at his first walk across the nursery-floor: the child fears and cries, but achieves the feat, instantly tries it again...
    Wom 11.420 22 If new power is here, of a character...which...tries and condemns our religion, customs, laws...you [women] can well leave voting to the old dead people.
    PLT 12.46 26 A man tries to speak [the truth] and his voice is like the hiss of a snake...

trifle, n. (17)

    Nat 1.10 14 ...to be brothers, to be acquaintances, master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance.
    AmS 1.111 22 ...let me see every trifle bristling with the polarity that ranges it instantly on an eternal law;...
    AmS 1.112 1 ...there is no trifle, there is no puzzle...
    LE 1.171 24 ...the first observation you make...though on the veriest trifle, may open a new view of nature and of man...
    LT 1.280 26 Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and... he not only in his humility...feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too.
    Con 1.312 13 Is it not exaggerating a trifle to insist on a formal acknowledgment of your claims...
    SR 2.56 21 ...when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
    Fdsp 2.204 17 We are holden to men by every sort of tie...by every circumstance and badge and trifle...
    OS 2.290 25 ...the soul that ascends to worship the great God...dwells...in the earnest experience of the common day,--by reason of the present moment and the mere trifle having become porous to thought...
    NER 3.274 20 The heroes of ancient and modern fame...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully played, but the stake not to be so valued but that any time it could be held as a trifle light as air...
    ShP 4.202 10 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age mischooses the object on which...all eyes are turned; the care with which it registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth and King James...
    DL 7.124 10 In men, it is their...removal to the East or to the West, or some other magnified trifle which makes the meridian movement...
    Suc 7.302 25 I am always, [Socrates] says, asserting that I happen to know... nothing but a mere trifle relating to matters of love;...
    Chr2 10.122 5 There is no trifle, no obscurity to [a well-principled man]...
    MMEm 10.418 3 My [Mary Moody Emerson's] uncle has been the means of lessening my property. Ridiculous to wound him for that. He was honestly seeking his own. But at last, this very night, the bargain is closed, and I am delighted with myself:-my dear self has done well. Never did I so exult in a trifle.
    CL 12.161 16 In a water-party in which many scholars joined, I noted that the skipper of the boat was much the best companion. The scholars made puns. the skipper saw instructive facts on every side, and there was no trifle to him.
    ACri 12.302 4 'T is very easy...to represent the farm, which stands for the organization of the gravest needs, as a poor trifle of pea-vines, turnips and hen-roosts.

trifle, v. (3)

    ShP 4.219 14 The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle, with Shakspeare the player...
    F 6.19 22 We cannot trifle with this reality...
    PLT 12.41 25 Do not trifle with your perceptions...

trifled, v. (3)

    Pol1 3.205 3 ...things refuse to be trifled with.
    GoW 4.275 26 [Goethe] hates to be trifled with...
    ET4 5.68 26 ...[the English] know where their war-dogs lie. Cromwell, Blake, Marlborough, Chatham, Nelson and Wellington are not to be trifled with...

trifler, n. (6)

    ET11 5.173 3 ...we take sides as we read for the loyal England, and King Charles's return to his right with his Cavaliers,--knowing what a heartless trifler he is...
    Supl 10.175 25 ...[Nature] brings the most heartless trifler to determined purpose presently.
    LLNE 10.349 18 Genius hitherto has been shamefully misapplied, a mere trifler.
    Carl 10.494 11 [Carlyle] hates a literary trifler...
    EWI 11.131 19 The Governor of Massachusetts is a trifler; the State-House in Boston is a play-house;...if they make laws which they cannot execute.
    MLit 12.335 12 Withered though he stand, and trifler though he be, the august spirit of the world looks out from [man's] eyes.

triflers, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.154 11 Let these triflers [who scream and bewail] put us out of conceit with petty comforts.
    CbW 6.248 15 What quantities of fribbles, paupers, invalids, epicures, antiquaries, politicians, thieves and triflers of both sexes might be advantageously spared!

trifles, n. (48)

    DSA 1.143 25 Society lives to trifles...
    MR 1.244 3 We spend our incomes...for a hundred trifles...and not for the things of a man.
    LT 1.268 4 Let us not see the foundations...of a new and better order of things laid, with...an attention preoccupied with trifles.
    LT 1.281 3 What are no trifles to [our young people], they naturally think are no trifles to Pompey.
    LT 1.281 4 What are no trifles to [our young people], they naturally think are no trifles to Pompey.
    Con 1.296 1 Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as that between Conservatism and Innovation]...must have a correspondent depth of seat in the human constitution. ... It is...the appearance in trifles of the two poles of nature
    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.
    SR 2.72 6 At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.
    Fdsp 2.198 16 ...Dear Friend, If I was...sure to match my mood with thine, I should never think again of trifles in relation to thy comings and goings.
    Fdsp 2.202 10 ...all the speed in that contest [of friendship] depends on intrinsic nobleness and the contempt of trifles.
    Prd1 2.225 18 Time...is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters.
    OS 2.286 1 Against their will [men] exhibit those decisive trifles by which character is read.
    Pt1 3.12 8 That will reconcile me to life and renovate nature, to see trifles animated by a tendency...
    Exp 3.78 20 ...[murder] does not unsettle [the murderer] or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles;...
    Mrs1 3.150 2 Woman, with her instinct of behavior, instantly detects in man a love of trifles...
    Nat2 3.170 19 The incommunicable trees begin to persuade us to...quit our life of solemn trifles.
    GoW 4.273 9 The immense horizon which journeys with us lends its majesty to trifles...
    ET10 5.170 23 A civility of trifles...takes place [in England]...
    ET14 5.238 26 One hint of Franklin, or Watt, or Dalton, or Davy...was worth all [Bacon's] lifetime of exquisite trifles.
    ET14 5.258 18 For a self-conceited modish life, made up of trifles...there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness.
    Ctr 6.153 7 ...cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.
    Bhr 6.182 21 A calm and resolute bearing...an embellishment of trifles...are essential to the courtier;...
    CbW 6.247 11 [Fine society] is...an affair...of gloves, cards and elegance in trifles.
    CbW 6.263 15 I figure [sickness] as a...phantom...afflicting other souls with meanness and mopings and with ministration to its voracity of trifles.
    Ill 6.321 1 That story of Thor...describes us, who are contending, amid these seeming trifles, with the supreme energies of nature.
    Elo1 7.89 16 Every fact gains consequence by [the orator's] naming it, and trifles become important.
    DL 7.117 27 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the mountains...to be...a hall...whose inmates...do not ask your house how theirs should be kept. They have aims; they cannot pause for trifles.
    Clbs 7.245 17 [A club] requires people...who sink trifles and know solid values...
    SA 8.86 9 It is an excellent custom of the Quakers...the silent prayer before meals. ... What a check to the violent manners which sometimes come to the table,--of wrath, and whining, and heat in trifles!
    Insp 8.274 11 ...where is...a Franklin who can draw off electricity from Jove himself, and convey it into the arts of life, inspire men...withdraw them from the life of trifles and gain and comfort...
    Insp 8.289 22 ...in regard to some apparent trifles there is great agreement as to their annoyance.
    Insp 8.290 4 ...I remember that Thoreau, with his robust will, yet found certain trifles disturbing the delicacy of that health which composition exacted...
    Aris 10.53 10 [The eloquent man] is entitled to neglect trifles.
    Aris 10.65 23 To many the word [Gentleman] expresses...only graceful manners, and independence in trifles;...
    Edc1 10.126 12 ...when one and the same man...leaves the din of trifles...to enter into the quasi-omniscience of high thought...all limits disappear.
    Edc1 10.141 19 ...because of the disturbing effect of passion and sense, which by a multitude of trifles impede the mind's eye from the quiet search of that fine horizon-line which truth keeps,-the way to knowledge and power has ever been an escape from too much engagement with affairs and possessions;...
    SovE 10.203 10 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion...perhaps on a sublime national victory or a peace. But that, be sure, is not the religion of the universal, unsleeping providence, which lurks in trifles...
    Prch 10.235 27 A wise man advises that we should see to it that we read and speak two or three reasonable words, every day, amid the crowd of affairs and the noise of trifles.
    MMEm 10.406 10 Scorn trifles...
    MMEm 10.418 27 Should I [Mary Moody Emerson] take so much care to save a few dollars? Never was I so much ashamed. Did I say with what rapture I might dispose of them to the poor? Pho! self-preservation, dignity, confidence in the future, contempt of trifles! Alas, I am disgraced.
    Thor 10.454 23 [Thoreau] had...no appetites, no passions, no taste for elegant trifles.
    FSLC 11.189 14 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...and that this owning of a law...constituted the explanation of life, the excuse and indemnity for the errors and calamities which sadden it. In long years consumed in trifles, they remember these moments, and are consoled.
    Wom 11.409 18 [Women] embellish trifles.
    Wom 11.418 9 [Women] have tears, and gayeties, and faintings, and glooms and devotion to trifles.
    FRep 11.533 15 We import trifles...
    Milt1 12.260 9 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument...
    PPr 12.388 17 Let who will be the dupe of trifles, [Carlyle] cannot keep his eye off from that gracious Infinite which embosoms us.
    Trag 12.412 27 [Some men] treat trifles with a tragic air.

trifles, v. (1)

    ET14 5.258 24 For a self-conceited modish life...there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness. That astonishes and disconcerts English decorum. For once, there is...power which trifles with time and space.

trifling, adj. (9)

    YA 1.372 18 The census of the population is found to keep an invariable equality in the sexes, with a trifling predominance in favor of the male...
    UGM 4.21 22 I go to Boston or New York and run up and down on my affairs: they are sped, but so is the day. I am vexed by the recollection of this price I have paid for a trifling advantage.
    Ctr 6.151 8 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Goethe, who preferred trifling subjects and common expressions in intercourse with strangers...
    Elo1 7.88 3 The judge [in the court-room trial] had a task beyond his preparation, yet his position remained real: he was there to represent a great reality,--the justice of states...which his trifling talk nowise affected...
    Comc 8.158 3 With the trifling exception of the stratagems of a few beasts and birds, there is no seeming, no halfness in Nature, until the appearance of man.
    Comc 8.168 3 I think there is malice in a very trifling story which goes about...
    Comc 8.169 18 The multiplication of artificial wants and expenses in civilized life, and the exaggeration of all trifling forms, present innumerable occasions for this discrepancy [between the man and his appearance] to expose itself.
    Mem 12.96 25 This thread or order of remembering, this classification, distributes men, one remembering by shop-rule or interest;...one by trifling external marks...
    ACri 12.300 24 Pindar when the victor in a race by mules offered him a trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on demi-asses.

trifling, n. (2)

    Edc1 10.144 10 Let [the child] find you so true to yourself that you are...the imperturbable slighter of his trifling.
    Schr 10.285 15 ...Genius has no taste...for any trifling...

trifling, v. (2)

    OS 2.292 10 Deal so plainly with man and woman as to...destroy all hope of trifling with you.
    ET7 5.116 12 The [English] government strictly performs its engagements. The subjects do not understand trifling on its part.

trill, v. (1)

    Insp 8.285 9 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./

trilobite, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.180 9 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed;... How far off yet is the trilobite! how far the quadruped! how inconceivably remote is man!
    PNR 4.81 2 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. ... These were a clear amelioration of trilobite and saurus...

trilobium, n. (1)

    F 6.15 20 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...her first misshapen animals, zoophyte, trilobium, fish;...

trilogy, n. (2)

    Boks 7.200 20 An inestimable trilogy of ancient social pictures are the three Banquets respectively of Plato, Xenophon and Plutarch.
    Plu 10.317 27 What a trilogy is lost to mankind in [Plutarch's] Lives of Scipio, Epaminondas, and Pindar.

trim, adj. (1)

    ET16 5.288 25 There, in that great sloven continent [America]...still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother, long since driven away from the trim hedge-rows and over-cultivated garden of England.

Trim, Corporal [Sterne, Tr (1)

    PI 8.43 9 I have heard that the Germans think the creator of Trim and Uncle Toby...a greater poet than Cowper...

trim, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.155 27 ...as [the naturalist] is still immovable, [the creatures of nature]...show themselves to him in their work-day trim...

trim, v. (4)

    ET4 5.62 10 It took many generations to trim and comb and perfume the first boat-load of Norse pirates into royal highnesses...
    F 6.32 5 ...trim your bark, and the wave which drowned it will be cloven by it...
    OA 7.314 2 As the bird trims her to the gale,/ I trim myself to the storm of time,/ I man the rudder, reef the sail,/ Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime/...
    SovE 10.196 17 ...when we have conversed with navigators who know the coast, we may begin to put out an oar and trim a sail.

trimmers, n. (1)

    MoL 10.249 12 Down with these dapper trimmers and sycophants!...

Trimmers, n. (1)

    ET7 5.123 11 [The English] have given the parliamentary nickname of Trimmers to the timeservers...

trims, v. (1)

    OA 7.314 1 As the bird trims her to the gale,/ I trim myself to the storm of time,/ I man the rudder, reef the sail,/ Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime/...

Trinculo [Shakespeare, The (1)

    ACri 12.293 27 I do not mean that [Shakespeare]...exults in bringing the street itself...on the scene, with Falstaff and Touchstone and Trinulo and the fools;...

trinism, n. (1)

    ET1 5.12 7 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining...talked of trinism and tetrakism and much more...

Trinitarian, adj. (1)

    ET1 5.12 5 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining: The Trinitarian doctrine was realism; the idea of God was not essential, but super-essential;...

trinity, n. (2)

    Tran 1.354 18 In the eternal trinity of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty... [Transcendentalists] prefer to make Beauty the sign and head.
    ET4 5.54 24 ...the Roman has implanted his dark complexion in the trinity or quaternity of bloods [in England].

Trinity, n. (2)

    ET1 5.11 11 [Coleridge said] It was a wonder that after so many ages of unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St. Paul,--the doctrine of the Trinity...this handful of Priestleians should take on themselves to deny it...
    LS 11.17 8 It is the old objection to the doctrine of the Trinity,-that the true worship was transferred from God to Christ...

trinket, n. (1)

    Res 8.149 12 We have not a toy or trinket for idle amusement but somewhere it is the one thing needful...

trinkets, n. (3)

    SL 2.158 7 A stranger comes from a distant school...with trinkets in his pockets...
    DL 7.125 12 It is a life of toys and trinkets.
    EWI 11.141 5 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro; comprising cloths and loom...pipe-bowls and trinkets.

trip, n. (1)

    UGM 4.28 9 It seems as if the Deity dressed each soul which he sends into nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to other men, and sending it to perform one more turn through the circle of beings, wrote, Not transferable and Good for this trip only, on these garments of the soul.

trip, v. (4)

    MoS 4.168 18 ...blacksmiths and teamsters do not trip in their speech;...
    Ill 6.316 7 ...this especial trap [marriage] is laid to trip up our feet with...
    Elo2 8.110 6 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command...
    Milt1 12.262 10 ...[Milton] said...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...

trip-hammer, n. (2)

    Elo2 8.121 10 What character, what infinite variety belong to the voice! sometimes it is a flute, sometimes a trip-hammer;...
    Carl 10.489 17 I called [Carlyle] a trip-hammer with an Aeolian attachment.

triple, adj. (3)

    Mrs1 3.135 25 ...Napoleon...fenced himself with etiquette and within triple barriers of reserve;...
    Art2 7.57 13 ...that Eternal Spirit whose triple face [beauty, truth and goodness] are, moulds from them forever, for his mortal child, images to remind him of the Infinite and Fair.
    Thor 10.476 23 [Thoreau's] poem entitled Sympathy reveals the tenderness under that triple steel of stoicism...

triplet, n. (1)

    PC 8.225 19 The highest flight to which the muse of Horace ascended was in that triplet of lines in which he described the souls which can calmly confront the sublimity of Nature...

tripod, n. (6)

    Hist 2.27 24 ...men of God have from time to time...made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer. Hence evidently the tripod, the priest, the priestess inspired by the divine afflatus.
    ShP 4.208 9 [Shakespeare] cannot step from off his tripod...
    SS 7.6 18 Each must stand on his glass tripod if he would keep his electricity.
    Boks 7.203 11 [In the Platonists] The acolyte has mounted the tripod over the cave at Delphi;...
    Cour 7.266 20 Plutarch relates that the Pythoness who tried to prophesy without command in the Temple at Delphi, though she...inhaled the air of the cavern standing on the tripod, fell into convulsions and died.
    PPr 12.383 23 [The poet] must stand on his glass tripod, if he would keep his electricity.

tripped, v. (1)

    Ill 6.316 8 ...this especial trap [marriage] is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last.

trips, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.146 23 Poor country boys of Vermont and Connecticut formerly owed what knowledge they had to their peddling trips to the Southern States.

trips, v. (3)

    Tran 1.355 9 Our virtue totters and trips, does not yet walk firmly.
    GoW 4.281 26 What signifies that [the writer] trips and stammers;...
    ET9 5.151 25 Nature trips us up when we strut;...

Trismegisti, n. (1)

    Int 2.345 25 ...I cannot recite...laws of the intellect, without remembering... the high-priesthood of the pure reason, the Trismegisti...

Trismegistus, Hermes, n. (1)

    Boks 7.218 25 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius. Also such other books as have acquired a semi-canonical authority in the world, as expressing the highest sentiment and hope of nations. Such are the Hermes Trismegistus...the Sentences of Epictetus;...

tristement, adv. (1)

    ET8 5.128 18 [The English] sported sadly; ils s'amusaient tristement, selon la coutume de leur pays, said Froissart;...

tristesse, n. (1)

    ET16 5.288 17 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping...too much by half for man in the picture, and so giving a certain tristesse...

Tristram Shandy [Laurence (1)

    ET1 5.17 3 Tristram Shandy was one of [Carlyle's] first books after Robinson Crusoe...

Tristram, Sir [Malory, Mor (1)

    Insp 8.291 11 ...the wise student will remember the prudence of Sir Tristram in Morte d' Arthur, who...took care to fight in the hours when his strength increased;...

trite, adj. (3)

    Pt1 3.35 10 ...the mystic must be steadily told,--All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric...and we shall both be gainers.
    DL 7.121 24 Nor can I resist the temptation of quoting so trite an instance as the noble housekeeping of Lord Falkland in Clarendon...
    PC 8.212 9 ...I say, Happy is the land wherein benefits like these have grown trite and commonplace.

tritest, adj. (1)

    PI 8.36 16 [The poet] is very well convinced that the great moments of life are those in which...the tritest and nearest ways and words and things have been illuminated into prophets and teachers.

triumph, n. (30)

    MR 1.251 4 Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.
    LT 1.262 27 By tones of triumph, of dear love...[persons] have the skill to make the world look bleak and inhospitable, or seem the nest of tenderness and joy.
    Hist 2.35 3 In the story of the Boy and the Mantle even a mature reader may be surprised with a glow of virtuous pleasure at the triumph of the gentle Genelas;...
    SR 2.90 4 Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
    Comp 2.117 14 ...no man has a thorough acquaintance with the hindrances or talents of men until he has suffered from the one and seen the triumph of the other over his own want of the same.
    Nat2 3.170 27 How easily we might walk onward into the opening landscape...until by degrees the recollection of home was crowded out of the mind, all memory obliterated by the tyranny of the present, and we were led in triumph by nature.
    Nat2 3.192 22 This or this [in nature] is but outskirt and a far-off reflection and echo of the triumph that has passed by...
    PPh 4.52 22 European civility is the triumph of talent...
    MoS 4.183 20 [The man of thought] is content...with triumph of folly and fraud.
    ET14 5.247 12 [Macaulay] thinks it the distinctive merit of the Baconian philosophy in its triumph over the old Platonic, its disentangling the intellect from theories of the all-Fair and all-Good, and pinning it down to the making of a better sick chair and a better wine-whey for an invalid;...
    ET15 5.264 6 [The London Times] adopted the League against the Corn Laws, and when Cobden had begun to despair, it announced his triumph.
    F 6.36 12 The whole circle of animal life...a yelp of pain and a grunt of triumph ...pleases at a sufficient perspective.
    Bty 6.301 13 This is the triumph of expression, degrading beauty...
    Clbs 7.249 26 One likes in a companion a phlegm which it is a triumph to disturb...
    Elo2 8.111 5 [An anecdote of eloquence] is a triumph of pure power...
    Insp 8.287 21 Tie a couple of strings across a board, and set it in your window, and you have an instrument which no artist's harp can rival. It needs no instructed ear;...it has...at the changes, tones of triumph...
    Chr2 10.109 23 We boast the triumph of Christianity over Paganism...
    Prch 10.220 19 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of the intellect...we are like hunters on the scent...
    LLNE 10.334 17 ...boys filled their mouths with arguments to prove that the orator [Everett] had a heart. This was a triumph of Rhetoric.
    MMEm 10.404 4 I like that kind of apathy that is a triumph to overset.
    EWI 11.137 26 This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It gave that tenacity to their point which has insured ultimate triumph...
    FSLC 11.178 5 The Eternal Rights,/ Victors over daily wrongs:/ Awful victors, they misguide/ Whom they will destroy,/ And their coming triumph hide/ In our downfall, or our joy/...
    FSLC 11.200 14 ...[Nemesis's] dismal way is to pillory the offender in the moment of his triumph.
    ALin 11.330 4 ...acclamations of praise for the task [Lincoln] had accomplished burst out into a song of triumph...
    ALin 11.334 9 [Lincoln's] occupying the chair of state was a triumph of the good sense of mankind...
    ALin 11.337 23 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which...obtains the ultimate triumph of the best race by the sacrifice of everything which resists the moral laws of the world.
    SMC 11.350 13 ...the virtues we are met to honor...were exerted for the protection of our common country, and aided its triumph.
    SMC 11.353 12 War, says the poet,...is the arduous strife,/ To which the triumph of all good is given./
    EurB 12.375 20 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;...
    EurB 12.378 7 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is to appear with the most wooden manners...

triumph, v. (4)

    Comp 2.118 9 ...when [the wise man's assailants] would triumph, lo! he has passed on invulnerable.
    UGM 4.24 20 Not the feeblest grandame, not a mowing idiot, but uses what spark of perception and faculty is left, to chuckle and triumph in his or her opinion over the absurdities of all the rest.
    EWI 11.146 6 There have been moments in [emancipation in the West Indies], as well as in every piece of moral history...when it seemed doubtful whether brute force would not triumph in the eternal struggle.
    CPL 11.506 6 [Kepler writes] I will triumph over mankind by the honest confession that I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt.

triumphant, adj. (9)

    Con 1.298 12 ...innovation is always in the right, triumphant, attacking...
    Pol1 3.201 11 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day...shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years...
    Bty 6.293 15 I suppose the Parisian milliner...will know how to reconcile the Bloomer costume to the eye of mankind, and make it triumphant over Punch himself, by interposing the just gradations.
    WD 7.173 11 Hume's doctrine was that...the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
    Clbs 7.240 19 The court successively appoints three more severe inquisitors; Beaumarchais converts them all into triumphant vindicators of the play which is to bring in the Revolution.
    Suc 7.283 20 Men are made each with some triumphant superiority...
    Edc1 10.147 26 By many steps...the hesitating collegian, in the school debate...in mock court, comes at last to full, secure, triumphant unfolding of his thought in the popular assembly...
    Thor 10.468 16 See these weeds, [Thoreau] said, which have been hoed at by a million farmers...and just now come out triumphant over all lanes, pastures, fields and gardens...
    PLT 12.8 17 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor hastens to inform us that he knew it all twenty years ago...and poor Nature and the sublime law...are quite omitted in this triumphant vindication.

triumphantly, adv. (1)

    LVB 11.94 27 Will the American government steal? Will it lie? Will it kill?-We ask triumphantly.

triumphed, v. (4)

    Cir 2.321 15 People say sometimes, See what I have overcome;...see how completely I have triumphed over these black events.
    LLNE 10.336 26 The religious sentiment...triumphed over time as well as space;...
    HDC 11.49 2 ...freedom and virtue, if they triumphed [in Concord], triumphed in a fair field.
    EWI 11.128 11 For months and years the bill [on emanicipation in the West Indies] was debated...and, at last, the right triumphed...

triumphing, v. (3)

    Mrs1 3.128 8 Great men are not commonly in [fashion's] halls;...they are working, not triumphing.
    ET9 5.151 16 Individual traits are always triumphing over national ones.
    PI 8.51 18 Time...is now dominant and...looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes, while his sister Oblivion reclineth semi-somnous on a pyramid, gloriously triumphing...

triumphs, n. (19)

    MN 1.215 3 To every reform...early disgusts are incident, so that the disciple is surprised at the very hour of his first triumphs with chagrins, and sickness, and a general distrust;...
    Hist 2.6 16 Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures...in the triumphs of will or of genius,--anywhere make us feel...that this is for better men;...
    SR 2.86 27 We reckoned the improvements of the art of war among the triumphs of science...
    Hsm1 2.246 22 ...Thou thyself must part/ At last from all thy garlands, pleasures, triumphs,/ And prove thy fortitude what then 't will do./
    NER 3.272 2 From the triumphs of his art [the master] turns with desire to this greater defeat.
    Pow 6.71 10 The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war.
    CbW 6.276 20 ...whatever art you select...all are attainable, even to the miraculous triumphs, on the same terms of selecting that for which you are apt;...
    Art2 7.49 19 In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself;...
    Elo1 7.92 9 For the triumphs of the art [of eloquence] somewhat more must still be required...
    WD 7.166 11 We cannot trace the triumphs of civilization to such benefactors as we wish.
    PI 8.26 18 ...when we describe man as poet, and credit him with the triumphs of the art, we speak of the potential or ideal man...
    PC 8.214 18 It is one of our triumphs to have reinstated [the Middle Ages].
    Aris 10.37 23 What is the meaning of this invincible respect for war, here in the triumphs of our commercial civilization...
    Prch 10.226 18 ...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland... [Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-...Time,/ Pleased with your triumphs o'er his brother brother Space,/ Accepts from your bold hands the proffered crown/ Of hope and smiles on you with cheer sublime./
    LLNE 10.348 8 [Fourier] took his measure of that which all should and might enjoy...from the refinements of palaces, the wealth of universities and the triumphs of artists.
    LLNE 10.355 25 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then instantly things swing the other way, and we suddenly find...that what we bragged as triumphs were treacheries;...
    Thor 10.480 27 ...these foibles [of Thoreau], real or apparent, were fast vanishing in the incessant growth of a spirit...which effaced its defeats with new triumphs.
    Carl 10.493 21 The literary, the fashionable, the political man, each fresh from triumphs in his own sphere, comes eagerly to see this man [Carlyle], whose fun they have heartily enjoyed...and are struck with despair at the first onset.
    FRep 11.515 20 ...the culmination of these triumphs of humanity...is the planting of America.

triumphs, v. (3)

    ET3 5.34 4 Alfieri thought Italy and England the only countries worth living in; the former because there Nature...triumphs over the evils inflicted by the governments;...
    MMEm 10.412 23 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane aunt] was brought here [to Malden]. Ah! mortifying sight! instinct perhaps triumphs over reason...
    MLit 12.317 18 There is that in us which mutters, and that which groans, and that which triumphs, and that which aspires.

trivial, adj. (32)

    Nat 1.28 6 ...the most trivial of these [natural] facts...applied to the illustration of a fact in intellectual philosophy...affects us in the most lively...manner.
    Nat 1.33 23 In their primary sense these [proverbs] are trivial facts...
    Nat 1.60 11 ...the soul holds itself off from a too trivial and microscopic study of the universal tablet.
    LT 1.259 12 The Times are...trivial to the dull...
    LT 1.280 20 ...how trivial seem the contests of the abolitionist...
    Con 1.310 21 It is trivial and merely superstitious to say that nothing is given you...
    Hist 2.18 7 The trivial experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction to us...
    SR 2.64 2 What is the nature and power of that science-baffling star...which shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial and impure actions...
    Lov1 2.174 23 ...it may seem to many men...that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft...to a parcel of accidental and trivial circumstances.
    Lov1 2.175 9 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when...the most trivial circumstance associated with one form is put in the amber of memory;...
    Fdsp 2.210 26 Let [your friend] be to thee for ever...not a trivial conveniency to be soon outgrown and cast aside.
    Prd1 2.232 3 The man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of the senses trivial...
    OS 2.278 19 I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbors, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play...
    Cir 2.311 7 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys.
    Cir 2.316 13 For me, commerce is of trivial import;...
    Cir 2.320 4 No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow...
    Int 2.332 23 Every trivial fact in [the writer's] private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle...
    Exp 3.46 25 Our life looks trivial...
    Exp 3.71 3 Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection;...
    Gts 3.164 9 The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him...
    Nat2 3.177 2 A susceptible person does not like to indulge his tastes in this kind [in passive nature] without the apology of some trivial necessity...
    PPh 4.43 14 [Great geniuses] lived in their writings, and so their house and street life was trivial and commonplace.
    ET7 5.116 21 Private men [in England] keep their promises, never so trivial.
    Art2 7.47 17 Our arts are happy hits. We are...like a traveller surprised by a mountain echo, whose trivial word returns to him in romantic thunders.
    Elo1 7.83 14 Poor Tom never knew the time when the present occurrence was so trivial that he could tell what was passing in his mind without being checked for unseasonable speech;...
    PI 8.37 27 [Mortal men] live cabined, cribbed, confined in a narrow and trivial lot...
    PI 8.75 8 ...the involuntary part of [men's] life is so much as to...leave them no countenance to say aught of what is so trivial as their selfish thinking and doing.
    Res 8.152 3 When [the scholar's] task requires the wiping out from memory all trivial fond records/ That youth and observation copied there,/ he must...go to wooded uplands...
    PerF 10.73 7 See how trivial is the use of the world by any other of its creatures.
    MLit 12.333 12 When one of these grand monads is incarnated whom Nature seems to design for eternal men and draw to her bosom, we think that...the trivial forms of daily life will now end...
    WSL 12.341 14 When we pronounce the names of...Ben Jonson and Isaak Walton; Dryden and Pope,-we pass at once out of trivial associations...
    PPr 12.387 21 The ancients are only venerable to us because distance has destroyed what was trivial;...

triviality, n. (1)

    Tran 1.345 19 In looking at the class of counsel...and at the matronage of the land, amidst all the prudence and all the triviality, one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these?

trochaic, adj. (1)

    PI 8.40 18 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his condition. In that prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception...of fairy machineries and funds of power hitherto utterly unknown to him, whereby he can...reduce [his visions] into iambic or trochaic, into lyric or heroic rhyme.

troches, n. (1)

    SMC 11.359 7 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... tender as a woman in his care for a cough or a chilblain in his men; had troches and arnica in his pocket for them.

trodden, adj. (1)

    Cir 2.321 1 The difference between talents and character is adroitness to keep the old and trodden round, and power and courage to make a new road to new and better goals.

trodden, v. (1)

    AmS 1.110 24 That which had been negligently trodden under foot...is suddenly found to be richer than all foreign parts.

Troglodytes, n. (1)

    EWI 11.102 4 ...Herodotus, our oldest historian, relates that the Troglodytes hunted the Ethiopians in four-horse chariots.

Troilus and Creseide [Geoff (1)

    ShP 4.198 3 ...the Romaunt of the Rose is only judicious translation from William of Lorris and John of Meung: Troilus and Creseide, from Lollius of Urbino...

Trojan, adj. (3)

    Comp 2.107 24 ...the belt which Ajax gave Hector dragged the Trojan hero over the fields at the wheels of the car of Achilles...
    ShP 4.197 24 Chaucer, it seems, drew continually...from Guido di Colonna, whose Latin romance of the Trojan war was in turn a compilation from Dares Phrygius, Ovid and Statius.
    EWI 11.135 14 Here [in emancipation in the West Indies] was no prodigy... no Trojan horse...

Trojans, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.72 10 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] mixed with the assembled Trojans, and stood, the broad shoulders of Menelaus rose above the other;...

troll, n. (1)

    ET8 5.135 1 [The English] hide virtues under vices, or the semblance of them. It is the misshapen hairy Scandinavian troll again...

troll, v. (1)

    SlHr 10.438 8 [Samuel Hoar] was advised to withdraw to private lodgings [in Charleston], which were eagerly offered him by friends. He...refused the offers, saying that...he had rather the boys should troll his old head like a football in their streets, than that he should hide it.

troll-mounts, n. (1)

    ET5 5.77 2 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of...Gibbon, Brindley, Watt, Wedgwood, dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain...

Trolls, n. (2)

    ET5 5.76 20 The Scandinavian fancied himself surrounded by Trolls...
    ET5 5.76 25 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of Alfred, Bede, Caxton...dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain...

troop, n. (13)

    MR 1.238 15 ...whoever takes any of these things [species of property] into his possession, takes the charge of defending them from this troop of enemies...
    MR 1.251 10 The naked Derar, horsed on an idea, was found an overmatch for a troop of Roman cavalry.
    Comp 2.99 3 Is a man...a morose ruffian...Nature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters...
    SL 2.157 27 In every troop of boys...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.
    Nat2 3.185 18 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms...with a little more excess of direction to hold them fast to their several aim;...
    PPh 4.72 13 ...the rumor ran that on one or two occasions, in the war with Boeotia, [Socrates] had shown a determination which had covered the retreat of a troop;...
    ShP 4.216 13 If [Shakespeare] should appear in any company of human souls, who would not march in his troop?
    ET4 5.71 27 The horse has more uses than Buffon noted. If you go into the streets, every driver in 'bus or dray is a bully, and if I wanted a good troop of soldiers, I should recruit among the stables.
    Pow 6.58 23 Society is a troop of thinkers...
    Ill 6.314 3 Amid the joyous troop who give in to the charivari, comes now and then a sad-eyed boy whose eyes lack the requisite refractions to clothe the show in due glory...
    Cour 7.272 7 The troop of Virginian infantry that had marched to guard the prison of John Brown ask leave to pay their respects to the prisoner.
    Mem 12.108 17 This past memory is the baggage, but where is the troop?
    Trag 12.411 2 A panic such as frequently in ancient or savage nations put a troop or an army to flight without an enemy; a fear of ghosts...are no tragedy...

trooping, v. (1)

    Dem1 10.4 27 When newly awaked from lively dreams...give us...one hint, and we should repossess the whole; hours of this strange entertainment would come trooping back to us;...

troops, n. (43)

    MR 1.251 14 [The Arabs] were Temperance troops.
    Hist 2.13 21 [Nature] casts the same thought into troops of forms...
    Hist 2.25 5 After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia, there fell much snow, and the troops lay miserably on the ground covered with it.
    Fdsp 2.192 3 ...it is necessary to write a letter to a friend,--and forthwith troops of gentle thoughts invest themselves...with chosen words.
    Mrs1 3.135 23 ...Napoleon...was not great enough, with eight hundred thousand troops at his back, to face a pair of freeborn eyes...
    ShP 4.209 19 One can discern, in [Shakespeare's] ample pictures of the gentleman and the king...his delight in troops of friends...
    NMW 4.228 27 [Napoleon] is a worker in brass...in money and in troops...
    NMW 4.229 22 [Bonaparte] knew the properties...of troops and diplomatists...
    NMW 4.233 15 [Napoleon] is firm, sure...sacrificing every thing,--money, troops, generals, and his own safety also, to his aim;...
    NMW 4.235 18 [Napoleon] risked every thing and spared nothing, neither ammunition, nor money, nor troops...
    NMW 4.236 19 [Napoleon] was flung into the marsh at Arcola. The Austrians were between him and his troops...
    NMW 4.241 2 [Napoleon] filled the troops with his spirit...
    NMW 4.241 8 The best document of [Napoleon's] relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz...
    NMW 4.241 11 The best document of [Napoleon's] relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz, in which Napoleon promises the troops that he will keep his person out of reach of fire.
    NMW 4.246 11 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!...drawing up his army for battle in sight of the Pyramids, and saying to his troops, From the tops of those pyramids, forty centuries look down on you;...
    NMW 4.249 1 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when the bravest troops...feel inclined to run.
    ET5 5.86 7 ...more care is taken of the health and comfort of English troops than of any other troops in the world;...
    ET5 5.86 8 ...more care is taken of the health and comfort of English troops than of any other troops in the world;...
    ET6 5.109 11 Wellington governed India and Spain and his own troops...
    ET17 5.291 17 ...what is nowhere better found than in England, a cultivated person fitly surrounded by a happy home, with Honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,/ is of all institutions the best.
    F 6.13 16 In England there is always some man of wealth and large connection...who, as soon as he begins to die...calls in his troops...
    Pow 6.78 3 Basil Hall likes to show that the worst regular troops will beat the best volunteers.
    Ctr 6.150 1 The head of a commercial house or a leading lawyer or politician is brought into daily contact with troops of men from all parts of the country...
    Bhr 6.184 1 [The successful man of the world] knows that troops behave as they are handled at first;...
    Bty 6.291 18 What a difference in effect between a battalion of troops marching to action, and one of our independent companies on a holiday!
    Elo1 7.79 11 [The Grecian States] did not send to Lacedaemon for troops, but they said, Send us a commander;...
    WD 7.176 25 A general, said Bonaparte, always has troops enough, if he only knows how to employ those he has, and bivouacs with them.
    Chr2 10.102 24 Such [self-reliant] souls do not come in troops...
    Schr 10.280 20 Society...is dazzled and deceived by the weapon [of talent], without inquiring into the cause for which it is drawn; like boys by the drums and colors of the troops.
    LLNE 10.355 7 As soon as our people got wind of the doctrine of Marriage held by this master [Fourier], it would fall at once into the hands of a lawless crew who would flock in troops to so fair a game...
    HDC 11.61 3 Concord suffered little from the [King Philip's] war. This is to be attributed no doubt, in part, to the fact that troops were generally quartered here...
    HDC 11.72 24 A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this town [Concord], by order of the Provincial Committee of Safety. It was to destroy those stores that the troops who were attacked in this town, on the 19th April, 1775, were sent hither by General Gage.
    HDC 11.73 24 This little battalion [of minute-men]...retreated before the enemy to the high land on the other bank of the river, to wait for reinforcement. Colonel Barrett ordered the troops not to fire, unless fired upon.
    HDC 11.78 7 The number of [Concord's] troops constantly in service [in the American Revolution] is very great.
    HDC 11.78 21 Whilst Boston was occupied by the British troops, Concord contributed to the relief of the inhabitants...
    SMC 11.349 4 Fellow Citizens: The day is in Concord doubly our calendar day, as being the anniversary of the invasion of the town by the British troops in 1775, and of the departure of the company of voluteers for Washington, in 1861.
    SMC 11.358 10 None of us can have forgotten how sharp a test to try our peaceful people with, was the first call for troops [in the Civil War].
    SMC 11.365 12 ...the regimental officers believed...that the misfortunes of the day [battle of Bull Run] were not so much owing to the fault of the troops as to the insufficiency of the combinations by the general officers.
    SMC 11.366 16 In August, 1862, on the new requisition for troops...twelve men, including [Sylvester Lovejoy], were enlisted for three years...
    SMC 11.367 6 ...these troops [Thirty-second Regiment] saw every variety of hard service...
    Bost 12.189 27 [John Smith writes (1624)] The seacoast, as you pass, shows you all along...great troops of well-proportioned people.
    Bost 12.206 11 A house in Boston was worth as much again as a house just as good in a town of timorous people, because here the neighbors would defend each other against bad governors and against troops;...
    Bost 12.210 1 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. Her mechanics, her farmers will toil better;...her troops will be the first in the field to vindicate the majesty of a free nation, and remain last on the field to secure it.

trope, n. (7)

    Ctr 6.140 11 There are people who can never understand a trope...
    Ill 6.324 20 The intellect is stimulated by the statement of truth in a trope...
    Elo1 7.90 4 ...nothing so works on the human mind...as a trope.
    PI 8.12 6 [Conversation] is ever enlivened by inversion and trope.
    PI 8.15 9 ...the value of a trope is that the hearer is one...
    PI 8.15 10 ...Nature itself is a vast trope...
    PI 8.21 11 ...[the poet's] personality [is] as fugitive as the trope he employs.

tropes, n. (8)

    DSA 1.129 16 ...churches are not built on [Jesus's] principles, but on his tropes.
    Pt1 3.22 9 ...language is made up of images or tropes...
    Pt1 3.30 9 We are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the open air. This is the effect on us of tropes, fables, oracles and all poetic forms.
    Pt1 3.30 17 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics, which also have their tropes, but it is felt in every definition;...
    Pt1 3.32 6 An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterwards when we arrive at the precise sense of the author.
    GoW 4.281 27 What signifies...that [the writer's] method or his tropes are inadequate?
    PI 8.12 3 Conversation is not permitted without tropes;...
    PI 8.15 11 ...all particular natures are tropes.

trophies, n. (4)

    ET6 5.107 24 ...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...trophies of the adventures and exploits of the family.
    ET15 5.263 24 [The London Times] has its own history and famous trophies.
    ET19 5.313 5 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm? And so... I feel in regard to this aged England, with the possessions, honors and trophies...
    MMEm 10.423 27 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou...restest on thy hoary throne... When will thy routines give way to higher and lasting institutions? When thy trophies and thy name and all its wizard forms be lost in the Genius of Eternity?

Trophonius, n. (1)

    PNR 4.83 7 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves; the cave of Trophonius;...

trophy, n. (1)

    Plu 10.315 10 To erect a trophy in the soul against anger is that which none but a great and victorious puissance is able to achieve.

trophy-monument, n. (2)

    ET17 5.293 21 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days...one at the Museum, where Sir Charles Fellowes explained in detail the history of his Ionic trophy-monument;...
    Edc1 10.146 15 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...

tropic, adj. (1)

    Wth 6.84 11 ...Then flew the sail across the seas/ To feed the North from tropic trees;/...

tropical, adj. (4)

    Nat 1.40 25 ...every change of vegetation from the first principle of growth...to the tropical forest...shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    Nat2 3.179 22 A little heat...is all that differences the...deadly cold poles of the earth from the prolific tropical climates.
    Pow 6.70 20 The luxury of ice is in tropical countries and midsummer days.
    SovE 10.188 7 Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine...

tropics, n. (5)

    YA 1.370 25 To men legislating for the area...betwixt the snows and the tropics, somewhat of the gravity of nature will infuse itself into the code.
    Prd1 2.226 10 The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitant of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.
    Wth 6.86 27 [Coal] carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle;...
    Civ 7.26 14 ...there have been learning, philosophy and art in Iceland, and in the tropics.
    Res 8.153 26 The tropics are one vast garden;...

troth, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.184 20 From exchanging glances, [lovers] advance to acts...of gallantry, then...to plighting troth and marriage.

trotting, v. (1)

    HDC 11.36 10 The moose was still trotting in the country...

troubadours, n. (1)

    Shak1 11.452 19 ...Shakspeare...simply by his colossal proportions, dwarfs the geniuses of Elizabeth as easily as...the poor slipshod troubadours of King Rene.

Troubadours, n. (2)

    AmS 1.81 7 We do not meet...for parliaments of love and poesy, like the Troubadours;...
    Boks 7.220 26 ...how attractive is the whole literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours!

trouble, n. (9)

    MoS 4.154 16 There is so much trouble in coming into the world, said Lord Bolingbroke, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that 't is hardly worth while to be here at all.
    Wth 6.98 4 Every man wishes to see...the mountains and craters in the moon; yet how few can buy a telescope! and of those, scarcely one would like the trouble of keeping it in order and exhibiting it.
    Bhr 6.170 24 Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. He has not the trouble of earning or owning them...
    CbW 6.255 15 Not Antoninus, but a poor washer-woman, said, The more trouble, the more lion; that's my principle.
    Elo2 8.121 22 ...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.
    Aris 10.47 27 This is the whole game of society and the politics of the world. Being will always seem well;-but whether possibly I cannot contrive to seem without the trouble of being?
    MMEm 10.401 11 [Mary Moody Emerson's aunt] would leave the farm to her by will. This promise was kept; she came into possession of the property many years after, and her dealings with it gave her no small trouble...
    Wom 11.421 19 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.
    Wom 11.421 21 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote,-how many gentlemen are willing to take on themselves the trouble of thinking and determining for you...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.

trouble, v. (2)

    SL 2.155 1 Do not trouble yourself too much about the light on your statue, said Michel Angelo to the young sculptor;...
    EWI 11.124 6 What if [slavery] cost a few unpleasant scenes on the coast of Africa? That was a great way off; and the scenes could be endured by some sturdy, unscrupulous fellows, who...need not trouble our ears with the disagreeable particulars.

troubles, n. (3)

    MR 1.253 4 Let any two matrons meet, and observe how soon their conversation turns on the troubles from their "help,", as our phrase is.
    Bost 12.191 22 ...[the planters of Massachusetts] exaggerated their troubles.
    Pray 12.355 6 I know that thou hast not created me and placed me here on earth, amidst its toils and troubles and the follies of those around me, and told me to be like thyself when I see so little of thee here to profit by;...

troubles, v. (3)

    Fdsp 2.216 11 It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space...
    QO 8.192 23 It never troubles the simple seeker from whom he derived such or such a sentiment.
    Aris 10.45 14 It never troubles the Senator what multitudes crack the benches and bend the galleries to hear.

troublesome, adj. (6)

    YA 1.376 15 ...this patriarchal or family management gets to be rather troublesome to all but the papa;...
    SR 2.49 5 ...looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, [the boy] tries and sentences them...as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome.
    Pt1 3.42 9 ...this is the reward; that the ideal shall be real to thee [O poet], and the impressions of the actual world shall fall like summer rain, copious, but not troublesome to thy invulnerable essence.
    Mrs1 3.127 3 ...the youth finds himself in a more transparent atmosphere, wherein life is a less troublesome game...
    Dem1 10.21 2 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this kind. Tramps are troublesome enough in the city and in the highways, but tramps flying through the air...can well be spared.
    MMEm 10.432 27 ...it is easy to believe that Cassandra domesticated in a lady's house would have proved a troublesome boarder.

trough, n. (1)

    LT 1.288 2 Here we drift, like white sail across the wild ocean, now bright on the wave, now darkling in the trough of the sea;...

troughs, n. (1)

    Tran 1.358 10 In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only...baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments...

trousers, n. (1)

    Thor 10.469 25 [Thoreau] wore a straw hat, stout shoes, strong gray trousers...

trout, n. (5)

    Nat2 3.193 22 Are we tickled trout, and fools of nature?
    Edc1 10.140 12 ...Jove and Achilles, partridge and trout...dance through [the boy's] narrative in merry confusion, yet the logic is good.
    Thor 10.482 11 Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
    CL 12.162 9 [Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person who knows]...where trout, woodcocks, wild bees, pigeons, where the bittern (stake-driver) can be seen and heard...
    CL 12.163 1 ...the very time at which [my naturalist] used [the farmers'] land and water (for his boat glided like a trout everywhere unseen) was in hours when they were sound asleep.

trout-fishing, n. (1)

    Boks 7.213 18 [Men's] education is neglected; but the circulating library and the theatre, as well as the trout-fishing...make such amends as they can.

trouveur, n. (1)

    Suc 7.306 18 The old trouveur, Pons Capdueil, wrote,--Oft have I heard, and deem the witness true,/ Whom man delights in, God delights in too./

Trouveurs, n. (2)

    PI 8.57 5 Bards and Trouveurs.--The metallic force of primitive words makes the superiority of the remains of the rude ages.
    Insp 8.295 15 ...read Hafiz and the Trouveurs;...

trowel, n. (2)

    SR 2.83 24 There is at this moment for you an utterance brave and grand as that of the...trowel of the Egyptians...
    Wsp 6.216 17 ...when poems were made,--the human soul...had fixed its thoughts on spiritual verities with as strict a grasp as that of the hands on the sword, or the pencil, or the trowel.

trowsers, n. (1)

    LT 1.284 18 ...before the young American is put into jacket and trowsers, he says, I want something which I never saw before...

Troy, n. (6)

    Hist 2.9 8 Babylon, Troy, Tyre, Palestine, and even early Rome are passing already into fiction.
    Pt1 3.37 24 Banks and tariffs...rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi, and are as swiftly passing away.
    ShP 4.197 14 Each romancer was heir and dispenser of all the hundred tales of the world,--Presenting Thebes' and Pelops' line/ And the tale of Troy divine./
    ET16 5.277 12 It was pleasant to see that...[Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across...were like what is most permanent on the face of the planet: these, and the barrows,--mere mounds...like the same mound on the plain of Troy...
    Wsp 6.205 18 Laomedon, in his anger at Neptune and Apollo, who had built Troy for him and demanded their price, does not hesitate to menace them...
    WD 7.174 25 What journeys and measurements...to identify the plain of Troy and Nimroud town!

Troy, Tale of, n. (1)

    ShP 4.192 25 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is the Tale of Troy, which the audience will bear hearing some part of, every week;...

truant, n. (1)

    MLit 12.331 18 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets...to get a draft of sweet air...but dares not...lead a man's life in a man's relation to Nature, In that which should be his own place, he feels like a truant...

truce, n. (2)

    ET7 5.117 9 Beasts that make no truce with man, do not break faith with each other.
    War 11.154 6 [Alexander's conquest of the East] brought different families of the human race together,-to blows at first, but afterwards to truce, to trade, and to intermarriage.

truck, n. (1)

    CbW 6.274 6 It makes no difference, in looking back five years...whether you...have been carried in a neat equipage or in a ridiculous truck...

truck, v. (4)

    Comp 2.104 15 The particular man aims...to truck and higgle for a private good;...
    HDC 11.43 13 ...when, presently...parties, with grants of land, straggled into the country to truck with the Indians and to clear the land for their own benefit, the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
    EWI 11.123 13 ...we...have acquired the vices and virtues that belong to trade. We peddle, we truck, we sail...to market, and for the sale of goods.
    II 12.87 15 Do not truck for your private immortality.

truckle, v. (1)

    Aris 10.47 24 Whoever wants more power than is the legitimate attraction of his faculty, is a politician, and must pay for that excess; must truckle for it.

truckled, v. (1)

    Edc1 10.134 19 Our culture has truckled to the times...

truckman, n. (3)

    Elo2 8.124 26 Ought not the scholar to be able to convey his meaning in terms as short and strong as the porter or truckman uses to convey his?
    Res 8.148 2 What can a poor truckman, who is hired to groan and to hiss, do, when the orator shakes him into convulsions of laughter so that he cannot throw his egg?
    Grts 8.303 6 The porter or truckman refuses a reward for finding your purse, or for pulling you drowning out of the river. Thereby, with the service, you have got a moral lift.

truckmen, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.125 23 If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion;...

truck-roads, n. (1)

    SHC 11.434 23 ...I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with...Milky Ways, for truck-roads.

truculent, adj. (2)

    F 6.45 21 A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves.
    SA 8.83 20 ...certain voices are hoarse and truculent;...

trudge, v. (2)

    WD 7.171 24 ...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, as I trudge the streets on my affairs.
    Milt1 12.266 25 [Milton] advises that in country places, rather than to trudge many miles to a church, public worship be maintained nearer home, as in a house or barn.

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